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[Gil]

Ask, connect, inspire.

[Brad]

Is there anything i shouldn’t be doing on the Sabbath concerning “studying kabbalah”?  What about the man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath… and since im here, a second question on the topic : No work on sabbath, what does “work” mean in kabbalah?

thanks

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Brad,

Spiritual Shabbat is an inner state that one might reach on a Wednesday or any other corporeal day. I recommend these posts on the topic:

https://laitman.com/2023/12/the-state-of-shabbat-in-spiritual-work/

https://laitman.com/2014/04/spiritual-sabbath/

https://laitman.com/2024/04/state-of-shabbat-in-the-ten/

Let me know if you have further questions.

 

[Brad]

Wonderful, so, “work” is working on our “ego” and on Shabbat, we let the upper light do the work, or finish the work.

When you said “shabbat is an “inner state” one might reach on a Wednesday etc .  A passage from the Talmud came to my mind, maybe you can tell me if it is hinting to this “inner state ? Or approves this idea “between the lines” so to speak?

 

Shabbat 69b:4-7

Rav Huna said: One who was walking along the way or in the desert, and he does not know when Shabbat occurs, he counts six days from the day that he realized that he lost track of Shabbat and then observes one day as Shabbat. Ḥiyya bar Rav says: He first observes one day as Shabbat and then he counts six weekdays.

 

thanks

 

 

[Todd]

What does Baal Hasulam mean when he says people have angular brains?  Thanks

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Todd,

 

I don’t recall such a quote. But it’s true. We’re structured in a shattered way, while the spiritual structure is round.

[David]

Hello,

Is it known who were the authors of ‘A Prayer before a Prayer’ ?

Thank you.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi David. It’s by a Kabbalists called Noam Elimelech.

[Peter]

Why is the word faith present in the terms ‘faith within reason’ and ‘faith below reason’. Because in those states there is no sensation of the Creator right? And faith means sensation of the Creator as I understood it.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Peter,

It’s because those are related states, even though in Faith Below Reason and Faith Within Reason there’s no attainment of the Creator. Each is a certain relationship to spirituality, an attitude. But only Faith Above Reason is a formula that yields spiritual attainment.

[Peter]

Thanks Gianni

[Kimadigital7]

Is it only through the similarity of form, I can bring contentment to the Creator?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Among the friends is the vessel that the Creator aims to fill. In the shattered parts of it by themselves, He has no contentment. Thus, one should try never to feel himself disconnected.

[Kimadigital7]

That is to say, right now, the Creator can’t ”fill” us because we are shattered. He need me to connect with my friends at the same time, I can’t do it by myself I need to appeal to Him to help us connect together because through the connection we gain the opportunity to be fill. Is it just like trying to fill a basket with water since there are holes in the basket, it will be impossible to fill it?

1- Among the friends is the vessel that the Creator aims to fill: To fill with what?

2- What was the (1)thought before the (2)thought of creation? 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The vessel is filled with Light. Light is …we don’t know what, but it’s perceived as whatever their was a deficiency for.

We attain the thought of creation. We don’t attain what was before that.

[Kimadigital7]

1- Do we create this deficiency for the Light or the Creator has to send it to us?
1b- What to do when we have no deficiency for the Light?…
1c-  Is it considered as rejection when there is no deficiency?  

2- That means the thought of creation is our target in the ten?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

1. We have to reach it, through our efforts, and responses from the Light.

1b. Only there the work begins.

1c. We can say so, if we want to understand it in these human terms.

2. Yes, to be in Equivalence with His Thought. We’re in it anyway, being operated by it, we’re just not agreeing with it, and not participating of our own accord.

 

[Dave]

In my Group of 10, what should I do when no one shows up for our meetings? When I join a meeting and find no one there to participate in the workshop, it can be disheartening. Some friends have RSVPed to say they couldn’t make it, but the majority don’t inform the group at all. Should I become indifferent to their lack of communication and participation? It seems we are not supposed to criticize our friends. However, using the analogy of a parent with a child, a parent would not be indifferent but would actively encourage the child to participate. After having this conversation several times,  what should I do? What is your advice for handling this situation?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

If it’s happening all the time, over some time, then we need to look at combining tens. But if it’s here and there, we try to set an example of dedication, encourage the friends – however, it has to be in a way that is effective, reaches their hearts in a good way. Striving in these tactics, while judging them to a scale of merit, is spiritual work in itself. And always remember, “It is I who must love the friends, and not that they should love me” – meaning conduct themselves as seems fitting to me. They are my place of work, on which my spirituality depends. It’s good that they inspire me, but that’s not the sole function of the ten on which the entire enterprise depends.

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