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- May 12, 2024 at 8:15 am EDT in reply to: Preparation Question: The importance of clearly defining the goal in the study of Kabbalah is the beginning of the path. Once the goal is defined, you will continue to refine it to keep yourself perfectly aimed at the target. How would you currently define the goal for which you are studying? #372090EdParticipant
I always felt I was a seeker of truth, and it has taken me down some weird paths. My goal for studying Kabbalah is to align my soul so closely with the Creator that when I step off into eternity I will realize I am already there.
May 6, 2024 at 9:19 am EDT in reply to: Preparation Question: What is freedom and how, by the help of the Reforming Light, can we acquire it? #371280EdParticipantWe spend the first nine months of our existence enclosed in our mother’s womb. For the next twenty-odd years we are under the dominion of parents, teachers, and possibly the military. The remainder of our adult years we become slaves to our jobs, parental duties, civic responsibilities, and fatigue. Then in our Golden Years of retirement, we are under the control of doctors. Sure, we’re free.
The reality is we are more like mice in a maze, searching for that ever-elusive scent of cheese. At some point some of us begin realizing like Bob Seger in his song, ” I Feel Like a Number,” and yell out, “Damn it I’m a man!”
My guess is the only “free” move we can make is to look up out of the maze toward God, and pray for an “out.”
EdParticipantIsaiah 45:5 I am the Lord and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me.
When I close my eyes, shutting off all the distractions from the corporeal world, and quieting my inner voice, I can begin to feel the fact that in reality, there is just me and the Creator. There is just the “thought of creation,” and my response.
EdParticipantWhat most inspired me in the course?
The concept that I can attain adhesion with the Creator by changing my intentions to mimic His.
What have I learned about myself in the process?
I am a hopeless egoist and even my most noble intentions are only to gratify myself.
What do I wish for my fellow students in their spiritual development?
That we all grow together spiritually into a cohesive soul.
April 22, 2024 at 1:05 pm EDT in reply to: Preparation Question: How can we get in touch with the upper force and act with it mutually? #370011EdParticipantBy realizing that we can bring nothing to the table other than a desire to be one with the Creator, and when you think about it, why not!
April 17, 2024 at 11:41 am EDT in reply to: Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective. #369493EdParticipantI was watching the video with RavLaitman about the four states in the Related section of Week 4, and the question was raised, “why four states and not two?” This is because we are looking at a binary system. If the will to bestow = 1 and the will to receive = 0, then mathematically you will have four separate combinations or permutations: 1 1, 1 0, 0 1, and 0 0.
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