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How can a person practically train their mind to perceive the single force of love when facing a very difficult or negative situation in day-to-day life?
Hi Araya,
We can do different exercises or set reminders for ourselves to help us think about these things. But to actually perceive the Creator in practice, not just intellectually, for that we need to become similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. 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.
We’ll learn how to do this in the more advanced lessons, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: 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
When you say that Kabbalah has nothing to do with religions, and even religions other that Judaism can also study, I have 2 questions:
1. ‘Religion’ – Do you define it as a belief that benefit only oneself in terms of egoism? For example, one have faith in some type of deity to hope life gets better or is afraid of punishment.2. If everyone, despite their religious background, can learn Kabbalah, what about the mitzvot that are mentioned in the Torah? Since Kabbalah is the Secrets of the Torah and Torah is the foundation of everything. Then, for example, if one engages in the study of Kabbalah, do they have to keep kosher and also other ‘laws’ such as, ‘don’t put yourself in idolatry’, in the Torah?
Hi John,
1. By religion we mean the customs and culture of a group of people. As for our beliefs in a certain deity, a person in spiritual attainment reveals the Creator in practice, in their lives, so there is no room for beliefs.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/10/religions-place-in-our-lives/
2. Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 commandments as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
But if a person does want to perform these actions physically in our world as well, Kabbalah is not against that, but encourages doing so with the right intention. This follows the saying that “a commandment without an intention, is like a body without a soul”.
So if a person is Jewish and this is part of their customs, they can continue to carry these things out physically if they want. But the most important thing is to carry these things out internally, on the level of our desires.
Albert @ KabU
Where from is the statement: people during Abraham time had more refined souls, therefore they would understand this theory better?
I understand to build a theory one has to postulate some assumptions. Are there evidences of a such postulate?Hi Bella,
Reaching spirituality means correcting our egoistic nature. This correction goes “from light to heavy”. The first generations to start this work were working with the smallest levels of egoism, so it was easier for them to correct it and reach spiritual attainment. We on the other hand are working with the biggest levels of egoism, so it’s harder for us.
As for evidence of this, you can turn on the news and see for yourself the level of egoism of our generation. Despite all our resources and advancements in technology, there are still wars in the world. Divorce is at an all time high. We’re becoming more advanced yet more distanced and alienated from each other. These are all signs of a growing ego.
Keep in mind that it’s not bad that the ego grew to such a high level, these are still signs of advancement. The bigger the ego, the bigger the spiritual level that we can attain when we correct it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Bella,
Reaching spirituality means correcting our egoistic nature. This correction goes “from light to heavy”. The first generations to start this work were working with the smallest levels of egoism, so it was easier for them to correct it and reach spiritual attainment. We on the other hand are working with the biggest levels of egoism, so it’s harder for us.
As for evidence of this, you can turn on the news and see for yourself the level of egoism of our generation. Despite all our resources and advancements in technology, there are still wars in the world. Divorce is at an all time high. We’re becoming more advanced yet more distanced and alienated from each other. These are all signs of a growing ego.
Keep in mind that it’s not bad that the ego grew to such a high level, these are still signs of advancement. The bigger the ego, the bigger the spiritual level that we can attain when we correct it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
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