Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Helen]

Hi Seth,

so many questions, hope you don’t mind.

in one of the video the instructor said “we don’t even have a soul yet”, I read more online and it sounds like some say that we have 2 souls, one animal soul called Nefesh Habehamit, the soul we want to develop is called Nefesh Elokit. what’s Kabbalah’ view on this? what’s “point in heart” in relation to either soul?  if you have links to any articles or videos to explain more, highly appreciated.

 

thanks

Helen

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Helen,
We’re not reffering to what you calling the animal soul, meaning the life force that is in us, that animates us and when it departs, we are no longer living, we rot in the ground.
We are learning about the spiritual vessels filled with spiritual light whereby we perceive a spiritual reality.
The point in the heart is the “sperm” of the future spiritual creature.
Here’s a blog post by Rav Laitman https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/publications/blog/laitman-com/70840
Seth@KabU

[Helen]

that article helps a lot, thank you! see if I understand this correctly

we do have two souls. one animal soul, which is with us since we were born and till we die. where did this soul come from and what will it go? what is it part of? is this the scattered Adam Ha Rishon?
we are trying to develop a spiritual soul, and this will be developed via learning Kabbalah. I assume i have “the point in the heart” otherwise I wouldn’t be here for 6 month now, how do I know if I have develop the soul yet and where I am at in the progress?
speaking of light, I have heard quite a few versions of definition, one video I watched, it was stated that the light is “pleasure”, it was also called the force of the creator, in the above article it sounds like the light is the soul?  I just watched this video,  light is the influence of creator over the creature. I guess all above are correct, but from different angles? can you explain more on the spiritual soul and it’s relation to the light?
I also learned that each person will need to be corrected and ascend back, is it fair to say whoever lives in the current era mostly are the old souls who didn’t achieve the correction yet?

thank you as always for your help

Helen

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Helen,
Let’s say you are a young girl and your parents take you to your first rock concert.
The energy is incredible, the sounds, the joy.  You decide that you want to make that kind music too, you want make everyone sing and be happy.  So the next day you go to the music store and get your instrument and then you go to band practice.  Now you are standing in your first rehearsal, holding your instrument, but nothing can come out yet.  You have everything you need in your hands, but you need more experience and more investment.
This is where you are on the spiritual path.  All of your questions are correct, all of your questions are good, but if feels to me that adding more knowledge on top of what is already in your hands is not where you need to go now.
I recommend that you read and watch the lesson materials again and write out all of your questions in your notebook, write down the main things that you find important.
This is like you at home practicing your instrument.
The note C is the root note of the C-major scale.  But it is the perfect 5th of the F-major scale.  etc, etc.  The note C can make the scale sound major or minor or diminished depending on how we approach it and what is before it and what is after it, so we need to start to understand what we are working with.
The light is like this, but its also like that, if I perceive it from here or if I perceive it from there, etc. etc.
We’ll have time for more and more questions and answers.
Right now I recommend that you make more effort in your studies.

[Helen]

Hi Seth

We are creatures, we are limited. how can we be equivalent to the creator even if we have desires to be like the creator, even after we have the knowledge of Kabbalah, understand how and why we were created and how to ascend back, but after all we are still creature and limited, correct?  I can see receiving from the creator with the intention to bestow, but I do not see that we have the capability to bestow to our fellow human beings like the creator because we are limited.

I hope that you can clear the clouds in my head. thanks!

Helen

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Helen,
In our world, I have to move my body next to yours to be close to you and if I fly away, then I’m far.
In spirituality, when things are similar in quality they are close and dissimilar in quality and they are far.
If things in spirituality are so close in quality, then they become one, adhered to one another.
The quality of the Creator is bestowal.
We will remain a receiver, but with an additional force that is added from above, we will be able to receive, not to receive for ourselves, but to receive in order to bestow.  It means that when if your 4 year old daughter brings you her finger painting, imagine if you pushed it away and said, “that is messy and not artistic, I don’t want it”.  Or on the other hand you can receive it, but you are not receiving it for yourself, your receiving it from your daughter gives her pleasure that she was able to give to you.  So it’s not about what we do with our hands, whether we are giving or receiving, but the state of our heart, your reception towards her became an act of love towards her.
Seth@KabU

[Helen]

I really appreciate this thoughtful answer. about studying, I am in the middle of Kabbalah reviewed 2 and I also started this course. I also bought the books set for Zohar and revealed 2 books. there are many other courses under VOD. I can’t study and absorb everything over time, do you have any recommendation on the orders of the courses and books I should go through?

