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  • July 20, 2020 at 1:14 pm EDT #33838

    Gil
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    • November 25, 2025 at 4:35 pm EST #467662
      Adam
      Participant

      After more than a month of study and reading, I started doing some independent research on your organization and was disappointed to find so many troubling articles depicting you as a cult.

      I’m confronted with the question of whether I should continue on with the learning path in light of some of what’s been documented. Can you tell me what your response is on these allegations? About being “…motivated by a totalitarian messianic vision that envisions, in the not-too-distant future, a government of kabbalists who cannot be challenged”?

      • November 25, 2025 at 7:00 pm EST #467670
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
        Moderator

        We’re sincerely grateful to the Creator for sending us a very wealthy person who (as there always were in the past standing against Kabbalists) for ten years, sued us, for anything and everything he could think of, ultimately spending millions of dollars only in order to, in the end, publish the wisdom of Kabbalah even more widely, though he had hoped to have the opposite effect. After more than ten years of testimony, witnesses, and evidence, brought by the best attorneys money can buy, our accuser was, in turn, accused, by the judge in the case, of contempt of the court for intentionally and maliciously trying to slander our organization – and we anticipate his court-ordered public apology to be published in a major publication at his expense.

        But as I said, he simply joins, by the Creator who operated him, a long tradition of those who are enraged by the very existence of the wisdom of Kabbalah. It’s because it’s the method of correction, all that one came to this world to do, and that’s why a person who knows of it but also doesn’t want to correct himself feels that it is truly mocking and opposing him.

        It’s not a unique occurrence but a law of nature, and its necessity is explained in these texts:

        https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/JB67bfDs

        https://www.kabbalahbooks.info/products/a-very-narrow-bridge?_pos=1&_sid=51631fd87&_ss=r&variant=34617870778501

        So, any publicity is good, and it’s also the Creator’s will. One with a Point in the Heart nevertheless has a built-in truth-detector, for finding the place of authentic wisdom (during the time while this Point is awakened) and nothing can turn him off. He doesn’t listen to anyone. While for all others, it’s better they hear about the wisdom of Kabbalah than not, even if it’s not in the best light. It makes no difference, they’ll forget, and what remains is that they’ve heard of it. Because eventually, everyone will need it.

    • November 19, 2025 at 6:56 am EST #466894
      Brad
      Participant

      Kabbalistic music has a special power to it, what about secular music that has some godliness in it, or even some christian songs That move us?  In some way to be emotional for the Creator. Is this okay? And whats the main difference.

      • November 26, 2025 at 12:56 am EST #467696
        Adam
        Participant

        Thank you for the thorough response

      • November 19, 2025 at 3:07 pm EST #466986
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
        Moderator

        If something helps you think of the Creator, that’s good. It’s a question still if it is putting me in closer proximity to actual spiritual states. Because people think all kinds of things are close to spiritual. But actually the Point in the Heart is not just some tendency but it is the backside of the backside of the first spiritual degree, and this drives a person exactly toward the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah, in its cleanest possible form. If I have this property, which is an alien property, the quality of Bina, at least to some extent, then my music could transmit that to some extent. If I don’t have this quality, then it’s not my music that makes you think of the Creator, but something that was already in you, from your studies, environment, etc.

      • November 19, 2025 at 9:57 am EST #466963
        Jon Alto
        Participant

        In Kabbalah, what matters most is where something takes you spiritually.

        If music, any music, wakes up in you a real desire for the Creator, or makes you feel love and connection, then it’s doing something good. The Kabbalists teach that anything bringing you closer to the Upper Force has value. Your feelings become a tool for spiritual growth.

        But there’s something special about music from Kabbalists like Baal HaSulam. These melodies aren’t just beautiful sounds. They carry the spiritual experiences of the Kabbalists who created them. When you listen with the right intention, you’re not just having your own feelings, you’re connecting to the spiritual places they reached.

