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Preparation Question: Our entire work in Kabbalah is only to attract the light that reforms. By this we receive everything we need for our advancement. Furthermore, I’m told that if I will help the others, I will advance myself even more towards spirituality. How does this work? What does it mean to help the others, those with the point in the heart, on the spiritual path?
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In Kabbalah, the main objective is to attract the light that brings about spiritual transformation. This light is believed to provide everything necessary for our personal growth and advancement. However, it is said that if we also assist others on their spiritual paths, our own progress towards spirituality can be accelerated even further.
To help others in this context refers to supporting individuals who share a similar aspiration for spiritual development, often referred to as having the “point in the heart.” This assistance can be offered through various means such as sharing knowledge, providing guidance, offering emotional support, or engaging in acts of kindness and compassion.
By helping others, we engage in a reciprocal exchange where the act of giving promotes a deeper connection to the light. We increase the flow of this light, it not only benefits those we aid but also elevates our own spiritual state. This connection between helping others and personal advancement is based on the understanding that we are all interconnected and part of a greater whole.
It is through these acts that we strengthen our connection to the transformative light and deepen our understanding of the spiritual path.
I think that if I will help the others (not for the sake of receiving but from a genuine desire to help) it will make me be more like the creator (pure bestowal) and so it’ll advance me toward my spirituality.
As per the meaning of helping the others – I guess it means listen to them, understand them by trying to put myself in their places , share with them my thoughts and views and be there for them if they need help with anything that I can help with.
It means to be there for the others, and to pray with them, and for them, for what they need when they need it. I will seek to put the others in my group before myself because that is how important I think our work together is. Of course, we do it for ourselves, we want to grow and get close to the Creator, but more importantly, we also do it because we want the best for the world, and that means we do it for the Creator, His wish is our wish, so how could we fail?
Knowing that my friends in the Ten (or Group, or Lab) have the same goal as I do, which is to grow the Point in the Heart and attain Equivalence of Form with the Creator, makes it possible for me to put them before myself. I can do this because this is how important it is to me. That may be egoistic, but I will use my ego to bestow good on my friends.
I will have to keep reminding myself that everybody else is here for the same thing that I am here for. Our egos will get triggered, so it is important to remember that what we want is about the Creator more than anything else.
PS. I still have trouble understanding the Free Choice thing because I truly cannot see how I could choose any differently than what I do. It’s something I will continue to work with, and I’m sure that I’ll understand, eventually. 🙂
I ve now completed week 4, so have a different answer than below.
The work we are about to begin, in groups of ten, has a very serious implication & responsibility to it. It means we will be attempting to bring into the open all our “evil inclinations”, and correct them. When as a group we have succeeded in genuinely putting the needs of the whole above our individual egos, THEN, we together attract the reforming light. At this point, I suspect we will be very different people from who we are now.
We will be Kabbalists, and a small part of the reformation of Adam HaRishon. WOW!
I imagine, as Julian has warned us, it will be a very painful process ! In my small N0n-Violent-Communications group, I ve just undergone exactly this. My personal preview ! And I was SURE I was in the right – until I gave up and went for the over-all intention of compassionate communication. I m guessing this sort of – nightmare, really, – will be enacted many times over before we as a group arrive at the Reforming Light. And when we ve done it, we’ll KNOW.
Good journey, my friends !
So it’s a symbioses of a sort. Where if one advances, everyone advances. If one advances in the hope that others advance, he will advance greater and others to the same degree.
My question is, what is the caveat ?
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