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Last night I did the Q&A with Tony he was so great and explained to me that the Brit milah is referring to the screen. So my question is how do I actually realise that my screen is expanding and that I’m coming to the point where I’ve cut of the selfish desire to receive for the self alone do you simply analyse how you are responding to daily life ? And is it possible to utilise prayer as a means to ask for help from the creator to attain a screen (meaning help you overcome the desire to receive for the self alone). It requires a lot of work and a lot effort! Don’t think I can do it alone 🙂
This another issue Jews have with Kabbalah as soon as the real meaning of a Mitzvot is explained they go straight into this cognitive dissonance panic like state and want to drag the corporeal Religious customs back to Kabbalah. You can just practice your religion if it bothers you so much. We need to get past this idea of kabbalah being the salt and pepper of “Judaism”. Judaism is a religion, kabbalah is not. Corporeal matters are not the be end all of Kabbalah. If Jews and Muslims and Israelites feel they need to Circumcise infants then they should do what they feel is most important to their religious customs. Kabbalah goes beyond this. Thanks for chiming in seems like a more Religious question you have here not necessarily a kabbalistic one. The Brit milah is a screen after all 🙂
Hey Chris
Hope that my questions aren’t bothering you. I can understand what you’re saying. I’m currently reading the writings of the Baal HaSulam and in it he mentions many of these things. But I don’t think he is telling people to go and receive a Brit milah and enter the covenant rather it seems like to me he is talking about these things that are spiritual states and not corporal action’s. But I could be wrong. And even then it seems like this is more or realization someone comes to and not another “moral correction”. Just hoping that I’m understanding this 🙂
“It is forbidden to teach a gentile Torah, as was said, ‘He did not do so for any nation’” (Hagigah 13a).
According to what Baal HaSulam interprets concerning prohibitions, wherever it is written “forbidden,” it means impossible. It follows that the prohibition to teach a gentile Torah, even if he has been circumcised but does not observe the commandments of the Torah, is that he cannot learn Torah.
How are we supposed to understand these laws which appear to be laws from Judaism ? I discovered this on kabbalah.info and I’m really struggling with all the covenant laws, the seperation of Jews and gentiles and who better than who ? So as a “Gentile” myself how am I to continue studying kabbalah as it requires a lot of laws and covenants in order to be fully corrected. But on the surface I’m told it’s for “everyone”. But it seems non Jews won’t go far with it but a Jewish person will. It’s very hard and stressful to understand all this.
Rav laitman gave a lecture on Brit milah and how it correlates to Malchut. this topic however never seems to be given a clear cut answer as to whether a man should actually undergo the Brit milah particularly when that person isn’t Jewish and does not desire to be Jewish. In order to actually have the Bris with all the accompanying tradition’s an individual would ideally need a jewish mohel and a jewish mohel in my country won’t do this for a non Jew. so, my question is, is there another way to do this correction ?. Would focusing on the “Circumcision of the heart” not be an alternate option ? as it seems like an even greater correction than a random religious action to fulfil a covenant (with all my respects to the Jewish people whom i love). Looking at humanity i see so much hatred wars etc and it breaks my heart and for me i think my biggest correction and the worlds biggest correction is to cut the evil desires from within ourselves (harbouring hatred in the heart). Please tell me though if this not sufficient. I want to experience the Kabbalah in its entirety and i need this to be clarified please.
The definition of Jewish came up. I can’t get a clear cut answer regarding the Brit milah (circumcision) physical circumcision is mentioned everywhere in Kabbalah.info videos, in the Zohar and Torah. I understand the whole deeper meaning of it as a symbol but there seems a hesitation to say that in order to begin correction you need to perform a physical Brit milah. There is heaps of content that hints you should. For me this is a really religious thing and I struggle with this because I just don’t believe in it. But I respect Jewish people’s decision to perform it.
