Question: What does the first spiritual level feel like?
Answer: Feeling the first spiritual level happens when, through one’s efforts, a person constantly arouses the influence of the Upper Light [1] that exists in the connection between us [2].
If he yearns for unity, he begins to discover that this state already exists, but to the degree that he yearns for it, he invites the influence of this general state upon himself. Like a conductor moving in a magnetic field gives rise to an electric current, through our yearning for the next state, we also summon the appearance of a unique characteristic within us called Light. Then, we begin to feel the next spiritual level.
Spirituality is found outside of the physical human body. This body forms our ego within us.
As soon as we yearn for escape from it, we begin to invite a unique power, the Upper Light, the Light of correction, Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light). And it influences us to the degree that we yearn for the spiritual state. It corrects, changes, and transforms us into spiritual beings, meaning it gives us the feeling of the space outside of the body. That is how it works.
Question: What are the signs of feeling the spiritual levels?
Answer: On every spiritual level, we feel a completely new world, but this is not the world that is now within us and in front of us. It is revealed each time as a new universe, a new feeling about ourselves and those around us. There is a new feeling about the Creator [3] in which we find ourselves like raisins in dough.
Question: What brings people to a group that studies Kabbalah?
Answer: There is nothing accidental in the world. A person comes to a group or encounters the wisdom of Kabbalah because he has spiritual potential. When this potential achieves a minimal contact with the general spiritual field, it begins to draw it within itself and aim it closer toward the center.
On the way, it encounters identical charges that are like it, but it sees them in the form of particular people with whom it can speak about the same subject and can discover the upper world together with them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/13/15
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Climbing The Steps Of Spiritual Development [4]
Connecting To A Higher Level [5]
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