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greetings
i would like to learn the code language used in the torah
is there a course i can take that can teach me how to do decode the torah?
i want to innerstand the torah so much
my life would be so much of a breeze if i could see behind the curtainYou may be underestimating the greatness and sublimity of the spiritual world. Even though I know you think it’s great, we still can’t imagine it, to what extent it includes everything, including much more than we can even imagine exists. So, there isn’t some key, some course that will unlock it. The Creator didn’t hide a secret key somewhere. All our courses and texts are designed to bring a person closer to the <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>inner change</span> that needs to happen before one can decode the Torah and reveal the Creator. You’re like a rubik’s cube on which all the squares are turned to one side, so you see this world; big things one doesn’t even know about himself need to change inside him, and face the opposite direction, to reveal the spiritual world.
We have several Kabbalah Explained Simply episodes that touch on parts of the Torah, and books such as this: https://www.kabbalahbooks.info/collections/books/products/disclosing-a-portion?variant=34617901809797
greetings
i would like to know the answers to the following questions:
1. what day of the week did immanuel die on the cross?
2. when passover’s preparation day coincides with regular sabbath, what happens?
3. are there 8 days in the week, the 8th being a concealment?
4. are there any lies in the bible that you know of that were altered truths meant to mislead?1. Kabbalah doesn’t speak about that, doesn’t mention it whatsoever.
2. Also, not Kabbalah. For the religious, it’s a problem that occurs a handful of times per century. You need to make a few adjustments, no big deal – if you’re religious. Kabbalah is not a religion.
3. I’ll tell you a secret. There aren’t 7 days. There aren’t 8. There are 10. If we want to play with silly mystical notions we can find something in some Kabbalah text, usually the Zohar, to support it. But that won’t get you anywhere. There are 7 days according to the 7 Sefirot that relate to the nature of the Created Being, and 3 more Sefirot, Bina, Hocham, Keter, which relate to the Creator.
4. Everything in the Torah is true (the New Testiment, I don’t know about and it’s not a Kabbalah text) but the Torah doesn’t talk about our world whatsoever. Instead, it’s like computer code from which our world is created. You can’t alter a single word or even letter of it.
To such questions, Kabbalah doesn’t give an answer. They’re religious in nature. When the Upper Light is concealed, there’s room for belief. When the Upper Light is revealed, all space for belief vanishes. Reveal the Upper Light and all will be clear to you.
Shalom,
I’ve been reflecting on the analogy often used in our lessons: that just as a few inventors create a technology (like electricity or the internet) and the whole world benefits from it, our work in the ‘Ten’ (the group) will automatically uplift all of humanity to the level of ‘bestowal’ and love for the Creator once we reach that spiritual frequency.
While this is presented as a ‘Law of Nature,’ I see a significant contradiction here. Technological inventions are passive for the end-user; you don’t need to change your nature to use a smartphone. However, Kabbalah teaches that spiritual correction requires an active, conscious, and often painful struggle against one’s own ego.
If we achieve this ‘high level’ in our groups, does it mean the rest of the 8 billion people—who have no idea about this work—will suddenly start acting out of ‘bestowal’ without any personal effort or choice? If so, what happens to the principle of ‘Free Will’?
Comparing human spiritual evolution to a mechanical or technological discovery seems to treat humanity like a passive machine rather than conscious beings. Is this ‘Law’ truly as mechanical as gravity, where the ‘mass’ of our spiritual achievement simply pulls everyone else along, or does every individual still have to walk their own path of correction? I would appreciate a direct clarification on this mechanical vs. conscious distinction.
Best regards,
There’s a Middle Line here. On the one hand, the world is inside you. Only you need to be corrected. It’s all just for you. There are many verses about this. On the other hand, all those parts of my soul also have to reach free choice at some level. The frame for them is narrower though. They need to reach willingness to come along, to follow the Rosh (head), like the organs in the body do. Israel is called “Li-Rosh” – “I have a head”. Not everyone belongs to that system in the body. And they won’t feel they’re missing the chance to be part of that system. They’ll just enjoy being part of the body.
