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[Gil]

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[Ralitza]

Hi,

A question on “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” Item 3:

How does HaVaYaH correspond to Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey? Shouldn’t it be YaHaVaH?

Thank you in advance for your answer!

Ralitza

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

This comes from the tradition of not pronouncing the name, and that tradition, though this is less known, comes from the Kabbalistic practice of not philosophizing about things that aren’t directly in front of us, that we won’t attain very soon. So, this is one of the ways it’s possible to pronounce these letters without pronouncing the name. They can have the pronunciation Adonoi as well, which is also not clear from the basic pronunciation of the letters.

[Ralitza]

I apologise for breaking the tradition in my ignorance!

Thank you Gianni!

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We’re all ignorant of what we haven’t attained. We’ll attain it together.

[Ricki]

When reading kabbalistic texts sometimes I feel the words talking directly to me and about me. How do I check if this is a trick of my ego?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

They are. All the books of Kabbalah are about you, it’s only a question of whether or not I feel the part of me in which these things are.

[Tom]

Hi! I just started in the graduate environment and wondered how everything works. I was looking through some of the Q/A’s and saw that there might be times to join the groups? For example, I saw that the Young Group is already in progress, but a new one starts in several weeks. Can I join the groups even if they are underway? I see there are groups on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, but want to make sure that joining any of those would be OK?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Tom,

We’re glad you’re here. You can join all the live Graduate classes except for the Sunday Young Group with Lio because that class is sequential and the mini-groups are already formed. You can join that next round starting in the coming weeks.

[Michelle Student Support]

What can we do about suffering/bad things happening in the world? We see people struggling to survive, homeless children with addictions, babies being brought to this world with illnesses…what is the Creator trying to show me and what can I do about this?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Remember, we have a way we’d like our world to look that would be “good” according to our current vessels, while the Creator has a completely different goal! That I’ll change my vessel of perception. And whatever He’s doing is so that I’ll do it sooner rather than later.

[Ben Mates]

How and when will we have access to the Zohar movie that Premiered in the KabU event yesterday?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s being discussed now what the best avenues of dissemination will be. I don’t have a date.

[Isoke Jacobs]

Greetings Instructors and friends.

Question from my Ten:

In the past we have done an exercise where we take a week and each day of that week, we pray for one friend in the Ten. For example, Sunday, we pray for Friend #1, Monday, prayers are for Friends #2 and so on.

Some friends would like to make this a standing routine in the Ten, while others don’t feel an attraction to this as a routine.

According to the wisdom, what is the best way to organize our prayers in the Ten? Would establishing this exercise as a routine be helpful in the Ten?

Please advise.

Thank you!
~Isoke WKabU 8

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Isoke,

If it’s an action that is not from Rav or explicitly recommended by Rabash (and there are practically no exercises set in stone about which we can say “Rabash says do such and such in corporeality” but rather we often do not understand at what level Rabash or Rav was speaking or writing) – so, if the ten is not in agreement, then it can’t become a permanent practice. Rather, connection Managers can determine an exercise for the day, and this could be one such exercise.

I did hear that tens should read our texts, and formulate a prayer from the center of the ten; and revisit the prayer, and renew it throughout the day. A prayer from the heart of the ten outwards is the best orientation. Only in special cases are we focussing on individuals. If you want more guidance, you can check the Rabash article, The Agenda of the Assembly.

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