Ask Anything

[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Yai]

Hello. I’m new to Graduate Environment and I feel a little lost here. When I listen to the questions in the meetings I feel happy that my friends are so advanced, but I feel like I am at the back of the line, for that reason I would like you to please suggest me the books that I should study and in what order. Thank you so much.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Yai,

I’d start with Attaining the Worlds Beyond and Shamati. Neither are for “study” as much as for connecting to the Light. The Light is what advances a person. https://www.kabbalahbooks.info/collections/books/products/attaining-the-worlds-beyond-1?variant=34617874514053

[Todd]

The main students in the room with Rav seem to mark in their books in pencil, is this true?  Why not ink or highlighter?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Some use pens. It’s whatever one prefers. Writing is a means of engaging oneself more, is all.

It’s true, I’ve never seen or used myself a highlighter. 🙂

[Todd]

When I am reading writings from the kabbalists, Rabash, Baal Hasulam, Rav, Is it better to read from a physical book and why?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Both work. However, there is a spiritual root for a physical book, and therefore it is not exactly the same to read off of a computer screen.

[Esther]

Hi,Could you please distinguish between bestowal and love.  They both seem to refer to the same idea

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We can use them somewhat interchangeably since they’re in the same direction, away from our egos. Eventually, bestowal is the result of love.

[Vince]

Hi again, Gianni. Just wanted to leave you feedback on your book recommendation you gave me toward the end of last year. It was very insightful of you to tell me to read Attaining Worlds Beyond. It’s really clearing up even more fog as I keep reading it. Thanks again, means a lot.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Thanks, Vince. Everyone I know feels that way about that book. I’m glad it’s working for you.

[Ricki]

How do i exit myself and live in the ten?

– Is this different to thinking of them throughout the day? Like returning to the friends (either in thought or action) every time despite the constant changing phases of life and the infinite arrangements in the world?

– My center of gravity should be inside the ten, but what part in me is being attracted and revolving around this center?

I’m stuck on this: No one can take care of my body and my responsibilities except for me, and i have to maintain this to survive and be healthy, so what part am i supposed to relinquish? I don’t see anyone else making choices for me. When i talk to people in general like at work, or I’m spending time with my partner, it’s my own lips, my own hands, my own mind that makes the words and the choices and the external actions. Sure I’m influenced by the environment, and so what environment i choose to be inside is a vital condition, but I still feel that I am the one driving this body.

– About advancement: am i progressing if the time/ the frequency between “departure” and “return” shortens? What about measuring progress by the magnitude, i.e. how much or how strongly i am caring?

– What does annulment have to do with “exit myself and live in the ten”?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Yes, I can measure by the rests and arrests toward the goal, by their frequency.

I understand it seems that if I’ll care for others or live in the ten that no one will take care of my body. We’ll see that we don’t change much on the outside. The revolution is on the inside. I still take care of and have room for and headspace for all that I need to take care of, but I develop a more expansive mind and heart, even a new mind and heart, and additional dimensions factor in.

That’s because I begin to feel life in the center of the ten where previously there was no life or existence. I start doing this by annulling what I can of my ego in favor of existing in thoughts of them.

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