[José-Carlos]

If a world where humanity is spiritually connected by love was the world where we were living in, first of all, any of those societal dolmen’s wouldn’t exist. Each and every individual would act as a single living entity in the same way all of our cells are interconnected as a single entity/being called our body. Each cell knows what is best when there is a “body dilemma”. In the same way, each individual would be intrinsically interconnected with others and would immediately know how to approach any dilemma with the power or principle of love that it is really, the principle of the Creator, of the Creation.

🙂

[José-Carlos]

Awakening to Kabbalah
Chapter 2 – In The Beginning
P 41
“Rabbi Akiva said that the entire Torah is comprised of one law: ” “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”” Twenty-four thousand of his disciples, who were taught to follow that law, still developed unfounded hatred for one another. All except five died because of that corruption; the ones who survived were those who were not dragged into hatred.”

5 in 24,000! That is only 0.020833%, no even 1% of Akiva’s diciples!

This clearly shows that even the most advanced disciples of the Wisdom of Kabbalah are victims of  falling into the lowest ego.

And I wonder how it is nowadays, in our current time?  Maybe there are no kabbalists that develop that egoistic characteristic like unfounded hatred but I can tell that there are some who have developed spiritual arrogance and indifference.

So I, we need to be extremely vigilant to not fall into that trap of the ego or to develop other egoistic traits that will end up hurting our spiritual advancement and hurting others or demotivate/discourage spiritual seekers of the Creator.

[José-Carlos]

Hello again 🙂

I have more questions. I hope you don’t feel overwhelmed with all of my questions and that I am formulating them  correctly to communicate my doubts and commentaries.

 

Awakening to Kabbalah
Chapter 2 – In The Beginning (Pages 25-42)

 

Pp 27-28
“The seven days of creation referred to in Genesis are felt by humanity as seven thousand years. The first six stand for the six days of the week, during which humanity corrects itself unconsciously at first and finally consciously, through great efforts. In the end, we will reach the seventh millennium, or the seventh day, the Sabbath, which is a state where the light of the Creator fills the corrected properties with bounty and delight.”
“The entire path of humankind consists of six days, representing the six thousand years of correction. We have now entered the year 5766 in the Jewish calendar.”
1.- Year 5766 is wrong, we are in the year 5786.  I wonder how do you keep your information up to date?
2.- According to Kabbalah humanity has existed only for 5786 years since the creation of “heaven and heart” or the world and humanity, so are the creation of galaxies and the universe included in this time frame?
3.- Archaeological evidence proves that humans existed before that time and the anatomical modern human being is dated approximately 300,000 years ago and with fully modern traits appearing between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago. That’s at least 35 000 years of discrepancy. Just Göbekli Tepe is as old as 9500 BCE and even Jericho in the West Bank has traces of its existence that are older than 8000 years.

P 28
“The Zohar points to the generation of the Messiah as the time when the conscious correction of the world should begin…” all points to our generation as the generation of the Messiah. In the years we have left before the end of the six thousand years, the Jews and the whole of humankind must complete the correction, and in the seventh millennium, we will receive the reward for our world.”                                      1.- We collectively are the Messiah? In the language of roots, right?
2.- Here, Kabbalah or the text separates Jews and the whole humankind, why? I find this difference contradictory, opposite to the meaning and wisdom of Kabbalah! Even if the explication is that the word “Jews” is used as humans that have the desire to reach the spiritual and unity with the Creator, the message or the idea is still different. Is there discrimination or separation in Kabbalah depending on the subject it is talking about? Because later on the text, like on page 30 the idea is clear: “The Creator appeals… to each and every person.” … “Humanity is the representative of creation and of all the other worlds.” It doesn’t mention Jews and the whole of humankind are the representative of creation and of all the other worlds.
“The system that manages our world consists of seven parts. That is why things in our world are divided by seven or seventy: the seven days of the week, the seventy nations of the world, the seventy parts of humanity’s soul, and the length of a human’s life, lasting approximately seventy years.”
1.- The seventy nations of the world and the seventy parts of humanity’s soul are both related or mirroring one to another, and they are based on the descendants of Noah or Noah’s sons and not to all humankind. What do they represent?
2.- Nowadays life lasts more than seventy years.

