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“A person bears no responsibility for external or internal actions, including our doubts and descents.”
Please explain this. It seems quite contradictory. How do we draw close to God/Creator if there’s nothing required? Please explain.
What should be our actions or steps to take at a times when we get filled with doubts and having alot of challenges that tries to drag us away from having strong desire to connect to our creator
Fredrick,
We have desires on all lower degrees that renew themselves naturally. We have a natural desire to take the next breath, no one needs to remind you. Desires for food, sex, money, all of these renew naturally.
However when we come to the true spiritual desire, for something not of this world, something eternal, when our soul awakens, to develop it specifically requires connection to the other broken pieces of the soul. The Upper Light dwells in the corrected vessel from those shattered pieces.
As we advance correctly we feel again and again increasingly empty, disconnected or simply uninterested – now consider each of these states that we are collecting uncorrected places and transferring them to the side of holiness, like collecting fruits from the orchard, each of these states if used correctly are steps on the path to reconnecting the shattered soul, leading us to connect again and again with the others on the path with us, to support each other, hold each other up, inspire each other, as the Psalmist says we awaken the dawn, the dawn does not awaken us,Good luck and I hope to hear soon about your success,
Seth@KabU
My question may have trigger warning as it relates to crimes against humanity as we are reminded of the Epstein global cabal of pedophilic parasite billionaire class in recent news.
I would like to understand how these heinous acts against babies children girls and women are the work of the Creator? Yes it is a stark contrast between right and wrong but what justification does Kabbalah provide to explain the suffering and death that has ensued from not only this wave of greed and self important indulgence but all such waves in human history?
Ellema,
First things first, this is not a question that can be answered in its full depth in a forum. An answer for a question like this takes years because an answer to this question doesn’t enter the ear, all real answers in Kabbalah don’t enter through the ear.
If you want to be a surgeon it takes many years, if we want to be a craftsmam of the soul it also takes time.
If we want to measure the distance between one side of the room and the other, we use a tape measure, if we want to measure the distance from New York to Paris we can open Google Maps out in the two points and click Measure Distance.
But with what tool can we measure the distance from our current state to a whole, eternal, integral, harmonious reality? That is our feelings. When you observe the four degrees of reality: inanimate, vegetative, animal and human, at each degree the emotional vocabulary has more complex flavors.
There is no dog or chimpanzee that is sitting and asking himself about the meaning of his life.
How many years and what conditions does it take for dust and water to mix and burn and freeze and rust and sprout until it develops into a conscious creature who will turn to the sky and shout, “why?!?!”?
King David (the author of Psalms) wrote about this reality that we are all as dreamers.
When we reach the spiritual reality we will wake from this reality and it will have all felt like a dream, all to bring us to the feelings of a correct need.
Over the next few weeks think about your question and this answer and let’s keep refining it until “one’s soul will teach them”.
Seth@KabU
Seth I interpret your reply in the context of what we learned in semester 1 – the Epstein example is the path of pain that ultimately leads to correction as does the path of light. This is true because the law of equivalence is absolute. We see evidence of this truth in the four stages of development. At first it appears beyond reason until it is viewed from this perspective. Although I may not like the answer I do accept it and see the beauty in it.
Seth, I watched There Is None Else Besides Him Part 1 again carefully. In my own words this is what I would say to myself after asking G-d for forgiveness in terms of stating that I made my own bad decisions: “How arrogant of me to think/believe that I had the authority to make my own faulty decisions;” that was a sin. There are so many things that I am discovering, learning, and experiencing.
I want to give you an example of my understanding of receiving and bestowal. My Papa was my sage, full of wisdom and faith and I loved him immensely. My Mama was the example of courage and faith and I followed her example. My children and I had to flee my country because a leader of a mafia had already given the order to execute my children and me. We escaped and that is why I entered the USA. After my mother and little brother died, my Papa did not want to return to Mexico City. I suffered from many PTSDs after the car accident, mostly being in the dark since the car accident happened at 8:30 pm. I could not sleep with the lights turned off and was still afraid. I would ask G-d to touch my head and give me intelligence, wisdom, and serenity. Then I would stretch out my hand with my eyes closed and ask my Mama to put her hand on my heart and give me peace and to accompany me. As soon as I said that out loud, I was asleep.
I was able to support my children completely in Mexico City. My Papa would visit me sometimes and was proud that I had accomplished what I had. After having to come to live in San Antonio, TX, My Papa helped me find an apartment because nobody would allow me to rent because I did not have “credit.” The manager was a friend of my Papa’s and that is how I was able to stay for three months and then move out. When we moved to a better apartment complex, my Papa came to me and told me that he would take me to all the stores to help me buy everything I needed for the apartment. I reminded him that I had looked after myself and my children for 18 years. His reaction was sad and he left. The next day after he left, I realized that he just wanted to help (bestow), but I did not want his help (not want to receive). I felt so terribly bad. I called him and told him that I did need his help. He came immediately and took me to all the stores to furnish the apartment and kitchen tools. He was so happy and so was I. I would never imply that my Papa was like the Creator. I am explaining my understanding of me as the vessel, rejecting the gift and bestowal that my Papa wanted to give me and me as the receiver rejecting his bestowal. After that experience, my Papa and I were one like we used to be and I learned to be humble towards him and his wisdom and love for us was incredible and solid up until he passed away.
Therefore, does this real life experience explain The Creator’s want to give us, the creatures, His light and bestowal and us, as creatures reject what the Creator wants for us?
Elisheva,
First of all before an action we have to say that it is in my hands to do whatever I can do and I must make effort to do what I can.
After the action we can say that even if I didn’t do anything it would have all turned out exactly the same since it is all in His hands.
But you cannot mix up the order or you will have a lot of confusion and lengthen the path.
Seth@KabUI just finished watching Part 2 video. I have commented earlier that I have made bad decisions that I had considered them to be from my own free will, consciously knowing that they were my bad decisions. I cannot think of a time in my life that I doubted the existence of G-d. I do remember when there were times in which I was on the edge of the cliff where the only way was going down. At those times, I followed my Papa’s advice, “put your life in G-d’s hands.” I did; whatever it was going to be, it was going to be G-d’s will. However, as I am learning Kabbalah, I have to ask a question. Stating that I made some bad decisions which caused me suffering and that I knowingly still made bad decisions for which I would ask G-d to forgive me. Were those bad decisions part of the Creator’s plan for me? Are they considered “sins?”
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