[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Peter, good questions.

Question 1: What is Partzuf (Face)? This is Baal HaSulam’s definition: The 10 Sefirot, one below the other, revealed by Malchut’s acsent to the Emanator.

Question 2: What is meant by a World. A world, Olam, means He’Elem (concealment). Another from Baal HaSulam, which you can find in the glossary at the end of the green Kabbalah for the Student book.

Question 3: There are 613 desires that need to be corrected as we climb the ladder through 5 Worlds (Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and highest Adam Kadmon. Yes.

Question 4: Do Kabbalist teachings associate a set of the 613 desires into each of the worlds? Meaning when we are climbing to Assiya we are correcting these desires; as we are climbing to Yetzira we are correcting these desires, etc.? Yes, some of them relate to earlier stages in the path, some relate to later stages, and all are summarized by ‘love your friend as yourself.’ Hence, one can try to reach love of others right away, though there will be many degrees in this along the way.

Question 5: Is the climb progressive or collective? Progressive, one degree at a time.

Question 6: Sounds like Malchut is where we are mostly separated from the Creator, is this our future state, or current state? We are parts of the broken Malchut. We have to correctly assemble these pieces. Hence the commandment to love the other as you love yourself.

Question 7: How does the experience of death differ between a person within whom the point in the heart was not awakened and a person within whom the point in the heart was awakened? The awakening of the Point in the Heart is the beginning, the seed out of which grows a sensation of an eternal world. But one had to grow this seed into something real, the feeling of the Upper World. Otherwise, he’ll die in the same way as everyone else.

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[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

All those customs that were created by people who were in the spiritual world are some kind of material copy of actions in the Upper World, but maaser is the one that directly relates to what stands between the person and the Upper World: the Masach [screen]. Prior to the formation of the Masach, one has to slice off this 10% relating to Malchut, and only then can one even begin the spiritual work. Money, the value of which is decided solely by people’s desire, and with which one can buy what one desires, and the loss of which and acquisition of which alters one’s whole mood and state… it’s the thing that is practically a proxy for desire. That’s why it’s so sensitive an issue, because one is made of nothing but desire, and so specifically by it there’s a correction, whereas with all kinds of other corporeal actions, one could remain indifferent. For this reason, and additional reasons, Kabbalists always collected maaser from students practically on day one. Here, students have a choice in the matter, even though the Upper Laws haven’t changed.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

In regular life it’s not realistic yet. First, try to be in “There is none else besides Him.” What you’ll need to include in that, and constantly needing to renew it, will take all of your efforts. If you can hold onto that, we’ll talk further.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Todd,
Both suppositions are true. It’s true that you have to accept everyone. Rabash did this; Rav did this. At some point, though, we need to know that we’re in laws of nature that never change, and one such law dictates that while he can certainly study, and he should study, if he’s not married, he’ll be studying essentially with half of the desire that he has to correct; and the other half, he’ll have to eventually find, and correct as well. But no one should use such sticking points as excuses to delay their advancement. Go ahead and continue, and remember the advice of Rabash, “It is not that the friends should love me; rather it is I who must come to love the friends.”

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Melanie,

Certainly! But that’s the entire wisdom of Kabbalah, and to have the sixth sense is to already be born into the spiritual world where one can already see for oneself, like one who is born into this world sees the sun, tastes the food, etc. Sure, there’s a study from others once there, but that’s already a different kind of study. In short, how to develop this sense, we will learn together.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mark,

Great questions.

What about people who don’t have the capacity to study? Will they not be able to connect to the creator?

Everyone will eventually connect to the Creator as this is the Goal of Creation. It depends when though. Those who can, should run for it.

When has the “Barrier” between our reality and the spiritual world been created? Has that barrier always been there since birth, or did we create a barrier by detaching from the spiritual world?

We’re after the point at which the Barrier was created, of course. It happened gradually, as the spiritual worlds concealed the Creator degree by degree, until the last degree, which concealed the Creator to an extent that it is as if there is no Creator and no knowledge that there even exists a spiritual world, to the point where one is even denied the knowledge that something is hidden from him.

If possible, what can we as parents do to keep our children connected with the spiritual world?

My answer to your fellow student, Adi, may also help here. When a child is born begins the detachment from the sparks that remind one that there is an Upper World to attain. That’s because it is organized from Above this way, such that a person has to attain it out of their own free choice. Thus, toward one’s kids it’s by being a regular good parent, and if you yourself advance internally, spiritually, they will feel that. You don’t need to teach them Kabbalah.

 

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