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Hi , I was wondering if we could vision the private zoom meetings of Kabbalah explained simply , as I don t have the possibility of attending them due to the concurring hour of my Young Group and KES.
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CathyI have often asked questions of instructors at KabU and have received replies that were clearly from a place of ignorance and lack of attainment. Don’t get me wrong, I am very fond of most of the KabU instructors – and I am very grateful for their goodwill attempts to point the way to wisdom. However, in the end, the pursuit of the wisdom of Kabbalah is all about the group, the books, and the Rav – with the Rav as the ultimate arbiter of attained truth, since it is he (presumably) who has attained the highest degree of wisdom in the school.
Of course, I understand that there is an assumption that the instructors may indirectly voice what the Rav might have said in the same situation. And clearly Rav Laitman has entrusted the instructors to perform his guidance by proxy.
Nevertheless, the Rav’s blessing notwithstanding, I have many questions that the instructors are clearly not competent to field. These are questions that can be adequately answered ONLY by someone who has actually attained the Upper Worlds.
In all authentic spiritual traditions, there is a living master who makes himself or herself directly accessible to querent, students, and disciples. This direct source of wisdom does not farm out his presence to intermediaries. So, I guess what I’m asking for is to have more direct access to the Rav, such that I am able to ask in-depth and extensive questions that are not wasted on someone who has not attained the Upper Worlds and who is, therefore, only guessing, or just saying “I don’t know” all the time.
Dear Instructor, Thank you for all your replies which have helped me.
I really don’t have anyone to explain this to so here I go.
At a time back in May this year when I had been reading Shamati, and, as always, not fully understanding what was put to me but just letting it flow. I took a short break and sat on a canvas deckchair at the bottom of the garden alone. At that moment my mind was absent and I just sat in quietness and was overcome by a deep yearning, it was almost as if I had turned myself inside out so strong was this feeling.  I didn’t question what was happening but just let it flow. I have never really yearned so strongly for anything and it was so moving. This yearning lasted for about 5 minutes after which I could not sustain that emotional ‘charge’ as it was tiring to do. You see, I didn’t really know what I was yearning for but it was from a deep place; immediately after this had happened, it was as if I had returned from somewhere and for a moment there was a sense of peace at which time I just looked at the cherry trees and felt, in some way or another, that they had borne witness to what had just happened. I felt as if for all my life I have been mute but at that instant I had let out the tiniest husky shrill sound and I realise that I was no longer mute in this figurative sense. After this, I sat for some time; I sobbed a little as I was moved and then went back into the house.
I don’t know what happened but I feel that something saw and felt that yearning and for the briefest of seconds I felt as if I was not alone. I hope to return to that place when the time is right.
Does this make sense at all. Thank you and warm wishes again. Lyndon.
Hi Lyndon. I would say that all our experiences, both inner and outer, make sense. Everything that happens to us is sent from the Creator. And, in one way or another, they are sent to bring us closer to Him. Normally we don’t discuss our inner experiences because our goal is the group experience of a connected 10.
Our Young Group homework is to listen to the daily Lesson Sep 24, 2020Â Part 1 Lesson on the topic of “Work with Faith Above Reason”, lesson 29,
Rav says these words at around the five minute mark:
“…then if we approach every moment in our lives in this way and …. Â and we ask him to connect us and we are successful to such an extent that we are able to draw him to clothe in us..”
“..when he dresses in us as a force of bestowal..”
I can get a feeling for what  ‘clothe in us’ and ‘dresses in us’ mean, but they seem like terms of art with a very specific meaning. What are they intended to mean? / Thanks
Hello David. Unless a force is “dressed” in something it cannot be perceived, and therefore doesn’t exist as far as we are concerned. We often use the example of electricity. No one has ever seen electricity, but we see it dressed in lighting, feelings of shock, magnetic fields, Tesla autos, etc.
Closer to home, we find the force of the will to receive dressed in us. This force makes us do what we do. The study of kabbalah aims at having the opposite force, the force of bestowal, also dress in us.
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