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Hi Gianni, can you help me understand what the term „contentment“ means in terms of „Bringing contentment to oneś maker or to the creator? I understand, this is what it is about. However, I am wondering, what the term contentment really means. I understand, itś not meant to be like a moral judgement, itś not part of corporeal thinking, right? But then, what is it? Is it that through achieving more equivalence of form, a desire returns back bit by bit to the creating force? Is that bringing contentment? Therefore, bringing contentment would be like reaching step by step towards fulfillment of the plan of creation in that creator and creation will be united in the end. Is that what it is about?
Hi, in the introduction to the study of the ten Sefirot, many articles refer to working with Torah and keeping Mitzvot in expectation of reward versus punishment, and while doing so , internally growing from Lo Lishma to Lishma. Furthermore, there were suggestions to give the study of Thorah no more than 3-5 years before turning to Kabbalah as a different source. For me this raised a few questions:
1. How is the importance of keeping Torah and Mitzvot considered in a non-religious context? Should that be a source from which to derive direction for people who are not engaged in Judaism? Especially, when it comes to the Mitzvot. I understand, that „love thy friend as thyself“ is kind of the core Mitzva, that is definitely needed for spiritual work, whereas the others Mitvot seem to be guiding to this goal (if that is right) but for a non-Jewish person I am wondering how to deal with the study of Mitzvot at all?
2. In comparison of keeping Thorah and Mitzvot versus engaging in developing the wisdom of Kabbalah, how are Thoras/Mitzvot related to Kabbalah? Could it be said that people can learn outwardly from experience through engaging in Thorah / Mitzvot whereas the study of Kabbalal develops them internally? And can it be said, that if one would decide to take Thorah/Mitzvot more literally, itś not so much about the action performed, but about the underlying faith?
3. And then how does Kabbalah relate to the expectation of reward and punishment? Does this actually exist, like in a conditioned environment, or is it referring to the pain and suffering that arouses from being developed along the natural process rather than the internally driven and enhanced process Kabbalah offers?
Sorry , thatś a lot of questions. But I am really trying to understand HOW to develop myself, and I feel I need to understand the implication the different sources have, especially Thorah and its Mitzvot, because I have no connection to it, so I need to understand which place it is supposed to have in the study of Kabbalah.
Hi Gianni, thanks a lot, I think I have read that text before, and basically I understood things to be like a conduct of seal and imprint through the different worlds, and in a root-branch language that, as I understood, only opens up as you get there. I cannot relate this to the 4 languages of spirituality, except that you would find natureś wisdom in all these four parts- Thorah, law, legends, and Kabbalah (although I am not getting, why Kabbalah seems to be equal among the others). Plus, what made me feel even more confused is that part about a wise man having to work it out by himself, i.e. attain it, and only after that being able to refer to what a sage tells him. I mean, considering that I am just at the beginning of this journey, does that mean as long as I dońt attain spirituality, it doesńt make sense to read any of this, because I wońt be able to relate to it after all?
Thanks for all the explanations, I am very grateful for it :-). I found a short explanation about the four languages of spirituality, and that they are basically needed because they describe objects of the spiritual worlds, which otherwise could not be expressed as there are no names for it. But how are these languages used? Are these four languages interchangeably speaking of the same things, and equally difficult to be understood – or do they have different purposes and address to different stages in our development? So that at one stage we may understand the one explanation, and at another stage maybe another?
And then, does this anyhow connect to the „4 angels“, the four basic properties of nature: mercy, justice, truth, and peace?
Hi, I am trying to understand that second restriction. in terms of the second restriction it says Malchut „seemingly ascends in her desires to the Sefira Bina“. How does that happen? And why does Malchut need the light AB-SAG to gain altruistic strength to return from Bina back to her place? And what does it mean to say „if one (Malchut) raises MAN“ – what is MAN?
Thank you for helping me understand :-)))))
