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Albert, at first, your reply did not make sense to me. I missed using the link you gave me. I just watched it. Now your reply makes sense to me. We move from one state of being to another. Hence, the state before no longer counts. It is of no value. We need to keep moving forward by continuing to learn more about Kabbalah, The Creator, and ourselves; how we fit in this world through our five senses. It is an upward changing in understanding to perceive outside the box we live in. Once needs to achieve that six sense, or unknown sense that is hidden from us because we have not learned yet how to be outside the box. I might not be explaining this correctly. However, I do believe I understand your response and the Dr. Laitman’s explanation. Thank you.
I have been thinking a lot about what I have learned from the lectures and reading material about Kabbalah. My name is Elisheva. The Hebrew meaning is “an Oath to G-d. My belief has been that I owe G-d a promise, an oath, which I am to complete in this world. I have waited to find out what that Oath is to be. Several times during my life when I did an action that was truly altruistic, I believed that maybe that was the “Oath” that I was suppose to give to G-d. What I have learned that my concept of an Oath to G-d was a one time altruistic giving to G-d. Now that I have come this far in learning Kabbalah, my understanding of that one oath, was innocent; however very naive, very ignorantly. Therefore, as I continue to read and learn about Kabbalah, my understanding had been so far away from truly understanding my purpose in this life, the forces, the sixth sense, the 125 steps downward from the Creator and the 125 steps upward towards the Creator. Altruism is a path towards the Creator and so much more. Hence, have I ever questioned what the purpose in my life is? Yes, but wrongly.
I am going to try to explain what I understood. Please correct me in any way if I misunderstood. Left rejects is suffering because of our egoistic way of life in this world; within our five senses. However, suffering is correction and this Force is from the Creator. I am Jewish and I was taught and had my book on the 613 commandments. It was difficult for me to truly understand, not knowing about Kabbalah, that the 613 commandments were a “Force of Development” to reach a “perfect and eternal state.” I feel that I am understanding the “why” of suffering that is slowly leading me to understand the cause of suffering. I believe that once I will be able to seek inside the cause of suffering; seeking the point in my heart, I will then begin the beautiful path to bestow back to the Creator to again be aligned with the Creator.
In what way have I gained a deeper understanding of my life and of the forces working in the world?
My understanding of my life, before Kabbalah, was that the tragic events that happened to me were not of my choice I did not have free will to choose against them. There were other forces at work. However, when I did have free will to choose and made mistakes that caused suffering, the forces at work were of my own. I had choices. I just chose the wrong one. Did I know that at the time? No, I did not because I did not understand the forces of the world and if I happened to understand the forces of the world for a split second, I still chose the wrong path, not on purpose. At the time, I thought that was my only choice when in reality, there was an entire force outside of me, outside of my five senses with which I could have taken another path. I used to believe, looking back, that even mistakes that one made were to teach us something. Either not to do that action, or make that decision again. If so, hence, one had learned not to fall into that way of thinking, or deciding. I knew the word Altruism within the five senses, I have always had a sense beyond the five senses. However, I was completely blind in how to reach that true Altruism. To learn that everything created has been predetermined, gives me hope that when I fully understand, I can change my life in order to be side by side with the Creator. I believe in the Creator, always have. The irony is that it had never occurred to me that there was a path of bestowal to reach the Creator through a true path of pure Altruism.
Regarding week two, the clip of the baby getting for the first time a hearing aid was very eye opening. In this realization, hearing for the first time is like seeing outside the box of five senses. Seeing their reactions brought tears of happiness. Another great example regarding our adhesion to the Creator was the embryo. As an embryo, all of our needs are being met. We are receiving from our mother unlimited pleasures. Once we are born, we forget and enter the world of egoism as we grow and become adults.
