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Toni,
Learning the wisdom of kabbalah from a kabbalist, like we are doing…all of your instructors here are long time students of the kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, the successor of the great kabbalist the Rabash who was the son and successor of Baal HaSulam the commentator on the book of Zohar and the one who brought the wisdom of the hidden into the masses.
So, when we learn the wisdom of kabbalah like this, it is like a child in kindergarten. At first, they show us something. “This is a sailboat”. We don’t understand yet how the sail works, how exactly the rudder steers the boat or how the keel keep the boat upright. We look at it, take it in our hand, hold it, turn it over and as we grow we can start to learn about the wind and the currents, etc.
Or the teacher gives you a ball of clay, now we make a bowl. We were little kids playing with dirt, we don’t understand how to make it the right shape, the right proportions, etc, but we start to work with it.
Now we heard about Lishma, we will hear about many things too. Lishma means for the sake of the Creator, we can say that. Later it will open up more, but let’s say it means for the sake of the Creator. Why is it called Her name, etc. there are many questions. But in short this is the intention behind our actions. We are a desire to receive and we receive everything for our own benefit. Through the influence of the upper light and many actions and discernments on our part we want that Light to influence us and change our intention that we will receive but not egoistically, but receive all of the abundance for the sake of the Creator.
Seth@KabUWill,
Each of these, money, honor, fame, it doesn’t mean that you will be a billionaire and then you will be king and then a rockstar and then you are ready for spirituality.
All of these qualities and desires develop in us, all of us to different degrees. I’ve seen high school sports teams give all they can on the field. For them, at their degree, they gave 100%, a pro who gave 70% isn’t the same qualitatively as the one who gave 100%.
So there are many different degrees for all of these and also through the incarnations and also in relation to others who we are integrated with without our conscious awareness.
In short, if you are searching for the answers to why am I alive, what is the meaning of my life, then the point in your heart is awakening.
Seth@KabUMH,
The entire substance of creation is the will to receive: inanimate, vegetative, animate and human are more intense degrees of the will to receive but all are only the will to receive.
Everything we feel is that same will to receive.
Of course, seeing suffering doesn’t feel good to you so it hurts your ego.
If you were a warlord, you would take pride seeing your enemies suffering. It is according to each ones ego.
Let these feelings be fuel for you.
But also to not be confused, which is very easy and most people are very confused.
One man with vision can lead 1000 blind people through a perilous journey.
First we need to see how to see and understand what we are seeing and you’ll see how that already begins the correction. The whole game is about the creation coming to adhesion with the Creator and the Creator did not make anything by accident or by mistake.
Seth@KabUMH,
You are trying to fix what the Creator made.
That is a sign of a big ego 🙂
The Creator made everything this way and you see everything as broken.
Pharaoh, Moses, the desert, 40 years, … all of this and more are internal states. The Torah speaks about a person’s inner work.Some things need to stabilize in you so that you can advance correctly.
You are at the preparation period. What you are learning is invaluable.
Imagine a newborn, she can complain about a lot of things, I’m hot, I’m cold, I’m hungry, I’m tired, but at the end of the day, Mommy and Daddy are going to take care of everything. We are also in that same situation spiritually.
All of the “things” that you are seeing around you are to give you inner discernments, but our spiritual work is not to go out and feed every homeless person tomorrow. It’s impossible, there are hundreds of millions of hungry people.
You are learning and will learn more about the structure of reality that extends from the upper HaVaYaH. In our world we experience it as the inanimate degree, the vegetative degree, the animal degree and the human (spiritual) degree.What we are engaged in here is only the spiritual degree. We are not going to learn about feeding people for the time being and housing people. As we go through an inner transformation, we will understand what actions to take and more than that, the world that we see will change. The world that we see is a reflection of our inner state.
In short, be a normal person in this world, eat, exercise, work, take care of your family, … be healthy.
Additionally, you found the authentic wisdom of kabbalah. Study well, go over the materials multiple times and advance with us in a consistent and meaningful way.
Then your soul will teach you and you will reach what you are looking for.
Seth@KabULiss,
The Creator (the unified force of all reality) operates reality by two reigns, right and left. + & – . We see this everywhere in the sun rising and setting, the inhale and exhale and also in our spiritual states. The vessel becomes empty and then we can feel and understand what filling we need and new light enters the vessel.
On the animal degree, this happens unconsciously and only on animal and lower desires.
For us the emptiness comes as questions about the meaning of our life, why am I here? What is the purpose of all of this?
You found a place where we are engaged in this, practically and daily.
When you feel up, engage in the study, make notes, connect with the others (you will have opportunity to do this more soon) and then when your vessel becomes empty, in addition to those feelings, you will also have a spiritual framework that keeps you as if floating above it…you still feel everything in this world, but you don’t need to react only to the animal body, but the spiritual mind that is above the reason of the animal mind carries you to the next state.
We will learn about this much more. Don’t worry, these are normal states. We all go through them and we all help each other.
Seth@KabUGlen,
By being in an environment that values the goal of creation.
The same envy, lust and honor that were previously used to survive in this world, you use to advance spiritually. You see others advancing, you want to be like them, you see the others valuing spirituality and you want it more too.
In short, the books, the guide and the group. Together with these you will be able to advance correctly and quickly.
Seth@KabU
