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Hi Paul
Segula means remedy in Hebrew, it’s that simple. It’s called remedy because like when I go to the doctor with a serious illness I must take the medicine he prescribes, by using the knowledge of the doctor, and not relying on my knowledge, because I could die a few times over before I can acquire the medical expertise of the doctor; similarly when I discover I’m sick with a quality of reception that prevents me from revealing the Creator, due to the law of Equivalence of Form, I must simply grab onto the Kabbalists and follow their advice as a remedy. It doesn’t seem so to me? No problem. I take it as-is, like I swallow the medicine in the pill bottle. It’s the wise guy who thinks he knows better than doctors – even a little bit – who is actually the fool.
Hi Loralee, I hope someone from tech got back to you. However, don’t worry, the important thing is that you went through it. It’s just for your advancement anyway, and will not affect your ability to progress through the courses.
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 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.”
