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ojojojo if my results from the first knowledge checkpoint are anything to go by, 0 out of 4, I am even more disconnected than I thought!! I thought that the work was hidden as much by accident, language, time and the ability for students to understand, than by desire to hide the information. my questions are ; is there a set order to study the material? why have I understood so little? could it be I am not meant or able to understand?
In general, I am very confused and struggling to make sense of so many things in my life, let alone the meaning of life. The change I sense in me is not for the better, it is based on being more selfish!! is this just feeding ego? As a younger man I felt a strong connection with nature and what I shall call a force, something bigger and omni present, but I most definately struggle with the image of an old man representing god and judging for heaven or hell. Feeling instead that what ever this omnipresent force is, it is here now controlling us but not judging us. If we work within the natural paramètres or laws we could be in heaven conversely if we work against said laws it could become hell. So my next question is; why does what we do as individuals seem to have such little effect? from experience I know that giving myself can leave me unfulfilled, but I also see that being selfish is not working, it leaves me feeling worse than unfulfilled because in my heart I know I was not put here to be selfish. Was I not giving myself correctly? does this only work if we give collectively? is our path nothing to do with this? am i going mad? best wihes keith
Hi Keith, great questions!
1. Just follow along with the course, it provides a good foundation and order to study the materials. If you want you can also read through the course book “Kabbalah Revealed” from beginning to end, this will also give you a good foundation.
2. As for the knowledge checkpoint, this is just a tool we use to help students stay engaged. But keep in mind that ultimately it’s not through our knowledge that we attain spirituality. After all, we can take a super computer and load it up with all of Kabbalistic books as well as all of the knowledge that this entire world has to offer. But this computer will not attain spirituality. Spiritual attainment depends on one thing and one thing only, the desire. If we build the right desire for it, within that correct desire, we will reveal spiritual sensations. That’s it.
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. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
3. As for the changes we go through on the spiritual path, we need to understand that Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature. In order to correct our egoistic nature, we first need to discover this ego. So by engaging in spiritual work, we don’t just become saints. Rather, each time we uncover more and more of our egoistic nature and then we have what to correct. This follows the sayings that “there is no righteous man on earth who does good and does not sin” and “a person does not keep a commandment if he has not failed in it first”.
4. What we do has little effect because our world is the world of branches. To change something here, we need to do it on the level of roots. 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. Ultimately none of this will change the show itself. In order to make any changes, I would need to go to the source. In this case maybe to contact the director or producer.
Likewise with our world, We’re on the level of branches, like that end result of a TV show that was already made. In order to make any changes here, we need to go to the roots. 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/
5. As for being able to give, we need to keep in mind that true altruism does not exist on the level of our world. Bestowal is the Creator’s nature. While our nature is that of pure reception. So it’s impossible for us to truly bestow. At best we can perform more and more covert actions of reception. For example, I go to the store and I give them my money, but obviously I want something in return. It’s the same with all of our actions of bestowal in corporeality. Either I do it to receive pleasure directly or indirectly from fame, honor, money, or even the pride of knowing that no one knows about this action, or even avoiding pain or guilt is also part of this same calculation.
So real bestowal, above any calculations for receiving for oneself, does not exist in our world. Real bestowal is purely the Creator’s quality. If we want to acquire such a quality, we first need to correct our nature. This is done by the force of the light we evoke through the Kabbalistic studies. This light begins to work on us, even if we don’t have the true desire to bestow. Even if we’re just like little kids, pretending to be spiritual grown ups. It takes this aspiration of ours and corrects it little by little, building in us a true desire for spirituality, for the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal.
Albert @ KabU
<p style=”text-align: center;”>I would like to take a moment to thank you. I have been a member of Kabu and kabbalah.info since winter 2015, when I took my first course with you, and in that time, I have managed to change in leaps and bounds, saving my marriage, being a lot close to not only my family but my wife’s family. Kabbalah has enabled me to make inner changes that would not have been possible without the kabbalistic teaches. I have returned to restudy everything that I studied previously in the hope to reconnect with all the friends here and to deepen my connection to the Creator. I will be honest, in that, I do study with Chabad and with an Orthodox Rabbi and others, and so my time has been limited with regards to how much I had to restudy Kabbalah, however for now, I hope to focus what time I have available to restudying Kabbalah, when not with family and supporting them.</p>
Eu nasci em uma familia muito pobre, mina mãe morreu quando eu tinha apenas 1 ano de nascido, e meu pai nos abandou nas casas dos vizinhos e sumiu e ninguém ouviu mais falar dele, e a vida foi comigo bastante dificil, nos meus primeiros anos da minha adolecência dormi na rua por 2 anos, minha primeira namorada fez um feitiço para eu morrer, já que eu não queria ficar mais com ela, e por 45 anos sofri todo tipo de violência pisicológica por conta da minha condição de vida nesse mundo, minha pergunta é: por eu? Mais graças a uma foça sobrenatural eu não morri, estou 65 anos de idade, que me orgulho muito de ter chegado até aqui.
