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[Gil]

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[Niklas]

Every day I am confronted more and more with envy. I think that this is one of my next big Reshimot. So, I would like to know, if Kabbalah has anything to say about envy specifically.

Right now, I am always leaning back and forth between self-protection and the protection of others. I try to avoid envious people, and if I have to interact with them, I try to avoid any topics that spark envy within them.

From experience I know that if you are envious of someone and you feel that this person has pure intentions (i.e. is still warm and friendly towards you), the envy hurts even more. So, I don’t even want to be friendly to envious people because I do not want them to feel the pain of envy.

As I said, this seems to be a Reshimot for me, and every day it gets a little harder to deal with it. What makes it even more confusing for me is that there are people who I dearly love and that dearly love me, but they are hit with this envy and they do not know what to do. I felt how a specific topic sparks intense envy for a friend of mine, but around this specific topic there is still strong love. So she doesn’t seem to know what to do either.

I would love to get ahead of this Reshimot, so it does not have to manifest as a “physical ordeal”, but rather it is experienced as a “voyage of discovery”, a “spiritual treasure hunt”.

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Hi Niklas,

When Kabbalists speak of envy they refer only to envy in the group, and not envy with people who do not study. About that not a single word is written.

Here, in this controlled environment envy can be a very strong moving force. Our egos cannot tolerate being seen as lower than others, so when we are envious of our friends on the path, this gives us additional strength to perform correct actions. And those actions, in turn, give a positive example that others can also be envious of, allowing them to acquire even greater forces. In this way, we help each other rise.

Outside the group the advice is to live like everyone else. Ultimately, you choose how you want to live your life and who you wish to spend time with. All that is separate from what we are referring to here in our studies. And you shouldn’t confuse the two as somehow being connected. For now, there are no spiritual calculations outside the group other than the amount of time a person chooses this environment, which promotes spirituality, over any other environment, which does not.

Joseph

[Niklas]

Thank you very much for your answer.

I am not so sure about the inside/outside the group thing. I have sometimes stumbled across the phrase “working ten”, so I imagine that we will form a smaller, tight group with which to study in later courses.

I can imagine that this provides possibilities that are impossible outside a “controlled environment” as you put it.

However, for now, I trust my intuition. I do feel that it takes a certain time and preparation to re-adjust the heart’s frequency to Kabbalah again, after having spent time with friends (even when those experiences are one of the most loving experiences I have ever had).

I will take from this reply that envy can be a motivating force, so even if it creates more suffering for others (initially) it still accelerates their process.

I once heard Gil Shir saying “you will feel what’s what and go from there”. Even though this is only starting and difficult sometimes, I want to trust my intuition nevertheless.

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Niklas,

For now, outside the group means anything outside of this KabU environment. Yes, those that continue the study will ultimately form groups and learn how to work with them in order to hasten ones development.

These questions and thoughts are all good and on the way.

Joseph

[Eliyahu]

If a student was ripped away from his group by external forces many years ago, and now wants to reconnect because the situation stabilizes, does he have to go through all the semesters from beginning to end again in order to be positioned in a working ten?

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Hi Andreas,

Typically a student will never have to repeat a particular course unless they want to. But I would contact support using the “need help” button. There are many factors to take into account here and certain information I am missing. If you contact them they will be able to help you out.

Joseph

[humehr garivani]

hi

with what name i can make receive desire ?

and with what i can make bestow desire?

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Hi Humehr,

I’m not sure what you mean when you say “with what name”.

The desire to receive is the matter of creation. It is the very nature of the created beings and in this there was no choice on our behalf. Our freedom of choice is in how we use this desire to receive; either for reception or in order to bestow. The desire doesn’t change, but only the intention.

Bestowal is the quality of the upper worlds, the Creator. This is completely opposite to our inherent nature of reception. The purpose of creation is attained when we make our desire to receive, which was given to us from above, similar to the Creator’s desire to bestow. This means we use our desire to receive with an intention to bestow.

The process by which we learn to use our desire to receive for the sake of bestowal is through the books, the teacher, and the environment that we build which reinforces the importance of this work.

I hope this answers your question. If not maybe ask again.

Joseph

[B S]

Hi I have an important question that has been on my mind for a long time after studying Kabbalah. What is the task of our memories when it has been said that the human soul reincarnates in bodies? For example, will my love for my mother be erased from the memory of the great human soul in these reincarnations? Or will I eventually have it as an eternal love? I’m afraid of this forgetfulness.

[Joseph – KabU Instructor]

Hi Behzad,

Each stage of development a person undergoes brings one closer to the state, as you put it, of eternal love. This means one develops connections of bestowal with others and they are united in a single heart. We only ever draw closer to this state. We never go backwards in spirituality and nothing is ever lost.

Joseph

[George]

Hello,

 

I read about Tzimtzum. How is this state achieved? What do we have to do in everyday life to achieve this kind of state?

Thank You

george

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi George,

The Tzimzum is a result of many efforts to not want to receive for one’s self, where a person has no greater desire than bestowal. In “everyday life” this isn’t applicable since we make corrections from lightest to heaviest and the first step must be done in the right environment where there is tremendous support for these thoughts and desires where they flow between one another. The outside world doesn’t yet offer this support, but this is later on in the path.

Thanks!

Chris

[Roxana]

Hello KabU instructors,

Do mourners Kaddish make a difference for the loved one who has passed over?

what is the reason for those who suffer enormously before their death( since their suffering happens when there is no time left to act based on spiritual awakening)?

thanks in advance

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hi Roxana,

Each soul has its own correction and we can’t judge anything with our egoistic eyes. We don’t know what each person needs to go through on their path towards correction. If they didn’t receive an awakening towards correction then it just simply wasn’t time yet. The path is only for those who have a desire for it and there’s no way to instill desire or like our teacher’s teacher Rabash had said, “where’s the pharmacy where I can buy desire?”

But to relate to the first part of your question, no physical actions in this world have any effect on the spiritual.

Thanks!

Chris

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