        Regular music, even great music like Coldplay, brings people together where they are. Everyone feels united, but on the same level. Kabbalistic music is designed to lift you upward, toward higher spiritual states, toward the Creator.

        When the music stops, where are you? Do you feel more desire to study, to connect with your spiritual group, to work on yourself? Or do you just feel good about yourself?

        Music that turns your heart toward the Creator, whatever its source, has helped you. But music created by Kabbalists specifically as spiritual tools carries extra power because it contains their spiritual attainment.

        Even if it feels similar, Christian music often points toward different spiritual ideas (like intermediaries between you and God). Those intentions are baked into the music. You might absorb them without realizing it, which can create confusion in your Kabbalistic work.

        Use music that wakes you up spiritually. But stay aware of where it’s trying to take you. Always redirect those awakened feelings back to your Kabbalistic path, your studies, your group, your desire to grow.

    • November 19, 2025 at 6:53 am EST #466893
      Brad
      Participant

      If red is not actually red but whatever light it absorbs, its just our perception. Why does everyone else see red too? Or is that just my perception again ?

      • November 29, 2025 at 4:36 pm EST #467909
        Brad
        Participant

        Thank you Gianni and Jon. I asked cuz my wife gets emotional when she hears some christian songs from our past. (I like some of them too depending on the words) But she studies judaism now and encourages my study of kabbalah. i like that, re: “the music is not giving me feelings, rather it’s something that was already in me”.

        • November 30, 2025 at 10:06 am EST #467988
          Jon Alto
          Participant

          You’re welcome. I’ve learned a lot from Gianni, many thanks to him 🙂

          Music is like a time portal. It brings us to where feelings were, where they were created and experienced.

          When you hear a song from your childhood, you travel back to that time and feel what you felt then. That’s beautiful and valuable. Nostalgic music serves a real purpose, it connects us to our memories and emotions.

          But Kabbalistic music serves a different purpose entirely.

          Think about how we work with the Zohar. When we read it and align our intentions and desires toward Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and the authors, we can reach a similar spiritual state, the same “reality” they were in when they wrote it, thousands of years ago. We’re not just reading words; we’re connecting to their attainment.

          Music from Baal HaSulam works the same way. When he arranged these melodies, he was in certain spiritual states. The music carries those states. When we listen with the right intention, trying to align ourselves with him, the music becomes a portal to where he was spiritually. It brings us toward the intention behind it, like an invisible prayer.

          Regular music, even spiritual-feeling music, brings you to human emotions and experiences, yours or someone else’s. That can be powerful and moving.

          But Kabbalistic music brings you toward the Kabbalist’s connection with the Creator. It’s not about the feelings themselves. It’s about using those feelings as a ladder to climb to where they climbed.

          When the music stops, where are you? Do you feel closer to the Creator? Do you want to study, connect with your group, work on yourself spiritually? Or do you just feel emotionally satisfied?

          Nostalgic music takes you to your past. Kabbalistic music takes you toward spiritual states.

          Here’s something important to remember: All of this, Kabbalistic music versus secular music, sacred versus mundane, we’re seeing it through duality. We’re making distinctions because that’s how we work in our current state.

          But the Creator’s plan doesn’t need any specific music. The Creator doesn’t need the Zohar or melodies from Baal HaSulam. These dualities, sacred and secular, Kabbalistic and regular, are just a path for us. They’re tools that help us while we’re still working within perception of separation.

          The music, the books, the distinctions we make, they’re scaffolding. As we grow spiritually, we understand that everything comes from the same Source, and everything can serve the spiritual path when approached with the right intention. The Creator reaches us through whatever opens our hearts.

          The Kabbalistic tools are recommended because they’re efficient, they’re specifically designed for the journey. But they’re not the only way the Light reaches us.

          Use music that awakens something in you. But understand what portal you’re walking through. Nostalgic music takes you to your past. Kabbalistic music takes you toward spiritual states. And remember, all paths ultimately lead to the same place. The distinctions help us navigate while we’re still learning to see the unity behind everything.

