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<p style=”text-align: center;”>Although there is a barrier between our world and Assiyah, isn’t it the case that our actions do effect the completion or lack thereof, in the overall system?</p>
Hi Trino,
Not just any action. As we learn from the system of roots and branches, our world exists on the level of branches. All the changes essentially stem from the root. In order to make any change here, we need to do so on the root level.
It’s like watching TV. Let’s say I’m watching a TV show and want to change something in the show. I can start yelling at the show or even turn it off, or go to sleep or make a thousand other actions, but ultimately it will not change the show itself. In order to make any change, I would need to go to the source. In this case maybe to contact the director or something.
This is how our world works. That we’re on the level of branches, like that end result of a TV show that was already made. And in order to make any change here, we need to go to the roots.
We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2009/09/the-law-of-roots-and-branches-the-most-imporant-law-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
Hi. I have a more practical question.
What is the correct manner to solve personal problems using the receiving to bestow rule?
For example, if I have a money problem in the moment. According to Tony Kosinec class, this problem exists in the root world and manifests here in the branch world.
As intention is our 6th sense, I have to feel (as a prayer) that I’m open to receive money to help other people, i.e., receive to bestow?
Thanks. Essentially though I am an audience member of a TV show. Whether I watch it or don’t doesn’t impact the producers one way or another. On the other hand the branches are here in this world and came from the higher roots? Wouldn’t my own corrections or lack thereof make the whole thing closer or more distant from correction?
Hi Trino,
1. Yes.
2. Yes, you can say that. All of humanity is interconnected and one person’s correction brings everyone closer to their correction and to the purpose of creation. It’s like we’re all parts of an eight billion piece jigsaw puzzle. If I find where my piece fits into the puzzle, it makes it easier for others to find where their piece fits.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Reinaldo, good question!
Kabbalah only deals with our desire for spirituality. As for our corporeal desires, Kabbalah does not deal with these things. Each person should arrange those desires in the normal way, that is customary in our world. Meaning that if I’m sick, I need to go to the doctor, if I lose my job, I need to go look for another one, etc.
Albert @ KabU
Thank you for these eye-opening lessons once again. My question is with regards to the concept of Adam Kadmon. Is it the same as The Christ ? If not , in what way does it differ?
Hi Adebiyi,
I’m not an expert in other methods, so I cannot compare/contrast or comment on what they teach there.
As for the concept of Adam Kadmon, this is the first world to emerge in the system of spiritual worlds. It’s called Kadmon (primordial) because it operates in a different way than the rest of the system.
Albert @ KabU
Thank you very much for the wise lessons.
What I did not understand was that Kabbalah studies do not require change in this world. That I can actually continue with your actions, in my own way, in my conduct which can also hurt me and hinder me from changing and reaching other places. How does it work out because I’m learning that if I want to achieve a better life then I have to improve myself. Like my way of thinking, knowing my feelings and working with them at a level where I manage to express them and thus reach a situation where they don’t affect me very much but to a certain extent. Taking care of my body because it is actually the instrument of my soul. And if it’s not good and I eat poisoned food, and drink contaminated water, it affects the quality of the things that come out of me, affects my way, affects also on a mental and emotional level, I get sick and thus my functioning is at a low level. The same goes for my environment, the job I work in if I don’t like the job and it’s just to survive and get money. I bind my spirit and it is terribly depressed in the face of this life, and then I try to make up for this deficit with all kinds of distractions, Addictions, unwanted behaviors. And as a result of harmful choices, actions, feelings and thoughts that if I learn to change them then I significantly change my life in a dramatic way in a direction where I shape my reality that supports me, others and creation.Hi Salam,
We say that we don’t need to change the world because, as we’ll learn in the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality, the external world is a reflection of my internal world. Meaning that if I see something bad in the world, it’s a sign that there is something bad within me. So in order to fix what I see outside of me, I need to fix what is inside of me.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
As for arranging our corporeal lives, Kabbalah does not deal with these things. Kabbalah only deals with our desire for spirituality. The rest of our desires don’t have any relation to spirituality, so each person can arrange these desires however is most comfortable for them (of course within the context of the law and without harming others).