 

thanks

Helen

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Helen,
Go through:
Kabbalah Revealed 1
Kabbalah Revealed 2
Kabbalah in Action
Kabbalah Experience

Take good notes.  Even watch each lesson twice.
After you complete all of that, figure out how many hours/week you want to designate for study and then make a framework and stick to it.  If it’s 1 hour/day or 2 hours/day, whatever you set, stick to it whether you feel like it or not.
Let me know how your progress is going.
Good luck,
Seth@@KabU

[Helen]

Will do Sir, thank you

Helen

[Helen]

understand all those concepts you mentioned. but we are created by the creator, by default we can NOT be the same as the creator, correct?  as the creator is perfect, we can try to be like him, but are we capable of becoming him? if we become him, are we Him?

[Katherine]

What an amazing article. I’m in tears right now. How amazing is the creator? How amazing are we all Israel? How amazing life and the experience. How seamless….I truly am astonished. Thank you 💕

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

🙂
Wonderful

[Helen]

Hi Seth

how does the creator govern the creatures? I mean, does everything run based on a fixed program like a software or a simulation game, though it seems like there are some freedom in making choices, but all choices/scenario were all pre-designed like a computer game, the designer who designed the game doesn’t get involved once the game is running.  if I take myself as an example, I started to study Bible about 5 years ago, I didn’t really know why exactly, I started to study Kabbalah end of last year, I didn’t really know why exactly, everything that happened in my life was in his program, I might be able to choose route B instead route A or C or D or E, but whatever route that is possible for me to choose, were already in the program, so do I have limited freedom, freedom within a range. or actually I will only choose program C, even though it appeared to me that I did the selection, but no, the creator “guided” me to select C, I wouldn’t have selected otherwise. not sure if I explained this well.

another question: do you only pray for the creator to prepare a big, huge Kli for his light. nothing else? I meant to be close to the creator is the only pray that will be answered, nothing else?

thanks

Helen

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Helen,
If we knew and could measure everything that everyone of our ancestors did and how every advertisement and every teacher we’ve had and the influence of media and society on me, then I’d see that I have no freedom at all.
But all of that is hidden from me, so I feel I’m moving with free choice and that is good.  That is by design.  If everything was pre-programmed, then who am I?  So in this space where I don’t see how I am connected to each and every other thing in reality, here I have the freedom to discover the Creator as if by my own forces.
Regarding your second question, there is no problem from the side of the light.
All reality is filled with the endless light, the room you are in is filled with endless spiritual light.  All we lack is a vessel with which to feel it.  Like a deaf person in a room with a symphony.
Seth@KabU

[Jonathan]

Thank you for this incredibly illuminating lesson!

[Prudence]

Hi,

I enjoyed  watching the video presented by Tony.

After watching it, I still kept wondering..

I have one question, not sure if I understood this correctly but do correct me if I am wrong.

From the video, I understand that there is only one force in this world and that is the Creator. There is no opposite forces such as evil forces/demons/devil..etc. It means every good and bad comes from the creator.

Any evil force intending to do harm/hinder a person from getting closer to God, does not exist. Is that right?

Thanks for your answer.

Prudence

 

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Prudence,
From our perspective there certainly are what seem like forces standing between us and the Creator.
Let’s use an airplane as an example.  It is a giant piece of metal and plastic that weighs a few hundred thousand pounds, now we need it to get up in the air and fly.  So from the one side, that seems impossible, but if we understand how to work with the forces, then it becomes possible.
So for sure there is gravity and for sure we have a lot of weight and if I try to lift the plane every day for the rest of my life it is not going to budge, but if I learn the laws of nature, I can work with the forces and fly.
Seth@KabU

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