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Marriage
How can we live in such a world that the ego is destroying humanity? It makes it very difficult to find the one suitable for our spiritual part. What should we do when it comes to selecting a partner for marriage? Should a Kabbalist marries a non-kabbalist?
Usually one wouldn’t marry someone not on the same path, but in our world I can’t tell you what to do. People have values that were advertised to them but which are harmful to them, but which were sold so well that I feel I’m doing good to myself as I harm myself. It’s also a product of the coarsening ego. So, few want to get married at all and if they do they’re still influenced by the general atmosphere that doesn’t support that structure. This structure nevertheless is an eternal one – nothing we can do about it. So, a Kabbalist would certainly prefer to be married if possible, and to someone on the same path if possible.
Hi Gianni,
How should we regard “thoughts of emptiness (that) come to a person”? With reverence or irreverence?
REF: Shamati 13. A Pomegranate
“And this is the meaning of, “and God hath so made it, that men should fear before Him.” It means that these thoughts of emptiness come to a person in order for one to have a need to take upon himself faith above reason. And for that we need the help of God. It follows that at that time one must ask of the Creator to give him the power to believe above reason.”
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/full/31754
Thanks,
Dave
Hi Dave,
It’s so that we’ll learn to work from any state, and in each state something different is required, even though every time, all I have to reach is the connection with the friends through which I can reach connection with the Creator. Most important is to remember in each state, it comes from the Creator.
Hi Gianni,
“A question arises: Can a man studying Kabbalah interfere with other people’s matters? Can he explain anything to them? He can and should, but very carefully. A book can be given to read; one can talk a little about Kabbalah, but never argue the point.
It can be harmful to you. You will lose everything you have gained by your own efforts and studies. Kabbalah should be popularized unobtrusively, never try to convince a person. It will not help anyway. Man’s egoism is stronger than any influence from outside. You will never make him change his mind. You can direct him only if he wants it. Man perceives something only when he feels he can fill his desire.”
I have so many question for this 🙂 but I will keep it short:
1. Why will you lose everything gained through the studies and efforts if you discuss about Kabbalah? Why?? And that means a person goes back to the point as it was before coming to Kabbalah? Can you discuss with friends on the path?
2. Then through dissemination we might also lose that we gained?? What is the limit here not to lose everything?
Thank you!
Generally, you can’t argue anything because logic is based on the desire. So, if you can’t change the person’s desire, when you’re done explaining, everything will be forgotten. But whatever of your heart you revealed during the interaction, goes to the Sitra Achra. In the end, it turns out that the one doing the convincing is less convinced than ever, and the one being convinced forgets everything. That’s why we generally don’t disseminate personally. Everything is available on the internet for anyone to find. And we only disseminate through official channels and projects, according to assignment rather than my desire. Then it’s clean, and beneficial.
“But whatever of your heart you revealed during the interaction, goes to the Sitra Achra.”
But why? I talked to some close friends, and they are interested, for now like from a far, you know, but still scared to “break the Christian orthodox vow”, and their English is really bad or none. And after the talks, I am not convinced less, but more.
But I noticed, that the more I study, the less I want to talk about it. I assumed because it goes so deep, that I would never be able to explain it properly; and it has to be experienced, not explained.
Why? That’s how it is written by the Kabbalists. I can disseminate based on what I heard from my teacher. That takes annulment to the teacher and his method.
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One should be so careful with words of Torah, and one should be so careful not to err in them and utter a word of Torah that he does not know, and which he did not receive from his teacher. Anyone who says words of Torah that he does not know or did not receive from his teacher, it is written about him, “You shall not make for yourself an idol or any likeness.”
Zohar for All, Yitro [Jethro],”You Shall Not Make for Yourself”, Item 428
It’s enough that a person speaks to the Creator more and more, with the belief that the Creator hears it. The words of the prayer weave the connection between the person and the Creator. Though we don’t understand how, this is what is happening. Then, the more one prays, the more changes occur upon us, and our prayer changes accordingly.
Shamati 9. What Are Three Things that Broaden One’s Mind in the Work
I have a question about Shamati 9 that has been on my mind. I’ve encountered the phrase “envy, lust, and honor bring a person out of this world” before, and I thought I understood what these terms meant. However, after reading Shamati 9, my understanding has been completely turned around, particularly with regard to the concept of “lust.”
In Kabbalah, it often surprises me how the definitions of concepts are different from what we might initially think. Could you provide a concise explanation of what “envy, lust, and honor” mean within the context of this method, particularly as they are described in Shamati 9?
Here’s the quote from the article that I’m referring to:
“Obtaining that is through envy, lust, and honor, which bring one out of the world. Envy means through envy in the Holy Shechina, regarded as zeal in ‘The zeal of the Lord of hosts.’ Honor means that one wants to increase the glory of heaven, and lust is by way of ‘Thou hast heard the desire of the humble.'”
Thank you for your guidance.
Hello, I have recently been drawn to the prayer Avinu, particularly this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DYCO1vOXMA&ab_channel=JoshuaAaron, but I don’t know if that is in line with our studies, and I would like to know more about it’s origins. Can you please point out some materials I can read and advise?
Thank you!
Hi Zorica,
It’s in line, if you’re attracted to it, since it was written by holy Kabbalists, though it’s not explored much in our writings. As you know, it’s not that each excerpt from the ancient sources – such as the Siddur, the Talmud, and so on – finds commentary in Kabbalistic sources. Why? Firstly, those should be taken as-is, even though there are deeper interpretations we discover on the way. The Kabbalists wrote them that way, in that language, even though they could have written them in Kabbalistic language. The second reason is that their Kabbalistic interpretations may not relate to our zone of proximal development, even if they seem interesting to us. But we can still read them in a more literal way. The passages that Baal HaSulam and Rabash do want to put in front of us, they interpret, sometimes expansively, in their writings.
This post is somewhat related though:
https://laitman.com/2024/06/what-is-the-creators-name/
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