Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 1 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Logynn]

I got to sit in on the YouTube video, but not the Zoom call. (It’s hard for me to get away in the middle of a Sunday.) Will all the YouTubes and Zoom calls be midday on a Sunday?

I read something in a course description that implied we’d eventually be put in groups of 10 to continue study. Will I still be able to participate in that if I’m not able to come to the Sunday Zoom calls?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Logynn,

In the graduate semester, when we go into groups of ten, there are live sessions throughout the week as well. So hopefully you’ll be able to find a time that works for you.

Albert @ KabU

[Logynn]

Thank you so much. That is a relief.

[LORI]

thank you

[Raymond Franklin]

Shalom,

In essence, The One (Hashem) is Love, Lover, and the Beloved. And it is our responsibility to awaken to this truth by ascending the 125 steps out of darkness into the Light of Truth (Or Emet). Is this a correct understanding? Thank you.

Sincerely,

Raymond Franklin

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Raymond,

You can say so, but keep in mind that “awakening to this” is done by correcting our egoistic nature. To the extent that we correct the ego, to that extent we become similar to the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal, and accordingly we ascend those 125 degrees.

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

[Raymond Franklin]

Thank you for your reply, sir. I appreciate your clarification that we must have a healthy, purified, and sincere ego in order to be successful.

[Anna]

In this imaginary world, is the story constantly re-written?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Anna,

The story that we see depends on whether we are advancing on this story through the path of suffering or the path of light.

On the path of suffering, a person is unconsciously nudged forward through pressures and suffering.

On the path of light, a person is consciously trying to correct their egoistic nature. As such, instead of feeling pressures and suffering, a person on the path of light feels that life is arranged to help support them in this process.

This is similar to children who whether they want to or not, must go to school. If they resist, then the parents threaten to punish them. But if the children do want to go to school and they willingly run to school, then not only do the parents stop punishing them, but they can also build a completely different relationship with them. They can take them on educational trips, give them all sorts of puzzles and extra curricular activities, etc.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/

Albert @ KabU

[Lucy]

Can one feel the five Worlds within himself?

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Lucy,

Everything that we feel, we feel within ourselves. Or more precisely within the desire to receive pleasure. If the desire is not corrected, we feel this world. If the desire is corrected, to the extent that it is corrected, we begin to feel within it the five spiritual worlds. All of this works according to 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

[Lori]

Lori here   in reading “Then and Now” the excerpt

To a Kabbalist, the term, “Creator,” does not sig- nify a supernatural, distinct entity, but the next degree that a human being should reach when pursuing higher knowledge. The Hebrew word for Creator is Boreh, and contains two words: Bo (come) and Re’eh (see). Thus, the word, “Creator,” is a personal invitation to experience the spiritual world.

How can the Creator not be a “distinct” entity and yet offer a “personal” invitation to experience? To me those two words are in direct contradiction of each other.  explain or elaborate please Thanks

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Lori,

Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts:

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 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 (and any spiritual phenomena) is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But 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/

Albert @ KabU

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