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The Two Paths to Spirituality: Which Are You On?

June 7, 2015 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Articles, Books, Perception of Reality

An Opportunity Given from Above

The desirable path of spiritual ascent is the path of Kabbalah. The path of suffering awaits us only if there is no other way to prompt us to reach perfection. The path of Kabbalah is an opportunity given from Above to each of us to create in ourselves the desires necessary for spiritual growth, demonstrating through spiritual ascents and declines that the spiritual Light is pleasure and its absence is suffering.

In this way, we begin to desire the Light and spiritual ascent and the perception of the Creator. Without first receiving the Upper Spiritual Light and then having it taken away, we cannot feel a desire for the Light.

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How Opposites Work to Aid Your Spiritual Advancement

June 6, 2015 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Articles, Books, Perception of Reality

Aiding or Opposing Spiritual Advancement

The path to attaining what is hidden through Kabbalah is unlike any other experience in this world. For example, when one is honored, this fills the ego and consequently causes great damage to the soul. The damage is considered to be so great that prominent righteous people who gained immense popularity and acquired followers considered that such fame had actually been a punishment from the Creator.

On the other hand, there are those great ones whom the Creator wishes to protect so that they do not forfeit even the slightest amount of their spiritual level. To these, the Creator sends not only followers but also those who hate them, envy them, oppose their views, and are ever ready to slander them. Thus the Creator balances the praise and honor received by these great ones with the suffering they experience at the hands of their contemporaries.

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How to Develop a Desire to Reveal the Creator

June 5, 2015 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Altruism, Articles, Books, Ego, Freedom, Perception of Reality

Developing a Need for the Creator

The Zohar is considered by many to be a moral teaching based on Kabbalah, since it is written in the language of the commandments, prescribing what an individual should do. It is clear that by defining the book of Zohar in such way, people attempt to deny its mystical, concealed essence.

The authors of the Zohar have written this book, which deals only with the composition and the operation of the spiritual worlds, in a deliberately scholastic and legalistic language. This was intended to leave no doubt in the readers’ minds that the main purpose of Kabbalah is not the wisdom itself, but the “dispenser of the wisdom.” In fact, the main purpose of Kabbalah and of the spiritual laws is to develop our need for the Creator, and for us to wish to come closer to Him in the qualities of the soul.

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How Kabbalah Helps a Person Unite with the Creator

June 4, 2015 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Altruism, Articles, Books, Perception of Reality

A Screen that Rejects the Creator’s Light

All the words of Kabbalah and all the advice it provides are concerned with only one issue: how we can reach the Creator and unite with Him. All our deficiencies stem from our inability to sense the greatness of the Creator. Having just begun to aspire to come closer to Him, we already want to experience Him in our senses.

But this is impossible until we have a screen (masach) that refuses the Light of the Creator. This exists as long as we do not have vessels of bestowal. And as long as we do not have these qualities of bestowal, we are only able to have a feeling of the Creator from afar, which is called “Surrounding Light,” which can shine from afar on who is still distant in qualities from those of the Creator.

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Why All Your Traits Are Useful to Reveal the Creator

June 3, 2015 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Altruism, Articles, Books, Ego, Perception of Reality

Forming a Demand for the Creator’s Help

The strength gained when we perceive the Creator enables us to gradually return to the Creator completely, and to alter all the egoistic desires to altruistic ones.

The more “bad” desires we possess at the beginning of our path, the more self-improvement we can undertake, and consequently, the closer we can come to the Creator. This is why we should never lament our bad qualities, but rather ask for their correction. We should turn to this way of thinking every time thoughts of worthlessness come to mind.

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