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- January 21, 2021 at 3:51 pm EST #37697
Tony Kosinec- KabU InstructorModeratorAsk anything about week 3 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.
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- July 19, 2022 at 1:54 pm EDT #294722PeterParticipant
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!
- July 19, 2022 at 10:55 pm EDT #294744Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Peter,
Excellent.
Suffering is not pure love. We are not masochists.
We can transform from sufferings of pain to sufferings of love, yearning for the fulfillment.
Would love to see this in a story with characters, in a way that you can explain this to many people in a very simple way.
Seth@KabU
- July 11, 2022 at 10:46 pm EDT #293849Maria-PowersParticipant
<p style=”text-align: right;”>Every detailed facts which teach me a lesson is so intense. But my favorite is Ohr Makif. To help me keep focused.</p>
- June 30, 2022 at 7:39 am EDT #292906DavidParticipant
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.
- July 1, 2022 at 8:19 pm EDT #293037Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
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
- June 17, 2022 at 11:45 pm EDT #291925Maria MemoliParticipant
Are the Lishma and the Ohr Makif present somehow in the 10 Sefirot?
- June 18, 2022 at 5:27 pm EDT #291960Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
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
- June 15, 2022 at 6:40 am EDT #291659ChristianneParticipant
Thank you dear Instructoir Seth and Tony Kosinec fot the video and answering questions. I learned a lot On this moment I have no questions
- June 13, 2022 at 8:03 am EDT #291498ElliottParticipant
I think I’ve always believed in God/Heshem/An Upper Force. But I’ve never felt the need to pray … which is odd. I think I doubted that God would “give” me something because I prayed for it. Hearing this lesson put a huge puzzle piece in place for me. I was sort of right. But I was very wrong about prayer. I should pray. But I’m not praying for God to do something for me. I’m praying to align myself with God. I just had it backwards. I think prayer makes a lot more sense to me now.
- June 13, 2022 at 7:47 pm EDT #291525Seth – KabU InstructorModerator
Elliot,
Nice insight.
For sure the usage of words like prayer and love over time it wears away the power of these words until they don’t carry power and it make it very difficult to use these words and feel what they mean in the writings for the kabbalists.
Nevertheless, you found something very nice. It’s not as if we are going to pray to God and He’s going to change His mind and do us a favor.
Slowly we are discovering that He created an ideal world for us to come to spiritual realization and our prayers work to calibrate us to His reality.
🙂
Seth@KabU
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