Hi Gianni,
Thank you for this clarification. If I understand your ‘Body and Organs’ analogy correctly, you are suggesting a spiritual hierarchy within the collective soul of humanity:
The ‘Rosh’ (Head/Israel): A small, conscious group that undergoes the painful process of ‘Free Will,’ internal struggle, and active correction to attain the spiritual frequency of bestowal.
The ‘Guf’ (Body/Humanity): The remaining billions of people who act as organs. Their ‘Free Will’ is limited to a passive willingness to follow the ‘Head.’ They don’t experience the conscious ‘why’ or the spiritual struggle; they simply enjoy the resulting harmony and health of the system, much like a hand enjoys being part of a healthy body without knowing the brain’s complex thoughts.
So, in essence, you are confirming that for the vast majority of humanity, the transition to ‘bestowal’ will indeed be mechanical and passive.
They will not be ‘conscious Kabbalists’; they will be ‘healthy cells’ in a system they do not fully comprehend. Their happiness will come from ‘not missing the opportunity’ to be part of the body, rather than from a conscious attainment of the Truth.
Is it correct to conclude then, that ‘True Free Will’ and ‘Active Consciousness’ are not universal human goals in Kabbalah, but are reserved only for those who function as the ‘Head’? And that the rest of humanity is, by design, destined to be a passive part of a spiritual technology they didn’t choose to build?
I want to make sure I am not misinterpreting this ‘Middle Path’ you mentioned.
Best regards,
Brian Israel
No, the Middle Line can’t be understood. We can provide words, but understanding is only experiential. We can talk about the right and then the left (and that’s also just words, for now). The Middle Line, though, is truly another world.
Everyone has relative free choice. It’s as much as they want. A person can go as high as he wants to go. The problem is obtaining such a desire that I don’t want. Imagine if at your stage in life, we now turn you into and astronaut or concert violinist or anything else you have no desire for. It’s truly possible for you, but if I tell you how great it will be, do you want it? A person is driven by his FEELING, then he gets the mind he needs to realize the feeling (if more mind is needed). If he has no feeling that drives him toward a degree higher than the one he’s on, he can’t reach higher degrees. So, a person who didn’t get this magnet – the Point in the Heart – that pulls him toward the Creator, he would have to do something like if we only put you in the company of astronauts who talk about that profession as if there’s nothing else in life. And you’d have to be willing and understand that you must acquire serious brainwashing from those astronauts until they infect you with their desire. When you put yourself in a stronger environment that your desire is strong, that’s realizing your free choice. It’s true for me, you, and anyone in the world. A Kabbalist must do this to rise a degree; he can’t rise on his own – never. But he has this magnet in him that draws him toward this work.
But everyone will have the opportunity to check to what extent they want to realize the spark of the Creator’s quality which each nevertheless has somewhere in them. And what seems to us as beastly, simple, and low perhaps, for the kind of vessel he has, moving one millimeter toward connection is a bigger lift than all that I’m doing. Not only a bigger lift, but impossible, something he needs the Creator’s help for. We just can’t imagine how the Creator didn’t make anything in the center of the Venn Diagram with one’s neighbor. Each piece of the soul is sui generis because the Creator’s plan is perfect and each will feel he’s home when he reaches the root of his soul in the soul of Adam HaRishon.
if the corpreal reality is an illusion how can i even belive what im experienceing her in kab u or that im even writing this…is thier something entiraly different happening in the other worlds right now?? Like if i have a fight with my parent…thats not actually whats happening or??
Corporeal reality exists, but I don’t see it through the right lens so that I’ll do what I should do. Instead of seeing all kinds of things going on in the world that I can have, can’t have, could harm me, could benefit me, are scary, and so on — instead, what I’m doing is looking in a mirror, where all the intentions to receive that I have, appear to me as people, animals, planets, etc. If it’s just a mirror showing what’s inside me, start thinking what an illusion I’m in regarding all kinds of plans I have, worries, fears, how it causes me to suffer or become happy. That’s called that I’m in an imaginary world. And I don’t come out of it because either I don’t know this or always forget about and fall back into the same illusion with full immersion, to the point that I even don’t want to come out.
