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The doubt that comes before us from the will to receive, enables us to acquire free will where we are neither controlled by our lower nature, nor by the Creator. We are now working in what is called the “middle line.” What do you mean exactly by being controlled? We learned that everything comes from the Creator, and that our free will is only related to the choice of the right environment, the guide, the group: the rest is “predestined”, so even what I will respond He already knows. I’m missing something. Sorry, I thought I understood the Lesson about free will but now I feel confused. May you help me pls? ThankU so much.
Manuela,
You are correct and you are correct about being confused.
It’s like a child in playing in the playground.
Before, in her mother’s arms, she had no free will, she couldn’t use her legs to walk yet. Then she grows and mom let’s her run around the playground. The child feels free, she can run to the sand, run to the swings, run to the other children, but mom is always watching and protecting.
Similarly, we feel free until we reach our next degree and look back and see how everything was arranged.
Being confused is natural since what we are discussing are eternal things and our mind is not eternal and to perceive eternal things, we need to use new vessels.
Seth@KabUHi Sheila, I appreciate your input. What you said about thanking the Creator for your obstacles is particularly eye opening for me. Looking at my self doubt as something the Creator placed in my path so that I will have to overcome it, will help me draw closer to Him.
Thank you for sharing your experience and perspective with me and I wish you all the best as you continue your studies.
Hi there,
I posted in the other forum recently regarding our preparation question for this week and realized as I was writing it my response itself was actually a question. I’ll repost it here:
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Ultimately the goal is adhesion with the Creator – but the practical steps to attain this seem to change depending on the level of spiritual progress we are on.
It seems that for now, in the preparation stage where there is no perception of the Creator whatsoever, the goal is constantly aspire to Him and the desire to bestow in order to draw the Reforming Light. The Reforming Light can then do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, namely generating the first truly altruistic desire in us which provides with the screen.
Is it correct to say that the aim of our work differs before and after the acquisition of the screen? While it would seem to be true that the growing of an aspiration for the Creator should remain constant throughout, the goal in the preparation seems to be exclusively to draw Reforming Light. Where as it seems as if after the acquisition of the screen, the aspiration towards the Creator becomes a process with more input from the Creature, for example – the individual correction of egoistic desires as they appear and a constant back and forth process between the Creator and Creature to reject/reflect Light egoistically and accept it altruistically.
Hopefully this makes sense as it’s a bit confusing reading this back..
Why is religion one way. it seems you have to believe in something else besides the creator. It seems some religions forgot all about the creator. when you ask about it some people get all defensive about it. Kabbalah seems like the universal truth that people are trying to avoid. I feel the wisdom in my soul. thank you, teacher I really want to meet you. I appreciate all you do. i listen to the books every day. I know if you are narrating them there is great wisdom in it. you help make the light shine. I look forward to working with you.
Hi Matthew,
All of your instructors here at KabU are students of our teacher, the kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman. We received all of this method from him and from the books of the kabbalists that we study together with him.
Prior to the wisdom of kabbalah there were no religions, there were different kids of actions and things that people did but after the wisdom of kabbalah revealed to humanity and then after humanity again descended into its ego, religions manifested in different parts of the world according to how the ego took a piece from the wisdom and interpreted it.
Seth@KabU
Shalom Instructor
Would you agree that Kabbalah can be practiced in any religion and that it in fact enhances your religious experience as you’re then able to see perceive on deeper and more meaningful levels of understanding?
Leyah,
There is no contradiction if someone wants to practice their customs and religion.
In the same way that gravity works regardless of one’s religion, in the same way, here in the wisdom of kabbalah we are learning about the laws of nature, how everything in the universe and beyond is constructed and operates.
Seth@KabU
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