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

[Julian Edwards- KabU Instructor]

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

[Paul]

From  (recommended reading) the Nature of Matter, page 36:

Only now begins the  formulation of the matter that makes up our world. From this stage onwards, from the broken will to receive,  begins the historic evolution of the material world we are familiar  with. Once the universe has been created, the still (inanimate),  vegetative, and the animate degrees are made, and following them,  the speaking (human) degree is formed (figure 5).

Is  this speaking about the worlds of assiyah (made) and yetzira (formed). Would that be,on the evolving ascent in the spiritual worlds, leading  to  briah (created) and finally atziluth (emanated)?

But since  we are in the material, corporeal world still,  is the above mentioned speaking degree referring to the psyche, (in the world of yetzirah)  expanding the point in the heart to  the creation (beriah) of the reconnected soul, which was eminated in the beginning (atziluth)?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul,

Those Still, Vegetative, Animate and Speaking are truly the ones we are familiar with in our world. Except that to Kabbalists, we are not yet on the speaking degree and have nothing from it in us. Our thoughts and desires and dreams – all that we have belongs to the animal degree. Dolphins also talk, and so do trees and other species. Emanating some communicative substance or sound is not called speaking in the language of Kabbalah. That refers to a spiritual state already. And once I reach the first degree of spirituality I start-over this development of 4 Phases, but on the spiritual degrees, and yes they correspond to the 4 worlds Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut. What I do have from the Upper World, which animals do not, is a single black Point called the Point in the Heart. First it is buried beneath the animal desires for many incarnations, and then it surfaces, demanding realization.

[Danielle Vergonet]

Hi there,

I find a few things of this lesson a bit confusion.
1. In the video of Marcos last week i heard: when you do kabbalah your desires are gettings les, they come into place.
2. In studie of kabbalah introduction I read: when you do kabbalah your ego is going to be stronger. Your desires are becoming stronger.
3. This was I quiz answer of kabbalah in action: A Kabbalist  is a result of his/her ability to Connect to the Desires  of others above their Ego

So i find it a bit confusing. How do I need to see this? When you studie kabbalah your ego is becoming stronger so you can develop better? But on the other side you earthy desires are getting less?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Danielle,

You can think of this in different ways. It depends how deeply we scrutinize it. You can say that the desires of this world are less pronounced, but that’s not quite true. Actually, they grow. It’s just that the Point in the Heart, which is the desire for the spiritual world, which is above this world, is in opposition with the desires of this world. Because the Point in the Heart fell from the Upper World, and the Upper World is exalted, swallows this entire universe in its measure of sublimity and importance and works in the opposite direction, towards qualities of the Creator. So, your regular desires remain, like you still somehow could enjoy, say, sitting and building a sand castle like when you were a child – but there are other desires that, because of their importance, cover this desire, even to the point that you don’t feel it in you anymore. You got more mature desires. Now there are desires that are more mature than all the pursuits there are in this world. Everyone will develop to this level eventually, and they will then wonder how they could waste time doing all kinds of things of this life. Of course, after the initial awakening of the Point in the Heart, this desire, like the desires of our world are grown through the influence of society, one needs a spiritual society, a group of others who also have the Point in the Heart, to help grow this desire to the sufficient magnitude to realize it.

[Danielle Vergonet]

Hi Julian,

I have a question about the connection between us. In clip 1.3 you say we find the creator between us. That means we don’t feel the creator in us? Or both? I always feel quite a individual and wants to do everything alone, that makes me feel free, but in a way also very prisoned because when I am in that situation I do wanna have people around. But it’s a very scary thing. When people said, beautiful experiences you experience together, i always said you experience it alone. It did change over the years to be honest. So for me hearing about the connection between the people makes me a bit afraid. Do you need to be a very social person then?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