How do we do this in practice? In practice we only work on making the desire for spirituality the most important thing. Then naturally the rest of our desires will fall into place. For example, it’s like with an artist that is so involved in his art, that he fulfills all the rest of his desires out of necessity so he can quickly return to his passion. Same with us, when spirituality is the most important desire, then we will be able to properly relate to all the rest of our corporeal desires in a balanced way.
Albert @ KabU
Hello,
Thank you all for such enriching materials for week 1! I am happy to be included.
I am having a hard time understanding what the Soul is, what the Spirit is, and what the differences between the two are.
Thank you!
Shana
Hi Shana, great question!
Our nature is the desire to receive pleasure. The Creator’s nature is opposite, that of pure love and bestowal. Our work is to correct our opposite egoistic nature and make it similar to the Creator’s nature.
The soul is also a type of desire. It’s the same desire to receive pleasure after it’s been corrected to operate in the direction of bestowal. So the soul = desire to receive corrected to work in the direction of bestowal.
The desire to receive can be divided into 5 parts, 5 levels of coarseness of the desire. Corresponding to the 5 levels of the desire, there are 5 levels of the soul: Nefesh, Ruach (spirit), Neshama, Haya, Yechida.
To the extent that we correct our nature for it to operate in the direction of bestowal, to that extent we build and discover these different levels of the soul.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert,
Is there any order in the 5 levels of soul.
if so what is the importance of them?
And also from this corporeal world, I have the sense of my mind only.
With the mind only I desire, both for worldly things and eternal things.
Does that mean, my mind is the soul or am I missing anything here?
– Saji
Hi Saji,
The order is as I listed it above: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida. The order goes from the smallest level (Nefesh) to the highest level (Yechida). We’ll learn about these things in detail when we learn about the technical structure of the upper worlds.
As for our desires, they are not found within our body or our mind. It’s something outside of us.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert,
Thank you.
Correct me if I am wrong.
From the blog, I understand that, There is only one soul.
When we are born, we are given with a spark of that soul.
There is no individual soul.
If we do not have a glimpse of this spark, then we can be called as animals.when we say we are born (the process of birth),
we can connect it to the first week lesson,
That one soul that reduced down to the body which is in the current corporeal world through 125 steps.
And those steps flows through 5 levels of reality.Then what is mind. Is it a non – tangible sense organ.
We hear people say “listen to your heart and not to the mind”.Deuteronomy 6:4-5.
Hear, O Israel: [a]The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.What is the different between these three, ie heart, soul and strength.
– Saji
Hi Saji,
First a desire awakens in us and then the mind develops in order to help us to realize those desires.
For more details, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2017/05/thoughts-and-mind/
As well as this Shamati Article: A Thought Is a Result of the Desire:
https://kabbalahmedia.info/sources/4GW5T0i5
Regarding that quote, it’s a complete form of love. Similar to how a mother loves her children and is ready to sacrifice herself completely for them: on the level of her desires (heart), or her possessions (might/strength), or her very existence (soul). We’ll learn about this in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
P.S. It’s hard to find these questions when they are buried in the second page of the forum. So please post new questions not as replies but as new posts at the beginning of the forum page.
In one of the videos the Rabbi tells us about what “is not Kabbalah”, among the things mentioned is Astrology.
1) The way the Universe is organized, as it has been said, that there are universal laws that do not change, does the order of the Cosmos and our Solar System also apply?
2) Is the hierarchy of Planets and their representations considered within Kabbalah?
3) Is there Kabbalistic Astrology? Is the observation of the movement of the planets not part of any study of a Kabbalistic nature? Does the Tree of Life have a relationship with the Planets?
Hi Andrea, great questions!
On the one hand, Kabbalah can explain everything about life, including the system of planets, stars, solar systems, etc. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2015/01/all-of-the-planets-sustain-life-on-earth/
On the other hand, Kabbalists are not interested in Astrology or anything else in this world. This is because ultimately our entire world/universe is below the ladder of spiritual degrees. Kabbalists call it “the imaginary world”. Since once we correct ourselves, relative to that corrected state this life would appear as nothing more than a dream. So Kabbalists are not here to teach us more about this dream, they are here to teach us how to correct ourselves so we will wake up from this dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: http://laitman.com/2010/11/this-life-is-a-dream/
Albert @ KabU
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