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I have many questions. Quoting from one of the books, “Finally… understanding the Master Planner, and that this is the purpose of Creation-to equalize with the Creator.” That’s confusing because He is God and I can never ever be His equal. So, I don’t understand that concept. I also don’t understand how we are all one when He created us all different and unique. I kind of get it and kind of don’t. We aren’t like Star Trek the collective Borg to be assimilated. Please explain further. Lastly, why do you call him Nature instead of who he is G-d! It almost seems disrespectful. I ask these out of pure respect and desire to understand. Thank you for your time.
Hi Valerie, great questions!
1. We don’t become Him, we become similar to Him, to His qualities of pure love and bestowal. In other words, we learn how to correct our egoistic nature and use it properly: to receive in order to bestow. By that we become similar to the Creator and reveal Him in practice.
2. Each piece in a jigsaw puzzle is different and unique and it’s specifically thanks to those differences that when we put the whole puzzle together, we get a beautiful picture. Likewise with us, the differences between us are all necessary and it’s thanks to them that we can connect into a singular system.
It’s like we’re all cells within a single body. If we were all just one type of cell, like brain cells, then we would lack the skin cells and heart cells, etc and wouldn’t be a functioning body. It’s thanks to the different cells performing different functions that the body as a whole can live.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
3. It depends on the context. Most of the time we refer to the upper force as the Creator, since that is the force that created us.
If we refer to Him as nature, we’re not talking about rocks and trees, rather nature means an all encompassing system that is affecting me externally and internally in every single moment of my life.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
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
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