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What does it mean to connect to others desires above the ego? Is that an encompassing sentence for what the work of kabbalah is in practice?
You’ll have to feel that. We do it by trying to connect, however we understand, with the demand that the Upper Light will make it real. It means I try to do so in myriad states that I find myself in. I connect to the spiritual goal, through the friends that are on the path with me. The more states from which I can do this, the faster I advance. In a broad sense, that encompasses the work – because I’m in a shattered vessel, in which reality appears as darkness. Worse than our world, there isn’t anything. I connect to at least some of the parts, correct it at least as a corrected microcosm of reality, and I already feel an increasingly better world.
Since I am the culmination of 6,000 of incarnations, and everything that I have learned is retained in me, am I able to make use of this incredible bank of knowledge, and is there any way to access it at will to find answers to questions?  Also, is this the first life that I’ve become aware of myself and the effort to reach the upper light?
At will? No, it’s according to the Creator’s will that it’s revealed. But He provides a condition that if you attain it yourself, it’ll be revealed. This means that it’s not where I am, as I am that it’s revealed. Only if I will rise up, above my state, this world, to the spiritual world.
It’s the first life where you will (hopefully) reach a state that is higher than the Point in the Heart being, to varying extents, held hostage by the ego. Because had you risen above it, you’d have a piece of eternal life in the spiritual world, that would be yours even if you had to come back and finish your correction.
In “The Nature of Matter”, could you expand on the concept of “splitting” reception between two individuals? One who “receives” the pleasure, and one who “senses” it?
Everything is inside you. But there’s someone outside of me, seemingly. I can know the desire of the other and fill their desire. But all the pleasure happens in them. That’s because there is an illusion that we are separate. To the extent that I become reconnected to them – in my perception because in truth we ar already connected – I also feel their pleasure, and this is the real pleasure, that which occurs ‘beyond one’s skin’, and the only pleasure that can truly be experienced without a short-circuit.
When the created being has a sense to bestow, is that when it is considered a complete being similar to the concept of ownership and property? For example, if someone has the will to recieve, because it is only created from the light of the creator it is considered incomplete, like in the same way a student is simply recieving an instruction from a professor so he is not fully engaged, then when the desire to bestow appears it’s like he becomes an apprentice, would that be an apt analogy?
Next, about the phases of light, why are the sephirot named so and does this relate in anway to the phases of light and parzifum? For example, if we translate tifaret to beauty does this have to do with the desire to receive in order to bestow?
Lastly, if the 4 worlds exist in humanity and the body of Adam Kadmon does this mean that the light of the creator, Keter is also present in individual people? Can we sense this light?
If a person is truly awarded the quality of bestowal – that is, he crossed the Barrier to the spiritual world – then he is considered an apprentice to the Creator and learns the ways of the Creator from the Creator. But he still has something to do there, and he’s not complete: he’s on the first of 125 spiritual degrees. But he’s complete in the sense that up till then he corrected all that he could see, all that he could imagine, 100%. Then an additional place for correction is revealed. This way he climbs the spiritual degrees.
Sefirot are named that way because the Light of Hochma is from above down, and the Light of Hassidim is from right to left, and if you want to represent the way the Light enters those vessels, you can represent them with those (Hebrew) letters. The fact that they also turn out to be words people know, isn’t that important, is unhelpful for practical purposes, and that’s why in this one aspect it is even better if one doesn’t know Hebrew, at least at first.
No, what we can sense, spread among humanity, and across all times, past, present, and future – is a spark, while the first time one crosses the Barrier to the spiritual world, he reveals Light. That broken spark is what all of humanity chases their whole lives, and never reaches. What one can feel is only ones unfilled Will to Receive, which is all that he feels his whole life. Besides that, there’s one other thing, and that is the Point in the Heart, which knows how to find Kabbalah and wants that because it is a sensor that feels there is a spiritual world and wants to return there. There are only these 2 possibilities.
How do you distinguish preparation of the vessel from spiritual correction, and how should one relate to non-Kabbalistic inner work before entering a practical group?
Before entering a group, one needs to learn everything about the wisdom of Kabbalah, and develop ones Point in the Heart as much as possible. The authentic Kabbalah sources connect a person, in this Point, to the Upper Light, which reform or correct or prepare the vessel. There is nothing else to do but prepare this vessel as we reside in an ocean of Upper Light, which, in a broken vessel, actually inverts to bad. A broken vessel is what one starts with, has from birth without even knowing it. There’s quite a bit of individual advancement in this because the precondition for entering a group is general acceptance of the entire method, and for that, I need to have some understanding and feeling of what that entails.
It’s hard for me to imagine how one would already feel belonging and emotional connection. On what basis? So, certainly a private study is adequate at first. One simply needs to record upon themselves as much matrial from the Kabbalists as possible. Because there is a matter here of the Surrounding Light working. If it doesn’t work, then one also doesn’t really understand. It works a bit more, one understands a bit more. So, the study and the intention for it to change me work hand in hand. This helps me start understanding what this method is about.
How does one move from the mental idea of “we are all connected “ to opening the heart and really feeling it and not just understanding it intellectually.
Hi Yvette,
Like all things in the wisdom of Kabbalah, because they talk about a world we don’t feel, which we’re already in but don’t know we’re in, we feel it by trying already to keep the laws of the Upper World before I’m in it. How? I need a group, we call it a ten, where I can start thinking and behaving, inside myself and toward them, as if we are connected. How I am, I’m like that everywhere I am – so, if I’ll transform toward a ten, I’ll start transforming in my attitude toward all of reality.
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