Q&A Celebration! – Coming Wednesday 26 August, 09

219 Replies to “Q&A Celebration! – Coming Wednesday 26 August, 09”

1. Kabbalah is very interesting to me in that it answers many questions about life and provides a scientific approach to understanding our purpose in life and what we should be doing to receive from the creater better. My question is this,”Physics as a science has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is something out there that controls the fate of the universe even down to a single atom and Kabbalah has proven the same fact, so is studying Kabbalah or physics a way of getting closer to the creator or will it not make a difference whatsoever.”

2. How can I be sure I will ever agree with what the Creator wants to give me? Since Kabbalah teaches that the Creator only gives goodness and I am frequently in the state of hating what the Creator brings me. I have tested and tried and ‘faith’ above ‘reason’ is not something that I can do.

   What hope is there for a piece of soul like mine? Can you send me the proper feeling or do I just have to listen to you and ‘believe’ it will come?

3. In the past few years I’ve seen Kabbalah go Hollywood and become the new “In Thing”. My question is: How can a person benefit from Kabbalah if they do not study Judaism”? If one looks as Judaism as the body of the Almighty then Kabbalah is the Soul, one cannot exist without the other.

   Can a non-jew benefit from Kabbalah???

4. My life has been about getting closer to the Creator. Kabbalah has shown me this .I spent years learning the bible and when I could not find the answers I needed I turned too drinking but that even got me back too the search through AA and the twelve step program It gave me the open mind to look at other sources and I found Kabballah about a year ago.I guess my question is that my only interest is teaching and studies how does some one in kabballah who is from the southern Bible Belt find others to work and study with? I was raised christian and do not know any Jews

5. Hi! Just few days ago I got to know Kabbalah and I am very excited as it is teaching the same I started to thing in last years, but no religion could tell me or to help me to understand my thoughts or to give me answers on my questions. I have some questions on you. Kabbalah says there are to ways to God: Way of suffering and way where we change our ego. Is Kabbalah the only or the faster way to change ego? I know it is not religion, but I hope you know what I mean. Can someone take right path without Kabbalah? I come from background of Unification Church (Rev.Moon) which teaches so many things as Kabbalah, but there is the person of True Father and True Mother – Rev.Moon and his wife and also concept of Satan, concept of (heavenly) kingdom etc. I also studied Indian Vedas abit (Hare Krishna movement). Vedas seem to be older than Kabbalah. But in general they teach same what Kabbalah does. In Vedas there is vegetarianism as well. What is the connection between Kabbalah and Vedas, Divine Principle of Rev.Moon etc.? I hope you can bring light into this. Thanks for your answers.

6. Another question: What is going to happen on December 21 2012?

7. The issue of kabbalah and religion, yes kabbalah is not a religion but science, i want to know in relation to christianity. Can one still be a christian and be a student of kabbalah? Are their no complexity?

8. How is corporate salvation or personal salvation available in Kabbalah? Or is there such a thing?

9. Question:
   The Creator has in the past sent guidance to humanity in the form of revelations through his various prophets, Abraham, Moses, etc. The guidance provided through prophetic teachings and scriptures has always been distorted and misinterpreted leading humanity to even greater problems. Why is it that in the present day of communication (less chance of distortion), increased understanding and when the need is greatest, this process has been discontinued?

10. If the saying is “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is the action less altruistic than just merely by living your life in a good way and treating others well.

    Meaning you are treating others well because that is what you wish to receive, not because it is what you wish to give.

11. What are the tangible benefits one can expect from the wisdom and application the teachings of B’nei Baruch authentic Kabbalah?

    Thank you!

12. I am curious whether anyone has explored the similarities between Kabbalah and the ancient, esoteric Indian Advaith philosophy of non-duality: all is one, and everything else is Maya / illusion…

    At first glance, there appears to be much in common … or is that Maya in another of its manifestations? 🙂

    Cheers,

    Imon

13. Is Adam the first man who creared by the creator about 6000 years ago, if he is, what about 40 000 years evolution of new men as they are talking about ? thank you

14. I WANT TO KNOW REVELANCE WITH PRAYERS?

15. Thanks for making Kabbalah studies available to all and my question is. Will understanding the unseen in our world help mankind master his physical self?

16. i don’t know if i went to the right page to ask this question, but i’m sure it will be answered. i’ve been into kabbalah since i turned fourtyyears old. i’ve been learning under the kabbalah center, with the rav, berg. i also i’m attracted to this teaching of kabbalah. i learned to marry both teachings, some things that i don’t understand in one i could understand in the the other. my question is this, are these two center in dialogue with each other? if not the why not? thank you .

17. If souls are reincarnated, why didn’t the earth start off with billions of people in the first place – rather than earths populace slowly evolving over time? Were all the other billions of souls waiting in line for their turn at life?

