The True Definition of Kabbalah

hello everyone Simon Jacobson here and we'll be speaking about the true definition of Kabbalah the ancient mystical teachings known as Kabbalah which for millennia has been unknown obscure hidden secret has recently become almost a household name even fashionable you hear the word Kabbalah I know am i traveling and speaking engagements you add the word the Kabbalah of you have double the audience the couple love money the Kabbalah of sexuality the Kabbalah of Donald Trump just kidding the Cabal of anything right away as to the intrigue so one would think okay everything has its time once obscure and hidden and concealed now has become popular and fashionable but is that really the case do really know what Kabbalah is do we even know the meaning of the word Kabbalah ask yourself ask anyone out there what does the word mean so most people say the secrets of existence the secrets of the cosmos that the definition of the word Kabbalah or is that what the teachings teach and even that what does that mean the secrets of the cosmos so we will be speaking about this obviously and the reason I'm discussing it now is because tonight New York time where I am in Israel has already begun six seven hours earlier in Australia it's almost the end of the day I'm not quite Thursday this Thursday meaning tonight and tomorrow is called Lag Ba'Omer the 33rd day of the Omer counting which refers to the 33rd day that we count from the second day Passover the countdown for 49 days to reach the 50th Zenith Shevat the celebration of Sinai if you're familiar with my book the spiritual guide to counting number and the app my Omer app very popular it's become a guide for many people staple as they travel through this journey this forty-nine day step personal refinement journey so the 33rd day of this journey has a unique meaning as unique significant is the day which we actually celebrate even though throughout the this 49th day period is considered to be a subdued time you don't make weddings we don't celebrate primarily one of the reasons is because the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva who do not respect each other tied an epidemic so we honor that with a certain humility not celebrating but on the 33rd of the counting 33rd day of this period the epidemic ended and the second thing that is connected with is Rep Shimon bar Yohai otherwise known by his acronym Raja be I'll refer to him as that it's a great time what Exige was also the greatest mystical of them all the first mistake that codified in just as the Talmud and the method codifies the oral tradition of law and that God which is the homiletics parables stories and so on rubbish be sure codified in the book called the Czar the holy Czar of the book of splendor which is considered the classic magnum opus the classic work of mysticism a lot of it is very cryptic but some of it is understandable but it becomes so-called like the Bible I wouldn't call the Bible Bible because it's still oral interpretation but in the world of mysticism is the first codified work so to speak there are works they say but could proceed it was the book of formation say it Sara attributed to Abraham you have Raziel Amala the angel Raziel retribute it to Adam but the Czar goes down as the book that really it's a commentary on the entire Torah but it has many different sections in it andraz b is the author of that he didn't write it himself he had a student called rum Baba who he dictated to who wrote down including writing down actually the narrative the events that happened on this day when must be passed away but something unique happened to him by a high this this great sage requested that his day of passing should be celebrated for the generations as a jeomsun crossly my day of joy because the day were my soul reconnected with God in the purest sense of the words not fettered unfettered by the bounds of the body and the limitations of the body so ever since Lag Ba'Omer has become a day of celebration celebrating as razz be and requested commanded expected of his students and that has become and grown through the generations and that is why if you go to Israel you could see it online literally hundreds of thousands of people make a pilgrimage in this 24-hour period to me Ron which is in northern Israel where his where his grave site where his o el where he's laid to rest and they sing during the night and they celebrate exactly as he had requested and this is a custom done all over the world and many communities why is this so significant why would they be a celebration more on this day than so many other specialty art sites great people passed away Moses passed away other sages even rebbi akiva the great sage and teacher of Rosh be because there's something about us B which is also shrouded in mystery that captivated that captured our imagination and therefore till this day has some type of impact on us it's a day considered to be a day that miracles can happen especially regarding the opening up of wombs women who can have children and they say most of psychologically and emotionally those that have different blocks and impediments and obstacles it's a day of openings which is rubbish Shimon bar Yohai did we'll talk more about it through this talk through this presentation which is a special presentation an honor of Lag Ba'Omer and that's why we're talking about the true definition