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[Gil]

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[Prashant Deshpande]

Hi,

I just started learning about Kabbalah and had no prior idea about this science. I don’t want it to remain just like some information stuffed in brain but to actually live it every moment. How long will it take for me to understand it to a level that I may experience it’s value in day to day activities? Any rough estimates??

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Prashant,

Certainly the first couple of years are just absorbing the material, the environment, the study etc. –  getting “used” to everything. That doesn’t mean a person is growing and advancing during this time, but the practical aspects can’t exactly be implemented since the foundation is lacking. How quickly a person goes through states and inner changes depends on the person themselves. You’ll start seeing and feeling the world differently with every given change but Kabbalah isn’t given to us to improve our lives in this world, it’s given in order for us to rise above it. Where we start, with what, how – all these questions need accurate, precise answers, internally. Until a person has laid this foundation for building the inner “compass”, they will just kind of be wandering blind. You can imagine you’re floating in space, not knowing what is up or down or left or right. Then you start smelling something, maybe a change in the wind, a sound from there and a sound from here – all these inputs begin to register and you can start orienting yourself more and more. This is a natural process just as natural as a baby developing into a small child. Imagine all the small accumulative changes that happen daily. We just don’t know how to recognize our inner changes immediately, but gradually it will become very clear.

Best of luck!

Chris

[Todd]

“Where we start, with what, how – all these questions need accurate, precise answers, internally.”

 

What does this mean exactly?

[mrc s]

How can I be sure the information on BB Kabbalah is the true one if Kabbalist prefer saving lives than telling the truth?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey mrc,

This is only according to a person’s heart. If you feel that what’s inside the material feels to you like ‘truth’, one is drawn to the path and if the Creator holds them there, they stay and continue the correction on the path of hastening.

Thanks!

Chris

 

[David]

If using Kabbalah is so effective, and was primarily used by European Jews, why or how did the Holocaust happen?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi David,

Kabbalah is the method of correction but a person can only access the method through their own desire. If a person has no desire to find answers to the deepest questions, they won’t be able to hear the answers either.

Everything is a correction. You could say the Holocaust happened due to the negligence of the Jews who should have been in connection, shining as a light for the nations of the world,  but instead were engaged in their own personal goals. These types of tragedies are certainly only pushing us towards correction, but they did not necessarily need to happen. If it did happen, it’s a sign it needed to happen. We don’t understand the Upper’s calculations at this level. We first need to see creation from the Creator’s perspective to understand the intention.

Thanks,

Chris

[mrc s]

In Christianity the devil and his prophets will be tormented in lake of fire forever, how that sits with the purpose of Creation? thx

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey mrc,

We can’t relate to the religion of Christianity here. What is interpreted there, we cannot exactly comment on.

Thanks,

Chris

[mrc s]

I just read an article from Quora and eternal damnation is incorrect translation the one is age-during so the punishment is only for a certain age thx

[Todd]

Thanks for answering,

“The Baal Shem Tov said that he who says that there is another force in the world, namely Klipot [shells], that person is in a state of “serving other gods.””

What does this quote mean in general?  What are Klipot(shells) in particular?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Todd,

The meaning is similar to a fruit whose skin protects the inner goods. The “shells” or Klipot, are these opposite forces to holiness, to bestowal, that encourage growth in the right direction. I identify them as “unhealthy” to my spiritual growth, but without recognizing them, I won’t have the right request for correction.

Thanks!

[Todd]

Hello again,

 

Would you say that Kabbalah is anti fragile?  In the sense that a thing that gets stronger by more stress acting on it is anti fragile.  Is Kabbalah anti fragile in a macro cosmic sense and a microcosmic sense.  In the macro cosmic sense is it true that the more bad things happen the more people will be inclined to come to kabbalah?  In the microcosmic sense is it true that the more bad things that happen to a Kabbalist the more power or inclination he has to do the work and to build his desire to pass the barrier?  How does passing the barrier work?  Has anyone passed the barrier into spirituality yet or are we working on one big collective passing of the barrier that will happen for everyone at once?  Did the common western astrology come from kabbalah?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Todd,

Would you say that Kabbalah is anti fragile?  In the sense that a thing that gets stronger by more stress acting on it is anti fragile.  Is Kabbalah anti fragile in a macro cosmic sense and a microcosmic sense.  In the macro cosmic sense is it true that the more bad things happen the more people will be inclined to come to kabbalah?

“Kabbalah” is the light on the path. It’s the method of correction. The method, I don’t think, cannot be described as fragile or anti-fragile. You could say a person themselves change, but these changes aren’t to fragile/not fragile. The changes are whether a person is exiting their ego and coming closer to the quality of bestowal or they are sinking deeper into it. If a person is on the path of correction, then generally the trend is coming out of the ego. However, coming closer to exiting the ego actually contains within it the revelation of the ego itself which can feel as a gradually worsening state, when in reality, until the true revelation of the ego has occurred to a person, they are not willing to ask for the change to a different quality.

 

  In the microcosmic sense is it true that the more bad things that happen to a Kabbalist the more power or inclination he has to do the work and to build his desire to pass the barrier?  How does passing the barrier work?  Has anyone passed the barrier into spirituality yet or are we working on one big collective passing of the barrier that will happen for everyone at once?  Did the common western astrology come from kabbalah?

You could think of it the same way you would when looking at an adult in our world. That adult has more responsibilities and can cause more harm. The “blame” is not Kabbalah, but a person is just naturally developing. We are all working together to help one another exit this nature, and cross this “barrier”.

Thanks!

Chris

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