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Hi Luke,
God forbid I don’t advise not to read the Torah, but can I read it in a way that brings me closer, from moment to moment, to spirituality? Prior generations could. They were built differently, and so they knew while reading it that it wasn’t about our world – not a history, tall tales, or anything like that; not a holy text just to revere and bow before, but a spiritual blueprint as you said, that one has to decode every word, and in doing so, change his inner properties, so that it would bring him to compatibility with the Upper Force. An honest and perceptive person notices that he’s fallen from such inner change-seeking, within a sentence or two, if he began at all – and he needs great proficiency in the wisdom of Kabbalah to even begin, if not some spiritual attainment already.
That’s why, I think, that by reading the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, and hearing the lessons of Rav Laitman, I study the Torah, but in a way that I’m not like a first grader sitting with a book on quantum physics, fantasizing that by this I’m actually learning. Read even the first article of Rabash and tell me that he doesn’t take me by the hand through the writings of Kabbalists from all generations, including the Torah and its commentaries, but in a way where I can’t mistakenly think that it’s about something other than me. https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/IHYcOU8k
Sure, in words, it seems so – and later, there is something correct about what you’re saying and there’s an approach to it – but first, a person has to connect because before he does so he’s simply something so far from spirituality that the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t even talk about him, and he has no spiritual action – not this way or that way.
It’s because the main teachings of the East follow a certain approach that is characteristic of the approach that was their foundation, which they received through Kabbalists who passed on to them a partial Kabbalah that provided sort of half of the approach for dealing with the ego – in other words, in one line, as opposed to the work among the Three Lines. Today, out of one, two, or three approaches came over 5,000 religions. Here, we speak about the original approach, which in truth, there isn’t much left of it, even in the East itself, let alone in the hands of Western practitioners. But an even better answer is that when we talk about the methods of the East, meaning the original methods, it’s just a way of making more tangible a certain approach toward the Upper Force that is a tendency any student might happen to find themselves in, without realizing it – as in that slight deviation, one simply will not rise upon the spiritual degrees that Kabbalists write about.
The prayer that really works is the prayer for the other. Other means unrelated to me. That I would naturally want some outcome means I couldn’t want it in a spiritually correct way. The way is to pray for the whole Kli, all of humanity to have x, y and z. If all have it then everyone is covered.
We have to learn this from practical work. Generally though, the beams are the main structural components, so fundamental that I’m scarcely aware of their existence. In my desire there are things I could not even imagine that that has to change. But that too I will have to “sell,” meaning I will trade, my thoughts for higher thoughts, my desires for higher desires, spiritual desires. I will have to “pay” for this sublime reward, specifically with the ego that stands between me and the friends in the group.
Hi Pier,
If you just joined the Graduate Program, you have about 4 live lessons a week that you have the option to join. In addition, you will be invited to join a 5th lesson, the Young Group classes, where you will eventually get your own group of ten. Young Groups open twice a year and the next one is a few months away.
