- This topic has 2,513 replies, 143 voices, and was last updated 1 day, 15 hours ago by
.
- Replies
The efforts to justify the friends is where we can check our attitude to the Creator. Justifying the friends is related to connection with them. Connection with them is related to my connection with the Creator. Connection with the Creator means I’ll certainly justify Him. If my relationship, in all parameters, is the same toward Creator and friends, it’s true.
Is “justifying the friends” seeing the Creator behind them? If this is what you mean, then why shouldn’t I make efforts to see Him behind everything (not just the friends)?
“Justifying” is usually required where there is resistance, but with my friends, there rarely is! Or are we talking about something else here? Like trying to always look for the Creator in everything, even when no resistance is felt?
We always try to give in None Else Besides Him and He is Good Who Does Good. We can check if we’re in this, everywhere. But we need to check it against two backgrounds, like aiming a rifle. It doesn’t matter which sight we check first, but both need to line up. Otherwise we’re aiming off in the wrong direction. Usually a person checks only one or the other, so this process is long.
I want to ask something, but I find it difficult to express it clearly. During the Rav’s morning lesson on Saturday, I felt something profound—I’m unsure if it was just my perception, but it was like a click, a sudden eye-opener.
What if a person begins to truly see and feel the goal—not as something abstract or imaginary, but as something real and tangible? Everything they teach seems to point to the necessity of raising everything to the Creator. My thoughts are now entirely focused on the goal. I no longer associate with the concept of ‘I’; instead, I align myself completely with the goal. Nothing else matters—only that.
It feels as though I’ve finally understood what people were referring to when they spoke of this. I no longer see my friends as separate individuals. Instead, I perceive and feel them all united in that one, unique goal.
Please, I would need your advice on that.
One click. Now, over the next level of Aviut (coarseness), you’ll have start again as if you’re a newborn. And again and again like that until you go through all the required stages. Keep going!
Friends, did you ever ask all members if they really wanna get all kabu lessons canceled because of christians holidays!? Have you tryed nowadays to hold lessons and see how many paeticipants will be there!? Because I really doubt, that they wouldnt come! Finally is everybodie’s choice if he would come, but if you cancel everything – they don’t even have a choice – it is YOUR choice. Can we please manage that we don’t cancel lessons generally only because of some christians holiday!? You also don’t cancel programs because of jews holidays, right!! Can we make a try, see if friends come and make a desicion after that!? When we see how the tendency is!?
Dear Gianni, is there ever a time when the burden of the kingdom of heaven stops feeling like a burden? Does it still feel like a burden when He who knows the mysteries testifies that he will not turn back? What place does the prayer of Moses come from?
Thank you ❤️
There is the matter of when one knows who one serves, a greater load becomes a greater pleasure – and one can have infinite energy and strength, which aren’t limited. Importance is what’s in short supply.
There’s also the matter of different work above the Machsom (barrier).
There’s also the matter of, until the end of correction, Faith Above Reason is the patent by which it is possible to transcend another piece of the Will to Receive, and reach bestowal.
I listened to “Isaac and Jacob” with Yerganat, and towards the end there wasn’t much time for some of the slides. This is the quote from Slide #7:
Regarding how to include fear in love from the side of judgment, he cites the saying: “But he who hardens his heart will fall into trouble,” which means that one must not harden one’s heart during judgment, no matter what happens in the world. For then he will fall into the sitra achra, which is called “trouble.” But one must then awaken fear as strongly as possible, experiencing fear before the Creator, and connect fear with His perfect love at that time. But both the first and the second fear are not for his own benefit, but solely out of fear: lest the pleasure he gives to his Creator be diminished.
First, I want to know if I understand what the first and second fears are. I have heard this described as the two yods. One is the fear of missing out on getting something for your ego. And the other is the fear of missing out on giving something to the Creator; and always you choose from these two. Is that right?
Second, they were not able to cover the last part of this quote. What does it mean to have both fears, but not for your own benefit? And how does failure at this diminish the pleasure of the Creator?
Without Yod and the rest – I need to worry all the time, “Am I coming closer to the goal now or not?” If not, then I’m distancing without knowing it. If I worry about this, I replace what I’m usually doing, which is like a bird pecking around for food, in every second having to be filled by one pleasure, another, and another.
Also, when does the next young group start?
With the classes over it’s like being on a roller coaster still, but this time with a blindfold on.
It’s weird because when I started all this I was dreading having to add group work to the private study of the materials. But now that I’m through it, the materials feel more like a security blanket than a rope or a ladder.Do y’all have like a Discord server were you can go and be in the group even if nothing is happening and nobody is talking, just by having that server open on your app?
You have about four classes per week live with other students, in the grad program. That will have to do for the next couple months until the next young group starts. We don’t have a chat because we don’t want to create interaction that is simply so, but only once we know why and how we’re interacting so it will be purposeful. Otherwise it will quickly run according to our regular nature, and that will be unbeneficial.
Hi Gianni, I have got a question about how to deal with the contrast of the abundance of light in spirituality, versus that darkness of corporeality. I am truly just a beginner, but I feel this contrast to be increasing so rapidly. How can I prepare myself to deal with this contrast? I feel the more light surrounds me, the harder it becomes to deal with the darkness … like when you are in a dark room, you can still see some shadowy shapes as your eyes adapt to the darkness. But with the contrast of light, the darkness appears even darker, the lack of light becomes tangible. Now, this would be easy if it was in equivalent measure, but it is so opposite the way life is designed.While Kabbalah shows all the light, the true internal reality, all happens technically in a virtual surrounding. As with corporeality, it is the other way round… it is giving such a limited and blurred version of existence, an illusion, but it is what surrounds me every day, what is tangible and perceivable with the 5 senses. How can I overcome this state of tension, and painful realisation of how contrasted spirituality versus corporeality are, while stile giving the needed credit to both?
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.