of Kabbalah I hope you'll find this as fascinating and as interesting as I did when I discovered these ideas and continuously discover new elements and new dimensions and new depths so let's begin why Kabbalah does for some reason capture people's attention because people like the secrets let's be honest human beings gravitate exotic exotic things that are apparent or revealed we always want to know what's behind the door what's under the dashboard what's behind the scenes beyond the doors of perception and we look for that mystery so it's not surprising that people are intrigued when you hear the mysterious esoteric teachings you hear the secrets of the soul the secrets of the cosmos the blueprint and DNA of existence of the universe and beyond the bloob the divine blueprint that makes us all tick these are fascinating elements and that's why on one hand yes it does touch upon touch a certain resonating element in us wanting to know like just like children like to open up and Brit it and see what makes something tick we want to know what makes things tick and we've heard that the Kabbalah teaches that so we're interested but what great care has to be taken that it shouldn't feed on and spill over into sensationalism which is why they say but Kabbalah those that say don't know and those that know don't say which of course creates the quandary if I say anything that means I don't know however as we shall discuss the kind of time that Kabbalah did become more revealed for certain very important reasons so what is couple what is really that first of all the meaning of the words because once we have the meaning of the word that will become the key that will open up for us this fascinating journey in the deeper dimensions of existence and of ourselves so the world Kabbalah surprised surprised be deceptively simple it means to receive or reception so what it means to receive or reception you'd say what one second what does that mean I mean if I have a mobile phone and as a signal I'm receiving I'm receive indeed that's the key to what Kabbalah truly is so though old knowledge is passed on from teacher to student from parent to child from generation to generation which means the student has to be in receptive mode the receptor a receptacle receiving from the giver from the transmitter yet when it comes to these teachings it's even more critical that's why the entire study of it is called Kabbalah and for two reasons you need to be in a receiver from someone before you it's not something you can come up with your own ideas these are ideas that in order to preserve their integrity and to really have the impact they really need to be pure and passed on from teacher to student so you need to be Makar Bala who did you who you Macabre from who did you receive from you can say well all mouths is that way true but the more subtle the knowledge and the more profound the more dense the more subtle the more important it is to have that receiving teacher from student and the second element which goes even deeper and connected to the first reason is that you need to be in a receiving mode if you're a master or you fill your master you feel you have a lot to give that's not the mode of kabbalah the mode of kabbalah is i am an empty receptacle an empty channel channeling something greater than I am so though again this is true for all knowledge when it comes especially to spiritual to the spiritual DNA the inner workings of existence and of the human being there it's even more amplified and more important because you're dealing with literally the nuances think of it this way when you perform surgery especially sensitive surgery Neurological Surgery brain surgery or heart surgery it's very different when other types of surgery now all surgery you need a master you don't want to you don't want to novice because every part of the body is intricate but the more intricate it is the more care has to be in how its taught because one slip god forbid and other hand you're dealing with very very subtle areas of the human being and therefore much more complex and much more important to have being a receiving mode a humble mode a little tinge of arrogance when it comes to mathematics or it comes to others the elements of study is also not healthy because arrogance distorts the mind creates biases and prejudices and you could end up making mistakes but when it comes especially to sensitive matters of life and sensitive matters of life and death where every detail every micro detail matters then it has to be so much more so that state of kabbalah of having being a student and being in a student state always because when you're dealing with these inner matters as we're gonna explain now you'll see why it's so critical so in life in general a person has two states the way we're givers the way we're takers or I would say receivers and transmitters in the early parts of our lives were more receptacle mode children learn they learn from their environment they learn from their parents from their environments from their schools from their friends from their teachers for good or for bad but that's a child is a empty as a dry sponge an empty container and just beginning to fill up with energy as we get older and we become more familiar with information we also start mastering it and then we can also become teachers in truth a healthy human being should be both a student and a teacher different