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Are there other spiritual beings other than the creator when navigating the spiritual world? If so how can we be sure, of what energies we are interacting with
Hi Rich,
There is only one spiritual being, one thing that the Creator created, and we’re all parts of it, like cells within a single body.
We’ll learn this in depth in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
Albert @ KabU
In the video – ‘what is Kabbalah’ the instructor, Gilad Sheer shares a study where researches found we are exposed to 400,000,000,000 b/s of data but can only process 2000 b/s.
Can you cite the research source for this?
Toda in advanceHi Erez,
I’m not sure which particular study he was referencing, but here’s a general study which cites a few other studies that reached similar conclusions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034293/#b2
Albert @ KabU
Hi Dan,
The Kabbalists call our material world the “imaginary world”. Since once we correct ourselves, relative to that corrected state this life would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2010/11/this-life-is-a-dream/
Albert @ KabU
I wanted to ask, what the names of the worlds mean and what they are? I’de like to know, I’m still having a hard time trying to understand them.
Hi Rigo,
The 5 spiritual worlds are not place like we think, but rather levels of concealment. World (Olam in Hebrew) comes from the word Concealment (ha-alama). So the 5 worlds are 5 levels of concealment between us, the desire to receive, and the Creator the general force of love and bestowal. To the extent that we correct our own opposite, egoistic nature, for it to also operate in the direction of bestowal, to that extent we reveal these worlds, these higher qualities.
Regarding the order and meaning of each world:
First is Adam Kadmon (primordial Man) this is the first form of the desire to receive that became similar to the Creator, but it operates in a different way then the rest of the system, so it’s called primordial.
Atzilut (from the Hebrew words etz lo: at his place, in his possession). This is the place where the Creator exists, meaning the pure desire to bestow.
Beria (creation), comes from the Hebrew word Bar, meaning outside of. Meaning that it’s already a distinct degree of remoteness from the quality of bestowal.
Yetzira (creation), also means creation but this time it stems from the Hebrew word yetzer, inclination. Meaning there is already an inclination of its own to the Creator.
Assiya (action), this completes the action of creating the desire to receive.
Keep in mind that we usually don’t translate these words when we use them in the lessons. A lot of times it’s better to use the Hebrew word instead of being confused by the translation.
Albert @ KabU
I wonder when sayîng Kabbalah can be taught to everybody for the essence of Kabbalah is the divine Torah through the great Zohar.
We can set apart that wondrous Torah from it for the Zohar is from it.
Even if the creator open some doors to Torah unbeliever, shall he not be stop at a certain level of the ladder?
According to me, What is the real purpose of Kabbalah ?
Is it only to know who am I or so on?
Our great Kabbalists went to the went up to the creator with love to the creator because they have heard about him, his greatness; they desired to see him and dwell in his majesty, fullness and presence.
Today, Why are we climbing the ladder? Are we doing as Babel time?
It is for our own egoism purpose ?
Everybody can hold the same device but are we using it for the purpose for which it has been designed?
Hi Mathieu DANHO,
Kabbalah is a method through which we can correct our egoistic nature. As a result of that correction we become similar to the Creator, to His qualities of love and bestowal. As a result of becoming similar to Him, we reveal Him in practice, in our lives. This is why we study the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Baal HaSulam writes about this in “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”, here’s an excerpt:
“all the conducts of creation, in its every corner, inlet, and outlet, are completely prearranged for the purpose of nurturing the human species from within it, to improve its qualities until it can sense the Creator as one feels one’s friend. These ascensions are like rungs of a ladder, arranged degree by degree until it is completed and achieves its purpose.”
But just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own nature. We need an outside force to make this change on us. We call that force the light. And we extract that force specifically through the Kabbalistic books. It could be from the Torah, Zohar, writings of Baal HaSulam, Rabash, etc. Ultimately all these books are simply means by which we extract the force of the light to change our nature.
We’ll learn how to do this practically in the upcoming lessons. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
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