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1. Why do some Kaballah teaching centers include Astrology and other such “occult” practices?
2. Why does it seem like other organization don’t focus on the Heart point?
3. I’ve been binge watching Kabbalah Youtube videos over the last week from many organizations. I know that I have the heart point and my soul has dragged me through the mud to bring me here. I have many “unifying projects” that I feel have been put on “pause” to bring me to this knowledge before they proceed. In the Kabbalistic journey, the main continuous unending desire that surpasses all other worldly desires, is the desire for the endless connection to the infinite pleasure of the light. Focusing our activities studies on the point, this endless desire for the light, allows us to still maintain and collect our three lower desires as our tools to share our “unifying projects”. Is that correct?
1. **Nefesh**: The most basic level, associated with physical desires and instincts. It pertains to survival and bodily needs.
2. **Ruach**: The level of emotional and intellectual desires. This includes social relationships, self-esteem, and the pursuit of knowledge.
3. **Neshama**: The higher level of desire, focused on spiritual aspirations and connection to the divine. It represents a yearning for meaning and purpose.
4. **Chaya**: This level represents a deeper spiritual consciousness, an awareness of divine truth and unity with God.
5. **Yechida**: Sometimes considered a fifth level, Yechida represents the ultimate unity with the divine, the source of all existence.
These levels illustrate the journey from basic physical needs to profound spiritual fulfillment.
Hi Lisa, great questions!
1. Authentic Kabbalah has 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/
2. In order to fully realize our point in the heart, we need to come out of our egoistic nature. If a person’s point in the heart has still not awakened, that person will not at all be interested in coming out of the ego.
3. I’m not an expert in other methods, even others that seemingly teach “Kabbalah”, so I cannot comment on what they are teaching you there.
Albert @ KabU
I must say that everything was pretty clear. Thanks! Probably my only question is: Will there be kabbalistic meditations for the following weeks?
Hi Alex,
The goal of authentic Kabbalah is to correct our egoistic nature and as a result to become similar to and reveal the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. 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 ego and become similar to the Creator? 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 from 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
So you say that we have desires. My question is, what happens to desires, dreams, hopes, thoughts that we have, but they never materialize? For example, I want to go to Australia some day. I save and save my whole life, but my life is cut short or for some reason or another I am not able to go. Maybe my life just turned out differently than I planned, even though I did everything right. What happens to desires we have and know of that don’t actually materialize? Did we do something wrong because they didn’t materialize?
Hi K M,
Our egoistic desires are built in such a way that it’s impossible to fully satisfy them. The Kabbalists describe it like this:
“he who has one hundred wants two hundred” and “one finally dies with only half one’s desire in his hand.”
As soon as we realize one desire, it grows in size wanting even more. So we are left feeling even emptier than when we started. This is the typical race we find ourselves with our egoistic desires.
If we want to find true fulfillment, then we need to come out of our egoistic nature and develop a completely different set of desires: those of pure love and bestowal. This is what Kabbalah helps us to do.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/03/kabbalah-is-a-patent-for-infinite-pleasure/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Jolene,
There is a saying that “there is no righteous man on earth who does good and does not sin” and “a person does not keep a commandment if he has not failed in it first”. Meaning that it’s impossible to advance without first making mistakes. Just like it’s impossible to walk only on one foot, but rather there is an alternating motion to walking: left, right, left, right, left, right, etc. Likewise in our spiritual work: we reveal the ego, we correct it, we reveal the ego, we correct it. And this process repeats itself until we correct our egoistic nature on all 125 degrees.
So there is no such thing as not making mistakes. Rather we need to see those mistakes as a natural process by which we grow and develop on the spiritual path.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2023/07/useful-mistakes/
Albert @ KabU
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