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.

[David Bruce]

“That is, he must not think that there is the force of the Sitra
Achra (Other Side), which does not allow a person to do good
deeds and follow God’s ways. Rather, all is done by the Creator.”

This makes me think of satan or the opponent.  I believe this means the opponent is a tool of the Creator himself to give us challenges to overcome and depend on the Creator for help in drawing near.    Am I off in this thinking?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

David,

There are endless forces, even gravity which causes a person to fall and miss buying the winning lottery ticket.
So it doesn’t matter which force, satan or gravity or any other one.  The point of the excerpt is that behind it all there is one governing force.

Seth@KabU

[Renata Klem]

I still haven’t understood how to use Kabbalah in my daily practice. What should I do with my physical desires? Should I restrict common desires like eating?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Renata,

Nope. Now only make spirituality so important that the other desires aren’t as important. You don’t need to fight your desire to play with dolls. Your desire developed and now as an adult other things are more important. Same scenario.

Seth@KabU

[Assana Colubali]

After watching this video, then we come to an understanding that Creator is the center for everything, as the light that sustain everything emanates from Him.

[john]

I have seen a change in my perception and then back again to a seeming standard state. but something is different in the end because I wouldn’t be upset now by not know something previously if it hadn’t changed my perception, which still feels like reverting back to a state of typical awareness or perception.

[Deborah Joplin]

Hi Seth,

My perceptions need to grow and change. I have always thought of the things that happen, that are by human perception “bad” events, as things that the Creator allows because we choose the path of pain —“the school of hard knocks”— because we are immature and our ego rules us. We know what God wants us to do, but we choose not to do it.

So, my question now is: if God is the only force acting in all of Creation, then we must think of Him as the Creator of all of man’s actions, and situations that man must face. He brings a Holocaust or any of the other atrocities we can see acting in the world. I know that God’s desire is to bring us back into adherence to Him, and being Omniscient, He knows what is required to make that happen. But, as one who has studied the scriptures for many years, the atrocities are difficult to attribute to our perfectly loving Father. In the book of Job, Satan is introduced as one who is allowed to “sift” Job. Is our Creator actually the force that performed this sifting?

P.S. How do I know when you have answered?

Sincerely,

Deborah — Truly Seeking — Calling Out to God to help me.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Deborah,
I had previously missed your question.
You can click SUBSCRIBE on the top right of this forum and get updated when there is a post here, so you can see when your questions are answered.
The question are asking bothers all of those who ask this question that is difficult to understand.
It is impossible to explain things in a way that we can feel that such atrocities are somehow justified towards a better good.
But the wisdom of kabbalah is very practical.
We can at least see and feel these events as a measuring stick to feel just how far we are from a good life for everyone.
Imagine that we are very thirsty but try to drink from a fire hydrant.  We would injure ourselves as the pressure of the much needed water is much too strong for our soft face, we may even choke or worse.
There is an abundance of good waiting for us to arrange ourselves so that the good that is coming to us can settle in us in a calm and good way, otherwise the forces of nature will rush forward pushing and kicking us from behind as it rolls.
Seth@KabU

[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.

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