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Hi Gianni
In Rabash’s writings he talks about studying/learning Torah and refers to the Torah often. From what I’ve come to understand the Torah isn’t a book of pure ritualism or history but is a blue print. But I could be wrong.
So in relation to the Torah as in the 5 books of Moses, are we supposed to read it often ? And if so why. I’d be curious to know also, The Torah today has and is being used for pure religious and doctrinal Observances, none of which is the focus of Kabbalah but how did it get taken out of context as it is today.
Hi Luke,
God forbid I don’t advise not to read the Torah, but can I read it in a way that brings me closer, from moment to moment, to spirituality? Prior generations could. They were built differently, and so they knew while reading it that it wasn’t about our world – not a history, tall tales, or anything like that; not a holy text just to revere and bow before, but a spiritual blueprint as you said, that one has to decode every word, and in doing so, change his inner properties, so that it would bring him to compatibility with the Upper Force. An honest and perceptive person notices that he’s fallen from such inner change-seeking, within a sentence or two, if he began at all – and he needs great proficiency in the wisdom of Kabbalah to even begin, if not some spiritual attainment already.
That’s why, I think, that by reading the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, and hearing the lessons of Rav Laitman, I study the Torah, but in a way that I’m not like a first grader sitting with a book on quantum physics, fantasizing that by this I’m actually learning. Read even the first article of Rabash and tell me that he doesn’t take me by the hand through the writings of Kabbalists from all generations, including the Torah and its commentaries, but in a way where I can’t mistakenly think that it’s about something other than me. https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/IHYcOU8k
Hi Gianni, how do we pray for loved ones who have no knowledge of Kabbalah, for whatever they are struggling with? Does the creator answer any of those prayers?
Hi Gianni,
Me again 🙂 Letter 39 from Baal HaSulam: “…Tell him that all his ways are as this deed, whose intention is good but the deeds are not good, and everything follows the act…”
I thought intention is most important, but this says otherwise. Can you please help me understand?
Thank you in advance!
It seems like the course play list hasn’t been updated since 7/22? Is everything ok? I feel like I’m a week behind now because the big difference in time zones makes it very hard for me to attend live. They were being updated every other day before, right?
Hi Harry, I asked and was told the following: The lessons aren’t uploaded immediately after the class, they need editing and then get uploaded. Recordings become available on the site 48h after the lesson at the latest.
1. Is it possible to do the work of correction at the place of another person and she will get/integrate the results of the correction work? if the person is not on the path (corporeal person, but close) and she and her deeds/interactions are part of one’s reshimo?
2. Are there souls who descend in this world and are like delegates working for others, and can in turn delegate the correction results?
Thank you
Every action affects everyone else in the system. I can complete the system, as if in the place of others, meaning I can come to some degree of equivalence of form with the Creator in my ten, however each one eventually will have to complete their work from their place in the system of Creation.
There are some special actions Kabbalists do but they are aware of them, clear on them, know how to do them with certainty. That’s a full Kabbalist with wondrous attainment. One who has a Point in the Heart is the beginning of one day maybe becoming such a soul who works hand in hand with the Creator.
Hi Gianni,
There is a part in the book “Wondrous Wisdom”:
“…This is an exceptionally hard axiom to grasp. As a teacher of Kabbalah, I find most beginning students struggle with such a concept. I instantly receive a litany of examples from students trying to show that the above statement is dead wrong. Some of these examples include the millions of people who give to charities every day, a man throwing himself on a hand grenade during a war to save kids, Mother Theresa building orphanages for children, the list is virtually endless. Yet when I ask them why they think these people did what they did, the final answer is not “to save kids’ lives.” It’s because the person who did the deed felt it was the right thing to do. In other words, in these people’s judgment, the correct act was determined to be exactly what they did. In fact, each person in each example was doing something that may even have had a negative impact or caused great sacrifice for themselves, but they would not have been happy with any other action. For instance, in the hand grenade example, the soldier had placed the value of the children’s lives above his own, therefore making it impossible not to perform the act he did. The will to receive pleasure is so powerful that it can even override instant gratification, such as safety or money, for a greater pleasure to be received in the future. At the end of the day, if we have any stake in an outcome, if we calculated ways to achieve this result, our will to receive made that decision…”
And I can so much relate to that, it is exactly as I feel. I couldn’t do it any other way, I felt it was the right thing to do, even if it meant I would be damaged in whatever way, and it almost looks suicidal.
So, I feel like with that “pre-installed” will to receive that is willing to “damage” itself and put last for the sake of others is in a way much harder to work with, as I can never tell if it’s my “pre-installed” will to receive or I really want to bestow and love the friends. It’s like an unconscious impulse from the inside to help someone, be their doormat, so I am in agony. What should I do here? What is the scrutiny to detect the ego and what should I do then? I really do want all the best for my friends, I am willing to disappear completely for their sake, and I can’t go deeper and detect the ego behind this.
Can you please, please help me out of this limbo?
Thank you so much in advance!
Keep going, we’ll see that it’s not the same when it’s for the friends as in all those corporeal examples. The Creator has designed the system so that there are limits to what I’m willing to do for the friends, and the Creator. And I’m talking about “routine” things within the bounds of what Rabash explicitly describes in his articles. Once one is doing all that he describes and cannot add anything, so then they can start adding intentions. In this way, one discovers where their limits are.
After reading the excerpt and Zorica’s words, I can certainly relate. I also think I understand that those “selfless acts” are based on the person’s desires. Is that correct?
At my level of comprehension, I see that the desire needs to be sorted out and requires a screen for further development in the right direction. The kinds of aligned actions I can take (if I can take any) are clumsy and mostly done through trial and error. I imagine that as perception grows and my “processing unit” is transformed into bestowal, I can find the right actions more effortlessly. Please correct me if I’ve misspoken. I can see it, it’s just difficult to fill in the details correctly. I don’t know if that’s quite right?
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