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Aiding others for the purpose of spiritual ascent is about working together to develop a deeper understanding of our reality and a stronger desire to learn more. Working in a group facilitates the sharing of knowledge and ideas about our understanding of our reality from our study of Kabbalah which may expose limitations with our own thinking on the one hand and affirm current points of knowledge on the other. Group work also brings like-minded individuals together with an identical intention to connect to each other which helps reveal the Creator within our little community.
True altruism at the human level entails placing the needs of others ahead or our own. Altruism ultimately requires faith in others based on the same degree of faith in oneself. Faith in oneself is a function of knowing and fully accepting who we are in our Creator, that we are already whole and complete and have no particular needs of our own. Our only intention is to extend our peace to our brothers and sisters, which enables one to keep his/her peace. One’s only intention, therefore, is to connect to others through a single unifying thought by receiving others just as they are without trying to change anyone and without wanting anything. The aim is to use our vessel of reception to satisfy the needs and desires of others by adopting them as our own.
We are already endowed with the Creator’s Light. We were created to receive the Light of God and we are, therefore, already filled with Light. To draw the reforming Light is to realize we already have the Light within us, knowing it is the Light of the Creator which sustains us and renders us whole and complete, without any lack within ourselves. This self-realization is made possible by what Kabbalah calls the point in the heart, which is our direct link to the upper world. The wisdom of Kabbalah plays a vital role in helping us realize this about ourselves and teaches us that our one true function in life is to extend the love that we are onto the world, both within and outside of our group of ten through the development of a strong sense of community and desire to work together to cater for all of our basic needs.
Spreading the wisdom of Kabbalah is required to create like-minded people with the same intention to connect to each other. It otherwise becomes difficult to connect to those who do not understand our reality and the need for all of us to develop the correct intention to use our ego for altruistic purposes.
Hi Gianni. My name is George and I’m from Melbourne, Australia.
In my mind, it is almost certain that the workshop would succeed in showing us how to connect and to use the ego in an altruistic manner. The workshop appears to be a highly controlled environment comprising those of us who have undertaken some study of the wisdom of Kabbalah and who would, therefore, enter the workshop with the same intention of forming connections. But what of the real world outside of our community of Kabbalists? Would the principles we learn in the workshop help us in our efforts to form connections out in the real world with those whose intentions may not be altruistic?