times but you begin by first absorbing then by processing as I've discussed many many times now for person never is an absorber didn't not to listen well you can't trust that don't know how to speak well because they didn't really have that state where they were humbled where they were modest where they were in that point where they are a student of information then you can ask yourself a question do they really convey the integrity of the original I've seen people are brilliant and they present an idea and very often I go check and I see it's not they didn't really master what it said they were smart so they got it quickly and they convey it more or less and sometimes actually with mistakes but you can tell they rushed and they began to transmit before they absorbed you want someone who spent many years absorbing learning apprentice ink residency before they become a teacher so that is critical as I said in all aspects of life but especially when you're dealing with the secrets of DNA of our souls of our bodies of who we are then it takes on a whole new shape and form why because think of it this way if somebody gets up there is doing a course on real estate real estate tips or writing tips or cooking tips even if they have a tinge or more than a tinge of arrogance you may say you know what I don't care about their arrogance at least I'm getting what I'm what my money's worth I get the tips I don't care about the person but if they're talking about matters of the heart and soul about emotions about empathy about how to reach a more deeper transcendent state and use and they stink from arrogance it taints the whole communication they say can I trust this they're very good their academic so it's one thing being academic about a subject matter that is not important that you be an example of it but I don't want to find out that a person is cruel to their children or to their spouse what other people are talking to me about sensitivity you say why not you just accomplished the Emmis Monisha I'm right receive the truth from wherever it is but here you're ruining it from a person you say to yourself you know what is that the message that you can be one thing and say another so when it comes to matters as I said real estate or something like that there - humility couldn't hurt wouldn't hurt and we'd be more receptive but when it comes to matters of the heart and soul you want some integrity at least an attempt at integrity person can say I'm not perfect what I'm teaching I also aspire to but you don't see them using the material to be arrogant that's why it's so vital to have that receptive mode when it comes to psychological emotional spiritual issues we'll call psycho spiritual matters the Kabbalah mode is me even more vital than ever personally that creates empathy like they say people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care secondly you can trust the material and thirdly the materials actually being conveyed consistent with what it's messages as I said cooking cooking fine so you've conveyed it whatever way you convey it there's - gave me the recipe you D me the tools the method but here it's them it's the approach as well how you teach it is also part of what you're teaching I can go on and on but I think that the point is clear so that's why when it comes to Kabbalah it was always taught with so much care it was not taught in big groups it was kept secret not because secret to be confidential but because it's so easy to abuse when you start understanding the inner workings of a human being and you're not a compassionate person you're not a person of integrity you can become a con artist you can start getting - you can start getting to your head that you know how to figure out people you can become an appeal I'm a manipulator that's on a gross level more subtly you can make mistakes in such an area that you only want people who are really respect you don't want anyone in the room is in the internal surgery room that does not have the trust is not clean is not sterilized and in this case spiritually and emotionally psychologically tampering with the inner workings of people and the cosmos say if they were just mechanics plumbers it's one thing so about physical plumbers so they're dealing with something where you don't need to have that level of sensitivity but if they are dealing with that in herself I'm giving I'm entrusting that with my soul in my life there you want them to be in a book in a Kabbalah state that they're receiving they're not the powerful all-powerful mastery over you they are channeling with that which came to them from their teacher so Kabbalah as a receiver from their teacher and which they're receiving right now because they're empty receptacles and allowing it to flow through them and that becomes critical that is why it's so challenging when you see today cabal has become popular fashionable you have to always wonder are people is is there the element of that humility is it the element of that modesty that bittle that suspension of self or people like sometimes they you know I'm a capitalist I know a lot of Kabbalah and I'll tell you what I know and they start spouting off or they may even actually know stuff but many ways they know less than solar doesn't know because they're missing the whole point whole point is that to create a more humbler person not someone who can say hey I got a PhD in mathematics