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Hi Gianni. I have been reading Shamati 50, and I am wondering are we walking the two paths consecutively or can we be on both paths at the the same time? Can it be that internality moves us towards hastening time, whereas externality is exposing us to the typical challenges of the path of suffering, maybe even more forced than before we entered the path of truth? In that how should we relate to externality? Should we consider it irrelevant or relate to its impact as to whether or not it is nearing or distancing us from spirituality?
We walk the “path of the land” – somewhere between the path of pain and the path of Light. One needs to be very serious and supported to walk the path of Light for which I need to be in such prayer and longing from morning until night that it’s as if I’m already suffering, and so why does the Creator need to awaken me with sufferings? However, even when we fall to the path of suffering because we lack the support from the group to remain in the “suffering of love,” all these sufferings are later sweetened in a way that it’s as if the Creator always only did us good.
What should we look for in the upcoming retreat? What is that one thing we should look for beyond our physical bodies? And how do we build that desire in a way that, without it, is not worth going to?
I look for, in every state and situation, what is desired of me, from those who are outside of me. Not what I want, and not even what I would have liked to give, but what do they want to see from me now? This way, I study from the Creator my future states – through this powerful environment that allows me to, for once, put myself completely under the control of the Upper Light. But I would say that even if I’m not ready for all that, it’s worthwhile to come to the Retreat. Everyone will advance greatly.
Hi Gianni
how are ascends(125 ladders) and descends manifested? through our emotions? how do I even recognize if I am in an ascend or descend?
I recall during one class I asked how do I know if I am receiving light of the creator(something like that), you said “You will know”… is above question similar to that? The fact that I am asking this question, possibility due to that I am not there yet, I have no clue of what ascends and descends are?
thank you as always!
The current conflict in the Middle East has been all-consuming for my wife and me. Our defense of Israel, reading, listening, and discussing (arguing), I realize, causes conflict with my study of Kabballah. How can I change this, adjust my perspective, so as to come more in line with bringing contentment to the Creator?
Well, there’s so much spin on the news it’s impossible that a person truly knows what’s going on. So, two or more people who all don’t know what’s going on, get together and fight about which distorted truth they decided to glom onto. And I glom onto one or the other based on inner inclinations that are also quite removed from the logic they dress in. Only a Kabbalist who feels the inner forces of nature could truly understand what’s happening in an objective way. Therefore, it’s better for me to stay calm and at least have the wisdom to not be a puppet – that is, to fight with others over something none of us really understand. Otherwise, the main thing for the media is to divide people, and I’m being operated by them, and my friends and family are being divided by them.
All that is missing in our world is the revelation of the Upper Light among all people. Due to the lack of that, it appears that all kinds of other things are lacking – land, money, etc. There is a certain people who — due to a spark that remains from their connection to the Light, following their gathering under Abraham — now have the ability to connect, open the faucet of Light to the whole world, and serve as an example of connection for the whole world. The others in humanity can’t connect without this example, and so can’t receive the Light. This is what they’re really lacking, and don’t realize it’s what their lacking. But what they do have is a feeling, an inner suspicion, about who might be sitting on the tap, blocking the Light from fulfilling them – and this is what they feel whenever that people is doing absolutely anything other than building this connection. Then, in order to justify their inner claim somehow, they clothe it onto various other accusations, to which there is no limit or end. But there is one button to push that solves all of them. How? The Upper Light knows how. And nothing else will work; but instead, make it much worse, to teach us with ever-greater severity, that only connection between us, arvut, unity, bestowal, love of others, can be a solution.
We see in the world today compared to, say, 15 years ago how things have changed on the world stage for that group of Abraham. This trend will just continue to multiply until we find the right solution. And, again, it’s not that this political solution or that political solution will help. The Creator won’t stand for an alternative solution to the one suggested by Kabbalists, and will pressure us until we see it that way.
It’s because Kabbalah is a method of attaining the Upper World and only talks about that. Except if a Kabbalah student is asking, you can mention that if one is already studying the wisdom of Kabbalah and is engaged in feuds in their personal lives, that’s certainly opposite to connection, and thus, opposite to correction, and thus lengthens the path of suffering. I should know that that’s not how a Kabbalist would behave, so that I can decide if I prefer to follow the masses, or follow the Kabbalists.
