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Thank you very much for this reply and for the article you recommended. I’m sorry it took me a while to pick your response up, but I haven’t been able to log in for some time.
I would like to learn Hebrew. Would you have any recommendations were to start, or might any beginner’s book be okay?
Thanks. I found this lesson cryptic – perhaps I missed something. The problem for me is that the capacity to bestow is directly proportionate to the capacity to receive.
So one arrives at a logical conundrum that if only everybody wants to bestow, no body will want to receive, and the whole thing will come crashing to nothing.
Unless I have missed something here… 😉 Didn’t God already make Man in his image, so both must have capacity to receive and to bestow? However, if I look back over my life, I can see times where people were trying to give me things I could not appreciate for what they look like to me with hindsight. This is because my perception, at those relevant times was different from what it is now. That would mean both my capacity to receive might be bigger than it was, as is my capacity to perceive what is being bestowed.
To the perception of reality as unity with God, which we lost during the fall from the Garden of Eden, which happened after we first learned to identify with our egos, rather than with Source, as a response to the eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
I watched a video of Mike Letiman’s on YouTube yesterday where I first heard of the law of equivalence, which made me have a better understanding of the second greatest commandment as presented in Matthew 22:36-40. It is not directly what Dr Leitman said, just what I understood from what he said, so I hope it is correct – that to be able to love each other as ourselves we have to stop seeing each other as different, or as not like us. Previous to that I had understood the call to love our neighbours as ourselves in the usual sense of the social norm of politeness (kind of). Now I understand this merely masks the issue that I identify with my ego whenever I see a difference between me and others.
My question is, if we want to get more involved with Kabbalah than merely taking part in an online course, how would we do it? For example, who are the people who decide who will be taking Kabbalah on into the next few generations? How might one form a part of those groups?
Thanks very much for this video. I noticed the pentateuch referred to as Kabbalistic texts. My question is therefore if it might help students of Kabbalah to learn to read the original texts in Hebrew?
I didn’t know what I intended from this preparatory lesson, as it was quite short and we have already had quite a lot of preparatory materials. However, I was very interested to learn at the end of the video that the purpose is to teach us how to learn to take control of aspects of our lives, rather than to suppose we are dependent on blind fate.