“Instead of seeing all kinds of things going on in the world that I can have, can’t have, could harm me, could benefit me, are scary, and so on” do you mean that this is what we usually do and what we should do is “looking in a mirror, where all the intentions to receive that I have, appear to me as people, animals, planets, etc” and once we do this we start to see everything as imagenery…then what? or lets say me and my parent have alot of issuse with my perosnal faith and they dont agree, so it causes tension disconnection, we dont communicate in all its forms (call, face2face etc) and its causing anxiety and fear/unease “like its not supposed to be this way so i feel bad” what can i do about this, think “this is imagenary…then what hows that gonna do anything for me…where does equivalance of form come into play here and alturism?
to add on, how can i sense the upperforces at play in all of this and recieve the guidace?
Thank you again!
Hold on, we can’t mix all these things into a soup. None are clear, and then we mix several unclear things together.
The world is not imaginary, in itself. But the way I look at it is as if it’s outside of me. It’s a reflection of me. Leave that as a theory for now because you can’t work with it yet.
With my parents, there are clear laws of this world at play. You can’t take a spiritual approach with that. The police pulls you over because you’re 30 over the limit, prayer won’t work. You broke the law, you’re getting a ticket. What about a really strong prayer? Nothing will work. This world’s laws are the Creator’s laws. This stands alone, don’t relate it to any other principle. Your parents’ nature is their nature, their expectations are what they are. Your ability to believe what they want you to is either sufficient to do so or it isn’t. It’s either worth it for you, and possibly them, to step on your own desire a bit for the sake of family harmony or not. If a person has a strong Point in the Heart, if it’s about a belief system, it’s a big question. Because then one HAS to REVEAL the Creator, in which case all religions disappear, except for the simple customs, which can stay. But there’s no room for any belief system since all that vaporizes the instant the Creator is revealed. At the same time, you can’t ruin belief for others, since that’s enough for them to feel good and if they didn’t have it, they’d suffer. These are corporeal issues that require corporeal solutions without the admixture of any spiritual concepts. Once a problem reaches this world, you manage it according to this world’s laws.
From now on, I’ll try to be closer to spirituality and more correct in my thoughts and desires, so I’ll see a better world.
Hello
1. Super greatfull for this community and all the teachers!
Ive been batteling alot with 3 things,
1. understanding and internalising the masach
2 How to practically switch from recive to bestow when its not about material things (i.e its easier to think of bestowal when giving food and money)
3. Reading the texts/ watching videos and trying to attain the level of the kabbalist that gave the wisdom…how do i?
extra; is it spritually bad to want a ceratain physicall change to your body(like working out to look better or fixing you hairline lol) and listening to rap music like eminiem who curses alot or talks ill of others
Love to all and blessings!!
Hi Yeabsera,
(1) The Masach [screen] is hard to, I should say impossible to, understand because it’s not in our tool box of things we find in us or in this world. It just isn’t here at all. What’s here is pleasures, which are able to get through the Barrier to the spiritual world and come down to us – and we race after them and receive them as much as possible with no restraint except those placed upon us by factors beyond our control. And a screen is a response system that has to be built in me whereby I won’y receive anything I’m not certain will be in order to bestow. One hasn’t done this even once in one’s entire life nor in all kinds of incarnations they’ve been through. When the Point in the Heart awakens, it’s the first point of the Masach. But it’s just a Point for now.
(2) Yes, it’s not material things. It’s desire. One doesn’t even know what a desire is. You can chop off his hands and legs and all his organs, but you can’t destroy his desire. It’s eternal. This I need to take: desires. And place upon each desire the intention to bestow.
(3) It’s by the extent to which you feel he is talking to you directly, about the exact state you’re in, and then you adhere to him, hugging him with all that you are, so he’ll guide your every step. You adhere to him, and he takes you gradually toward the spiritual worlds.
(Extra) Nope. Just pay attention to how much you’re thinking about other things, whether you really have to, and if you have to, then how much do you actually have to for the required effect. And not to think about it a minute longer than will be beneficial. And, most importantly, to try not to think about anything unnecessary that makes you forget the spiritual goal.
