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[Gil]

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[Brad]

Should there be any restrictions on shabbat? Maybe spiritual restrictions ?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

If you’re interested in aligning with the Jewish laws on Shabbat, this is surely welcomed. Spiritually…this is still way beyond us to even try to work with them–like a preschooler interested in calculus–not much to convey besides words.

“Days of the week” and “Shabbat” are obviously spiritual states–time of work and time of rest. What a person did “during the week” is how what we have toiled in revealing vessels that need correction and Shabbat is the Creator  fulfilling those corrected vessels.

 

[Brad]

so what you’re saying is, the work we did during the week on our ego is what we should restrict on Shabbat because we already laboured in that?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

The “restrictions” are labeled as such because there is nothing to “work on” in the state of Shabbat. A person has already revealed the corrupted vessels and what is left is the corrections which is the work of the light.

[Brad]

judaism teaches that Abraham kept halacha before the Torah was given, this is some sort of attempt to prove he was “religious”, and that judaism is the way, not buying it.  what does it really mean that he kept the mizvots and even the halacha?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

We know that Torah and Mitzvot are the components in the correction of the soul, this is the light that reforms and the action of correction. There’s no sequence of time—before/after….the system was created and those who attained the system know the laws of the upper world and how they work on the will to receive.

[Brad]

so, are you saying that what Judaism calls the branches of the spiritual roots, the physical halacha, did not exist in that time,  but he somehow knew? Does there have to be a branch before one understands the root? Isn’t a branch somehow always physically manifested in this world?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Correct, but attaining those roots necessarily points to the branches in this world but that doesn’t mean a ‘book’ needed to be written.

[Brad]

So, that means he “did” actually do what judaism claims, he practiced the physical mitzvah’s but the key difference with Abraham is that he went from above downwards, rather than, below upwards?  Whereas Judaism today puts most importants on the branch instead of the root,  Am I getting that right?

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[Brad]

Is there such a thing as non jewish souls and jewish souls? You told me about the mixing of the nations and israel in the shattered soul, is there an article from The Baal Hasulam or anyone that talks specifically about this? Need sources, asking for a friend.

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[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Brad,

Can you clarify what you mean by “Jewish soul”? Also, this isn’t really a term used in Kabbalistic writings. Typically this is referred to as “Israel”. Is that what you mean?

[Brad]

Discussing with a friend, The claim is “Nefesh elokis (or divine soul) and the nefesh behamis, animal soul, everyone has the latter but only a jew has the divine soul.” This is taken from the Tanya, kabbalah, (i know, you don’t encourage outside sources and that is fine, because I don’t actually read the Tanya.) my guess is,  to reconcile our different views, is that, its simply a spiritual transition. A jew is a stage needed to be “developed” , people get confused thinking of “jew” is being limited to physicality, Got Any sources that would prove the opposite or merge the two ideas?

thanks Chris. Btw, I Love the podcast with Seth and Asaf.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

<p style=”direction: ltr;”>Ah ok yes. Well the best way to answer would be from the ‘zoomed out’ approach where you have to ask what did the Creator create? Once you realize He created only one thing–the will to receive–and then ask, why? The reason being that He wanted to “do good to His creating beings” that wouldn’t omit any part of creation.</p>
The difference you’re asking about is simply a matter of perspective. Within each one of us there is the ability to develop the soul, otherwise there would not be a way to reveal “His goodness”.  Why is the Jew singled out here? Because the work of the Jew is different, as you by now know. It’s the difference in the root of this soul–what the role is. The entire creature depends on the work of Israel which is why Israel judges the world to a scale of merit or not.

[Yiskah]

I am halachic Jew, but was raised secular. I’ve found a lot of inspiration in my studies of Kabbalah and feel a pull to become more observant and celebrate the Holy Days. Do I have a responsibility to mitzvot as a Jew? I feel a bit lost as to where my place is in the world. Doesn’t help that I live in a very rural area with no community nearby. Appreciate your answers!

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi Yiskah! I remember seeing you in the TGT chat.

