The great kabbalists of the past thousands of years kept this wisdom with the foresight that one day it would serve as a catalyst for personal and global change. My hope is these words awaken your heart to improve, to elevate, to be better today than you were yesterday - so we may all come closer to a world with no more pain, no more suffering, and even as the Bible and the Zohar promise, no more death.

The Happier We Are, the More We Draw the Light

Posted: December 18th, 2008 | Author: MICHAEL | Filed under: Happiness | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

One of the most important aspects of a spiritual life is the need to be happy at all times. This is one of the easiest lessons that there is, but still we find ways to make it complicated.

The kabbalists have taught that joy is one of the most important prerequisites for a connection to the Creator and His Light. It is a wonderful spiritual cycle; the happier we are, the more we draw the Light of the Creator to ourselves, which in turn makes us more joyful and fulfilled.

It is important that we understand the logic of this spiritual law.

In the physical world beings become close or separate through time and space. But spiritual entities become close or separate depending on their similarity of form. If two beings are similar in nature then they are close and united spiritually. And if they are dissimilar in nature then they are separate spiritually. This is a fundamental spiritual rule that has many ramifications.

We know that the innate quality of the Light of the Creator is of fulfillment and joy. There is no energy of sadness in the Creator’s Light. Therefore, to connect and draw Light we need to be similarly joyful and happy. It is only when we are similar in this way that Light can come to us and reveal even greater joy.

Moreover the amount of Light that we can draw through any spiritual action is in exact correlation to the amount of joy that we have in doing the action, the greater our joy the greater the Light that we will receive.

This is a powerful and important lesson. Many great Kabbalists have said that they achieved their greatness mainly through a constant state and focus of joy.

There is one more aspect to joy that can make a big difference. Sometimes we find ourselves in a bad or sad mood. All we need to do is simply tell ourselves to be happy, and we can change our mood in one second. Especially now that we know that sadness actually blocks the Light of the Creator, and that as we change our mood to joy we can draw to ourselves more of the Light and bring ourselves even greater joy and happiness.

Rhyme & Reason

Posted: November 23rd, 2008 | Author: MICHAEL | Filed under: Miracles | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

One of the most powerful attributes of true spirituality is that it is logical. Everything has a reason and logic. Miracles are often understood even by people who believe in them, as something that has no real rhyme or reason, and that occur always in a realm beyond our control.

But the Kabbalists explain miracles are a science, with a reason, logic and rules they follow.

One of the most important rules of miracles is: Miracles do not happen. If we need a miracle and understand it as something out of the ordinary - unnatural - then it will be difficult to create one.

The correct understanding is there are no miracles, just as there is no nature. No nature?

Consider this: why does the sun rise in the morning and set in the evening? Our simple mind tells us - because we do not see the spiritual force behind this - it is nature. If the sun would not set at night, this would then be a miracle, because it contradicts that which we have accepted as natural.

But this is not the case. The Creator causes the sun to rise in the morning and set at night. If there is a good reason for the sun not to set, then the Creator will stop its setting.

When we understand this, then we realize there is no real difference between the sun setting and not setting, there is no difference between what is thought of as nature and what is thought of as miracles.

This is a fundamental understanding to have in order to be able to create a miracle. If we simply ask for a miracle, thinking something out of the ordinary needs to take place, then it is difficult to make it happen. But when we understand that what we are asking for is simply for the Creator to rearrange that which he arranges anyway, then it is much easier for us to create endless miracles in our life.

Let It In

Posted: November 18th, 2008 | Author: MICHAEL | Filed under: Spiritual Transformation | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

A sage was once asked, “how can we connect to the Creator?” He answered simply, “let him in.”

The Kabbalists teach the essence of the Creator is giving and sharing. This means its desire and essence is to share with each one of us all of its endless light all the time.

Why then are we not filled with all this Light at all times?

The answer is one of the most important spiritual lessons: there cannot be Light without a vessel.

Yes, the Creator desires to share and give us all of its Light, but it cannot give it unless there is a vessel to receive this Light. And the amount of Light that we receive is exactly dependant on the size of the vessel we create. The vessel is, our spiritual transformation, the more we transform spiritually the greater our vessel becomes and the more Light we receive. This means the amount of Light we receive at any time is exactly equal to the level of our spiritual transformation.

This understanding explains in a different and real way why we feel lack and what we can do about it. When we feel lack or pain it is a lack of the Light of the Creator. In order to assuage this lack we do not need to draw the Creators Light for its Light is flowing constantly. Rather, what we need to do is create a larger vessel through greater spiritual transformation. Once the greater vessel is prepared the Creators Light will immediately fill it.

Understanding this we realize that we are constantly blocking the Creators Light. If we are not constantly filled with Light and feeling the constant joy and fulfillment this brings, it is only because we are blocking the Light from coming in, through our lack of spiritual transformation.

This is an amazing lesson, which needs to be meditated on so that it may be truly understood. We do not need to draw the Creators Light; it is ready at all times to fill us completely. We need to simply and methodically remove the barriers we are constantly putting in the way.