I have a PhD in this and that in medicine and law and I also have a PhD in Kabbalah not doesn't work that way couple it's not about PhDs Kabbalah's the PhD is how much you've emptied yourself how much have you freed yourself of your ego how much have you gone beyond your self-interest and comfort zone that's the PhD in couple but you don't get a PhD because in that level we don't look for rewards or rewards or any other type of recognition you just who you are you're a humble simple servant of a higher truth and that's what the true capitalists were starting from rapture by yo-yos like barometers his yard site his Jenny Lula Jim simcha his day of joy and that will explain why he it he of all people we celebrate because he wasn't just another person there were tremendous sages and they were all humble people rabbi Akiba the greatest of the great he taught I have to wrestle come on love your fellow as as yourself is called as a fundamental principle great of great but he didn't have that element himself says in the Talmud that my student Russ be he's the cream of the crop and that doesn't take away from bake eve everyone has their all what was rupturing buy a house key role to bridge two worlds the world of the uncle supra-conscious and the world of the conscious the revealed and the hidden and that's why it was a master in both worlds rebbi akiva and others were also masters they also knew kabbalah but he was the teacher I should say the student the macaw bola in many ways he represented that element of a transparent and empty container channel I'm not Simona balm of the Talmud says maybe keep rubbish be said all I am is assigned a signpost I'm no thing I am nothing I am just a channel look at me as a signpost that's what he said because he channeled that deeper and higher wisdom again I want to make it clear that Rabbi Akiva many sages did that but some people stand out for what he did in that way and that's what he represented the bridging of those two worlds the bridging of the world of the soul and the world of the body the soul of Torah the body of Torah the soul of the human being the body of human the soul of the cosmos the body of the cosmos because as the Kabbalah teaches as well as the Talmud and the matter is the sages teach another fundamental beautiful principle microcosm macrocosm everything that gets exists in the macrocosmic universe the cosmic level exists microcosm in a miniature form within us alum cotton zarada the small universe the mini universe the universe a microcosm as the person and a limb GLaDOS and modern GLaDOS air Ayla and the human and the world is a large organism a large microcosm microcosm I should say so it's all intertwined and like a hologram it's not just intertwine it's all continuously interconnected as one large integral unity multifaceted pieces harmony within diversity that's right obscene by your I thought so the true meaning definition of Kabbalah is to receive is to free yourself to empty yourself to shed your sense of self in order to absorb and channel and receive something greater than yourself that's its essence and in Kabbalistic teachings and the mystical things it's more important than ever when you're studying let's say law halakhah to US law you're studying for example what's supposed to be done about what's not what was what work you can do what what you can do what prayers to say what you even Passover what you do on schools so then you're mastering facts facts of the intricate facts many different opinions there's theories there's ideas but it's facts you need humility as well all wisdom gracious Kaufman here assertion the beginning of all wisdom is or of the divine of something greater than you are but when you're dealing with the inner dimension the subtlety becomes so much greater think of it like this with a piece of dust is on your finger a little ego on your finger a blemish but if the little piece of dust is on your eye then it's very irritating the deeper you go inside the inner workings every small nuance every detail every iota is so much more significant that's why in the level of the DNA of the cellular level the microscopic level then every little detail matters so much more so on the Cabal every little blemish every tinge of ego that's not Kabbalah mode meaning receptor receptive mode will distort it may not distort immediately but in time so that's critical for the journey so people say I want to go on a journey to Cabal the more you want the less you'll have it compiled the journey of Kabbalah requires stepping back and don't want it so much you say about something but I do want it get the eye out of the sentence that I want it you want the experiencing something greater free yourself of what of your ego you determination even just become a humble simple person and you know what'll happen these vistas will open up for you it emerges you cannot acquire it trying to force it goes against the whole nature of it try to force the petals of a flower to open try to force a child to come out of the womb but prematurely god forbid it needs the time to develop it needs time to emerge and it's a process it's a process and emergence that we need and we need the humility the cibola state of being we are in a receptive mode well you're not the giver that you're not acquisition er that choir you're not the buyer the purchaser you are in a receptive mode and then it emerges Abraham