You do whatever you’re drawn to. The main this is getting the intention right during whatever actions we’re performing 🙂 The Kabbalist wanted to have an excuse to always think of the Creator…there are many actions they call practical or physical Mitzvot which have spiritual roots to them and by performing them a person doesn’t become any more spiritual it’s the intention which is called “action”. There are special “times” called holidays that Kabbalists took very seriously and do significantly influence us during that “time”.

Thanks!

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[amos]

Hi all
I am new to the group, and I have a few questions that might get answered here, so thank you for your time.
1. people whose all their being is: ” service to others” and love and help others and volunteering to social causes, but they don’t keep the mitzvot of the Tora , are they going to hell? (if by Rabbi Akiva , the whole Tora in one sentence is “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”).

2. How Kabbalah deals with the phenomena of OBE ( out of body experience) ?

3. many in the mainstream of the scientific community are getting to the conclusion that we all live in a “simulation” .
How does Kabbalah deal with the simulation theory ?

4. Is time continuous or discrete?

5. If the Universe is expanding, what it is expanding into? or simply put, if I travel to the end of the Universe and cross that line , where am I ?

6. Is a black Hole an outlet to another Universe?

7.I hear scientists talk about the “big bang” was not the birth of our Universe and that the Universe always existed and the “big bang” was an event that is one of a series of “big bangs” in the life of our Universe. whats the Kabalah opinion on that as many Kabbalists talk about the “big bang” as the birth of our Universe.

8. The evolution theory works wonderfully from the first cell onward, but nobody knows where the first cell came from .
The best scientists today with all the most sophisticated modern equipment can’t “build” a single cell even if they are given all the components of the cell like ” DNA, RNA, ATP, MITOCHONDRIA and the rest of the cell components etc . So who put the first cell on Planet earth?

9. If People keep mitzvot just because its a tradition in their family but they are not familiar with the meaning and the intentions of the mitzvot , are they going to hell ? after all they pray , they go to the shul every day and keep all the mitzvot without the meaning of it just because he grew up in that family and he continues the tradition.

10.If we study Kabbalah and and invest in Kabbalah only , are we covered by God’s will for us ? or we have to study Talmud as well?

11. Does studying Kabbalah raise our frequency?

Thank you so much for youe time
best regards

Amos cohen ❤️🌼🌷

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi Amos, welcome!

1. If by T&M you’re referring to drawing the light that reforms in order to correct your intention to from reception to bestowal, then yes–you will see a world without the Creator and this is considered “hell”
2. It doesn’t really relate to it. It’s not considered correction of the ego, yet it’s known there are these types of experiences that add to the overall experience a person has in this world.
3. Sure, this is the natural trend of those who research our reality. Kabbalah says we’re here in order to reveal that actually, everything I see outside of me is truly inside of me and I just didn’t see it that way the whole time–“we were as dreamers”
4. Time is a “feature” of the human experience only.
5. This is technically just a theory. We may discover something else is actually happening…
6. There are many unknown phenomena that Kabbalah doesn’t relate to regarding our physical world…maybe one day we will know
7. If you always revert back to how Kabbalah explains perception of reality and that the entire universe exists only within us, then we can’t even say that this is something that happened at a certain “time” since time applies to how we perceive reality and not to how it actually is.
8. This is where science hits a proverbial “wall” where no matter how much we research reality, the acting mind, the single force that develops the will to receive is hidden and we don’t see why the still can produce the vegetative (and why), why vegetative produces the animate etc.
9. Kabbalah doesn’t refer to “hell” as a place or something that exists after death. This is a perception one has when they are disconnected from the Creator. We don’t feel we are in hell since there is nothing to compare it to, but once we begin to rise we’ll see this is where we were–the worst experience a human can have.
10. God is a force of love and bestowal, and this attitude doesn’t change. Until we reach and fulfill the purpose of creation, we will continue to dress into these bodies which disconnect us from knowing Him, where we perform corrections in order to know disconnection and connection and we have tools–sources given to us by Kabbalists and these help us draw the light that reforms.
11. It brings us to equivalence of form.