I love that my Young Group of Ten has men from all faith backgrounds. As a Jewish person who grew up with one understanding of Torah and Mitzvah, I am trying to understand the deeper meaning of Torah and Mitzvot to living a life committed to the goal of adhesion to the Creator.
Yes, the uniqueness of Kabbalah is that it deals with the Upper World and is open to all who have a point in the heart. I appreciate that. But I’ve heard Rav say to be engaged in this world as well, but don’t talk about your spiritual development outside the society. So isn’t one morally obligated to decry hating others and violence, no matter who the perpetrator? Isn’t part of dissemination speaking about love your neighbor?
Despite appearances and our understanding – reality doesn’t change by the means you’re suggesting. It’s like fighting the wind. Baal HaSulam calls this “the weakness of world-reformers.” Not just here but in every scenario, one is inclined to respond that way – to decry, to force. In short, I want reality to change – and it’s not me who is the only one who really needs to change because all that I see in the world is a projection of my own qualities. To show me what’s hidden in my intentions, the Creator shows me specifically this picture of reality. And through the wisdom of Kabbalah, He is willing to change me – and then I would see a different picture in reality. In another way I would prefer to change it instead? So then, from such actions one only learns Who one stands against – the Creator who makes this picture the way it is and doesn’t permit it to truly change by any other means.
This calculation is especially sharp toward those who have already found the wisdom of Kabbalah.
There’s such a thing as dissemination, but that’s either to those who have the Point in the Heart – in which case you give them a book on Kabbalah; or it’s to those who don’t have a Point in the Heart, but there it has to be by proof of how the Upper Force can resolve differences when we connect. You need to sit with both parties in a circle and do a workshop, for example. There, no one gets to fight for his position or for his side or negate the other. And if they work in this way, the Upper Force makes peace between them by elevating them to a higher degree than the problems.
These are the permitted forms of dissemination. So you have to see if there are such opportunities or not.
Those are really high things, where you need to be not only a Kabbalist, but a Kabbalist in the attainment of the high degrees of Atzilut, where the roots are. Even if he would tell you the meaning, it would do no good to know that, say, the Tefilin represent a certain action in Zeir Anpin. Basically, they’re all ways – if you’re a Kabbalist in those high degrees – to complete the action on the lowest degree of our world; or if you fell all the way to our world, to somehow do something to start remembering and climbing back up; or, in the case of that people who once was in some association with spiritual degrees, to at least retain some connection to their past since that past is also their future – to be united as one man in one heart, to be a Light to the nations – so at least not to lose every thread of connection to that. It’s a framework too, that if you can’t do true spiritual actions, it’s nevertheless better to put oneself in some kind of fences – because “a man is born a wild ass’s colt” – and for him to just run completely free all the time with his ego isn’t ideal. If he won’t be burdened with the work in connection and intention, so then it’s not so bad that he’s burdened with whether to put on this shoe first and that shoe next and which side of the street to walk on, and so on. The Kabbalists left all these customs, which are sort of wooden-airplane models but of true spiritual actions, and with them, simple people could – all the more so when they have no idea why they’re doing such things – be always reminded that they’re under one Upper Force, and to always pay attention to that instead of all kinds of imaginary things.
Hi Gianni, reading the article “The freedom” again and again and every time new questions pop up. below excerpt about “in a place of Torah”. is it correct to conclude that you want to be in an environment which will bring out the best tendencies of yours not the worst. if I notice an environment is not making me a better person in the Creator’s eye, I should stay away?
“Thus, Rabbi Yosi Ben Kisma correctly assumed that if he were to leave the good environment he had chosen and fall into a harmful environment in a city where there is no Torah, not only would his former concepts be compromised, but all the other forces hidden in his source, which he had not yet revealed in action, would remain concealed. This is because they would not be subject to the right environment that would be able to activate them.”
It depends what we mean by “a better person.” Better is only if it’s closer to bestowal, and that’s only the spiritual group of Kabbalists. All other environments I’m in only if it’s by necessity, such as at work, visiting family, maybe saying hi to the neighbors. It goes without saying that all kinds of, for example, online stuff where people philosophize, opine, and argue, it’s certainly not benefiting but rather lengthening my path. But a person has all kinds of free choice moments and only when he really wants spirituality upon each test, he reaches it.
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