Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Rex Jebamoney]

Hello Albert

I come from a Christian background and I delayed joining the study by almost two years, so that I can purge my mind of my Christian upbringing. I have a open mind to learn how I can cross the barrier and get a glimmer of the spiritual life we are expected to live,

As Tony pointed out in his remarks, I look forward to transforming myself to be like the creator. Buy since we are physical beings, we cannot be permanently in a spiritual state, but only feel and experience it momentarily.

[Janae Lethcho BenShabat]

Greetings

My Question – Torah = 248 positive commandments and 365 negative commandments = 613.  In addition there are 7 additional Rabbinical commandments (sages of the Talmud) that we learn of later (Megilat Ester, Saying Hallel: Psalms 113-118 on special occasions, blessings such as when eating food, washing hands before eating bread, eruv on Shabbat, Chanukah, Shabbat candles). Keter = 620.  How is this related to Kabbalah?

 

I read the comments and answers by senior Kabbalists and the below (italicized)was an answer given to another student.  I guess what I am asking is to better understand the connection between Torah, Mishna, Gmara, Talmud and Kabbalah or are they all part of Kabbalah just from different perspectives?

 

“Essentially, we’re always talking about a desire. Our current reality is based on our current nature, the desire to receive. Spirituality on the other hand operates according to a different desire, that of pure bestowal. The different numbers are just a different way to divide up that spiritual desire. This desire can be divided into 613 parts, or 620 parts, or 600,000 pieces, or 125 degrees, or even 10 sefirot.

 

It’s just like how we can study a person based on his behavior, or based on his anatomy, or based on his external appearance, or his internal chemistry. Ultimately, we’re studying the same person, but from different angles. Same with these different divisions, they are all talking about the same spiritual desire but from different angles or a different scale.

 

So if we are describing the desire as 620 parts, then we’re talking about the number of corrections that need to be placed over the desire. This number is further divided into 248 desires of bestowing in order to bestow, 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow, and 7 additional desires that are corrected only in the final correction. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.”

 

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Janae,

Those are indeed Kabbalistic books, but we usually don’t study them directly in our days. Let’s put this into perspective:

The goal of Kabbalah is to help us correct our egoistic nature. As a result of that correction, we become similar to the Creator and reveal Him in practice, in our lives.

Making this correction requires the force of the light. This is the force that we extract primarily through the Kabbalistic texts and studies. But since egoism grows from generation to generation, accordingly, the Kabbalistic books we study also change from generation to generation.

It’s just like in medicine, if a person has a headache he can just drink a tylenol and that’s enough to fix him. But if it’s not just a little headache but something cancerous, then that tylenol won’t do anything for him but he needs a completely different regime to heal himself.

So although there were many Kabbalistic books throughout the generations, including the Torah, Mishna, Gmara, Talmud, etc, in our days we mainly study from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, since their writings contains the light that is most suitable to correct the egoism that is found in our generation.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/

As for the commandments, there are 613 desires that we need to correct. Corresponding to each desire, there is a commandment. These are the INTERNAL processes by which we correct that specific desire. In other words, Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 commandments as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/

Albert @ KabU

[Janae Lethcho BenShabat]

Thank you Albert

I was born and raised Jewish and learned from traditional books.  I still attend services from time to time at Chabad and learned Tanya for a few years.  I am not religious.  I have looked for answers in many places such as Buddhism, Hinduism, New Age teachers such as Eckhart Tolle, etc. etc. but always come back to the same place of feeling like there is no point to life and what is my purpose.  I do not mean this in the depressed way as I love life but sometimes it does feel pointless.  I recently considered learning Chumash again from the lens of trying to discover the hidden meanings behind what seems to be a historical account with a pretty harsh G-d.   I approached Kabbalah on multiple occasions but never committed.  This time I am committed but am wondering if it would increase my understanding if I learned both Chumash and Kabbalah at the same time?  I am tiered of not knowing and being lost.  I want direction and purpose.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Janae,

It sounds like you have a textbook case of the “point in the heart” 🙂

I would recommend to continue the Kabbalistic studies and see if it resonates. As for the Torah, it’s not a crime to study the Torah, if you have an inclination to do so, by all means, go ahead.

