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[Gil]

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[Greg]

Good Morning! I have a question about word choices in the statement “Love covers all Crimes.”  I take it that the Kabbalists use specific words for specific reasons. The word “Crimes” in English is rather strong and draws a punishment. I am not sure how nuanced the original language this is written in, but in other areas, the phrase “bad deeds” is used. So you get where I’m coming from, the ancient Greeks had 7 nuanced words for Love: Agape (Unconditional), Eros (Sexual), Philia (Friendship), Storge (Between a parent and child), Philautia (Self-Love –The type of Love we are battling), and Xenia (Hospitality, Generosity or Reciprocity). Was there a specific reason why the Kabbalists used the word “Crimes”?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s because if I receive into my ego when I could have instead added to the connection, it’s a crime, and like the criminal believes he is likely to avoid punishment, I’m working against an all-seeing Upper Law.

[Greg]

Thanks, Gianni, One can never “pull one over” on the Creator!

[Greg]

As a “Young” person, we’re not supposed to do much in the way of dissemination. We’re told to give someone a book, but not given any direction as to which book. Is there a recommendation I’m missing? I’d like to give something or some explanation to my wife as to why I disappear for an hour and a half at a time…. I don’t know how to succinctly communicate.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Greg,

One’s spouse is the exception. We can explain what we”re doing, without suggesting that they need to do it too. If they’re interested, you can explain further.

[Kimadigital7]

 

Hi Gianni, is there any book that I can recommend to anyone?

 

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Any of our shorter beginner books, the ones with Kabbalah in the title. Or Attaining the Worlds Beyond – but this one is for someone really searching for meaning.

[Adelina Santos]

Hi

Does these 6000 years, where corrections are done bit by bit, the name of HaVaYaH illuminate us only as Matzpatz?

Thank you

Adelina.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Why do we need to worry about this specific name? We focus on what we ourselves can reasonably attain today. We could encounter such things in our study of the Zohar – which we study so the Light will influence us – but we don’t open them up. It’s enough to say that at the end of correction all the names will be revealed.

[Dave]

Hi Gianni,

I have a question about our approach to seeking connection with the friends. Should we actively want, need, or ask for connection from our friends? Does doing so exercise the will to receive in a negative way? Additionally, if we pray silently in our hearts for this connection and still experience silence in return, should we then reach out to the friends to encourage connection ? Or is it more appropriate to remain in silence and accept that as the Creator’s will for us at this time?

Thank you for your guidance, Dave.

• This reply was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by Dave.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dave,

The best is to try to cause the connection among the friends, to try to cause awakening toward the goal. With action, with prayer. There’s always an answer to a prayer, but not as I expect, and I don’t think about that because with the prayer my work is done and the Creator’s work begins.

[Kimadigital7]

Marriage

How can we live in such a world that the ego is destroying humanity? It makes it very difficult to find the one suitable for our spiritual part. What should we do when it comes to selecting a partner for marriage? Should a Kabbalist marries a non-kabbalist?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Usually one wouldn’t marry someone not on the same path, but in our world I can’t tell you what to do. People have values that were advertised to them but which are harmful to them, but which were sold so well that I feel I’m doing good to myself as I harm myself. It’s also a product of the coarsening ego. So, few want to get married at all and if they do they’re still influenced by the general atmosphere that doesn’t support that structure. This structure nevertheless is an eternal one – nothing we can do about it. So, a Kabbalist would certainly prefer to be married if possible, and to someone on the same path if possible.

[Dave]

Hi Gianni,

How should we regard “thoughts of emptiness (that) come to a person”? With reverence or irreverence?

REF: Shamati 13. A Pomegranate

“And this is the meaning of, “and God hath so made it, that men should fear before Him.” It means that these thoughts of emptiness come to a person in order for one to have a need to take upon himself faith above reason. And for that we need the help of God. It follows that at that time one must ask of the Creator to give him the power to believe above reason.”

http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/full/31754

Thanks,

Dave

• This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by Dave.
• This reply was modified 7 months, 2 weeks ago by Dave.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dave,

It’s so that we’ll learn to work from any state, and in each state something different is required, even though every time, all I have to reach is the connection with the friends through which I can reach connection with the Creator. Most important is to remember in each state, it comes from the Creator.

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