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Posted on December 27th, 2017 at 9:55 pm
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Question: Does Kabbalah help us understand the motivations and intentions of our actions and the actions of others?
Answer: Yes, of course. You need to analyze all your actions and desires.
And in addition, you also need to come to realize how much these actions are not yours. Everything that happens to you, you do not create, you do not make; you have no one to ask for forgiveness and no one to blame, including yourself. All of this was done by the Creator. He even said as much: “I have created the evil inclination.” And immediately added: “And gave you light, for you to correct the evil.”
Comment: Can you imagine if in court a person said: “The Creator did all this”?
Answer: No, in the court of law, there is no one to talk to. But if you are talking to yourself, you must admit to yourself that you have done nothing independently in your life: nothing good and nothing bad.
Your only real actions will be those you do when you start working above the screen—above the Machsom.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/3/17
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Question: What kind of role does the imagination have in the wisdom of Kabbalah? What is its place on the tree of Sefirot on any one of its levels?
Answer: Imagination helps us only in the process of attainment; it doesn’t exist independently.
Question: According to what scheme should one focus for the importance of something within myself so that this importance will not remain concealed until the world of infinity, so as not to go outside of the group, but also not to become dependent on the external manifestations of the group, like physical bodies, but in a spiritual context?
Answer: it is possible to do this only with the help of mutual support, Arvut (mutual guarantee)!
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Question: Does the Creator have emotions?
Answer: We do not speak about the Creator. Regarding us, the Creator has no emotions. He is the absolute to whom we attribute our feelings, our actions, our thoughts, because it is convenient for us.
But in Him, there is nothing, and His attitude toward us is absolutely the same. He does not change, He is perfect. Therefore, His attitude toward us can be called absolute love, bestowal, and a good influence.
Saying that the Creator is angry, the Creator is dissatisfied, the Creator needs to do this or that, we speak from ourselves, because it is so much easier for us to direct ourselves to something that also changes in accordance with our actions. But in fact, there are no changes.
Moreover, the Creator is completely indifferent to how we behave and what we do. We ourselves begin to attain: “I need to behave differently; I have to be better, to rise above, etc. What do I attain, how does the world change?” But the Creator is above all our greatest intentions. It does not affect Him.
When we say that we want to give pleasure to the Creator, to bestow something to Him, to love Him—it is all about changing a person, and that is it!
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17
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Torah, Numbers 12:15 – 12:16: So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not travel until Miriam had entered. Then the people departed from Hazeroth, and they camped in the desert of Paran.
Question: Miriam is a very strong female image in the Torah. What is Miriam in a person?
Answer: Moses and Aaron are the two sides of the movement toward the Creator. Miriam is the lowest part, Malchut, that connects Moses and Aaron.
She continues the chain of prophetesses who came from Babylon (Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel) and is their collective image. Now she accompanies the entire camp of the people of Israel, that is, the entire movement of a person to the Creator. When this quality is no longer required, she dies.
If it is written in the Torah that a person in the camp is sick, it means that he undergoes a spiritual correction and it is necessary to wait until it is over. It is impossible to advance without this. You cannot move forward because you have sick qualities. Miriam represents their common quality, common desire. Naturally since she fell ill with leprosy, she must be corrected. Only after this it is possible to move on.
It has never happened that the people would leave the sick in the desert. The movement forward is based on the fact that you constantly reveal egoistic qualities, correct them, and move on.
Question: Why does Moses pray for the people, for Miriam, all the time?
Answer: He always does what the Creator desires.
The fact is that Moses is the highest point in the soul that pulls a person to complete correction, to adhesion with the Creator. Moses, in this quality, is constantly fulfilling the inner desires of the Creator.
Look how they play! The Creator is constantly threatening the people and Moses protects them because Moses and the Creator are as if one whole, and all the rest are those qualities that must be corrected.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/25/15
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Question: What does it mean “There is none else besides Him”?
Answer: That’s exactly what we must discover. In other words, there exists a cause to everything that you could possibly imagine, and this cause is a single, sole source.
