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- April 21, 2020 at 6:26 pm EDT #28785
Tony Kosinec- KabU InstructorModeratorAsk anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.
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- January 13, 2024 at 7:41 am EST #339348
Johan
ParticipantHow would kabbalah express the meaning of mental diseases such as schizophrenia?
- January 13, 2024 at 4:36 pm EST #339371
Albert – KabU Instructor
ModeratorHi Johan,
It’s a type of malfunction in our egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2022/04/how-can-mental-illness-be-cured/
Albert @ KabU
- January 11, 2024 at 10:38 pm EST #339250
Johan
ParticipantDo we have a soul?
What’s a soul according to the wisdom of kabbalah?
- January 11, 2024 at 11:23 pm EST #339253
Albert – KabU Instructor
ModeratorHi Johan,
When we take our desire to receive pleasure and correct it the direction of bestowal, that corrected desire is called a soul. Since none of us are born corrected, we don’t yet have this thing called a soul, but only a soul in potential, which we call the point in the heart.
If we realize that potential, we can grow that desire to the level of the soul, if not, this same potential continues to reincarnate again and again until it gets fully realized.
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
- January 9, 2024 at 7:36 pm EST #339099
Ronny Cervantes
ParticipantEverywhere I look I see evil. I turn on the TV, I see evil. I put the radio on, I hear evil. When I hear celebrities and the like, I hear evil. The school system across the world is failing. Do you believe that the wisdom of Kabbalah should be disseminated across all avenues of media, all children to be forced to learn this wisdom the way they are forced to learn “His” “Story” in school? Should the wisdom be heard on the TV, radio, and billboards to get more people involved in this wisdom and understand the laws of nature from the very beginning of their life? Thank you.
- January 11, 2024 at 12:14 pm EST #339207
Albert – KabU Instructor
ModeratorHi Ronny,
Disseminated to the world – yes.
Forcefully – no.
As we learn “there is no coercion in spirituality”. But we do disseminate as widely as possible, so whoever is indeed interested in learning these things, will have the opportunity to do so. We’ll learn how to properly disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in the more advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
- December 30, 2023 at 9:27 am EST #338269
Johan
Participantwhat is our sickness , according to the wisdom o kabbalah?
- December 30, 2023 at 11:40 am EST #338275
Albert – KabU Instructor
ModeratorHi Johan,
Egoism. It is the source of all of our problems because it makes us opposite to the Creator, to His qualities of love and bestowal. And when we’re opposite to Him, we experience an opposite world. Instead of experiencing His reality, in which only goodness exists, we experience our world, full of problems and sufferings.
All of this follows the law of equivalence of form, which we’ll learn in depth in the upcoming lessons. In the meantime, 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
- December 30, 2023 at 7:06 am EST #338266
Nuria Hernandez Cepero
ParticipantReturning to the source, climbing the 125 steps is probably not possible in one biological lifetime. How can a person be reunited with the source and others in one soul, if human life expectancy is about 75-80 years?
- December 30, 2023 at 11:26 am EST #338274
Albert – KabU Instructor
ModeratorHi Nuria,
We learn that “there is no time in spirituality”. Reaching it does not depend on time, but only on the right desire. If we build the right desire, within it, we will right away reveal spirituality. If not, then even if a few thousand more years were to pass by, we would still not reveal anything. It all depends on us, on our efforts to build that desire.
And it is possible to perform this correction within our lifetime. This is precisely why life expectancy went up so much in recent years, from 30-40 years like it was a few hundred years ago, to our days of 70-100 years. So if we use our time correctly, there is plenty of time to reach our full correction in this lifetime.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/03/is-it-worthwhile-for-an-older-person-to-study-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
- December 18, 2023 at 3:43 pm EST #337370
Sheila
ParticipantIf Kabbalah is over 5000 years old and we are learning the Original Kabbalah here, how, when and why did it become associated with things like Tarot, Illuminati, Freemasonry, New World Order? I am assuming the knowledge we get here predates these things and as you said, has nothing to do with the (Satanic) mysticism that some of these things include. Thank you.
- December 18, 2023 at 4:44 pm EST #337384
Albert – KabU Instructor
ModeratorHi Sheila, great question!
Authentic Kabbalah has indeed been around for about 5800 years, but it’s been concealed for the past 2,000 years, so people don’t really know what it’s all about. Just picture a 2,000 year old game of telephone and all the distortions that would spring up as a result.
So naturally, due to the concealment, many different methods sprang up that are seemingly “Kabbalah”. Some try to associate themselves with Kabbalah as a way to validate themselves, while others borrowed some principles from Kabbalah and created something else, which is how philosophy emerged and later on turned into science. Or it’s also possible that these methods sprang up as a result of the concealment of Kabbalah, this is how the modern religions emerged. But ultimately, authentic Kabbalah has nothing to do with any other method and for the most part precedes all of the modern religions, sciences, and philosophies.
Authentic Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature and as a result we become similar to and reveal in practice the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/12/true-kabbalah-without-mysticism-or-myths-part-1/
Albert @ KabU
- December 18, 2023 at 5:13 pm EST #337392
Sheila
ParticipantThank you Albert. Not too many people these days understand that and if I say I am studying kabbalah they assume the worst! I have been exposed to a bit of the ‘other’ types of kabbalah, demons and spells, meditations with the alphabet, tarot cards. Now I am thankful to have been led here, actually through a book on how to read the bible, with it’s coding, that mentioned another book by Rav Leitman which I purchased. That path has led me here. I must say the tarot cards referencing kabbalah were really most interesting! I will read the article and continue here. Thank you again.
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