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Hi Gianni,
I have a question concerning karma which is mentioned in this week’s last video. Perhaps this is not related to Kabbalah, but I will ask it anyway, please do point out if I should not have!
It is evident indeed that ‘Personal Karma’ is not executed in this world (at least from the ‘egoistic’ point of view). It seems (from this POV) that powerful, reckless and ruthless people rarely get ‘punished’ for their misdeeds. On the contrary, they get rewarded by them (again on the egoistic POV).
Considering how some people succumb to misfortune events completely unrelated to their deeds, which seem to depend on the geographic place they are in or other ‘coincidences’, Julian mentioned the term ‘Collective Providence’. However and considering the paragraph above, does it make sense that an ‘evil’ person gets clothed by a ‘punished’ future life for his deeds? Or is all of this completely unrelated? Or even still, can such an ‘evil’ one repent within his lifetime and still achieve the Creator?
Thank you in advance.
Hi Francisco,
Sorry I missed this. This concept is so wrong that it is worthwhile to throw it away and start over. No calculation about how it works will be correct. We’re in a big, interconnected system, the interactions and ricochets in which expand across lifetimes and above time-states. But more than that, the reasoning for what happens in this system is above any reasoning we have.
If a person is trying with all his might to correct himself, no matter what he did, even if he did atrocities, if now he’s trying with all his might to reach spiritual correction, and he does so in a direction that is correct, meaning according to Kabbalists, then, since he is now heading towards the true purpose of his life, and his correction, he can become completely purified and beloved by the Upper Force. Everyone has this destiny before them. Meaning what he did before he knew about the true purpose of life was all in the hands of the Creator, even if one was the most evil in history; while what one does after he discovers the goal of life, he’s accountable for; and then he can start distancing or coming closer to the Creator. And then there is a very different calculation with him from Above.
Hi Gianni, in video 1.2 you stated that the souls of the 10 Kabbalists that connected to write the Zohar each represented one of the 10 Sefirot. First, my understanding is we only have points in the heart and souls get created by the connection in the ten. Did they already have souls instead of just points in the heart? Is the connection of soul to Sefirot predetermined, part of process, or people need to be purposefully put together as there is a way to determine what Sefirot they are connected to? Does this even apply in this manner to the ten we will be entering?
You referred to Preparing our imagination for the ten. Ba’al Sulam recorded in his Prophecy of Ba’al Sulam, ” it seemed as though all the people in the world have gathered in a group before my mind’s eye.”
What is the “mind’s eye’? Is this part of what you mean by imagination, is this how we “sense the upper worlds? Or is this simply more Kabbalistic Code, that is too hard to understand. I am curious why attainment is so cut and dry, because on the outside it simply looks like we must slowly do inwardly psychological work to reach the worlds. That does not make a lot of sense either simply because how would one know which degree one was on based on inwardly changes of actions (unless there is a list). Lots of questions about the preparation of imagination but these are just a few. Thank you for your patience and explanation. I am trying to separate the fictional from the non fictional style poetry of Roots and Branch writing. This way I can try my best to understand at least from a beginner point of view. Sadly the more I dig and advance in the study of technical Kabbalah the less I understand and have questions about practical Kabbalah. One thing I know is for sure, the desire is there for these and many other answers
Hi Richard,
I don’t know how much can be conveyed in words, but the answer is simple. Imagination serves just one purpose, that one will imagine one’s future state. He needs to first learn about that state. Because while there are many intermediary states he could diverge to, the next purposeful state ahead is pre-decided. He needs to imagine it as much as possible. It’s not that his imagination is important. But he does not like to think about a state that is not in agreement with his ego. So, the imagination is the playground in which he plays. trying to show to what extent he wants to dwell in what Kabbalists speak of as the future state. What Kabbalists write about is what I need to move towards.
Dear Gianni,
When we work in a Minyan are we having constant moderation of an instructor? Are we given certain kabbalistic topics to read, discuss and find our way together to digest? Or we are on our own and only are, so to say, observed by instructors in our work and progress?
Hi Maria,
Sorry I missed this. Everything is arranged so that the ten environment will be supportive, and above all, goal-oriented. You have specific exercises, topics to discuss, readings – to ensure that everyone can advance as quickly as possible, according to the very specific principles that Kabbalists left us.
My question is a practical one: How often do these meetings take place? On a daily basis? I’ve seen a little of the daily lessons, there are groups “of about ten” from all over the world, are these the gatherings we’re talking about? Thank you
As much as you desire. A beginner ten will meet up to 3 times weekly for lessons in the graduate program, and add some zoom calls to practice what they learn. What you see on Dr. Laitman’s daily lesson are veteran tens, they meet every day. The ten has to tune you to this frequency of the reality we’re trying to enter, which can’t be an individual alone, because that reality is painted only in the connection between parts of the Kli (which for now is spread among people).
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