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[Gil]

Ask any question and get an answer from a KabU instructor! (for tech questions see “Tech Support” Section)

[mrc s]

What is the difference between tagin and otiot with respect to the partzuf (creature?).?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Impressions or “memories” of the light in the vessel and leaving the vessel.

[mrc s]

Is the tzimtzum after phase four..?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

This is the decision of will to receive to not receive with the intention to receive for itself.

[Carlos]

Hi,

I was wondering, how do I know when I have started climbing the ladder and the 125 degrees and at which degree I am?

Thank you!

Carlos

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Hi Carlos,

It is written, there is none as wise as the experienced. When you enter the degrees of the spiritual ladder, you will know. The degrees are determined by how much light the created being is able to receive in its vessel along with the coarseness of the vessel.

Joseph

[mrc s]

Is there a lot of question about suffering which a person didn’t do to others and he’s confused why he get that suffering..?

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Mrc,

Every person who suffers is confused why he is suffering. If a person wants to reach a better state, then he needs to strengthen his connection with others who also aspire for adhesion with the Creator.

[mrc s]

Is reaching the state of gadlut inevitable or we can remain only in katnut..?

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Mrc,

When the state of Katnut is stabilized, the state of Gadlut is then revealed, but this is only in order to strengthen the intention in the work of Katnut, which is the primary form of work.

[Benjamin]

The focus on “self” in Kabala seems confused.  There’s lot’s of talk about the construction of so-called reality and it’s illusory nature.  There’s also much discussion in Kabala of the unified nature of The All / The Light and it’s “clothing” which forms reality.  Yet,  all of this presupposes an observing “self” which is of necessity distinct.  Thus, there is an inherent contradiction. If so called reality is unified, i.e. One then how can it be observed?   And, while the experience of a “self” certainly seems to be real, when one is sought, it cannot be found and it “appears” that there really is no self but rather the illusion of one based on memory and neurology.   So, is reality unified or is it dual?  And, is Kabala’s focus on self a reification of this illusion? Or, is it merely an issue of languaging and convenience?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Benjamin,

Really the answer is both. You’re basically asking about free choice, since wherever this exists, that’s where my “I” is which is somehow autonomus in those conditions. However simply “observing” doesn’t necessarily imply the action of free choice.

Kabbalah explains that in the end of correction, there will be no discernable difference between the created being and the Creator. Where then is the “I” that’s observing?

The whole path is for us to develop the necessary opposite qualities so that those opposites exist in us alongside the complete revelation of the upper force and you were given a unique perspective or “angle” from this viewing structure called the soul.

Thanks,

Chris

[Benjamin]

How can the “I”  (clothed light) be autonomous? If everything is One Light “clothed”  then the individual, independent nature of The “I” is illusory and isn’t this teaching a reification and (perhaps even deification) of an illusion?

 

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

You exercise free choice in a place that exists only from the side of the created being which is, as if, vacant of the influence of the upper force, where the created being chooses to use its given nature as a vehicle for bestowal. This is only a possibility if the created being feels and recognizes the difference between the receiver and the giver. Something has to exist to make these calculations and to feel these sensations, even if it is an illusion. The ultimate revelation of Truth is the path of revealing more and more what false is.

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