[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Brad,
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@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Brad,
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.

VaYera (The Lord Appeared) Parsha – Weekly Torah Portion

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Haze,

Happy to see how interested and curious you are.

We have to learn together what is the Torah, what does it mean the merit of our forefathers, etc.  We will do that in our classes together and then these questions and answers will get more clear.

We are living in what the Kabbalists call the last generation. There is no prohibition on revealing the wisdom to the masses.

Regarding spiritual attainment, one needs to begin to attain his true nature as a unique and  integral part of the collective whole.  It becomes clear that specifically by reconnecting the broken pieces of our soul, in that vessel the upper light dwells and by that we rise higher and ever higher.

Equivalence of form – we’ll learn about this more later. We still need to get more clear on what are we and what qualities is the Creator.

The number of humans does not change the state of the one soul.   It means that today for example 8 billion people each lift one tiny piece where in the past less people each lifted heavier pieces.

When we are born we don’t have the soul that we are learning about, the soul being the vessel for the light of the Creator to dwell.  This soul is acquired through our labor in Torah and mitzvot. We will learn more about this.
By this the world that we perceive changes.  Bombs, wars, CO2, all of this appears in our current shattered vessels.

Regarding your other questions, we can take an example from nature. The whole earth was not filled with plants in a day, wasn’t filled animals in a day.

Similarly the whole earth won’t become spiritual in a day. But in each subsequent degree (inanimate->vegetative->animal->human) the pace speeds up.

 

Look forward to more questions,

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Julia,
600,000 is a quality.
In spirituality a number is a qualitative measurement, not a quantitative measurement.
Animals are animals.
The soul that we are talking about is a vessel where a certain light dwells within, that vessel is called the soul of man.
It is a degree above the degree of animal.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Stephen,

This is  something you will have to decide yourself.

We are learning together the science of the soul. We have people from all backgrounds who come to study.
If your family has traditions and a culture, there is no problem to keep it.
Of course religions have their own interpretation of the texts.
We are following the kabbalists who attained the degrees that we want to achieve.

The Creator cares about our hearts. If you sit with your family in church because it is important to them and your community there is not a problem.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Kimadigital17,

The matter of creation is the will to receive pleasure.
The form it will take after it is corrected is to receive (it must), but it receives in order to give contentment to the Giver (instead of receiving for self-benefit).

Seth@KabU

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