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It is simple. Imagine hearing about our world, from some 2 dimensional or other kind of reality, where you have no things like what we experience here and you have different physics, different math. The problem is to enter that world. That’s also how Kabbalists determined what was there and how it works.
It doesn’t matter if the yearning for unity is impure. Working in this direction activates the Surrounding Light from the future state when we really are connected, and this Light adapts us to that state more and more.
You’re partly right. Except it’s not that nothing happens. A mom can be in the kitchen from morning until night preparing food, cleaning, and so on, for the baby, and to the baby it appears that mom is doing almost nothing for her, but is instead busy with all kinds of who-knows-what. With older kids too we see that they’re not all that understanding of all that the parents do for them, how they devote their entire existence to the family. But if you’re not engaged in something that is directly pleasing the child now, it’s like mom and dad are busy with everything except me.
Similarly, we relate to the Creator’s love and care toward us. Every prayer gets an answer. The child has an overall general prayer to be happy, pleased, and so on. The parents are always working in the direction of what they know will lead to that in the broadest possible way. The Creator is also engaged in that, for us. The child maybe wants that to mean ice cream this minute or something like that. That’s not always right for them, for the broadest possible benefit, all things considered. We too have prayers like that to the Creator: “Give me ice cream!” You’ll get an answer to this prayer – instantly. However, it will only be a change in you (ALL good is contained only in these internal changes), and it will probably entail the need for a new prayer out of the new state that I’m now found in (because my prayer certainly did get an answer, though it’s not exactly the proverbial ice cream I requested).
How do you be the nanny for your friends? Pour yourself into the advancement of your ten toward the goal, in ways that are pleasing to them and work on them, and you won’t be wrong – and to the extent you’re wrong, the Light will correct it.
Hi Malka and Dan,
At the end of this video Gilad describes the options we provide for learning Hebrew while learning Kabbalah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XijGnUxwswI
Hi Todd,
We translated and published it for a reason, and “One studies where the heart desires.” So, go for it. There’s a special Light in it. However, the question is whether I’m studying the works of Baal HaSulam in the order he wanted me to, and if not, is it actually the most beneficial? And I can’t speak for Baal HaSulam, but it seems that he tried to get simpler and more accessible over time. He wrote The Study of Ten Sefirot much later, toward the end of his life, and by comparison it is far simpler. And it’s what Rabash studied all the time with his students. And Baal HaSulam wrote several “beginner articles” – “The Freedom,” “The Teaching of Kabbalah and its Essence” and so on – all of which are required reading first. Certainly, one can follow those more than one can follow “Gatehouse of Intentions” and so I’m more immersed in them, and so they work on me more. Moreover, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” one needs to learn prior to having any hope of understanding The Study of the Ten Sefirot and The Study of the Ten Sefirot is probably a prerequisite for “Gatehouse”.
