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[Gil]

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

[Brad]

Why is it the 8th day for circumcision ? interestingly, a baby boy has an extra 10% of blood only on that day (Vitamin  K)

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Brad, it represents the degree of Malchut, which is the eighth degree starting from Bina.

[mrc s]

How to undo past mistakes?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

First, recognize None Else Besides Him, and then you can regret that you were far from this thought and seemingly blamed other forces. Then you can plea for Him to change you so you don’t continue the same mistake.

[Brad]

Is there olam habah? Or is that now?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

The “next world” is always the world immediately concealed from us.

[Brad]

What does it mean to feel the thoughts of the writer? And is that the goal for all to feel our friends ?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Right, when we read Kabbalistic texts we should immerse ourselves in it completely, letting their thoughts be our thoughts as much as possible. We want to be as close to the state they are in, the state they wrote from and this means we need to nullify ourselves. I don’t know if it’s accurate to say we want the thoughts of the friends, but we certainly do want to feel them. The more we feel them, the more we feel them as important and this is a means to the goal.

[mrc s]

Do we have free will?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by mrc s.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Yes. In our times it’s “choosing the right environment” and later we’ll see where it is that makes us truly independent of the Creator. This is already in spiritual degrees where we discover our action between the Klipa and Kedusha.

[mrc s]

I thought we doesn’t have free will, am i reading incorrectly, aren’t we the result of past causes and our free will is an illusion?

[mrc s]

Is there a righteous person who suffer? is it different that sin?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Suffering can’t be defined just as pain. It’s like they said about Rabbi Akiva where his flesh was being pulled from his body and he said that he could not miss this opportunity.

[mrc s]

than not that sorry typo

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