Ask anything about week 3 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 3 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[MARTA PAGES ALARCON]

While I was listening to the explanations about how we understand out of our nature, egoism, the laws of nature, which are invariable, operating on our surroundings, and the way we use prayer to pretend to influence those forces for our benefit, I remembered how Job and his friends tried to understand the Creator’s mind.

Is there any article or video in which Rav M. Laitman refers to Job, to go further regarding this analysis?

Thank you very much.

[Varda kahalany]

Thanks for your answer Seth. Of course you are right and I am rephrasing my question . I really would like to know what can I do now in order to speed up my development of my point in the heart so I could understand and perceive more of the puzzles of life and at the same time maybe to help others close to me to start doing the same.  Maybe my question gave the impression that I am judgmental toward practicing religious rituals but this is not my point. I am just puzzled by the fact that it was decided to hide the Kabbalah for a long period of time because ‘people were not ready’ but the Torah was out there and it seems like people were not ready for it either, because   it gave way to  miss interpretations which not only caused a huge division between the people of the world but presented a twisted image of a vengeful creator who favors the ones that observe his commandments. This perception is still persist in a high portion of the religious population  and makes the unification of the people through all of the world almost impossible.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Varda,
I’m sure you have plenty of complaints about how everything is.
If you could see the final goal, you would understand exactly why everything is exactly the way it is and there is no other way it could be.  You are deciding from where you sit that the Torah should or shouldn’t have been revealed the way it was and that the wisdom of kabbalah should or shouldn’t have been revealed in the way it was.
You might as well ask why did the shattering of the soul of Adam HaRishon happen in the world of Atzilut!?
Or you may ask, why did the Creator create Malchut of Ein Sof, an infinitly empty desire?!
You will learn all of these things and they are good questions.
But what is in your hands to do, that is the most important question that you asked and from here all of your other questions and answers will be revealed.
What is in your hands right now is to make a very good and strong foundation in the fundamentals of the wisdom of kabbalah.
Later you will be able to work in a 10, a mini model of humanity and work in practical kabbalah, but none of that will be arranged correctly without a foundation in the fundamentals.
So study from week to week all of this lesson material, take notes, write about it, make poems about it, whatever you can do so that it starts to live in you, so that you start to feel in your life what you are learning in your classes.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Marta,
Read the story again and feel that everything that is being described there is happening in our desire.
After you have done that exercise, if there is another question ask and I will answer.
Seth@KabU

[Varda kahalany]

Will do 🙂

Thanks ! (Hope I did not offend anyone….. )

 

[Cinco Leone]

I was hoping to get some clarification on the third and fourth factors relating to an individual’s development. To my understanding, the third factor is a second layer of cause and effect driven by the environment. Using the seed analogy, this environment directly relates to the developmental process of the seed but cannot alter the predetermined path of development set by the seed’s nature, but it can influence the manifestation of that seed’s end product in a quantitative/qualitative way by producing more or less stalks of wheat than its progenitor for example. It appears that this occurs as a direct response to the interface between the essence of the seed in relation to the environmental conditions that are available and is therefore out of our conscious control, This just happens automatically. What I am having trouble understanding is the fourth factor of environment. At this level particular environmental factors are categorized as not directly related to the developmental process of the seed such as winds, other plants and hail storms that still have an impact on the seeds rate of development. Are we to understand the difference between factors three and four as environmental factors which we choose vs environmental factors that are beyond our control? If that is the case, then the seed analogy seems to fall a bit short because a seed does not get to choose whether it is exposed to other plants, winds, or hail storms. It was also stated that a person is neither punished for their good/bad thoughts and deeds because those things arise automatically but they are punished for the environment that they choose to abide in because that is what determines the type of thoughts and activities that they will engage in. If a person inherits a packet of data (via the bed )from their ancestors and previous incarnations, won’t that information have an impact on one’s decision making skills when it comes to choosing an environment for one’s self? If I inherit negative thoughts and behaviors, those thoughts will probably result in me choosing an environment that aligns with those thoughts and behaviors giving rise to more of the same. What would compel an individual with automatic negative thoughts to choose an environment contrary to their current nature?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Cinco,
As a review,
the first factor is the source, it contains, like a sperm the grown man, but only in potential
the second factor is the software that operates the source, this source will grow to be a man for example and not a penguin
the third factor are for example the food and the schooling that enters inside and influences the development
the fourth factor is poor economic condition of the country so instead of going to school, the person could only develop in the field

This is a simplified review, but to go further it was important to clarify.
We cannot change our source.
We do have the ability to chose a good environment.
Not every has the ability to chose a good environment.  For some it will take more suffering and more incarnations.
Seth@KabU

[Cinco Leone]

Awesome, thank you very much for the thorough response Seth!

[Jarrett Twaddle]

What is acceptable and unacceptable to bring to the group (when we’re placed in one) for the purpose of prayer? Should we invert our desires and pray for others the very things we feel burning for ourselves (spiritual and/or corporeal)?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Jarrett,
You will have the opportunity to read several articles together with other students and a KabU instructor about the organization of the kabbalistic group and the prayer as well.
It is further in the curriculum.
Seth@KabU

[Ben]

Remembering is the Equivalence of form toward being properly aligned with the Tree of Life or Family roots of Creation until the Creator delivers upon the Souls repercussion’s of “Lishma”. The roots and branches of the 10 emanation’s are the basics for building or children in His names Light, rather than goods and evils.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Ben,
I don’t understand what you are talking about.
Very confusing.
Seth@KabU

[Ben]

Seth neither do I except through the opening of the Zohar I find the Creator to be true. And this is why my fellow Pioneer we must always maintain in the direction of “His Name”. For the souls’ healing from within the Upper force torward the beauty of Israel and the far reaching.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Ben,
OK, but since in the meantime we are still living on Earth and communicating with each other, it is helpful and helps us advance more quickly and comfortably if we can communicate in a way that we can understand each other.
Seth@KabU

[Loria]

This has been helpful in showing me the basis for some religious thought.  It brought understanding to me of the practices that my parents observed.  My experience has been to come away from religious practices, yet I see that as I grow in closeness to our Creator, I can better engage with those that I love.  I do wonder if we can know what we are learning and still remain in places that are in the Sacred Still?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Loria,

No problem.

You can go to the Olympics or your church.
You’ll have to balance how to maintain your culture and your family dynamics and also your  inner world that you are discovering.

Seth@KabU

[Loria]

Thank you Seth!  That balance alone will require the “prayer” as discussed in our lesson.

[Zealot Mines]

Wow, that was a great session by Tony.. I am seeing more and more clearly.. I love the explanation.

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