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When I first started studying Kabbalah there were several lessons on the ladder and the levels going up and down. When I was reading those lessons I was getting better but still not great. Now i want to review those passages but Im not sure in which material they were discussed in in the most detail. Could you send me some links as that information isnt real clear to me also. I’ve found passages but I think there were more detailed passages that Ihaven’t found.
Thank you,
The reason you couldn’t find the text is that I did not clarify correctly. I had read an excerpt from Baal Hasulam on the wisdom of Kabbalah .he spoke of conducts from above downward and below upward. He talked about wisdom being composed of roots that hang down by way of causes and consequences. After indeed it again it is all much more clear to.me. I think I need to re read everything I read before to get it straight in.my mind.
Thank you very much for your help and kindness.
Dear Friends In a passage in one of the readings from Kabbalah Revealed, Implenting Free Choice, it stated that the usual definition of the word ‘faith’ is opposite to the definition of ‘faith’ when kabbalists talk about it. Ive re read that a times and think i understand but when i go back i realize i really don’t.
of Thank you, SallyFaith is used in several ways in Kabbalah. There is faith below reason, which is the ordinary religious definition: I believe because it’s what I was told. It’s not that I was told by someone who knows from their experience. There is also faith in the sages, which is that I follow the experience of one who personally attained the Creator. And finally there is faith above reason, which is bestowal that is called above reason because I attain bestowal above my quality of reception, called reason.
Hi Gianni, hope you’re well.
Quick question from my kabbalistic practice: I’ve been thinking about how to transform very physical, mundane actions (for example, cleaning and tidying my home or cooking for myself) into real service for the minyan and ultimately for the Creator, using the idea of a masach (screen) to redirect my intention from personal comfort to bestowal for the group.
Is this a worthwhile practice to try? Practically speaking, do small actions like this actually help the group’s spiritual work, or is the effect mainly psychological for the doer?
I’m curious whether this can be a practical, sustainable way to serve the minyan (not just a private exercise). Would appreciate your honest experience and any concrete tips.
Thanks!
I didn’t see such a practice in Rabash’s writings, but I heard that we should pray for the ten all the time, ask the Creator for them. If you can do this over each of the different parts of your day – that’s something. That’s the question. Over which states can you nevertheless come to connection with the friends, and prayer to the Creator.
No and yes. Most of it is imaginary, and what there is is the ego, which can harm others. By thinking bad of others, you harm them. However, you harm yourself at the same time, several times over. You can do all kinds of rituals around this, but you can also get rid of all those rituals, and what is left is just the ego that thinks of harming others, and when I think ill of others, I harm myself.
So, they harm themselves, and on the other hand, my positive and kind attitude, an attitude of bestowal to others turns into a shield through which negativity cannot penetrate.
Excerpt from Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 1, “There Is None Else Besides Him”
“That is, the pleasure and joy that the will to receive takes should be with the aim that there is contentment above when the creatures feel pleasure, as this was the purpose of creation, to do good to His creations. This is called the joy of the Shechina above.”
Questions:
1) When I feel pleasure, like eating, resting, or feeling appreciated, etc. how do I know whether my enjoyment is egoistic or directed toward contentment above?
2) How can I sense the Creator’s contentment in my pleasure if I cannot perceive Him directly?
One should always be in contact with There Is None Else Besides Him. However, the pleasures that are of the same kind that all animals receive are not the pleasures that the Creator enjoys. Rather, those are called, “neither praised nor condemned.” But be in the feeling of There is None Else Besides Him, and He is the Good Doing Good, and these things too will take their right relationship to the path.
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