Pp 30 and 34
1.- What specific attribute or trait and which other properties in a human does Abraham represent? If “Abraham represents a spiritual trait that seems to be the basis of all our traits,” that means that Abraham represents all and each of the attributes, traits and properties that each and all human beings have? Or does it represent only Love and hunger, meaning the single sensation of the absence of something?
2.- If Abraham “…will obtain the opposite properties: eternity and completeness and the degree of the Creator Himself.” Would the opposite be mortality, incompleteness, and a degree of emptiness, absence of the Creator? And that is what rules the world, right?

PP 32-33
“The exile in Egypt is not intended for Abraham, but rather for Jacob and his family (Josef and his brothers). The exile was meant to last four hundred years, but in fact it was shorter. Baal HaSulam writes that because they did not complete the four hundred years…,”
1.- What attributes, traits or properties did Jacob and his family (Josef and his brothers) represent, and how did they succeed in making their exile shorter?

“…the entire nation that left Egypt was forced to experience another exile, the one that has been ongoing for the past two thousand years.”
2.- Is this text still talking about Abraham? Because he lived almost four thousand years ago. Or it is talking about the fall of the Second Temple because then it would make sense the “past two thousand years.”
3.- In any case, does this mean that the entire desires of the physical world and/or the corporeal desires are still going on today?

P 36
“… the desire for spirituality. It can be revealed along with lower desires, but what distinguishes it is that we cannot satisfy it with anything mundane, because the source for this desire is outside our world.”
1.- What is the difference between lower desires and mundane? Are not both a representation of Egypt?

P 38
“There are, all and all, 620 desires in the body.”
1.- I had understood that there were 613 desires, one is the point in the heart, could you clarify?

And finally:
1.- Who and how many are the current kabbalists who “live in our world and in the spiritual root simultaneously.”
2.- Where do they live and how do they live nowadays?
3.- I would love to meet them, to get to know them up close and to observe them to learn from their example, from their actions and behavior. I think that is the best way of disseminating the Wisdom of Kabbalah!

 

I appreciate again your time and patience.

Warmly and hungrily,

Jose-Carlos  🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

[José-Carlos]

Hello :),

I have many questions:

Awakening to Kabbalah
Chapter 1 – The Great Kabbalists Throughout History, pp.1-23

P 3
“Adam was the recipient of the first Kabbalah book: The Angel Raziel (Hamalaach Raziel).” He sensed the two worlds and described them in his book containing interesting drawings with explanations and diagrams
Adam Really wrote it!?

P 5.
The book of Abraham the Patriarch, The Book of Creation (Sefer Yetzira). Why was/is it very far removed if it is full of benevolence? The world needs benevolence today, now!

Moses. He was ordered to make Kabbalah known to the “whole humankind.” But Abraham wasn’t doing that before? Abraham always invited people to his tent to talk about Kabbalah. Now, at time, humankind was already all over the planet, and the order was making kabbalah known to all humankind. Then why did Moses just do it in that small geographical area where he lived. Moses must have known the meaning of “all humankind,” isn’t it?

Pp 6-7
“The Torah describes a certain era in human development, but it actually refers to the spiritual roots. “ I understand this duality, but I cannot stop thinking that it is very convenient almost like a manipulation or propaganda that every human personality from Adam, lived their lives only and exclusively to “represent“ in the language of branches, like outer shells with flesh and blood figures such as Moses and Pharaoh, animals and nations, and with names of objects, feelings, and actions the spiritual forces that come from the upper world to ours. All of them are from the same cultural, geographical and social group.

Pp 8-9
“The vertical line, the light that descends from the upper force, from the Creator to the creature, is a personal sign…,” meaning that it is a personal, subjective sign/message/communication between the Creator and that specific person, the individual who studies The Torah?
So, if “a person who looks at the letters of the Torah, provided he or she has learned to read it correctly, can see his or her own past, present, and future through the combinations of dots and lines” means that the Torah has as many interpretations as qualified people read it or study it correctly?

“Mitzvot (commandments, precepts) of “do” (positive precepts) or Mitzvot of “do not do (negative precepts).” Mitzvot/mitzva are as well as the correction of one of the 613 desires from egoistic to altruistic, the transformation of a quality of one of the 613 desires from its egoistic expression, right?

