Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Ed]

I have really been enjoying my new journey into the Wisdom of Kabbalah through this course and your videos on YouTube. I feel like I am in first grade again!

As a lifelong student of scripture, there was one verse that always kept me scratching my head and wondering the meaning.

Proverbs 18:1 says: “Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.” I’ve looked up various commentaries and they are all over the map and of little help.

Since the keyword is desire, and desire seems to be an integral concept in Kabbalah, I wondered if this verse is expounded upon in any Kabbalistic writings?

With my limited understanding of Kabbalah, it seems to me it’s saying, “When the point in the heart of a man turns into a burning desire, he separates from his egoistic corporal existence, and seeks out and integrates wisdom.”

Thanks for any light you may shed.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ed,

Here’s a more modern translation, maybe that will shed some light for you: “A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment”.

Given that the whole process of our correction is in reconnecting the shattered soul, isolating ourselves and focusing on our own desire does not lead to correction.

Just picture that all of humanity is part of a single system. Like a 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. Each piece of the puzzle (each person) is perfect by itself and does not require any correction. Meaning that we don’t need to recolor any of the pieces or cut off any seemingly excess parts. The only thing we need to do is find where each piece fits relative to all the other pieces. And by that we correct everything.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/

Albert @ KabU

[JamesM]

Hello from Poland.

Great lessons, thank you so much. I’m really intrigued by the idea that the people, places and things mentioned in various spiritual texts (The Bible, Zohar, etc) are actually referring to internal spiritual states. Absolutely fascinating!

[Karina Menchaca]

It’s interesting knowing how there’s a coded language that once you get to know it will help ypu achieve deeeper knowledge

[Flavia]

I liked knowing about the origins of Kabbalah. I found fascinating that it was in Mesopotamia 5.000 years ago that they attained the knowledge of the “Master Plan”. The explanation about how people back then could understand and connect to Nature better makes sense to me. The ideia that since then the egoism has been growing also makes sense to me, although I would “naturally” assume that in Mesopotamia people had problems with egoism as well.. I feel like researching more about their culture to understand this better.

[Diana Catalina Cortés Valencia]

Free will, the fact that creation already has an established plan but we have the freedom to choose whether we will receive for our benefit or receive to give, and therein lies the genuine individual change that unites us with the whole.

[Ron]

That today’s society is frantically moving from one desire to the next and yet is feeling more and more unfulfilled.

[Author]

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