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    Gil
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    • #333180
      Rae
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      Thank you for the opportunity to ask, (from many articles and texts and also what I’m feeling right now)

      When there is much revelation of the evil inclination and its so massive, like feeling responsible for all that is bad in the whole world.. q): is it at this time; specifically, that one should pray for Creator to change them and give a second nature? At this time it’s okay to request for the self?

       

      • #333234

        Yes – When to cause good to others, to His beloved ones, it is necessary that I change, I can request that change.

        • #333533
          Rae
          Participant

          Thank you  💓

    • #332856
      AspiringAltruist
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      Are Moses ben Jacob Cordovero and the Baal Shem Tov considered authentic lineage teachers?  Is there a list of authentic vs. non-authentic teachers?

      • #332857

        Yes, but Baal Shem Tov did not write. And RAMAK stepped down when ARI came, which is why all Kabbalists turned to the ARI, never to turn back. We get these teachers through ours. There are further sources that will explain why – you’ll encounter them on the way.

    • #332563
      Rae
      Participant

      If i may ask:

      Where does the “…medium, called love of others…” fit into the 10? Where is its place within the World 10?

      Thank you

      • #332586

        The ten is exactly the “medium” that I have instead of the Creator to bestow upon. Once I’m as one with them, we’re as a cell that has to work toward other tens in the same way. That’s several steps ahead though.

        • #332592
          Rae
          Participant

          Thank you!

    • #332551
      Rae
      Participant

      (From the book titled: ” Excerpts from the Sources, Work With Faith Above Reason” and also in Shamati. ) If i may ask please?

      Q: what is the relationship between “simple faith” or “true faith” and the Principle “Love Thy Friend As Thyself”

      Thank You!

      • #332585

        Simple faith is simply believing because the sages said so. Faith above reason is bestowal above reception. It’s the requirement to reach “love your friend as yourself” because my desire and his desire have to switch places in terms of their priority of fulfilment.

        • #332593
          Rae
          Participant

          Awesome thanks so much!

    • #332465
      AspiringAltruist
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      What does Kabbalistic perception of reality truly feel like? In conventional (corporeal) perception, information flows inward, being received by various parts of our body. Take, for instance, light, which enters our eyes and is received by our retina. All sensations contributing to our perception of reality stem from this fundamental mechanism. However, our ultimate aspiration is to attain an “equivalence of form” with the Creator, who exists in a pristine state of bestowal, receiving nothing. Consequently, perceiving reality from the Creator’s vantage point is not about the act of receiving, but rather, it emanates from a state of bestowing. There is no corporeal model to which this can be compared, rendering such endeavors seemingly irrational. How would my perception alter if my only option was to flow outward instead of inward? If we observe and comprehend our world through a desire to bestow, the most fitting pursuit is a profound, radical love for others. Thus, the goal toward which we strive is this radical love, beginning with my group of 10. Through this journey, I gradually learn to perceive reality through such a lens. As you shared in your ‘Sage Speaks’ session for Seth last Tuesday, everyone’s perception is unique. It’s akin to visiting London: while it remains the same city, each visitor experiences it through their own “lens of bestowal.”  Is my understanding accurate?

      • #332476

        Yes. So it’s impossible to say what such an opposite perception feels like. Kabbalists just want us to know that we’re in an imaginary perception so we’ll think about how to go beyond it.

    • #332447

      I had this nagging feeling for a while since I heard that reaching the Creator can only be done through the friends and I scrutinized a lot, so it crystallized to a fear that I have that somehow the friends will leave me, or they would just disappear, or something will happen like the Internet will crash forever and I won’t be able to connect to anyone and I will be left in this limbo forever. And that actually doesn’t allow me to completely surrender or open up to the friends and keeps me in a loop. The more I pray to the Creator to liberate me from this feeling, the more intense it becomes and more tangible. What am I doing wrong?

      Thanks in advance!

      • #332452

        Trust the Creator that He is only interested in everyone reaching the goal of life. All things happening are to get us closer to that.

        • #332462

          Ok, thanks, and one more thing I didn’t mention, I feel enormous pressure from the inside to study more, to spend more time reading, watching lessons and videos, neglect all on the outside, like whatever I do it’s not enough, and I am stretched, because I feel like I am losing balance with corporeal life, and find myself questioning each corporeal action “was this really necessary? I could have studied that time instead doing this…” so I sometimes feel quilt, sometimes frustration and sometimes I am just devastated that I didn’t do all I could and that is why I will never bla-bla… is this also normal?

        • #332475

          It is written, “against his will he’s born, against his will he dies”. This means that against my will – above reason – I reach spiritual life; and (if I’m spiritually oriented) against my will, I die – meaning engage in corporeality. But I must do it nevertheless. This is how I know I’m working correctly on both fronts.

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