Ask anything about week 4 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Julian Edwards- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 4 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Carly]

Hello,

Ok, everything is internal. So if I connect with you, I’m connecting to a piece of me that I placed outside of myself right?  And I don’t mean Carly, I mean the I that is me. So if I reconcile myself to you, In Me, then it’s like putting a piece of the puzzle in place. Because you are a piece of me that I was missing. Is this correct?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Carly, that’s correct.

[Carly]

Thank you, Gianni. I appreciate you all so much.

[Deborah Joplin]

Greetings!

I think, though I have done much of the reading about Galgata Eynaim and AHOP a few times, that I still might have some confusion about AHP. I had to redo the quiz question concerning what is included in AHOP, I was not thinking that the teachers and the studying of the books were part of AHP. Because they draw the Light to us, I thought of them as part of G.E. I am remembering now that the G.E. must send the Light to the AHP. So, am I understanding correctly that the teacher and books are AHP which draws the Reforming Light and the G.E. –the Upper Part of the Partzuf which must send the Reforming Light to the AHP?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Deborah,

I’m not sure which question you’re referring to, but it’s not important; these terms a flexible since we can’t really know who belongs to what, according to the root of their soul. I think it probably referred to our general degree vs. the Upper Degree. So on our degree we have friends on the path, some of which are teachers; books; and all together we’re uniting to try to reach the Creator, here called GE.

[Verena]

Hi, so now that I am almost through this course and a few more, it just dawns to me that this form of Spirituality, Kabbalah, is really fundamentally changing my perspective, and really different to anything I have learned so far. Now, I am wondering, if my understanding is correct, because if it is … it means a deep shift of perspective and deep inner change…

I wonder if you could please tell me if I got something very wrong in how I understood things, so that I know before I start walking into the totally wrong direction.

So thatś what I understood: In terms of Kabbalah, itś about the development of the whole of creation. We are just little fractals of this whole, and as such there is no point trying to advance our individual skills or even power, ask prayers for ourselves or our benefit,…because we are just these tiny little parts of the whole anyways. So we dońt inherit any power in ourselves or for ourselves, just like a cell is not sovereign of the body. In fact, there is no need for us to have more power, because creation is one whole, and all we are is a tiny piece. But what we may have  is the chance to develop a connection to the whole, and as such we may learn to direct our intention and energy towards the whole.

And if we want to develop, then it should be to develop our understanding and attainment of this , in benefit for the whole. Like an ant in an anthill or a bee in a beehive. And therefore, any prayer needs to contain that yearning and wish for the whole ,and not for us… and the later is not needed anyways, because the light of the upper force is as good as can be anyways, only we might not feel it from where we are. So, any development in this world as a human being should be directed towards understanding this system, overcoming that egoistic state of mind and heart again and again, and advance in really attaining this world of spirituality being …even while being just a tiny spark of creation. However, in connection with the other sparks, each correcting bits, it will develop the whole. And the more we learn to connect and correct, the more light we will feel.

OK, so hopefully that doesńt go too far astray. I feel quite overwhelmed (in a good way) with the change of perception this form of spirituality is asking…

[Verena]

Dear Gianni, thanks for letting me know… I am glad I am not heading into a totally wrong direction. 😊And a big thanks to everyone for all these wonderful courses and material. Itś really just so mindblowing, and I am impressed at how all these very life-changing content is presented in such a patient, and gentle way.🪷

Hopefully, itś not getting to bothering, but there is yet one more question that has been with me for the past weeks… and that is how to study correctly? So far, I just got this very rough overview, but I really tried to feel all the content, so I tried to be there with an open heart… and open my mind as much as I could… but I probably could go through the courses another ten times to memorize all the names and structures. It felt all right to do it this way,  more focusing on the experience than the cognitive process alone, but then I always wondered… what is the purpose of studying? What would be the right preparation… and what should be the goal?  You know, I would like to just use these ressources wisely…

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Verena,

We say “one studies where the heart desires,” so you could go through all these again – and no, you don’t really need to focus on memorization. Focus on the experience is better. They’re arranged sequentially. So, soon you’ll join the graduate program, and that’s where we dive more into the intentions and how to study. There’s no one, quick answer about how to study because the entire wisdom is how to position myself before the Reforming Light – with what thoughts, desires, intentions? Generally, we study with the intention to come closer to the Creator, which is the force of bestowal, which means to become like Him, since we come closer through Equivalence of Form, and not in any other way.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s a good, general overview.

