Question: What is “attainment” in Kabbalah?

Answer: It is the awareness within one’s desires of everything that comes from the Creator down to the depth of my desires, which I examine. All the primary, secondary, and other phenomena revealed in their full scope and interconnection constitute attainment.

Question: Can we say that a person goes through three stages: first knowledge, then understanding, and then attainment? Or does one attain everything immediately through feeling?

Answer: It depends on how a person approaches his spiritual work.

Question: Suppose I hear “There is none else besides Him” or some other principle, does that mean I now know that He exists, even without understanding?

Answer: If a person has just begun studying and has not yet attained anything, then yes. But if he is already attaining, sensing, and has spiritual vessels (Kelim), which are the means to determine, feel, and reveal, then his approach is different.

For someone reading and hearing about these things for the first time, it all seems like an incomprehensible alphabet: “Where is this happening? In which world? With whom?” He needs time. What the mind does not allow, time accomplishes.

Gradually, he becomes accustomed to the sound of Kabbalistic terms, to the connection of words into phrases, then into sentences, and finally to the connection of sentences. All this enters him gradually, not through the mind, but through the heart.

To the extent that he tries to be together with his friends united in a group helping, giving, and supporting them, he begins to attain the inner meaning of what he hears.
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From the Basic Kabbalah Lesson, 11/19/17

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