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Am I correct in thinking that the study of Kabbalah will develop a spiritual perception inside me? A direct perception? Something other than a filter?
Hi Jeffrey,
Yes, you can say that studying Kabbalah helps a person to develop their spiritual perception. Perceiving spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that to perceive spirituality, we need to become similar to it, to the qualities of love and bestowal that reside there. This is just like how a radio can pick up an external wave, when we tune the internal frequency of the radio to that wave.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
Dear instructors,
Can you explain me a bit more about the left and right line ? Maybe illustrate the difference between them with a concrete example? And what is meant with: moving forward with a proper combination of the right and left line, that is > advancing along the line that is exactly halfway between them ? Can you illustrate this also with a concrete example ? Many thanks!
Ilse from Belgium
Hi Ilse,
The right line is our aspiration towards love and bestowal.
The left line is our egoistic nature, the desire to receive for ourselves.
Working with the three lines means constantly aspiring to be in the right line, in the qualities of love and bestowal. As a result of that aspiration, we reveal more of the left line, how our egoistic nature does not allow us to truly bestow. As a result of that, we feel a need for the Creator to help us. After all, egoism is our very nature, we cannot just pull ourselves out of it, the Creator must do it for us. So the middle line is the revelation of the Creator.
So after going through this process of aspiring towards bestowal, revealing our nature resisting, praying for the Creator to help us, we reveal the Creator who pulls us out of our egoistic nature and gives us the ability to bestow.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/06/right-and-left-lines/
Albert @ KabU
Hello,
I guess the most difficult concept for me to understand what is meant by ‘spirit’. It seems to me our conscious is at the intersection of mind, body and spirit. It would seem to necessitate that a change in one effects the others.
I think the physical body is the easiest to define. The other two seem more mysterious to me.
Sincerely,
-Curtis
Hi Curtis,
All these things have different definitions in the wisdom of Kabbalah. Even the word body, depending on the context, does not necessarily refer to the physical body. Rather body in Kabbalah refers to to the desire to receive pleasure. And spirit/soul refers to the desire to receive pleasure that was corrected to operate in the direction of bestowal. Depending to what extent it was corrected, it reveals a different form of “spirit” and is given a different name. There are 5 levels in general: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida.
From this point of view, if we’re not yet corrected, we don’t yet have this thing called spirit/soul, only a soul in potential, which is the point in the heart.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Marie,
We’re still in the preparation period prior to the spiritual ladder. But once we start to do real spiritual work, we can measure our progress in our attitude towards other points in the hearts. That I’ll feel how my attitude towards them changes, from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
Hi A,
From a simple corporeal level, we see that keeping strong negative feelings inside of us ultimately causes much harm to our health. So from that point of view, it is worthwhile to forgive others.
As for how Kabbalah relates to forgiveness, check out New Life episode 325 – Forgiveness. (the link leads to the summary of the episode and the picture on top leads to the full video.
Albert @ KabU
I’m reading through the Kabbalah Revealed book and I’m wondering where Kabbalah ends and where Judaism starts? The Abraham origins seem identical?
Hi Anita,
Modern Judaism emerged when Kabbalah became concealed, which was around the time of the destruction of the second temple. Let’s put a few things into perspective to understand this:
Kabbalah is the method of correcting our egoistic nature and thereby revealing the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. The first one to actualize this was Adam. His name gives us a hint at this since Adam comes from the Hebrew word “Dome”, meaning “similar to”. He was not the first one alive, but rather the first one to reveal the Creator by becoming similar to this quality of bestowal.
This wisdom gets passed onward from Adam until Abraham who adapted it to the people of his generation and made the wisdom more practical. Abraham put together a large group of Babylonians who were interested in actualizing this method. These people later on became the Israeli nation. The word Israel comes from the Hebrew words “Yashar” “El” meaning straight to God. These are the people who had an active point in the heart in those days and were interested in revealing the Creator.
These people greatly succeeded in this method. The peak of their success was symbolized in the building of the first and second temple, which reflected the level of unity and bestowal they were able to reach. At a certain point, they lost the spiritual connection between them (the destruction of the 2nd temple) and what remained was just these external symbols of their connection.
At this point the wisdom of Kabbalah became concealed. People still had the holy books, Torah and etc, but they did not know how to use them. Since the Torah is written in the language of roots and branches. Meaning it uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. But if a person does not have this spiritual connection through which he can see this, then he thinks this book is talking about this world, history, morals, commandments, etc. From this emerges the Jewish religion.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/12/the-wisdom-of-kabbalah-and-the-other-religions/
Albert @ KabU
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