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.

[Hooman]

Could you please explain Aviut a little more?

I am a bit confused as to how Aviut is used in the “Preface To The Wisdom of Kabbalah” and the definition given in “Whose Reality Is Reality”

“We must understand this cleansing, which we achieve through Torah and Mitzvot, and what is the Aviut (thickness/coarseness/will to receive) within us, which we should cleanse using Torah and Mitzvot.” (from Preface To The Wisdom of Kabbalah)

“Kabbalists have a name for the will to receive—Aviut. Aviut actually means thickness, not desire. But they use this term because the greater the will to receive, the more layers are added to it.” (from Whose Reality Is Reality).

Is it correct to say that we should use Torah and Mitzvot to “improve” Aviut or our will to receive?

 

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Hooman,

Aviut is a the degree of selfish desire that separates a person from the Creator.
A simple person who lives simply with no big desire and no ambition cannot attain much but a person in whom his ego is great,  the great ego separates a person from the Creator.   We use this desire as a lever to recognize what the Creator made and how to approach the Creator.
Seth@KabU

[Hooman]

Could you please let me know if I am understanding this concept correctly?

There are 4 categories to perception:

A.      Matter

B.       Form in matter

C.       Abstract form

D.      Essence

I have learned that in studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, we should only focus on Matter and Form in matter since Abstract form and Essence are prohibited because we cannot perceive them, we have no knowledge or tools to understand them.

When we talk about the “Equivalence of Form” with the Creator, is this “Form” the same as Form as part of the Form in matter mentioned above (different levels of perception)?

Obviously, the Creator has no matter and since it is prohibited to study Abstract form and the Essence of the Creator, we can only perceive His Form in the form of the Light that he bestows upon us.

I am wondering if these Forms are the same, Equivalence of form with the Creator as a way to perceive Him through his light.

Thank you

Hooman

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Hooman,
It won’t work to try and out smart the kabbalist or find some loophole in what they wrote.
The kabbalists are writing to us from their attainment.
It’s like an optical illusion, we think we are seeing something, but in actuality it is something else.
When we are working with the texts, we try to calibrate what we are seeing with what the kabbalists are seeing, by this we reformat ourselves to see reality through spiritual vessels.

The form of the Creator is to bestow.
Our matter is the will to receive.
The form of our matter is also in order to receive.  We receive with the intention to receive.
We can’t change our matter, which is a will to receive, but we can change our form that we will receive in order to bestow contentment upon the Creator.  In that we can become like Him, our form and His form will be the same.
Seth@KabU

[Purity K]

Did The Creator intend for the creature to reject the Creator’s light?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Ruth,
The Creator made it like this in order that the creature would be able to feel itself and from that feeling to attain the Creator.
Seth@KabU

[Purity K]

I am still learning. Thank you.

[Abe Tapia]

The lesson was awesome.  With this kind of lessons,  I will learn kabbalah. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Abe Tapia]

At what point in the learning process of kabbalah will I be in a 10.

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Abe,
After these first few preparatory semesters, students are given the opportunity to work with a 10.

Seth@KabU

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