      • November 19, 2025 at 3:01 pm EST #466982
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
        Moderator

        Even scientists today are saying that EVERYTHING you see, including your own body, is a projection of… well, that they don’t know, but Kabbalists say it’s of the Will to Receive.

    • November 14, 2025 at 1:19 am EST #465998
      Daniel Alvarez Grisales
      Participant

      Hello dear Gianni 🙂

      I would like to know what Rabash means by money, counting, missing money and any other aspects you think I should keep in mind in this excerpt. Thank you.

      Rabash. Article 23 (1991), “What Is the Meaning of the Purification of a Cow’s Ashes, in the Work?”

      In faith,.. we should make three discernments:

      1) For example, if a person gives to his friend $1,000, and the person accepts it, and he is completely sure and believes, since this man is my friend, and a meticulous person, so if he gives the money, there must be $1,000 there, and there is no need to count. This is called “faith below reason.” In other words, he believes him because his reason does not object to what he believes, meaning there is no contradiction between believing him and the reason. It follows that to him, faith is below reason, and the reason is more important. That is, he believes him because reason does not object. However, if this is in contrast to reason, he will probably not believe. This is still not regarded as faith above reason.

      2) He tells him, “Here is $1,000.” The receiver counts it three times and sees that there is the stated amount there and says to the giver, “I believe you that there is that amount here, as you say.” Certainly, this does not count as faith.

      3) He counts the $1,000 three times and sees that one dollar is missing, but he says to the giver, “I believe you that there is $1,000 here. Even though the reason and the intellect say that there is less here, he says that he believes. This is called true “above reason.”

      • November 14, 2025 at 10:06 pm EST #466148
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
        Moderator

        It seems Rabash wants us to check if, with respect to the friends, we judge them from within reason, below reason, or above reason. We need to start measuring to what extent we can see them above reason. I think the example is clear.

    • November 13, 2025 at 8:49 pm EST #465988
      Brad
      Participant

      Hi

      Outside of the Ten, Im starting to like this idea of being just like everyone else,  at work for example. I don’t try to push kabbalah on them or even talk anything about G-d. Even though they know im religious as well. I act like them, it seems to keep things on good terms. Although this is a different context,  Im reminded of the example of the holy sages before pesach put bread crumbs in their beards to appear un-holy to others. (Would love the quote?) I know im not holy, but i like this idea. Can you tell me more about this practically and spiritually ?

      Thanks

      • November 13, 2025 at 10:18 pm EST #465995
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
        Moderator

        Because it’s against what you would have liked to have done. And yet, it’s what they prefer. You don’t quite give to them, and yet you receive nothing from them. You do what you’re supposed to do, and that’s it. Nobody wanted your religion; nobody wanted your Kabbalah: it’s what you wanted to “bestow.” Bestowal isn’t what you want to bestow – that’s called RECEPTION. Therefore, this new way turns out to be more spiritual. Meaning, it’s not spiritual, but by not being against spirituality, it’s closer.

    • November 12, 2025 at 1:08 pm EST #465834
      Adam
      Participant

      The God of the Tanakh is vengeful, wrathful, jealous, and spiteful – and it’s for this reason that so many people reject Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. By contrast, we are told in Kabbalah that the Creator is an all-loving, altruistic force. How can this contrast be explained? If the Tanakah is rooted in Kabbalah, or Kabbalah is rooted in the Judaic tradition (however you want to look at it), why are these images of “God” so different from one another?

      • November 12, 2025 at 1:25 pm EST #465835
        Gianni – KabU Instructor
        Moderator

        Kabbalists don’t attempt to reconcile religious views with Kabbalistic views. Why would there be a contrast? Because for thousands of years and after thousands of commentators who did not attain the Upper World referred to by these texts, the obvious, expected, and by corporeal logic, perfectly logical conclusions were arrived at. Meaning to understand the Creator, you have to become like the Creator. Otherwise, each will form his own opinion based on his animal instinct.

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