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If the reshimot lead you back to the ascent of the ladder , starting , i guess, with the point in the heart, how do we expand the need to find the next step (degree). Are there signposts on the way? Is it about the thickness of the screen?
Are the 125 degrees contained of the 613 mitzvot? Is it clear at each stage what is expected to bestow?
I hope these questions are clear for you. Thanks in advance for the reply.
Paul,
Very good question, nice discernments. Actually very similar to Michael and Henry’s questions below.
If you have kids, you can understand this concept very well.  Tell a teenager to put on a jacket, they say, I’m not cold. You however know that in 30 minutes the teenager will be cold, because you in your wisdom were also once a teenager and also a 20 year old and 30 year old, so you’ve seen this rodeo a few times and you know in 30 minutes he will be cold.
Or tell them to eat dinner because they will be hungry later. And they say no, and then you get in the car and …”Dad, I’m hungry”.It’s not that you can tell the future, it’s just that at our current degree, we can’t see the next degree, so if we are wise, we will seek out those that have reached what we want to reach and we will see what they did and what they recommend.
Of course, we don’t know where these spiritual degrees are, we are the teenager who doesn’t feel cold. It is cold and he will feel cold, but in his current perception, he doesn’t feel it.
The mitzvot are corrections that we make upon spiritual desires, that happens after we are on the ladder of degrees. The numbers are not so important now as we the numbers speak mostly of qualities and it’s not worthwhile to spend time sorting out all kinds of numbers, because, once you feel the cold yourself, for example, you will know what cold feels like and understand to put the jacket on. So our main think is to approach the method and organize ourselves in simple ways, do leave behind all kinds of confusions that we brought here with us about what is spiritual and what is not spiritual and all kinds of imaginations that cause us to waste a lot of time until we clean ourselves of them.All in all, we are talking about natural laws. A baby does not sit in a classroom memorizing words, but she learns to speak. It’s a wonder. And that is like us. Mostly our work now is to be absorbed in the influence of the upper one, the light, the sources, the spiritual environment that I am making around me so that I can live my normal life and also in my internalilty, I’m starting to build a place where in addition to paying taxes and buying groceries and dealing with difficult people at work, I’m also building a new perception. At once, I am the teenager and the parent. I don’t feel cold, but I already start to understand that what I feel and what is the truth are different things.
I feel according only to my will to receive pleasure, that determines my perception of reality. And I want to acquire a new perception that includes the endless reality, the endless fulfillment.
When we have the opportunity to invest in raising the importance of our spiritual goal, then we do it as much as we can. Then the Creator adds thickness to us and then we raise the good connection again and like this we approach the ladder, left, right, left, right.
Seth@KabU
How can I tune in to receive from the root when in this reality (in my false reality) everything is a polarity of it ? Just imagine telling a mango seed that it’s going to become a tree when in reality it has no idea that it must die before it becomes a tree.
How can that seed conceive and believe the thought that it is going to become a tree when there are no traces or proofs to show that it actually came out of a mango tree.
I hope my question was amply asked I’m really having a hard time conceiving this reality.
Michael,
On the one hand, you continue to live your life in this world, with work and family and health and on the other hand you continue to read and study what the kabbalists write to us. We are like that mango seed but, we have the plan of creation in our hands. To the extent that we can appreciate and make this treasure great in our eyes, to that extent we will get the strength to listen deeper and deeper. And time after time you will feel how you are advancing and then you invest more and make the treasure great again in your eyes, and again you will get powers to rise.
Seth@KabU
Dear Tony, thank you for the very interesting lesson about the screen. How do we actually do it in real life? For example, let’s say I trade & invest in the share market. Earning a profit make me happy. So how can I apply the Screen here? What should be my thought/intention so that my receive (profit for myself) becomes giving? Thank you!
Hi Henry,
Actually the Upper Light performs these actions.
Our work is always on the side of the vessel.
We arrange our lives, we invest in the spiritual society so that these new discernments, new reshimot all awaken and again we get up again and again and build this connection and this structure inside of us and then when we do this, the light fills this kli.Unlike a yoga pose or a meditation technique that you can do something with your hands and feet, we are learning about something that has to do with the heart. How can we change the heart from wanting to receive for itself?
There is no problem to earn a living or even to be successful. On the other hand a person can be simple worker in the street and spiritually they can come to similar degrees.
Regardless of what we do in our animal life, that is what it is called, the level of “animate”, so above that is where we can enter a spiritual perception.
In real life, you will learn the fundamentals of the wisdom of kabbalah and after that be organized in a small group with other students and then you will begin the inner work in two lines and then three lines and then you will be on your way.
Seth@KabU
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