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The lesson of the difference between Kabbalah and Religion is staggering..
So if i may ask, what is Kabbalah’s perspective on Tzedakah, Charity, NGOs like motherless babies home etc..?
Katel,
This is pointed question that arises when we come to the wisdom of kabbalah.
The secret to the answer is in understanding that the wisdom of kabbalah is bringing you to a totally new perception of reality.
For example, and just as an example to try to illustrate this point. Imagine that everything that you see in this world is happening in a mirror so you can move right and left and back and forth, but you are never actually “fixing” reality, everything you see is just a reflection of things that happened before. This world is a world of results. The causes happen before they reach this material world.
So on the one hand by studying the wisdom of kabbalah, you will come in touch with roots of the forces that finally descend to this world.And also on the other hand, this world is like a sandbox for children. In this world we get to develop our feelings and understanding so we must go through many exercises in this world.
In short, the good future that the world needs will not come from an NGO, it will come from a transformation of our nature towards love and we will discuss this and learn about it much more later.
In the meantime we must be engaged in this world and so if it is customary for you to give tzedakkah, do so. If you work for an NGO, so that is your work.
It is a little confusing because as you will discover, a kabbalist lives in two worlds, the spiritual world which is a different perception altogether and this world.
Seth@KabU
I apologize for the long response to the prompt but I want to make sure I am putting together what we’ve learned correctly. This week I learned about the goal I need to focus on and hold onto as much as possible to help me steer myself toward the Creator and help direct my desires toward Him, which is to reach a state equivalent to the Creator, a state of pure bestowal. Additionally, I must scrutinize my desires, meaning I must earnestly attempt to discern the intention behind the desire (the intention is either altruistic or egoic or some combination of two). In this quest, if done in earnest, I will receive the ability to make an accurate discernment. With the gift of discernment from the Creator, I will be able to feel how far away I am from my goal. This feeling of lack or suffering is the vessel which attracts the reforming light, a true need to be filled by pure light, the need to achieve the goal. Through this mechanism, the desire for the goal, grows stronger and stronger. In this way, successfully identifying that lack within the desire reveals to an individual an unfathomably powerful gift, which is the opportunity to exercise faith above reason that the feeling of suffering is actually pure love from the only force that exists, the Creator himself. The problem is the light bestowed to the creature is interpreted through the opposite force. The heartfelt experience of this emptiness acts as a genuine prayer for correction to which the Creator will always oblige, filling your kli (the sensation of suffering) with reforming light and correcting that desire.
Am I on the right track? Thank you!
Each Kabbalist that came before has died, physically. I assume each died physically from some reason, perhaps a chronic disease. My question is…does Correction hold the power to heal chronic disease and extend lifespan? The question suggests an egoistic purpose. However, it also can also be from the desire to live long enough to make altruism at finer levels a reality in consciousness and expression.
David,
Everything in our reality develops in 4 degrees. Every thought, every desire, everything. Baal HaSulam describes this throughly in The Peace article.First, let me present the view of our sages concerning the unfolding of the generations of the world: Although we see the bodies changing from generation to generation, this is only the case with the bodies. But the souls, which are the essence of the body’s self, do not vanish, to be replaced, but move from body to body, from generation to generation. The same souls that were at the time of the flood came also during the time of Babylon, and in the exile in Egypt, and in the exodus from Egypt, etc., until this generation and until the end of correction.
Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, for each time they clothe a new body and a new generation.
Therefore, with regard to the souls, all generations since the beginning of creation to the end of correction are as one generation that has extended its life over several thousand years until it developed and became corrected as it should be. And the fact that in the meantime, each has changed his body several thousand times is completely irrelevant because the essence of the body’s self, called “the soul,” did not suffer at all by these changes.
Seth@KabU
Maria,
The smallest spiritual unit is made up of 10 subunits called 10 sefirot.Ohr Makif is light that surrounds the soul.
When we, through many inner actions draw the influence of the Creator upon us our intention inverts from for the sake of our ego to for the sake of the Creator. That is called Lishma,
Then some amount of surrounding (makif) light (ohr) enters the partzzuf/soul as inner light.
Seth@KabU
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