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As it is stated in this lecture, but actually it is something that has been dwelling in my mind for some time; The creator created us for his own glory, He created creation for his own need. Does this mean that the Creator has an egoistic nature also and has also the will to receive?
Hi Sara,
The Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal. As such, He does not lack anything. Meaning He does not need us to bestow anything to Him. The only ones benefiting from this whole process is us.
Although we sometimes use the words that we perform a certain action in order to bestow to the Creator or to bring Him contentment or for his Glory, but in truth it’s just a game to help us to develop. Just like with kids, when we spoon feed them, they see the example from us and want to pick up a spoon and feed us back. Do we really need them to feed us? Of course not. But we still accept this from them, smile, show them how happy they made us by feeding us etc, since we know that through this game, they grow and develop. So ultimately the Creator is not lacking anything. And all of our attempts to bestow to Him are nothing more than a type of game for our own development.
Check out this article of Rabash for more details: https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/GaZtLpMe?source_language=en
Furthermore, we need to keep in mind that we never perceive reality from the Creator’s point of view. And even Kabbalistic quotes that seemingly speak from the Creator’s point of view, nonetheless, these are not from His actual point of view, but rather, how they felt these things within their corrected desires.
In general, Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts:
The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.
The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
I checked out the blog with Dr. Laitman you referred to where it says:
“Why don’t we feel the Creator? Because there is no unity between us. If we want to feel the force that surrounds, envelops, and includes all of creation within it, we need to connect and to become as one.”
Why do we have to become as one in order to feel Upper Reality? Does it mean that our personal journey cannot bring this attainment?
Hi Yelena,
If you take a microscope and zoom into a cell, you see that there is a certain amount of life and activity within that cell. If you zoom out and see how all those cells come together to form a body, you see that there is a higher level of life and activity in that body. That body experiences life in such a qualitatively different way that is impossible for the individual cells to experience.
Then if that person unites with 9 others, they will discover an even higher level of life, which we call spirituality. Likewise, this spiritual body reaches an attainment of life that is impossible for the individual body to experience by itself. And if that spiritual body unites with other spiritual bodies, they will discover an even higher level of life, etc.
This is how the system is built. Individually, we’re all like those small cells within a body. All that we can currently feel is life within our small cells. If we want to feel the higher level of life, spiritual life, that requires us to connect those individual cells into one body.
As for our personal journeys, they are not worthless. They provide us with a certain level of freedom, that we’re not forced into this process, but rather develop freely and without any coercion until we are ready to connect to that higher spiritual body.
We’ll learn how to do this practically in the advanced semesters of KabU. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/12/me-and-the-general-soul/
Albert @ KabU
Could you offer some examples of “Able to completely defy the Creator’s will” as written above? I am grateful for the wonderful opportunity to ask questions here. Thank you!
Hi Mona,
The Creator instilled in us our egoistic nature. Defying His will in this context means being able to rise above this egoistic nature and aiming to bestow instead.
Baal HaSulam talks about this in the article Shamati 19, here’s an excerpt:
Then one has close contact with the Creator to help him turn the will to receive to work in order to bestow. One must believe that from this extends contentment to the Creator, from his praying to Him to draw him near in the manner of Dvekut [adhesion], called “equivalence of form,” discerned as the annulment of the will to receive, so it is in order to bestow. The Creator says about this, “My sons defeated Me.” That is, I gave you the will to receive, and you ask Me to give you a desire to bestow instead.Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2025/07/my-sons-defeated-me/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Luz,
1. Different groups have different schedules. So it depends on your group.
2. As we learn, “there is no coercion in spirituality”. No one will force you to do anything you don’t want to do. But through our participation in the group, we exponentially speed up our spiritual development. So it’s highly recommended.
All this will be more relevant for us in the advanced semesters of KabU, where everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group and learn how to properly work with it.
Albert @ KabU
On page 67 in “Attaining The Worlds Beyond”, it says to achieve Correction “we must give ourselves over completely to this effort” and that we have to ” engage our utmost effort and give ourself entirely over to this effort, both quantitatively and qualitatively”
This seems like a task very difficult to achieve doing Kabbalah on the spare time…
Without studying 3 hours every day – like the senior students do – is this possible if we are aware of the point in the heart and the thought of the Creator during the day?
Hi Olav,
It’s important to find a good balance between our corporeal lives and our spiritual aspirations. Without a good balance in our corporeal lives, we won’t be able to advance in spirituality either. This is called “no flour, no Torah – no Torah, no flour”.
Meaning a Kabbalist continues to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder. So I cannot just turn into a monk and disconnect from this life and only focus on spirituality. On the other hand, if I only focus on corporeality, then I’m no different than an animal.
So the important thing is to find the right balance between the two: to take care of all of one’s normal necessities: to work, take care of the family, health, etc (this is called flour) and to set aside some time on a regular basis to focus on spirituality (this is called Torah).
And how much time to set aside for spirituality, that depends precisely on our spare time. If after all my normal necessities, work, family obligations etc, I have just one hour a day, and I invest that hour into the Kabbalistic studies, then I’m 100% invested in the goal. On the other hand, if after all my normal necessities, I have 6 hours of spare time a day, and I invest 3 of those hours into studying Kabbalah, then I’m only 50% invested.
So this calculation is personal to each one, and each one needs to aspire to find the right balance between corporeality and spirituality. And in the more advanced stages of our development, we will see how our day to day life and obligations also help us with our spiritual development.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Alice,
A person who crosses the barrier is called a Kabbalist. There have been many Kabbalists throughout the generation.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
Albert @ KabU
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