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Hi, you mentioned the lineage of teachers for yourself is Michael Laitman Rabbi Baruch Ashlag, then Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) as “Authentic Kabbalah” that teaches from the perspective of practitioners of Kabbalah (Kabbahlists) and not scholars. So, is Authentic Kabbalah a category/group, and Theoretical (scholar) another category/group of Kabbalah? What are the different categories of Kabbalah and who are their lineage of teachers for each? How do the different groups work together toward a common goal? Thank you.
Hi Melissa,
I’m not an expert in how others teach Kabbalah, so I cannot comment on them. In general, a Kabbalist is someone that has practically attained spirituality and then goes on to teach others how to reach spiritual attainment as well.
While scholars on the other hand write about spirituality without actually attaining it. It’s like a blind person that spent years researching colors and then shares his research with others.
Authentic Kabbalah completely negates this approach. Which is why it makes this differentiation between the Kabbalistic approach vs the scholarly approach.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
Albert @ KabU
Good morning.
Thank you for this first video and this learning opportunity. I found the film fascinating and very well presented, and it shed more light and understanding for me, on the 4 worlds that I have previously read about.
I find myself questioning now that kabbalah is a science as to me science is factual research, study and structure of the physical world with evidence based theories that can be proved? In the film their is an explanation of the spiritual world – which I am not sure that there is any proof of, so for me this seems a contradiction? I am therefore curious to have a deeper understanding. I am not questioning the kabbalah or the spiritual world, I am questioning the statement that kabbalah is a science. I hope that makes sense.
Many thanks
Suzanne
Hi Suzanne,
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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/
Albert @ KabU
I noticed that the Kabbalahists died. Could it be possible that Kabbalahism evolves with each generation, and the great Kabbalahists before us have reincarnated? Each era taking Kabbalah further spiritually? Like, maybe the Kabbalahist generation before us differentiated service-to-self into service-to-others, and this was a breakthrough to human spiritual development then? …But, it wasn’t the end, and maybe we are taking it to the next level, by realizing that the act of bestowing is relative to what we feel is a positive, while others can perceive it to be a negative? I feel like we have to crack this code to take it to the next level. 🤔
Is there a grand finale? I sense there is a grand finale where the whole earth awakens to our true identity and everything flips into the positive, and we then enter an era of delight together for 1000 years of total bliss, and then after that we all merge back into the Source as one consciousness, and then the Source wakes up as if from a dream, having played all parts. 😴
The Source feels fulfilled for awhile after having this experience, and then it gets lonely and bored 🥱 being whole, and this boredom fuels its desire to create another divine play to the minute detail, with the illusion of challenges to overcome and a divine mystery to unfold. And then, when the Source gets lonely, and bored enough and craves the illusion of challenges to overcome, and the illusion of separation, and feels it can expand from the experience, it will enter the next divine play, by breathing 😮💨 life into the new avatars/creatures, and play that one out again too, all to wake up whole again having played all parts. Living on a circle ⭕️—in it for the thrill of the ride, over and over again. 🎢
Hi Heather,
Yes, it’s possible that the Kabbalists reincarnate and help bring the Kabbalistic method closer to the people.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details about the Kabbalists: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
As for advancing the method, that depends on the generation, or more specifically the level of egoism that is found in each generation. This is because Kabbalah is the method by which we can correct egoism. So the greater the level of the egoism of the generation, the more this method evolves.
As for the grand finale, for the time being, this is the state called the final correction. The science of Kabbalah does not talk about what happens beyond that because it’s currently beyond our ability to measure such things.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/what-happens-after-the-final-correction/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Heather,
There is no KabU app yet, but there is an app for the general Kabbalah Media archive. And there is an app for more advanced studies.
Although personally I would recommend to just use the browser version, even on the phone, those versions work very well.
Albert @ KabU
[ Refined]
The Divine Play: A Reflection on Existence
Since I was a child, I’ve carried a deep and restless curiosity—
an insatiable thirst to understand this reality.
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What is this strange and beautiful thing we call existence?I never chose to be born, and yet here I am—
a flicker of consciousness floating in a vast, mysterious sea.
From the beginning, I’ve had more questions than answers,
and perhaps that, in itself, is sacred.I’ve never been satisfied by dogma, nor convinced by fear.
The image of a bearded man in the sky,
angry, jealous, demanding blind loyalty—
it never sat right with my soul.If there is a God, surely it is not a tyrant obsessed with control,
commanding us not to eat shrimp,
or condemning us to eternal fire
for daring to ask, to think, to doubt, to be.No.
The God of punishment, of wrath, of impossible rules—
that God feels like a creation of man,
a projection of our own fear, power hunger, and ego.I believe in something deeper.
Not a man in the sky, but a source—
a boundless, formless consciousness from which all arises.I believe we are not separate beings, but One.
One consciousness wearing many masks,
playing many roles.
We are the actor, the stage, the audience, and the script.Life is a divine play, a sacred comedy.
We experience joy, pain, love, hatred—
forgetting that we are the author and the actor both.
We destroy each other in the name of difference,
never realizing we’re only fighting ourselves.We were the soldier and the victim,
the king and the beggar,
the addict and the healer.
We were all of it.
We are all of it.What if, after death, we remember?
What if we laugh at the grand joke of it all—
the illusion of separation, the drama of belief,
the centuries we spent trying to conquer what was never “other”?Perhaps the only truth is this:
To live, to laugh, to love,
to learn and evolve the soul.We are here to experience.
We are the universe knowing itself—
again and again,
through every pair of eyes,
every beating heart,
every whisper of thought.And maybe… that is enough.
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
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