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I’m not sure, We understand the meaning of Freedom because freedom doesn’t mean the same thing for everyone. The Creator is the only one who can help us understand the meaning freedom because, He gave us that choice. I believe we can acquire it only through him and by understand his purpose for our existence here below.
The search functionality on the library at Kabbalah.info seems to be broken. Is it just broken in my browser, or I should try to report it to someone?
Hi Logynn,
That website is in the process of a major overhaul. Until then you should use the library in the Kabbalah Media website.
Albert @ KabU
I was looking for a quote from Unlocking the Zohar (which I only have an audio copy of.)
It was about how the Creator punishes egoistic behavior.
(Context for my use of the word punishment: So, we are 100% made of egoism, but the universe cannot exist by egoistic principle. So the whole arc of reality is the Creator prodding us as gently as possible, while remaining hidden, towards this realization and the process of learning how to conform to the law of bestowal so that we can use our egoistic nature in a way that is harmonious with reality, and then we can have all the agency of using those laws. And it seems like all this is saying that in the end the Creator clothes completely in me, so I am the one instigating all these “punishments” in order to draw myself through this maze. I understand punishment in that context.)
In this passage it describes the ways the Creator prods people. It says that He always will “strike a person” in their body first, so that it is private between them and the Creator and “no one will know” that person is being struck. And then if that doesn’t work He strikes them “beneath their clothes.” I don’t know what that means, but I think it’s a more overt punishment, but not one that others can see or understand that person is experiencing a punishment. And if that does not work the Creator “strikes them in the face.” Which is a punishment that is public and everyone can see that person is not currently “loved by their master.”
I think this might be a description of how the Creator is trying to communicate with us when we are not making spiritual progress fast enough to stave off bigger punishments. He sends us internal (health and discomfort) punishments to get us to remember Him and turn to him internally. I think maybe other people skip relatively quickly past the internal punishments to the public ones of having a hard life, because their attitude is such that the process of punishment is faster and harder.
My question is kind of personal, and it is if that is the reason why my sister and I have so many health problems?
She is the only other person in my life who sees reality the same way I do. We have always had this secret dynamic of supporting each other in taking huge risks based on faith. And because of this we do very well from a material standpoint. We are able to do a lot of risky activism and treatments of cases and we succeed at that, even in a lot of scenarios where it’s like David vs Goliath and you’d think we’d be obliterated every time. (It’s really scary for our mom to watch, lol.) But we are always fine.
Except we both have chronic health problems that are like a wave we are always trying to surf and could crash over us at any moment. Hers are especially intense and scary. I understand the ways this has benefited us. We wouldn’t have any of these businesses or do the work we do if these ailments hadn’t caused us to learn so much. (Although nothing we cure others with ever seems to work on ourselves.)
If these are communications from the Creator I want to understand how to interpret them more clearly. I really feel that “donkey driver” analogy because it seems like the Creator and I are separated by a mattress and the only way He can tell me what I need to do is by whacking it at significant moments. It’s so frustrating.
I want to increase the “resolution” of my interpretation of the “whacks” so we are not making a thousand guesses what each thing might be trying to tell us. I suppose that’s what you mean in that analogy of the machine where you only need to know exactly where to hit it. Is there a way to look at specifics of what is happening to us to understand what we’re being asked to do? Or all I can do is keep reading these Kabbalah books?
Hi Logynn,
The spiritual work will become much more practical once we start doing work in the group. Until then, keep learning and laying down the foundation.
Also check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2010/10/dont-ask-for-the-death-to-the-wicked/
Albert @ KabU
It says not to interfere with the process. But we are also told to ask for help. Maybe I am thinking of a concept in a way that it should be two concepts. What exactly do we ask for the Creator to intervene in in the world as we see it? Nothing?
This ties into another question I had. Should I try to keep up with current events and news so that I can see how the collective is broken and ask for the Creator’s help?
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