1 is the masach like a checkout scanner in a store, not allowing barcodes that dont go in the system to get scanned? aka if a have an intention to recive i will not be bestowed upon becuase the Masach prohibits it? you said pleasures can reach the spiritual and come down again..you aslo said we chase them (in my mind it sound like we race after fleeting experinces?) if so are these pleasure bad and if they are how come they go up to the spiritual wich is..good? and when they come down are they differnet or?(whats the whole thing with the pleasures going up and down basically)
2, i understand desires will always be even if im paralyzed, what did that part have to do with learning to add bestowl to the “stew” also when you say its not material tings its desire..do you mean that my will to give the food is not a will to give food but a desire to give period? like the food is a representation of my desire and the intention connected to that desire in that moment (image: you have a pair of xray glasses, before you put them on you see me gving a sandwich to a homeless guy becuase i saw he´s hungry, then you put on the glasses and you see immaterial light where the sandwich is and you see light in my heart…aka the food is just a desire and if there is light in my heart i have the intention to bestow ?
3. do you mean “feel” as in a feeling occurs or as in how much i try to relate or see how the content relates to me directly so im reading and i imagen the text is talking about my life specificlay even if the content dosent remind me of a specific situation in my life? can you explain what you do when you adhere to the kabbalist…im a practicall person
extra: you threw me for a loop here dont even know what to ask hhaha but thank you very much for the help!
Dear KabU Team,
thank you for your guidance. In our studies on the science of Kabbalah, we also examine the paths followed by valuable teachers like Michael Laitman.
At this point, the place of the Kippah/Yamukah, which is an important symbol in Judaism, has become a matter of curiosity.
As you know, universal principles lie in the depths of Kabbalah.
What is the wisdom behind a Kabbalist leader still wearing a Kippah/ Yamukah?
In fact—even though I am Jewish—I stopped wearing a kippah after I started studying Kabbalah.
We would like to learn your valuable opinions on this matter to expand our knowledge.
Best regards.
Brian Israel
Hi Brian,
First, wearing a kippah in Israel is pretty normal. Second, a Kabbalist goes according to “I dwell among my people,” so if they do it that way, if there’s no harm in it, the Kabbalist does too. Aside from that the practice is based on the spiritual action of putting the spirtual Screen over the desire, such that one is never seen without it. So, there’s not only no harm in it, but if he knows what it means and why he does it, it can be beneficial. The main thing is the work in the heart, intentions, keeping the inner meaning of the Mitzvot, on which the external Mitzvot were created as copies.
Hi Gianni,
Thank you for your guidance. I understand the perspective of wearing a Kippah as a social norm—”dwelling among my people”—or as an external reminder of the spiritual Screen (Masach).
However, I am curious about a point Michael Laitman frequently emphasizes in his lessons: Given the level that the ego has reached today, doesn’t Kabbalah teach us that physical forms and traditions (like the classical function of religions) are no longer sufficient for spiritual correction, and that the “work in the heart” is what truly matters?
If the Kippah is merely an external copy, doesn’t clinging to such symbols run the risk of diverting focus away from the core essence—the intention of “bestowal”—and back toward empty forms? Where exactly should we draw the line between respecting external traditions and adhering to the internal truth?
I look forward to learning your valuable opinions on this matter.
Best regards,
Brian Israel
In this incredibly accurate Lego model of an F35 jet, I can learn about the F35 – if for now, say, I’m not allowed to fly a real one – yet flying this Lego around doesn’t get me one inch closer to the real thing. Could this lead to me actually starting to think I’m in a real F35? -people are capable of anything you can imagine. Even to think this Lego is somehow higher than an actual F35? – even that! But, no, there’s nothing to worry about unless wants to willfully delude himself, and that’s only because he internally doesn’t want to come to the real inner work with the intention.
Hi Gianni,
Thank you for the analogy. However, I must be honest: the response feels like it’s drifting away from the core of my question and becoming a distraction. The ‘Lego F35’ example explains why the model isn’t the reality, but it fails to address why a leader—who teaches that these models (religions) have lost their function—continues to display them so prominently.
This is a fundamental contradiction that many students around the world likely observe but may not dare to voice. It creates a critical perception issue: ‘Is this just another new religion, a form of manipulation, or a calculated game?’
If the justification for wearing a Kippah is merely ‘social adaptation,’ then let me ask this: If Michael Laitman were living in a geography dominated by Islamic traditions, would he be wearing a turban and a robe to fit in?