went searching for God he realized by process of elimination that it's not in his own environment his father was a massive major auto manufacturer you need a God an idol I have one for you Abram at young age realized it's a whole bluff utilize these evil these are these these idols made of wood or stone or s or metal were meaningless so you rejected that the world of the pagan world of his father and of his community and visited his society began searching how do you search you start saying Kate's not that what made be he went out into the meadows into the fields into nature looked around beautiful nature so the Sun the moon maybe it's that then he realized the Sun sets the moon sets they're just part of the same creation they're just bigger the more distant maybe more awesome and he came slowly to a process of elimination saying it's not this so where is it the Stars disappear on the Stars and then he came to the big epiphany the realization I'm looking for my Creator I'm looking for God I'm just a piece of the whole creation if there's indeed a creator I'm one little piece how could the piece define the whole the whole defines the piece and he realized the actual search was undermining his ability to truly experience and of course you could some levels of transcendence but when he discovered that he has to let go and then he what happened you know what happened it emerged his search itself though commendable and admirably and everybody should search his search led him nice to stop searching now maybe just let it emerge let me close my eyes my ears my taste touch and smell let me stop using my aggressive faculties and resources and senses and let me see what happens and that quiet tooth in that silence God emerges because the truth emerges from within it's not something out there again you could experience some things out there but the truth it comes from living and when Abraham realized that he said I just have to let go I need to be Kabbalah state I need to be in receptive mode stand in front of a beautiful natural wonder what happens if you're trying to master it you're trying to let me take pictures of it let me analyze it let me explain it there's a certain moment we have to realize you just let go just stand stand in awe and it's an unbelievably purifying and transformative and refining experience because it's not about you you suddenly get absorbed in the moment think of music you're listening to music if you start analyzing this music I like did it stop stop everything let go and the way undress everything you know what happens the music envelops you and go officers just like when you go underwater there's that peace you allow it to consume you instead of you consuming it but if you're a consumer if you're a purchaser an acquisition person becomes commercial same thing when you're absorbed in a book if you're reading the words and you recognize the words and the pages you're not in the zone you're not in the moment let go and then suddenly you're reading the book as if it's happening right now you can cry and laugh and so on come by say well he's a really good book you don't even realize you're turning pages you don't even realize there's words on the page on the page a good writer can do that everything melts everything melts with a object and subject become one and you're completely absorbed those are the most magical moments of life and that's something you wake up to now you're out of it the same things when we're in love when deep love the passions and throws of love what is it what's the ultimate experience a loss of self completely melting and absorbed in the experience you wish we could have much more of that but we're human beings that do live in a world of duality and don't always are not always blessed to be able to come into that place where you melt into the experience but that's the ultimate experience you become it not you experience it a dry hand becomes wet when it's put into water a fish isn't part of the wetness but water itself doesn't become wet it is wetness you can acquire knowledge or you can become knowledge you become what you know not just you know the outlet idea you become it you experience it and the initial you experience it you're here you're experiencing something then they come into one Raj be personified this type of seamlessness of all of existence and he lived on that level it was a very sublime and very pure level but the mission and goal was not to remain there was to enter a world that of duality a world of pettiness and there repair as the story is that be at the hide from the Romans who pursuing him because he studied and taught Torah which was a forbidden death penalty so he hid for 12 years in a mire in a cave miraculous foods all becoming this unbelievably sublime state with his son Rob bullosa then came news that he can come back home so he came back but he was at this point so refined so away from civilization that as soon as he saw the nonsense the pettiness the meaningless things people get involved in it the Wall Street the polarization of politics whatever he looked at the Talmud says began to burn figuratively literally meaning his deep spiritual state cannot tolerate and therefore destroyed everything around them so shun God says them nanana you're not ready you're not mature enough go back a thirteenth year Bar Mitzvah you become more mature and now the thirteenth the thirteenth year