[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Peter,

if you don’t eat and sleep so there is no spiritual life. If you don’t pay the rent or mortgage there then there is no place to sit quietly to study.  If you neglect your family then you will be distracted from your spiritual work.
We are learning about the cascading of the  upper light from Ein Sof all the way down to this world, the path it takes, the four phases of direct light, the four spiritual worlds, etc.

When the creature begins to rise from below upward it follows those four phases and first we had the 1. inanimate development, starts, planets, etc, then 2. vegetative development, then 3. animate development and finally 4. human.

Those four phases/degrees are found in each of us as well.  The first three are not related for the time being to spirituality, in that we are like all of the rest of nature that must eat, procreate, have a family, do some sort of work, etc. and on top of that we do our spiritual work which is work.

I recommend that you slowly and comfortably organize your corporeal life so you have some time each day or each week depending on your schedule now to study. Maybe it’s 30 mins at first or an hour or more. But something consistent. In the same way that you eat every day, so you also establish a time to connect to the source material, the lesson material each day.
You can do extra if you have time.

You just entered university and you want to do brain surgery. But to be a good brain surgeon you can’t if you’re being pulled in 1000 directions.
Create a stable framework for yourself and review the materials again and again. Over time you will feel that your inner world will start to organize itself as it says one’s soul will teach him…not your imagination, but as the light in the lesson material works on you it’s like a software upgrade.
Work like this for a month. Take it seriously and you will see how you are building a good foundation.  Update me in a month. This is a long path but you can make it shorter by flowing with it.

Good luck,

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Tamar,
At every moment of our lives we are in this example.  We don’t feel that life is sustained at every. moment by the Creator.  Every breath, every sip of water every heart beat, do we feel the Giver?
We can say that the Creator desires to fill the creature with pleasure.
Imagine that a mother makes a meal for her children.
If the children refuse to eat, maybe the child doesn’t feel well and the mom is upset about it.
But when the child will finally accept the food and eat, the mother feels pleasure.
So the act is not about physically receiving or giving the food, but the act is the internal movement.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Amani,
The light that emanates from the Creator is called the light of hochma.  It is the light of pleasure and fulfillement.
It cannot be felt in material vessels.
It can only be felt in “spiritual” vessels.
The light emanates out of the Creator and the kabbalists describe the cascading of the light in four phases plus the root. Keter, Hochma, Bina, ZA and Malchut.
The vessel performs several operations, at first she can’t be like the light since she has not light to give, but she can stop receiving.  If she stops receiving, then at least she is not opposite from the light.
Then she calculates that she will receive but only as much as she can receive in order to give pleasure to the Creator.
By this the light works on the vessel and slowly transforms it into a vessel that can receive spiritual pleasure.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Emiwodew,
On the one hand we are malchut and we have to connect to our upper 9.
On the other hand, all of the sefirot are in us.
Just as a baby has arms and legs but doesn’t use them yet, he needs to grow until he can use them, it is the same for us.  Our spiritual organs stand waiting only for us to be ready for them.
As much as we can convince ourselves that love of the others is more important than love of self then we start to discover what is outside of us and then we begin to discover all of these things.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Ruth,
Suppose you are in love, from the core of your being your love overflows for someone.
Suppose you want to love that person, you want your beloved to feel the extent of your love.
So what do you do?  Can you take your essence and drop it on their head?
Or do you move your protein body closer to them and give a tender kiss.
Your essence is the most inner part, then the soul and the next layer is your body, so you move your body close.
You also move your mouth to make sounds that make your beloved feel loved.
You may give gifts.
In short, you clothe your essence and your abstract form (feelings that are not clothed) into behaviors and actions that your beloved can feel.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Hooman,

If you attain all the spiritual degrees, if you live in this world in a body, you need to eat food, drink water, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc.

Your question requires you to have a more complete perception of what you are studying.
Of course everything that is happening in our lives is the result of our spiritual state.   However in chemistry you know if you add hydrogen like this with oxygen like that you get water.

But we are not manipulating spiritual states by moving around matter. There are processes and conditions in our corporeal life that are arranged from above, but you cannot diagnosis now that you are on such and such a degree and such and such a reshimot has revealed and you are working with the desires and the lights in order to correct those corruptions, etc.

The order of our work is much more simple than that.

If you want to be rich, find a rich mentor and learn how to be rich. A person may also need to seek relationship counseling from some expert, although many professsionals are confused and can lead a person down a path that wil lead to more confusion but there is that too.

Simultaneously you are now embarking on this spiritual journey. It’s a different set of rules. As we correct our spiritual perception it’s true that we gain confidence and calmness, but it’s not a trick, it’s from feelings that one feels who he is, where he is, he understands the world he is in, why, where it is heading, how to work with the forces that appear in his life.

You will be confused if you try to apply what you are learning in Kabbalah to all the aspects of your corporeal life. With some experience it will all become clarified. In the meantime, try to learn these fundamentals and simultaneously take care of your bodily life like any good human would do.

Seth@KabU

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