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.

[Jack Davidsen]

There was one thing that resonated with me in particular, and it was when we were told that it is a common experience among Kabbalah students to have periods where we feel we aren’t only not advancing, but we are even regressing.

This was so important for me to learn about this because it is exactly how I have felt these past couple of weeks.

Not only have I been falling behind (for reasons I won’t bore people with), but my PTSD has reared it’s very intrusive, ugly head to a degree such as I haven’t experienced since I was in my teens and my twenties (I’m 65 now), and I’ll admit that there were moments when I actually became quite frightened.

Now I am hopeful again. I have even posted a question, asking if I can continue to study (not get kicked) even though I have difficulty keeping up with the reading material. I know, if I get a positive answer, it will be easier for me to eventually catch up because the stress from feeling I have to hurry and read faster is actually making the whole thing worse, it slows me down even more.

 

There is a test this week that I haven’t been able to complete. It is the picture with 15 pieces of text and drawings that relates to Kabbalah. We are asked to tag at least 12 of these, but I could only tag 10 because I can’t see what the text says in several places (I am slightly vision impaired, and I also live in a very dark location).

There was a drawing that I’m pretty sure depicts connected dots within a circle, and with a piece of text with the word Kabbalah beneath it. But no matter where within that picture that I clicked, the engine gave me a yellow exclamation point (instead of a green tag or red minus).

There was also a picture that could look like a single Kli, but I came to the conclusion that it was most likely a cup of coffee (and there was another picture of four or five Kelim which I had already tagged).

I apologize, and hope that you will forgive me, that for the above reasons I was not able to complete this week’s tests.

[Ilya]

Becoming more aware that there is a law of nature and we’re much better off working with that law than against.

[Sherry]

Every single day as I look around and as I take in what I feel and think I am reminded that there is sooooo much more out there beyond our senses that we dont know about and that I act and react to only what is within my senses to understand. Which means we know practically nothing about nothing and it is humbling and exciting and inspiring. To know that the beginning of something doesnt start with a register of a sense, Neither does an “ending”.

[Letta]

That we can reach balance if we add to our quality of reception an intention to bestow, by paying attention to our intentions. By asking ourselves why we are doing what we are doing.

[Karen Assayag]

As correction occurs in the spiritual world, by everyone for everyone, the pull of the corporal world grows stronger and thus the forces pushing individuals to tshuva and tikkun are harsher.

[Vera]

I finally understand the importance and the essence of the 613 mitzvot, our way to climb up again the ladder through the 125 states, and how important the intention behind each mitzvah is! Also it blew my mind that we don’t have to correct all the 613 mitzvot individually, but the correction can be done by others and still be corrected for everyone.

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