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Hi Gianni,
I have some questions re the upper force and its relation to the individual or the lower worlds.
1- Is it accurate to say that the upper force is non-discriminatory and that even those who don’t study Kabbalah but somehow attain equivalence of form, they are also able to be in sync with this force?
2- Is it also then accurate  to also say prayer, is less of begging but more of a conscious effort at attaining alignment with the upper force and no matter how much one begs, if they remain out of alignment, the upper force cannot influence one?
3- This is unrelated, out of curiosity, are there women instructors in KABU?
Thanks as always…
1. The ways of attaining the Upper Force don’t have to be called Kabbalah, but Kabbalah describes the laws of nature. If one keeps those laws, they reach Equivalence with the Upper Force. I’m not sure how I could just somehow reach this since these laws are opposite to human nature at every point.
2. Prayer is a state where I feel how I’m truly not in control and that I depend on the Upper Force’s help, so I turn, with this honest sensation, to the Upper Force, knowing if it doesn’t help me, I have no hope.
3. Yes, there is a course in KabU by our female instructor, Tal Mandelbaum.
I have asked before but can we get confirmation of dates for the up-coming retreats
April / May 2024 – Holland
September 2024 – NY/NY
Thanks. Lyndon S
where could I find a list of al the basic abbreviations used in the communication and lessons. Thanks in advance.
Boke
You can ask about them here, but no such list exists. Even Baal HaSulam doesn’t really provide that list. It’s gleaned from context. There aren’t so many abbreviations though.
You have 10 Sefirot: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, Malchut. And the abreviations come from these.
Then, sometimes Hesed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod are together called Zeir Anpin and Malchut is called Nukva, and together they’re called ZON.
A whole Partzuf is always divided in (at least) two parts: the vessels of bestowal (Galgalta ve Enaiim:GE) and the vessels of reception (Awzen, Hotem, Peh: AHP).
These are almost all the abbreviations in the wisdom of Kabbalah. One might think (Galgalta), AB, SAG, MA, BON are abbreviations but they are not. Those are the names of the Partzufim of the World of AK.
One more question please, if I got it right, the difference between Hochma and Malchut is that in Hochma there is no consciousness of the giver and in Malchut there is, so that is why in Malchut there is shame and restriction to receive only the amount of Light she can bestow? Thank you!
There’s more realization in Malchut than just that. But yes, in Malchut there is recognition of her relationship to the Giver that wasn’t clear in Phase 1. In Phase 1 the Giver was too much intertwined with her, like a candle in a flame that it’s as if, ‘hey, you’re a flame, I’m a flame.’ So there wasn’t room to see what I really am.
Hi Gianni,
Can you please help me understand the concept in Article 42 – What Should One Do If He Was Born With Bad Qualities?
“…This means that all the qualities that exist in a person that extend from the four qualities FWWD have nothing to do with the evil inclination…”
1. So, these 4 qualities have nothing to do with the desire to receive? Consequently, they do not need correction? What is their purpose then? Everything that exists has its purpose…
2. What are the qualities of FWWD when they are balanced or less in a person? More of them is petulant-lustful-arrogant-lazy… how does that serves/hinders a person?
Thank you in advance!
The point is that all one’s qualities are neutral. It doesn’t matter how bad or good they look. I have no good qualities, I have no bad qualities. Whatever doesn’t yet have a spiritual Screen is certainly bad. Whatever has a Screen is good.
Fun? No, look. Let’s give a corporeal example. Say, Zuckerberg was made to learn Greek, Latin, computer languages, etc. Is that fun for a teen? The fact that you gave him such surroundings and brainwashing to convince him that that’s the right thing to be doing… but “fun” would be something low level – video games, etc. But because of this effort over that which would have been “fun”, let’s say that now he’s the one having all the fun while those who took the low-level fun get to suffer in lowliness of all genres for the rest of their lives (even though, in truth, these are false values and no one enjoys – but just for the example). Our Will to Receive likes the lowest level, least effort things. Little pleasure, but close to no effort. Yes, it is willing to sacrifice grand achievements for the sake of not putting forth effort. Up to and including serious drugs. And I also don’t care that they’ll kill me in a few minutes (unless, like Zuckerberg, someone brainwashed me otherwise) – because that’s how the ego is built. It’s written that before one dies that angel of death comes with a drop of poison on the end of a spear, which one cannot resist, and it kills him. So, I’m built such that I’m a pleasure junkie, wanting pleasures to go into these different desires I was given. Now, the question is: were these, any, of my desires given to me for their fulfillment? Or, perhaps, I’m like some tribesman who found an abandoned (but operational) vehicle and instead of turning it into something I could chase my food with a game-changing advantage, instead, I’ve turned it into a place to sleep or something like that? Maybe, just maybe, all these desires in me have another, sublime purpose.
VAK is Vav Ktzavot – 6 points. ZAT is Zayin tkatoonim – 7 lower ones. In short, it’s the lower part of these degrees. We can’t clarify more than that right now.
Yes, the lower part of the the degree is always vessels of reception. Yet, all the vessels are there, in both cases. It just depends with which vessels he can work, and we don’t take into consideration the vessels he can’t use to bestow right now. Though they are, for now, only vessels of reception, he can as if bend them such that they somehow work in the direction of bestowal.
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