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Before learning of KabU, I just recently starting reading an English commentary on The Zohar, by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD. I’ve read books from the Nag Hammadi library, e.g.: The Book of Thomas and The Apocryphon of John. In the process of reading the commentary on The Zohar, parables from those texts and also from what I’ve read in the Bible started to make sense – like a chain reaction of understanding. I then got to the point in the commentary that says one can only learned directly from a Kabbalist-teacher, so I started to look for a source. Unbelievably, KabU was already in recommended videos on YouTube – I didn’t even have to look. It’s hard to sleep now because this experience is so otherworldly, and it somehow is occupying my mind – basically continuously. But, my questions are: (1) Are the books in the Nag Hammadi library (from the Essenes), at least in part, influenced by the Wisdom of Kabbalah? Or, to put it another way, (2) Were the Essenes Kabbalists? Thank you!
Hi Glen,
I’m not an expert in other methods, so I cannot say for sure, but it is possible.
In general, we should keep in mind that although there are countless Kabbalistic books that have been written in the past, in our days, we mainly study from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. This is because egoism grows from generation to generation, so Kabbalah, the method for its correction, needs to get adapted in each generation for that level of egoism. For example it’s 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.
This is why Kabbalah gets adapted in each generation to the level of egoism that is currently found in that generation. So although there were many different Kabbalists and Kabbalistic books throughout the generations, nowadays we mainly learn 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 posts from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
Albert @ KabU
In the video, Tony explains that something changed around 2000 years ago where it became difficult for people to understand Kabbalah like they did the previous 2000 years. Why then, did the science have to be hidden if people weren’t understanding it? I’m trying to understand why the Kabbalists made it even more difficult to learn if they were already less able to grasp it.
Hi Peter, good question!
So what changed 2000 years ago? The general level of egoism grew. But this is not a bad thing, but rather a sign of progress. It’s like with exercise, when you master a 5 pound weight, in order to keep progressing, you need to add resistance by going up to a 10 pound weight, etc. Likewise the process of correction works according to the rule of “from light to heavy”. Meaning first the lighter, less egoistic souls reach their correction. They become as the pioneers that start this whole process. And only later on we focus on the heavier, coarser, more egoistic desires.
The people in the days of Abraham were less egoistic and therefore started this whole process. After they corrected the egoism on their level, it opened the door for the rest of the world, the carriers of the heavier, more egoistic desires, to reach their correction.
But the rest of the world was not yet ready for this correction. For this reason Kabbalah had to be temporarily concealed and the people who previously succeeded in this method needed to be scattered throughout the whole world. Then in the process of them integrating with the rest of the world, they sped up the development of the rest of the world to this final state of correction.
So we can see from this whole process that it’s not that something bad happened, on the contrary, those pioneers that started this process finished the correction on their level and then received their next challenge.
Albert @ KabU
Hello,
My question is: on the quiz I learned that only Kabbalists can understand the ‘coded’ language. I thought in my reading I read that it has been translated so that everyone can now connect to the language?
Hi Stephanie, good question!
Interpreting this language is not enough to penetrate this code. This is because the language of root and branches is not something you learn but rather something that comes with spiritual attainment. Without spiritual attainment, we cannot truly understand these things. It’s like a blind person that is trying to study colors. He can learn the wavelengths behind each one, the different feelings they all evoke, but ultimately he will never truly understand colors. But if this blind person was to undergo an operation and gain his sense of sight, how easy and simple it would be to teach him colors. We would simply point to it and say “this is red”.
It’s the same with the language of roots and branches. It’s currently impossible for us to truly grasp these things. But once we gain our “spiritual sight” we would pick these things up very easily and naturally.
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
My heart tells me the Creator is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. Light, Love and Unconditional Bestow to only and always Give to his creatures. Therefore, removing my Ego from the equation, how can I fear him? The only feeling I have toward him is pure love and thankfulness.
Therefore, I am having an extremely hard time dealing with the section “The counsel of the Lord is with them that fear him” Page 17 of the book “Kabbalah for the Student.” Please help me, and thank you in advance.
Hi Matthew,
Not quite. The language of roots and branches is a spiritual language. It’s a type of code that uses the words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. The words of our world are called branches because each one of them stems from a certain spiritual root. This is why it’s called the language of roots and branches.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/09/from-root-to-branch/
Albert @ KabU
Just thinking, if oneness with the Creator is the ultimate goal, why did s/he separate us from himself in the first place? Why send us down the 125 steps only to go back up whence we came??
Hi Geneva,
We were indeed created in the state of perfection (Baal HaSulam describes this in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar), but this was an unconscious state, like a baby in its mother’s womb. So we necessarily had to come to the complete opposite state, to lose that state of perfection, in order to once again reach it, but this time consciously.
And the fact that we had to lose this state is not something bad, but it’s a necessary part of our development. It’s just like with kids. We don’t just give them a completed jigsaw puzzle. On the contrary we take it and break it down into many pieces. Then in the process of them putting it together, they grow and develop. Same with us, this process of losing that state is a necessary part of our further growth and development.
This process also adds to us a certain level of freedom, without which, we would be no different than machines, or robots, that were programmed to act a certain way and they just carry out this inner script. Instead, we were programmed one way, and we rise above this inner programming, become independent of it, and then develop our own desire to advance towards this goal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
Albert @ KabU
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