Hi Antonio,
I cannot comment on your personal state, we can speak about these things only in general. In general, we learn in Kabbalah this concept of “none else besides Him”. This means that there is a singular benevolent force behind EVERYTHING in life. All of my thoughts, desires, all of the life events we go through, EVERYTHING comes from this one force.
But if everything is coming from a singular BENEVOLENT force, why don’t we sense this goodness? Why is life so full of suffering? It’s because we’re opposite to Him. Our opposite egoistic nature inverts this goodness into something bad. It’s like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative, equals negative. So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to suffer more and more in life. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists and that our previous egoistic state was nothing more than a dream.
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/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
Hi.
I am so glad to be “in”. I am looking forward to what may come, however I have one question that I have not heard any explanations about: How does Kabbalah explain the physical pain that I (like many others) live with in our daily lives? I know it has to do with malfunctions in my physical body, but how can the pain be understood in the wisdom of Kabbalah?
Annililia
Hi Annililia,
I cannot comment on your personal life, we can only talk about these things in general. In general, pain is an indicator that something is wrong, something is off balance. It’s a defense mechanism for the body. There are even some extreme examples of people who lost their pain receptors for some reason. And we see from these examples how dangerous this state is, that a person can be doing something harmful to himself and he wouldn’t even feel it.
Or another example, let’s say a person is very ill. If this illness causes him some pain, he can go to the doctor and get it treated. But if on the other hand there are no symptoms and no pains, then he would continue this way, and even die from the illness without ever knowing about it. So we see pain serves a very important function for us. We cannot just eliminate it.
Furthermore, within the Wisdom of Kabbalah, we learn that pain and suffering is felt because of our egoistic nature. Our nature throws us out of balance with the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to experience more pain and suffering in life. This pushes us to correct our egoistic nature. If we were to get rid of that force prematurely, then we would have no drive to continue our development. But after we correct our egoistic nature, we will no longer need pain and suffering in order to push us to develop because we ourselves will generate the force for our development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
Albert @ KabU
I heard about Kabbalah in the seventies but it was associated with Judaism. I heard the same thing about the Torah. Noone I met knew anything but my curiosity was not squelched. I have gone through different religions Anglican, baptist, Catholic with absolutely no answers other than just believe. I did meditation and ended on with some Buddhist organizations that seemed logical at some level. I was attracted by their “mantra” for world peace. However, after decades of arduous devotion to its precepts, teachings, practices, it occurred to me world peace was pretty out of reach and elusive. The definition of enlightenment was vague and I began to realize that their practice and tradition is really focused on acquiring more membership instead of enlightenment. But it was the best I had found and I was stuck with no fitting answers to my fundamental questions about life, why evil exists in spite of God etc.
Till …decades later I stumbled on Tony Kosinec’ YouTude Kabbalah Revealed. thank you very much indeed. Although I am such a newbie many of my questions have credible answers. But I feel robbed of many years searching to find meaning – only to be told that the Kabbalist hid it: ouch!
Hi Omoregie Peter,
It’s not so much that Kabbalists hid it, but more so that humanity was not yet ready for it. It’s just like what we do with our kids, we don’t talk to a 2 year old about death, sexuality, and etc. We wait for them to mature until they are able to properly hear about such things. Likewise with us. The Kabbalists wanted nothing more than to share this wisdom with the world, but the world was not yet ripe for it. So they waited until humanity developed more.
Furthermore, even if this wisdom is revealed, until a person is in a special phase of his development where his point in the heart awakens, he’s incapable of hearing these things. We can see this on ourselves. If Kabbalah was already revealed in 1995, why did it take me so many years to find it? Why am I only starting to learn about this in 2021? It’s because of the desire. If a person does not have this desire for spirituality called the point in the heart, then you can literally place this wisdom right in front of him and he won’t see anything special about it or feel any need for pursuing it. If on the other hand this desire is awakened within a person, then even if he has never heard of Kabbalah, he will somehow just gravitate towards it, like a magnet that is pulling him to the right place. He will find it even in the most isolated places on earth, even in prison. So everything depends on the ripeness of the desire.
Albert @ KabU
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