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Dear Rav,
This question is probabaly a ridiculous one, but I just had to ask it. It’s well known that you smoke cigarettes or did, as did Rabash and Baal Hasulam. Do cigarettes in fact cause cancer and all of these terrible problems as we are shown? You said once that you don’t know if all of this talk about cigarettes these days is justified or not, but it seems that if science knows anything, it knows that cigarettes are harmful. I myself like to smoke but I do worry that I’m harming myself and others. Can you please give some insight? Thanks so much.
Dear Rav,
I feel that everything I do is for myself. I try to exit from myself and put the other’s needs before mine, but I feel like I’m doing it too for myself. Even in dissemination, or writing something to my friends to rise the importance of the goal, or studying… everythig I do, I feel like I’m kidding myself, I think that I’m doing bestowal, but the reality is that I’m just recieving.
I feel so frustrated, I feel like in a cage, like I want to exit, but even wanting to exit is just for my benefit!
How can I truly do something above reason, not for my benefit, without recieving anything? Now I feel like a beast, always following the thing that can give me more. I study kabbalah, disseminate, work with the group and try to let it influence me, but I feel like I’m doing all this just to recieve.
It’s very frustrating to aim at a target and feel every day like you can’t really catch it!
Again, how can I truly do something above reason, not for myself, without recieving anything a t all, just to give?
Thank you
Is the screen a way of taking ourselves back to the state before the knowledge of good and evil? or is the ability to identify and transcend the knowledge of good and evil what leads us to equivalence of form?
Hei Rav
I would like to know do you know why we feel spiritually connected to people in my life and others we do not? I have these connections particularly with certain male friends in my life. This connection feels nice but in a strange way. like it makes me feel happy but it feels there is more to it. At the end of a r’ship per se it is like i can feel the other persons anger or that something bad or good is going to happen or has happened. I have been connected with some people i have dated and others not.
One recent in particular, not only am i connected to him but his step-dad also :S
Dear Rav
I can feel the love of friends but also their envy, a feeling which I always disliked. I read once in a kabbalistic text that envy is good because it makes us advance. However, wouldn’t it be better to cultivate “admiration” for the friend – the same feeling but with a loving component – isntead of “envy” for the friend? What is the best way to deal with this bad feelings within the group?
merhaba;
Ben Türkiyeden Ömer;
Yeni çalışmaya başlayan bir kişi olarak aklımda bir çok soru var. Bu konuda Mutlu’nun büyük yardımı oluyor ama sizinlede iletişim kurmak istedim müsadenizle size aklıma takılan iki soruyu yöneltmek istiyorum.
1- Yaratılan kişinin yani bizlerin, yaratılışımızdan dolayı yaratana bir borcumuz var mı?
2- Yaratan bizim mutluluğumuzdan haz duyuyorsa şayet, bizim bir başka kişiyi yaratana olan sevgimizden dolayı mutlu etmemiz amaca yönelik bir hareketmidir?
En derin Sevgi ve Saygılarımla.
Hello dear Rav,
I came back to look for my question and I see how many questions you receive on a daily basis. The work you do for all of us is unbelievable :). I am awed by the strength you carry in helping so many. You have made so much possible. Yes the creator has blessed you with this task, but you humble me. You shine your light for us to find the creator. You believe in faith above reason. I have one wish, one desire, and that is to be your student. I would leave everything behind to your student and to learn to share my inner light with others. Please, take my email, and contact me. I left for you a myspace I created (so many use them these days) listen to the first song, and you may feel something I wish for you to share :).
Thank you for all you do for our creator,
Wendy
Dear Rav:
With the world in such a crisis and the disintegration of everything as we see it, how come the other kabbalists do not help with bringing kabbalah to the masses especially if we have to bring the whole world to this means and are suppose to work as one? Don’t the other kabbalists (outside of Bnei Baruch) know we have to work as one? And why do they condemn us for it? Thank you.
Rav,
If there is no cohersion in spirituality. How do we women push the men in the right direction? I have not been living the laws of nature when it comes to man/woman. I grew up in the womens rights household where roles where confused and caused so much dysfunction. I feel without words now. Like I need a lesson in speaking in this world. i feel frozen, in that I can not have a opinion, judgment, criticisms about anything any longer. To family and friends. i am completely without words. I thought to take a course called “nonviolent Communication” with Marshall Rosenberg as to help teach me a new language for the reality that I now see and feel. How do I show the importance without pushing to hard. Maybe some women can talk of this. As for some we are in a new world without the new words to fill it. And not a group of women around us to influence us.
Laurie
Atlanta.
I was reading The Future Generation and came across the term Mashiach, and after looking up the “definition” found in the Torah, after reading it with the insights of kabbalah, could the people be taking it for corporeal reality, when it seems to read to me in a spiritual reality. As in reuniting Isreal,, meaning the uniting of the souls,, etc,, etc,,as you know from mitochondrial dna,, could it possible be a woman? Is it possible the creator’s purpose for this certain dna to travel down from a female blood line to help assist in the unification of “isreal”?
