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At 56:01 James asked ‘Was Jesus a kabbalist? What is the kabbalistic concept of the Holy Spirit?’ Can you explain more on your answer that Jesus was not a kabbalist and that if he was things would have been different? What exactly would be different? Was your comment about not teaching anything about Jesus strictly in context of this kabbalah course or was it a private interpretation of Jesus’ teachings at large? Thank you
Hi Roberto,
It’s possible that he was a Kabbalist. But since the Kabbalistic writings don’t talk about him, we can’t say for sure. So we could speculate one way or another, but these would just be speculations. We should keep in mind that Kabbalah is a science. Kabbalah only deals with the correction of our egoistic nature and the revelation of the Creator. It has no connection to faith, religion, or religious leaders.
But ultimately these things are not so opposed. Both talk about the importance of loving others as yourself. Kabbalah goes even further and gives us a method to actualize loving others to such an extent that we can reveal in our lives the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.
Albert @ KabU
Does everyone who goes through the methodology of Kaballah to receive wisdom, arrive at similar conclusions on such things as the meaning of life, the origin of creation, the structure of the spiritual worlds, the problem of evil, God and so forth? Or is it that they are simply trying to be unanimous or concur with each other.?
Hi Paulo,
If you’re talking about simply an intellectual study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, then yes, on such a superficial level, it’s possible to study from the same sources and reach the same conclusions.
But if you’re talking about actual spiritual attainment, which is not just an intellectual understanding, but rather a feeling, there we cannot compare one person to another. This is because each and every person is completely unique and feels the world through his/her uniqueness. As such, it’s impossible to compare how one person feels spirituality with another.
Although we can say that whoever reaches the same spiritual degree will experience the same things that are found on that spiritual degrees. But nonetheless, each one will experience those things through their own uniqueness. Just like two people can be riding in the same car, one person can feel hot while another can feel cold.
And if we’re talking about two different spiritual degrees, then their experiences could be light years away from each other. This is because every new spiritual degree comes with a completely different set of values and way of thinking. What was valid on the previous degree, becomes false on the current one. What we used to value previously, becomes worthless. This is called “what is waste for the upper is nourishment for the lower”.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/01/rising-to-a-new-degree/
Albert @ KabU
Cómo puedo saber si estoy o no en condiciones de estudiar la sabiduría de la Kabbalah? Existe acaso alguna condición espiritual o precepto de conducta o moralidad que deba yo cumplir para estar apto para el estudio de la sabiduría de la Kabbalah?
google translation of the questions:
How do I know whether or not I am fit to study the wisdom of Kabbalah? Is there any spiritual condition or precept of conduct or morality that I must meet in order to be fit to study the wisdom of Kabbalah?
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Hi Enrique,
The only condition to studying Kabbalah is the desire. If a person has such a desire, which is called the point in the heart, then this entire wisdom is open to them. And if a person does not have such a desire, then naturally they would not even want to study Kabbalah.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/11/only-people-with-the-point-in-the-heart-can-feel-that-kabbalah-is-the-salvation/
So how do we know if this is the place for us?
When the point in the heart awakens, it pulls a person to the place where it can get realized. So when a person finds such a place, there is a certain inner resonance, a click where a person feels that he found the right place for himself.
So no one can tell you if this is the place for you or not, you need to feel it for yourself. This follows the rules that “there is no coercion in spirituality” and “one studies only where one’s heart desires”.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Sara,
Although we point to 1995 as to when Kabbalah became revealed, technically the prohibition was lifted much earlier, from the time of the Ari. He was the one to make a very special correction within the entire spiritual system, after which its not only possible, but a must to openly disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to help the whole world reach its correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details on the Ari: https://laitman.com/2010/08/the-ari-rav-isaac-luria-the-godly-man/
So why do we say 1995? Let’s put a few things into perspective:
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
Hi Albert, I have been reading your numerous replies on this thread and I am impressed with your ability to answer our questions so clearly.
Should I assume that the great Kabbalists that wrote the original texts and also those that we are currently receiving lineage guidance through their wisdom, study and experience, have gone through the process of ascending back through the 5 worlds to the root of the Creator and they are sharing from that place of experiential achievement of connection with our life’s source, the totality of reality?
Thank you,
Luke Frazer
Hi Luke,
Yes, you can say that. If we’re not yet in spiritual attainment ourselves, then we don’t yet have the tools to verify such things, and so we have to take them as assumptions. It’s just like with 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.
Keep in mind that although there were many different Kabbalists and Kabbalistic books throughout the generations, nowadays we mainly learn from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. They were the ones to adapt this wisdom specifically to the level of egoism found in our generation, so their writings are the most suitable for our correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
Albert @ KabU
Bonjour!
Si la kabbaleestune sciences q’onpuisseetudier, qu’apportepourait changer la kabbalesur la personnememe, et sur la société?
Google translation of the question: If Kabbalah is a science that can be studied, what could Kabbalah bring to change for the person himself, and for society?
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Hi René,
Kabbalah is the method by which we can correct our egoistic nature. As a result of that correction, we become similar to the Creator. As a result of becoming similar to Him, we reveal Him in practice, in our lives.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2019/04/the-purpose-of-creation/
On the level of society, Kabbalah can help to balance human egoism with the force of bestowal. The typical approach to egoism is to eradicate it. But as we see in the world, this approach does not work. Egoism just continues to grow more and more because it is essential to our progress. In Kabbalah we learn that we shouldn’t eradicate it, but rather, we should learn to use it properly. Then egoism will become a stepping stone for higher development, like a mountain thanks to which we can climb higher and higher.
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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