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In regards to the concept of creating a creature to fill it with delight, does this apply to us on the human level also? Is having children encouraged or required for attaining a higher level of spiritual growth within Kabbalah?
I have just received then books that were suggested for this course. Is there a specific order that we should read these books to get a clearer understanding?
Kabbalah For the Student
Kabbalah Revealed
Attaining the Worlds BeyondThank you for the answers and suggested reading Seth!! I love the metaphors you give in all of your answers.
Adam,
In the past kabbalists wouldn’t accept students who were not married and working. In our times, the students who are committed and on the path with our teacher, Rav Laitman, almost everyone is married with a family, however we don’t make any requirements of students who want to come and study. The main thing is to start on the path and to grow step by step.
Regarding filling the creature with delight, there is also the matter of this world, but the books are describing delights that are suitable for the “human” degree, the spiritual degree. Those are pleasures of kedusha and are above the pleasures of the “beastly” degree, all of the material pleasures of this world.
Let’s imagine whatever the greatest pleasure that a dog can feel and then let’s image the pleasure of a human falls in love, there is no comparison between the degrees of pleasure between the two. The gap between the pleasures of this world and the spiritual world is even larger than the gap between us and the animals on the degree below us.
Seth@KabU
So if we are trying to reach or become like the Creator ( in terms of the quality of bestowal ).
Where do we get that which are going to bestow from ?
In other words from where do we get that which we are supposed to bestow to others ?
Milo,
It comes from above this world.
We have natural, worldly desires and they can be fulfilled, food, sex, family, money, honor, power, knowledge.
However, we don’t have a desire for bestowal. This is not “terrestrial”, it comes from above. We have to develop a desire for it and “pray” for it, meaning, calibrate our heart to it.
Seth@KabU
What about animals? It seems the universe, creator has only time for human’s, what about the animals that create part of our ecosystem. We would not survive without them so what are they? Are they part of nature, are the separate creatures or are they apart of us?
Maria,
Everything in reality is connected and part of one single, connected system, all of the animals, plants, even planets and stars.
The spiritual human is the only part in this system that can consciously come into equivelence with her Upper Spiritual Root.
Everything below the human is dependant on the human. As the human rises, all of the lower parts of nature rise with her.
Seth@KabU
György,
In the Upper Worlds there is no “human”.
Imagine that before you was two choices. On the one hand, go sit in traffic and then go to work all day and on the other hand, come and take eternal fulfillment. Which choice would you pick? 🙂
And if every choice was eternal fulfillment, then there is no choice and there is no human, we are absorbed into the light and that is the Upper Sensation.
However in order that we would feel ourselves as ourselves and also come to feel Him and His Light of eternal fulfillment, for that reason we were separated and from this place we now build ourselves back up to Him.
Seth@KabU
In “Attaining The Worlds Beyond” on page. 27. It mentioned ” Malchut entity”, which is described as all the worlds, all created beings , except for the Creator. However, I just need a bit clarification. I have taken Kabbalah classes before so this question may be a bit advanced for week 2. However, where does Adam  Ha Rishon come into this creation. As I understand this was the Kli( vessel) of  all human collective soul before it was fragmented. In addition, I know the 10th sefirot is known as Malchut. So ,you see  I need a bit of clarification on this matter. Thank you!
Addontess,
Great question.
Adam HaRishon comes “later in the story” so to speak.
The creation of Malchut is the creation of the general desire to receive.
Adam HaRishon will be a creature that will eventually be made of Malchut but will have the force of Bina mixed in him which makes him not entirely “terrestrial”, not entirely of the Earth, of Malchut.
Seth@KabU
Thinking of the 5 senses of the Kli (vessel)- they are anchoring us to the body and material world, to be able to develop a new sense beyond that we need to “ silence “ these 5 senses in order to develop a new one to rich  a level above to the upper world…
How can we help the process of ignore or  avoid  the 5 senses ?
Peshka,
According to the eastern methods, you are correct, the senses need to be quieted in order to reach some spiritual degree.
In the wisdom of kabbalah, actually the desires keep growing. It is specifically this and our inability to fill them that we finally turn to the Creator for something eternal, for something whole, for something good.
That is what we will learn together.
Seth@KabU
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