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So someone very very close to me died last year of covid. Thinking about “there is none else beside him” I cannot see why this had to happen so I am pretty pissed at the creator knowing “he” did this. What is a proper thing to do with these feelings?
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Hey Todd,</p>
At least your not blaming other forces. This is certainly Him causing you to feel such things towards Him. Certainly you should be working to correct that, but we won’t understand the “why” usually till much later. Just like children with their parents. The intention cannot be grasped by the children and usually its clear only after the children have grown into parents themselves.Try to find the place that doesn’t agree and ask Him to change your attitude. Not that He will provide the understanding, but that your attitude will change. This is the correction. Best of luck and sorry for your loss..
Chris
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Rav was talking about using your screen and if you lose it you have to work on building it again. It seems very difficult to keep the screen in place with your intent all the time. How can a person even do this?
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So I read on wiki that Baal Hasulam was a day laborer. Also Rav said that Rabash would grab his tools and go to work in those days. I am wondering if there is something connected to physical work in the corporeal world and Kabbalah. Baal Hasulam could have gotten a better job could he not have? A better paying more prestigious job. He was very smart and capable no? Why didn’t he establish himself. I read that he could not afford enough paper and ink to write. Could you explain this please?
Hi Todd,
In general, many Kabbalists in the past chose laborious jobs so their mind would be free to engage in spiritual thoughts, whereas if they were to take jobs which demanded them to be more devoted in other ways, this would be less appealing for them. This usually meant the physical work was pretty difficult, especially in previous centuries, but now most of the jobs take most of the “mind space” so, this approach is a bit more difficult for students in this era, but the idea is still relevant.
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The previous answer to my question on the Shoah said it was a “correction”. Correction of what? What could possibly be needing such a correction? Please don’t beg the question with an answer along the lines that “we can’t know HaShem’s way. Isn’t Kabbalah to help us know HaShem’s way? I have worked with Holocaust survivors for years and, what explanation would you suggest I give them? Thank you.
Hi David,
There’s no way we can logically understand it in our corporeal minds. If we lack the perception of the quality that governs all of nature, then we can’t even depict to ourselves the “thought” of how it operates – its “nature”.
There’s no just way. You can keep asking questions about “why?” but the answer will always be, “the Creator is Good that does good.” If you were to suddenly understand and feel that this was actually the Creator’s mercy and good intention, there’d be no doubt of His providence and you’d be addicted to His revelation. This of course is what the system of correction refrains from – that we wouldn’t just be shown but that we ourselves, from the lowly place, would rise to a high place on our own where from the opposite nature we attain the good nature.
You could extrapolate this question to any “evil” thing occurring in this world, you (and many others) tend to ask about the worst atrocities since surely if there was only a singular force in reality and it was good, it wouldn’t allow such things to happen. But really, we can’t justify the small things either, but we can somehow maybe logically understand that somewhere buried in the pain or struggle I or someone else experienced, it made them “stronger” or something like that, but like you said, we don’t understand what a “correction” is until we experience that every moment is actually a correction and sometimes there are calculations such as those where the “whole” is considered and not the “particular”.
Nature only considers the general development of creation towards the end goal. Nothing will stop the engine from moving in that direction. The created being will eventually reach that goal. The only question is how quickly. Can we awaken ourselves and cycle through the necessary states of awareness of our egoistic nature and demand correction, or will we need to be awoken from this external world in the form of pressures, stresses, pains and troubles?
Hope that helps,
Chris
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