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Is there a typical path for progressing in the understanding of the Wisdom of Kabbalah? I am very committed because the teachings are really answering a call within me. Should I expect a couple of years of study before I feel I’m truly getting somewhere with the teachings?
The goal of my study is to learn how to align my thoughts and desires so that I will develop stronger altruistic intentions.
Thank you for the links to reading sources and blog posts that you often include in your answers to people. I am finding them to be very valuable.
My question in regarding praying for help with our spiritual development. In “Our Only Prayer Should Be To Have The Correct Desire,” Rav Leitman makes very clear what to pray for. I understand that very clearly. I’m not sure, though, how personal or impersonal to make it. In some parts of what we’re learning, the Creator/creation is described as an impersonal system. But, sometimes Rav Leitman and Baal haSulam make it seem like we are to approach it with more of a love connection (which is how I tend to feel it). Can you please clarify this for me?
Freedom is the experience of shifting my focus from an egoistic evaluation of what is happening outside of me. This egoistic evaluation usually involves lots of complaining about what is happening. Freedom is the experience of looking inside, instead—of asserting that each moment has been given to me as a gift. Then I can wonder in each moment why it has been given to me this way. When I look at each moment as a gift and wonder about it, it feels like light enters the moment. I end up with the freedom to feel the light and to be curious about what the gifts contained in this moment are.
I really feel that everyone is asking all of my questions and that Seth is answering them. Thank you to everyone who is contributing to my understanding. Wow.
One thing that blew my mind was learning that EVERYTHING I am, think, feel, do is determined by the creator. Until this week of study, I really believed that “I” was something that I determined! Hearing Rav Laitman make clear that I am a bug, rather than the self-determining-being my ego convinces me I am, shocked me into a new perspective.
The other thing that blew my mind this week was getting a feel for the gap between myself and the Creator. And, man, does that hurt. I actually feel physical pain when I register that gap. My egoistic self wants to paint the gap as smaller than it is or less important than it is.
