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Shi,
The best is to read it with the group of students. If you go to kabbalahmedia.info and click on the link for Lectures & Lessons, you will see a list of all of the daily lessons. Everyday we students of Rav Laitman are reading the Zohar together for 30 minutes. It is the (Afternoon 2) lesson, you’ll see that as you scroll though the list of lessons.
While you are listening, try to incorporate your desire with the desire of all of the other students who are yearning like you are for this connection. Your spark will be added to our sparks and we will make a big flame.
Seth@KabU
Jay,
Sure, but there is nuance.
But you can say
Food, sex, family
Money, wealth
Honor, Knowledge
Power
Seth@KabUNathan,
We are not in receive to bestow.
What we do in this state is first recognize that we are will to receive and everything we do, every step, every thought and every move is for our own benefit. From here, from this recognition we will be able to then start to feel what bestowal is and to develop a true need for it. Then the light fills that vessel.
Seth@KabUHai Mag,
When you say “religion”, you are not referring to attaining the Creator.
You are referring to the religions that we see in the world.
The Tanakh is written only by kabbalists, by those who have attainment of the spiritual degrees that they write about.
There is no words in any of those books about philosophy or theory.Here are some excerpts from our teacher, the kabbalist Rav Laitman,
” Kabbalah was born before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Torah speaks of Abraham “bestowing gifts” to the sons of his concubines and sending them East, thus laying the foundation for Eastern teachings. Everything stems from one source.The collective desire is divided into many parts, and each part has its own individual path of correction. Certain parts can commence with correction immediately. They constitute the group that Abraham had taken out of Babylon. The other parts have scattered around the world, with each part developing individually in accordance with its unique set of qualities.
Their means of advancement are the various religions, faiths, and cultures. A person can easily remain in his faith and follow the spiritual path at the same time. Baal HaSulam writes about this in his Writings of The Last Generation:
“The religious formation of all the nations should first and foremost obligate its members to bestow upon their fellow man the concept of another person’s life coming before one’s own, a formation of ‘Love thy neighbour as thyself’… But otherwise, each nation may pursue its own religion and traditions, and one must not interfere with the other.”
That is, we must not meddle in the affairs of other nations and cultures. Let them have these things; people need them. This whole “territory” has nothing to do with the spiritual world. As a person advances, it turns into a cultural platform for him, a set of traditions, and does not get in the way.
If I want to rise above my nature so as to unite with everybody, even the relationships between religions appear to me in a new light. As a Muslim, I suddenly understand that I can advance toward the goal alongside a Christian, and, truly, what can stop us?
Everyone is used to their own home cooking, and nobody is taking that away from you. As Baal HaSulam writes, everyone can remain in their religion, and nobody has the right to meddle in your affairs precisely because this has nothing to do with the spiritual path. Ultimately, in our world, religions constitute culture, tradition that corresponds from the beginning to the nature of the various parts of Malchut and conforms to the root of the soul.”
Seth@KabU
Hai Mag,
During this part of our study, we are learning many new definitions.
For example when something is great, we say that it is “cool”, but to our grandparents, “cool” means that something is actually cold.
Similarly when the kabbalists write about religion it means attainment.
Obviously for us in our world, religion has nothing to do with attaining Godliness.
Regarding Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. these give people important cultural structure in their lives and there is no reason to throw them away, in fact, a person can keep what his family keeps but a kabbalist distinguishes these customs from the work of his soul in attaining Godliness.
Seth@KabUJohanna,
We are made of a material body which is a desire to receive.
This is not praised or condemned. It is a part of nature, like all of the rest of nature that seeks food, rest, pleasure, etc.
We have to eat and sleep and be normal healthy material creatures or we will feel bad.
In addition to that a new desire is developing in us for something that cannot be filled by more rest or more food or sex or money. This is the point in our heart which draws us towards something eternal, something spiritual.Learn how to distinguish when your blood sugar is unbalanced and when you are feeling some deeper yearning.
Sometimes when we feel bad, it’s because we need to exert our body or eat something. But there are other times when we need to delve into the texts (videos, our learning materials) to satisfy that endless yearning in our heart.If you can learn where this boundary is in yourself between what is called your material needs and where your spiritual desire begins, you’ll will be able to orient yourself more and more accurately and develop your spiritual desire more correctly and calibrate it to the light that is pressing on it, developing it and eventually filling it.
Happy to have you here,
Seth@KabU