one more year as being wherever he went he repaired whatever was broken he fixed you think the first level is much greater he's so high spirituality yeah but that's not the purpose of existence the purpose of existence is to be that spiritual but also know how to package it how to tailor it have to communicate it to a world to a conscious world to a world that is not living on that sublime level and slowly spoon-feed slowly teach them also how to become that type of sublimity and that's rush be the man of like boomer so even though was his passing which is a sad day his death but because he saw the seamlessness on the unity of everything he immediately saw within the passing he saw the great beauty and the great joy that would come out of it that does till this day similar to his teacher up here keep actually the Talmud the maka then the maka says the hotel's an interesting story Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues were standing I'm looking at the Temple Mount and they were mourning the fact that the structure of the temple they saw Fox running out of the place that was once the Holy of Holies the Holy of Holies Fox a wilderness it became a desolate wilderness says colleagues began to cry because it was the fulfillment of the tragic fulfillment of the prophecy the temple be destroyed for the sins of the people became he began to laugh what are you laughing he says because the meat on the prophecy there's the end of it that after that it will be rebuilt greater than ever and never be destroyed again so what was the difference and then this colleague said to him I keeping the cam Tunney and keeping the come tania Kiba you've consoled us a keeper you've consoled us twice consoling consoling for the sad and consoling for the positive that come come out came out of it what did Robert he was see that they didn't see he had a different set of eyes because his name was rabbi akiva Kiva comes from the word a curve the he'll he came from a dark place he was a convent or his parents from conference different opinions he then that study tour until he was 40 years old he knew a life that was desolate and he saw some desolation come greatness so he understood something that others who grew up in in prosperity spiritual prosperity and knowledge did not fully appreciate so it's no surprise that his student rep shinbei high as Robbie Hill of pirate says in the name of that rubbish Nizam without remember that four great Souls like him there was no destruction he was saw beyond destruction but he still lived their world of destruction and he still had to do something to repair that destruction but his saw his experience must be like even deeper than rebbi akiva in a way but taking a big he was Q sees even in the negative the positive and teaches us how to transform that's the power of esoteric so now once we know that we have to be in that mode so then you know what happens your soul starts speaking to you if you're going to try with a with a jackhammer and with a pliers try to force your soul to speak to you and say I want to know the secrets of cabal like I said before with aggressive tools that can work for physical things you break open the chest and you see what secrets rolls with the soul you need the opposite tools of subtlety tools of humility you want your soul to speak to you let go stop pursuing stop being so much about yourself more humility be charitable and something will open up because it speaks to us only when it does not when there's nothing else in the way it's like the Talmud says God says I meet an arrogant high an arrogant person cannot rest under one canopy there's no room for both of us if your cup is full it can't be filled Kabbalah says empty your cup you know what'll happen your soul begin to speak to you so it's humility it's the commitment and dedication to responsibility like being a soldier committed to a cause that allows the secrets of your soul and of the cosmos to open up for centuries this was kept private thing because only a few people really were able to do it and there was that did it did it for everybody else but we don't live in a world like that anymore it's not that pure world today number one we live in much darker times and therefore we have to dig deeper in order to find spiritual resources as the famous analogy of rubbish narasama of the ADI to his colleagues he said how are you teaching these secrets to everybody they'll abuse it they'll waste it he says well you know he gave that analogy of a child who fell very ill the child of a king his only child and he was deathly ill and the doctors gave up hope nothing worked and they sent for doctors and medical experts from all over the world nothing finally one exotic city doctor arrives says I have a thought the King has a crown in that crown of some of the most precious jewels on earth there's it's most precious gem of all is a rare rare gem nobody else has it if you crush that gem and you mix its powder with a little water we'll try to get it between the clenched teeth of this silk sickly child that may help most of it may even drip out and they looked at the King his most precious jewel King without hesitation what do I need my crown for my son my ear is not here and they crushed it and that's what they did and most of it spilled on the ground wasted but that one's rap saved the child and even the doubts was enough rubbish narasama said yes the