18. What does Kabbalah say about cremation?

19. We do not have control on our birth. It is the will of God to create somebody among christians, hindus, muslims or jews etc. We we do not have any control on our birth and we become hindus, muslims or jews by birth. So the question of religion stops here. God does not discriminate its creation on the basis of religion. God has only one message and all religions are the same.

20. I have a question that I want to pose . Can someone who is sickly receive some sort of healing when studying Kabbalah ?

21. Goud morng
    Why thre are 6 sephirots in Z’ A’?
    Best Regard

22. Good morning, thank you for this opportunity. It is very important to me to know the answer to this question: Will I ascend spiritually and get the Creator’s light despite all the sins and mistakes I made before finding the Kabbalah? Thank you.

23. How i have to read that i am born on 18 09 76,as my mother is non jew i am in and out of the jewish comunity all my life looking for ME and who am I….Was working in India.Bought a small book for gifts:10 minutes Kabbalah.Open it a week ago a mounth before my 33 wich i am making on Rosh Ha Shana this year.Since than i want to fill my self with a knolige,and learning Kabbalah.Is there a live meaning?Is it just a co-exident?

24. I’ve beeing studying kabbalah for an year and a half by now, with Bnei Baruch and Kabbalah Centre, always.

    Despite some diferent points, both say the same thing: love your neighbour as yourself. That’s completely impossible.

    Does this means that humanity will only reach correction at g’mar a’tikun?

25. I don’t know where in the Bible Jesus said something about/or to the effect of : ” …know thy self.” I would like to know how I can learn who I was in the beginning, during the first generation of mankind.

26. It seems to me that the garden of Edan was a perfect place that was not on earth.Was the garden the beginning thought of the creator? a place of the first four parts of creation? If a baker is going to bake say a apple pie he must first see the perfect pie in his mind long before it comes out of the oven Is this like the creator first saw man ???

27. It seems to me that in the final analysis that all things are energy
    and that the rates of vibration determine their psychical equivalent. How does understanding the Kabbalah and the teachings help us control these vibrations in order to create a better world or in micro sense a better job or health? Or am I mistaken in thinking that rates of vibration have any impact on our physical reality?
    “The receiver and the Bestower” are we to get in sync through feelings and emotions?

28. Queridos Maestros:
    Comence a estudiar la Cabalá muy entusiasmado, con las clases en vivo, los artículos y las lecciones del libro Cabalá para estudiantes, y observo que para que se entienda mejor la clase se valen de los diagramas, vectores y demás gráficos. Mi pregunta es: ¿Se puede mediante diagramas explicar los mundos superiores, como lo demostraria un cientifico con terminos científicos?…… Muy amables por su atención.
    Jorge Enrique.

29. I understand that Kabbalah does not concern itself with the physical world, But this is something that is important to me at my stage in spiritual growth. I will try and make this as simple question as I know how. Did all the people (Adam, Abraham, Noah, Moses) and places and events that the Tanach speak about, really exist historically, in time and space, or did they not really exist and are they simply stories/allegories that serve as a spiritual meaning. Please do simply say that this is unimportant or it does not matter, because to me at this stage in my path It is of importance. Thank you, Michael

30. I have watched the fist 4 video-lessons with Anthony Kosinec and I am infinitely grateful for this Wisdom that has brought to my life great hope, much needed understanding and profound beauty. Now, a question has arisen within me: Kosinec has mentioned that humanity most “move” from its natural Will to Receive to a Will to Bestow in order to “climb” back to the vibration or state of the Creator, and thus become One with this Devine Force. However, if the basic UNITY of Creation has precisely been the Creator-Creature dichotomy, won’t the elimination of the Will to Receive in humanity by assimilating itself to the Will of Bestow generate a catastrophic universal energetic imbalance, where there would be a Creator without any creatures? (a “Yang” without a “Ying” per-se… wouldn’t it collapse upon itself like an eternal black hole). Or at best, where would all of that infinite desire to Bestow find its purpose or relief then… would it re-create again… and again… endlessly? (as in the Hindu belief of an eternally exploding-imploding, expanding-contracting universe similar to a heart beating). Thank you very much in advance for your kind reply.

31. Where does Jesus fit in with Kabbalah VIP’s?
    Adam, Abraham, Moses, Shimon Bar Yochai, and The Ari are listed as VIP’s but I don’t see Jesus listed. Could Jesus have been Rabbi Akiva who taught, “Love thy neighbor as thyself”.

32. I’ve just gotten a “recommendation” from Amazon.com about a new book on Kabbalah to be released at the end of August. It’s called “The Chosen will Become Herds” by Jonathan Garb, a Kabbalah scholar.

    Can you comment on this author?

