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In one of the videos I’ve watched, it was said that Adam Harishon was the first soul, and that his soul fragmented into all of the current souls. If I understand correctly, there will eventually be a reuniting of the souls, resulting in that complete soul of Adam Harishon. IF this simplified description is correct– when that unification happens, could that be what is commonly referred to as the Messiah? Thanks.
Hi Patti,
The soul of Adam HaRishon is the common system to which we all belong. It’s like we’re all cells within a singular body. In order to help this body develop to a higher degree, the ego was introduced into this system which caused the connections between all the cells to become shattered. In order to correct that ego, we need a special force. We call that force the Messiah (Moshiach in Hebrew). The word Moshiach comes from the word to pull (Moshech in Hebrew). This is the force that has the ability to pull us out of our egoistic nature, back into that connection that we once had.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/what-do-they-expect-from-a-messiah/
Albert @ KabU
Hi there! Why 125 steps to reestablish the conexion to the upper force? How do we know in which step (if any) we are?
Best regards, Carlos
Hi Carlos,
The number 125 comes from the structure of the upper worlds. This structure is just a division of the spiritual desire that we need to correct into sefirot, partzufim, and worlds.
The most basic division of the desire is 1 Sefira. 5 Sefirot compose 1 partzuf. 5 Partzufim compose 1 world. There are 5 worlds in total. So 5 worlds each with 5 partzufim each with 5 sefirot equals 125 (5x5x5) steps on the spiritual ladder, or in other words corrections that need to be performed on the desire.
In the book Kabbalah for the Student, there’s an article called Foreword to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/full/64187) which lists these 125 steps in the language of sefirot/partzufim/olamot(worlds). For now, these are just technical terms for us, but in the future lessons we’ll dive deeper into these things and learn how to feel and experience them.
In simpler words, the 125 steps represents the difference between us and the Creator. The Creator is a desire to bestow and we are the desire to receive. Adapting our desire to receive to work in order to bestow takes 125 steps. So to the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder.
In other words, ascending or descending this ladder is not a physical action, but rather depends on how much we’re similar to the Creator’s quality of bestowal (ascending) or less similar to it and more egoistic (descending).
All of this operates according to the law of equivalence of form. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
As for us, we’re not yet on any spiritual degree, we’re still in the preparation period prior to the spiritual ladder. But once we start to do real spiritual work, we can measure our progress in our attitude towards other points in the hearts. That I’ll feel how my attitude towards them changes, from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
While I study Kabbalah, does my desire to learn
increases or decreases? How to stay and learn, and not give upHi Milos, great question!
By ourselves, each one of us would give up a long time ago. But if we’re connected to a strong spiritual environment, then we can tap into an endless source of energy to do spiritual work.
It’s just like with the example of going to the gym and lifting weights. Naturally this is something extremely painful and unpleasant. But when we’re under a good influence of the gym environment, have friends that value such things, read lots of articles about staying healthy etc, we begin to enjoy these things. And what was previously a painful activity turns into something pleasurable. So it all depends on the influence of the environment.
For now, your spiritual environment consists mostly of these different KabU forums, weekly lessons, live sessions, etc. But in the more advanced semesters, everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group with whom they can put these things into practice.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/
Albert @ KabU
It is said that since 1995 the Kabbalah teaching is open to public. What is the difference between the public condition before & after 1995?
Hi Lucky,
Although we point to 1995 as to when Kabbalah became revealed, technically the prohibition was lifted much earlier, from the time of the Ari. He was the one to make a very special correction within the entire spiritual system, after which its not only possible, but a must to openly disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to help the whole world reach its correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details on the Ari: https://laitman.com/2010/08/the-ari-rav-isaac-luria-the-godly-man/
So why do we say 1995? Let’s put a few things into perspective:
Kabbalah is the method of correction of our egoistic nature, thereby revealing the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. Why was it necessary to conceal such a wisdom? Because egoism was still not yet fully developed. For example: if you compare Kabbalah to a medicine that can cure a rare disease, obviously you can’t take the medicine before you’re diagnosed with the disease, but once the disease actually manifests, you can take the medicine and be cured of it.
It’s just like the 5 stages development of a disease within a person. First a person is healthy. Then he is sick, but he does not feel it. Then the disease spreads to the point that he starts to feel pain and symptoms of the disease. This then pushes him to go to a doctor to get diagnosed and find the cure, and etc.
2000 years ago, egoism was still on a very low level, there was no need to correct it. Starting from the days of the Ari, egoism already grew to a certain extent (and technically the prohibition on Kabbalah ended there), but humanity still didn’t feel sick, on the contrary the ego was the main driving force of all of our development. Then from around 1995 egoism peaked and began to show itself as bad, like a cancer that begins to kill the host body. This is the peak at which there was a true need for the cure. Which in essence is what the Kabbalists have been waiting for all these years, for the desire, for egoism to fully ripen.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert
I am also interested in doing the Course on Zohar but I don’t seem to be able to access it. Is it only possible to do one course at a time? And…are we restricted to completing one week at a time on this course or may we work faster through it?
Thank you and regards, Sue
Hi Sue,
In the structured learning courses (Kabbalah Revealed 1, 2, Kabbalah in Action, and Kabbalah Experience) each week a new set of lessons are opened up. So you can learn them at your pace, but only up to the current week’s lessons.
Whereas the other courses, like the Zohar course, are open structured, so you can work faster through them, if you want.
And yes, you can do multiple courses. Here’s the link for the Zohar course.
Albert @ KabU
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