[amos]

Hi Chris
Thank you so much for your wise answers.
Regarding question number 5, are you arguing that the Universe is not expanding? and if something else is happening, what might that be?
regarding question number 4, I know that time is a feature of humans or the matrix or our 3D world but that wasn’t my question. my question is, is time continuous or discrete? because if time is discrete what happens between time bits ?
because time does not exist under Plank’s time size (which is 10^⁻³⁴ sec.) so the universe doesn’t exist under Plank’s time which supports the theory that time is discrete.
regarding question number 8, since Kabbalah has a path to the ultimate objective truth, it must have the ability to explain phenomena that science hasn’t been able to answer yet, so according to Kabbalah, where did the first cell came from?
regarding question number 7, I know that everything happens within our subjective POV of the world but still we have a collective base POV of reality and Kabbalah doesn’t intend to disproof science and as a matter of a fact, it walks “hand in hand” with science, so science hasn’t decided yet if our Universe always existed or it began with the “big bang”,
so, which is it?
regarding question number 11, the creator’s frequency is infinite, how likely is that humans in a finite form can equate form with the creator?
thank you for your time, I really appreciate your wonderful work in this framework.
Amos

[amos]

continue from the last page:

See, Chris

At scales smaller than Planck time/length, the classical notion of spacetime breaks down
Space and time become subject to quantum fluctuations so violent that the very concepts lose their meaning
This suggests that our universe might have a fundamental “pixelation” or granularity 

Below Planck Scale, the distinction between space and time becomes meaningless, Quantum fluctuations dominate,
Classical causality breaks down, our normal concepts of “before” and “after” may not apply.
The universe might exist in a state of quantum foam, where particles of matter and antimatter are constantly created and destroyed. Which means that “nothing” doesn’t exist, instead we get quantum foam.

Which means that Reality might be fundamentally discrete rather than continuous
The smooth space time we experience might be an emergent phenomenon
Similar to how a movie appears continuous but is actually made of discrete frames.

Now, the discrete nature of space time at the Planck scale could affect consciousness, free will, and causality:

If consciousness operates at quantum scales, the discrete nature of time might affect how we experience reality
Our perception of continuous consciousness might be an emergent phenomenon from discrete quantum states
(Similar to how a movie appears fluid despite being made of discrete frames)
The “now” moment might be a minimum quantum of conscious experience.

If reality is fundamentally discrete, what happens to determinism?
Quantum indeterminacy at Planck scales might provide “gaps” where free will could operate
However, these gaps might be too small to influence macro-scale decision making
The discrete nature might actually support a more deterministic universe since there are finite possible states.

Classical causality assumes continuous chains of events
In discrete spacetime, causality might work more like a digital system
Events would progress in minimal “ticks” of Planck time
No events could occur “between” these ticks.

If our decisions occur in discrete time steps
There might be a fundamental unit of decision-making,This could affect how we think about moral responsibility.

Brain processes might leverage quantum effects
Discrete time could affect quantum coherence in neural systems
This might influence how information is processed in consciousness, and this Could explain aspects of subjective experience we talked in the previous paragraph.

Penrose and Hameroff suggest that consciousness arises from quantum processes in microtubules within neurons.Quantum coherence might only be possible during specific Planck time “ticks”
Consciousness might operate in discrete “frames” aligned with these quantum states
The collapse of quantum states might be synchronized with Planck time units.

Observer effects might be quantized.

I’d love to hear your input on that, please.

[amos]

continue: from the last page: “Observer effect might be quantized”

1. This would imply that observation occurs in discrete steps rather than continuously.

2. It challenges our notion of objective reality, suggesting that reality might be fundamentally observer-dependent.

3.It could imply a more active role of consciousness in shaping physical reality

[Brad]

I understand that Israel is not a nationality and jew means yehudi, unity with the Creator, can you elaborate on “why a non Jew would have israel in them”?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Brad,

That was the mixing between the nations of the world after the ruin of the vessel. Those points divided and spread apart to seep into all the other parts of the broken vessel. That Reshimo still exists and is will always be called Isa-el.

Chris

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