Comments on: Effort in Kabbalah (Advanced)

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:38:46 +0000

thx u very much

By: Giselle Leyva (Mexico)

Giselle Leyva (Mexico) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:15:41 +0000

Dear Rav: I would like to share with you an anecdote and question from my little girl, Carla María (6 y.o.):
She has been dealing with the fear of losing me after death (I am an older mom). We were coming home from school and she was sharing her fears with me anxiously, wondering how would she recognize me in next life (I have told her about reincarnation) if both me and her would have another body.
Trying to calm her down, I only thought about telling her that we were linked through a ray of love and light between her point in the heart and mine. Probably not accurate, I know, dear Rav, but it was working. But I added: “actually, some teachers have told me there is no real separation between you and me, we are made of the same stuff and we are One, but we don’t know it”.
At that moment, she exclaimed: “Are you saying all this is illusion? Wow, how interesting! Gosh, than what am I doing dressed as a Carla María? I should be dressed like God! Mommy, can you ask that bearded man in Internet of that Kabbalah you study if he knows how does God dress?”
What would you recommend to tell a 6 years old like this one about death and after that to sooth her fears of losing her mom? And would you have a comment for her about her question to you on how does God dress?
Thank you for this space to space and get in touch with you. Giselle (Mexico)

By: Molly Takvorian

Molly Takvorian — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:23:39 +0000

I greatly appreciate this specific dialogue.

I can definitely say that the most “powerful” experiences that I have had–those that I would now call as “lifting of the veils,” did not seem to come as a result of book study, intellectual conversations, or even contemplation of ideas.

Rather, these in-the-body sensations have often occurred when I have been like a child banging my fists on a table, kicking and screaming internally, wanting to heal, transform, change, move-rise from my present internal and corresponding external situation.

It seems that the knowledge serves to help me clarify the process–almost “after the fact”–whatever that means in the world of cause/effect.

thanks, molly