[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Dhara,
There are several things here that need to happen before we can even begin to approach your main question.
The first one is definitions.  You don’t like the word hate, the kabbalists use the word hate, what do they mean, what do you mean.
All of the definitions you encounter in the wisdom of kabbalah you will need to learn anew.

Second, each person needs to find a path that works for them, there are many paths to the place.
While many similarities can be drawn between all kinds of methods, we do no comparative study.
And in order to benefit from what is going on here, it will be helpful to come as a child, of course you use your mind, but you come as if you are before a master painter for example and you just soak in how she moves, how she mixes the paints, you are not comparing everything she is doing to how you do it or how someone else did it, try to absorb what you are learning here.  Later you can organize it all in your mind and feeligs and compare it with whatever you choose, but you won’t be able to absorb what is going on if you don’t have the right definitions and you are relating it to some other foreign method here and there.

Now with all of that said, let’s return to the ARI’s Tree of Life where he begins before time and before space, before the emanated beings were emanated and the created beings created, an upper, simple light filled the entire reality.  When it rose upon His simple desire to create the worlds and emanate the emanated beings to bring the perfection of His deeds, His names and appellations to light, the Light of Ein Sof (without end) removed Himself, restricted Himself from the middle point of the eternity (you can ask yourself, how can there be a middle point of eternity, where can it be if there is not yet any space, etc.. these are some of the questions that arise) and in that tiny black point where He removed Himself, that became a desire to want to receive the Light in its full bounty.
That point developed until we reached our life and our universe which is governed by the two same two forces, the unbounded bestowal of the light and the endless receiving of the vessel.

If we love someone, we hate to lose them, we don’t like it.
That is natural.
We may be wise and understand why things happen.  But if we have feelings, and we are honest, we hate to lose what we love.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Curtis,

The ARI opens the Tree of Life by explaining to us that before the emanated beings were emanated and the creatures were created, everything was one Light called the Light Without End (Or Ein Sof). And then in the middle of that eternal light. The Creator withdrew Himself to make a place for creation.

Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Jay,
You are doing the right discernments.
On the one hand the law of life is to love the other as myself.
On the other hand someone is coming to kill me and it says if someone comes to kill me I must kill him first.

And back and forth from the left and the right.
Trying to hold two opposites is correct.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Joe,
In general, for all of the normal things in life, find a group of people who act like you want to act and learn from them, observe them, how they do it and mimic them.  Then you’ll acquire those qualities to be able to do the things that you want to do.
And you’ll later use this same technique towards spirituality, you find a society that has the qualities that you must have and learn how to tune yourself to the same frequency.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Milos,
Yes and know.
The rabbis can tell you or google can tell you what are all 613 mitzvot.
For example, there is a mitzvah that an impure person must not enter the Temple.
So what is an impure person and what is, where is  the Temple?
So there is a lot to uncover here.
Seth@KabU

[Seth – KabU Instructor]

Juule,

Many things in the wisdom of kabbalah will seem like contradictions.

In spirituality two things can exist at once. In corporeality two things can only exist at two different times.
This concept of faith above reason will clarify over time.

In order for there to be faith above reason, there has to be reason.  These things will go hand in hand as a spiritual process.

Seth@KabU

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