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My man Chris how are you ?
This will sound like a cliche question but when we see human ego running wild and making chaos like war and famine why doesn’t the creator intervene? If you take civilian casualties for example or poverty where people are suffering because of their political leaders or lack thereof, why does the creator not make a way to save those people considering they are suffering through no fault of their own but even worse they are suffering because of the ego of their leaders etc. Where is the creator in thisHey Luke,
Ya, classic question… It’s hard because here we are talking about human life and to us it seems so valuable and each one of us cherishes our own life so much and that’s easy to translate that into feeling for others, that their life is also valuable but this is not the life the Creator cherishes.
What we don’t see is this accumulation of Reshimot we go through individually and collectively and the absolute necessity to maintain the place of free choice for the created being. We nonetheless learn only through pain, from all kinds of different flavors and colors of being disconnected from the upper force and all this adds to our distinction between self love and equivalence of form with the Creator.
Our nature makes us these creatures that cannot stand pain and on the other hand become completely zombified and obsessed with pleasure. If He were to somehow take the pain away, He’s taking away specifically the thing that brings us closer to Him, and it’s not these corporeal bodies that He cares about coming close, so we may need to flip through a few of these before we finally understand how He speaks with us.
Seeking to connect with students of Kabbalah in southern Minnesota for meets. Any pointers are welcomed.
From what I know you have to do the 4 courses here untill you get linked with a group it’s kinda hard because I want the social interaction as well it’s quite lonely do what I do and just stay up all night doing the course work 😆 or set a time aside for kabbalah only study and soon you’ll be completed. But an instructor will come here and answer. This is just my input.
Hey thanks for the input. We’re always looking to improve the experience.
Of course, nothing is like having some physical weekly gathering where new students can interact.
With new students, especially, it’s very important however they receive the fundamentals and have some kind of grasp of the method before they interact too much. We’ve seen the harm that can come from a kind of “un-moderated” types of interactions–whether it’s Zoom or other meetings, we saw it was best for virtual students to go about it this way.
We’re constantly discussing how to improve, but at the same time, for the virtual path it’s always a bit more…limiting [still].
Thanks!
Hi Nathan,
As far as I’m aware, there’s no such text.
There are times though in many of the articles of Rabash, and probably in Shamati too, where they reference some lines from the Siddur.
Chris
Nathan Nathan,
You might look at this, although it’s not one of KabU’s books. Chassidus incorporates Kabbalah in their teachings, but not strictly Baal HaSulam. Might be of interest to you.
store.kehotonline.com/prodinfo.asp?number=EP-SIBC.WS
You can look inside this book here: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3217860/jewish/Blessings-Of-The-Shema.htm
I have a better understanding now of covenants and mitzvah and how they are spiritual attainments of inner work and the correction of desires . However so much corporeal action is linked to them. In disclosing a portion, Rav laitman says “Circumcision has become a Jewish conduct in this corporeal world and is a crucial commandment for some to this day”. He then goes on to explain the spiritual root behind the meaning of it. So with this in mind, is he saying that we have to follow these corporeal rituals in order to attain the spiritual root/correction of them ? From my journey so far, my understanding is all these actions mentioned in corporeal terms are just encrypted words that are speaking about spiritual things and not physical rituals or customs. But I could be wrong so I’m asking here to see if I’m understanding this properly, albeit I may have asked somewhat similar in the past. I just want to be sure.
Disclosing a portion is a phenomenal work on the Torah anyone reading this should go and get a copy.
Hi Luke,
Yeah I was about to say, I’m almost certain I’ve answered this…the answer hasn’t changed however 🙂
You can liken it to a child wanting a bank account. Obviously the bank account isn’t something practical and wouldn’t make sense for him to have one, but they just heard it’s something they should have. Later on, the use becomes practical and a true desire for it awakens in them for them to go and implement that advice. Getting a bank account at age 3 doesn’t serve any benefit anyways, so why do it, especially if the main thing is to first get a job and have a place to hold the money you’d make there?
There’s that kind of way of looking at it, and also, the Creator doesn’t look at the bodies–only the hearts. You could have the most upside down/opposite life with respect to the Torah, but if your heart yearns for bestowal then you are worthy of correction.
Chris
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