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Hello Wikus, good question. Basically, a disturbance is anything that distracts me from the goal of revealing the Creator. However, a disturbances are an important part of the process. Here’s a quote from Baal HaSulam that speaks to this.
Baal HaSulam, Shamati, Article No. 172, “The Matter of Preventions and Delays”
All the preventions and delays that appear before our eyes are but a form of nearing—the Creator wants to bring us closer, and all these preventions bring us only nearing, since without them we would have no possibility of approaching Him. This is so because, by nature, there is no greater distance, as we are made of pure matter while the Creator is higher than high. Only when one begins to approach does he begin to feel the distance between us. And any prevention one overcomes brings the way closer for that person. This is so because one grows accustomed to moving on a line of growing farther.
Dear Insructor, Could you please post the link for the item in Mike’s class [June 23, 2022 – Concealment and Revelation | Graduate Class] ‘Reveal to the Creator’ .
Thanks You. Lyndon S
Hi Lyndon. Here’s a reply from Beth Shillington: I don’t know how to access it in the archive.  [email protected] could help.
I suggest you ask Mike at his next class. I’m betting other students would like to know the same thing – it has always been a popular piece.
Dear Instructor,
My question is, is there a list of all websites available to the students in the Graduate Environment and which websites offered by KabU Â are best for example videos, searching terms, letters, terms. Â You see, I get very mixed up with laitman.com, Arvut, kabu.media etc
I get confused. Thank you. Lyndon
Dear Instructor,
In my 10 we are reading Shamati progressing chapter by chapter. Last night we read ‘2 Divinity in Exile’.
My question is, with these new ideas and new terms it is difficult to relate to them in any actual way in the corporeal sense. I have learnt before that the first steps of learning don’t seem to result to much (rather like forming mental pegs on which to hang future information).
Is this approach right, I mean not to be able to really understand/grasp fully the terms Shechina, Shocken etc as we all got a little bit confused and it can be deflating. This is such a short chapter too.
Any thoughts would be of great help. Warm wishes. Lyndon.
Hello Lyndon. You bring up a problem that we all have – how to study the writings of the kabbalists. It’s problematic for at least two reasons that I can think of. One, there is no way to know what they are talking about without first entering spirituality – just like there is no way to know what an apple tastes like without eating one. Actually knowing what an apple tastes like can not be put into words. Second, we are not studying in order to understand something. We are studying in order to be transformed. There’s a big difference. Here is a famous quote from the Introduction to the Study of the 10 Sefirot, item #155 that addresses the matter:
155) Therefore, we must ask, Why then did the Kabbalists obligate every person to study the wisdom of Kabbalah? Indeed, there is a great thing about it, which should be publicized: There is a wonderful, invaluable remedy to those who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah. Although they do not understand what they are learning, through the yearning and the great desire to understand what they are learning, they awaken upon themselves the lights that surround their souls.
This means that every person from Israel is guaranteed to finally attain all the wonderful attainments with which the Creator contemplated in the thought of creation to delight every creature. And one who has not been awarded in this life will be granted in the next life, etc., until one is awarded completing His thought, which He had planned for him, as it is written in The Zohar.
And while one has not attained perfection, the lights that are destined to reach him are considered surrounding lights. This means that they stand ready for him but are waiting for him to purify his vessels of reception, and then these lights will clothe the able vessels.
Hence, even when he does not have the vessels, when he engages in this wisdom, mentioning the names of the lights and the vessels related to his soul, they immediately illuminate upon him to a certain extent. However, they illuminate for him without clothing the interior of his soul, for lack of vessels able to receive them. Yet, the illumination one receives time after time during the engagement draws upon him grace from above, and imparts him with abundance of sanctity and purity, which bring him much closer to achieving his wholeness.
Dear Mike, I watch recorded sessions/classes from the grad environment.
I love your classes but I struggled a little more with the latest one and I have a question [class 23 June 22].
At about 35 minutes into the class, you mentioned that you had visited Buchenwald Concentration Camp [with other KabU members] and you thought to yourself “what happened to all these people that suffered so much but then it hit me!, it is both sides that went through this”.
You then go on to explain that we need to make a connection with everyone and the lesson continues . . . My question is what do you mean when you said “it is both sides of me that went through this?”
Thank you so much in advance. Lyndon S
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