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If everyone must reach the ultimate goal – of loving your friend as yourself, and being in equivalence of form with the creator – how about people that cannot mentally do this? People with mental disabilities or serious personality disorders or brain damage for instance. I understand that I must only focus on myself and my journey (for now) – but just wondering about Kabbalah’s view on this issue.
Avi,
Sure, you are right. And there are billions who barely have food.
So it is clear there is a big problem before us.
Many people it seems have no chance.
And all of this needs to come to focus us, that if somehow, over all of these thousands of generations a few people slowly awakened and look up and ask, “who am I?” “For what do I live?” Then we should feel how unique this is and engage in it with all of our powers. Then we will see why everything was arranged just for this and everything will come into harmony and there is no redundant part.
It’s like a village of children who need food. But first you must feed your children and then after they are fed you can move to nourish the world.
So let’s focus on what is in our hands now and see how as we change, our perception of the reality that we are in also changes and everything will come into correct focus.
Seth@KabU
It is a lot of material to cover. I wonder if it will be possible to go back absorption and understanding once the course is completed. I am trusting the process of concealment and revelaion to reach the level of what is mine is yours.
How do you practice bestowal or “love your neighbour as yourself”
When you see your friend or spouse in need and you try helping him/her, and it turns out that they are only taking advantage of you, how do I deal with that? Does mean that IÂ was not having the right intentions?
Lucy,
The kabbalists are very meticulous with this.
There is no such thing that kabbalist goes out and tries to love every person just like that.
A kabbalist starts with lighter corrections and moves to heavier correcitons.
And certainly a kabbalist implements love the other as yourself, inside the group of kabbalists who are studying the same sources together, drawing the light together and sharing the same goal.
To try to love someone in this way who is not in this flow with you, you will be taken advantage of.
First study and let the material enter you and work on you.
Later you will begin to experiment with this kind of love that we are learning about.
Seth@KabU
If god/the creator only wants to bestow, then why in the Torah does the lord ask for sacrifices and tangible things? If he is only able to give and his intention is only to give then why is he asking to receive?
Ricky,
It’s not an easy job to raise a dust to be a man who identifies the Creator and more than that comes to adhesion with Him.
All of these actions that we read about are inner operations that we perform. We identify different parts of our will to receive and we bring it to the common kli called the Temple.Rav Laitman explained: “We separate a small part from everything that you receive and symbolically burn it. Previously, some small part of the food was poured or burned, thereby showing that a person receives it not into his egoistic desire to receive, but into an altruistic desire to bestow, that he takes this food only in order to be healthy and do good deeds in his good health.
Everything that exists on the still, vegetative, and animate levels symbolizes the types of our egoistic desires, and depending on what we sacrifice, we seem to rise above different levels of egoism.
The highest is the animate level. If a person sacrifices it, it means that he can unite with other people above this level of egoism.”
All of the sacrifices and all the changes are on the part of the created being, the Creator does not change.
Seth@KabU
Helen,
The 613 originates from the 613 parts of our soul.
We learn in the wisdom of kabbalah that there are 613 deposits of light.
When we correct a part of our soul, that light that was intended to dwell there can dwell there, that is called that we performed a mitzvah and the Light of Torah filled that empty space.
You are correct that these are the same 613 mitzvot however performing an act with the hands and legs does not correct the soul but the outer garment of the mitzvot still exists in the people of Israel as a sign.
Seth@KabU
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