[Verena]

Is there only conscious prayer or also unconscious prayer? I am just thinking of infants or children because of the analogy of the bond between mother and baby…is there any such thing as a natural , uneducated connection that those little ones can feel or draw? Or is this the stage where they feel just abandoned? I know birth is considered as being traumatic in itself partially because of the loss of overall protection and care… but how is it considered in terms of spirituality?

 

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We’re always in some prayer, but Kabbalah doesn’t take that into account. We don’t pray the prayer for connection of what’s broken (the shattered soul) that the Creator responds to.

Birth is a crisis because it’s a new state where the same connection with the Upper Degree is on a different level, no longer in the womb, but in the mother’s arms, and so on. In spirituality these degrees are called Ibur (impregnation), Yenicha (suckling), and later on there is Mochin (adulthood).

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, thanks so much for answering.  I think I got the second part of your answer, but I am afraid I didn´t understand the first part… “We don’t pray the prayer for connection of what’s broken (the shattered soul) that the Creator responds to.”

Why wouldn´t we pray for that? I understand we don´t pray for what we want or need for ourselves and others, and even less for being advantaged over others  – minding that the upper force has only “the good” in it and will provide us with what we need to grow (even if that may be rather the opposite of what we seek in our lives…). But why wouldn´t we pray for connection? I thought that is what it is about? I feel I am getting this totally wrong…  I thought a prayer is the yearning to be connected to the upper light, and if we address it to the upper force in terms of developing ourselves in order to understand and change ourselves towards this connection that´s a prayer? And if we address it to the upper force in terms of helping our friends develop in their journey, that is what will make the desire an then connection even stronger?  I am happy with any help to understand this :-))

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

I meant that we naturally request what is good for us, all the time. The request for connection or for others is not just not natural, but against one’s desire because the Shattering imparted a sensation of otherness and hatred for what is outside of me.

[Verena]

Hi Gianni, thanks so much for trying to clarify this. I feel my ego is still a bit stubborn here… itś really important to me, but I feel still a bit lost… because in fact I had understood that connecting my desire and maybe those of my group (if I have one)  on behalf of a friend, that yearning for him to progress, would be a Kabbalistic prayer. And that these desires can then connect and draw the light at some point. Is that right at all? Or, if praying for connection or for others is unnatural,… then probably I just got it totally wrong? Sorry, I really dońt want to be bothering, but I really just wish to understand this, because itś just crucial for me.😊

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

It’s correct to pray for the others to be connected, but it’s unnatural to do so; that’s why we need the wisdom of Kabbalah to give us such advice. Otherwise, we’d never think in that direction.

[Verena]

Thanks so much😊, now I got it 🦋

[Katherine]

Where do we find our group?

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Katherine,

The students here will be your group. You’ll get a focus group, called a ten, in the Grad Program.

[Johan]

Hi, this question is kind of personal. I am here with serious doubt. I asked on the other forum about Jesus and the devil ,because I know, since I started studying kabbalah, what an environment which is not useful can do. Right here ,right now, right this time, I am surrounded by (E) churches, which believe seriously about Jesus and stuff, they are in bunches, they yell, scream, and sometimes seem that what they are saying is true. What I would like to know is if I keep being immersed in such an environment, won´t I get contaminated by these kinds of ideology, behavior, ways and get disturbed?

thanks

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

We’re influenced more than we can imagine by every environment we enter. We can’t control the ones we have to be in like work and family. Beyond those related to these basic necessities, I can choose, and this is really my only free choice, and what determines my future.

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