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Can you provide some advice on how to ponder the attributes of the ‘Creator’? I am struggling presently with understanding how to do this. It seems this is an important first step to moving towards presenting/embodying the attributes of the Creator within ourselves.
Hi Clancy, great question!
We can say in general that the Creator’s qualities are those of love and bestowal. But since the Creator is concealed, we cannot measure ourselves accurately relative to Him or to these abstract qualities. Instead we need to measure ourselves relative to what is not concealed, meaning other people. So I can measure if I acquired the Creator’s qualities by checking my attitude towards others, going from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul.
Keep in mind that we do this work primarily within this safe environment, this spiritual lab that we call the Kabbalistic group. And only after we finish correcting ourselves within the Kabbalistic group, can we start focusing on the rest of the world. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
1. can an atheist and agnostic woman become a kabbalist or gain the knowledge?
2. can the knowledge remove our present situation of helplessness and needy ?
3. Can i change my reality like change my gander or the country i live in or like can i transform into water something like that or can i perceive two reality at the same time?
4. how can i decode The Books?
Hi Soudia, great questions!
1. Attaining spirituality does not depend on a person’s religion, gender, or anything like that. It depends on one thing and one thing only, the desire. If a person has such a desire (or at least an active point in the heart, which is the beginning of this desire) then this entire wisdom is open to that person and they can use it to actualize their desire for spirituality.
2. Generally yes, as a person studies Kabbalah, his attitude to life completely changes. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/06/dispelling-the-myths-about-kabbalah-part-9/
3. We learn in Kabbalah that the entire external world is nothing more than a reflection of our own uncorrected egoistic state. And to the extent that we correct this ego, to that extent the external reality will change as well.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as being dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses (correct myself) then I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
But it doesn’t mean that we’ll change our corporeal gender, country, or anything like that. Rather the external world will appear more corrected, loving, connected, etc. We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
4. To the extent that you aspire to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal that the books are talking about, to that extent you’ll be able to decode them. This follows the law of equivalence of form. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
At what point in the year of 1995 was the Kabbalah opened up ? Was it before or after Rabin’s assassination?
Hi Sharon,
The revelation of Kabbalah in 1995 was not connected to this event. Rather it had to do with a new set of spiritual forces that were working upon the world at that time.
Rav Laitman wrote about it in one of his blog posts:
“Question: You said that 1995 was the starting point of the current events. What happened in 1995 that you are referring to?
My Answer: I felt this because suddenly, the students that started coming to study with me were different: They were serious, diligent, and persistent in their pursuit of the goal. Today they still make up the core of the worldwide Bnei Baruch group. Of course, there were also inner changes that are concealed from the average onlooker – a clearer revelation of new spiritual forces in the world.”
Albert @ KabU
Is the “language of branches” taught as literal language or is the language symbolic? In other words, I have read Genesis many, many times in my life and was taught to believe that Adam and Eve were actual people. As I have learned, stories in Genesis are actually designed to help us understand certain aspects of creation, the beginning of “man”, lessons in things like jealousy, hate, love, etc., but are not historical fact.
I am just confused about the idea that the words of the Hebrew Bible are not of this physical world…will this become more clear as we continue ? Are there certain readings that will help me now?
Hi Corey, great questions!
The Torah is entirely written in a type of code called the language of roots and branches. This code uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand there is a law that every spiritual root must touch the corporeal branch at least once. Meaning although these are spiritual phenomena, they must have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world.
For example, Egypt represents the uncorrected egoistic desire while Israel represents the corrected desire, those are the roots. But in our world these things exist as branches as well. There is actually a physical place that is called Egypt and Israel. Still, despite all the above, the Torah is not a history book, not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world, history, morals, etc.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
If you’re interesting in learning how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert
When you say that “not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world, history, morals, etc”, am I correct in understanding that you are saying that:
1. The moralistic lessons that can be derived from various Torah narratives are not worth a second thought/ any consideration, because moral instruction was never the intent of them?
2. And that despite archaeological research & findings from the land of Israel, (which correspond in historical timeframe to certain biblical events and civilizations), there is no intentional connection between the lived history of the Jewish nation in that land and the written narratives about a “people of Israel” in the bible? Is it just coincidence then, that names like Israel and Egypt are chosen and written to confuse people for millennia about this?
Hi Sharon,
1. Yes, you can say that. Furthermore, the more we advance spiritually, the more that we will see that morals wont help us at all. On the contrary, we will find ourselves more and more powerless to do ANYTHING against our egoistic nature. Why? Because this is how the system is built. It’s not built for us to be superheroes and to take control of our nature. Rather it’s built for us to recognize our weakness and use it as an opportunity to turn to the Creator, to use His strength, to tap into His light. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
2. It’s not coincidence. Rather, according to the law of root and branch, every spiritual root must touch a corporeal branch. Despite this, the Torah is not a history book. Rather it’s talking only about our inner world. All of the characters and places are our inner qualities. As we begin the process of correction, we will begin to see this story play out inside of us. We will reveal the qualities of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Pharaoh, Israel, and etc inside of us, meaning inside our desires. The story is talking about the inner process of how our desires develop from being completely egoistic, to becoming corrected and operating in the direction of pure love and bestowal.
Check out the links I shared in the above post to Corey for more details.
Albert @ KabU
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