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Am I understanding this correctly? Humanity had ego from the beginning, but the ego didn’t hurt humanity. As the ego developed over the centuries it has basically taken over and distant us from the spiritual world. It is interesting that the ego became ripe just in 1995, and before that time the ego was pushing us to progress on the corporeal level, but stearing us away from the spiritual world. Does this mean that Kabbalah have the secret of how to work with the ego so that we can use it to our advantage?
Hi Melanie,
Yes, you can say that. Kabbalah is the method by which we can correct our egoistic nature. And correcting the ego doesn’t mean we eradicate it. Rather it means that we rise above it.
The ego is like a mountain that we’re climbing towards spirituality. The bigger the desires, the higher we can climb, and the higher the spiritual degree that we can attain. On the other hand, if we were to eliminate our egoistic desires, then accordingly, we would only be able to attain a tiny degree of spiritual attainment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
It seems that Kabbalah was available only to one specific People: the Jewish people. Why is that? Why wasn’t it available to all people?
Hi Akosua Marie,
In the days of Abraham, before there was such a thing as Jewish people, there were simply different families and clans. At that time, Abraham assembled all of the people of his time who had active points in the heart. It’s those people that later became the Israeli nation. The word Israel comes from the Hebrew words “Yashar” “El” meaning straight to God. These are the people who had an active point in the heart in those days and were interested in revealing the Creator.
This group of points in the hearts was the one developing this method for thousands of years. They were preparing it specifically for our days, when the point in the heart begins to emerge in the rest of humanity. And now that the world is ready for it, this wisdom became revealed again and open for everyone.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/08/building-the-third-temple/
Albert @ KabU
Hi, Albert.
Thank you in advance for your dedication and Wisdom.
Where is the Light to be found? Is this revealed through further and ongoing study?
kajó
Hi Kajó,
Yes, we draw the light every time we aspire towards higher spiritual levels of development, which is primarily when we are studying and reading the Kabbalistic texts.
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
What is the reason for what Kabbalah is revealed now?
Who made the curse in the past and why that Kabbalah can not be understood properly?
Why do you consider that Kabbalah is now well understood and what exactly determined this decision and who made this decision?
Hi Diana,
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
I wonder after death, will we enter spiritual world?
if yes, why need to join the spiritual world before death?
Hi Iris,
Spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal spirituality, we need to become similar to it, to the pure qualities of love and bestowal that are found there.
This is just like how a radio can pick up an external wave, when we tune the internal frequency of the radio to that wave. But if we have not tuned ourselves to spirituality, if we have not corrected our opposite egoistic nature, then we would not perceive it.
And since the death of our animalistic body does not correct our egoistic nature, it would not make a difference in our goal of reaching spirituality. Instead, we would need to reincarnate again and again until we finish this correction.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Albert @ KabU
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