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I don’t know if this is possible in any way, shape or form, but I will still ask… Since I was little, I have always wanted to know the secrets of myself, consciousness and existence itself, what is this Universe? Where do I find myself? Why am I here, I didn’t choose to be born, since I was little, I always had these questions, I always had more questions than answers. I had a strong, insatiable thirst for knowledge. I wanted to know the origins of the Universe, the origins of mankind, who created us, is there a God/All Supreme Deity (highly doubts it), what is my purpose, what is the purpose of life, is the purpose of life just to pick a Dogma and follow it? Am I supposed to/designed to be a slave/servant to an All-Powerful Deity/God? Do I have free will, do I really matter? I have always had this spark since I was little. I have come to be more spiritual than religious. I believe in source, a source of everything. I don’t believe in a bearded man/sky father in the Sky or in another realm/dimension looking down at us all the time and judging us, using my logic that seems highly improbable. I think if I were the All-Supreme Deity/God I would better things to do, I don’t know like so something creative, more interesting things other than just watch the petty affairs of man and mandate/expect stupid shit from them like… Don’t mix two different fabrics or demand that Israelites not eat shrimp or shellfish (Old Testament), that seems really stupid and laughable to me. So ludicrous, the way God is always portrayed in Abrahamic religion’s is really scary, he seems to have a very short temper, big ego and ready to punish people or stupid, nonsensical shit. The God of the new and Old Testament seems to be sadistic psychopath, if you don’t bow down to his stupid rules he made up, he will burn you alive in a special place he created for people that didn’t want to believe in him (Hell), but he loves you. He loves you so much that created a special place for you go, to see you watch and burn in agony. He is described as all loving and merciful, his love in unconditional apparently is what Christians/other Abrahamic faiths claim, I have never seen that nor felt that from studying different religious texts. I think I a 10-year-old can be more compassionate, kind, wise, love and don’t forget, more reasonable than God. Reasonable is a big one, because the God of the Abrahamic faiths seems to be really fucking evil and unreasonable. I believe that we are all one source, one soul/consciousness experiencing itself through different people, different masks, personas, etc. We are all one, the Universe is experiencing itself through different people, we all are actually the same and there is no higher meaning/purpose but learning, laughing, loving and evolving the soul/consciousness. It’s more like a play, like a divine play/divine comedy, creation is actually just playing with itself through different people and different perspectives. We are all the same but fail to realize that, most people are unaware of this, we think we are separate, that we are alien to each other, that we must vanquish one another, that the other is an enemy and that they need to be destroyed. They believe the wrong thing, they need to be destroyed, we need to convert them, they are not doing the right thing, I feel like all of this is nonsense. I think this is the great realization we will have after we die and see that we are literally everything, we are the creator, the author, the universe and the experiencer all at once, we were also the cause of the universe, we were there before the beginning, before the first cause, before the first cause that set everything into motion. It’s more like a divine joke, after how much we have destroyed ourselves, century after century, we will all realize we were actually just fighting with ourselves lmao. When we purged or genocided a different culture because they believed in something different. xD We will realize that there was only one being here the entire time, omg, I can’t stop laughing lmao! It just being one consciousness, playing with itself, we were also that crack head down the street dealing drugs to people and getting high! xD We will realize all that hate, seperation and division was so unnecessary.
Hi Chloe,
Kabbalah explains how we’re all part of a single system, like cells within a single body. Along the way of our development, we lost that feeling and now we need to work on returning back to it. By reconnecting into a single body, we return to that initial state but this time consciously and with greater intensity. And it’s specifically in that corrected body that we begin to experience spiritual life.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
https://laitman.com/2010/11/everyone-is-a-point-everyone-is-infinity/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Tony!