Also, there are 613 desires but recently I saw a video in Kabbalahinfo that mentioned 620 instead of 613. Could you clarify it?

Pp 11-14
To write the Zohar, first Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai hid in a cave in with his son Rabbi Eleazar. They sat in a cave for thirteen years, eating carobs and drinking water from a nearby spring. Their clothes were torn, so to stay covered, they buried themselves in sand. …
Didn’t they lose their minds? Didn’t they hallucinate?

Why for 13 years exactly?

If Rashbi was the sole author of the book of Zohar, why is his son mentioned that he was also writing the Zohar while going thought the same ordeal as Rashbi in the cave?

Then, Rashbi gathered ten disciples around him including his son Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Abba.
Why if  Rashbi trained, taught and ordered the nine disciples to write the Zohar, then it’s kept only naming Rashi as whom “both wrote it and concealed it.” They mentioned Rabbi Abba and Rabbi Eleazar in a minor way but why aren’t the other seven disciples mentioned and given the authorship as well if they were primordial in the success of writing the Zohar? What happened to them?

When I read about Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai that “He is also among the most important sages of the Talmud” and that “his name is mentioned there some four thousand times,” and that he is practically the sole author of the Zohar, it makes me wonder aren’t the kabbalists attributing him a big ego, a great arrogance while ignoring everybody else?

Why it just mentioned Rabbi Abba as the kabbalist that wrote the Zohar in Aramaic, Greek and Latin? What didn’t mention the other nine writers?

In Kabbalah, everything is well planned and foreseen. How then is it possible that the Zohar was rediscovered merely “by chance” five/six hundred years after being buried? Chance/luck doesn’t exist according to Kabbalah, isn’t it?

At the same time, everything is/was well documented (if it wasn’t orally passed) from Adam to today, but we don’t know the name of the kabbalist that found the 2700 pieces of paper that was then the Zohar, wasn’t he that important?

Nor the Arab merchant that found these pieces of paper along the way and who was permitted to use them as fish wrapping, how is that possible?

And why was/is allowed that many parts of the Zohar were/are still missing?

P 17
“… “Eight Gates.” … “He (The Ari) explains the laws of the upper world, how humans influence these laws, and the reincarnations.” … Humans influence the laws of the Upper World! Isn’t the Upper World, the world of Roots impossible to be influenced by the World of Branches, by the human world?

 

Thank you very much for your attention and I apologize for the many questions.

Best Regards,

Jose-Carlos

[José-Carlos]

Hello again Albert,

1, It doesn’t matter if  they do it out of respect for the culture and traditions they grew up with or because such an action helps them remember about the inner meaning of the Kippah and ultimately reminds them of the Creator. That is still a symbol! A symbol based only in the world of branches, of the “reality” of the five senses. It shows they cannot let go from the material perception of the world to the enlightenment of the spiritual world.
You are basically saying that adults keep baby-talking (agoo daa daa) and using pacifiers out of respect to the babies and to help them remember the inner meaning of the pacifier and remind them of the creator. See, babies would be near the world of branches while adults have already touched the world of roots. They don’t need to go backwards, it is meaningless!

2. I am sorry, but I disagree, Judaism is totally connected to Kabbalah. Judaism as a religion came to exist after the fall of the temple and as a corrupted residual of the knowledge of Kabbalah. And I have no problem with that.

[José-Carlos]

Hi Albert, thank you for answering me back. What you are describing is pseudoscience and not science.

Nevertheless, Kabbalah cannot be a science since it studies/observes the spiritual world, the world of roots; while science requires observations and measurements only of the material world through the the five senses meaning, the world of branches.

In the example you give, it doesn’t matter if you read a book of physics in 8th grade, and later on in college and later as a physicist, every time you will get the same result based on the experiment, the observation and the measurements.

Kabbalah follows the laws of the world of roots and its causes and  the things you can verify for yourself even when you are just starting with the fundamentals of this wisdom, and then the things that you can verify only when you have reached attainment are all and each just in your consciousness and that cannot be measured and observed with the five senses.

Thank you 🙂

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