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You have about four classes per week live with other students, in the grad program. That will have to do for the next couple months until the next young group starts. We don’t have a chat because we don’t want to create interaction that is simply so, but only once we know why and how we’re interacting so it will be purposeful. Otherwise it will quickly run according to our regular nature, and that will be unbeneficial.
Without Yod and the rest – I need to worry all the time, “Am I coming closer to the goal now or not?” If not, then I’m distancing without knowing it. If I worry about this, I replace what I’m usually doing, which is like a bird pecking around for food, in every second having to be filled by one pleasure, another, and another.
You won’t have proof; instead it’s like my teacher was told when he asked his teacher, he was told, “You won’t get an insurance policy, but you’re free to go out and search for another teacher.” Kabbalists are uninterested in providing proof, and they don’t care about a student’s doubts. The door is open to come, go, and return if you wish, and to leave again.
But to give an answer, how do they know? They know. It’s maybe like how when you awaken from a dream, you know this is the real world, and what you thought was, certainly wasn’t. And let’s say that you awaken again, and discover another realer world. Then you are sure that there will be another and another real world, each more solid than the last, as your awake world is qualitatively more solid than the dream, though you always feel where you are as the real. Except the analogy is inexact when it comes to spiritual attainment. There, the reality of it and all-inclusiveness of it, and the certainty that this is the world of Truth, is certain. And we only don’t understand this because we have never felt truth, as we swim in falsehood like one who was born under the sea and so doesn’t know he’s wet. That’s why we think there can be parts of the truth that can be attained, and could be divided among methods, people, paths. There’s no such thing in reality. On the contrary, one who attains the Creator attains the same, One, whole reality – with Partzufim, Sefirot, etc. — that all others, in various times, attained. The same world. There is no other world to attain. So, either you did or you did not. And really, the method of attainment can’t be really really different, since it’s a system of laws standing between you and the Barrier to that world. And you need to change, to adapt to them, to feel that Upper World. How many different ways are there to speak to a human in this world and teach him how to do this? Not many.
You mean because there is a very old book, called the Torah, from which more modern people started making historical conclusions. While the reality is that that book was never a book of history, but a book discussing the interplay of spiritual forces one encounters on the way to the Upper World – and it’s just written using language that sounds like history. Within that story, one of the forces, a special one, is called Moses. Compared to others, he is a Kabbalist because he has attainment of the Upper Force.
There are many ways. However, we’re facing a set of laws of nature. Like in our world, if you knew what all the laws were, there would be no probability but only certainty, so the spiritual dimensions that lie beyond our world are subject to iron laws. The Creator, towards us, is an Upper Law, as it is written, “I, the Lord, do not change.” Therefore, the Kabbalists write that if one wants to discover the Creator, one has to attach themselves to one who attained the Creator, a Kabbalist, and follow their every advice. There could be many ways, but one has to choose one. Meaning, if I haven’t attained the Upper World on my own, it’s certain that I’ll need to choose the way of someone who has, and follow their every advice. Otherwise I’ll remain in this world.
Hi Rula,
It’s not yet a question of how, with these or those Sefirot. It’s a question if I have Sefirot to begin with. Without several steps, effort, and time, specifically in a group of students trying to walk the same path, I don’t have sufficient integration with the other parts of my Kli (vessel). When these efforts and the operation of th Upper Light are sufficient, I will have Sefirot like one has their hands and legs. Then we learn how to use them. Until then: more studying with the intention of drawing the Reforming Light.
