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Hello, How can you know that we are progressing internally in the right way ?
My second question: Why does it seem as though the world is getting worse despite the influence of Kabbalah on the spiritual and corporeal world ?
Thank you!
Thank you for the feedback. Your insight helps me tremendously. I typically try to translate the Hebrew words in order to better understand their meaning. It seems as though they don’t make sense to me until I do this. However, I am also the type of person who has to pick everything apart until I understand it. Thanks again for your help. Love and Light!
Hi Guy,
1. We’re still in the preparation period prior to the spiritual ladder. But once we start to do real spiritual work, we can measure our progress in our attitude towards other points in the hearts. That I’ll feel how my attitude towards them changes, from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
2. We learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the external world is a reflection of my own internal world. If I’m not corrected, I will see in front of me an uncorrected and bad world. If I correct myself, I’ll look at the same world and the same people, but now they will appear the opposite.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Steph,
There were two temples that were built in Israel. They symbolized the spiritual level of love and connection that the Israeli nation was able to achieve. But when a bigger level of egoism was revealed, they were unable to maintain that level of love and connection. As a result of that, the corporeal temple, the symbol of their love and connection, wound up getting destroyed.
Baal HaSulam writes about this in “Letter 60”, here’s an excerpt:
“this is what our sages meant when they asked about the ruin of the Second Temple, that there was no idolatry there and they were proficient in Torah, so why was it ruined? They said it was for unfounded hatred.”
Albert @ KabU
Why does Tony speak of Abraham being a real historical person but then also say that no Kabbalistic books (like the Torah) are speaking of this world? Are there some parts of the Torah that are historical and of this world and other parts that are not or is he speaking of Abraham metaphorically?
Hi Zachary,
On one hand, the Torah is entirely written in the language of roots and branches, meaning it uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand, there is a law that the 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.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2014/10/the-deluge-and-other-natural-disasters/
https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
Albert @ KabU
I am enjoying my lessons on KB more than I could ever imagine. This is amazing! I wanted to ask one question.
If a person is non-Torah observant, are they able to attain the higher level without being obedient to the commands?
Thank you!
Hi Bonnie,
Kabbalists don’t look at the commandments as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires. Whether a person is Jewish or not, Torah observant or not, everyone will need to undergo this internal correction. But whether a person also performs these actions externally is up to them.
Furthermore, we learn that correcting our desires means transforming them from being egoistic into being altruistic, from self love to love of others. This is why love your friend as yourself is the main commandment of the Torah which encompasses all of our work.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
Albert @ KabU
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