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Hello dear instructor,
(1) In Week 1 video The Rock the Creator Can’t Lift (at 02:02), it mentions the third criteria of an act of bestowal in a workshop, “You have additional force (from your point in the heart) to share with them.
What am I sharing with them? Love? Dissemination? I want to know what can I share with the fellow students in a workshop.
(at 02:02)
(2) Also, isn’t it egotistical to think I have additional force than my fellow workshop students. Shouldn’t I see them as equal?
Thank you!
Hi Hing,
What you can bestow to friends is the importance of the spiritual goal, which is the only thing the Creator can’t do for them. He could do it, just like He gives you the Point in the Heart, but He won’t. Once you’re in the group it means you want a higher level of advancement where you depend not on the Creator but on His representatives, the group of students that He awakened. You have to help each other, and that’s the only thing in the world you can do for now that will be considered somehow close to true bestowal.
Dear instructor,
This is to clarify the second question:
I sense that “that me” which has additional force (mentioned in the third criteria) is not the little corporeal self, but the spacious self beyond time and space. But we are all powerful being. Is it not in unity consciousness, we see every One equal?
No we’re not all-powerful. We’re very weak. And completely controlled by the Upper Force, which controls us in concealment. This makes us even more weak because we believe from the bottom of our hearts that we are in control and free. That’s a double concealment. We can’t talk about what we could become after the Light works on us and many corrections through it, because we don’t feel that state, it’s imaginary right now.
Dear Gianni,
Thank you very much! Lots of wisdom to digest and to apply.
After reading your reply, I seem to understand that the New Age crowd of asking us to think of us all as powerful beings, is not much different from the positive-thinking concept, or other concepts which are just imaginary within the ego’s desire to receive. Assuming I am correct in my understanding, this new discernment is very helpful.
“We have to FEEL it.”
Thank you! Wishing you all the best!
Assuming we feel ourselves as 100% reception, without a shred of bestowal within us, that that is our essence and nothing besides, then what we discover lies beyond this is only more and more of that desire to receive, which was concealed from us before. Because the desire to receive is our capital, our dry field, which can be turned into a vineyard. It can be inverted into the Creator’s (opposite) quality. The more desire we have, the more we can invert, and the greater the revelation of the Creator accordingly. But we are not even in that preliminary state where we discover to what depths we are a Will to Receive. We don’t know that about ourselves; we think there’s something more to us than this. But as we study Kabbalah, the Light works, and it reveals this to us. Knowing this, believing it, isn’t enough, we have to feel it.
He there,
This course is great, i love it! Thank so much. I had a question about Spiritual Leaders. What do you mean with it? I thought the new generation is pretty fed up with ‘gurus’ (roughly said). I am not saying that about Rav Laitman, but I mean more the fact that people brainlessly follow leaders which in the end also have bad intentions.
But I guess you mean more leaders in general with a spiritual mindset. Because understanding more from the lessons, the world goes to a place with more unity and I thought that we less and less need leaders. Or did I understand it different?On the one hand, you’re on the right track in your thinking that as we go more towards connection we don’t need a human leader because we are all in the revelation of the Upper Force, the Creator who leads all of reality. And then there can be no disagreement or confusion. All is clear to all. But as long as some of us are not in open attainment of the Creator, there has to be a person or a handful of persons who together, with a single opinion, lead the others. And actually, the Upper World is built in such a way (and this is why humans are prone to attach themselves to false gurus) that in the Upper Worlds there is always an Upper Degree that you must nullify to, in order to rise to the next degree. In other words your teacher is always your teacher. As you rise through the degrees, you discover them higher than before. So, on the other hand, the concept of one teacher above the student never goes away. I will always have my teacher, Rav Laitman; he will always have his, RABASH, and RABASH will always have his, Baal HaSulam.
How to depict an upper level, i. e. next degree (level)? I assume after crossing the barrier, which takes some time? ( 3 years, indicating after reading a blogpost by Rav. Leitman)? Being curious, I know, but anywhow.
It could be motivating.
Hi Paul,
Problem: all our language comes from experiences of the world we are born in. There are no words in our language to describe the Upper World. There are no experiences that are similar. Even the words that we somehow use to help a person try to imagine what they should do to reach the spiritual world – the person of course doesn’t hear them correctly. But these words are, again, not in order to describe spirituality, but to give the person a depiction that, even though it’s not correct, it is a depiction towards which he can move in the direction of spirituality. And he also doesn’t move in the direction of spirituality but he, by this, positions himself before the Upper Light, which is standing by to make the changes in the person, which bring him to Equivalence of Form with the Light, a form of bestowal rather than reception. And by Equivalence with that Upper World, he feels it.
Hi!
Very interesting lesson this week. I’ve been thinking about our times, and fear is a predominant theme – prolonged wars, environmental problems, and Covid. One of the most troubling is this doubling down on human liberty and news outlets are openly promoting division. This may be a symptom of our time which will lead to a closer unity in the end, but in the meantime, how can someone that values freedom and autonomy of choice thrive in such a setting?
Hi Mira,
Humanity is headed not towards more superficial freedom, which is what they had, but towards the feeling of incarceration. And it will be immeasurably more pleasant a realization if we understand beforehand that we are imprisoned by our own egos. I am locked inside a bubble, and it doesn’t let me out. I always do what it wants. It leads me down a slow, painful path of development – towards the same goal we’ll reach inevitably – but through a press of development. If we learn the wisdom of Kabbalah we can learn how take our destiny into our own hands and how to truly feel free. Because free doesn’t mean democracy or being able to post whatever my ego feels like it and whatever I want. Free means to be above my ego. We don’t feel how to exit it is to sense a totally new, eternal world, above time and space. Just this, as if this small trigger within us, keeps us chained to this perception of reality. And it is something slight, but infallible. As a result of it, is the persistence of my perception – that I’m in a world, there’s no Creator here, and it’s a pretty bad world. But this is just the radish I was born in, and I thought the whole world was bitter like this radish. But when we become free of it we come out to a wide wonderful world. So, in short, we have to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah, discover how much the ego controls our every move, learn what force exists in nature to enable me to rise above it, and what system do I need to establish contact with in order to rise out of myself to.
Hi Jurgis,
First by absorbing as much of our materials as possible. Then by implementing them in the group. That “tuning” is when you tune yourself to the general direction of a group of students who are on the same spiritual path.
If I understand the lessons correctly so far, efforts are needed to grow in consciousness, attracting the reforming light. Efforts in the form of studying kabbalistic texts, in a group, under the guidance of a kabbalistic teacher.
I can feel the neccessity of joining in a group, because individually it is difficult – or impossible- to restrict my ego.
So, if I, intentionally and consciously participate in a group (restricting some of my egoistic desires) , is that the positive charge Julian talked about? Put it differently, is that building a screen? What would be a second restriction, if there is any?
Hi Paul,
That’s right. The Restriction & Screen are built in a group. That is the only way one will have something that is not him and feel the difference between for me and for others. I need to specifically integrate with others who are on the same spiritual path, it’s those additional inclinations towards it, which I am missing to build the Restriction and the Screen. Counting the Restrictions isn’t necessary because there are too many to count up until through many efforts it is actually built by the Light.
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