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CS,
This is how we read the story with these eyes.
If you take a child on an airplane, what do they understand.
But an aerospace engineer understands and notices many details about the wonder of a 300,000 pound vessel flying through the sky despite gravity. He understands lift and resistance, drag, thrust, many factors that he not only understands but he feels them.
So we read a story about some characters who went down to Egypt then they come back up to the land of Israel. What is Egypt? What is Israel?
What is the tearing of the Sea? What is leaving at night?
The books of the kabbalah tell us that all of this takes place inside of one person. It is written in The Zohar, “Man is a small world and consists of all the nations of the world.”
Continue with learning the foundational fundamentals and all of these things will come into focus soon.
Seth@kabUTristan,
Until now we lived a life on the degree called animal.
First things first, examine yourself and the world around you. See that you and everyone and everything around you is running a simple line of software, how can I get the most pleasure for the least amount of effort.
There is no need to criticize anyone for this, this is the software that is installed on us. All of creation is a will to receive on the degrees of :still, vegetative, animate and speaking.
We don’t even know yet what the Creator is, but we can see what He made and start to understand who we are and by this get to start to know the Craftsman who made me.
After this start to imagine that outside of you there is an endless reality. Meanwhile all of your perception is only turned inward. Imagine what love might be, what bestowal might be that somehow you would receive but only to benefit the entire system.
And begin to ask the Creator, the system, nature, to open this up to you.
Of course your requests do not change the Creator, the system, nature, but you start to calibrate yourself through the requests.
Good luck and looking forward to hearing about your progress,
Seth@KabUGhera,
There is nothing to reconcile. A kabbalist who has revealed the integral laws of nature upon himself is incapable of harming the system. To be a kabbalist meanst that one has become in harmony with the system.
Your understanding is confused. You are thinking that spiritual attainment is some kind of possession that you can put in your pocket and pull it out when your ego thinks its good to use it.
The desire for stealing doesn’t have to go away, but you’ll feel what it is at its root, how to steal uncorrected desires from the other side and raise them up to kedusha/sanctity.
We’ll see, it is an exciting journey we are on.
Seth@KabUJohn,
This is the way that matter comes to feel something beyond time and space.
For now accept what the kabbalists are writing as they gave us nothing less than the map they used to reach their degrees.We tell our children for example to play soccer. We also see Messi “play soccer” and win the World Cup. So even though in both examples, with the child and with Messi we say “play soccer”, the words mean totally different things depending on the stage of the person.
Seth@KabU
Sarah,
If it is your custom, so do it.
We have students from every continent…not Antarctica yet but the other 6.Dozens of languages, religions and cultures. Each one can follow their culture. Together we are studying the inner meaning of the Torah which speaks about the spiritual reality and this includes all people from every culture.
Seth@KabU
zeinab,
Imagine you are arranged into a group of friends who are studying the wisdom of kabbalah with you and your goal is to love them as you love yourself.
And you are excited about it and you think you are doing it. And then you realize that you are doing it only as much as it is comfortable and convenient for you. Are you making a place in your heart for them to enter?
Even the one who is lazy and even the one who doesn’t seem to pay attention and whatever you see with your eyes, because after all love of friends does not mean that the friends will love me, but that I will love them and in order to do this we are given more and more opportunities where we are until now incapable of loving and we have the opportunity to love until we fill all of the space between us with our new attitude, a literal change of the heart, an inversion from self love to love of the others, which after all is the quality of the Creator.
Seth
