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Hi Claire,
The Kabbalists tell us that “love the other as yourself” is the main rule that we need to follow to correct everything.
Just keep in mind that we practice this type of spiritual work primarily in the Kabbalah group. The Kabbalah group is like a lab where we practice manifesting the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. In the group we build a strong connection with other points in the heart that are together with us on the spiritual path. This becomes like a nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
Albert @ KabU
What is the best way to maintain the attention focus on the qualities of the creator during the day by day life. ?
Hi Claire,
It’s good to set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic texts and lessons. And in the more advanced semesters, when we start to do spiritual work in a virtual group, we’ll see how it’s exponentially more effective to be concerned that my group stays connected and focused on the spiritual goal throughout the day, rather than me focusing on myself.
Albert @ KabU
Does it mean the more I read Kabbalah text and connect to live classes with fellow students make the light to work on us and correct us?
What about how in future semester will operate in groups? Just interested knowAt what point will we be able to work in groups online? There are no Kabbalists in my area. I’ll have to travel over 220 miles to reach others in person
I have spent years rising very early with a specific routine of feeding my cat, lighting, my stove, making coffee, and sitting down to read, psalms, Bible readings, prayers, and some specific cabala material, and then sitting down to journal for 30 to 45 minutes before anyone gets up, in an effort to find an encounter with the Father. Sometimes, I write pages of thoughtful prayers and requests and observations. Sometimes, I ask God if he’s even there or if he cares. Lately more and more, I’ve wondered if I’m boring God, since I haven’t been inspired to find any other psalms or prayers and the ones that I’ve been using for a long time. I even tried adding some guitar songs, to no avail. Is my sense of pointlessness a sign that I may actually be moving forward? I put this question to a parish priest, and he told me that mother Theresa once went for 10 years without hearing anything from the Lord.
Hi Guy,
Coming closer to the Creator works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that to the extent that we become similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal, to that extent we come closer to him, and reveal Him in practice. This is just like how a radio can pick up an external wave, when we tune the internal frequency of the radio to that wave.
But practicing love and bestowal is not something I can do in isolation, rather I need to have someone with whom I can practice these things. And I can’t practice this with just anyone, as that would violate the rule of “there is no coercion in spirituality”. I need to practice it with others that have the same goal and are aspiring towards that goal on a regular basis. In other words, I need to practice this in a Kabbalistic group.
We’ll learn how to do this practically in the advanced semesters of KabU where everyone will get their own virtual Kabbalah group to practice with.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Susan,
Yes. In general we’re usually either immersed in corporeality and forget about spirituality completely or we wake up a little from that state and realize that there is something called spirituality but that it’s concealed from us. That’s one of the first three states.
Revelation already depends on our connection with other points in the heart. If we build the right connection with them, then in that connection we’ll reveal spirituality.
It’s like each one of us is just a point, and that point is incapable of sensing spirituality. But if we connect those points together, it becomes like a net with which we can catch something. In that network between us is where we reveal spirituality. We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
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