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We don’t need to be lower than other people, where did you learn that? 😉
Only towards others who have come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, I know that they must be here because the Upper Force awakens them. Otherwise, why would you come here? Later you’ll see that certainly no one comes here on their own. So, while this Upper Force is awakening the Point in their Heart, so they have the greatness of the spiritual goal, I lower myself before this desire of theirs, since it’s a different Point than mine and from it I can get more greatness of the spiritual goal, of which I don’t have enough alone to reach spirituality. I may really want spirituality, but no, that’s not enough to burst into the Upper World. I need to absorb more importance of spirituality from others on the same spiritual path.
Doing this is already prayer. Prayer isn’t words. Prayer is efforts that are in a direction that the Creator would be willing to help you with. He’s only willing to help you attain His goals for you, not your goals. We can learn about His sublime goal for us, from the wisdom of Kabbalah. If I go in that direction that the Kabbalists describe, and I see that it is not really in my nature to do so, and thus I’m not able to do it – well then I have a problem that I can’t fix on my own. Now, if I can’t fix it on my own, only then the Creator helps. Thus, my efforts are what count – efforts in a correct spiritual direction. The efforts are my prayer. Because if I make an effort and can’t, the prayer comes truly from my heart. This is the prayer that is answered.
You’ll have a group in the Graduate Program, for now it’s enough to study independently, and just learn about the group.
We don’t have any example of bestowal in our world. If there was, that person would instantly feel the Upper World. And bestowal means without admixture of reception somewhere in the act. It doesn’t matter if Bezos tomorrow gives all his money to the poor and wanders the streets without shoes. If the Will to Receive in a person made a calculation somewhere deep within him (and it certainly did because that is our nature, our qualifier for getting to exist in this world) then he’s already not in Equivalence of Form with the Upper Force. Because the Upper Force is all bestowal without a shred of calculation for self-reception. And our nature, however it seems to our eyes is, as Baal HaSulam writes, “the will to receive without a shred of bestowal”. That’s why only the Reforming Light can change us. We study, and draw the Light. That is how we can “change ourselves.”
If I tell you about my grandma’s fabulous Yemenite stew, no superlatives will describe it for you whatsoever. The Light too can’t be described, since “there is no Light without a Kli.” All that we feel in our world is called darkness. It’s what you feel if your Kli (vessel) is shattered. In a broken Kli, you feel this world, darkness. In a connected Kli, you feel Light, the spiritual world. You can only feel it in a ten, but with the right efforts you can start to feel changes already.
Hi Jurgis and friends,
You don’t need to worry about this. When you reach the graduate program you’ll have up to 4 live lessons you have the possibility to attend per week, with interaction with other students and eventually your own group of ten that you can do workshops with, etc. As well as conventions and other lessons. In short, you’ll have no shortage of opportunities. For now, choosing means the effort you put into this study, where you prepare yourself for that groupwork, which requires some individual learning first.
Hi Raiza,
This change has to be done by the Reforming Light. We can’t do it. But we can start by trying to live more in the perception that there is One Force governing all reality. Not only the stars, planets, plants, animals, and not only all the other people, but also yourself. In every moment. The Upper Force is the operator. And I feel the opposite, that I’m in control. And that others around me have free will. This is my illusion. I must behave normally, but internally I must ascribe everything to There Is None Else Besides Him – meaning only the Upper Force is doing everything.
