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As a “Young” person, we’re not supposed to do much in the way of dissemination. We’re told to give someone a book, but not given any direction as to which book. Is there a recommendation I’m missing? I’d like to give something or some explanation to my wife as to why I disappear for an hour and a half at a time…. I don’t know how to succinctly communicate.
Hi Greg,
One’s spouse is the exception. We can explain what we”re doing, without suggesting that they need to do it too. If they’re interested, you can explain further.
Hi
Does these 6000 years, where corrections are done bit by bit, the name of HaVaYaH illuminate us only as Matzpatz?
Thank you
Adelina.
Why do we need to worry about this specific name? We focus on what we ourselves can reasonably attain today. We could encounter such things in our study of the Zohar – which we study so the Light will influence us – but we don’t open them up. It’s enough to say that at the end of correction all the names will be revealed.
Hi Gianni,
I have a question about our approach to seeking connection with the friends. Should we actively want, need, or ask for connection from our friends? Does doing so exercise the will to receive in a negative way? Additionally, if we pray silently in our hearts for this connection and still experience silence in return, should we then reach out to the friends to encourage connection ? Or is it more appropriate to remain in silence and accept that as the Creator’s will for us at this time?
Thank you for your guidance, Dave.
Marriage
How can we live in such a world that the ego is destroying humanity? It makes it very difficult to find the one suitable for our spiritual part. What should we do when it comes to selecting a partner for marriage? Should a Kabbalist marries a non-kabbalist?
Usually one wouldn’t marry someone not on the same path, but in our world I can’t tell you what to do. People have values that were advertised to them but which are harmful to them, but which were sold so well that I feel I’m doing good to myself as I harm myself. It’s also a product of the coarsening ego. So, few want to get married at all and if they do they’re still influenced by the general atmosphere that doesn’t support that structure. This structure nevertheless is an eternal one – nothing we can do about it. So, a Kabbalist would certainly prefer to be married if possible, and to someone on the same path if possible.
Hi Gianni,
How should we regard “thoughts of emptiness (that) come to a person”? With reverence or irreverence?
REF: Shamati 13. A Pomegranate
“And this is the meaning of, “and God hath so made it, that men should fear before Him.” It means that these thoughts of emptiness come to a person in order for one to have a need to take upon himself faith above reason. And for that we need the help of God. It follows that at that time one must ask of the Creator to give him the power to believe above reason.”
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/full/31754
Thanks,
Dave
Hi Dave,
It’s so that we’ll learn to work from any state, and in each state something different is required, even though every time, all I have to reach is the connection with the friends through which I can reach connection with the Creator. Most important is to remember in each state, it comes from the Creator.
Hi Gianni,
“A question arises: Can a man studying Kabbalah interfere with other people’s matters? Can he explain anything to them? He can and should, but very carefully. A book can be given to read; one can talk a little about Kabbalah, but never argue the point.
It can be harmful to you. You will lose everything you have gained by your own efforts and studies. Kabbalah should be popularized unobtrusively, never try to convince a person. It will not help anyway. Man’s egoism is stronger than any influence from outside. You will never make him change his mind. You can direct him only if he wants it. Man perceives something only when he feels he can fill his desire.”
I have so many question for this 🙂 but I will keep it short:
1. Why will you lose everything gained through the studies and efforts if you discuss about Kabbalah? Why?? And that means a person goes back to the point as it was before coming to Kabbalah? Can you discuss with friends on the path?
2. Then through dissemination we might also lose that we gained?? What is the limit here not to lose everything?
Thank you!
Generally, you can’t argue anything because logic is based on the desire. So, if you can’t change the person’s desire, when you’re done explaining, everything will be forgotten. But whatever of your heart you revealed during the interaction, goes to the Sitra Achra. In the end, it turns out that the one doing the convincing is less convinced than ever, and the one being convinced forgets everything. That’s why we generally don’t disseminate personally. Everything is available on the internet for anyone to find. And we only disseminate through official channels and projects, according to assignment rather than my desire. Then it’s clean, and beneficial.
“But whatever of your heart you revealed during the interaction, goes to the Sitra Achra.”
But why? I talked to some close friends, and they are interested, for now like from a far, you know, but still scared to “break the Christian orthodox vow”, and their English is really bad or none. And after the talks, I am not convinced less, but more.
But I noticed, that the more I study, the less I want to talk about it. I assumed because it goes so deep, that I would never be able to explain it properly; and it has to be experienced, not explained.
Why? That’s how it is written by the Kabbalists. I can disseminate based on what I heard from my teacher. That takes annulment to the teacher and his method.
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One should be so careful with words of Torah, and one should be so careful not to err in them and utter a word of Torah that he does not know, and which he did not receive from his teacher. Anyone who says words of Torah that he does not know or did not receive from his teacher, it is written about him, “You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness.”
Zohar for All, Yitro [Jethro],”You Shall Not Make for Yourself”, Item 428
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