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Listening to a speech by Rav Leitman recently, I was happy to hear his opinion about how realizing the damages of our own ego is a big step forward. It hurts others therefore it hurts me. My ego may think it’s not beneficial to me, however through all this agony it has made me realize that I want to ascend spiritually and get rid of it, which ends up being beneficial. But how tricky it still is! It sneaks up on me sometimes when I try to be nice to someone (but asked the person if she told someone else), or speak about my spiritual experience, for examples.
So glad I found the wisdom of Kabbalah which helps me focus my efforts, and better understand the deeper workings of it all.
I feel my heart opening more and more, and am immensely grateful to have the opportunity to contribute to world change through my inner work and correction. All that I’m learning through the Kabbalah lessons resonate in my current progress and provide a very sound explanation. I feel more complete than ever before.
I of course wish the same sense of fulfillment and more to everyone.
“Love thy neighbor as yourself” makes me wonder whether I should give all my belongings away, house, furniture, savings, and feel guilty when I don’t?
Or is it OK to have the attitude of using my belongings but not feeling that any of it belongs to me, or confuse it with my identify, that they don’t matter to me (compared with my inner life, compared with loving the other as myself) and that I’d give it all away to my family at any moment?
Is this mostly about the intention and attitude of wondering what would please the other, increasing the frequency of such intentions, and showing them appreciation through words and a variety of actions? (Attention, listening, patience, affectionate gestures, gifts….)
I love how the Kabbalah courses help me understand little by little about creation, about our existence, the purpose of life, how to interact together, and provides us with means to know, please, fulfill ourselves and return to the creator.
In this lesson we read about concealment and that brings to mind a recent conversation I had with a friend about this topic, in which the friend had said there’s no such thing as concealment, and this made me reflect to myself, that once we have seen and felt God, we’re even more astutely aware of His concealment, and we are left wanting to reach out, pray and plead, and desire ever more for His presence and to cleave on to Him. And we know that to be with Him is the ultimate pleasure, and ask how we can return to this state, and are left to wonder; Why have we been placed in a realm (a world/ a dimension) so far from Him!!?
