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[Gil]

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[Brad]

Halacha has a Kabbalistic meaning behind them because the sages who wrote them were kabbalists. How about Noahide laws? Any place for those in kabbalah?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Brad,

Anytime you come across a “law” in Kabbalah, it’s referring to spirituality only–how a person is able to “chain” themselves to spirituality in order not to be disconnected. Meaning, the thought of creation contains a program which its single purpose is to bring the created being into complete adhesion with its Maker through correction. The Kabbalists detail how this system works and what a person needs to do in order to not “waste time” making mistakes, deviating from that path of correction towards the end goal.

Chris

[Michael]

how come kabbalists are always jewish.  if it’s like a science that they just discovered and anyone can… do they become jewish?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Michael,

That’s not completely true if you look at Abraham or Adam who were Kabbalists before there was even such a word “Jew”, also Rabbi Akiva etc. “Becoming Jewish” you could say is what happens when the point in the heart awakens in the person–not having anything to do with religion or who your mother was.

Chris

[Michael]

i have been noticing in my life that when i deprive myself, i am more appreciative of life and everything.  like a lot of stuff that you guys talk about, how you only have a need for the creator when things go bad.  is there no value in creating situations like that for yourself?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

What you’re basically saying is, “Can I not invite suffering in order to advance further/faster?”

The answer is no. The Creator arranges the increase in Aviut, the revelation of more uncorrected will to receive. It’s not on us to ask for the evil. Our only work is to ask for correction. If you feel there’s “nothing to correct” at the current moment, then this is the concealment acting. If you engage in acquiring more greatness in the goal and with that do actions to integrate yourself more in the environment, you’ll surely reveal resistance to that and thus a need for the Creator.

Chris

[Michael]

is there some kind of discrepancy when man is talked about as needing to give to the creator, and then it seems that’s the same thing as thinking about the greater whole, like other people, the greater unity, and taking pleasure in that?  are they the exact same thing?  because the latter makes sense to me, while the idea of giving to the creator seems like an unnecessary complication since the creator shouldn’t need anything from us.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Michael,

Not the exact same thing. It’s as it’s written, “from love of the created beings to love of the Creator”. The article Rabash wrote about needing to reach the first floor before you can go up to the second floor (the Creator) speaks exactly about that–but also in many other places. It seems like a complication because He’s concealed. It’s not the “world” that’s “Good that does Good”, so when this force is gradually opened up to a person–that this is the single operating force in reality–He becomes the closest to you, the one that understands you the most, the one that penetrates everything, this is who you have business with. Therefore, the more we progress and stabilize ourselves in a ten where we can rise above our ego, we enter a new perception above the ego which previously concealed this force from us and use the environment as a means to constantly increase our contact with the upper force more and more.

Thanks!

Chris

[Brad]

There is no coercion in spirituality, but where do we draw the line? For example, what if my daughter is picking up books from  school, that have kids cartoons about different religions, or, idol images etc. Is stopping her from learning about that stuff still coercion ? By saying we don’t do that etc.  Or guiding her towards our beliefs ie: Kabbalah also coercion ? Where do we draw the line?

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Brad,

The rule “there’s no coercion” speaks about bringing someone towards spirituality–it’s because you can’t “buy” a desire for it.

With regards to you daughter and other similar examples, as a parent we of course want to educate them as much as we can about the path. They should know what exists out there, that’s important, but being an example is the best route.

Chris

[Brad]

In my YG TEN, we are to choose excerpt sources, but can we also choose blog articles from The Rav to glean from? Thx.

[Chris – KabU Instructor]

Hey Brad,

Sure why not. There are some great posts there that go in depth into many topics, but the Rav would certainly recommend studying only from BHS or Rabash. Nothing wrong with supplementing to help guide the conversation or the workshop, but we only study from the sources.

Thanks!

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