Why do small children and babies die whose souls are not fully corrected ?
in the daily article of feb. 11 2009 about half way down it states “These obstacles I am receiving now and will receive in the future will myltiply now and i whould over come, not “put out” all this multiplying obstacles.
what does that mean?
also it states ” I should take the impressions received by me , these reshimot and multiply them by the obstaclesand thus approach the Sinai mountain and begin to climb higher and higher.
can you explain how you multiply reshimot and obstacles I just dont seem to understand that part?
Bill
If Kabbalah is the only true means of showing a person why he suffers and in fact correcting it, why is it that the Kabbalists concealed the wisdom for so long. We talk now about a crisis and other major problems, but nothing is new. People have been commiting suicide for ever and ever, so didn’t people also need to know back then why they were living? Especially now, isn’t Kabbalah the only cure for depression? The creator gives the doctor permission to heal, but do anti-depressnts actually help a person? Thank you very much.
Hello Rav,
If I do not control my thoughts and they are given to me from above, what am I to do when I cannot stand my thoughts any more and they are crippling and torchering me? I have been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and if physchology has any legitimacy, I know that I have this, but medication has never helped me in the past. So if I am on this path of Torah and I know that i have no controll over my thoughts, what am I do to in the meantime? How do I cope with what I feel as pure evil and dispair? Do you recommend ever taking medication? I feel like I exhausted that path of phychiatry log ago and this is partially what drew me to Kabbalah, the feeling that nothing else could heal me. So my question Rav, is what do you recommend on how to cope along the way?
I know for sure that the online environment is not enough to hold me up, and after being at BB Israel, I know i must come back. This is why I’m very confused as to how you say that the online environment is enough for a person. I know that there is no way that i can be brought out of the dispair without physically being with the group. Can you give me any insight on this? Thanks so much,
Aaron
Shalom my dear Rav,
I have been with you for a very long time. I find it increasingly hard to focus on my job. I used to be ambitious and excited about setting goals. I have a family to support and a baby on the way, and find it very difficult to get any motivation for what I am doing ?
I would much rather devote my time to dissemenation ? How do I force myself out of this state. I know I have to stay grounded and earn a living for my family. But the desire has dissapeared.
Your advice would be great.
Love Jack
Hi Rav.Michael Laitman,tell me ,tell us we who are not in the world of Atzilut what is like to be in that state,nut please don,t tell me about the feeling of infinity and happiness but something else.I am very curious.I think that when a person is in such a state he feels boundless abilities and strenght to do whatever he or she whants beacause they are aware of what they were looking for for so long time and exactly : the answers.The answers they recieved are giving them this feeling of calmness and infinity,this feeling of this that he or she are the master of their destiny.
Shalom Rav,
I remember you talking about drunk driving accidents, and how a man will buy a lottery ticket becuase he thinks he deserves the world but he will drive drunk because he feels there is no way he could get hurt. How does studying Kabbalah prevent man from making such a decision, and after all, isn’t this all pre-determined anyway? Since Kabbalah tells a man that whatever will happen will happen anyway, couldn’t this drive him to fearlesness and even wrecklesness? Thanks so much,
Aaron
How can we observe the 613 Mitzvot if we are not raised Jewish? And where can we find a list of these corrections? And how are we supposed to observe the Shabbatot and high holidays? Should we connect to a synagogue or another Kabbalah center that charges fees to attend its holidays? I am confused on this one issue due to fact that these are in the 613 Mitzvot, and I do not do them…
Dearest Rav,
What’s there for a person to do, when according to others (family, friends, spouse) he/she is highly intelligent, and is being constantly persuaded to go to university and get into advanced studies in any branch of knowledge he/she so chooses, but he/she all can think of is in sparing time to study Kabbalah dutifully?
He/she has skills for life, and more than one I must say, but even thought not long ago he/she was seriously engaging in enrolling in classes of ‘higher’ education, after finding Kabbalah all those plans went “poof”.
I know, and I trust the Upper One’s advise.
Still I would love to hear from you on this, for I realized as well that I still have my trainning wheels on, and want a gentle push from you.
Best regards,
Maria.
Hello Rav,
I am studying kabbalah more then a year. Since, I feel mental and inner changes. It is extremely difficult to explain to you what the mental and inner changes are.
On mental level, I experience coordination problems when I walk outside. In some cases, I just walk on the street without realizing that I walk. I went to examine my blood, heart and urine. The results were normal.
On the inner level, inside me, I feel for couple of days very nice feelings (there is no chance to explain it with other words), and for couple of days I don’t feel anything.
First, I would like to ask you, if the mental and inner changes are due to studies of kabbalah? Is it possible to feel the light under the machsom? If it no so, please give me an advice what action should I make.
With love,
Todor Velchev
Edmonton, Canada