Regardless of what you’re studying, you need to keep in mind the goal of the study. The Kabbalists write about this “it’s not the wise that learns”. Meaning that we’re not learning this material simply to acquire knowledge, to store it in some box in our brains. After all, if knowledge was the path to spirituality, then a supercomputer loaded with all of the Kabbalistic texts would be the most spiritual being in the world. But obviously this is not the case.

So why do we study if not to gain knowledge? Because through the study, we draw the force of the light. This force has the ability to correct our egoistic nature. As a result of that correction, we reach spiritual attainment in practice.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/

Albert @ KabU

[Mathieu DANHO]

My Greeting to you Mr Albert our instructor.

I have a question.

When we follow the teaching we receive through the origin of Kabbalah, that science being accessible to us comes from the main book that is the Zohar. As explained to us that holy precious book comes from the famous Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.

We know all the story that brought the writting of the zohar. What is wondering me is the source of the Zohar : TORAH and the Maker YHWH.

YHWH is all about in TORAH and the revealer of all secrets to MOSHE. My question is how can we attain the door and open it if we study Kabbalah out of the source? Kabbalah is all about the revealer, the maker YHWH. How can we ignore that ? If Rabbi Shimon Bar ignored the TORAH he would have never received the secrets. As it is said: He study 13 years the Torah hidden in a cave.

For me it is an example of receiving a tool with instructions to make it work, but you decide to make it by your own mean.

YHWH has given the key to open the door. How can we let down the key and open that door?

« 4. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. »
Deuteronomy 6:4-5

 

I follow the study of Kabu but I hold the key through meditation praying our Lord to explain me that I don’t understand.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mathieu Danho,

Opening the door to spirituality work according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reach spirituality, we need to become similar to it, to the pure qualities of love and bestowal that are found there.

But our nature is egoistic and completely opposite to spirituality. In order to become similar to spirituality and reveal it, we first need to correct our opposite egoistic nature.

We correct our nature through the study of Torah. Torah comes from the Hebrew word Ohr (Hebrew for “light”). So when Kabbalists use the word Torah, they are not referring to the physical book, but rather to the light. This is a special force that we can extract, especially through the Kabbalistic studies, in order to correct our egoistic nature.

So we are indeed studying Torah when we’re studying the books of Kabbalah because our main focus is not in learning something intellectually, but it’s in extracting more and more of the light from the study in order to correct our egoistic nature and reveal spirituality in practice.

Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:

https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/

https://laitman.com/2010/12/know-what-you-want-precisely/

Albert @ KabU

[Misty]

Does all parts of the broken kli feel each other?

[Mathieu DANHO]

Dear Albert,
 

Thank you so much. It has been a pleasure. Could you guide me in the process for I used to get visions. I need some explanations.

 

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mathieu Danho,

I cannot comment on your personal situation. I can only provide guidance on how to reach equivalence of form through the Kabbalistic study, through spiritual work in a Kabbalistic group.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Misty,

It’s to the contrary, in the broken kli, the parts don’t feel any connection to each other.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/

Albert @ KabU

[Melanie]

Where do I find a link for the 1/11/24 two pm est.?

I don’t want to miss this.

thank you

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Melanie,

All the links for the live KabU events are here: https://kabuconnect.com/live/

Albert @ KabU

[Jonne]

What practical steps I can take to start my journey back into the spiritual world?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jonne,

The journey back into the spiritual world works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal spirituality, we need to become similar to it, similar to the qualities of pure love and bestowal that are found there.

But our nature is the complete opposite, pure egoism. Can I just press a button and change my own nature? No. Just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own nature. We require outside help to make this change. This help comes to us from the light. The light is a special force that has the ability to change our nature. Our work essentially boils down to extracting more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.

So the most practical action that you can do towards revealing the spiritual world is to set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning to the Kabbalistic sources, videos, lessons, books, etc. Such a habit will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.

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

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