I am kind of at the point where I’ve been researching Kabbalah the last few weeks and watching all of the videos on Kabbalah.info, and stumbling upon this marvelous gift of a course. I guess I’m at a point where I feel like I have a decent understanding of the basis of Kabbalah, but I am still just trying to completely penetrate that barrier into the first spiritual world. I have definitely been feeling a “sense” of the creator you could say, through flecks of sunlight that catch my eyes in a way that I’ve never experienced before, random spurts of an entrancing, blissful and peaceful feeling that I’ve never felt, seeing angel numbers everywhere (I’ve been seeing them since right before my uncle passed away about a month ago now), and I guess you could say a “change in pressure” in my eardrums (best way I can describe it) to where it almost seems as though I can hear a layer of some sort of sounds that I am not always able to hear, but these things happen to me when I am watching your videos, or are in the car driving and reflecting on the knowledge I’ve been learning about Kabbalah.
I have an understanding that I need to break through this barrier into the spiritual world entirely, it seems as if I have been making little pokes at this barrier with the sense of the creator I’m certain I’ve been feeling. I guess my question is how do I penetrate through this barrier permanently? Or is there even such a way to do so?
Thanks for everything,
A Grateful Student
Hi Zori,
The barrier is the separation between our world, governed by our egoistic nature, and the spiritual world, governed by the pure qualities of love and bestowal. Breaking that barrier and revealing spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal spirituality, we need to become similar to it, to the pure qualities of love and bestowal that are found 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 these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
In practice though, we need to keep in mind that our very nature is completely opposite to spirituality. And just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own 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.
So the most practical action that you can do towards revealing the spiritual world is to set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning to the Kabbalistic sources, videos, lessons, books, etc. Such a habit will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
hello TONY
since we are taught que le créateur has created everything, you said we have no influence on anything.
But the law of cause and effect existe in the création, without it probable don’t function, also in our material realm.
Can you explain please?
Thank you so much for sharing
Hi Anja,
The Creator created everything and is the force behind everything. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. Meaning that although we see many forces in the world and even we ourselves are acting in the world, but ultimately, it’s the Creator orchestrating everything behind the scenes.
Here’s an excerpt from Baal HaSulam about this:
“All the thoughts that enter a person’s mind are the act of the Creator. That is to say, it is not what a person feels, that he draws them from some place or that they originated from him. This is false, the biggest lie. Rather each thought, the smallest of the smallest, the Creator sent it to the mind of man, and that is the motivating force of man and of beast and of every living thing.”
We’ll learn this in depth in the next semester, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman on the topic: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
I’m struggling with a few things. I have to say that I don’t come from a Jewish or Christian background, and I’ve always struggled with the concept of an anthropomorphic personal God, although I do believe that a Force, or Light, or Ground of Being exists (and I’ve also experienced some evidence that life continues after death, but that’s an issue for another time). So, here are my questions:
1. I’m assuming that we cannot know why the Creator created creation, not what existed before Creation, nor who created the Creator. The Creator, being infinite, cannot be fully understood by ourselves as finite beings. Is this correct? Yet the question in me persists. It simply doesn’t make sense why ‘anything’ exists at all. If the question can never be really answered, why do I continue to ask it?!
2. If the Creator is infinite and self-sustaining, why were we created as egoistic beings – in direct opposition to a Being of pure bestowal – who must then descend and then ascend a ladder. Why not just create us as fully able to perceive the Creator in the first place? Why this descent and ascent? Why this veiling from ultimate reality?
3. I also can’t get my head around the shattering of the unified souls into individual souls. How can anyone really know that this actually happened? And why did it happen? Or do we just have to accept that it did, on faith, and that we’ll never really understand fully if or why? What’s the evidence for it?
Hi James, great questions!
1. Kabbalah is a science based on the research of the Kabbalists. As a science, there are clear limits to what we can and cannot research. One such limit is that we’re unable to research what happened before the thought of Creation, before Creation. This is because our current research tools are incapable of grasping such things, so we’re unable to research them. This is why the science of Kabbalah does not talk about what happened before the thought of Creation.