33. HOW MAY ONE DECORATE OR SPIRITUALLY PREPARE A HOME IN THE THE TRADITIONS OF KABBALAH?

34. Great topic! I have gotten several books on the subject at hand. How is it really spelt? Or are these two the same?QABALAH-KABBALAH > please help.

35. If one who had never studied Kabbalah had developed the point in the heart and had reached a certain level of the 125 levels of return in the spiritual world fell down from that level because an inflated ego over his accomplishment, would he, by studying Kabbalah, return back to that level, or must he start again from the beginning?

36. Spiritualy talking, the souls have gender? Are there male souls and female souls?

37. I would like to know if by practicing kabballah I will improve my life .

38. I read that according to kabbalah, the external world is within oneself. How can it be within me and at the same time be within the billions of other people in the world? What about the sheer size of the universe?

39. My question is simple:

    Why does god allow suffering?
    How is suffering necessary?

    Thanks!

40. On the topic of:
    The thought of creation to create a creature – and fill it with delight.

    Why did the creator (if this is the starting point of everything) want to create a creature in the first place, if at the end the creature returns to the creator. What does the creator gain by this, if for something to come into creation it “needs” to be created. Why did the creator “need” something if he is everything?

41. I try to do everything I should, read and study torah, be giving (altrustic), loving, undersanding, considerate, etc. Why do I feel those who are the opposite of me are advancing in life and i am not?

42. If there is none else besides him, should i be concerned about anything, or should i just go with the flow where ever that takes me?

43. …adendum to
    On the topic of:
    The thought of creation to create a creature – and fill it with delight.

    Of course then, here we are, the creator created creation and its creatures, but then again for what purpose, for what purpose to its self?

44. I have a question regaurding the flower of life. Ive learned in my studies that the tree of life is derived from the flower of life pattern. So my question is are there any connections between kabbalah and the emerald tablets (wisdom of thoth) from ancient egypt; which also seem to revolve around the flower of life in its teachings.

45. In connecting with the group, is there a way to meet physically to begin sharing what we learn with one another as classes progress, or does the group consist of those we connect with through the internet alone?

46. I ALSO NEED TO RECEIVE FROM A KABBALIST THE HELP IN GIVING ME IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE PORTION OF LIGHT THE CREATOR HAS PUT ON MY ACTUAL LIFE AND, VERY SPECIALLY, FOW TO CELEBRATE GOOD SHABBATS. WHICH IS THE PROCEDURE TO DO IT IN THE WAY THE LORD ACCEPTS IT. I LIVE IN A TOURISTIC ZONE AND HERE WE HAVE NOT ONE PLACE TO CELEBRATE SHABBATS TOGETHER WITH OTHERS. I AM FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY AND LIVE ALONE. JUST CAME HERE FOR WORK. I WILL APRECIATE YOUR HELP.

    CARMEN

47. Thanks for sharing this wonderful opportunity for us all to learn more about Kabbalah. This is a new topic for me and I am quickly immersed in the online recorded sessions and documents!

    Question 1: Do we need to successfully complete ALL 613 Mitzvot commandments from the Torah to move out of this physical reality and start ascending the 125 steps through the 5 spiritual worlds leading back to the creator? If yes, is that as a collective soul or each individual soul? If each individual soul must complete ALL 613, wouldn’t that mean that in at least one human lifetime of a individual soul they must have been Jewish to know and thus observe many of the 613 Torah commandments specifically relating to Jewish laws (ie: rules on food preparation/consumption, Jewish holidays, studying the Torah specifically, ect)?

    Question 2: Trying to understand the math on how 600000 individual souls in the collective soul (started with Adam) turns into 6 Billion humans in the earthly world today. I recall hearing in the recorded revealed series (love that series, wonderful!) that there is some splitting of the individual soul… something like the part of the individual soul that completed one/some of the 613 commandments will ascend but the remaining uncompleted points will reincarnate again. An example: the first time around an individual soul completed 100 of the 613 commandments… would that single individual soul return the 2nd time to human life as 513 (613-100) individual souls with one commandment each to achieve… or would it return the 2nd time to human life as 1 individual soul with all remaining 513 commandments to achieve? Or have I missed the concept entirely 🙁 ?

    Thanks again for giving many of us an opportunity to learn and grow in a way that may not normally be available to us given our physical location or religion.

48. Why are we born in to certain religions and then have to accept those ideas or leave our family’s to follow other religions?
    Why does Hashem not just have us born in to one faith and know Him from the start?

49. What are your thoughts on the belief that an individual hasn\’t attained the spiritual capacity or the life experience to fully understand kabbalistic teaching until they reach the age of 40??

50. If we humans truly have free will, why do all of the major religions teach us that we do, and why did the CREATOR create creatures with an ego?