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.

[Russell]

This is next level! I’m feeling the detail and the intricacy of these texts. There’s lots of study time attributed to week 1 of this course, so much so for it’s taken a little longer to complete.

I’m interested to know what your thoughts were on this quote from Chapter 2: The Boundaries of Joy?

In this world there are only two tragedies.
One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy!
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

My take home is that Oscar’s talking about the corporeal, as no assumptions made to higher?`

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

He’s right. If I don’t get what I want, and I’m sure that I can’t have it, my ego covers it for me, concluding something to the effect of “we wouldn’t want that anyway.”  That’s called, “One doesn’t lust after the daughter of the King.”

If I want something and don’t get it, but see it as reasonably obtainable, it shines for me in the future as Surrounding Light.

If I attain any desire, and I don’t have a spiritual Screen already, a short-circuit occurs between my gaping desire and the Light (pleasure) trying to enter like when the forces in a lightbulb connect without a filament. This is tragic because I’ve had to exert to obtain the pleasure, I’m now empty, but not only. My desire has doubled. I now have a double deficiency.

On the other hand, I’ve exhausted one in a finite (but exceedingly long) queue of desires I still hold hopes of receiving from. Of course, it would be better to jump to the work in the other direction, bestowal over reception – as this is a more pleasant way.

Ordinarily I wouldn’t philosophize about an outside quote but this one is apropos.

[Zorica Kostadinovska]

Hi, Julian in The Last Generation video, said that we need to correct the roots in order to see that correction in this world, the world of branches. Does that mean that the roots are rotten? And where are the roots, in which of the 4 stages were they created or appeared?

As I had this idea that we, as branches, are the Will to receive, and the Roots are the Will to bestow, and the line between them (the Earth surface) is the screen that needs to become permeable so we can receive the Light… And if so, the roots are already perfect as they are the Creator; but if they need to be corrected, they too are not the Creator… so what are they?

Thanks in advance!

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Zorica,

The roots are in Keter, Phase Zero, or Shoresh (root). These are the roots of the Kelim (vessels).

What we see in our world are just branches, and we can’t work with them like you can’t work with a holagram based on some sequence of zeros and ones. It’s no use to work with the imaginary images; you need to work with the zeroes and ones: reception and bestowal.

[Lora Vatalaro]

The terminology being used in the lessons and readings is getting more dense.  Is it important to try to memorize all of the new terms, or just keep absorbing what I can and continue on?

[Zorica Kostadinovska]

Thanks Gianni! But I still don’t understand what does “correcting the roots” mean. You correct something that is not ok, and them being in Phase Zero, mean they are already perfect. Or…?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

The roots are OK; I’m not OK. I’m fallen, several worlds down from the roots. The roots ensure that my correction will take place. Either I will rise to the world of roots, which by itself entails my correction, or I will go through phases of correction that, according to the roots, clothe into materials of this world. I’ll suffer greatly if I go through corrections this way. In fact every pinch we feel is from corrections we didn’t make. Rising to the roots requires rising above my egoistic qualities and clothing in upper qualities. Then, above my qualities, I agree with the Upper Force, and then my correction is pleasant.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Just keep absorbing what you can. You don’t remember because you only remember what you have some feeling of. Even numbers have a certain feeling. And if there’s no feeling, you can’t remember. Moreover, to tie two things together you need to develop a feeling of their connection – this is an even higher thing.

So, in short, the feeling will develop by the Reforming Light that one draws during the study, and the understanding will follow from the feeling.

[Lora Vatalaro]

Thank you, Gianni.

[Sarah]

It’s interesting that in previous courses I do remember we said this world is world of branches, and whatever happens here can’t affect the world of root.

Now in this course, we say our spiritual action solve problems from below up, affect the world of branches by affecting the world of root.

 

Why?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sarah,

That’s correct, we can’t change anything in our world. It only seems to us that we change things with our will and actions. That’s because the depiction before me is a result of my inner qualities. So, if I want to change things in my world instead of changing myself, then I’ll find that no matter how much I do, nothing will change, except that everything will adapt to again await for me to change myself under even harder conditions. However, this depiction is only of my own uncorrected qualities. If I draw the Reforming Light upon myself through the study of Kabbalah, then my qualities change from reception to bestowal – even a little bit – and different, better world is depicted. So, it’s not that we can’t do anything. It’s that we need to know in what field there is something we can change, and in what field I can exert as much as I please but the efforts will all be in vain.

[Rae]

Does the “collective ego” (Evil Inclination) have its own Will to Exist within the Will to Receive Pleasure? Like a built in part of the system Kabbalists refer to as The Creature?

The illusion of seperation becomes confusing to me sometimes; making it difficult to “be here” and fear disconnection above all else

I hope this question makes sense and thank you so much for all you are and all you do 😔

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

No, what it is is that the Desire cannot stop existing as all parts of it belong to the Final Correction where they all need to be fulfilled with the Upper Light. The ego is the intention to receive, and it’s eternal too, except it’s form becomes an opposite expression – to bestow. It’s not worried that I’ll die, in fact it’s job is to waste my days until I’ll find myself in a casket, so that going against its councils I’ll choose to be more towards bestowal each moment. That ensures I’m getting there by free choice because each time the ego gives me a chance to see whether I need spirituality now, or I can wait another day; and then to see that when I wait, tomorrow won’t be any different. I’ll still have to overcome greatly and decide that now and only now is the time to attack the spiritual goal.

[Rae]

Thanks so much Gianni 🙏

[Soraziz]

In one of the readings we can read “there is a single reason behind all the negative phenomena. When we understand that reason, we will be able to provide a single, comprehensive resolution”. Does this mean that I will continue to suffer and see people I know (and love) continue to suffer until the whole of humanity comes to attainment? Until we all come to practice love?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Soraziz,

First, I need to correct myself, to balance at least a bit with the Upper Force. In this, I already start to feel the corrected state more and more. The corrected state is where no one is suffering, and we don’t understand how, but also no one ever suffered. The Upper Force did only good to all people in every moment.

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