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There are actually 5 Phases if we include the Keter. Since there’s no Created Being there to speak of, we somtimes deemphasize this root phase. There are 5 worlds, corresponding to these 5 phases.
Hi Helen,
It’s hard, even impossible to imagine attainment since what scientists call facts are something far below this. For example, we don’t attain that dinosaurs lived or that monkeys evolved or that light is particles or waves. Such lenses can emerge such that all that is turned on its head. Those things, we don’t hold in our hands experimentally, the way I test if a ball is thrown up, it’ll come down. And even this is not yet attainment. But let’s say that’s the minimum for what we call attainment. The ball, you attain in the 5 senses that Nature developed in you. Partzufim, you attain with senses that Nature develops, but not automatically. Only with your sincere request. Getting to that is the whole problem.
It originates in the sayings of ancient Kabbalists: קלני מראשי (kalani mi-roshi), an idiomatic expression, which here means, “I suffer more” than you, the person, because I, the Shichina, include everyone in me – while your suffering is only a part of the suffering of the whole. Not to mention that it’s one’s choice to suffer instead of complete the correction, while the Creator has to wait for us to exercise our free choice in this.
Only internally, one needs to act as though in the revealed spiritual world, and not come out of it.
Hi Joan,
The graduate group is considered a group, but within it, when you begin the Young Group, you’re placed in a focus group of 10. These are more or less random, and remain the duration of the Young Group series of lessons. The important thing is that it’s a group of friends on the same spiritual path, implementing what they learn in the Young Group.
Are we speaking only hypothetically?
Hypothetically, what was in the past, before Kabbalah, we don’t consider, and I need to work toward the society as if toward the Creator. All people regardless of their past will need to correct their souls and attain the Creator.
Of course, in practice, we always take the student’s feelings into careful account. It’s essential that each friend feels a sense of safety and trust within their spiritual environment.
The scenario you’ve described would be considered extremely serious and not something to treat lightly, and would require thoughtful and deliberate attention.
If this is a real situation you’re facing, then—for the sake of both your spiritual development and your personal sense of safety—please reach out to your instructors directly. Together, we will consider the appropriate steps to take and ensure you’re fully supported.