Check out this blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/01/why-did-the-creator-create-people/
Regarding researching the Creator Himself: 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 (and any spiritual phenomena) 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/
2. We were indeed created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. (Baal HaSulam describes this in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar). But this was an unconscious state, like a baby in its mother’s womb. So we necessarily had to come to the complete opposite state, to lose that state of perfection, in order to once again reach it, but this time consciously.
And the fact that we had to lose this state is not something bad, but it’s a necessary part of our development. It’s just like with kids. We don’t just give them a completed jigsaw puzzle. On the contrary we take it and break it down into many pieces. Then in the process of them putting it together, they grow and develop. Same with us, this process of losing that state is a necessary part of our further growth and development.
This process also adds to us a certain level of freedom, without which, we would be no different than machines, or robots, that were programmed to act a certain way and they just carry out this inner script. Instead, we were programmed one way, and we rise above this inner programming, become independent of it, and then develop our own desire to advance towards this goal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
3. Kabbalah is a science. The Kabbalists are the scientists of Kabbalah. Everything we know is based on their research. This is similar to how other sciences work. The Kabbalists are those researchers that have performed a certain experiment and reached a certain result: the correction of our nature, the revelation of the Creator, the force of bestowal, etc. So if we are to replicate their experiment, to follow their procedures we should reach the same results.
But if a person is not yet on the degree of a Kabbalist, how does he relate to everything he’s learning? Like to any other science. For example, when I read a physics textbook, I see different formulas and experiments that research our reality. If I’m reading this textbook in 8th grade, then I have no choice but to accept the things written there since they come from a credible source. If I’m reading this textbook in college, I’m already given some tools with which I can measure and verify some of these things for myself. And yet there are some concepts that are so advanced, that I have no way to verify them until I become a physicist myself and get access to all the tools that will help me research these things.
Same with us here. There are some things I can verify for myself even when I’m just starting in the fundamentals of this wisdom, and then there are things that I can verify only when I myself have reached attainment.
Albert @ KabU
I must confess that I am still trying to assimilate the material of the 1st week. I was watching the Zohar reading for March 25th, which I missed, and I am glad it was recorded. As I was listening to it, I was thinking about the following: is the Zohar correlating to Kabbalah?
I was thinking about the system of connections in a “body” which at the end makes part of a “whole”
This was the first reading for week one. Then, as I was listening to Marcus’ Zohar Reading and I felt it was talking about it the whole time. Am I understanding it all right? Do the Zohar and Kabbalah correlate? Thank you!Hi Aglaya,
The Zohar is indeed a Kabbalistic book. If you’re interested in learning how to properly decipher the book of Zohar, check out the Enter the Zohar course.
And also here’s a blog post from Rav Laitman on the topic: https://laitman.com/2009/09/what-is-the-book-of-zohar-and-the-sulam-commentary-about/
Albert @ KabU
Hi,
maybe this has been asked or explained some where, How does the Kabbalah account for Angles in their creation story.
Thank you very much Albert! You are motivating me to do that! I’m new to all of it, therefore my next question: Is it possible to start with the Zohar, although I’m new to Kabbalah, too?
Hi Roli,
At every moment of our lives, we are surrounded by many different forces of nature that are constantly acting upon us. Some of these we identify, like the force of gravity, magnetism, the force of the sun, the moon, etc. And some of them we don’t yet identify. Spirits, angels, etc are terms referring to the forces of nature that are always acting upon us. These terms can be used interchangeably, so essentially you can call the force of gravity the angel of gravity. But these are forces. Just as you don’t attribute any intelligence/consciousness or even an image to the force of gravity, you shouldn’t attribute any to the forces called angels or spirits.
Furthermore, there is nothing harmful that stems from any of these forces. The only source of harm in the world is man’s own egoism.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2008/03/demons-spirits-angels-devils-do-they-exist/
https://laitman.com/2010/05/why-do-angels-have-wings/
https://laitman.com/2015/07/a-devil-with-horns-or-our-own-egoism/
Albert @ KabU
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