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Is it possible that there’s a force, either hidden in ourselves or otherwise that intends to keep us from deep truths such as Kabbalah? Sorry if the answer is already explained in the teachings and I didn’t catch it. I realized the absolute truth of Kabbalah soon after I started watching some of the Kabu videos and I knew for certain that I found what I was looking for. Yet I still feel like something is trying to pull me back to the world with blinders on. Also, challenges in life seem to be increasing in magnitude and distracting me from further study so this is an important topic for me. Thanks!
Hi Scott, great question!
There is only force acting upon us every moment: the Creator. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. Meaning that EVERYTHING in life comes to us directly from Him. Every moment, thought, desire, life event, EVERYTHING.
Sometimes we feel as if he’s attracting us to Him, by giving us a point in the heart which resonates with what we’re learning. And sometimes we feel Him as rejecting us, by giving us more obstacles in life which pull us away from what we’re learning. But both this and that are coming to us from Him. It’s a type of game that He’s playing with us, like a flirt.
This game is made up of many different states, many ups, down, and everything in between. But the main thing is to just keep going, to just keep placing yourself under the influence of the spiritual light, and the light will balance all these states out. The best way to do this is to just set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic writings, weekly lessons, videos, books, etc. Such a habit of regularly returning to the source of the light will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
We’ll learn more about all these things in the more advanced lessons. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
<p style=”text-align: center;”>My current path is pagan as in love for mother nature and all mankind,will I still be able to practice my craft or will it conflict with Kabbalah?</p>
Hi Peter,
I don’t see a conflict. Essentially Kabbalists are also trying to reach love. Except at some point, they discovered a roadblock, a barrier that stops them from truly loving others: the ego. So in order to reach true love, we need to first correct our egoistic nature. This is essentially what Kabbalah helps us to do. It’s a practical scientific method by which we can correct our ego. As a result of this correction, we’ll reach the ultimate state of love, meaning to love everything and everyone the way the Creator loves us. Through this correction, we become similar to Him and reveal Him in practice in our lives. This is the essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Albert @ KabU
Is there such a thing as ‘spiritual wildlife’? I heard Tony mention that Angels were ‘forces of intent’, I believe. Does there exist something analogous to wildlife on the spiritual plane that does not manifest in the physical? Smaller entities of intent?
Hi John, great questions!
An angel is force of nature. So the force of gravity you can call the angel of gravity. But these are forces that are programmed to act a certain way, without any free will. And just as you don’t attribute any intelligence/consciousness or even an image to the force of gravity, you shouldn’t attribute any to the forces called angels. To avoid confusion you can even replace the word angel in your vocabulary with the word force.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2010/05/why-do-angels-have-wings/
Albert @ KabU
This is really two questions, but they’re interrelated, so I’ll ask. Do you need to study (or know) Hebrew to (fully) understand the coded messages in the texts and is this something that can be learned through self-study?
Hi Sean,
Knowing Hebrew is helpful, but you don’t really need to learn Hebrew to study Kabbalah. All of our materials are professionally translated to English and many other languages.
But does the translation pass the full spiritual meaning? No. Hebrew is a language built for passing spiritual meaning, not just the meaning of the words, but every single letter and shape of the letter is a code for a spiritual state. So any translation is good but it will never give you 100% of the true spiritual meaning, it’s impossible.
So how big is the loss? For a person who is not yet in spirituality, the loss is very very small, even minuscule. In fact we have thousands of students worldwide studying with us on a daily basis, in a language other than Hebrew. Whenever Rav Laitman visits these groups, he always remarks how there is no difference in the spiritual advancement between these students and the students in front of him (all Hebrew speakers) that he studies with daily. This is because spirituality does not depend on knowledge but only on the desire. If we build the right desire for spirituality, we will feel it, if not, then no.
If you want an in depth explanation of the significance of the Hebrew language, check out this article. The ties between letters, words, and numbers:
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/60270?/eng/content/view/full/60270&main
Albert @ KabU
Hi Sharon,
It’s possible. But since the Kabbalistic writings don’t talk about them, we can’t say for sure. So we could speculate one way or another, but these would just be speculations. We should keep in mind that Kabbalah is a science. Kabbalah only deals with the correction of our egoistic nature and the revelation of the Creator. It has no connection to faith, religion, or religious leaders.
But ultimately these things are not so opposed. Both talk about the importance of loving others as yourself. Kabbalah goes even further and gives us a method to actualize loving others to such an extent that we can reveal in our lives the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.
Albert @ KabU
SO if one doesn’t need to be jewish to practice Kabbalah, and Kabbalah existed before religions, then why for example is the teacher above jewish and many others who are part of KabU ( I presume ~ they are wearing kippahs)?
Does Kabbalah transform its practitioners into authentic jews?
Hi Asahd,
They do it out of respect for the culture and traditions they grew up with. We should keep in mind that Kabbalah and religion are two separate things. Let’s put a few things into perspective to understand this:
Kabbalah is the method of correcting our egoistic nature and thereby revealing the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. The first one to actualize this was Adam. His name gives us a hint at this since Adam comes from the Hebrew word “Dome”, meaning “similar to”. He was not the first one alive, but rather the first one to reveal the Creator by becoming similar to this quality of bestowal.
This wisdom gets passed on ward from Adam until Abraham who adapted it to the people of his generation and made the wisdom more practical. Abraham put together a large group of Babylonians who were interested in actualizing this method. These people later on became the Israeli nation. The word Israel comes from the Hebrew words “Yashar” “El” meaning straight to God. These are the people who had an active point in the heart in those days and were interested in revealing the Creator.
These people greatly succeeded in this method. The peak of their success was symbolized in the building of the first and second temple, which reflected the level of unity and bestowal they were able to reach. At a certain point, they lost the spiritual connection between them (the destruction of the 2nd temple) and what remained was just these external symbols of their connection.
At this point the wisdom of Kabbalah became concealed. People still had the holy books, Torah and etc, but they did not know how to use them. Since the Torah is written in the language of roots and branches. Meaning it uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. But if a person does not have this spiritual connection through which he can see this, then he thinks this book is talking about this world, history, morals, commandments, etc. From this emerges the Jewish religion.
From all the above we see that Kabbalah itself is not connected to any religion and that the modern religions came out due to the concealment of Kabbalah. At the same time, Kabbalah is not against religions. In fact we have millions of students worldwide, from many different backgrounds and religions. Many of them do choose to maintain their religion or to perform certain religious customs while studying Kabbalah and there is nothing wrong with that. Just like with any other science, a person can be religious and also be a chemist or physicist. Likewise a person can be religious and also study the science of Kabbalah. Baal HaSulam writes that even after the full spiritual correction people can still keep their religions.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/12/the-wisdom-of-kabbalah-and-the-other-religions/
Albert @ KabU
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