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Hello, my name is David. I am expecting and hoping that as more of us learn the Hebrew language, that it will activate and magnify the desire within us to connect with one another
August 8, 2023 at 5:31 pm EDT in reply to: Introduce yourself to your fellow students. Write a few words about yourself and about what you expect from the course. #328301David EdwardsParticipantHi, my name is David and I’m an egoist. As a last ditch attempt to blunt the teeth of the evil inclination, I’ve come to Kabbalah. I don’t know what to expect from this course, but I’m going to annul before it, and whatever it has in store for me, I’ll take it. No questions asked
David EdwardsParticipant209. Three Conditions in Prayer
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There are three conditions in prayer:
1. Believing that He can save him, although he has the worst conditions of all his contemporaries, still, “Is the Lord’s hand waxed short” from saving him? If not, then “the Landlord cannot save His vessels.”
2. He no longer has any counsel, that he has already done all that he could, but saw no cure to his plight.
3. If He does not help him, he will be better off dead than alive. Prayer is the lost [1] in the heart. The more he is lost, so is the measure of his prayer. Clearly, one who lacks luxuries is not like one who has been sentenced to death, and only the execution is missing, and he is already tied with iron chains, and he stands and begs for his life. He will certainly not rest or sleep or be distracted for even a moment from praying for his life.[1] In the manuscript, this word is written with what seems like two initial letters. With one, it means “lost” and with the other it means “work.” It would seem that the “proper” meaning would be to write “work” since it is a part of the phrase “prayer is the work in the heart,” but he apparently deliberately switches the letters to mean “lost,” as this is the word he is relating to through the rest of the article.
I chose this one because it clearly outlines the true depth of where a real prayer pours out from. It gives me a feeling of someone who is truly poor. I would say that to be given this feeling is the ultimate gift of love from the Creator.
October 12, 2022 at 4:04 pm EDT in reply to: Introduce yourself to your fellow students. Write a few words about yourself and about what you expect from the course. #301970David EdwardsParticipantHi my name is David and i’ve been studying Kabbalah for almost 2 years now. I’m expecting this course to help me see a little bit more of the big picture
October 1, 2022 at 7:12 pm EDT in reply to: Aside from the many details, what is a key principle you have learned by studying the system of Worlds? #301155David EdwardsParticipantOur eternal thought is structured in a perfect fractal nature
David EdwardsParticipantMy motivation to persevere is for each and every piece to attain the whole
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