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Hi Peter, good question!
We learn that there is no time in spirituality. Reaching it does not depend on hours of study or acquisition of knowledge, but rather it works according to laws. One of these laws is that “there is no light without a kli (vessel)”. Meaning that if we don’t have the vessel (desire) we have nothing with which to get the light (the fulfillment for that desire).
In other words, everything depends on us, if we build the right desire for spirituality, we will right away reveal it. If not, then even if a few more thousands of years pass by, we will still not reveal it. This is called “there is no coercion in spirituality”. Meaning if we don’t want it, we will not receive it.
And although we spend a lot of time studying, the goal is not to acquire knowledge, but through the study to draw the light, a special force that helps us to build the right desire. Meaning that we don’t need to be super strong, wise, or talented in order to succeed in Kabbalah, all we need is to extract more and more of this light and it does all the rest.
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
Great day!
A grammatical question; as the study kabbalah is defined as a science (and study of) and one would not normally capitalize astronomy, cosmology or physics, many authoritative references to kabbalah capitalize the word. Given the absence of letter cases in Hebrew, I understand the lack of relevance. What would be the appropriate representation in English?
Thank you!
Thank you Tony. This is very, very powerful. I come from a Christian background. The bible also talks about living in this world but not of this world…many of us want the world to change for things to be ok, we want G-d to intervene in our lives at every occasion, is it because we really don’t understand who we should relate to him?
Thank you.
Hi Sarah,
I cannot comment on what they teach in religion. It’s best to keep Kabbalah and religion separated. It does not mean that you should stop being religious, but we should not mix these two things together.
As for properly relating to the Creator, you are correct that we don’t know how to properly relate to Him. After all, we learn that “there is none else besides Him”. Meaning that all of my thoughts, my desires, all of the life events that I see, EVERY SINGLE MOMENT comes to us directly from the Creator.
After we stabilize ourselves correctly and see everything as coming from Him, then we can continue this thought process ask “but why is He showing me this picture of the world, why is there so much bad in it, what can I actually do to change what I see”, etc?
We’ll learn about these things more practically in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman:
Albert @ KabU
Tony says that there is no need for amulets or red strings because there is nothing to be protected from. Is this because there is no Satan or evil spirits, or because they do exist but they serve the Creator and will not really harm us?
Hi Dale, good question!
It means that there are no evil spirits somewhere out there that we need to protect ourselves from. There is nothing evil in the world except for our own egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/07/a-devil-with-horns-or-our-own-egoism/
Albert @ KabU
Shalom aleichem! Good day!
Does kabbalah’s language of “roots and branches” relate to PARDES (Pshat, Remez, Drosh & Sod) or does kabbalah have its own defined systems/ levels of understanding?
Hi Joshua, good question!
Yes, it does relate to it. Except in Kabbalah we learn that spiritual attainment actually starts from the Sod (secret) and ends with the Pshat (simple). Meaning that at first, we don’t understand how spirituality works at all. We’re learning it as something vague. This is the level of sod. Later on, we come to feel spirituality to such an extent that it will become pshat to us, as something that is fully attained and tangible.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/when-the-hidden-becomes-revealed/
Albert @ KabU
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