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I have three questions.
1. What is the Kabbalist view on a woman’s role in Kabbalah?
2. What does Kabbalah have to say about alternative lifestyles such as gay marriage?
3. Does Kabbalah believe that Kabbalah is the only way to get to God or the Light?
Hi Tina,
1. Kabbalah is open to both men and women because the state of the final correction (Gmar Tikkun) that humanity is moving towards requires everyone (men and women) to correct themselves. Generally women feel a stronger need for spiritual advancement, which is why the majority of our students around the world are women.
2. Kabbalah only deals with our desire for spirituality. Regarding the rest of our desires, Kabbalah does not deal with these things. Our corporeal desires don’t have any relation to spirituality, so each person can arrange these desires however is most comfortable for them (of course within the context of the law and without harming others).
3. Kabbalah does not hold the monopoly over spirituality. It’s not claiming to be the one and only method. The Wisdom of Kabbalah is the accumulation of thousands of years of experience from people practically trying to reach spirituality, what worked, what didn’t, etc. It’s not a must to use it, but as you can imagine, it’s a lot faster and easier with it.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Kabu Instructors,
Watched “The book of Job explained” and
I am still a bit unclear on what Job reaction should’ve been upon each calamity – did he needed to ask the creator the purpose of his suffering? And what could’ve he done to prevent more suffering ?
link to Session:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVz2cfPpsbe7uhPudZSNAJJzw86UBuI2E&si=W6zZNzyz-rJSpa2Y
Hi
There is something I don’t understand, even after reading pages 35 and 36 in “Attaining the worlds beyond”
If the creator created everything and we have no role in determining it, then the ego is also created by the Creator. So what’s the deal with us gradually replacing it with something else the Creator made, too? And why did the Creator not simply create us the way we ought to be from the very beginning?
Hi Farzin,
In the article Introduction to the book of Zohar, Baal HaSulam describes how we were created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. 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/
Albert @ KabU
Please help me with the Interact Exercise about the 5 Worlds. I was able to identify every concept but could Not figure out which area the Branches and Concealment are located.
Thank you
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