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During this course, there are times I feel the conflict between what we are being taught and where I want to be or believe that I am spiritually. I want to experience the creator on a deeper level. I miss the touch of the creator that I had before I lost faith in him and ceased to believe. when I came across the Kabballa I was excited because I saw the truth of its teaching. but the more I study the more confused I feel
Hi Stephen,
I agree, the method can be confusing at times, especially since we’re used to learning intellectually whereas experiencing the Creator is an emotional process. We need to keep in mind that the Kabbalistic studies don’t work in a typical way in which we learn to accumulate knowledge. In Kabbalah we’re concerned with reaching spirituality in practice, feeling it. And for that purpose, “it’s not the wise that learns”. Meaning we’re not learning this material simply to acquire knowledge, to store it in some box in our brains. After all, If knowledge was the path to spirituality, then a supercomputer loaded with all of the Kabbalistic texts would be the most spiritual being in the world. Obviously this is not the case.
So why do we spend so much time studying if not to gain knowledge? Because through the study, we draw the force of the light. This force is what makes all the internal changes, clarifications, corrections that need to be made. After we extract enough light and correct ourselves to a certain degree, then we won’t just intellectually philosophize about spirituality or the Creator, but we will begin to feel Him in practice. And only out of that feeling will we begin to truly understand these things.
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
Albert, Thank you, I think I have been worried about getting the answers right instead of allowing the course flow over me. My desire is to experience the Creator emotionally. The course can only point the way, and i must leave the creator fulfil that desire and make the corrections needed. So that my desire and the light will increase.
In this lesson we read about concealment and that brings to mind a recent conversation I had with a friend about this topic, in which the friend had said there’s no such thing as concealment, and this made me reflect to myself, that once we have seen and felt God, we’re even more astutely aware of His concealment, and we are left wanting to reach out, pray and plead, and desire ever more for His presence and to cleave on to Him. And we know that to be with Him is the ultimate pleasure, and ask how we can return to this state, and are left to wonder; Why have we been placed in a realm (a world/ a dimension) so far from Him!!?
Hi Andreanne,
We were indeed created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. (Baal HaSulam describes this in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar). 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
What is ment by “period of incarnation”? Is ment that I am dad? And the reincarnation takes place in the same body? Or is every correction a kind of incarnation in the same body ment as “embodiment”?
Hi Clara,
It depends on the context, but typically Kabbalists don’t speak about our corporeal body, but rather about the desire to receive and the changes that take place within it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2021/06/circles-of-souls/
Albert @ KabU
Are there any words of wisdom to keep a clearer mind?
I’m believing that I’m in the Spiritual Vegetative state, but perhaps not. I feel the traits of that state taking place so deeply that it makes me physically ill as I want to proceed with success of achieving them. But, “Beginning to work with the desire to bestow” I feel is seriously lacking because I’m only seeing the opportunities to bestow after the moment passes and it’s too late. I’ve always been a “giver” in some way, but of course I understand more about true bestowal at this point.
Thanks!
Scott
Hi Scott,
We’re not yet on any spiritual degree, we’re still in the preparation period prior to the spiritual ladder. But once we start to do real spiritual work, we can measure our progress in our attitude towards other points in the hearts. That I’ll feel how my attitude towards them changes, from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
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