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Is Kabbalah saying that the tragedies in this world had to happen for us to come to our level of development. Please try to make sense for the attack on Israel on October 7th 2023. I live in Israel. Thank you
Hi Aby,
These events are still emotionally charged, so we cannot talk about them directly as it will not really be understood. This follows the saying that “the words of the wise are heard in calmness”.
In which case, let’s talk about these things in general. In general, we learn from the Kabbalists that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. But why then don’t we see this in our world? Why do we see so much suffering and problems in the world?
This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative equals negative.
So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see and feel more suffering and bad things in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
Hi George,
Yes, it’s the same ladder.
Keep in mind that the 125 steps represents the difference between us and the Creator. The Creator is a desire to bestow and we are the desire to receive. Adapting our desire to receive to work in order to bestow takes 125 steps. So to the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder.
In other words, ascending or descending this ladder is not a physical action, but rather depends on how much we’re similar to the Creator’s quality of bestowal (ascending) or less similar to it and more egoistic (descending).
All of this operates according to 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
I have a question, in course this is mention “For a Tikkun to occur, a person must want it to happen. It is a process that evolves out of one’s own volition.
Correction begins when a person realizes that his or her egoistic nature is the source of all evil. It is a very personal and powerful experience, but it invariably brings one to want to change, move from egoism to altruism.” I used to believe, based on Kabbalah videos, that every life event serves as a trigger or mirror for our tikkun (correction). However, after further study, I realized that my understanding was incomplete. Please guide me: Is conscious desire necessary for tikkun to occur? And are my previous efforts, aimed at tikkun, truly in vain?Hi Eman,
1. As the Kabbalists tell us: “there is no coercion in spirituality”, meaning that we must consciously aspire towards it.
2. Nothing is in vain, everything in the past was necessary for those levels of development.
It’s just like how we educate kids. As an adult, you can look at a child and wonder why he is playing with a fake car, seems like it’s done in vain. But in truth, the toy car is exactly what is best for his development, and if he played with a real car, it could actually cause him a lot of harm.
Same with us. Everything we went through in the past was exactly what was needed for our level of development. And now that we’ve grown up, we are given different tools for our development. Once we develop even further, we’ll discover more refined means for our development as well.
Albert @ KabU
If the goal is to attain oneness with the Creator and reverse the fracturing of the souls, does this mean that as humanity moves more and more towards this, that population growth will slow to reflect the integration of souls into one collective?
Hi Gaby,
Not necessarily, the population is relative to the level of the general egoism that needs to be corrected. As the ego grows, the soul is fragmented accordingly so that our common egoism is divided between us, making the work of correcting the ego easier for all of us.
Rav Laitman writes about it in one of his blog posts:
“600,000 is the number of initial fragments, but after that they are fragmented again into whatever number is necessary for the optimal correction in each generation – so that each fragment will have as much egoism as it’s able to correct. Therefore, to the degree that egoism grows, the world’s population grows as well.”
Albert @ KabU
Hi there I listened to the video and read Chapter 1 of “Kabbalah for the student” Concerning the upper worlds, I am a bit confused with the categories.
According to our instructer M. Kosinec, the first world is called “the world of Adam Kadmon,” the next world is Atzilut, the next is Beria, then the world of Yetzira, and then Assiya. These being the upper worlds, then there is the barrier, then the corporeal world.
However, in the book aforementioned it is said: “the form of the four worlds, named Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya, beginning with the first, highest world, called Atzilut, and ending in this corporeal, tangible world, called Assiya” (Laitman, 2008, p.25).
Why are the classifications different, mostly: why M. Kosinec says that Assiya is the 5th level in the upper world, while Laitman is saying that Assiya is the corporeal world? I am sure there is an explanation. Which classification should we adopt? Should we included the first level as the world of Adam Kadmon? Are there 3, 4 or 5 worlds in the Upper World ? Does it really matter?
Thank you very much
Hi Lorie,
It depends from what perspective they are describing these things. So ultimately both are correct.
There are 5 spiritual worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. Adam Kadmon operates according to a different system, this is why it’s called primordial (Kadmon in Hebrew). Currently we’re incapable of understanding that system or attaining it, which is why at times Kabbalists choose to omit mentioning it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/12/when-the-impossible-becomes-possible/
We need to also keep in mind that the technical study of the upper worlds is often geared towards intermediate students that have a certain foundation in that study. So very often the terms are described in an abbreviated way, or certain concepts are used without first explaining what they mean. This is because the author assumes the reader already has a certain foundation in the study.
Furthermore, the technical study is impossible to truly grasp until we reach spiritual attainment. It’s like a blind person studying colors. He has no way of truly understanding what he’s studying. It’s only after the blind person gain his sense of sight that he can understand these things.
Likewise with us, it’s currently impossible for us to truly understand these things. As such, we don’t learn it intellectually, but rather we learn it because through the study and the yearning to feel these things, we draw upon ourselves the reforming light. It’s ultimately the light that makes all the changes on us and makes us suitable for spiritual attainment. Our job is only to extract 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/
Albert @ KabU
Thank you much Albert. It is a bit as I thought: it depends on the perspective adopted. And as you suggested as well as in the book we understand (or learn) the Kabbalah more from our heart and attitude, not so much from our Intellect. Thanks for the links also!
I have a last question. Reading chap. 2 of “Attaining the worlds beyond”, I felt uncomfortable by the way of explaining the left line :The left line represents the Providence over each of us, depending on our actions. It stands for punishment for evil deeds and reward for good ones”. I have difficulties with punishments and evil deeds (see I was raised Catholic although I do not adhere or practice any religion since I turned 10 y.o.). Instead of punishments and evil deeds can we simply put it as the consequence of our actions follow the law of cause and effect? Thank you
Hi Lorie,
Yes, that is exactly how it is. There are no punishments in Kabbalah, there are laws of nature, if we’re not in line with those laws, we feel the effect of that.
For example, if I disregard the law of gravity and jump from a 100 story building, then I’ll be “punished” by falling to my death. Meaning it’s not a punishment, but cause and effect: jump off 100 story building -> death.
Albert @ KabU
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