Ask Anything

[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Brian Sachs]

Can I come to the environment every day and only want to absorb as much as possible because of its greatness? Is this somehow harmful? Is it lacking an effort to bestow? For example reading the sages I want the text to work on me I want to connect with the heart of the Kabbalist. Can I apply this more broadly?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

If you can make our environment great, you can make the Creator great, and will reach the goal quickly. It all depends on the greatness of the friends.

[AspiringAltruist]

In addition to our corporeal names, such as Salvatore or Todd, do we also have a unique spiritual name? Does our soul possess a unique name, or are we nameless or akin to Adam in the spiritual realm? Alternatively, could we be like a 600,000-sided die, a single entity with numerous unique facets?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

You turn out to be Adam HaRishon. First, you need to collect and become one with all the parts of you.

[Joseph]

I am unsure of the appropriateness of this question but led to ask. I heard the Rav say that his students help lift him higher. I am not sure if I have a correct understanding of this statement with what I am going to ask. Currently, it is difficult for Rav to do some of the afternoon lessons. I have heard Rav say in the lessons which students he feels could lead these lessons. If a student were to actually lead an afternoon lesson that the Rav could not, would this help lift the Rav higher?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s not realistic for us to go into these calculations. The Rav could do what he does to provide his students opportunities to be independent, or it could be for health reasons. It could also be that one can have special forces to work even though he is not in the best physical health. We can’t know with certainty about the state of one who is on a higher degree than us.

[Paul]

Thank you Gianni for last sunday’s lesson: The power of Mantras.

Question: Prayers are not mantras? What is the power of prayer then? Amidah, 18 prayers ,19 blessings. Can you eleborate on this, please,  to make me understand more about redemption, the blessings we need ? To adress our prayers more truthfully?

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

There aren’t really mantras in Kabbalah. As I said, something I just repeat can have a psychological effect, and that’s it. A prayer really needs to be one that is close to the heart, something I really feel that I’m missing and only the Creator can grant. Also, the blessings you should bless should be real for you, and not what is written somewhere. The Eighteen Prayer – half of it refers to Direct Light and half Reflected Light – it’s not realistic for us yet.

[AspiringAltruist]

Good day Sir!

I saw a post from Dr. Laitman today which stated that everything in reality consists of 613 desires. I have also heard that everything consists of 10 sefirot, the basic building block of reality. In the Operating System of reality, how do those two elements interact? If I was to form a diagrammatic structure in my mind, what would that look like?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We won’t be able to line these up in a diagram. In fact, we won’t be able to discern what those 613 desires are. These things you have to go through to understand.

[zeinab]

Hi Gianni,

 

Referring to the Matan Torah,

Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]
“Love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18)

Rabbi Akiva says, “This is a great Klal [collective/rule] in the Torah” (Beresheet Rabbah, Chapter 24).

Now, the greatest rule  is to  ” love your friend as yourself” on the other hand, we are instructed that all we learn is only to be applied only within the environment, does this great rule also apply only within our Tens and BB and does not apply to the rest of the world?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It applies to the whole world. But where can it be realized? First, in the ten, then between tens, and so on.

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