[Luke]

From what I know you have to do the 4 courses here untill you get linked with a group it’s kinda hard because I want the social interaction as well it’s quite lonely do what I do and just stay up all night doing the course work 😆 or set a time aside for kabbalah only study and soon you’ll be completed. But an instructor will come here and answer. This is just my input.

[Luke]

As we get into all things action related there is the system in kabbalah of roots and branches where I’m told everything that happens in the physical world reflects in the upper worlds.
I’m not Jewish but half of my family is and they constantly tell me that Mitzvot and covenants and prayer can’t be attained without the physical rituals in this world like Brit Milah praying from the siddur wearing teffilin etc so I don’t understand. Do these religious customs need to be performed physically in order to attain the spiritual meaning of them ? I can’t get a straight answer to these things and I’m still confused. The inner meaning I understand and I’m told that the Physical ACTION is the the action of the light on us and not customs or religious obligations that we do with our own hands. And also if these 2 worlds reflect one another in the branch system does that mean, war, arguments and sectarianism etc also exist in the upper worlds?. Everyday humans perform actions some good and some bad in this current era we can see so much awful actions being performed so do these actions good or bad exist in the upper world. ? As humans we have to make use of the Corporeal world but for the most part it seems kind of useless because in the end we will either be burried or cremated and then it’s all over for the physical body and it can’t perform anymore actions physically.

[Luke]

I have a better understanding now of covenants and mitzvah and how they are spiritual attainments of inner work and the correction of desires . However so much corporeal action is linked to them. In disclosing a portion, Rav laitman says “Circumcision has become a Jewish conduct in this corporeal world and is a crucial commandment for some to this day”. He then goes on to explain the spiritual root behind the meaning of it. So with this in mind, is he saying that we have to follow these corporeal rituals in order to attain the spiritual root/correction of them ? From my journey so far, my understanding is all these actions mentioned in corporeal terms are just encrypted words that are speaking about spiritual things and not physical rituals or customs. But I could be wrong so I’m asking here to see if I’m understanding this properly, albeit I may have asked somewhat similar in the past. I just want to be sure.

Disclosing a portion is a phenomenal work on the Torah anyone reading this should go and get a copy.

[Luke]

I’m still confused on the topic of mitzvahs I recently brought and read Shamati and Gem’s of wisdom great books and like the others it mentions observing mitzvot. On kabbalah.info it says “mitzvah is referred to by kabbalists as any other religious person does”. Mitzvah is also associated with certain corrections I have noticed that physical actions and physical locations on the body are mentioned in association with these corrections.

But I have also noticed in my reading of the ten sefirot that these are spiritual attainments and not a physical actions. My question is, are the corporeal mitzvah like washing the hands prayer shawls, lighting candles etc are these physical actions needed in order to achieve corrections?? ? For me it’s a bit like Christmas, right now in Australia people are going to church saying prayers having parties doing religious actions all in one day but for the reminder of the year they are not joyful and they dump the saying “love thy friend as thyself” it all goes out the window by the end of the week. So the physical actions of praying, worship, religious symbols it didn’t achieve anything and no one has benefited from it the world and through these corporeal actions most of the people didn’t correct any desire to align with the creator or the will to bestow.

[Luke]

Globally there are wars and in my country while there is no physical war, racial tensions , political tensions and religious tensions are extremely high. I never thought I’d see the day where in Australia in my case these tensions are out of control and politicians sit back and enjoy it. It makes me upset,.sometimes angry and I like many others have no voice and no one listens to the saying “love for thy friend what you love for thyself” they just laugh at that. I used to say and do: “Do to others what you’ll have done to you”. That doesn’t work anymore, it used to though.
As a student of Kabbalah how are we supposed to respond this?
Baal Hasulam was a Humanist and that’s why I have a strong love for him, I’m a humanistic person as well. But it seems like this doesn’t matter anymore and humanistic people are pushed to the corners of society. What does the kabbalah say on this …

[Luke]

In kabbalah this process of correction is central. But how would I know that I have achieved a correction. And let’s say you pass away without having corrected everything is that the end ? Is it like you’ve failed if you didn’t achieve all the necessary corrections?

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