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Why does Tony speak of Abraham being a real historical person but then also say that no Kabbalistic books (like the Torah) are speaking of this world? Are there some parts of the Torah that are historical and of this world and other parts that are not or is he speaking of Abraham metaphorically?
Hi Zachary,
On one hand, the Torah is entirely written in the language of roots and branches, meaning it uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand, there is a law that the spiritual root must touch the corporeal branch at least once. Meaning although these are spiritual phenomena, they must have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world.
For example, Egypt represents the uncorrected egoistic desire while Israel represents the corrected desire, those are the roots. But in our world these things exist as branches as well. There is actually a physical place that is called Egypt and Israel. Still, despite all the above, the Torah is not a history book, not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2014/10/the-deluge-and-other-natural-disasters/
https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
Albert @ KabU
I am enjoying my lessons on KB more than I could ever imagine. This is amazing! I wanted to ask one question.
If a person is non-Torah observant, are they able to attain the higher level without being obedient to the commands?
Thank you!
Hi Bonnie,
Kabbalists don’t look at the commandments as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires. Whether a person is Jewish or not, Torah observant or not, everyone will need to undergo this internal correction. But whether a person also performs these actions externally is up to them.
Furthermore, we learn that correcting our desires means transforming them from being egoistic into being altruistic, from self love to love of others. This is why love your friend as yourself is the main commandment of the Torah which encompasses all of our work.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
Albert @ KabU
Am i to restrain my ego. So for example if I am impatient am I to restrain this? When I do this I normally feel discomfort . Does this mean I’m on the correct path? if I feel pain by living in reception and also when not – how do I know where God lives?
Hi Andy,
The ego is our innate nature, all of our actions stem from it. Just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own egoistic nature. We require outside help to make this change. This help comes to us from the light. The light is a special force that has the ability to change our nature. Our work essentially boils down to extracting more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
As for finding God, coming into contact with the Creator works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that to the extent that we become similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal, to that extent we come in contact with Him and reveal Him in practice. 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
Só por saber que estar em busca do sentido da vida é um ou o principal requisito para estudar Cabalá, já me sinto privilegiado.
Hi I have a question:
if I live inside my skull like a black box with five apertures that receive the light. And gods light is everything outside of this box. How can another person have the same black box. Would that not mean that the neither box exists as we are both gods light to each other?
I hope this question is clear
Andy
Hi Andy,
It appears to us that other people exist, but essentially when I correct myself, I’ll see that “there is none else besides Him”. That it’s really the Creator behind everything I see in the world and that this entire world is just a game between Him and I.
We’ll learn about this in depth in the more advanced lessons, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/07/the-world-where-there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
I have many questions. Quoting from one of the books, “Finally… understanding the Master Planner, and that this is the purpose of Creation-to equalize with the Creator.” That’s confusing because He is God and I can never ever be His equal. So, I don’t understand that concept. I also don’t understand how we are all one when He created us all different and unique. I kind of get it and kind of don’t. We aren’t like Star Trek the collective Borg to be assimilated. Please explain further. Lastly, why do you call him Nature instead of who he is G-d! It almost seems disrespectful. I ask these out of pure respect and desire to understand. Thank you for your time.
Hi Valerie, great questions!
1. We don’t become Him, we become similar to Him, to His qualities of pure love and bestowal. In other words, we learn how to correct our egoistic nature and use it properly: to receive in order to bestow. By that we become similar to the Creator and reveal Him in practice.
2. Each piece in a jigsaw puzzle is different and unique and it’s specifically thanks to those differences that when we put the whole puzzle together, we get a beautiful picture. Likewise with us, the differences between us are all necessary and it’s thanks to them that we can connect into a singular system.
It’s like we’re all cells within a single body. If we were all just one type of cell, like brain cells, then we would lack the skin cells and heart cells, etc and wouldn’t be a functioning body. It’s thanks to the different cells performing different functions that the body as a whole can live.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
3. It depends on the context. Most of the time we refer to the upper force as the Creator, since that is the force that created us.
If we refer to Him as nature, we’re not talking about rocks and trees, rather nature means an all encompassing system that is affecting me externally and internally in every single moment of my life.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
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