precious gem of the inner-workings which we don't just share with everyone is necessary today because the child is sickly assimilation alienation disorientation everything that people experience today when it comes to spirituality so we have to do whatever it takes we sometimes go deeper as there Arisa of great kabbalist perhaps the iconic catalyst as great as the Raj be some say even greater who taught that there as be actually revealed it's in Mitzvah Legolas is a Hoffmann now it's a mitzvah to reveal that inner wisdom and the baal shem tov took it a step further when he heard from messiah that one will you come he asked the Misamis I said when you're well Springs you're well Springs not just your water's the wall Springs themselves essence their source itself will be disseminated and spread outward to the farthest outfits and Hasidic teachings which is essentially Kabbalah for the modern time developed rubbish nizam of the other developed the combat system of making it understandable even to the animals on meaning with examples and metaphors and analogies that we can relate to these deeper spiritual concepts in many ways that reveals even a deeper dimension if you're able to do that the risk there's a risk but I said it's life and death and it's also a foretaste of what will come in the future in the Messianic age or even children like in the time of Russ be will be able to relate to the deeper workings of the soul so today ironically though we're not on the level of the people in the previous generations but we have much more revelation of this but it has to be taught with care has that some another can others write is very important to talk to speak about it in with metaphorical language people shouldn't take literally many of the Kabbalistic analogies which are from human beings and to teach the esoteric to use the subtlety of it as I said before if you have that Kabbalah mode you teach the subtlety of it and what do you discover unbelievable insights and yes secrets of the inner workings deliver the ink inner schematics of the spiritual genome of the human being and of the cosmos I've spoken about some of these matters at different times and it literally opens up a whole new dimension of who you are youth may think you are arms legs body limbs organs but we know today the human body is made up all those are made up of underlying tissue and muscles and nerves and skeleton you go even deeper inside there you'll find the circulatory system the nervous system the neurological system till the point of the cellular level to the point of the chromosomes the DNA itself things are invisible to the naked eye same thing in the market macrocosm was also in the microcosm everything everything of substance is made up of elements elements of molecules molecules of of atoms atoms of subatomic particles sub subatomic and who knows how far down the rabbit hole you can go and all that teaches us that when you go into the inner workings it's a whole new reality all of technology is really revelation of the inner you could save there so tarik which is that a surprise double classic so our work that I mentioned from the recipe actually says in one of the chapters that the year which corresponds to our are 1850 i'm ii tell fritz how fresh would be 1840 i'm sorry duster revolution there'll be an explosion of higher knowledge and lower knowledge explosion of the esoteric teachings of Kabbalah and of the sciences and technology they both go hand in hand it's the inner workings but obviously the Kabbalah goes even deeper into the spiritual my atoms and subatomic particles the spiritual DNA and we discover a whole new reality and when you know that reality you can understand existence in a new way you no longer just look at surface level you understand the forces that shape the surface just like me right meteorologists will tell you the systems the pressure systems underlying forces the winds and so on that cause weather systems you go the Kabbalists will tell you what's behind those meteorological forces what's behind the human beings our expression the inner psyche so yes it's deeply therapeutic and deeply psychological and deeply spiritual and the more you study it the more you come to realize look at the world from the inside out instead of the outside in that's what Kabbalah truly is and it opens up new vistas and unprecedented insights to be able to live life in a completely fresh and new way with new possibilities to be able to have healthy relationships and reach potential that many of us not even aware of because you discover those inner workings but there's that prerequisite you can't go there it doesn't let you in unless the door opens and the door can only open by you putting yourself aside and allowing it to emerge and then you'd be surprised what happens so we do that to study where you put yourself aside and just study we do it through prayer and we do it through good deeds to charitable acts acts of compassion then more refined you are the more humble and modest the more selfless and put yourself aside the more this emerges but obviously studying it gives you the information so my friends I'm just like Balmer which is the door is a is a bridge and I would say a door open it opens up a window a door to a new reality we have the opportunity to enter there but through that humble attitude we celebrate with children unlike Barbara that is surprised because