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[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Sagar]

Hi Gianni,

In letter 37, Rabash states:

… as for separating love of friends from the work of the Creator, I do not understand it at all because it was never the custom with Baal HaSulam to connect those two together.

And then later on:

Therefore, I am not sure what innovations you are trying to make. Perhaps until now you believed that for love of friends there shouldn’t be discussions or engagements in matters of work, and now you know for sure that this is the only way it should be, meaning by walking humbly.

Does this mean that we are not supposed to share our innermost states with the friends in our ten but should connect with the friends’ states instead or does it mean that we should entirely refrain from talking about states at all and only focus on the path and work itself?

Or is this letter only applicable to a certain situation (to which Rabash was replying) and not applicable in a ten?

Thanks for you time.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sagar,

You’re right, there’s something to question there. We won’t be able to clarify it all the way because it’s Baal HaSulam.

Gilad Shadmon was asked about sharing inner states at the congress and his simple answer was “keep something for just the Creator.” What to keep, is one’s own scrutiny.

It’s certain that I need to disclose to my friends and advertise the greatness of the path, the greatness of the Creator, while remembering I must be inferior, the lowest of all of them. Then, when a friend speaks, it’s the Shechina speaking from his throat, and I need to drink up the Light that comes from him. This circle of influence is possible without anyone disclosing their inner states.

 

[David]

I’m hesitating to write this but I am just juxtaposing a couple of things – my tribe, my people, I dwell among my people – and the illusion of separateness and the trying to correct that and reclaim the sense of the connectedness of everyone. Perhaps a counter-argument could be made that it is precisely when I do not feel a connection but only a sense that this other deserves to be loved – that this is the better example of bestowal because then it is not because the recipient is ‘mine’ or ‘of me’ at all.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Sure, in words, it seems so – and later, there is something correct about what you’re saying and there’s an approach to it – but first, a person has to connect because before he does so he’s simply something so far from spirituality that the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t even talk about him, and he has no spiritual action – not this way or that way.

[David]

Thanks. I’m glad, naturally, that it resonated.

On that track, articles that speak to me are Rav’s articles ‘Toward An Altruistic Connection’ and  ‘Do It Instead Of Me!’

Thanks again.

 

[Todd]

Hi Gianni,

[Luke]

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.

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

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

 

[Helen]

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?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The prayer that really works is the prayer for the other. Other means unrelated to me. That I would naturally want some outcome means I couldn’t want it in a spiritually correct way. The way is to pray for the whole Kli, all of humanity to have x, y and z. If all have it then everyone is covered.

[Zorica Kostadinovska]

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!

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

I could speculate but this is Baal HaSulam speaking about a scenario with a student which is unknown.

Generally though, an intention has to pair with an action. And it has to be a correct intention over a correct action. I cannot make an intention over a completely incorrect action.

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