Distracting Thoughts: The Food For The Soul
Question: What is the purpose in the distracting thoughts which come during the reading of The Book of Zohar and prevent me from focusing on it?
Answer: All of this is given from Above, and we don’t know why we have these or other thoughts in one form or another, or why they are necessary. We can make various calculations, but we will never find out the real reason for them.
Thoughts can be very obsessive, and all of a sudden, they can disappear and never come back again. They can come in bouts; now I think about one thing and then, about something else. Obviously, they are necessary. After all, the soul is growing based on these thoughts.
Therefore, we have to take them into account, that is, to understand that all of this comes from Above, and there are no coincidences. We receive conditions from Above and based on them, we have to grow.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/2011, The Zohar
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For me, being around people who are not studying Kabbalah is distracting. It’s not their fault, but I get distracted with the corporeal world around me sometimes and have to refocus.