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Hi Gianni, itś been said that in each day, as we wake up, we have to „choose our friends“ again, trying to form the correct intention to turn to them. I am wondering now about two things. What happens when we sleep? Why do we loose the connection then? And more importantly- how comes we feel love for friends as being something natural? Is the love we feel for the friends grace given from above, or is it the result of of trying to form the correct desire for connection and intention to bestow on the friends? And how can it be so strong, when we meet people only virtually? How can it be so different from corporeal sensations?
Hi Verena,
We have work towards sleep as well. We can go to sleep with the right thoughts, and then both what happens during the night and the morning will be closer to spirituality.
To the second question, habit becomes second nature, so if I’ve done the right work toward the Creator, through the friends, then that place becomes the vessel in which His quality of love is revealed. If I haven’t done this work but I feel love for them, then it’s only an example that that can exist, so later we will work toward it, and then it won’t yield just good impressions but the Creator.
Dear Gianni,
Help me understand- when Rabash writes about “receiving reward in this world and in the next world”, what is meant by “the next world”? Is it referring to what comes after crossing the Mahsom or is it just some imaginary notion that people who want a reward pacify themselves with (like Heaven and Hell)?
Thank you ❤️
Hello teachers!
When in my ten I can contain myself and annul before my friends desires, attitudes and so on. I accept it all believing it is coming from the Creator for my correction. I pray even from my egoistic state wanting to raise above my ego and wishing whatever not nice sensation I have, to dissipate soon. It does dissipate, very soon, most of the time. And I feel grateful to be in a great ten!
Now, when I am outside this environment, interacting with others, lets say family for example, the same sensations come but, they do not dissipate so fast. And I do pray and ask for help. This causes an imbalance in my system which affects then all of my thoughts, my sleep and actions.
How can Kabbalah help me to balance this?
Thank you!
I can’t find the connection of unity יחד and Jew יהודי it seems there is no relation in the root. Am i missing something ? Can i have a source reference please. Much thanks!
While this association is strewn all across the writings of Kabbalists, more than the apparent phonetic and conceptual link, I doubt we’ll find elaboration on this connection in the sources. Even stranger associations between words that ordinary linguists would not make are found in the writings of Kabbalists, and until one attains those roots on their own, the option is to believe or not believe in the sages.
I choose the sages, i was just surprised with this one, how can i explain that to someone who looks at the hebrew for truth. But it’s not there, Maybe there is a gematria to it, but, ill just look at it like, “later, i will understand”.
Im reminded of something from the talmud (i think) i could be saying it wrong, but something like, one sage says right is right but 1000 say right is left, we believe them over the one. Maybe you remember more than me…
If we go to all the sages, we won’t be able to advance at all. The important thing is that whoever studied under that one sage with whom a thousand disagreed, his advancement would be utterly determined by his accepting what his teacher said, and not on his own exegesis. That’s how this works. I chose my place of study, I accept everything as-is. I can choose another place, but whichever I choose, I have to accept wholesale – even if the teacher’s teachings seem to contradict others.
Will there a be a point in development, when bestowal becomes a second nature, when it doesńt ask active restriction of the will to receive , and that natural egoism, all the time anymore? I am asking because I feel like it says,… a „natural“ egoist. Not that I like it… it’s kind of humbling to see that structure and acknowledge it. Is there a way to get over that? Is it done by focussing on the well-being and development of the friends? By not giving attention so much anymore as to what the „I“ demands? Or will it be constant struggle?
Hi Gianni, one last question, as this is really challenging me… with the path of light and the path of suffering- is this an either / or choice OR can we experience both at the same time? I wonder, because I feel, we may choose to develop in one part, but then equally, struggle with something else ( or maybe that just seems so to me). In any case, I feel there is more layers to develop than there is even discernments to ask help for, so one may try to walk on the path of light as much as one can discern it and work on it, but the rest is still in darkness. So are we walking on two paths at the same time then?
Yes, there’s a part in me that disagrees with the path, and has to be dragged – as it is written, “If you encounter this villain, drag him to the seminary [the place of study of Kabbalah].” This part in me can never agree as it has logical arguments for why I should focus on other, lower things. And it is right – like a child who has a logical argument for why the parents’ claims that eating a pound of candy is bad are only because they no longer wish to enjoy life and expect their kids not to either. But following that logic is to sadness whereas following the parent is to good for all. Carrying this resistance toward the goal, one is on the path of Light, or more precisely, what’s called ‘the way of the land’ – that is, not purely the path of Light, but in that overall direction.
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