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- April 18, 2024 at 11:36 am EDT in reply to: Preparation Prompt: In Kabbalah, our primary task is to draw the reforming light, which supplies all we require for spiritual progress. Moreover, it’s said that aiding others accelerates our own spiritual ascent. How does this dynamic operate? What does supporting fellow seekers with a spiritual inclination entail? #369677N/aParticipant
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.
April 11, 2024 at 3:03 am EDT in reply to: Ask anything about week 2 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #368777N/aParticipantThanks Gianni
N/aParticipantSpreading 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.
April 10, 2024 at 2:57 am EDT in reply to: Ask anything about week 2 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #368666N/aParticipantHi 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?
April 8, 2024 at 11:55 am EDT in reply to: Preparation Question: What does it mean to connect with others? In what desire are we connected? #368420N/aParticipantWe connect to each other through one single, common unifying thought. We connect by all wanting the same thing, recognizing it can only be attained by working together.
April 1, 2024 at 10:12 am EDT in reply to: Preparation Question: Congratulations on progressing through the intermediary stages of your Kabbalah learning by staring this new course! Since the wisdom of Kabbalah deals with developing our precious eternal part—the soul—it is important to take a moment to note your expectations from this stage of your journey, and later check back and see what aligned with or differed from your expectations, and how you might’ve changed in the process: What do you hope to get out of this course you’re now starting? #367444N/aParticipantTo develop a deep understanding of how to apply Kabbalah to daily life.
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