Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Joan]

I have no questions , it’s so high flutent , I’m instead just observing for now

[Jeffrey]

Am I correct in thinking that the study of Kabbalah will develop a spiritual perception inside me? A direct perception? Something other than a filter?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jeffrey,

Yes, you can say that studying Kabbalah helps a person to develop their spiritual perception. Perceiving spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that to perceive spirituality, we need to become similar to it, to the qualities of love and bestowal that reside 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.

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

[ilse]

Dear instructors,

Can you explain me a bit more about the left and right line ? Maybe illustrate the difference between them with a concrete example? And what is meant with: moving forward with a proper combination of the right and left line, that is > advancing along the line that is exactly halfway between them ? Can you illustrate this also with a concrete example ? Many thanks!

Ilse from Belgium

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ilse,

The right line is our aspiration towards love and bestowal.

The left line is our egoistic nature, the desire to receive for ourselves.

Working with the three lines means constantly aspiring to be in the right line, in the qualities of love and bestowal. As a result of that aspiration, we reveal more of the left line, how our egoistic nature does not allow us to truly bestow. As a result of that, we feel a need for the Creator to help us. After all, egoism is our very nature, we cannot just pull ourselves out of it, the Creator must do it for us. So the middle line is the revelation of the Creator.

So after going through this process of aspiring towards bestowal, revealing our nature resisting, praying for the Creator to help us, we reveal the Creator who pulls us out of our egoistic nature and gives us the ability to bestow.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/06/right-and-left-lines/

Albert @ KabU

[ilse]

That is beautifully explained Albert! It’s very clear for me now.

Many thanks, Ilse

 

[Curtis AO]

Hello,

I guess the most difficult concept for me to understand what is meant by ‘spirit’. It seems to me our conscious is at the intersection of mind, body and spirit. It would seem to necessitate that a change in one effects the others.

I think the physical body is the easiest to define. The other two seem more mysterious to me.

 

Sincerely,

-Curtis

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Curtis,

All these things have different definitions in the wisdom of Kabbalah. Even the word body, depending on the context, does not necessarily refer to the physical body. Rather body in Kabbalah refers to to the desire to receive pleasure. And spirit/soul refers to the desire to receive pleasure that was corrected to operate in the direction of bestowal. Depending to what extent it was corrected, it reveals a different form of “spirit” and is given a different name. There are 5 levels in general: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida.

From this point of view, if we’re not yet corrected, we don’t yet have this thing called spirit/soul, only a soul in potential, which is the point in the heart.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/

Albert @ KabU

[Marie]

How do we know we’re progressing?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Marie,

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

[A]

Hello,

I was wondering if the wisdom of kabbalah teaches about forgiveness.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi A,

From a simple corporeal level, we see that keeping strong negative feelings inside of us ultimately causes much harm to our health. So from that point of view, it is worthwhile to forgive others.

As for how Kabbalah relates to forgiveness, check out New Life episode 325 – Forgiveness. (the link leads to the summary of the episode and the picture on top leads to the full video.

Albert @ KabU

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