Question: The material we study begins to take effect only when the light reaches a person, and then, naturally, all the sources begin to open: The Study of the Ten Sefirot, The Book of Zohar, and others. Does everything depend solely on the light?
Answer: Nothing depends on the light. Everything depends on your desire, ability, and understanding of the influence of the light, which exists around you eternally and perfectly. I mean the desire to draw the light, work with it, and become like it. To draw the light means to be similar to the Creator.
Comment: You said that we should not try to intellectually understand the material we read since logical reasoning alone will never lead us to comprehension.
My Response: Never! You will never reach understanding logically. You must develop a different logic, additional perceptions. This does not mean rejecting anything corporeal, but rather, you must develop yourself.
You need to build additional systems of perception, analysis, synthesis, and decision-making within yourself that are similar to the spiritual ones. This is what it means to become like the Creator.
When you do this through Kabbalah, which was created solely for this purpose of developing additional capabilities in a person, then you begin to feel Him. The more you expand, construct new inner abilities, connections, perceptions, and analyses, the more you feel the Creator. Then you start to understand what Kabbalah speaks of, and Kabbalistic books become a description of what you personally experience.
A Kabbalistic book turns into a living manual for you. It tells you what to do.
Question: Suppose I travel to Paris as a tourist and see Notre Dame or some other landmark, which gives me certain impressions. How does this work in spirituality?
Answer: In spirituality, your impressions come from inner attainment: What is this object? What is this phenomenon? How does it affect me? How can I best perceive it? How is it connected to other phenomena? And so on.
Essentially, what does spirituality mean? It is the attainment of the Creator, the only thing in which we exist. To the extent that I develop myself, I begin to understand, feel, and study Him. But in studying, I can perceive Him only to the extent that I become like Him.
Therefore, all of Kabbalah is structured around reaching similarity to the Creator, around becoming equivalent to Him. This is the goal of everything we do. To attain complete equivalence with Him means to fully attain Him.
Understanding the causes and sources of all existence brings you immense fulfillment. It fills all your desires, needs, thoughts, intellect, and emotions. There is great pleasure in this knowledge and connection. Connection itself brings immense fulfillment because it is built on the connection of opposites, on resolving contradictions. Suddenly, they align and form a single, wonderful whole.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Develop Yourself” 7/15/10
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