In my own journey, whenever fellow students or friends ask me why I might wear a Kippah or respect these symbols, I give them a very simple and clear answer: ‘I am a Kabbalist, and Kabbalah is a wisdom that stems from the depths of Jewish sages and mysticism. Out of respect and admiration for the lineage of this wisdom, I honor their memory by wearing the Kippah.’ This is simple, transparent, and resonates with people; they respect this honesty. Why can’t we get a similarly clear and direct answer regarding the leadership’s stance? The current explanations do not address the essence of this contradiction. I am looking for a direct answer on how this alignment between the teaching and the persona is maintained without it becoming a paradox.
Best regards,
Transparency has to come from really understanding, and not slogans – “out of great respect and admiration of…” The Truth isn’t the simple & clear answer you’re looking for – especially on this matter – because we’re within the exile, where everything is mixed up. What can we do: the religious think we’re secular, the secular think we’re religious. The Middle Line, neither understands. For example, there were the great Kabbalists from Kotsk who celebrated Shabbat on a Wednesday, not Saturday. Because Shabbat is an inner state, so when you reach it, you observe it. But you do observe it. You feel like it, according to the alignment with the Upper World – but not because someone told you it’s the “right” thing to do. Instead, like a person’s donkey (his biological body) feels like sitting like this, walking like that, for no particular reason, and he thinks that by doing so he’s being a “free person” as opposed to religious; so a Kabbalist feels like doing what’s in the Shulchan Aruch, according to his spiritual nature! More or less. He’s not married to it, and he could not do it if there was an important reason not to, nor does he push everyone else to do so; but if he can, he prefers to do it. Anyway, he feels much greater freedom than we can imagine, in that he feels the spiritual world & there’s his freedom, while his donkey he actually doesn’t identify with any more than you identify with your dog, and he prefers to put it in all kinds of corrals, as he’s above it like a master. He typically wears a Kippah -in alignment with the fact that he does have a spiritual Masach (screen) in the Partzuf of his soul. Now, if I want to also do so, that’s another story. Let’s pretend we never heard of Judaism or the Torah, Talmud or sages – but I met a spiritual teacher, a Kabbalist, and he does x, y & z. Odd things, perhaps. So, in an effort to be like my teacher, I could also do x, y & z to seemingly try to start behaving like I would behave when I get to the state of the teacher. But we don’t push this approach because then everyone knows how to confused with it. Meaning they know how to turn it into religion, which is much easier than what’s asked of you here – hence there are those who subconsciously long to finally find out that this is just a religion after all.
Hi Gianni,
Thank you for this in-depth and philosophical explanation. If I understand your point correctly, a Kabbalist doesn’t wear a Kippah out of ‘religious piety’ or ‘simple loyalty,’ but as a physical reflection of an internal spiritual mechanism—a Masah (Screen) within the soul’s Partzuf.
However, your metaphor of the ‘Master and the Donkey’ actually reinforces my original question. You mentioned that a Master (the soul) chooses to put his donkey (the body) into an ‘enclosure’ or ‘corral’ (a set of rules/traditions) to maintain discipline and mastery over it. My question then remains: If the goal is simply to discipline the ‘donkey’ and the leader is truly free from the constraints of religion, why is the specifically ‘Jewish religious’ enclosure chosen every time?
If the old forms of religion have indeed lost their function for the correction of the soul, couldn’t any form of discipline or ethical framework serve as this enclosure? Choosing the exact forms of a religion while teaching that religion is obsolete creates an inescapable paradox for any outside observer.
Furthermore, the suggestion that ‘the Master’s freedom is too vast for us to comprehend’ creates a hierarchy where the leader’s actions are placed beyond accountability or clear logic. While I appreciate the explanation of the ‘Middle Line,’ it seems that as long as the teaching and the external persona remain in this state, the perception of it being a ‘new religion’ or a ‘calculated game’ will inevitably persist for many.
Thank you for sharing these insights and for the dialogue.
Best regards,
Brian Israel
In the end, there is a Light that shines more when one is in lines defined by those who defined the lines based on the structure of the spiritual worlds. The strongest Light is the Surrounding Light from the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah and when you realize what’s written there as much as you can, in the ten.
Of course, people know how to take both this and that, and get confused.
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