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Hi Lori,
Humanity has essentially gone through the 125 steps down already and are now at the lowest point, complete disparity of form with the Creator. So there is only up from here. Up meaning becoming more and more similar to the Creator, to His pure qualities of love and bestowal.
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
Hello,
After watching Tony’s video on the Five Worlds and the descent of consciousness from the Infinite Light, I was left reflecting on a key question:
What initiated the descent from the Infinite Light into the realm of Adam Kadmon? And what caused the continued, step-by-step descent through the spiritual worlds, ultimately reaching our physical reality (“Our World”)?
Was this process driven by a specific purpose or necessity? I’d love to understand more about the inner mechanism or intention behind this journey from unity to multiplicity.
Hi Georgette,
This process was a necessary part of our development. It’s thanks to this process that we feel ourselves as existing. Baal HaSulam writes about it in the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, here’s an excerpt:
“The reason why the will to receive must cascade by the four above-mentioned discernments in ABYA (Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya) is that there is a great rule concerning the Kelim (plural for Kli): the expansion of the Light and its departure make the Kli fit for its task. This means that as long as the Kli has not been separated from its Light, it is included in the Light and is annulled within it like a candle in a torch.
This annulment is because they are completely opposite from one another, on opposite ends. This is so because the Light extends from His Essence existence from existence. From the perspective of the Thought of Creation in Ein Sof, it is all towards bestowal and there is no trace of will to receive in it. Its opposite is the Kli, the great will to receive that abundance, which is the root of the initiated creature, in which there is no bestowal whatsoever.
Hence, when they are bound together, the will to receive is annulled in the Light within it, and can determine its form only once the Light has departed thence once. This is so because following the departure of the Light from it, it begins to crave it, and this craving properly determines and sets the shape of the will to receive. Subsequently, when the Light dresses in it once more, it is regarded as two separate matters: Kli and Light, or Guf and Life. Observe closely, for this is most profound.”
Albert @ KabU
Hi Moi,
Kabbalah is a science because it uses the basic scientific method to research reality. 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
Hello, I have a question , why did the fall of tower happened if Abraham was teaching the knowledge of kabbalah?
Also why did the one language got changed into many languages what was the reason behind it? Who did that and why?
please elaborate……. thank you
Hi Natasha,
Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature and thereby reveal the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. Correcting our egoistic nature is gradual work “from light to heavy”. Meaning that first we correct the smaller, less coarse, less egoistic desires, and then we work on the bigger and bigger desires, until we correct it entirely.
So even though Abraham was teaching Kabbalah, the method at the time was enough to correct a certain level of egoism. Afterwards, when they succeed in that correction, a higher level of egoism was revealed. Meaning that revealing more ego and more corruptions is not bad, it’s a sign that they succeeded and now they are given a higher level to work with. This is similar to how we educate kids, that if they succeed in solving one puzzle, we then give them a harder puzzle so they can keep growing and developing.
As for the languages becoming confused, that is a natural by product of a growing egoism. As the ego grows, we fall deeper into ourselves and feel ourselves less connected with others, less able to understand others.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2023/12/we-are-suffering-because-of-the-tower-of-babel/
And if you’re interested in learning how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
“We often talk about altruism as a spiritual ideal — giving to others, thinking of others first. But I’m wondering… is what we call altruism always truly selfless? Can it sometimes be a way to feed our ego or find meaning for ourselves? Is there such a thing as pure altruism, or is it always, in some way, about the self?”
Hi Michael,
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
I have a question about cultivating intention: since the intention is to reveal the force of bestowal itself in order to align with it, would I direct the intention of my actions towards what I am responding to or would I imagine that I am directing it towards the creator.
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