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From what I’ve been reading, most of the great scholars who have taught Kabbalah over the last few centuries have been Hasidic. And they believed in Satan and evil spirits. Have they all been teaching a false Kabbalah? Have they not been receiving their knowledge from the Spiritual World?
Hi Dale,
It’s a good question but I’m not an expert in other methods, even those that seemingly teach “Kabbalah”, so I cannot comment on what they do or teach there. In general, authentic Kabbalah has been around for about 5800 years, but it’s been concealed for the past 2,000 years, so people don’t really know what it’s all about (just picture a 2,000 year old game of telephone). So naturally, many different methods sprang up that are seemingly “Kabbalah”.
Some try to associate themselves with Kabbalah as a way to validate themselves, while others borrowed some principles from Kabbalah and created something else, which is how philosophy emerged and later on turned into science. Or it’s also possible that these methods sprang up as a result of the concealment of Kabbalah, this is how the modern religions emerged. But ultimately, authentic Kabbalah has nothing to do with any other method, religion, or belief.
Authentic Kabbalah is the method by which we can correct our egoistic nature in order to become similar to the Creator and reveal Him in practice, in our lives. And there is no faith or blind belief in Kabbalah, rather it’s a scientific method based on spiritual laws.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/kabbalah-without-a-trace-of-mysticism/
Albert @ KabU
Good day!
Does all matter originate from the roots of the spiritual realm?
If so, does all matter have consciousness?
Does all matter follow the same path of descent from the spiritual to the physical?
Does Kabbalah have wisdom of a relationship between anthropomorphism and egoism?
Thank you all for your love, kindness and truth. Echad!
Hi Joshua,
1. Yes.
2. Yes, although Kabbalists use this word differently. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/04/consciousness-beyond-time-and-space/
3. Yes, we can say the roots are different but the path is more or less the same.
4. In Kabbalah we look at everything through the lens of the desire to receive pleasure, but we don’t engage in anthropomorphism. 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
So is my main goal in Kabbalah to build my desire for the light? And this happens through study and contemplation of the light?
Hello, i tried to access the links you referred to, but get an error 404 not found, or laitman.com took too long to respond. Maybe the site is down? Just having trouble accessing the links. Thank you
Hi Peter,
The main goal of Kabbalah is to correct our egoistic nature in order to become similar to the Creator and reveal Him in practice. On our own, we are powerless to do anything against our own nature. So in order to make this correction, we need the force of the light. Our entire work boils down to extracting more and more of this light, which we do primarily through the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Albert @ KabU
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
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