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I’ve learned that other than our free will to choose our environment, we do not have free will. All other aspects where one may think they have free will is illusion.
To reach the highest level for our life in the physical world (current incarnation), we need to overcome the will to receive and ego to pursue becoming more like the Creator. With inner reflection and prayer, we seek to move toward the will to bestow, to love our fellow souls.
Since studying Kabbalah, in just this early phase, I have determined that which I thought was real… is not real. I have trusted my senses in this world rather than looking for what is real, “the Creator” within me.
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I am happy to be at this point, to want to be closer to the Creator, to desire the wisdom of Kabbalah toward understanding what the Creator understands, and to overcome egoism. However, I can’t help think about people who die who are at an earlier level of development (seeking power or knowledge) and have not reached the point in the heart and pursuit of the spiritual path upward toward the Creator. Is there an explanation as to what happens to them?
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The reality of being similar to the Creator – this includes the understanding of the upward movement through the spiritual worlds toward the Creator, the words of the Torah and what they mean spiritually. This is just the beginning perception I hope to obtain of spiritual reality by study of Kabbalah.
Is the “language of branches” taught as literal language or is the language symbolic? In other words, I have read Genesis many, many times in my life and was taught to believe that Adam and Eve were actual people. As I have learned, stories in Genesis are actually designed to help us understand certain aspects of creation, the beginning of “man”, lessons in things like jealousy, hate, love, etc., but are not historical fact.
I am just confused about the idea that the words of the Hebrew Bible are not of this physical world…will this become more clear as we continue ? Are there certain readings that will help me now?
