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Can you provide some advice on how to ponder the attributes of the ‘Creator’? I am struggling presently with understanding how to do this. It seems this is an important first step to moving towards presenting/embodying the attributes of the Creator within ourselves.
Hi Clancy, great question!
We can say in general that the Creator’s qualities are those of love and bestowal. But since the Creator is concealed, we cannot measure ourselves accurately relative to Him or to these abstract qualities. Instead we need to measure ourselves relative to what is not concealed, meaning other people. So I can measure if I acquired the Creator’s qualities by checking my attitude towards others, going from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul.
Keep in mind that we do this work primarily within this safe environment, this spiritual lab that we call the Kabbalistic group. And only after we finish correcting ourselves within the Kabbalistic group, can we start focusing on the rest of the world. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
1. can an atheist and agnostic woman become a kabbalist or gain the knowledge?
2. can the knowledge remove our present situation of helplessness and needy ?
3. Can i change my reality like change my gander or the country i live in or like can i transform into water something like that or can i perceive two reality at the same time?
4. how can i decode The Books?
Hi Soudia, great questions!
1. Attaining spirituality does not depend on a person’s religion, gender, or anything like that. It depends on one thing and one thing only, the desire. If a person has such a desire (or at least an active point in the heart, which is the beginning of this desire) then this entire wisdom is open to that person and they can use it to actualize their desire for spirituality.
2. Generally yes, as a person studies Kabbalah, his attitude to life completely changes. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/06/dispelling-the-myths-about-kabbalah-part-9/
3. We learn in Kabbalah that the entire external world is nothing more than a reflection of our own uncorrected egoistic state. And to the extent that we correct this ego, to that extent the external reality will change as well.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as being dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses (correct myself) then I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
But it doesn’t mean that we’ll change our corporeal gender, country, or anything like that. Rather the external world will appear more corrected, loving, connected, etc. We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
4. To the extent that you aspire to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal that the books are talking about, to that extent you’ll be able to decode them. This follows the law of equivalence of form. 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
At what point in the year of 1995 was the Kabbalah opened up ? Was it before or after Rabin’s assassination?
Hi Sharon,
The revelation of Kabbalah in 1995 was not connected to this event. Rather it had to do with a new set of spiritual forces that were working upon the world at that time.
Rav Laitman wrote about it in one of his blog posts:
“Question: You said that 1995 was the starting point of the current events. What happened in 1995 that you are referring to?
My Answer: I felt this because suddenly, the students that started coming to study with me were different: They were serious, diligent, and persistent in their pursuit of the goal. Today they still make up the core of the worldwide Bnei Baruch group. Of course, there were also inner changes that are concealed from the average onlooker – a clearer revelation of new spiritual forces in the world.”
Albert @ KabU
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