Ask Anything

[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Zorica Kostadinovska]

Hello, after the retreat a month ago, many serious health issues appeared in our Ten. What is going on?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We can’t connect the two. Do health issues suddenly appear or are they 40 years in the making? Or were they there, and it’s just that I became aware of them? Or maybe there’s a broader mechanism I’m not privy to. We don’t see how reality works behind appearances. But we can use these opportunities to pray for the ten.

[Eva]

❤️❤️‍🩹🤗

[Brad]

Is there anything i shouldn’t be doing on the Sabbath concerning “studying kabbalah”?  What about the man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath… and since im here, a second question on the topic : No work on sabbath, what does “work” mean in kabbalah?

thanks

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Brad,

Spiritual Shabbat is an inner state that one might reach on a Wednesday or any other corporeal day. I recommend these posts on the topic:

https://laitman.com/2023/12/the-state-of-shabbat-in-spiritual-work/

https://laitman.com/2014/04/spiritual-sabbath/

https://laitman.com/2024/04/state-of-shabbat-in-the-ten/

Let me know if you have further questions.

 

[Brad]

Wonderful, so, “work” is working on our “ego” and on Shabbat, we let the upper light do the work, or finish the work.

When you said “shabbat is an “inner state” one might reach on a Wednesday etc .  A passage from the Talmud came to my mind, maybe you can tell me if it is hinting to this “inner state ? Or approves this idea “between the lines” so to speak?

 

Shabbat 69b:4-7

Rav Huna said: One who was walking along the way or in the desert, and he does not know when Shabbat occurs, he counts six days from the day that he realized that he lost track of Shabbat and then observes one day as Shabbat. Ḥiyya bar Rav says: He first observes one day as Shabbat and then he counts six weekdays.

 

thanks

 

 

[Todd]

What does Baal Hasulam mean when he says people have angular brains?  Thanks

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Todd,

 

I don’t recall such a quote. But it’s true. We’re structured in a shattered way, while the spiritual structure is round.

[David]

Hello,

Is it known who were the authors of ‘A Prayer before a Prayer’ ?

Thank you.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi David. It’s by a Kabbalists called Noam Elimelech.

[Peter]

Why is the word faith present in the terms ‘faith within reason’ and ‘faith below reason’. Because in those states there is no sensation of the Creator right? And faith means sensation of the Creator as I understood it.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Peter,

It’s because those are related states, even though in Faith Below Reason and Faith Within Reason there’s no attainment of the Creator. Each is a certain relationship to spirituality, an attitude. But only Faith Above Reason is a formula that yields spiritual attainment.

[Peter]

Thanks Gianni

[Kimadigital7]

Is it only through the similarity of form, I can bring contentment to the Creator?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Among the friends is the vessel that the Creator aims to fill. In the shattered parts of it by themselves, He has no contentment. Thus, one should try never to feel himself disconnected.

[Kimadigital7]

That is to say, right now, the Creator can’t ”fill” us because we are shattered. He need me to connect with my friends at the same time, I can’t do it by myself I need to appeal to Him to help us connect together because through the connection we gain the opportunity to be fill. Is it just like trying to fill a basket with water since there are holes in the basket, it will be impossible to fill it?

1- Among the friends is the vessel that the Creator aims to fill: To fill with what?

2- What was the (1)thought before the (2)thought of creation? 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The vessel is filled with Light. Light is …we don’t know what, but it’s perceived as whatever their was a deficiency for.

We attain the thought of creation. We don’t attain what was before that.

[Kimadigital7]

1- Do we create this deficiency for the Light or the Creator has to send it to us?
1b- What to do when we have no deficiency for the Light?…
1c-  Is it considered as rejection when there is no deficiency?  

2- That means the thought of creation is our target in the ten?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

1. We have to reach it, through our efforts, and responses from the Light.

1b. Only there the work begins.

1c. We can say so, if we want to understand it in these human terms.

2. Yes, to be in Equivalence with His Thought. We’re in it anyway, being operated by it, we’re just not agreeing with it, and not participating of our own accord.

 

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