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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?”
I have talked to G-d for a very long time in my life. I talk to Him about everything in my life. I have asked Him to grant me wisdom and intelligence in my mind. I would also ask Him to grant my heart peace and to accompany me. I would ask for a bracha, blessing, for anyone ill in my extended family and my children if they were ill. I have had pets since I was six years old, poodles, toy, miniature, standard because they are hypoallergenic. I am very allergic to a lot of things such as pets and in the air. I have a miniature poodle, two years old that was gifted to me one month after my YorkiePoo of 16 years old had to be put to sleep, 2023. Hence, I also thank G-d for my little pet, Athena, because she keeps me company. I am disabled and I receive a small social security check. I am not from this country, USA; hence, I did not have enough work credits to receive a larger social security check as do people who have worked their entire life. My son brought me to live with him and my two grandchildren, 8 and 5 years old from San Antonio, TX to Ashburn, VA. However, he is going through a very difficult time, soon to be divorced and he lost his job two months ago. He has been applying for 70-80 jobs online since then. I ask G-d to please help him find a job when I talk to G-d everyday. I was not taught to talk to G-d. I began doing that naturally. However, I remember that my Papa would always tell me that when I was going through uncertain times, to put my life in G-d’s hands. I have. And I recognize that I have made some very bad decisions in my life that have caused me to suffer. After listening to Part 1 of Tony’s video, I learned about the corporeal and the spiritual. And as Seth explained, making free will decisions does lead to a bumpy road, suffering. I also, when I talk to G-d after my prayer, I thank Him for my life (parents, siblings, children) and as I talk to Him about my life, I smile and tell Him that He knows me. It is correct that G-d cannot be fooled. What I did not expect to know about is Kabbalah; what it teaches one. Then all of a sudden my life is not over, even at 74 years old. I have so much to learn both corporeally and spiritually. Knowing what I knew, in terms of how my life has been, I can now learn and see my life through the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is a completely different way of knowing G-d. Thank you, Seth, for the great explanations and examples you have stated.
I have been taught that to “ask” for something in prayer is to further distance yourself from it. That we already have everything we want and need and its only our belief that we do not that keeps these things absent from us. So to ask is to further reinforce that belief. With that said is it believed appropriate in Kabbalah to “ask to receive” from god?
Terry,
There are thousands of belief systems and religions in the world.
Each one has its own approach.
In the wisdom of kabbalah we are always praying, asking as often as possible.
The desire for food renews itself automatically, the desire for sex and money renew automatically, all of our natural desires grow and renew naturally. However we are in the business of eternity. How can we receive eternity, we don’t even want it, so we accustom ourselves to want it. The praying does not change the Creator. The asking, the praying constantly formats our desire to the shape of the Upper Light.
The Creator is closer than our closest friend, our closest lover, we can speak to Him all the time, ask of Him what we want, tell Him how we want to be with Him, how we want life to be good for everyone, etc. Don’t be shy.
Seth@KabU
Hi Seth, colleagues, my question is this:
Can regular everyday people connect with the upper worlds without the Torah?
For example: a caveman fulfills his lower desires, for food, shelter, family…he then picks up a stick and carves a flute. he creates songs on it. Later he picks up some plants and creates dies, and draws what he sees in nature, animals, plants, everything in his visual field. There’s a kind of satisfaction of a higher desire, a feeling of connections with the creator. There is no social expectation for him to do these, things, so it seems that this is an exercise of free will.
The second example has to do with intuition. A flight is fully booked but only a quarter of the people who bought tickets arrive. The plane crashes and everyone who took it dies. Through some inexplicable force, the people who didn’t take the flights describe a gut feeling guiding them not to take it. Some are sure the creator was communicating with them, so they acted on their desire to be closer to the creator by abandoning their plans. Are they exercising free will?
Dana,
Later after education is corrected and the family unit is corrected and a person grows up in healthy psychological and emotional environment where he learns how to work with these forces, then it will be the most natural thing to connect with the upper world. This is of course due to the light of the Torah that raises the person, but not everyone will sit with The Study of the Ten Sefirot and work like we do today.
Everyday people today can experience all kinds of phenomenon, some very “magical”.
What we are working on attaining is something else.
We are talking about ascending to the degree of the roots of the forces that manifest in this world. To become equivalent to that force of bestowal and love.
This takes place through many efforts and an inner transformation. It doesn’t happen accidentally or by chance.
Seth@KabU
Michael,
You can say that.
However let’s be clear. If the will to receive is ruling us than we cannot say that sinned or did something righteous after all, the Creator created us with a will to receive and we are just following its commands. Can we say that a parrot or a lion sins? No, they just follow their programming.
On the other hand if we were an angel and only carried out the order of the Creator than we also cannot say that we are the owner of the action since the Creator is so great that we are nullified before Him and carry out His command.
So a real sin is only when we stand right in the middle between reception and bestowal, and somehow as if choose reception.
We will learn about this more, but to be at that middle point, called man’s free choice, then we must have the force of bestowal, without the force of bestowal there is no sin on our part, there is only following the dictates of our will to receive.
Seth@KabU
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