Blogs of Change
Most of us are creatures of habit and we are reactive beings. No matter how many courses in Kabbalah we have taken, I know lots of students, including myself, who still find it difficult to restrict reacting in certain situations. We have something done to us and immediately feel the need to give a response. Whether someone cuts us off on the street or takes our parking space, regardless if it’s a deep hurt or a shallow inconvenience, the majority among us do not even wait 40 seconds before we act!
This month, we can change all that.
According to kabbalistic astrology, the month of Aquarius is a special time when we can receive the strength to not only control our actions, but to know when and how to react for the benefit of the greater good.
This month is not one for giving up. Many of us often feel so defeated by the end of Capricorn that we are ready to throw in the towel on any attempts at restriction or doing our spiritual work. But the saying should go, “If at first you don’t succeed… try again in Aquarius!”
The Age of Aquarius is famous for its intuition and sixth sense. We can tap into our inner voice this month and instinctively know which battles are worth fighting and when it will be in everyone’s best interest to let go. It’s the time we learn when it’s best to speak or shut up, confront or back down.
Because knowing what's “the right thing to do” simply is not enough! This month we receive the power to know what to do and when to do it.
You may have already begun to feel it in your everyday life. Maybe you were thinking of someone and they happened to call you, or you knew what was going to come out of someone’s mouth before they said it. Acknowledge those moments throughout the next 30 days. Embrace your Divine Inspiration and let it guide you so that you may know what it is you need to do or say to reveal the most Light in any situation.
You have all the answers you need right there inside of you—and they are louder than ever this month.
Just listen for them.
A lot of times, newer students of Kabbalah will ask me why we take so many spiritual trips, why we travel such far distances several times a year to visit the places where the sages travelled, studied or left this world – and if we were to think about it, it’s probably not the most “normal” thing to do. For that matter, if you’ve ever been inside a Kabbalah Centre, you’ll find pictures of these graves framed on the wall! Not necessarily what a decorator would have chosen, right?
The righteous souls are always here to support us, their energy never really dies. We can connect with them, at specific sites, or by studying their teachings, and by keeping them in our thoughts on the days they left this world.
Recently, I took a trip to Poland where I visited the grave of The Seer of Lublin who, incidentally was blind, but was known for having incredible spiritual vision and divine prophecy, a true “seer.”
For a person who is not incline to feel energy, they may come to the site of the Seer and experience simply a rock.
The Seer of Lublin never just saw a rock, never just saw the physical. What we gain from the Seer is how to see beyond the limitations of the 1% physical world.
The Seer was a student of the Maggid of Mezritch, who we also visited on this trip. One of the great stories of the Maggid that my father and teacher the Rav always tells helps us to better understand the limitation of our perceptions.
One of the Maggid’s students whose wife was unable to fall pregnant needed a blessing to have children. The Maggid tells him to go to this a man’s house and to spend Shabbat with that person’s family. The student of the Maggid arrives at the house and enters to find that the house is filthy. It’s downright disgusting; there’s dirt everywhere, there’s dust, it’s unsanitary, and the student is thinking to himself that he’s likely to get some kind of disease! He sees children running around the house like little monsters.
At the sight of this, the student begins to cry thinking to himself that there’s no hope, this can’t possibly be the destination the Maggid had intended for him to find a blessing for his wife so that she could bear children. He runs out of the house and into a barn next door where he cries all night. Through his tears, he begins to have some clarity, which happens sometimes. Sometimes we need to feel the pain in order to understand the lesson. The more he cries, the more the gates open and the more he sees his own negativity for what it really is. He sees his selfishness, he sees his ego and all the places it has blocked him from seeing the truth in life– and he soon realizes that all the filth he saw in the house was his own negativity.
He comes back to the house the next morning and magically it looks completely different than he remembers. It is filled with Light and looks like the Holy Temple! The kids faces are radiant, so pure and innocent.
He returns home and soon after this transforming realization, his wife becomes pregnant.
When we are dark, we see and experience darkness. When we are Light, we see and experience Light.
We know that our consciousness creates reality and if we see the world through veils of negativity, that is the world we will experience. What we can learn from this story is that in order to change our reality, we need to change our viewfinder. Choose to see the Light in the world and before long you will find Light in your own life.
This is also the secret of the Seer of Lublin. His ability to see the truth, to see beyond the physical, to have divine prophecy and clairvoyance was a product of his vision that the Light is in everything.
I wanted to share this video with you that was taken during my trip to Poland to visit the Seer of Lublin. I hope you connect and enjoy it.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19250409
Love,
Yehuda
