[Deborah Joplin]

I am inspired by a deepening concept of the potentiality of unity based presented by the concept of there being one fragmented soul and all parts will return to the unity. The path of suffering and the path of Light make sense to me.  So far, the wisdom feels right to me — I look forward to the spiritual growth increasing my perception of reality. I have become aware of the reshimo in my path and the role my ego plays in my perception of reality. I am studying, praying, desiring the needed corrections and learning to walk with an intention to clothe my desire only to receive in the intention to connect and bestow. I am looking for the joy comes with perceiving more connection and less separation. Even Einstein said that our separation within the physical body creates an illusion of separation when in fact we are all connected. I have always been seeking adhesion to and the accompanying awareness of the Creator.

 

[Deborah Joplin]

I wish for us all to continue to expand and connect our points in the heart with the intention to accelerate our spiritual development. Our intention must be to join together in a way that is beyond even what we have hoped and dreamed for — a unity in which we have no unfulfilled need as we desire to receive in order to bestow. We must become those who walk in the light, and emit the light to draw others into the light. So, I wish for us all to study and meditate on the concepts we learn until, as Rav has said, we have a feeling and a sudden understanding as what we have studied expands our spiritual attainment and awareness of the true reality. I wish for us all to be devoted to the the process we have begun as the Light draws us closer.

[Deborah Joplin]

Oh how I love the attainment of this preparation. The soul fragment that is within me has always been calling me here. But, I have an enduring question. I have studied the holocaust to the point that I feel that I was somehow present within it. I feel the pain of it and other genocides that have been and are being enacted as if it were touching me… the connection of the soul, possibly. I am beginning to understand that this is the path of suffering the human race experiences to draw them toward the need to feel the connection.

So, the dangling question: The premise being presented that there are no “good or bad” actions (this is dependent on our level of spiritual attainment/perception) and that enlightened perception allows us to see the intention of perfect love behind every event– is Kabbalah really teaching that there is no evil force working in/through people who enact and willfully participate in these human atrocities? Is there no — Lucifer/Satan/fallen angelic beings that are seeking to destroy the human race through our own egoistic indifference toward others?

Thank you for sharing your insight on this.

Deborah Joplin

 

[Deborah Joplin]

I have gained a deeper understanding of how I often, seemingly, chose the path of suffering in my life, even though I, intellectually, knew “better” — and how the consequences — the suffering taught me to make better choices because I distanced, in my perception, myself from the Creator, but also the experience gave me an enlightened perspective. I have understood this in a preliminary way, and I have always believed that the Creator’s character is love and bestowal. Humans bring suffering and God leads us through suffering.

I did not choose my birth family — which brought me both love and suffering; but, Adonai led me and taught me through that experience as well. I do not hear, in Kabbalah, that the fallen angelic beings are forces at work in this world. If, indeed, our corporate egoism, alone, is the only force to be overcome — this is new. It seems closer to the Yetzer Hara vs the Yetzer Ha Tov. I will be looking for “the devil and Satan, that old serpent– the dragon– who roams the earth like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour” — and whether he exists in the W. of K.

[Deborah Joplin]

I have at times felt or seen what I perceived as the creator in other people. I see this when I responded to an impulse to give to a person that I do not know. I see in a random homeless person what looked like the shining blue eyes of God himself looking back at me, or received a hug that felt like the embrace of God. In the New Testament, The Messiah says “As you have done unto the least of my people, you have done unto me.” The feelings or perceptions of God’s presence in these random people always elicits phenomenal emotional and spiritual responses in me.

This week, I have understood that these were the beginnings of what it is like to clothe the will to receive with the intention to bestow — glimpses of the unity with the Creator that I have been seeking since early childhood. The point in my heart has been driving me toward the Wisdom of Kabbalah through many contacts with it throughout the course of this life. I have been seeking the unity of souls that the Apostle Paul adhered his teaching toward, but have never been able to feel the desire fulfilled fully in any of the communities I have served in. I am a teacher by passion, and thus have loved attaining and bestowing knowledge much more than my students enjoy receiving it. I am so overjoyed to be finally receiving this wisdom including the idea of  one shattered soul that longs to return to unity with the Creator. I am working to absorb this. Thank you to all of you for the bestowal!

[Deborah Joplin]

Thank you, Seth, This is EXACTLY what I am seeking!

“After the correction the creation which is the matter called will to receive has changed its form to receive in order to bestow and then its quality, bestowal, is the same quality of the Creator, and they become as one.”

Sincerely from the Point in My Heart,

Deborah

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