People who come to the wisdom of Kabbalah typically are not drawn to being social, even if for one reason or another they may act that way in some situations. Because a strong Point in the Heart specifically resists connection with others. It’s the point of singularity that is sui generis, has nothing in common with any other. But in the Kabbalistic group it can because there it has the goal of Creation to realize. It can tolerate this connection because this Point is actually an incomparably greater egoistic point which can only connect when the purpose of connection is nothing less than revelation of the Creator. It’s not that it can’t connect, but that it doesn’t have fuel, motivation, interest to do so until it finds this perfect context in which to do so purposefully. Other people also are egoists, and only connect with others for egoistic reasons without a shred of the will to bestow being involved in this inclination – only one without a revealed strong Point in the Heart can be motivated by reasons apparent in our world, while the Point in the Heart in this respect works against the person in this world since this Point is only willing to work for the spiritual reward, which it is drawn to because the spiritual world is a billion times greater than all the pleasures of this world combined. Of course it still resists connection, but that is because the revelation of the Creator has to be with two forces: the resisting force, the force of the ego that doesn’t want to connect, and the Point in the Heart that longs to return to its root.

[Danielle Vergonet]

Thank you so much Gianni!

[George]

I want to ask about the spiritual level of Bina. How is it possible to only bestow while our nature is to receive? Is a person at this level would feel void? I think it does make more sense that I can bestow while I am receiving.

Thank You

George

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The quality of Bina is a spiritual quality, the quality of bestowal without reception. It is a stop along the way to Receiving in Order to Bestow, which is not possible to reach directly. In fact, ones whole work needs to be to reach Bestowing in Order to Bestow, without reception, like Bina. Of course this doesn’t pertain to one’s corporeal life, to what one already is receiving. It pertains to an additional plane to the one we live on. What we receive there is something we’re not receiving already. We can’t receive it until we develop first this quality of Bina in relation to those pleasures. Does one feel void? Well, we feel void as it is, in our lives. We feel darkness, even in the best case scenario. Even what we call pleasure is really darkness because the contact with the pleasure directly, leaves us empty and bitter. And the bitterness from the accumulated experience and understanding that this is how it works, only increases. That’s why spirituality is a great addition to what we have, and in no way compromises it. Because we develop the property of bestowal, we are able, eventually, to receive in order to bestow. And, like I said, we have never actually received before, because the moment we come into contact with the pleasure, it evaporates, because we are missing the Screen required to receive.

[Jurgis]

Thank you for explanation!

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

I don’t see where you found that quote, but it’s ok. I don’t know what an action of conscience is, this isn’t typical language in the wisdom of Kabbalah. I know that no inclination that comes from within me can be in the direction of bestowal, since bestowal is the Creator’s quality, and He imprinted me with the opposite quality: receiving. So, it’s certain that anything found in the ocean of my nature is wet, i.e. no matter what is found in me is reception. But I can take the advice of Kabbalists, and just my involvement already makes it “wet” too. However, there is a force in nature that, when I try to go in the direction Kabbalists advise, which is towards connection with others who are making similar attempts (studying Kabbalah also), this force, called Reforming Light, corrects me. And by correcting me towards them, I am also corrected towards the Creator, and then He is revealed.

[Mira Brooks]

Hi Julian,

In video 1.5, there is a quote provided by Rav Michael Laitman, “Connection is called that I don’t feel the difference between you and me. All in all, I don’t feel any difference. Simply, two become as one in everything. In an inner desire, there is no difference. I feel your desire as my desire, and it’s located within me. Not in your body, rather it’s in me. Bodies disappear and there is only one desire. This is a constant state that is called Adam. The system that is called Adam, two that are connected like this, this is already a part of Adam. We can say that it is Adam. And the more that people connect like this, it generates more details of this one soul. More accuracy, a better resolution, and more spiritual attainment”

What can we do to cultivate a greater feeling of connection with others? I can understand that this likely requires a high spiritual degree, and certainly something that I struggle with. It is easier to feel closer to people with similar desires that we have. How can I foster deeper connections with those that have desires and modes of thought that are very dissimilar?

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