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.

[Mike]

We cannot correct our own nature. It needs correction, but we cannot do it. Coming from a culture of “self-help” books and “life hacks” it is hard to accept. Yet, I see that it is true for me at least.

[Camila]

I was wondering to understand how we could know the “going way back” of the ladder, and this part of the lesson changed my perspective:

“These 125 states by which we descended from our connection to the complete reality down into our separated status as individual people and desires, these 125 steps are also completely encompassed by these 613 Mitzvot​, so that the correction of these transformations will bring the individual all​ ​the​ ​way​ ​back​ ​up​ ​the​ ​ladder. Another feature of this is that each and every level of descent is imprinted in us as a “gene”. Every point by which a greater and greater degree of the will to receive was added is remembered by us like breadcrumbs on a path. This being, the first spiritual gene, this point in the heart, our access to ascent, is actually the entry point on a chain of spiritual genetics called “​Reshimot​,” remembrances. And, all of the events that happen in our lives that bridge us between these 613 transformations of the will to receive to the will to bestow, that bond us to the Creator. Each event is laid out for us in a perfect pattern so that​ ​we​ ​have​ ​the​ ​opportunity​ ​to​ ​recognize​ ​what​ ​it​ ​is​ ​that​ ​we​ ​need​ ​to​ ​do“.

 

[Michael]

Kabbalah is beyond what I had thought… It’s beyond concepts which I had fallen into. It’s way deeper than I can ever conceive. Today, I’ve understood that there’s a repelling force within me that always wants to identify with good and not evil. I’ve always missed opportunities to do a “Tikoon”. I have heard about “Mitzvahs” but I don’t see reasons why I must do them and even if I do, I always have one reason not to. Hmmm… I don’t even trust myself anymore… I think I’ll just stick to the tip of the week. Truly I’m humbled and repentant. Thank you.

[Richard]

With regards to the Revelation of Evil:

Several years ago when I was attempting to understand the 10 sephiroth, I came across the Idea that good and evil were the left and right hands of the creator, indeed that evil was not only necessary but intentional.

This really disturbed me at the time, I was struggling with serious questions and having an existential crisis for quite a few years, like an obsessive search for the truth that would end my suffering, which at the time was colossal.

Now I am quite comfortable with this revelation, because I realise that I have a choice to avoid taking part in Evil, at least consciously, and therefore walking on the path of light eliminates a great deal of suffering and causes our good luck to return to us.

I have learned this first hand through direct experience.

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