Preparation Prompt: In Kabbalah, our primary task is to draw the reforming light, which supplies all we require for spiritual progress. Moreover, it’s said that aiding others accelerates our own spiritual ascent. How does this dynamic operate? What does supporting fellow seekers with a spiritual inclination entail?

[Julian Edwards- KabU Instructor]

Preparation Prompt: In Kabbalah, our primary task is to draw the reforming light, which supplies all we require for spiritual progress. Moreover, it’s said that aiding others accelerates our own spiritual ascent. How does this dynamic operate? What does supporting fellow seekers with a spiritual inclination entail?

[Ronny Cervantes]

Helping others in their spiritual work is the most important and the only work that we are tasked to do here. This is called Great light work. For us to understand what the light is and to help others find the light in them. Any form of spiritual work is the work of the creator through us and we must fulfill it. This must give us joy to be in the light and greater joy to help the world achieve this light.

[Hannah]

From looks of the video, it maybe means keeping our mouths shut and our hearts open.  Looks terrifying.  (I’ve been in groups of another religion where people did the staring and hugging thing a lot,  it doesn’t associate to anything good now for me I fear, due to what ended up happening in those groups).

I do understand about relating in spirit beyond the body and ego, I’m just apprehensive about methods sometimes.

 

[Johan]

when we aid others we aid ourselves

[Leyah Lynette Evol]

Shalom 🙂

We’ve all attained different levels of Spiritual growth based on experiences others are completely unaware of.  If we operate from the premise that every experience is happening for me and not to me … then the presence of every person I encounter is Divinely preordained and represents an opportunity for teaching or learning or both.  Authenticity, humility, kindness and love are required to give and receive light.

[N/a]

Aiding others for the purpose of spiritual ascent is about working together to develop a deeper understanding of our reality and a stronger desire to learn more.  Working in a group facilitates the sharing of knowledge and ideas about our understanding of our reality from our study of Kabbalah which may expose limitations with our own thinking on the one hand and affirm current points of knowledge on the other.  Group work also brings like-minded individuals together with an identical intention to connect to each other which helps reveal the Creator within our little community.

[N/a]

True altruism at the human level entails placing the needs of others ahead or our own.  Altruism ultimately requires faith in others based on the same degree of faith in oneself.  Faith in oneself is a function of knowing and fully accepting who we are in our Creator, that we are already whole and complete and have no particular needs of our own.  Our only intention is to extend our peace to our brothers and sisters, which enables one to keep his/her peace.  One’s only intention, therefore, is to connect to others through a single unifying thought by receiving others just as they are without trying to change anyone and without wanting anything.  The aim is to use our vessel of reception to satisfy the needs and desires of others by adopting them as our own.

We are already endowed with the Creator’s Light.  We were created to receive the Light of God and we are, therefore, already filled with Light.  To draw the reforming Light is to realize we already have the Light within us, knowing it is the Light of the Creator which sustains us and renders us whole and complete, without any lack within ourselves.  This self-realization is made possible by what Kabbalah calls the point in the heart, which is our direct link to the upper world.  The wisdom of Kabbalah plays a vital role in helping us realize this about ourselves and teaches us that our one true function in life is to extend the love that we are onto the world, both within and outside of our group of ten through the development of a strong sense of community and desire to work together to cater for all of our basic needs.

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