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Is it necessary to memorize the different worlds? I know they we shouldn’t worry about learning Hebrew but so much of it is used in these teachings. Why is this?
Hi Bryon,
It’s not a must. You’re going to hear the basic terms so many times that you’ll naturally memorize them. But if after a while you’re still struggling with them, then maybe it’s worth making the effort to memorize the basic terms.
As for Hebrew, Hebrew is a language built for passing spiritual meaning, not just the meaning of the words, but every single letter and shape of the letter is a code for a spiritual state.
Check out this article for more details: http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/60270?/eng/content/view/full/60270&main
Albert @ KabU
I have 2 questions. Rav Michel stated: “But something happened at the beginning of the Common Era, in the destruction of temple, which made it impossible for the people of that generation and for the two thousand years that followed to really understand anything in Kabbalah.” Does this event have anything to do with the birth of Jesus? How does Kabbalah see Jesus? 2. Rav Michel said that Kabbalah was hidden until 1995. What happened in this particular year to change Kabbalah from something hidden to a widespread source of knowledge where anyone interested in knowing their purpose in life (I would say almost all of humanity) ) can achieve?
Hi Ricardo,
1. Kabbalistic writings don’t talk about Jesus. So we could speculate one way or another whether he was a Kabbalist or not, but these would just be speculations. We should keep in mind that Kabbalah is a science. Kabbalah only deals with the correction of our egoistic nature and the revelation of the Creator. It has no connection to faith, religion, or religious leaders.
But ultimately these things are not so opposed. Both talk about the importance of loving others as yourself. Kabbalah goes even further and gives us a method to actualize loving others to such an extent that we can reveal in our lives the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.
2. Although we point to 1995 as to when Kabbalah became revealed, technically the prohibition was lifted much earlier, from the time of the Ari. He was the one to make a very special correction within the entire spiritual system, after which its not only possible, but a must to openly disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to help the whole world reach its correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details on the Ari: https://laitman.com/2010/08/the-ari-rav-isaac-luria-the-godly-man/
So why do we say 1995? Let’s put a few things into perspective:
Kabbalah is the method of correction of our egoistic nature, thereby revealing the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. Why was it necessary to conceal such a wisdom? Because egoism was still not yet fully developed. For example: if you compare Kabbalah to a medicine that can cure a rare disease, obviously you can’t take the medicine before you’re diagnosed with the disease, but once the disease actually manifests, you can take the medicine and be cured of it.
It’s just like the 5 stages development of a disease within a person. First a person is healthy. Then he is sick, but he does not feel it. Then the disease spreads to the point that he starts to feel pain and symptoms of the disease. This then pushes him to go to a doctor to get diagnosed and find the cure, and etc.
2000 years ago, egoism was still on a very low level, there was no need to correct it. Starting from the days of the Ari, egoism already grew to a certain extent (and technically the prohibition on Kabbalah ended there), but humanity still didn’t feel sick, on the contrary the ego was the main driving force of all of our development. Then from around 1995 egoism peaked and began to show itself as bad, like a cancer that begins to kill the host body. This is the peak at which there was a true need for the cure. Which in essence is what the Kabbalists have been waiting for all these years, for the desire, for egoism to fully ripen.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Mitch,
Here are some blog posts on the topic:
https://laitman.com/2009/09/the-law-of-roots-and-branches-the-most-imporant-law-in-kabbalah/
https://laitman.com/2013/09/from-root-to-branch/
https://laitman.com/2010/12/the-spiritual-decoder/
Albert @ KabU
A Jewish friend of my wife, who also studied Kabbalah many years ago, mentioned that the revelation of the spiritual world can be very scary. My wife had experiences with the spiritual world, which she found scary. I am a very curious person, and have been wondering about the purpose of life since my late teenager years.
My question is: is there any reason to be careful while studying Kabbalah?
Hello,
From “Attaining the Worlds Beyond”, page 38, could you please explain what is meant by: “emulating spiritual objects”?
Thank you
Hi Jade,
Emulating meaning trying to become similar to them.
Perceiving spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. We can see an example of this law in radio receivers. That when we tune the internal frequency of the radio receiver to match the frequency of the external radio wave, then we can pick up that wave and hear it.
Likewise in our spiritual work, when we become similar to the Creator, we can reveal Him in practice. This is essentially all of our work, to become more and more similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. All the way until we reach complete adhesion with Him.
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’ve had spiritual experiences since 2008 through some other book seemingly unconnected to Kabbalah, but now years later, while listening to the teachings I connect my experiences with these teachings. Is it possible I experienced before I learned it in words? I have also always had either nightmares or vivid dreams since I was a child, do dreams have any role in kabbalah?
Thank you.
Hi Jade,
1. It’s possible. After all, 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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/05/the-presence-of-the-shechina/
2. Kabbalah does not deal with dream interpretations. In general, Kabbalists don’t attribute much importance to dreams or the state of dreaming. They see it simply as a state where the brain summarizes/organizes the daily experiences. Similar to how some computers go through the process of defragmentation.
On the other hand, there is a spiritual state called dreaming which is the process by which we transition from one spiritual degree to another. It’s like the neutral gear on a manual transmission, which requires you to switch to the neutral gear before switching to another gear. In other words, in between every spiritual state is a state called “dream”. But it’s not related to the corporeal dreams that we experience in our physical bodies. Kabbalists don’t ascribe any importance to corporeal dreams.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2016/04/an-ordinary-dream/
https://laitman.com/2015/02/we-cannot-live-without-sleep/
Albert @ KabU
Thank you Albert,
That was indeed one of the experiences: I was not aware of my body any longer it was very peaceful.
In one of my recent vivid dreams, though, I received a kiss from a man who I could not see the face of, at first it felt it could be a friend of mine who I’ve been in love with for a while, then I thought it was my son’s father (we have been divorced for 18 years), but it was neither of them and I could not see his face, but the kiss felt very real, it was sensual, but not sexual and for a while I could vividly sense that I could either wake up there and see what that reality was or wake up here, there was a moment of suspension where I was certain these were two realities and not just another dream state, and when I finally woke up here, my heart was racing and I was awash in an amazing feeling of Love and excitement about my life in general :). This dream did happen very shortly after I became aware of Kabbalah and started listening to videos and classes…
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