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Hi Aleta,
Lo Lishma and Lishma refers to our intention, the reason for why we’re studying Kabbalah. Lo Lishma means that we aspire to spirituality egoistically, for our own sake. While Lishma is when the light corrects our initial egoistic aspiration and makes it operate purely in the direction of bestowal, for the sake of the entire system.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/07/lo-lishma-having-something-to-correct/
Albert @ KabU
There are many variations of the word/name Adam in the readings. Please explain the varied use and meanings. Thank you.
Hi Aleta,
Adam is Hebrew for man or person, it could also be the name of a person.
Adam Kadmon, which translates to: primordial man, is part of the system of worlds. It is the first form of the desire to receive that became similar to the Creator, but it operates in a different way then the rest of the system, so it’s called primordial.
Adam HaRishon, which translates to: the first man, is the active part within the system of worlds. This is similar to how you have planet Earth and you have people or those that inhabit the planet.
So Adam Kadmon is part of the system of worlds, while Adam HaRishon is the active part within that system.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/the-human-is-the-innermost-part-in-the-system-of-worlds/
Albert @ KabU
There seem to be so many entrance points into the information. please simplify/clarify for me as I am not a natural user of the internet!!! ( Be kind to an old woman as I suspect I am probably asking these questions in the wrong place. )
1. What is the direct link to my subscribed courses?
2.What is the difference between these sites and what do they provide? Can you navigate from within one to another?Are any interactive for questions and answers? kab.info, Â kabbalahmedia, Â www.tv, Â kabuconnect.com, Â KabuU
3. What is Kabbalah Today?
4. Â What happens live on Sunday? on Tuesday?
5. Are there some kind of presentations on Facebook? on YouTube?
Thank you.
Hi Aleta,
1. Here is the direct link to the KabU courses: https://kabuconnect.com/all-courses/
2. kabuconnect.com is the main course site.
kabbalahmedia.info is the archive of Kabbalistic sources from Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and Rav Laitman. It also has 20+ years of recorded lectures from Rav Laitman, so it can be a bit overwhelming. It’s more geared towards advanced students that finished the KabU courses, so you can revisit it later.
kab.info is the general Kabbalah website. It’s more geared towards people who are just doing a basic google search of Kabbalah. It’s not really geared for students that are already part of KabU.
laitman.com/eng is Rav Laitman’s blog.
There are other websites, but those are the main ones. If you’re lost, just stick to kabuconnect where these courses will take you from the basics of Kabbalah all the way into the advanced sessions where we learn how to practically apply Kabbalah.
3. Kabbalah Today was a newspaper we once published. We stopped updating that content and site many years ago, so it’s not something I would really recommend.
4. There are live events, like Q/A with Tony and Julian and other broadcasts where Kabbalah is explained in a simple down to earth way or through current events. You can find the schedule and links here: https://kabuconnect.com/live/. These are essentially bonus materials. Again if it’s too much or you’re lost, just stick to the KabU courses.
5. The live events from question 4 do take place on Facebook/Youtube and the Q/A sessions are also on Zoom, so KabU students can ask the instructors live questions through Zoom.
Albert @ KabU
How and  by whom ( native speakers? Disciples? ) are the Kabbalist sources we are reading been translated from the language in which they were original thought, spoken and written to English? Thank you.
Hi Aleta,
Most of the books have been manually translated from Hebrew into English by Chaim Ratz. He’s a native Hebrew speaker and veteran student that has been studying with Bnei Baruch and Rav Laitman for over 20 years.
He’s an expert at what he does, possessing a very high proficiency in both Hebrew and English. And if there is some doubt about the proper way to translate a word or phrase, he checks directly with Rav Laitman to ensure that he’s passing as much of the inner meaning of the words as possible in the translation.
Albert @ KabU
If all the stories in the Torah are Kabbalistic allegories…did they actually happen? Or were they written to teach us something? Or did they happen, and now we are learning from what happened to other real people? I am fine either way, I am not stuck on the idea that they really, literally had to happen – just checking to see what the Kabbalistic viewpoint is on this.
Hi Avi,
On one hand, the Torah is entirely written in the language of roots and branches, meaning it uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand, there is a law that the spiritual root must touch the corporeal branch at least once. Meaning although these are spiritual phenomena, they must have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world.
For example, Egypt represents the uncorrected egoistic desire while Israel represents the corrected desire, those are the roots. But in our world these things exist as branches as well. There is actually a physical place that is called Egypt and Israel. Still, despite all the above, the Torah is not a history book, not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2014/10/the-deluge-and-other-natural-disasters/
https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
Albert @ KabU
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