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

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

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

[Vivian]

Hi.  In the next “Interact” section, there is a statement for which I would like clarification, but there is no question text box, so I hope it is okay to ask this here.

It says:  In Kabbalah, the two forces that must not connect directly are the force of the Creator (+, bestowal, positive) and the force of the Creature (-, reception, negative). If they connect directly there’s a short-circuit right away. What we call “life” is in fact the result of such a short-circuit.

Does this mean we will never connect?  We will always have only a third-party aspect between us, but no direct contact?  Upon correction, when the shattering is unified back to our original state, we will still not be able to connect?  I can see the consequence of connection of opposites, but if we gain the ability to bestow to the Creator, will He expand to express the ability to receive in order to accept our gift of bestowal and “receive” contentment, and therefore we would attain together a new expansion that brings us into the equivalence (rather than opposite) of form, and allow for connection (or perhaps unification)?

Please also offer definitions for “connection” and “life” from the perspective of the Upper World, as I may be coloring what I think I am reading by thinking with “This World” terms rather than “Upper World” understanding.

Thank you!

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Vivian,

There is an addition to the explanation.

We will remain a desire to receive since this is what the Creator wants. He wants to give abundantly to us.

However by receiving we become opposite from Him.
But we will learn about correcting our intention. If we receive, not for the sake of our ego, but in order to give contentment to the Creator than our act of receiving is truly an act of bestowal. We only receive because it gives Him contentment, not because of our ego.

This world is what is depicted to us by our corporeal senses. The Upper Worlds are what we perceive with vessels of bestowal (not vessels of reception), that is called Life.
Seth@KabU

[Vivian]

Thank you!

[Assana Colubali]

For now, the things I have been learning are clear to me, so I will present them whenever I have a doubt.

[Dan Benedikt]

Sorry, but I think one thing is not clear for me yet… Are we and our material world in Malchut? Or are most of us still struggling to achieve a real sensation of spirituality?
Is Malchut purily spiritual?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Dan,
Great question.
The nature of our reality is not very clear to us.
To us it seems 100% real.
Maybe it’s like a child who goes on an airplane to go on vacation with his family.
He gets packed, he goes on the plane, puts on his seatbelt, lands in a warm place, enjoys the beach and the pool.
But what does he know about how the airplane was made, and who went to work to purchase the tickets for the flight.
The child is at the tail end of everything and his life feels real, but everything has been set before him with no free choice or participation at all in the world he lives, only to go along with what is.  Nevertheless, he feels this is his life and he doesn’t know there is something else.
The kabbalists tell us that we are at the very bottom of the world of Assiyah.
Anyway, we perceive our world according to our senses.  Our senses are all aimed at ourself and we therefore depict a world in our mind that I end where my skin ends, past my skin there is the outside world.
This is called corporeal perception.
Seth@KabU

[Carly]

Is it necessary to go through each phase or can one be skipped over? And if one cannot be skipped and a person seems to have skipped a phase will they need to go back and begin again?

Also, is this always a conscious process or can it be going on without a person even realizing it?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Carly,
Don’t worry, we are all incorporated with each other and others are making corrections for you and you corrections for them, since as we will reveal that we are all organs of the same body.
We are consciously making a lot of efforts, however since what we are aiming for us is above us and we don’t yet know what that is, in that sense we are born into spirituality unconscious, like a baby born into our world.
Seth@KabU

[Verena]

Hi, I think this has been answered, but just making sure I got it right: I understand that the 4 phases of light (0-4)  in evolutionary terms cover the time from BIG BANG to human. And I understand, that these phases still also can be reflected in all other parts of creation… (and thatś exactly my question, because for me it feels to be like it),.. Would that mean that for example in embryology, growing and maturing of a a child, as well as emotional development in the single human being these phases can be reflected? OR is it different for human beings, so that they would always be at the beginning of stage 4. I am just wondering, because from mere comparison with life, I would say that phases 0-4 in terms of physical andemotional (not spiritual) growth are a common phenomenon and challenges to human development, especially in terms of psychological development.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Verena,
The 4 phases of direct light are before the big bang, before time and space.
These phases are what emanate and are created out of the world of Ein Sof, where the Upper Light filled all of reality, simply, boundlessly.
Everything in reality is built of this structure.
Seth@KabU

[Susan]

What was the purpose of man’s flesh being created?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Susan,
Everything in this world is built from the upper structure.
Here is an excerpt from one of Baal HaSulam’s introductions that we will study later on together,
“Yet, this extension from Ein Sof in Partzuf AK does not fill the whole of reality as prior to the restriction. Rather, it is discerned with a Rosh and a Sof [end]: From above downward, its light stops at the point of this world, which is the concluding Malchut, as in the verse, “His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives.” And also from within outward, since as there are ten Sefirot KHB TM from above downward, and Malchut concludes the AK from below, so there are ten Sefirot KHB TM from within outward, called marrow, bones, tendons, flesh, and skin [Mocha, Atzamot, Gidin, Bassar, and Or]. The skin is Malchut, which ends the Partzuf from the outside. In that respect, Partzuf AK is considered a mere thin line compared to Ein Sof, which fills the whole of reality. This is so because the Partzuf of skin ends it and limits it from all sides, from the outside, and it cannot expand and fill the entire restricted space. Thus, only a thin line remains standing in the middle of the space.”

Seth@KabU

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