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couple of more questions.
My understanding is that the creator is infinite and so is the spiritual world. So, why are there only 5 “worlds”.
So, let’s say most of us disparate parts of the whole sole figure out we are one and start working to reunite with the creator. If just one piece doesn’t join does this mean all of us won’t join with the creator because we won’t be a complete collective soul? Does that create world number 6 and we start over again?
Hi Melissa,
The 5 spiritual worlds are not place like we think, but rather levels of concealment. World (Olam in Hebrew) comes from the word Concealment (ha-alama). So the 5 worlds are 5 levels of concealment between us, the desire to receive, and the Creator the general force of love and bestowal. To the extent that we correct our own opposite, egoistic nature, for it to also operate in the direction of bestowal, to that extent we reveal these worlds, these higher qualities.
As to where the number 5 comes from, there is a pattern in nature that stems from the 4 phases of direct light, we’ll learn about it in depth in the upcoming lessons.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
2. There is a personal final correction and there is a general final correction. The personal final correction is when I correct myself relative to my place in the general system. The general final correction is when EVERYONE corrects themselves relative to their place in the general system. If I complete my personal correction then I work on helping others complete their correction until we reach the general final correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/everyone-is-a-point-everyone-is-infinity/
Albert @ KabU
Hi, you mentioned the lineage of teachers for yourself is Michael Laitman Rabbi Baruch Ashlag, then Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) as “Authentic Kabbalah” that teaches from the perspective of practitioners of Kabbalah (Kabbahlists) and not scholars. So, is Authentic Kabbalah a category/group, and Theoretical (scholar) another category/group of Kabbalah? What are the different categories of Kabbalah and who are their lineage of teachers for each? How do the different groups work together toward a common goal? Thank you.
Hi Melissa,
I’m not an expert in how others teach Kabbalah, so I cannot comment on them. In general, a Kabbalist is someone that has practically attained spirituality and then goes on to teach others how to reach spiritual attainment as well.
While scholars on the other hand write about spirituality without actually attaining it. It’s like a blind person that spent years researching colors and then shares his research with others.
Authentic Kabbalah completely negates this approach. Which is why it makes this differentiation between the Kabbalistic approach vs the scholarly approach.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
Albert @ KabU
Good morning.
Thank you for this first video and this learning opportunity. I found the film fascinating and very well presented, and it shed more light and understanding for me, on the 4 worlds that I have previously read about.
I find myself questioning now that kabbalah is a science as to me science is factual research, study and structure of the physical world with evidence based theories that can be proved? In the film their is an explanation of the spiritual world – which I am not sure that there is any proof of, so for me this seems a contradiction? I am therefore curious to have a deeper understanding. I am not questioning the kabbalah or the spiritual world, I am questioning the statement that kabbalah is a science. I hope that makes sense.
Many thanks
Suzanne
Hi Suzanne,
Kabbalah is a science. The Kabbalists are the scientists of Kabbalah. Everything we know is based on their research. This is similar to how other sciences work. The Kabbalists are those researchers that have performed a certain experiment and reached a certain result: the correction of our nature, the revelation of the Creator, the force of bestowal, etc. So if we are to replicate their experiment, to follow their procedures we should reach the same results.
But if a person is not yet on the degree of a Kabbalist, how does he relate to everything he’s learning? Like to 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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/
Albert @ KabU
I noticed that the Kabbalahists died. Could it be possible that Kabbalahism evolves with each generation, and the great Kabbalahists before us have reincarnated? Each era taking Kabbalah further spiritually? Like, maybe the Kabbalahist generation before us differentiated service-to-self into service-to-others, and this was a breakthrough to human spiritual development then? …But, it wasn’t the end, and maybe we are taking it to the next level, by realizing that the act of bestowing is relative to what we feel is a positive, while others can perceive it to be a negative? I feel like we have to crack this code to take it to the next level. 🤔
Is there a grand finale? I sense there is a grand finale where the whole earth awakens to our true identity and everything flips into the positive, and we then enter an era of delight together for 1000 years of total bliss, and then after that we all merge back into the Source as one consciousness, and then the Source wakes up as if from a dream, having played all parts. 😴
The Source feels fulfilled for awhile after having this experience, and then it gets lonely and bored 🥱 being whole, and this boredom fuels its desire to create another divine play to the minute detail, with the illusion of challenges to overcome and a divine mystery to unfold. And then, when the Source gets lonely, and bored enough and craves the illusion of challenges to overcome, and the illusion of separation, and feels it can expand from the experience, it will enter the next divine play, by breathing 😮💨 life into the new avatars/creatures, and play that one out again too, all to wake up whole again having played all parts. Living on a circle ⭕️—in it for the thrill of the ride, over and over again. 🎢
Hi Heather,
Yes, it’s possible that the Kabbalists reincarnate and help bring the Kabbalistic method closer to the people.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details about the Kabbalists: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
As for advancing the method, that depends on the generation, or more specifically the level of egoism that is found in each generation. This is because Kabbalah is the method by which we can correct egoism. So the greater the level of the egoism of the generation, the more this method evolves.
As for the grand finale, for the time being, this is the state called the final correction. The science of Kabbalah does not talk about what happens beyond that because it’s currently beyond our ability to measure such things.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/what-happens-after-the-final-correction/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Heather,
There is no KabU app yet, but there is an app for the general Kabbalah Media archive. And there is an app for more advanced studies.
Although personally I would recommend to just use the browser version, even on the phone, those versions work very well.
Albert @ KabU
[ Refined]
The Divine Play: A Reflection on Existence
Since I was a child, I’ve carried a deep and restless curiosity—
an insatiable thirst to understand this reality.
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What is this strange and beautiful thing we call existence?I never chose to be born, and yet here I am—
a flicker of consciousness floating in a vast, mysterious sea.
From the beginning, I’ve had more questions than answers,
and perhaps that, in itself, is sacred.I’ve never been satisfied by dogma, nor convinced by fear.
The image of a bearded man in the sky,
angry, jealous, demanding blind loyalty—
it never sat right with my soul.If there is a God, surely it is not a tyrant obsessed with control,
commanding us not to eat shrimp,
or condemning us to eternal fire
for daring to ask, to think, to doubt, to be.No.
The God of punishment, of wrath, of impossible rules—
that God feels like a creation of man,
a projection of our own fear, power hunger, and ego.I believe in something deeper.
Not a man in the sky, but a source—
a boundless, formless consciousness from which all arises.I believe we are not separate beings, but One.
One consciousness wearing many masks,
playing many roles.
We are the actor, the stage, the audience, and the script.Life is a divine play, a sacred comedy.
We experience joy, pain, love, hatred—
forgetting that we are the author and the actor both.
We destroy each other in the name of difference,
never realizing we’re only fighting ourselves.We were the soldier and the victim,
the king and the beggar,
the addict and the healer.
We were all of it.
We are all of it.What if, after death, we remember?
What if we laugh at the grand joke of it all—
the illusion of separation, the drama of belief,
the centuries we spent trying to conquer what was never “other”?Perhaps the only truth is this:
To live, to laugh, to love,
to learn and evolve the soul.We are here to experience.
We are the universe knowing itself—
again and again,
through every pair of eyes,
every beating heart,
every whisper of thought.And maybe… that is enough.
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