Ask anything about week 4 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 4 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[William Taylor]

Isn’t it better to live all in one community all together with our lives exposed to one another loving and doing our part to uplift the whole of the body and direct each other when we are bent and needing straitened? working toward the same goal to be one and the same with the creator.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi William,

At the beginning of the spiritual path, there are a lot of tendencies to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. But the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see that we don’t need to isolate ourselves. Even Baal HaSulam and Rabash were not living in isolation in some Kabbalistic environment, rather they had normal jobs, families, and lived in a typical neighborhood of their time. How then did they attain such high spiritual levels? By tapping into the strength of the spiritual environment.

So if we build for ourselves a strong spiritual environment, then it will influence us even stronger than the corporeal environment that we’re in. But this is not a one time choice. Building and strengthening the spiritual environment is our constant work. As we progress, our ego will grow more and more, and the corporeal environment will pull us more and more. This is done purposefully so that this resistance will force us to build an even stronger connection to the spiritual environment, and thereby reach an even higher spiritual level.

It’s just like with a bodybuilder. If he lifts only a 1 pound weight all the time, he will not get very strong (this is equivalent to us living in isolation or closing ourselves in a small community). In order to grow, that bodybuilder needs to constantly increase the resistance that he’s lifting. So the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see how the everyday problems, experiences, work situations, etc we undergo in the regular society are a necessary part of our correction. That we don’t erase these things, but above them we need to stay connected to the spiritual environment. And this will determine the level of our spiritual attainment.

We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters of KabU.

Albert @ KabU

[Dan]

Is following along enough of an instructor?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dan,

Yes, it’s like a baby in the hands of the mother. The baby does not understand anything about life and relies completely on the mother to take care of it and lead it to the right place. We too don’t know anything about reaching spirituality and we rely completely on the Kabbalists that preceded us and on the Kabbalistic group.

The only difference is that the baby is naturally led by the mother, while we have to consciously place ourselves in the hands of the Kabbalistic group and allow it to lead us towards the goal. We’ll learn about these things in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Dan]

What’s the best way to get a group?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dan,

In the advanced semester of KabU, everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group with whom they can put all these things into practice.

Albert @ KabU

[Shel]

Once a person passes the barrier, is it possible for them to fall back to earlier states?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Shel,

There is a rule that “one is raised in holiness and never lowered.” So we never go backwards. It’s possible that we receive an additional challenge that belongs to a higher degree and that challenge can feel like we’re going backwards, but it’s still a step forward. Similar to how a bodybuilder that masters a five pound weight moves on to ten pounds. That ten pounds is much more challenging and he cannot do as many reps as before, but this is nonetheless considered progress and advancement.

Albert @ KabU

[Shel]

Thank you!

[Michael]

Can the creation of this environment for this spiritual ascent be the role of religion in regards to this path?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Michael,

Not quiet. Religion has a different goal than what we learn about in Kabbalah. So a religious environment wont help us to actualize Kabbalah. The type of environment that we need to actualize what we learn in Kabbalah is a spiritual environment consisting of those with active points in the heart that are on the spiritual path together with us.

For those interested in continuing with KabU, in the advanced semesters of KabU, everyone will receive their own Kabbalistic group with whom they can put all these things into practice.

Albert @ KabU

[Sarah]

It’s interesting that after this week class, I encountered situation that I think I’m exactly in Double concealment.
I was trying to study harder, watching related classes, articles, etc, thinking more about the Creator….

Today I encountered a situation eventhough it’s small thing, but it really doesn’t happen regularly before, and it made me see the world is so unfair: I pre-ordered a few boxes of food for self-pickup, and the restaurant just said they are busy and not packing the food up, eventhough I already see the dish there, they don’t let me get it, and all the food buyers are waiting for 45 mins…. And we complained to the ordering site, and they are not refunding. It’s so weird that people paid but don’t get anything. It never happens 😂

It is really like Tony said in class, when we r in double concealment, the harder u work on connecting to the Creator, the more crazy life becomes, seems non-sense but it’s so true.

What can we do under this and move forward and finish off the preparation stage? I really don’t want to experience double concealment again

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sarah,

I cannot comment on your personal situation, but in general, all of our advancement on the path of light is by extracting more light. We do this through the Kabbalistic studies and through the game of playing out these higher degrees of bestowal that we are learning about in the Kabbalistic group.

We’ll learn more about these things in the more advanced lessons. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: http://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/

Albert @ KabU

[Sarah]

I see, the play idea is interesting, thank you.

Am I right to say by extracting more Light to our life, we encounter less unwanted situations that were not supposed to show up?

Or

When we extracted more Light to our life, we see how those weird situations are actually related to us?

 

 

 

 

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sarah,

It could be both. It could also be that by extracting more light, we begin to relate to life not as a string of unwanted experiences, but as constant exercises that come to us directly from the Creator to help us to develop towards the purpose of creation.

Albert @ KabU

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