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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
I have a question to understand the nature of bestowal in a practical context as per Kabballah. Is it more on inner work or also on the outside? or both? I was wondering if I usually help someone for example, financially and I always do it with good intentions, and with time that person take advantage of me by creating lies (e.g., I know it because I found that out) to take money advantage of me. How can bestowal be understood in this context? or what can I do in this situation?
Jul,
We exist in the corporeal world.
In this reality each and every action that is done is done for the sake of self benefit.
1. Search your heart and you will see that you give money to the other person because it makes you feel better or because you think it is the right thing to do, but it is always to fill yourself.
2. Know and understand that this is behavior to receive is how we are created. This is exactly how the Creator made us.
And this other person, I have no faith that this person has a corrected heart and just because you gave him money now he will be grateful and kind and even spread a good word about your generosity.
In truth bestowal is an inner, spiritual action and we are far from it.
Actions like you performed are excellent exercises to develop the quality of bestowal however we start that work in the group of kabbalists where each one is studying the same sources and making efforts to do the same thing towards each other in a network called arvut (mutual guarantee).
Be happy that you are seeing the true nature of reality, it is the perfect springboard to your next steps of development, no one would have been able to explain these things to you better than when you experience all of these emotions on your own skin.
Seth@KabU
Is it necessary for one to study and understand hebrew language?
I had understood that there was no speaking in the spiritual world, but only ones thoughts are understood.
Malcolm,
There are no spiritual mouths and throats and tongue, those are material things
Regarding learning Hebrew, it will help you in your study but is in not necessary for you, certainly not now.
What is important now regarding the Hebrew is to familiarize yourself with the main words that we use. In math, we use Greek, for example “delta” means change between two things and “sigma” means sum. Same with medicine which uses Latin and Greek (aorta, corpus, etc.). Botany also…
So the language of the wisdom of kabbalah is Hebrew. So just as if you were a doctor or a botanist you’d need to know some terms, as a kabbalist, you’ll need to know Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut, etc..
Later depending on your desire and how deep you want to go, you’ll be able to go deeper into all these things.
Seth@KabU
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