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?

[Julian Edwards- KabU Instructor]

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?

[Matthew]

by helping others meaning a group of 10 or a spouse who also is a kabbalist like myself the idea of attaining the light in groups is to grow and bestow on each other to pray as a group and to bounce off each other feelings  so that together we grow and attain the light.

[Stephanie]

It means receiving in order to give to others – and by doing so we are then allowing them to receive in order to give – this also highlights the interconnection between us all

[Jonathan]

It means to see their desires as my own, and connect with them above my ego.

[Mo]

it means to put o your friends desire above yours and show up for the others even if you don’t feel it

[David the Bruce]

I mean this just makes good sense to me.  We are here to learn to change the desire to receive for the self alone into the desire to receive for the sake of sharing.   So we are to become less selfish and more altruistic, to become like the Creator.   So I focus on helping the other…it takes my focus off of myself…and the beauty is i advance as a result.

[Deborah Joplin]

At this point in time, I am processing the internality and externality of the Collective Soul. The Creator being behind my friend and behind me places me in the middle. The work, right now is to sense the Creator in the midst of interactions with my friend, and to realize that my mind wants to perceive my friend as “other,” but, actually, being fragments of one soul means that my friend is  seemingly external, but is actually self. The opportunity to overcome the progressive Reshimot that are evoked by the interactions between the friends in the path, draws the light to us, causing us to advance.

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