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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…
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…
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.
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?
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).
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 :-))
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.😊
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
I have a very personal question regarding my prayer. I do not usually share personal issues but I wondered if my request is something that can be included with our upcoming Saturday live session, or perhaps not. This is very hard for me to ask in public but I will ask anyway.
Next week I will have oral surgery that will be somewhat extensive and very painful. Because I am unable to take medications I expect it will be severe pain for a while. And I have an underlying immune condition (fungal-coccidiomycosis) that can potentially kick in and make me very ill for 6 months or more and even be life-threatening at my age now. This is all due to a genetic dental problem from birth. I will do everything I can, but the pain will still be severe and the stress, physically and mentally, is an opportunity for the fungal meningitis to reappear.
I have been praying, pleading for help to get through it so I may take care of my home, my family of 7 rescue dogs, my husband, and my studies here. I am watching Gil speak of how illness can be helped with the right prayer. My surgery is on the 25th. I do not know if I will be able to finish week 5 and move forward but I must do this. I am so embarrassed to even ask, but I am asking. Is this a prayer that can be answered with my effort and my need, or is it just a this-life problem I was given and so must accept whatever happens? Thank you for an honest answer Gianni. I hope to make it on Saturday, but not with a camera as I am mostly toothless now and my ego is not happy. Thank you.
I can always ask my ten to pray for such a situation. I hope that it is an opportunity for them, to pray, to ask for another, and to unite. After all, this may impair your participation with them on the path. Toward the issue itself, if it’s already happening then it is beneficial to try to nevertheless justify the Creator, that there is none besides Him and that He is good and doing good, only I lack the senses to feel it yet.
So, I just want to retract this request as I just realized that the format on Saturday is not what I had anticipated.
Thank you Gianni. I am so grateful to be here, to have learned, and felt, as the point in my heart has grown. I am different from the person I was when I first came here and my prayer is truly in my heart, mostly without words, and mostly for my family, my friends on the groups I manage online, a prayer for strength to deal with it and get through it. And although I am afraid I somehow feel that ‘this time’ will be different because of the love of the Creator. And because of the group, even though I don’t really have one I do have the other students, and the instructors, and my books. So many books. A prayer for my strength and ability to come back to the Creator in your minyon would be welcome. I have procrastinated this surgery for a long time but I must do it. I will tell you a funny story. I had already started KabU and had just gone through a beginning lesson about losing your ego. That night while I was flossing my teeth the floss went right through the cemented bridge on both sides and down it went into the sink. I was toothless. I looked in the mirror and laughed. Toothless old hag! I stood there with a funny grin and said my thanks to the Creator for confirming my lesson. My heart is with Kabbalah. My heart is here.
This really doesn’t have too much to do with the lesson. However, I thought I’d mention the fact that I’m starting to have Kabbalah dreams in which I’m having revelations that I just can’t hold onto, fully when I wake I suppose I need to start writing this down wouldn’t you think? One was on the voyages of Sir Francis Drake around 1524 when he’s sailing through the straits of Magellan and just thinking of how far society has come since the 1500s as far as technological advances and the fact that society itself technology is all becoming more and more novel and complicated in the physical world, I kind of imagine that the same evolution of man would be going on inside man himself,  in relation to the ALL. It’s just completely trippy and awesome that in the last 400 years we have come so far on this planet, and I would imagine what we materialize on the planet as far as technology and progress, would be in relation or be equal to where we are spiritually. If that being the case seems like humanity is evolving, exponentially fast and I would imagine spiritually we would be doing the same. What do you think?
Our “advancement” in our world is more correctly an indication of the changes we need to go through now, and in the end, when we see ourselves in a few years we’ll see that we have not advanced since this world was made not for us to discover continents and technology, but to use this reality as a stair to the Upper World. We’ll realize that we’re medieval, stunted, brutes and that all the true advancement is ahead of us.
No, we don’t have something like that in the wisdom of Kabbalah, to write down our dreams. Our dreams are simply the filing of files into a filing cabinet when during the day I did not know how to organize correctly the various stimuli in my experience – meaning in a spiritual manner. Therefore, I don’t need to delve my dreams to advance spiritually.
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