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If it is our intention for the collective good that is the true prayer, then is there any need for specific prayers if we already have unshakable faith in the Creator always giving everyone and doing everything in the world that are exactly what is required for their personal and our societal evolution?
<b>I need to ask that the world will come closer to the correct connection among all people, the only thing missing for them to see a spiritual solution to all their problems, which are all to eventually lead to us running out of alternative solutions.</b>
If we have an unwavering “knowing” and unshakable faith rather than fleeting and changing feelings in regard to our Creator’s plan for us and for our world, how would we experience the “ascending” and “descending” process described in Kabbalah?
Good question. One can’t. That’s called faith below reason. Meaning: even though all of reality is in suffering, I say, “It’s all for the best, blessed is the Creator.” What we need is faith above reason.
The concept of “humility” and being “less than” was discussed in reference to the other Kabbalists in our group. This concept was related to being more in equivalence with our Creator. This makes no sense at all. Our Creator doesn’t feel “less than.” Our Creator doesn’t even enter into the arena of comparisons of any kind.
There is something to it. One day you will be right. However, there is an entire system of corrections between you and that day. Meaning: that is the Creator’s relation toward the Creation in the world of Eyn Sof. But we are in an imaginary world, following what is called the Breaking of the Vessels, and now it’s different. We can’t skip steps. And one of the first steps is to lower myself before those who have awakened to the study of Kabbalah.Because already I am under the desires of all kinds of others in the world, who unanimously agree that corporeality is most important. I need to nullify before desires that prize spirituality as most important. That way I will add to my own spiritual desire, which, in the meantime, is insufficient.
Do the feet compare themselves to the hands? Does the liver compare itself to the kidneys? NO! They each do their jobs to the best of their ability and rely on the other organs to do their jobs to the best of their abilities.
No, when it comes to actual carrying out of your roles in the Kabbalistic group, and later, the soul, you’re all equal. But every organ needs to consider itself as subservient, really an absolute slave to the rest of the body, if you want this analogy.
I would make more sense to me that that our goal in being part of a Kabbalist group would be to avoid comparisons of any kind and to simply offer our best in any situation accepting that there will always be others who can offer more in certain ways in certain situations or that the group’s goals may or may not make sense to us at any given time.
We also need to compare, especially when it comes to what each contributes spiritually. Here, it’s as the sages say, that “envy, lust and honor bring a person out of this world,” to the spiritual world.
It would seem to me that this “humility” and “less than” scenario described is more of an exercise or a place along our evolutionary road to one of non-comparison and unquestioning cooperation.
It’s ok to think so for now. But actually, it never ends, until the end of correction, at least 125 spiritual degrees away.
As long as you’re taking care of the basics of life, such as job, food, money, family, then the rest of your time is yours to show the Creator and show yourself what is important to you.
The main thing is to work on the connection with the spiritual group. The rest of Kabbalah is only the study of the details of this action. The Sefirot, worlds…it’s all the details of this connection.
When you connect correctly with the group, you have the Kli (vessel) in which the Creator is revealed.
That’s a concept I haven’t seen in the wisdom of Kabbalah. Whoever comes to the group is awakened by the Creator, standing before you as a representation of the current state of your spirituality.
You are connected to your root only to the extent you’re connected with your friends. Your soul is hiding in your friends.
I can’t do the work with respect to you. But you must do the work with respect to them. That is your work. While what you asked of me, is not my work. It is not forbidden for you: correct your vessels and reveal that the whole world is in perfection, except for you.
There are many Kabbalistic sayings about this, that the world is inside you, was created only for you, that it’s all a reflection of you…
So, the answer will never change. These are the friends. They await me to correct myself, and it is not that they first need to correct themselves.
I need to be as Yosi Ben Kisma. He was a great Kabbalist and yet even he knew that he had to lower himself before his students, if he wished to advance. Though they were small, confused. Still, there was no other choice, no other hope for him.
No. It’s that they live in two worlds. But more than that it is that they nullify themselves to the point of no knowledge of anything spiritual. Except they don’t close their eyes. Instead, they are Above Reason. We can’t talk about or imagine this because it relates to having a Screen, which we don’t have, and we can’t imagine what it is or how i can be.
