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- December 29, 2023 at 9:12 pm EST in reply to: Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective. #338246Jack DavidsenParticipant
Okay, I posted a comment. It reads as follows:
“Somebody asked me what I would say to somebody like myself, if they came apon the video on this page. I didn’t quite know what to say because to be honest, I haven’t met anybody else like me. But I thought it over, and here is what I came up with:
Hi,
you probably already know that you are interested in Kabbalah, in finding out what it is really about, and that is why you are here now. So, is this real Kabbalah? Is it true Kabbalah? Is it the ‘right’ Kabbalah, and is it right for you?Only you can answer that question, but in order to do so you have to check it out, and luckily that is easily done. All you have to do is visit the website that is being linked to in the description below the video. Once you visit the website, you will very quickly find out if this is something you think might be holding answers that you have wanted to know about for most of your life.
Best of luck, my friend. Should you decide to join us in the study of this old and new wisdom, I wish you a warm: Welcome! 🙂 “
December 29, 2023 at 12:14 am EST in reply to: Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective. #338205Jack DavidsenParticipantI tried to log into FaceBook, but was unable to get through to the website, so I went to the video on YouTube instead, and I am blown away by how incredibly wonderful and inspiring the comments are, that everybody have written and posted there.
I do intend to write and post a comment there myself, but I don’t want to rush it and risk posting something that doesn’t do KabU and Kabbalah justice, so I have to take a little extra time and try to get it right.
I am grateful to be among such wonderful people, and by that I mean both students, instructors, and (of course) our one and only Rav, Doctor Michael Laitman.
Thank you, everybody!… I hope you have all had some blessed and inspiring holidays! 🙂
Jack DavidsenParticipantWhat I meant to say above:
I will not step aside, not because I am better than anybody else, but because, like everybody else, I cannot be replaced. It doesn’t work like that. But if it did, I would do it.
Jack DavidsenParticipantWhen I’m not studying Kabbalah here at KabU, when I’m elsewhere doing what I have to in order to survive, I constantly have the question in mind: “What can I do to help, is there any way I can help further a gateway for others to maybe, just maybe, get to know and appreciate the necessity of Kabbalah?”
I mostly find that I don’t have the right vocabulary because if I at any time mention the word Kabbalah, people who hear me speak or read my text will not hear or see the word Kabbalah, they will see or hear “New Age Mumbo-Jumbo”, “Superstitious nonsense”, or “Gullible Let’s-Feel-Good sing-along”. Or worse yet, they’ll hear or see “Jewish!!!!, ergo Nazism and Racism and Greed and Dictatorship, etc. etc”.
Of course, if I had time, I would be able to find the words that might help in each individual situation with each individual person that I might talk to, and who might be able to receive the real message. But either people don’t have time to stop long enough, or I am too slow, for this to happen. This is how it has been so far.
My position is this: If three individual human beings could receive the mesage of Kabbalah and experience and study it, or if only one person could do the same better than I can, so that Kabbalah would have a qualitative and quantitative presence thrice the strength and amount of mine alone, I would step aside and give up Kabbalah for them, that they could do so.
– And no, it wouldn’t be easier to just give up. I know this because I have already tried it, and it didn’t work. I am back, studying side by side with others here, and I will continue to do so because there is nobody who can take my place and do it even better, or make anything better because I step aside.
I know I didn’t exactly answer the question you posed to us, Julian. But I hope you’ll bear with me, I just can’t think of anything to say that isn’t already obvious to us all. Maybe I’m mistaken, and in that case, I hope I will realize my error and make up for it in the time to come.
I still enjoy your lessons immensely, and I wanted to participate in the workshop a few days ago, but I was unable to find a link, not on ZOOM and not on Vimeo.
I hope everybody has had some Blessed Holidays!! 🙂
December 24, 2023 at 2:28 pm EST in reply to: Ask anything about week 2 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #337911Jack DavidsenParticipantHappy Holidays, everybody!! 🙂
December 24, 2023 at 1:49 pm EST in reply to: Ask anything about week 2 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor. #337905Jack DavidsenParticipantBack.
I signed up but don’t see anything on the screen, except the video.
I don’t know what to do now. I don’t know that there is anything I can do. – But I do hope everybody else made it and that you have an awesome time! 🙂
Next time something like this comes up, I’ll make it.
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