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I have a few questions and I hope I don’t waste anyones time 🙂
1. How do we know that the language of branches is correct? It requires a portion of trust in past kabbalist does it not?
2. How can we be certain that past masters of kabbalah did actually reach spiritual high peak so to say? Or how can we know kabbalah is the right way?
3. Does kabbalah recocnise other ways to enter the spiritual world, other than thrue it’s own teachings? Or is it the only way?And some more practical questions:
1. how does one maintain the correct intentions in daily life, while doing physical things? how to hold on to intentions?
2. With the limit to our 5 sences how can one make sure that the feeling of a new sence is not just ones imagination?
3. 125 steps, 5 worlds .. how can it be so precise?Hi Peter, great questions!
1 & 2) 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.
For now, the main tool that we can use to examine this wisdom is our point in the heart. When a person’s point in the heart awakens, it naturally pulls him to a place where he can fulfill it. So on our current level, to check what we’re learning is to see how much these things resonate with our point in the heart. If they don’t resonate, it could be that a person is not yet ripe for this wisdom and will search elsewhere. This follows the rule that “one studies only where his heart desires”. Later on, once a person reaches spiritual attainment, he will discover additional means by which he can examine all these things.
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.
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1. Spirituality is against our nature. So it’s impossible to do real spiritual work by ourselves. We simply don’t have the strength to do it. Where do we get this strength? From the spiritual environment. The spiritual environment is like a support group which gives us the strength to do something we’re naturally incapable of doing. It’s just like with the example of exercising. If I don’t feel like going to the gym and exercising, but if I have friends who do enjoy this and want to do this, if I value these friends, by this I’ll receive their strength to overcome my resistance and will also go to the gym and exercise.
Likewise with our spiritual work. We don’t need to be superheroes in strength or will power. We only need to build for ourselves a good spiritual environment which will influence us and help us to think the right thoughts and overcome all of the natural resistances. We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters.
2. If you reveal the Creator in practice, then you know. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/04/when-all-doubts-will-dissipate/
3. It’s precise because Kabbalah is a science.
Albert @ KabU
I’m interested in your statement that we can’t find our spirituality alone as it is against our nature. I live in an isolated place and yearn for a community of students and seekers which cannot be found within hundreds of miles. Can an online group such as this one be enough support to constitute a spiritual environment where growth can occur?
Hi Katharine,
Yes, an online group is enough. In the more advanced phases of KabU, everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group with whom they can put all these things into practice.
We also host one or two physical KabU retreats throughout the year. It’s good to supplement the virtual connection with such retreats.
Albert @ KabU
Thank you so much for your reply.
I now feel closer to grasping the beginning of this science. It is as if the words used in kabbalah need to resonate with different meaning in my brain, before I can grasp it. And then when I have it, I suddenly lose it again for a while. Its quite funny actually.
Thank you again, my journey continues further into this science
Hi,
How will a person with altruistic desires appears to us?
If we consider that we can not do anything outside of our egoism, in a situation that giving your life may save other people for example, it is natural if someone do that. That person might do that from personal values or strong sense of sympathy like stop others suffering because feels their pain in itself.
But what does a person who is developing in spiritual levels do or how would they act?
Does altruism have anything to do with what we do in our world?
Hi,
True altruism does not exist on the level of our world. Bestowal is the Creator’s nature. While our nature is that of pure reception. So it’s impossible for us to truly bestow. At best we can perform more and more covert actions of reception. For example, I go to the store and I give them my money, but obviously I want something in return. It’s the same with all of our actions of bestowal in corporeality. Either I do it to receive pleasure directly or indirectly from fame, honor, money, or even the pride of knowing that no one knows about this action, or even avoiding pain or guilt is also part of this same calculation.
So real bestowal, above any calculations for receiving for oneself, does not exist in our world. Real bestowal is purely the Creator’s quality. If we want to acquire such a quality, we first need to correct our nature. This is done by the force of the light we evoke through the Kabbalistic studies. This light begins to work on us, even if we don’t have the true desire to bestow. Even if we’re just like little kids, pretending to be spiritual grown ups. It takes this aspiration of ours and corrects it little by little, building in us a true desire for spirituality, for the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal.
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
We can’t act outside of our ego toward anyone.
If we do we get used like a tool by people and may end up dead… My main question is what is the act out of altruism?
Hi,
Thanks for the videos. We have started at very basic level and I am happy that the course is designed for a novice like me. However, I still am finding it difficult to relate to some words & names as they are new to me. Is there any authentic Kabbalah Dictionary or Ready Reckoner which I can quickly refer to and get brief definition/ description of the words and brief lineage of Kabbalah teachers so that I don’t have to watch the entire video again?
Hi Prashant,
There is a good glossary in the back of Kabbalah for the Student. But in truth, you would benefit much more if you created your own personal Kabbalah dictionary. Every time you hear a new word, you can just write it down with its definition in a notebook or a spreadsheet of your own. In this gradual way, you’ll pick up all the basic terms throughout the course.
Albert @ KabU
KFS Glossary: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tL9BiL7s58tof9M4on_aDZTLS6iw8xe1/view?usp=sharing
Is it possible to be a kabbalah student from afar?
I live in Iran. In my country I don’t have the internet access to pay for the courses and it somehow dissapoins me to continue if it going to be stopped at some point. With my career position and our political state I don’t think I’ll be able to leave this country either.
I am so grateful I have found this course and this community! I have been searching for the meaning and purpose of life in general and of my own life in particular since my teen years. Now I’m 63 and traversing a transition that makes the study of Kabbalah all the more meaningful to me. This is not really a question, but a statement of gratitude and intent to learn more and to delve deeper into this search for meaning and wisdom.
how would the 5 upper worlds relate to the idea or metaphor as the universe as a singular body similar to that of a human. also how would the concept of the five worlds relate to the concept of higher densities or dimensions achieved after “graduating” from that which we currently exist in?
Hi Terry, great questions!
1. The base 5 stems from the 4 phases (and root phase) of direct light. This is essentially the blueprint of reality that repeats itself on all of the different levels of reality. Check out the chart in the back of Kabbalah for the student for more examples: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZMKAG9VpJehF4anqSBT-RcG4ZqJf6B09/view?usp=sharing
We will learn about this process in detail in the upcoming lessons.
2. The 5 spiritual worlds are not places like we think, but rather levels of concealment. World (Olam in Hebrew) comes from the word Concealment (ha-alama). So the 5 worlds are 5 levels of concealment between us, the desire to receive, and the Creator the general force of love and bestowal. To the extent that we correct our own opposite, egoistic nature, for it to also operate in the direction of bestowal, to that extent we reveal these worlds, these higher qualities.
All of this follows the law of equivalence of form. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
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