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Hi there,
I have also another question since I started kaballah beside the animal question. Since I started kabbalah I find it difficult to find what is really important in live for me. I searched for this in interviews with Laitman, but I cannot find any information about this. It is my own research, but the kabbalah is questioning me how importing it really is.
We are people with our own caracteristics and such. I always feel nor a woman, nor a man. Some people do really surgeries for this, to change them in the looks they feel its more them. But I don’t know, I am already busy this for years. How important are our bodies, our gender, our outside beings. People want to look nice, they want to dress what suits who they are. As I woman I always dress in male clothing, just because it always felt way more comfortable. But since I am busy with the kabbalah, I get confused. Is this just a tiny part of ourselves, but which is very important in this live to become the person you feel you are. Or is it not important and make people it important. I am just very curious what your opinions are about this specifik subject.
Kinds regards DanielleHi Danielle,
Kabbalah has no opinion on the subject since it only engages in the correction of a person’s inner qualities. The externality is not the matter of correction at all. As you progress in your study, you’ll pay less and less attention to your external world just because it becomes less important. This doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary or you should disregard it in any way (you’ll come to see how to correctly interact and relate to the outer world when you begin correcting your inner qualities) but it just means once you have something more important, eternal and endless that shines for you and that’s what you define as “life” and not these 80 years in this body – you relate to it differently.
At the same time, you can’t go “against” yourself, and there’s no reason to. Just like you’ve done you’re whole life, you’ll continue to make decisions that bring you more pleasure and less pain. The calculations you’re asking about will just be more of the same, but it has nothing to do with Kabbalah and you won’t advance more or less in relation to it. Do whatever makes you happy as long as it doesn’t hurt others 🙂
All the best!
Chris
Dear Chris,
Thank you for your answer. That really makes sense and I already thought about it in that way a bit. In the Netherlands were I live it’s lately a big thing that people change their gender and such. Or feel nor woman or male so I was very curious why that is happening. That we have more time to think about it or that generally gender becomes less important. I don’t know. But your answer comfirns a bit what I thought, that it becomes les important.
Hi Danielle,
in my opinion what matter is that one dedicates his/her time in studying Kabbalah – wisdom of receiving Light.
That is one investment that wont vanish.
If you have X amount of hours of Your free time (outside your work time, family time, friend time, etc.) than if you than spend from this X amount of time 80% thinking about gender issue, you are not investing your time and energy in Kabbalah on full potential as there is only 20% of time left. Which means you are progressing on slow speed. And that is not in your best interest.
So I would say that this gender issue is Your life challenge to overcome in order to progress. You do what ever makes you feel good so that it doesn’t bother your mind at Your free time and you can progress in full speed.
As primitive example if one has free time 3 hours from which 2,5 hours of them thinks about eating hamburger but doesn’t do that because its not healthy than one has stolen his/her self those hours of not progressing in this wisdom but thinking about hamburger. Just eat that thing and continue with studying 😉
That would be my opinion if that interests you 🙂
I have a question I am struggling with. It not really has to do with kabbalah but also a bit i find.
I am eating vegan together with my partner. We are not hardcore protest vegans, but it just feels the right way to eat for us. I cannot find anywhere what the Kabbalah thinks of eating meat. Because if we want to find to connection between us and make a better world I find the animals are a huge part of that. I think we cannot find true satisfaction inside of ourselves as long as we are slaughtering animals on a massive and crual way. What does the kabbalah say about this? Does one has to do with the other? Does people get more concious and decide to eat naturally no longer meat and fish or is it not important for the kabbalah to purchase the higher goal together.I am very curious Danielle
Hi Danielle,
Kabbalah does talk about the 4 levels still-vegetative-animate-speaking (human) and the connection between these levels. In short each level sustains the level above it and each level has “feelings”. Rocks also “feel” but on a lower level then plants. Plants “feel” but on a lower level then animals etc. A Kabbalist is one that attains all these levels within.
The only part in nature that requires correction is the human level. When all of humanity will reach this state of connection it will lead to perfect harmony in all parts of nature. In this state Kabbalists say “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb”.
Humans are not like a virus. The ego is the virus. We are not the ego. So correcting and regulating the ego can bring man into balance with nature. Would you Agree?
Rav laitman once said you can stain your soul in a life that you can’t reach attainment. I’m concerned that I have done this with past mistakes. If this is so what is the point of keeping this life and not just changing shirts?
Hey Gil. Thank you for teaching me the last year. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to study authentic Kabbalah. My question is how to acquire the key to attainment?
Hi Ty,
that IS the key question isn’t it 🙂
The answer – simple. Plant your spiritual point in a nurturing spiritual environment and it will GROW.
Ok, I will ask anything.
I wanted to share a picture in my mind and ask is this concept correct and if it’s correct than it would help other as well if it’s wrong than of course I would like to understand necessary changes.
I have been listening for many materials and questions from other brothers and sisters who try to learn Kabbalah and what I have noticed we all ask many question about our cell in this picture. How can we make our cell better? Why we got problems in our cell? Why ones cell is better than other’s cell? Will Kabbalah make my cell better? Will with help of Kabbalah I won’t have problems in my cell? Can I have little bit of Light in my cell? Or maybe I can switch of that ray of Light in my cell? So that everything goes back as it was before? Can I make my cell bigger? Describe me please what is outside of cell? I have never seen outside of cell – why should it be better than a cell? Yes cell has it’s downsides but that is all I know. And many other questions.
That is true. I doubt that it’s even possible to draw 2D picture that would represent true situation. Maybe 3D motion picture would be more helpful.
Yes, ray of Light is not always there. Actually point in heart is inside of that dark cell and knows that there is such Light outside of dark cell. Once Light approaches dark cell closer One in a cell would feel pain, the closer Light gets the more pain One would feel. One would fight with all possible measures has in that dark cell but Light won’t go away outside of cell it will get closer and closer and pain will grow till one gives up. Simply because nothing done before didn’t helped One to get away from pain. And then dark cell lets in Light. It lifts one above all pain felt in dark cell. After that Light goes away again and one founds himself back in dark cell only now with bigger dark cell walls, those walls gets bigger and cell gets wider and it’s more harder for Light to get in. But after that One will try to regain Light as nothing compares to that. In one hand you have choice to watch TV, play games, buy things, etc. but you know even before starting those activities that it won’t ever be compared to the Light. That is when Kabbalah comes in, in what way could one learn to receive Light. Also at state of Light One feels joy in everything doing at that time. It can be anything. Doesn’t matter, repairing house, driving car, etc. After that one understands than no vacation on any island never ever will make one happy. It doesn’t matter. So it’s not rational to invest anything in other activities more than necessary to sustain normal life and rest of time invest in learning how to receive Light. Only it’s not easy. Many times it’s not possible to sit for few minutes at some Kabbalistic materials. But what other option are there after that? Nothing.
I would be interested in seeing more people exchanging their thoughts and experiences in forum. See how their journey started and where they are now, what lessons have learned. There is of course risk than some would start to learn something that is not in line with Kabbalistic texts. And of course our ego plays games with us thinking that we are now smarter than other and that is a trap for us. But in same time I think that there should be some kind of exchange outside those meetings have with teachers in this forum. Forum should be more lively.
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