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Those desires remain and we satisfy them in the ordinary way that we would have. Now, if you mean, “How do I practice Kabbalah with my friends and family? Meaning how do I realize the Kabbalistic practices of connection in the Kabbalistic group, but with my family members, etc.?” So, if that we’re possible, Kabbalists would not recommend the group but just tell students to work with those around them. First a person has to measure progress against a neutral background, one with which I have no preexisting reasons for association, as I do with anyone who is already in my life. The main thing stopping me from attaining spirituality is that I don’t fully feel myself as opposite to spirituality – and that is because I’ve never been in an environment in which accurate measurement can be taken. Until I – not just hear and believe – but feel how opposite I am, and hone in on exactly what I’m missing in order to reach the quality of the Creator, I won’t have a deficiency for it and thus won’t receive it. You have to have a group, and there are several more reasons why it can’t just be one’s family and friends.
Yes, the Upper Force created a Desire to Receive. However, because of other things you’ll learn about the system, we are not able to receive: we never actually arrive at the pleasure we were supposedly chasing. Of this fruitless chase, we eventually become despaired. Because the Desire to Receive demands to be paid for its efforts, and chasing pleasure requires effort. You’ll learn later that in each Desire to Receive there is buried a spark from the Upper Force, the quality of bestowal, and when it finally surfaces it demands a person not only chase pleasures but search for Who these pleasures come from; Who designed this reality, in which seemingly all we want is to enjoy, and yet no one – and I mean no one – is actually enjoying (due to the aforementioned law).
Depending where you live you may find one, however everything is online now. One has to work towards the others, to feel the Creator in the connection of the hearts, which is above space and time, whether the friends are in front of him in person or in front of him on the computer screen. When you reach the graduate program we can check if you live physically near any other friends.
Hi Maria,
Ok, keep thinking. But right now it’s just trying to connect the dots. These are different worlds. First Restriction, Second Restriction. If we’re being realistic, you won’t be able to connect them. Even if it “makes sense”, it won’t be the right understanding. You have before you just one move – thoughts of self moving to thoughts of the group of Kabbalists, that they will reach their goal. That would be the closest thing to Restriction, which is the action of first restriction. And later there’s Second Restriction and so on.
There’s no connection to the wisdom of Kabbalah because by connecting to the Purpose of Creation only good can come. But whatever else comes residually should be dealt with in normal corporeal ways – if medical attention is needed, get that; if psychological attention is needed, get that. As if spiritual work does not exist. And doing so will be the most spiritual possible action.
That’s a good question, Brian. Look at nature, atoms, molecules. They connect, but actually it’s not that they themselves touch. If we look closer there is always a force that connects between all of the parts, which, at their scale are lightyears from one another. With us too, we need to connect – meaning the Upper Force needs to solidify the connection, make it real, that we’ll feel a reality as thick as soup binding us with the others above time and space. We can give names to the forces that bind us: love, bestowal. But we have to feel that to understand. To this question we can write thousands of pages of words since there is nothing else in reality but connection and nothing else to do except connect more. In the connection all the Upper Worlds are revealed, all good that can be. Due to lack of connection unfolds all that is undesirable.
