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couple of more questions.
My understanding is that the creator is infinite and so is the spiritual world. So, why are there only 5 “worlds”.
So, let’s say most of us disparate parts of the whole sole figure out we are one and start working to reunite with the creator. If just one piece doesn’t join does this mean all of us won’t join with the creator because we won’t be a complete collective soul? Does that create world number 6 and we start over again?
Hi Melissa,
The 5 spiritual worlds are not place 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.
As to where the number 5 comes from, there is a pattern in nature that stems from the 4 phases of direct light, we’ll learn about it in depth in the upcoming lessons.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
2. There is a personal final correction and there is a general final correction. The personal final correction is when I correct myself relative to my place in the general system. The general final correction is when EVERYONE corrects themselves relative to their place in the general system. If I complete my personal correction then I work on helping others complete their correction until we reach the general final correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/everyone-is-a-point-everyone-is-infinity/
Albert @ KabU
Hi, you mentioned the lineage of teachers for yourself is Michael Laitman Rabbi Baruch Ashlag, then Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) as “Authentic Kabbalah” that teaches from the perspective of practitioners of Kabbalah (Kabbahlists) and not scholars. So, is Authentic Kabbalah a category/group, and Theoretical (scholar) another category/group of Kabbalah? What are the different categories of Kabbalah and who are their lineage of teachers for each? How do the different groups work together toward a common goal? Thank you.
Hi Melissa,
I’m not an expert in how others teach Kabbalah, so I cannot comment on them. In general, a Kabbalist is someone that has practically attained spirituality and then goes on to teach others how to reach spiritual attainment as well.
While scholars on the other hand write about spirituality without actually attaining it. It’s like a blind person that spent years researching colors and then shares his research with others.
Authentic Kabbalah completely negates this approach. Which is why it makes this differentiation between the Kabbalistic approach vs the scholarly approach.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
Albert @ KabU
Good morning.
Thank you for this first video and this learning opportunity. I found the film fascinating and very well presented, and it shed more light and understanding for me, on the 4 worlds that I have previously read about.
I find myself questioning now that kabbalah is a science as to me science is factual research, study and structure of the physical world with evidence based theories that can be proved? In the film their is an explanation of the spiritual world – which I am not sure that there is any proof of, so for me this seems a contradiction? I am therefore curious to have a deeper understanding. I am not questioning the kabbalah or the spiritual world, I am questioning the statement that kabbalah is a science. I hope that makes sense.
Many thanks
Suzanne
Hi Suzanne,
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.
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
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