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My Greeting to you Mr Albert our instructor.
I have a question.
When we follow the teaching we receive through the origin of Kabbalah, that science being accessible to us comes from the main book that is the Zohar. As explained to us that holy precious book comes from the famous Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
We know all the story that brought the writting of the zohar. What is wondering me is the source of the Zohar : TORAH and the Maker YHWH.
YHWH is all about in TORAH and the revealer of all secrets to MOSHE. My question is how can we attain the door and open it if we study Kabbalah out of the source? Kabbalah is all about the revealer, the maker YHWH. How can we ignore that ? If Rabbi Shimon Bar ignored the TORAH he would have never received the secrets. As it is said: He study 13 years the Torah hidden in a cave.
For me it is an example of receiving a tool with instructions to make it work, but you decide to make it by your own mean.
YHWH has given the key to open the door. How can we let down the key and open that door?
« 4. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. »
Deuteronomy 6:4-5I follow the study of Kabu but I hold the key through meditation praying our Lord to explain me that I don’t understand.
Hi Mathieu Danho,
Opening the door to spirituality work according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reach spirituality, we need to become similar to it, to the pure qualities of love and bestowal that are found there.
But our nature is egoistic and completely opposite to spirituality. In order to become similar to spirituality and reveal it, we first need to correct our opposite egoistic nature.
We correct our nature through the study of Torah. Torah comes from the Hebrew word Ohr (Hebrew for “light”). So when Kabbalists use the word Torah, they are not referring to the physical book, but rather to the light. This is a special force that we can extract, especially through the Kabbalistic studies, in order to correct our egoistic nature.
So we are indeed studying Torah when we’re studying the books of Kabbalah because our main focus is not in learning something intellectually, but it’s in extracting more and more of the light from the study in order to correct our egoistic nature and reveal spirituality in practice.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
https://laitman.com/2010/12/know-what-you-want-precisely/
Albert @ KabU
Dear Albert,
Thank you so much. It has been a pleasure. Could you guide me in the process for I used to get visions. I need some explanations.
Hi Misty,
It’s to the contrary, in the broken kli, the parts don’t feel any connection to each other.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Melanie,
All the links for the live KabU events are here: https://kabuconnect.com/live/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Jonne,
The journey back into the spiritual world works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal spirituality, we need to become similar to it, similar to the qualities of pure love and bestowal that are found there.
But our nature is the complete opposite, pure egoism. Can I just press a button and change my own nature? No. Just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own nature. We require outside help to make this change. This help comes to us from the light. The light is a special force that has the ability to change our nature. Our work essentially boils down to extracting more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
So the most practical action that you can do towards revealing the spiritual world is to set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning to the Kabbalistic sources, videos, lessons, books, etc. Such a habit will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
In the first week’s lesson, there were many concepts introduced, such as the nature of the soul, the purpose of creation, and the spiritual realms. Could you clarify how these concepts are interconnected, and how understanding them can help in our spiritual growth? Additionally, are there specific practices or meditations we can begin implementing this week to align ourselves more closely with the teachings of Kabbalah?
Hi Nadia,
1. The purpose of creation is to reach adhesion with the Creator. The Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal, while our nature is the complete opposite, pure reception and egoism.
The spiritual worlds are essentially the delta, the gap between these two natures. To the extent that we correct our opposite egoistic nature, making it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we reveal these spiritual worlds and start “climbing” this spiritual ladder of degrees back to Him. All of this follows the law of equivalence of form.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2019/04/the-purpose-of-creation/
https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
2. The goal of authentic Kabbalah is to correct our egoistic nature in order to become similar to the Creator. Things like meditation help to calm us down, but ultimately it doesn’t correct our egoistic nature, so it’s not a part of the authentic Kabbalistic method.
How then do we correct our egoistic nature? Only through the light. The light is a special force that can correct our nature. Our entire work boils down to extracting more and more of this light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
HI, just a short question, please. Why does the spiritual body of the Soul have exactly 620 parts/organs, and what do they represent indeed? Thank you
Hi Andriana,
The numbers all have their own significance. When a person attains spirituality, he begins to research it, and discovers all these numbers from his research. But what exactly is he researching, what is spirituality?
Essentially we’re always talking about a desire. Our current reality is based on our current nature, the desire to receive. Spirituality on the other hand operates according to a different desire, that of pure bestowal. The different numbers are just a different way to divide up that spiritual desire. This desire can be divided into 613 parts, or 620 parts, or 600,000 pieces, or 125 degrees, or even 10 sefirot.
It’s just like how we can study a person based on his behavior, or based on his anatomy, or based on his external appearance, or his internal chemistry. Ultimately we’re studying the same person, but from different angles. Same with these different divisions, they are all talking about the same spiritual desire but from different angles or a different scale.
So if we are describing the desire as 620 parts, then we’re talking about the number of corrections that need to be placed over the desire. This number is further divided into 248 desires of bestowing in order to bestow, 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow, and 7 additional desires that are corrected only in the final correction. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.
Albert @ KabU
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