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In Kabbalah, the ten plagues and the ten Sefirot are indeed connected, but not in a negative sense. The ten plagues represent stages of spiritual purification that the Israelites underwent in their journey from slavery to freedom. Each plague corresponds to a specific Sefira, reflecting a process of correcting and refining desires 🙂
I’ve been struggling with self worth and negative self talk. In the articles the sages talk about self hatred. Is this what we should do ? Hate ourself and develope negative self talk ?
Ah…not the same thing at all–although I understand the tendency to go in that direction, that’s what the world kind of teaches us.
Kabbalah instructs us to always aspire only towards the good, and from the good we’ll recognize the evil in us, the desire to receive for ourselves and as a result of this we begin to “hate” what separates us from the Creator. This is not something artificial where we “focus” on something we hate and by that we imagine we’re advancing. This is not the path.
This hatred of what separates us from the Creator is also done with joy because we see how the Creator brings us to have certain feelings towards something we used to love. We love ourselves and there’s no doubt about that, this is all we know. So how can we develop feelings toward the one thing we actually love if not by some greater force above us that helps us aspire towards Him and not towards ourselves.
I hope the direction is clear. 🙂
Chris
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!
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