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Hello. I’m just starting week 4, and as great as the first three weeks have been, this week’s intro video from Tony is just awesome. There’s so much information in that twenty odd minutes.
Up to this point, the course has felt very…”introductory”, which is fine. I could tell, be the number of times the same basic concepts were explained, that the designers of the course wanted to be very sure that these key concepts were well understood before moving on.
But that “point in the heart” in me is awake, and eager to learn. I was feeling that itch, growing inpatient, wanting more. And then…
BAM. This amazing video. This is the good stuff. I’m excited. Let’s go!
Are we looking to attempt to create this screen within us that Tony has discussed at this stage or are we better to leave this for later, once we have studied further and in groups?
How can one be certain of achieving Behina Dalet? If one is to feel these things in order to know them, how can one be certain they are actually feeling the target goal, and not just imagining it, or perhaps feeling commonplace euphoria rather than the actual attainment?
This sentence intrigues me: From there emerged what is called the thought of creation, to create a creature and to bestow endless good upon it.
My question: Is the creator bestowal always “good”? What is the meaning of good in Kabbalah? What is the “nature” of the light and can it be “good” or “bad” and does it give us only pleasure?
Because we receive many things in life, diseases, pain, sadness, etc, we don’t want to receive those things, because our nature is to move toward pleasure. Are those things part of the light and can they be called “good” and “pleasure”? How does that fit into our desires to receive only pleasure?
Thank you
Nuria,
Everything emanating from the Creator is called “good”.
The extent that we don’t receive it as good, is the exact measure of how far we are from that state called “good”.
If we receive something “not good”, it in no way affects the source of that thing which emanated from the Creator as good.
Look at our lives in for example a historical context.
What good could you possibly receive as a newborn?
The newborn does not even perceive itself, so just to be fed, to be cleaned and to sleep is sufficient.
Then we became teenagers and we wanted a boyfriend or a girlfriend, a little money to spend on the weekend.
But a teenager didn’t want a low interest rate mortgage and second home on the sea.
Now, stretch that back 100,000 years, what did our primitive ancestors want? Shelter and a piece of meat.
So the desire needs to grow in order for the Creator to be able to fill us, eventually with endless delight.
And this is a long process with many discernments until we come to realize that I cannot satisfy my ego and that I come on my own to a realization that I need Him. That is the reason for all of the discomfort, just to push us to Him, just so we will eventually feel that it is all separation from Him.
Seth@KabU
As far as I understand, the original intention of the Creator was to create a Creature able to be as Him: the way to learn, or better, to know, I mean to esperience and become it (Creature side) is feasible only via this Path.
Is it correct? PS pls forgive my English, I am Italian🙏). Thank you so much!Manuela,
We received a method from Baal HaSulam whereby a normal person like us, not a special “Moses” of the past, but a modern person like us, living in this world can learn who she is, what are the forces operating on us and how we can rise to the spiritual degrees, to the qualities of the Creator.There is an expression, “there are many paths to the place”, so maybe you can find some other place. I searched for many years and did not find another one that was so clean and with a clear method.
You have free choice to discover this for yourself.
Seth@KabU
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