This cause arranges, decides, accomplishes, and functions in everything, and it is called “There is none else besides Him.” Who is He?—the force of bestowal and love. Those are His qualities with respect to us. Aside from that, we know nothing about Him.
Question: How am I supposed to work with that?
Answer: You need to constantly reveal Him in every situation, in every action, intention, and thought—in everything—with the understanding that there is a single cause to everything. After all, our nature is matter, the desire to receive, and what brings it into action in all its forms is that same single force besides which nothing else exists.
Why does this force animate matter? Because it wants to push the material world toward unity. Why? It prepared for matter the ability to attain that same single force that is the cause of everything, but the matter has to attain the state of unity first.
And then this matter, to the extent to which it is connected in spite of its resistance, attains “There is none else besides Him,” this single force, and while attaining it, experiences itself existing and in control.
Moreover, above its own experience of existence, it also attains what it means to exist and be in control of all of reality, since that same reason, “There is none else besides Him,” gives this matter, this creation, the ability to be on His level, on the level of the Creator. And then the entire world, the entire created desire to receive, is in control of that same desire and not under the control of the Creator. That is what is meant by perfection.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/15/17, “Lesson on the Topic: “Hanukkah by the Wisdom of Kabbalah”
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#Freedom: Like a cogwheel, you’re pressed on all sides by other cogwheels. You can’t move. You’re fully dependent on them! However, suddenly you feel your agreement with the Creator frees you from everyone by freeing you from yourself, and you don’t need to change anything!
When an integral (above the #ego) connection with the outside is achieved, past, present and future are perceived as a single whole, as constant, above the animal body. You sense #existence in the general flow of forces (the plan of creation), and you see your place in it.
#Unity: We can come to sense the universe as a single whole, not a collection of parts. Parts with different qualities interconnected so much that you cannot distinguish between them. This is the degree of Yechida—total unity between us, desires, and the Upper force, fulfillment.
Revelation of #reality: One doesn’t change reality, but one’s attitude toward it and toward contradictions. By studying Kabbalah, I realize I must change, bringing myself into congruence with the system of our world’s governance, connecting into it fully and consciously.
#Spirituality is eternal! When replacing intention to receive w/bestowal, time disappears.
Bestowal = no past or future. It’s the action itself that’s important, and whom it’s directed at.
The ego promises the future, but in spirituality, there’s no future–it’s all in the present!
#Spirituality (Creator, Upper Light) has (fills) only the form that you build for it. You learn from your relationships in the group how to build the Creator’s image and step-by-step (descents-ascents) you reveal Him. You make the form of the Creator-Adam, the Creator’s likeness.
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MAN is not the heavenly manna that falls from above, but a prayer that a person raises from below and becomes fulfilled by it. It is the drive forward, not the reception, but the aim, the push, the daring that fulfills him, and by this he lives.
Only through the aiming toward love does a person feel pleasure, which is called the sweet labor of love, without which it does not exist.
Fulfillment is only the request to the Creator. That is why the prayer in Hebrew is called “tfila” from the word “lehitpalel,” which means to judge oneself. Although you are not asking anyone for anything, you scrutinize and understand yourself. You do not need to address anyone; it is sufficient to reach the aspiration for the goal and not to search for the goal itself.
Only those working on spiritual correction and going through everything themselves can understand this. No one else can.
And even for those who are engaged, it takes a long time before the aspiration forward is not for oneself without any reception, absolutely selfless, and becomes their inner need. But this is the true spiritual state.
So, it is specifically the desert where you eat the manna—that is the ideal state. You have nothing other than the aspiration forward, toward love and bestowal.
You still cannot use your “Pharaoh” (ego) that sits in your “duffle bag,” but you already start aiming forward. And then your drive will increase so much that without expecting that this desire will grow in you, you will gradually begin pulling it out and changing it into aiming forward.
And then you will be able to act. Like the Creator acts in bestowal you will, with the help of the Pharaoh, act on working in bestowal. Specifically the black force of the Pharaoh is what will give you the ability to bestow.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/25/15
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