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I would respectfully like to know if Rav Laitman, Tony Kosinec, or any other Kabbalists with Bnei Baruch, are actually working in and from the spiritual world, and if able to “work the controls in the control room” and effect outcomes from the Level of Causes, as you often say? Is all of the the extremely complex and arcane information in Kabbalist books an effective reality for the teachers of Bnei Baruch, who can wield this spiritual technology powerfully, or is it just that you are very good experts in the theory, but still not able to realize the kinds of power over reality that you promise (and please forgive me if I have misunderstood what you are saying. This sincere question is just based the conclusions I draw from your presentations)?
Hi Seraphim, great question!
Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature. As a result of this correction, we become similar to the Creator, and reveal this general force of love and bestowal in practice, in our lives. What are the signs that someone is a Kabbalist, that someone attained spirituality? Can we see it on his/her appearance? Maybe they wear robes, have long beards, and sound smart? Or maybe we expect of this person to perform miracles and magic tricks? Or perhaps such a person is rich and never has to work a day of his life? Or maybe he’s super healthy and never gets sick?
The correction that Kabbalah talks about is an internal correction, on the level of a person’s thoughts and desires. Externally, such a person would appear just like any other normal person. He continues to work, take care of his family, health, and live life in a normal way. In other words, there are no external signs that someone attained spirituality.
Alright, so if I cannot judge whether someone else is in spiritual attainment, perhaps they can just tell me if they are? In Kabbalah, we don’t talk about our personal revelations. It’s like someone that has a diamond in his pocket that is worth billions of dollars, he would not go around telling others about it, otherwise he risks losing it. Same thing here. Spiritual attainment is the most precious thing in the world, worth more than all of the diamonds and pleasures of this world put together. A genuine Kabbalist will never openly reveal the fact that he is in attainment, since this might evoke negative envy in others which can cause him to lose this special connection.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details on that:Â https://laitman.com/2011/05/do-not-trigger-fire-upon-yourself/
So we don’t share our personal revelations with anyone, but at the very least we can say that all of the instructors here have been studying Kabbalah with Rav Laitman for many years and have been extensively trained by Bnei Baruch to be instructors for beginners. After completing the courses on KabU, you should have a strong enough foundation to connect directly to Rav Laitman’s lessons.
Albert @ KabU
Shalom shalom,                                                                                       I would like to know if you think that hashem called us and knew we would be learning kabbala, and when it is said that Yaakov saw angels going down a “ladder”, and then back up,  is it the allegory of mitsvos, or is it meaning that the language of branches is saying that angels come to earth to take “orders” from humans and then they go back to “heaven” to bring the prayers and wishes to Hashem… thank you very much
Hi Gedula, great questions!
1. We cannot speak from the Creator’s point of view because we don’t attain such things. Kabbalah is a science, with clear limits of what we can and cannot research. Kabbalah differentiate two parts to the Creator. The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator simply because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.
The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. Whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/12/the-holy-names-of-bestowal/
2. The ladder is the 125 degrees of difference between us and the Creator. The Earth is our desire to receive, it’s our egoistic nature. And the heavens is the Creator’s nature, that of pure love and bestowal. To the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder. All of this follows the law of equivalence of form.
If you’re interesting in learning more on how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
I posted my three questions before, but I don’t think they went through. So here they are again:
1. Is the language of roots and branches the same as the language of the birds, the language of the gods, the green language etc?
2. Is the word “branches” in the above connected to the “The Branch” in the bible which I believe is referring to the Messiah?
3. I had asked if the bible was written by the same people who wrote the Kabbalah, but you have already answered that as a yes. What about the new testament? Who was responsible for writing that?
Thank you for your help.
Hi Sandra, great questions!
1. No, the language of roots and branches is a type of code by which Kabbalists use words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. Why did the Kabbalists need this special language? Because they have no other means by which to describe spirituality. There are no words or objects in spirituality, it’s a world of forces. But each of these forces have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world. So by using the names of the corresponding branch, they can point out and talk about its spiritual root.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/09/from-root-to-branch/
2. I’m not sure which verse you’re referring to, but in general, roots and branches are like a tree. At the source of the tree are its roots. And these roots sprout and result in branches. Likewise with us, there is a certain root to everything that happens in our world. Our world is the result of these spiritual roots. Meaning we’re in the world of results, of branches.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2009/09/the-law-of-roots-and-branches-the-most-imporant-law-in-kabbalah/
3. I don’t know, I’m not an expert on religions.
Albert @ KabU
Today I was watching the different books that were written by Kabbalists, is the Bible one of them? I never heard it mentioned. I was forced into Catholicism from birth and I have a huge block to it since everyone I knew took it literally and how much it was forced onto me so I would like to know if the Bible was one of the sacred texts that have been misinterpreted. Also, the way I connect with my spirituality is through ceremony, is there a way for me to complete a ceremony that would be held valuable to the creator? In the videos, he says nothing matters but the desire but this is very hard for me to connect with to start. Thank you!
Hi Maddy, great questions!
1. Yes, the Hebrew Bible was written by Kabbalists in a special code called the language of roots and branches. Meaning that it uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
2. You’re right, it’s hard for us to work directly with our desires. After all, there is no button in me that I can just press and have the right desire. So we do need to use actions which help us to reach the correct desire. The main action that we have in Kabbalah is the study. Through the study, by simply aspiring to be in those higher levels of love and bestowal that we read and learn about, through that aspiration we extract from the study the light. This is a special force that gradually works on our desire and builds in us the right desire.
So the best thing you can do for your spiritual advancement is to set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic sources, lessons, videos, books, Q/A forums, etc. Such an action of regularly returning to the source of the light will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
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