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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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it means to care for the other as if the other is you, is a part of you. it means to take on the others desires as your own desires and work with the others in a lab with the elements we need to grow and do the experiments we need to do in order to advance. connecting with those other points in the heart builds the vessel to receive that light and bestow it to the whole body. the way all of this works is by books, the teacher, and the lab/group. it’s similar to the “no man left behind” concept, if not the very same just in a spiritual context.
I don’t like the idea of helping only those with points in the heart. Probably because I don’t know any of them. I’ve seen them in videos, read their writings, but they are still distant from me. I hope that Bnei Baruch succeed in their prayers, may be that is some sort of a connection.
But then I go back to my “real” life and I have to do actions with “real” people. Those without points in the heart. Those whom I love. I owe them my point in the heart, the Creator sent them to help me. I am not leaving them, just because they are different from me. Is that my egoism????
So I want to learn how to pray for everybody, not only those in Bnei Baruch. In order to do that, I have to connect to those, who want the same as me and learn the method of praying. Like children, who usually play best with their friends in the same age, because they have the same interests, are on the same level and face similar challenges.
I suppose, that once I get to know the people with points in their hearts, I will want them to succeed, just as much as I want it for my “real” people. And when they advance, I will want to connect with them on the higher level, so I also have to rise.
I could just imagine that by helping others, meaning, annulling myself with the work within a Ten, then I could help greater to the entire world, rather than just trying to be nice with my neighbor within the material/corporeal world.
As I understand it, in this world, I got to take care of myself. The Rab himself says: If there’s someone in front of you trying to kill you, and if you can, kill him/her first. Because in this world we are merely animal beings living under the status/state of survival.
It is exactly like now in regard to the war. I live in Sweden together with my Danish wife, and there’s really quite little we can do about it.
My wife has already been a part of a Ten for a year ago, as well as my father who lives in Mexico. So what we do the three of us, is to try to raise a prayer once a day and in spite of the time difference. We start by annulling ourselves knowing and accepting that we are the smallest ones, and then we raise prayer not for us, but for the rest of humanity, the ones in need, the ones suffering the war, and for the ones making the war.
As we (the three mentioned people), like everybody else is coping with daily as well as personal challenges, there are things for which we will like to ask that regards personal needs. And again, instead of asking for ourselves, we set that need for the whole of humanity, so that all of those who find themselves as well coping with those challenges, can be heard by The Creator, and not only us, because we know that, that is just impossible.
We hope that we are doing something right because we don’t mean bad. This is how I could answer your question Julian.
I do not have experiential knowledge to answer these questions. Currently I am going on faith that what I am learning in studies will soon translate into my everyday experience. I think by coming together with other points in the heart with shared goal of attracting the upper reforming light we are able to form a vessel to attract and receive the light. As each of us are part of the same vessel then what happens to one happens to all that are part of the vessel.
I think it means that we need to feel in the desires of others and identify with it, since we are already there anyway.
There is nothing else besides Him. We are taught that the only way to make progress is to connect to others above our reason with the bridge of love if we want to attract the reforming light for the whole group. Reminds me of the mathematical game theory of John F. Nash Jr. We are taught now that in Kabbalah practicing love and acceptance above reason does not just make us all winners in the group but that it attracts much more powerful reforming light to the system as a whole. It becomes true bestowal. Can’t wait to get there in my current study.
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