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1) What did I take with me from this past lesson?
a) The importance of the practice, not only the theory in Kabbalah; as only in the practice can we practice “love for others”. Connection is the work of the Ten. Connection is the vessel for revelation.
2) Read this whole article and summarize it, then write/discuss the key points together.
a) It is very important not to only grow the feeling of love towards the friends, but to express it, as this gives force to the group.
b) To be able to do the work without letting our “self-benefit” take over it. The society was established solely on the basis of achieving love of others, and that this would be the springboard for the love of God.
c) To understand that our Ten is the only thing that can really take us to the spiritual world and give it that value. We can take all the lessons and read all the books, but if we can’t connect selflessness in the Ten we won’t go anywhere. “One needs a society to be able to give to one’s friend without any reward”.
Lesson’s 5 homework:
1) What did I take from the lesson?
That our egos will never be able to correct ourselves; if they did, they’d only feel greater. So we have to trick them by asking “The Reforming Light” to correct us. Beautiful way to put the ego aside and focus on the connection through the points of our hearts, which is the only way we can feel equal to our friends.
2) How do we make sure that we draw the reforming light with every action of ours?
If our action is focused on the connection for unity.
3) Leave in the forum a message that will help build between us a demand so that none of us will be able to differentiate themselves from the others, and we will feel as one.
“Faith above reason” means that faith -becoming exactly like the Creator- should be above (more important than) reason -our egoism-.
Class 4 homework:
“Faith, in Kabbalah, is a tangible, vivid, complete, unbreakable, and irrefutable perception of the Creator -of life’s rule of law. Therefore, the only way to acquire faith in the Creator is to become exactly like Him. Otherwise, how will we know beyond a shadow of a doubt exactly who He is, or that He even exists?
… “Faith above reason” means that faith -becoming exactly like the Creator- should be above (more important than) reason -our egoism.
Rav Michael Laitman (2007), Kabbalah Revealed, p. 153
I chose this excerpt because I in my past I struggled with two words attached to religions: God and Faith. I confess that when I started in here, I got scared at one point when I was hearing too much of the word “Creator” as a person (the creator wants us to…). I finally desensitized myself from this word, but I still struggle with remembering what “Faith” is in here. I was very happy when I read this definition of “Faith above reason”, as I couldn’t ever feel the “Faith below reason” religions expect us to have.
And as “Faith above reason” is vital in the work we are learning to do, I want to leave this excerpt in here as a reminder for me; trusting that if someone else from the group needs this information, his or her eyes will find it here.
Homework lesson 3 (for August 6th):
1) Watch the Clip – Relationship to one’s spiritual teacher. Think about the role the teacher has in our spiritual path, and write in a few sentences: What do I have to do in order to “make myself a Rav”?
To understand that the Rav is going to teach us something we know nothing about, so once we have chosen to trust in him, we need to trust in his method, in what he tells us to do; without letting our mind or ego put doubts or resistance. The Rav says: “to nullify ourselves before the message, to absorb it without resistance; to accept it with a wide open mouth, like a baby”.
And the role a Rav has in our spiritual path is to teach us not only the theory of the path, but the practice of it, so that we can ascend the ladder by equalizing with the upper degree to the one we are in.
2) Watch clip about Rav from the documentary “Into truth”. Share on the WhatsApp your impression of Rav after watching this clip:
An awesome person who accepted to play the role his own Rav put on his shoulders with complete strength not to let his ego take over “the role”. His Rav knew who he was choosing as his successor, no doubt.
Homework lesson 2 (for July 30th):
Read the first 2 articles of “The Social Writings” and extract 3 key principles that will help us achieve our goal: for Divinity to be among us.
1) There is a rule: that the branches are similar to the root from which the branches were born. And since there is no reception in our root, since the Creator is in no way deficient and needs nothing to satisfy His want, man feels unpleasantness when he needs to be a receiver. This is why every person is ashamed to eat the bread of shame. To correct that, the world had to be created, that man would fear using his vessels of reception, called “self love”. One should receive pleasures that bring contentment to the Creator.
2) And this is why we gather here: to establish a society where each of us follows the spirit of bestowing upon the Creator. And to achieve bestowal upon the Creator, we must begin with bestowal upon man, which is called “love of others”. And love of others can only be through revoking of one’s self.
3) We need a society that will form a great force so we can work together on annulling the will to receive, called “evil”. This society must consist of individuals who unanimously agree that they must achieve it. To be integrated in one another, each person should annul himself before the others. This is done by each seeing the friends’ merits and not their faults.
Hi!
I’m Eugenia, from Mexico. I believe I was evolved by nature through pain so much that my reward is having found KabU!
The Universe was the origin of my first existential crisis at 7. After I couldn’t answer (I must have asked my parents too) where the Universe was, I felt as if my heart went void itself… I couldn’t name it, but that was my fist panic attack… then the other existential questions started bombarding me at any time. I know it’s for real that once the point in the heart awakens, nothing from this world is a strong lure. I’ve been a searcher all my life… I really hope I will finally be able to attain the spiritual world now that I found Kabbalah.
So… I know I will never know where the Universe is in this life, but putting my nose in this course about the Universe maybe is part, aside of Kabbalah per se, of closing my childhood wound.
Thank you Gianni and KabU for all the wonderful courses you offer us in here! Thank you for helping us try to develop in the Light!
Hello!
We just finish the class with Zohar (Sunday 25 of June) and he told us about a Congress that will take place next Sunday (or next weekend?). Bob tried to send us the link, but he couldn’t because it’s broken.
Can you please send us the information (days and times) to our mails (everyone in the graduate environment)?
Thanks!!!
