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Hi Gianni, I keep wondering what the purpose of fear in spirituality is. I just read in Shamati 11. „Joy with a Quiver“, about how joy / love and fear complement each other. I understood fear to be considered like the „holes“ to the house of love. Like fear to be like a void contrasting love, which is existence. And together love and fear to be „whole“. Now, I am still wondering, what is the purpose of fear? Why do we NEED it? Is it so as to create space (like the holes in the house) for new experiences or degrees or progress? Is it, so that we value love, because we can feel itś preciousness only through the contrast of a void? Is it, so we dońt take everything for granted, and actively renew our choices to walk on the path of light (or at least try to)? Or am I totally on the wrong track with this human way of interpreting fear?
Hello Gianni, an old question I haven’t clarified until today:
“‘the left rejects and the right adducts’, meaning that which the left rejects is considered correction” – how is this ment? The left rejects smth that is already correct(ed)? Or does that what is rejected needs to be corrected?
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I have heard it said ” what is hateful to yourself do not do to another ” wouldn’t this be subjective to how an an individual perceives what is “hateful” ?, and beyond this if its something the person is views as “hateful” and they are actively trying not to do that said thing within the group but then another does this said thing in the group . This then resistance will also show the breakdown in the connection between the person and the group within self/ego ultimately ? (seeing themselves as higher than the friends ) which then they must pray for assistance from above to annul themselves to see the merits in the friends ?
When one sees resistance in or through the friends , should they see this as being hyper literal, as in what they are seeing in the friend is perhaps inside them as well ? or should it be its the connection in which is flawed in another way by the ego? or perhaps even both ?
I was recently traveling and participating in some group work when a stranger sitting next to me asked what I was doing. As I tried to explain Kabbalah, I realized I either had too many words or not enough to really capture it. I mentioned that most people think of it as Jewish mysticism, but that’s not really what it is. Instead, it’s about developing an authentic relationship with the Creator. Still, I felt like my explanation didn’t fully do it justice.
So my question for this forum is: How do we describe what we’re doing when people ask? What’s the best “elevator pitch” for the school? I’m not trying to teach it, but when someone unfamiliar with Kabbalah asks, what’s the simplest and clearest way to explain it?
Is it worth watching the morning lesson when you are the only one there from your ten? I just wonder because of the importance of the connection with the ten if it is even worth watching?
Hi, In the Zohar for All, on page 103 in “The Mother Lends Her Clothes to Her Daughter”, it says in the commentary- “If, regardless of reason, man changes his properties, he is automatically moved as though by an invisible current to a room that corresponds to his new properties.”
What is “If, regardless of reason”?
Does this have to do with faith above reason?Thank you!
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