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I watched a video with Rav Laitman discussing God, me and others. What I’m struggling to understand – certainly I don’t feel it – is how to see and feel the good giving force of the Creator even in circumstances such as terminal illnesses, murders and any other extreme forms of suffering. Rav Laitman says seeing and feeling the good is not self-persuasion but self-building. Essentially it’s my process to gradually build the Creator’s qualities inside of me. I can grasp this concept but I find it hard to tell myself it’s all good when I see someone suffering due to a terminal disease or when I see so many people dying at war. What do you advise?
Right. If you tell yourself it’s good, you’ll be lying through your teeth. Nevertheless, I need to have faith in the Kabbalists who tell me that He is good and doing good, to both the good and the bad, and it is not as it appears in my eyes. At least you will then feel the gap between where you are and the correct perception, and work on your correction.
Thank you Julian for teaching me the true and powerful way of praying. The question I have is: how can I pray? Do I have access to kabbalistic prayers via KABU? Will the teacher walk me through these prayers?
Yes, but they aren’t going to be words because the Creator doesn’t hear words – He scans the heart. So, a prayer means arriving in your heart at a certain deficiency, and you also need to arrive at the deficiency that the Creator wants you to arrive at. Meaning, it’s like a parent that will give the child what he wants as long as it’s what the parents want to give. So, it’s more complex than just giving words to say.
Hello Instructor Julian,
An invitation to connect to a group was recommended in Lesson video 4.4; my question; is there a directory of the various group, so that one can access one and join online?
My understanding of kabbalah is to understand the thought of creation and adhere to the Creator. But, I’m having a hard time with a couple of things. First, I feel stuck, which I understand is part of the process. Then my ego also has this conversation about “how great could it really be? Imagine eternity as the same thing. What if it just starts all over again? Wouldn’t that be absolutely terrible having to do this again?”
And… that’s kind of a good point? Maybe I’m just frustrated at the stall and myself. But the idea of this continuing as a cycle over and over depresses me. Am I thinking too far ahead? What should I be focusing on/ doing right now?
We’re in the correction process. Like you have a car with all the pieces before you. When we connect them all, we can drive. The whole point is the driving. That part of the path isn’t really discussed in Kabbalah. Because it’s not right in front of us. What is, is the study, and you see that there are still some things you need to learn. Then in the grad program is the very practical work.
So replacing the egoistic intention clothed on a desire with an altruistic intention is not our job, it is the reforming light’s role in this process. Our role is to grow our desire (clothed in its egoistic intention) for the Creator, and in this way we attract the reforming light which, in turn, corrects the desire. Is this correct?
Those desires remain and we satisfy them in the ordinary way that we would have. Now, if you mean, “How do I practice Kabbalah with my friends and family? Meaning how do I realize the Kabbalistic practices of connection in the Kabbalistic group, but with my family members, etc.?” So, if that we’re possible, Kabbalists would not recommend the group but just tell students to work with those around them. First a person has to measure progress against a neutral background, one with which I have no preexisting reasons for association, as I do with anyone who is already in my life. The main thing stopping me from attaining spirituality is that I don’t fully feel myself as opposite to spirituality – and that is because I’ve never been in an environment in which accurate measurement can be taken. Until I – not just hear and believe – but feel how opposite I am, and hone in on exactly what I’m missing in order to reach the quality of the Creator, I won’t have a deficiency for it and thus won’t receive it. You have to have a group, and there are several more reasons why it can’t just be one’s family and friends.
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