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¿Por qué la sabidurÃa de la Cabalá considera que no es necesario abstenerse de satisfacer los deseos corporales? ¿No es acaso imprescindible cierta condición del cuerpo para acceder al deseo de conocer el sentido de la vida y adherirse al Creador?
google translation of Luis’s question:
Why does the wisdom of Kabbalah consider that it is not necessary to refrain from satisfying bodily desires? Is not a certain condition of the body essential to access the desire to know the meaning of life and adhere to the Creator?
Hi Luis, great question!
The Kabbalistic method is not about suppressing or killing our ego, rather it’s about rising above it. In fact the more we advance, the more our egoistic desires grow. They turn into a type of mountain that we climb over. The bigger the desires, the higher we can climb, and the higher the spiritual degree that we can attain. On the other hand, if we were to eliminate our egoistic desires, then accordingly, we would only be able to attain a tiny degree of spiritual attainment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
By the way, if you prefer to study Kabbalah in a different language, we have courses available in many different languages. Check out this portal site for details: https://www.kab.info/
Albert @ KabU
So, the heart-wrenching desire to move beyond the created world and to touch the spiritual world is a valuable desire to have, according to Kabbalah?  It’s wild to think that this desire is something to value, versus something to be suspicious of.
So if I understand this Kabalah is the science of the 6th sence, or the spiritual preception of the realms beyond earth.
Hi Holly,
Yes, you can say that. I would add that Kabbalah is a practical method by which we can correct our egoistic nature. Why do we need to correct our egoistic nature? Because developing spiritual perception depends on the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal spirituality, we need to become similar to it. Spirituality operates on the qualities of love and bestowal, while our nature operates on the complete opposite quality: pure egoism. This is why I would define Kabbalah as a practical method by which we can correct our egoistic nature in order to develop our spiritual perception of reality.
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
Basics of Kabbalah help me clarifying my vision of world perspective. Intentions, Bestowal, Reception, Ego, Fullfilment…
It was lack element in my life. Something which i desired, something which is compatible whit my knolage, experience and intuition…
Kabbalah helped me to find adeqat words to describe these forces and explain me simply my spiritual feelings.
How can I improve my perception of reality?
Hi Martin, good question!
In the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality, we’ll learn that we are not actually perceiving reality the way it truly is, but rather we perceive it through the lens of our egoistic nature. So in order to change the outer reality, we need to correct our egoistic nature.
It’s like we have these dirty glasses through which we see the whole world as dirty. The moment we clean our own glasses, we’ll look at the same world but it’ll appear clean and perfect. So improving our perception of reality depends on us correcting our egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi,
We learned from the lesson that Torah is a kabbalistic text which uses the language of branches, and not a single word in it referring to this world. We also heard that Abraham was the first kabbalist whom “story” is written in the Torah.
So my question is that according to kabbalah was Abraham a real person?
Hi Gabor, good question!
The Torah is entirely written in a type of code called the language of roots and branches. This code uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand there is a law that every spiritual root must touch the corporeal branch at least once. Meaning although these are spiritual phenomena, they must have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world.
For example, Egypt represents the uncorrected egoistic desire while Israel represents the corrected desire, those are the roots. But in our world these things exist as branches as well. There is actually a physical place that is called Egypt and Israel. Likewise with Abraham, there was indeed a Kabbalist named Abraham. Still, despite all the above, the Torah is not a history book, not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world, history, morals, etc.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
If you’re interesting in learning how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
Hi William,
You can say that a person with an awakened point in the heart was chosen by the Creator. So if you’re here, it’s a sign that you have this awakened point in the heart. But this is just in potential, whether or not you actually succeed on the spiritual path depends on you.
It’s like someone handed you a very special seed that you can potentially grow into a big tree. If you plant that seed in fertile ground, then it’ll get all the right nutrients and grow. If you plant it in the desert, nothing will come out of it.
Likewise with your point in the heart. If you place it into a good spiritual environment, it will grow and flourish until you attain spirituality. If not, then no. It’s all in your hands.
We’ll learn about the importance of the spiritual environment in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
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