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A disturbance is anything that takes me further away from spirituality, connection, the Creator. They’re sent by the Upper Force so that I would respond in the other direction – by adding to the connection.
In Hochma the Light is received. Bina is a new Phase that only has the Light of Hassidim, and not the Light of Hochma. The Creator doesn’t need to take anything back. The Light that is expelled becomes Surrounding Light to the vessel.
Mr. – you’re talking about the entire wisdom of Kabbalah when talking about Faith Above Reason. It’s not clear to us yet that all we are is this Reason, the Desire. It includes everything in our experience. Now I need to go Above it – without losing it, but it remains below, so I have two worlds: this world and the Upper World. Like we don’t feel that all of reality is me, my desire, and this I have to rise above, we also don’t feel how the whole wisdom of Kabbalah, in all it’s variety, talks about only this: how to go Above Reason.
So, of course that’s not amenable to a Q&A post. We have to expand our Kelim, then we’ll be able to include in us all these things at once. How? Through the Rav, the spiritual group and the authentic books.
Those are opposites. Faith Above Reason already implies that I don’t deny my reason, my intelligence. It all stays. Blind faith, which in Kabbalah we call Faith Below Reason, means canceling my reason and intellect. There exists in a person such a desire to approach Kabbalah in this way – that is, like a religion – because it’s easy. I can just check the authority of the source and say “I don’t need to understand. If you say so, I agree.” That’s Faith Below Reason, and there’s no value in this except as a stair to rise to something more exalted. Faith Above Reason is a Godly quality and not something you can just go ahead and do. We have to work toward this and need the help of the Reforming Light. My Reason includes my understanding, feeling, my whole mind – at least in relation to some subject, for example, that my friends are the greatest of the generation. No honest person can feel that way since the system we’re in is designed oppositely, for me to feel myself as the greatest (most important) in the world. So, how will I hold both these at once? One will be below and one will be above. Again, we have to learn how.
Hi Tammy,
Let’s deal only with what’s before us now. There’s no congress to go to, so don’t worry about it. I’m assessed spiritually based on my realistic options – including if, examining every angle, I really have no possibility to get to a congress but wanted to with all my heart. There will be virtual congresses in the meantime. And probably in September there will be a KabU Retreat near New York and one in May near Amsterdam – whichever is closer to you is worthwhile to attend, at least once, as it will change your whole approach to the virtual environment which is going to be your main arena for spiritual work.
1. The ways of attaining the Upper Force don’t have to be called Kabbalah, but Kabbalah describes the laws of nature. If one keeps those laws, they reach Equivalence with the Upper Force. I’m not sure how I could just somehow reach this since these laws are opposite to human nature at every point.
2. Prayer is a state where I feel how I’m truly not in control and that I depend on the Upper Force’s help, so I turn, with this honest sensation, to the Upper Force, knowing if it doesn’t help me, I have no hope.
3. Yes, there is a course in KabU by our female instructor, Tal Mandelbaum.
