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Zealot Mines,
All of the practical work that we will learn we will do together with the others in the kabbalistic group, who are working on the same goal, following the same method.
Later as we develop new qualiites and abilities, we will learn how to expand this to more and more outer circles.
In the meantime, be a good person in the world. Try this and that. Just not to be confused. The spiritual work that we do at first is specifically within the kabbalistic group.
Seth@KabUBrad,
Baal HaSulam is writing about a very exalted degree that person achieves, where he feels that everything is coming from the Creator. It takes time for a person to stabilize this perception while still living in this world, engaged in work, family, study, etc with all of the “disturbances” sent to direct him.
It is as if everything in in the hands of the Creator except as it’s written, “fear of the Creator”, meaning my intention, that I don’t want to be separate from Him. As if being separate from my Beloved. No matter what the actions are, in my heart, in my intention I want to be connected to Him in everything.
Later we’ll discover that even this is Him doing it, but from our side, we went through all of the efforts in order to acquire this intention, even though He gives it, we went through all the actions to build it and by these efforts we learn how to relate to Him, to value Him and to be like Him.
Seth@KabUStudent,
Suffering only helps to direct us.
There is no commandment that we need to suffer.
We should quickly learn the laws of nature and the understand the forces that are working on us and how to live in harmony together.
Seth@KabUJulia,
The light works on everyone, but in different ways.
Only the humans are consciously working on the attainment of the Creator on the degree called Adam.
Seth@KabUBrad,
On the one hand we do interpret it on the literal level, but also many other levels.
You know in our normal life, as we grow up, the books we read change, at 5 we read a certain kind of book, at 15 a different book and at 25 a different kind of book.
In the wisdom of kabbalah, it’s different. Here, the book stays the same, but we change and according to our development in relation to our soul, the book changes.Regarding your original question about Abraham. It’s helpful to remember that the Creator doesn’t change. He is eternal. All of the negotiating with the Creator is about the changes that take place in the person, how much a person desires to want to be like the Creator. The process that Abraham goes through in Sodom and Gomorrah is scrutinizing between the force of the left and the force of the right.
The binding of Issac, meaning preventing the left line from being used. The sending away of Hagar and Ishmael, meaning sending out the part of the right that cannot join the left. Since everything is created for a reason, we need to even use things that appear to be the worst possible and turn them into good depending on how we relate to them. This process of negotiation is about Abraham making inner scrutinies about what he can work with and what he desires as he develops towards bringing the quality of Bina into the world and the complex process of Bina mixing with Malchut.
Seth@KabUBrad,
If you want to jump straight to the literal, then you also need to ask about the bush that spoke and the sea that parted and the snake that talked, so let’s start to understand what we’re talking about first, what is this book called Torah and then we’ll have the correct approach to these questions.Check out this blog post by our teacher, the kabbalist Michael Laitman. I think you’ll get a lot from it.
Seth@KabU
