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Maybe this will be evident later on or have I missed something, but I am curious why is Lishma ( for her name)?
Toni,
Learning the wisdom of kabbalah from a kabbalist, like we are doing…all of your instructors here are long time students of the kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, the successor of the great kabbalist the Rabash who was the son and successor of Baal HaSulam the commentator on the book of Zohar and the one who brought the wisdom of the hidden into the masses.
So, when we learn the wisdom of kabbalah like this, it is like a child in kindergarten. At first, they show us something. “This is a sailboat”. We don’t understand yet how the sail works, how exactly the rudder steers the boat or how the keel keep the boat upright. We look at it, take it in our hand, hold it, turn it over and as we grow we can start to learn about the wind and the currents, etc.
Or the teacher gives you a ball of clay, now we make a bowl. We were little kids playing with dirt, we don’t understand how to make it the right shape, the right proportions, etc, but we start to work with it.
Now we heard about Lishma, we will hear about many things too. Lishma means for the sake of the Creator, we can say that. Later it will open up more, but let’s say it means for the sake of the Creator. Why is it called Her name, etc. there are many questions. But in short this is the intention behind our actions. We are a desire to receive and we receive everything for our own benefit. Through the influence of the upper light and many actions and discernments on our part we want that Light to influence us and change our intention that we will receive but not egoistically, but receive all of the abundance for the sake of the Creator.
Seth@KabU
What about some kind of prayer made by christian kabbalah learners who replace the name of the creator by those of the sefirot ?
Amani,
If you are a friend you are called friend. If you are a child, you are a child, if you are a parent you are a parent. You can be all of those at once. You can have three names at once depending on the attitude of the creature towards you.
The Light is always called according to the vessel, the light itself is only named according to how it is attained.
We received our method of attaining the Creator from our teachers in an unbroken chain. Â We are not learning anything of so called Christian kabbalists.
Seth@KabU
There are people who have not met most of their basic natural needs such as having enough food to eat or even having a home to live in yet they have “a point in the heart”. Could their lack of these basic natural needs tamper with their spirituality?
If my goal is to reach equivalence of form with the Creator which essentially means receiving in order to bestow, and if prayer is a tool to help us transform our inner nature, how can I possibly apply this to a legal dispute I’m currently having with a neighbour who is playing a game to grab some money otherwise he would jeopardise my process of moving house? I feel anger and I really despise my neighbour (this is what’s happening inside of me). I know it’s a huge mistake to mix corporeal things with spiritual things but I would appreciate a kabbalistic view on this. Is what I’m emotionally experiencing an indication of my distance from the Creator? I have a huge desire to move house (it means many things to me which can be boiled down to pleasure).
Massimo,
Don’t confuse yourself.
At the beginning of the day a person must say if not for me than who?
That is everything that is in your hands to do, do.
At the end of the day a person must say, there is none else besides Him.
That is, even if I sat here all day and did nothing the result would have been exactly the same.Every degree is called a day, first there was darkness, then light. That is one day.
Behave as is customary in the world.
You asked this question already and I gave the same answer already.
You are at the beginning of the beginning of the wisdom of kabbalah.
You cannot take a slogan and go wage a spiritual battle in a corporeal war.Create a spiritual framework and study together with us on a regular basis and your internality will develop. You will act on the outside like a person in this world and inside you will be connected to the Creator.
Seth@KabU
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
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