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The attitude of the Creator is only ever that of the unchanging desire to bestow.
Understanding this means that His attitude never changes toward me. My view shifts to knowing that He is good that only does good, and His good is found everywhere within creation: inside nature, desire, thought and action.
My present intention for studying Kabbalah is to become closer and closer to the Creator. This course for me is a means for learning and understanding how this created Universe really works and my place and purpose in it. In this way, I can then use this wisdom to go on to assist others to grow along their own spiritual paths.
“To know who I am, I must know who the Creator is.”
Referring to this week’s reading from Kabbalah for the Student p.385.
I am puzzling over the meaning of this quote:
“Make for yourself a Rav, and buy for yourself a friend.”
Could you please explain the meaning of this and how it relates to “freedom”?
Thank you,
David
Feeedom in Kabbalah must mean being unchained or liberated from the small, self-serving interests of the ego.
Regular, intentional study of Kabbalah, with the attitude of receiving the light of the Creator not for the self alone, will attract the light that gradually “reforms” me. I will know this is occurring as I become less attracted to old habits borne of egoistic desires, those which obviously don’t bring lasting pleasure, happiness and delight. Through this process, I gradually correct egoistic desires and eventually achieve greater “equivalence of form” with Creator and his singular “desire to bestow”.
The idea that blew my mind is that “all the rejections I’ve experienced in life have been sent by the creator.” Previously I’d believed that these were the result of my OWN ego, my own shortcomings and my own selfish actions.
I’m learning from Kabbalah that the Creator sends me thoughts and views that show me just how far out of alignment I am with Him. Therefore I should have the attitude or “welcoming with pleasure” the seeming blocks and obstacles I encounter in this life.
The concept that Creator has a hand in the vicissitudes of my life, that they are sent to me as a teaching and a learning tool by a benevolent Teacher who only desires that I experience ultimate pleasure and joy, is both revolutionary and comforting to me.
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Naturally, as a new student of Kabbalah, I’m wondering if my understandings and conclusions above are valid?
