Discover Kabbalah Part 1 Class #2 : Karen berg weekly message about teacher
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I know that there are many of you that
you know, study on UKabbalah, and have books
and enjoying learning by yourselves
and sort of sometimes coming to you own conclusions.
But i just want to tell you
that even the Rav,
you know when he first started to learn, he learnt only
because he found his teacher
and trust me the Rav is Leo.
He tells me many, many times
that while he was learning with his teacher, you know
he came to Israel all proud and proper, to sit down
and spent hours and hours delving into the
writing of the Ari, into the Zohar, into
Ten Luminous Emanations and he got to his
teachers house Rabbi Brandwein, and Rabbi Brandwein
said look we got these books to pack hows
about we do it together, he was astonished
me pack books, I came so many
thousand of miles, to do what?
It was a lesson,
and I know that there is those of you here that have seen
movies like the Karate Kid, with their hands on, hands off
hands on, hands off, it seems like a lesson in futility.
But the important message is
often times when we learn by ourselves
we find out own niche.
We figure out our own conclusions.
The teacher is very important
if for nothing else than to paint the pathway.
To show you that this is the way you go.
If without a teacher you
learn only by yourselves sometimes
you can wind up with the wrong conclusions
and not that the teacher,
a teacher is a human being, that has more
knowledge and has more time, more years in the
subject than you and therefore he's capable
of helping you reach your goal.
And sometimes that goal is to maybe lower
the goal a little bit. Yes pack some books.
Yes learn how to take your coat off the hanger. Yes,
all the things that seem nothing to do
with actual learning. But you know we know,
that the greatest learning
of all, is to learn to be a human
being with human dignity.
The teacher is very, very important,
because, he
even though he maybe somebody that
you know has a few years on you or maybe even a
few years less, none the less
he has been given through his work,
through his time, his study.
A deeper knowledge into that which you seek.
And therefore through that
we need to have real care he's your buddy
he's not going to be your friend. Because once your
teacher becomes your friend, he loses the edge.
So I hope
that for all of you, you respect
the person that gives you this knowledge,
you respect the one that opens the lights
so that the plane can take off.
That's your teacher, he's there as your guide.
You need to use him for that, you
need to learn and respect
but understand that
yes you teacher is very important
in the way you see the knowledge that you receive
and I hope tonights class
will be very enlightening for you.