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.

[Esther Benzaquen]

In religion (Judaism), they explain that there are decrees that we cannot change, but others can through actions and prayers. Kabbalah’s view is that we cannot change anything. Can that lead to apathy?

[Leyah Lynette Evol]

Hey Esther, I think Kabbalah teaches we can Change ourselves (that’s the inner work) because we live in a world of cause and effect … Outcomes.  What is out of our control we can make Peace with, perhaps learn to be compassionate towards ourselves for those things we can’t control.  I came up with mantra which I repeat to myself whenever I need it:

“I have no control over another’s words, choices, or actions, only my own”.

Every experience comes to teach.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Esther,
You are twisting around concepts and not really understanding what the texts are referring to.
You are currently in an endless field of light and fulfillment.
You don’t feel it at all.  So you will not change that the you are in an endless field of light and fulfillment.  That is what the Creator created.  All of our work, and first of all we need to stabilize ourselves in reality and understand where we actually are, what senses we currently have, how they operate, what our goal is, what is the delta between where we are today and where we want to be and by what natural laws, etc can this giant sea be crossed.
That is our study.  The friends that I know on the path for years and decades are anything but apathetic.
Maybe you can reword your question so I can understand what you are asking.
Seth@KabU

[Iheb]

I have a question. What happens when a person prays so much that it leads him to annul himself for spirituality?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Iheb,

Then he can receive something greater than himself.
Seth@KabU

[Martina]

Wow, no question but a comment:  The lesson of difference between Kabbalah and religion was great! What a great explanation of the difference.  Thank you for that and also this lesson brings the saying: The truth will set you free into a whole new light, how freeing it is indeed!  Kind of makes one wonder how it was possible to stay on such an infantile level of spirituality (religion) for so long.  Thank you for giving us the tools to speed along in our development!

[Tydus]

blessed be HE. The more I know/feel in my heart the more I cant get enough.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Tydus,
Yes, I understand 🙂
Seth@KabU

[Varda kahalany]

That was an amazing explanation of the differences between religion and Kabbalah. Thank you for this 🙂

Now, after this video, I am even more confused of why the religion, especially the Judaism (since most of the great Kabbalists came from this religion) does not include more such explanations in order to avoid situations where a religious person is so much immersed in his corporeal interpretation of the Torah’s writing that totally forgets or more precisely, ignores the quality of bestowal of the creator, up to a point that he fully believes that anyone who do not observe the commandments the way the halacha teaches them, is a person that has a negative influence on others , ‘spoils’ the environment and causes for negative things to happen. There are entire religious communities that would not let anyone from the outside to mix up with them because of this reason. Their Rabbis (who suppose to know Kabbalah) are encouraging this, and do not raise up to embrace unity instead of division. In our days, I see more and more families , friends, groups of people , divided over ‘degree of religiousness’ and it is so frustrating that their Rabbis letting it continue, some even encouraging it by making statements and promissing people that if they start practicing religion things in their lives will get better.  One more thing that makes me wonder –  if religion does not change the person , do they have to come back again into this life until they slowly start developing their point in the heart and start ascending on the ‘sulam’ ????  Why the Kabbalah was hidden for so long – this period gave rise to a religious fanaticism that brought unspeakable suffering and division. What good came out of it ?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Varda,
If you take dirt and mix it with water and develop it for billions of years and burn it and stretch it and compress it and break it until it becomes vegetative life and then keep developing it until it becomes an animal and keep developing it until it becomes a person and now raise that person to the degree of attainment of the Creator, so that is a complex process.
Religion is a particular stop along the way to the goal of uniting humanity that is a vessel in which the light of the Creator will dwell.
So I’m not suprised that people who are more primitive in their desires adhere to customs and culture that they feel connects them to something.
The quesiton for you to ask is what is in our hands to do now that our point in the heart awakened and we start to feel that there is more to life than what religion shows me.
Seth@KabU

[Lana]

Actually, many Jewish rabbis, particularly Chabad, state the same ideas but in the form of commandments, i.e. tasks to be performed and goals to be achieved.  But they do not explain why or how to achieve them.  And so, the process becomes mechanical, which in my humble opinion defeats the purpose.  I have been struggling with this for years and now I am finding a lot of answers in Kabbalah.

[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….. )

 

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