children are exactly that they're the best who we are the ego lists the selflessness now children could yes be arrogant but they usually learn it from adults but children also have that innocence that simplicity we need to be like children like Barbara and then carry it over to the rest of the year so to give one example because there's so much one example one example is a holes discussion in the Zohar and esoteric teachings about the idea of what's called my customer my customer means they concealed or the hidden intelligence what some would call subconscious unconscious I like to call supra-conscious because it's beyond conscious that's a that that's an area that we don't have direct access to however the conscious mind does have access how does it have access a small little door window opens up between the two where we cannot see that window we only an idea settles in or enters your consciousness where'd it come from you say we're that's bitl koyama the power of what what was that so based on the czar in several places Pacific teachings to explain that this bridge between hoc mr. Markoff Moglia which recall super conscious intelligent conscious intelligence is that with that bridge that faucet that that regulates the flow like a valve can be open through two ways one is through effort and the second is through your name it selfishness Bittle cabal the sale will you just commit to the cause you cannot open it with arrogance you cannot open on the contrary that make it even closed even deeper it's like you see sometimes you'll see a child hiding and you seek you go aggressively to find the child the child will run away a flower will open when you allow it open if you try to push it the flower can maybe even tighten up so is the process of letting go that allows that door to open up the effort which means diligence not just automatically hoping it will just come to you and a type of commitment and selflessness it's one thought that comes from the azores teaching is explained as I said it's a Hasidic thought there are many many others and they map out everything about us in my book the spiritual guide the counting number the ideas based there are from cabbalistic a Hasidic cabbalistic works ultimately based on the Czar each one of the spheres is another divine attribute that turns into a human faculty and when we refine it and we don't give in to our natural instincts and impulses but we refine our tested our kindness and our our discipline and our compassion and our ambition and determination and our humility and yielding our bonding and our dignity you align yourself these are so tarik ideas that but it shapes who you are as a person but it's all a prerequisite for all of it is the selfless humility the Bittle the Kabbalah that's so much part of it so on this day it's a great idea to actually study something you can go online and meaning flat calm you have different just look up rush B or like boomers Oh kabaah Kabbalah study something read something but also make a commitment to yourself to your soul to the soul of these teachings that you're gonna try to discover more but out of but do it not in this aggressive manner commit to it and and stick to it but stick to it and commit to it in a humble way me not that I want it but it's necessary it's necessary for me to grow what better way to celebrate celebrate with our children with our grandchildren or the park people go to parades but celebrate the bridge between the inner and outer because ultimately the world in which we live is the tip of the iceberg we don't really see the inner workings the more you get connected the more you connect the reality and the more that has a ripple effect on people around you on your friends on family on strangers and then ultimately in the world and yes it enhances relationships it improves them infinitely because you start looking life for a different way not from the outside in what do I have and then let me figure it out what do i doing then I'm going to figure out who I am who are you and then let that dictate what you do figure out why I'm here purpose and that dictates your activities so I'm a light bomber open up these channels and blessings from Raj be to all of us to each of us please know that meaningful life Center is here for you or partners access take advantage make use of all our rich resources that are on our website and please stay in touch in every possible way connect with us share like pass it on where every Wednesday this is a live program but it's archived you can download on iTunes podcasts however you wish we're on all platforms and please send us your suggestions ideas feedback thoughts rebuttals questions I said questions thoughts and everyone should have a very blessed week a week that connects the inner and the outer and discuss and the merit of rush be said we should this should serve us all well as he as much be said that you can rely that like the colleagues of Raja peas says you could rely on him when things are pressured and must be himself said I can redeem you from the judgments may redeem us from all judgments may we be redeemed in the general sense personal and glomer global redemption and the merit of this beautiful and powerful day everyone be well to sim and Jacobson meaningful live.com thank you so much

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Length: 49min 42sec (2982 seconds)

Published: Wed May 22 2019