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Hi Johan,
When we take our desire to receive pleasure and correct it the direction of bestowal, that corrected desire is called a soul. Since none of us are born corrected, we don’t yet have this thing called a soul, but only a soul in potential, which we call the point in the heart.
If we realize that potential, we can grow that desire to the level of the soul, if not, this same potential continues to reincarnate again and again until it gets fully realized.
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
Everywhere I look I see evil. I turn on the TV, I see evil. I put the radio on, I hear evil. When I hear celebrities and the like, I hear evil. The school system across the world is failing. Do you believe that the wisdom of Kabbalah should be disseminated across all avenues of media, all children to be forced to learn this wisdom the way they are forced to learn “His” “Story” in school? Should the wisdom be heard on the TV, radio, and billboards to get more people involved in this wisdom and understand the laws of nature from the very beginning of their life? Thank you.
Hi Ronny,
Disseminated to the world – yes.
Forcefully – no.
As we learn “there is no coercion in spirituality”. But we do disseminate as widely as possible, so whoever is indeed interested in learning these things, will have the opportunity to do so. We’ll learn how to properly disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in the more advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Johan,
Egoism. It is the source of all of our problems because it makes us opposite to the Creator, to His qualities of love and bestowal. And when we’re opposite to Him, we experience an opposite world. Instead of experiencing His reality, in which only goodness exists, we experience our world, full of problems and sufferings.
All of this follows the law of equivalence of form, which we’ll learn in depth in the upcoming lessons. In the meantime, 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
Returning to the source, climbing the 125 steps is probably not possible in one biological lifetime. How can a person be reunited with the source and others in one soul, if human life expectancy is about 75-80 years?
Hi Nuria,
We learn that “there is no time in spirituality”. Reaching it does not depend on time, but only on the right desire. If we build the right desire, within it, we will right away reveal spirituality. If not, then even if a few thousand more years were to pass by, we would still not reveal anything. It all depends on us, on our efforts to build that desire.
And it is possible to perform this correction within our lifetime. This is precisely why life expectancy went up so much in recent years, from 30-40 years like it was a few hundred years ago, to our days of 70-100 years. So if we use our time correctly, there is plenty of time to reach our full correction in this lifetime.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/03/is-it-worthwhile-for-an-older-person-to-study-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
If Kabbalah is over 5000 years old and we are learning the Original Kabbalah here, how, when and why did it become associated with things like Tarot, Illuminati, Freemasonry, New World Order? I am assuming the knowledge we get here predates these things and as you said, has nothing to do with the (Satanic) mysticism that some of these things include. Thank you.
Hi Sheila, great question!
Authentic Kabbalah has indeed been around for about 5800 years, but it’s been concealed for the past 2,000 years, so people don’t really know what it’s all about. Just picture a 2,000 year old game of telephone and all the distortions that would spring up as a result.
So naturally, due to the concealment, many different methods sprang up that are seemingly “Kabbalah”. Some try to associate themselves with Kabbalah as a way to validate themselves, while others borrowed some principles from Kabbalah and created something else, which is how philosophy emerged and later on turned into science. Or it’s also possible that these methods sprang up as a result of the concealment of Kabbalah, this is how the modern religions emerged. But ultimately, authentic Kabbalah has nothing to do with any other method and for the most part precedes all of the modern religions, sciences, and philosophies.
Authentic Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature and as a result we become similar to and reveal in practice the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/12/true-kabbalah-without-mysticism-or-myths-part-1/
Albert @ KabU
Thank you Albert. Not too many people these days understand that and if I say I am studying kabbalah they assume the worst! I have been exposed to a bit of the ‘other’ types of kabbalah, demons and spells, meditations with the alphabet, tarot cards. Now I am thankful to have been led here, actually through a book on how to read the bible, with it’s coding, that mentioned another book by Rav Leitman which I purchased. That path has led me here. I must say the tarot cards referencing kabbalah were really most interesting! I will read the article and continue here. Thank you again.
Question 1
It has been established that Kaballah is not mysticism but rather a measurable science, a science hidden from our five senses. Does this mean that developing a sixth sense or sensitivity to one’s higher self / holy spirit / third eye / divine consciousness is the point of Kaballah?
Question 2
Were most/all of the founding Kabbalist’s Zionists? if yes, please clarify the term Zionist.
Question 3
Is it a coincidence that two words sacred to Muslims are contained in the word Kaballah, namely, Kaba and Allah?
Hi Leyah, great questions!
1. The point of Kabbalah is to correct our egoistic nature. As a result of this correction we become similar to the Creator, to the general force of love and bestowal. As a result of becoming similar to Him, we reveal Him in practice, in our lives. All of this follows the law of equivalence of form.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/kabbalah-without-a-trace-of-mysticism/
2. There is no such term as founding Kabbalists. The first Kabbalist was Adam, almost 6000 years ago. He was the first one to actualize this method. 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.
3. Kabbalah is not referring to Kaba or Allah. Kabbalah is Hebrew for reception. Our nature is founded on the desire to receive. But this nature by itself is flawed. The more we receive, the more we cancel our desire, and the less pleasure we actually feel.
It’s like the example with eating: I’m hungry so I eat. I eat a little, I feel a lot of pleasure. The more I eat, the more I cancel my hunger and feel less and less pleasure from eating, until I reach a point that not only do I stop receiving pleasure from eating, but if I continue, I would even feel pain and start throwing up.
It’s similar with all of our desires. Kabbalah helps us to correct our desires to receive, so through them we can receive higher forms of pleasures, those that come from being similar to the Creator. This is why it’s called Kabbalah (reception), it’s the science of reception.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/03/kabbalah-is-a-patent-for-infinite-pleasure/
Albert @ KabU
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