Share your impressions and experience from listening to the book of Zohar. What feelings did it evoke in you?

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Share your impressions and experience from listening to the book of Zohar. What feelings did it evoke in you?

[Aileen]

I found the Hebrew version easier to keep a focus of intention because the English version was confusing and directed my intention to trying to understand what was being said.

[Peter]

It was easier to maintain the intention while listening to the Hebrew version. When listening to the English version, I kept finding myself trying to understand what was being said & had to re-focus on the intention.

[ahuz ziaf]

English version: I focused on grasping the meaning of the words and trying to connect it with the intention. What came out of it was that I felt like in order to give better, I must clearly distinguish the personal and specific needs/desires/nature of others from those that are mine while at the same time, upholding the objective laws of the creator.

Hebrew version: Didn’t understand what was being said however I felt a more light inner sensation.

[JJ]

im not sure. I tried to listen to understand, but i guess some potentially higher transactions had taken place.

[Abbaa Naa’ol]

Seek the Light We often hear that there is a special quality to The Zohar. This quality is a natural law of development that acts in all of life’s processes, and not some mystical, imaginary power. Kabbalists explain that the corporeal world is entirely governed by the egoistic desire to exploit others, while in the spiritual world, only the intention to love and to give operates.

[Abbaa Naa’ol]

From The lesson and other reading material

Do Not Seek Intellectual Understanding The Book of Zohar is studied with the heart, meaning through will and emotion. What does that mean? Unlike ordinary forms of study, which are based on intellectual processing of facts and data, here we must adopt a completely different approach. Studying The Zoharaims to evoke an internal change in us, and prepare us to receive the hidden …

The Book of Zohar contains many descriptions and concepts that we are familiar with from our world, such as “sea,” “mountains,” “trees,” “flowers,” “animals,” “people,” and “journeys.” It is important to understand that all those details, images, and events mentioned in the book do not speak of the outside world around…

eek the Light We often hear that there is a special quality to The Zohar. This quality is a natural law of development that acts in all of life’s processes, and not some mystical, imaginary power. Kabbalists explain that the corporeal world is entirely governed by the egoistic desire to exploit others, while in the spiritual world, only the intention to love and to give operates.

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