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Religion seems to teach us that trying to be like the creator is some kind of “sin” (in lack of a better word) i know Kabbalah is not a religion but the science of spirituality, nevertheless religions incorporate spirituality to a degree. Here Tony says we aim to become like the creator, wouldn’t that be wrong? Or is it that we just aim to be like the creator in order to climb up the ladder but of course we will never be like him? I am a bit confused…
Yasmin,
There are a lot of religions, 1000s and each one has its own beliefs and some of them are very corrupted so we are not talking about them. We are talking about realizing the purpose of our lives.
As you study the sources together, we are learning that there is a force of bestowal, some force, we don’t know what it is yet, but something enlivens all of reality, lights every star, makes every heart beat. And on the other hand, there is all of the rest of reality that receives that life force, grass receives the light to grow, the animal eats the grass, we eat and drink, etc, all of reality is a receiving force, some receive more and some less, but every bit of creation is receiving something from the bestowing force in order to be sustained.
Kabbalists, are very precise. They describe to us our state in this world and why creation is built the way that it is and we will learn about that more later. They tell us that while our material body must receive to sustain itself, in our hearts, we can aim to be giving, like the giving force.
In this is the secret of creation, to transcend time, space and limitation.
Seth@KabU
So basically your life s not your own. How is it determined if, when and why someone is allow to move forward in any area of life? Anything you do would be in vain.
Calvin,
Let’s look at a child who is playing outside with his friends.
Does he feel like a slave? Does he know that his parents are watching over him, protecting him, preparing dinner for him, washing his clothes for him, scheduling the dentist appointment for him, getting the car ready to take him to school?
No.
The child feels free. He doesn’t feel like a slave or that he is being controlled. But that is because his perception is small. But his mom and dad are taking care of everything in his life.
So it is with us. We don’t feel the upper guidance and this is on purpose. Like this we have the opportunity to develop our feelings towards the Creator.
Nothing is in vain. Everything is guided and on purpose and directing us to the good future.
Seth@KabU
If I understand correctly the Feelings of the Upper world, perhaps just the Assiyah, they are connected if the Quality, Purpose and Intention is similar. Does that mean for example feelings between two souls bring them together, so there is no Space dimensions. But is there a time dimension in the Assiyah? Meaning that these feelings can change so the forces are distant to each other. So there is no Space but there is time, unless there is an immutable force where time does not change the state of the feeling. In other words, if a soul’s feelings with other soul can change by the time?
Hai,
Assiyah is also a spiritual world, and there is not time in spirituality. In spirituality everything is always.
Our world is at the bottom of Assiyah, but there is a boundary that we are under and that changes our perception.
You are correct, about similarity. In our world, we can bring two material things close and say they are close, in spirituality, things are close or far depending on their “quality”. If one is in bestowal and the other is in bestowal then they can become as one.
Seth@KabU
Shaun,
For example, when you were 5 you didn’t notice Susie in the classroom, but then when you were 10 all of a sudden, some new feeling arises in you, it’s platonic, but some kind of young love thing awakens in us at some point, totally disconnected from sex, but we have some special feeling for someone.
In a similar and very natural way, something new develops in us that before we didn’t feel, didn’t understand.
Seth@KabU
In the presentation, you explain about the five senses as  being a barrier to our perception of reality. Much has been said about a sixth sense, a knowing. It  It’s not verbal but it can be experienced.
From  the perspective of Kabbalah, what is it?
Yvonne,
The five senses are not a barrier, they are what we have to perceive this world, however they are incapable of perceiving the spirtual world. There are surgeries where a blind person can regain their vision and then see whereas before they could not see.
So there are also spiritual “operations” that we perform over time with many inner efforts to transform ourselves and we acquire new feelings on the degrees of Keter, Hochman, Bina, Z”A and Malchut, these are 5 spiritual qualities that correspond to our five material qualities.
Seth@KabU
Hello! New answers… more questions! I think that’s going to be the norm from now on. My question concerns Torah and mitzvot. How does this fit into our search for meaning/studies? Are these terms, concepts, or the actual texts?
Hi Greg,
This is a point of confusion and will stay confusing since we are studying spiritual things, but each spiritual root does touch the earth and so when the spiritual roots touched the earth, what remains are these things that people do with their hands and feet.
But in the meantime, let’s not discuss tefillin or kashrut, let’s speak only about what these definitions mean spiritually.
The one whole desire that can receive all of the light of ein sof was divided (into many different numbers and we will learn all about it) into 613 general parts. As we make ourselves similar to the light, it’s called that we attract the light of the Torah which comes and corrects the broken part to a corrected part, that action is called a mitzvah.
Seth@KabU
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