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Daniela,
The entire system is one, whole, integral system. So, we can say that everything is connected to everything.
The four phases are 1, 2, 3, 4 and their root phase.
Those phases will be the four worlds and their root.
In those four worlds and their root are the 5 partzufim and in there are the 5 sefirot.5 worlds x 5 partzufim x 5 sefirot = 125 degrees
Seth@KabU
Seth,
When you say that “from the side of the creature, from the vessel, it is a step by step process in order that the creature will feel itself as independent”, is this the creature independently thinking or is it the Creator’s doing.? I am very green in the subject of Kabbalah. I apologize if my question seems silly.
Nancy,
As a kabbalist we have to get used to holding two opposites in our hands.
On the one side we have what we perceive and we have to live with that, this is how the Creator made it and it is made this way on purpose. So we feel that it is us learning to walk, it is us learning to ride a bike, it is us learning math and building relationships.
We will discover that it is all Him. No one will leave a baby laying on the floor, the parents will teach her to walk, so did the baby have a choice? And also, it’s built into each of us that we start lifting our head and eventually crawling and then pulling ourselves up, so even without anyone around, our nature pushes us to get up.
And in each and everything we will discover that I had to do every action, to feel that it is in my efforts to do, but I realize in the end that He did everything.
Imagine children playing on the beach. They feel free in the sand and running back and forth to the water. But who is watching over them, the parents. Who dressed them in the morning, the parents, everything is thanks to the parents, but the children feel independent, absorbed in their play.
We are the same.
Seth@KabU
Cabinet,
The screen is something that comes from above, meaning that it is a natural process in our spiritual development.
However, unlike hunger or puberty which we don’t need to do anything in order for those natural processes to develop, regarding spirituality, we need to develop our desire for it as it says, there is no light without a kli, so our work is in again and again renewing the importance of spirituality, more and more drawing the reforming lights that surround our soul through the study of the books of the kabbalists and the work in the kabbalistic group.
Seth@KabU
Okay, this is where I am struggling to understand things:
If Creation started with “The Thought of Creation”, I assume the Thinker in this context is G_D.
Neuroscientists have shown us that we are not the creator of our own thoughts, because they see brain activity before there is awareness of the thought.
We, creatures, cannot give either, because reception is our substance (will to receive).
So, we are not in control of many things.
When I am reading that understanding Kabbalah depends on our intention? What is INTENTION, and do we have control over that?
Mark,
We are a desire to receive.
That is the only thing that the Creator created.
And not only us. All of creation is made of one single matter, that matter is the ‘will to receive pleasure’.
Over billions of years the will to receive pleasure has developed according to four phases (yud-hey-vav-hey), they are:
inanimate
vegetative
animate
speakingOn the previous three stages of development, there is only the will to receive pleasure.
On our degree, the speaking degree, we desire to receive pleasure at the expense of others. That is our intention, our intention is not simply to receive, but each one’s intention is that he wants to receive at the ether’s expense.
This is how nature developed us and we don’t have control over that.We suffer from bestowing upon others, but the Creator enjoys from bestowing,
He gets pleasure from bestowing. We should be like Him.
We should get pleasure from bestowing.
So we ask Him to change our heart, to be in equivalence of form with Him.
Place in our heart the intelligence to do all the words of your Torah with love, not by coercion.
Seth@KabU
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