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I am interested in the awareness we may attain regarding knowledge of our own spiritual progression, as we study Kabbalah. Will it be apparent to me when I have attained a certain level of discernment or progress in my studies? I would think, perhaps, it is a matter of our intuition which would inform us of our spiritual progress, or stagnation.
Hi Dina,
It’s not just intuition. Spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. To the extent that we become similar to it, to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal, to that extent we reach spiritual attainment. And to that same extent we reveal the Creator in practice. In other words, if we truly made a correction and rose to a spiritual degree, then accordingly we would reveal the Creator on that degree.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/04/when-all-doubts-will-dissipate/
Albert @ KabU
How do we reconcile the Einstein quote with the fact that we use malhut for our ascension back up the tree? We need opposites to affirm where we are. Hot needs the cold. Light needs darkness. It’s a thought I’ve been wrestling with. If the world is perfect, and it is our inability to sense this fact that keeps it from seeing it as so, isn’t just knowing enough? Or even if this is a fact that one never comes to know, why do we need to develop our screen?
Hi Kariim,
I’m not an expert on Einstein’s work, so I cannot comment on that.
In general, we learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the external world is a reflection of my own internal world. If I’m not corrected, I will see in front of me an uncorrected world with much evil and many people suffering. If I correct myself, I’ll look at the same world and the same people, but now they will appear the opposite.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
So it’s not enough to intellectually think that the world is perfect, we need to develop our screen and correct ourselves in practice, then we’ll actually see it as perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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