MALCHUT: YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – EXTENDED ANALYSIS OF KABBALAH – ON MAZAL (LUCK)
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LOG 76: MAN LUCK- (MAN CHOICE OF ACTION) – 1% MAZAL (LUCK)
SPIRITUAL IMPRESSION: WE ARE REWARDED ACCORDING TO OUR EFFORT
-by Rav Michael Laitman
IN SPIRITUALITY, THE REWARD (SENIORITY) IS IN THE EFFORT
“In the spiritual world, nothing will help except your effort. It is also written, “I labored and found.” When will you find spirituality? When the Upper Light influences you to the same extent as your effort. Then, it will fulfill your sense of spiritual perception. This is what happens every time you ascend from one degree to another. However, the most important thing is to rise at least to the first spiritual degree.”
CORPOREAL EXPRESSION: AS MAN LUCK ( MAN CHOICE OF ACTION ) – RESPECT THE ELDERS
What is this encouragement in the corporeal world to respect the elders is all about anyway. Many, specially the young people nowadays, might question as to why should the elder people be respected. Just because a person is old it does not mean he is wiser. Well, as it can be explained in the spiritual root of this, the reward is in the effort. In spirituality, acquired wisdom is not measured in “corporeal intelligence”, but in the effort one has exerted. Specially in kabbalah, annulment before the spiritual wisdom ( meaning to another being than me ) is a sacred practice, and since wisdom in spirituality is not intelligence but effort towards it, and since elder people has naturally exerted more years in effort to attain those degrees of wisdom, regardless of the fact if they have succeeded or not, then those lines on the face of a person older than me in years do deserve respect. And in doing so, just like The Light promises a “sum like channeling” when it comes to its rewarding, this effort of mine in nullifying myself before the elders shall be rewarded in equivalence to the effort I exerted, plus the effort of the elderly person I have nullified myself to, plus all the elderly people he himself has nullified to. The reward is immense. This is the essence of “nullifying myself before the elders”.
Great Mazal (Luck)!
ARVUT: Celina Syuy