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1. How do I develop or learn to perceive the screen that is really not broken?
2. Is this type of work an exercise or is this something else that has to be done with a guide?
3. Are we awake during this type of work or are we in a different world all together?
4. Can we be in two places at once (aware of our surroundings) or is the physical shut off while the spiritual is made manifest?
5. While I can feel changes in both my intent and behavior, how will I know when I am leaving the sephirot of Malchut? Is there a way to know without an actual guide? Sorry for so many questions I have a bunch more but this is my main interest in lesson 1.
6. Are out of body experiences normal during your training?
7. Why would i start dreaming every night again after 20 years of not dreaming? Do any of these changes in both intent, and physical changes in a sense that cant be explained, along with dreaming have anything to do with the work of Kabbalah. Keep in mind I have already ruled out any medical issues with my doctors, and specialist who found nothing wrong.
Hi Richard, great questions!
1. Our development is in the form of a game. Just like kids play pretend that they are adults, fireman, doctors, etc. Through that game they grow and develop. It’s the same with us. We play “as if” we’re already corrected, as if we already have a screen and the qualities of bestowal. Such a game extracts the reforming light which gradually makes this game a reality.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
2. You can call it an exercise, or a game, or spiritual work. Just keep in mind that we do this type of spiritual work only within this safe environment that we call the Kabbalistic group. With the rest of the world, we should act normal, just like everyone else.
As for the guide, yes there is a guide. Our guide is Rav Laitman. He helps us to implement the writings of the Kabbalists in our spiritual work.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
3. We are awake. “There is no coercion in spirituality”. You cannot attain spirituality if you’re not consciously striving towards it.
As for the spiritual worlds, see my reply 221138 to Carlos below for more details:
4. A Kabbalist continues to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder. So we exist on both levels at the same time.
5. If you reveal the Creator in practice, then you know.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/04/when-all-doubts-will-dissipate/
I don’t mind answering many questions as long as you don’t mind all the extra reading materials I’ll provide 🙂
6. Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature and as a result reveal the Creator, the general force of love of bestowal. “Body” in Kabbalah refers to our egoistic desires. Rising above means that we develop the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. So yes coming out of our egoistic body (desires) is what Kabbalah is all about.
7. I can’t say for sure, but it’s possible. After all, we go through many ups and downs on the spiritual path. The important thing is to just keep going, to keep placing yourself under the influence of the light and it’ll balance everything out.
So the best thing is to set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic sources, weekly lessons, videos, books, etc. Such habits of returning to the source of the light will help us get through all of the different ups and downs on the path.
Albert @ KabU
Many thanks for your time and responses,
I don’t mind reading your responses at all. I have spent countless hours in history books, archeological findings on both websites and books, along with many of the ancient texts I could not even read (slowly translating each word not even remembering half of it). I am very happy to have a place to come to make sense of some of this distractions I have come across over the years. It has been over 20 years now that I searched and for whatever reason after studying many faiths just to know what they actually believe, I ended up on this particular path. I feel the Universal forces of both life and nature have led me to this exact spot and I am supposed to be here. However, I also know that everything I learned along the way was just a distraction until now. I need real answers from a real source, and I thank you for providing some of these and taking that time out of your day. I personally feel that my ego has been fed with worldly knowledge, but the more I learn the more I realize we know nothing. Even Science cant be explained because there is a hole in Math (just look at the Dr. Turing’s Machine and experiments that are in every computer for proof of this). So after I came up with no answers from what I could actually touch and calculate I ended up hear. I have taken some great interest in Ancient Geometry but for now I am going to put all that on hold and try to learn as much as i can about true Wisdom not of this world.
Each time I see this video and read the comment, questions, and replies, tears well up in my eyes and emotions too.
thank you
Hi,
I always heard and read (maybe I misunderstood it) that the world of Asya is our world. But from this lesson, looks like our physical world is another one after the barrier.
Have I misunderstood it from other sources, or there is really a confusion or different schools of thought regarding the worlds?
Thanks.
Hi Carlos,
I’m not an expert in other methods, so I cannot comment on what they do or teach there. As for the worlds, 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.
All of this follows the law of equivalence of form. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
As for our world, when Kabbalists use the term “assiya” or even the term “this world” they are not referring to our current world. Our world is below the ladder of spiritual degrees. Kabbalists call our 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 have no expectations from these lessons because I got the right answer by reading the Talmud of the Ten Sefirot by Rav Ashlag and now I know the purpose of creating myself and the universe. Of course, we should not forget the Torah and Mitzvot, because by following these commands we can become Yechida. I have no questions left …
Is it possible something (a higher force, the Creator, the universe, etc) is guiding a person so they act out this deeper truth without knowing it yet? Or naturally leads them to awakening to it? I’ve become more aware and experienced a deeper physical reality, and it seems like I am perceiving and speaking things that “someone else” is saying who understands a fuller picture.
Another question, does Kabbalah say anything about the nervous system? Or is there a modern translation now that we know more about the nervous system? Different sciences might describe the same reality but reveal different perspectives and truth about it, and I’ve noticed my journey to healing trauma is the same journey as deep awakening- I’m wondering how accurate it is to say this deep awakening changes or happens in the nervous system. If you can’t answer this question, is it accurate to perceive that this awakening process is fundamentally physical?
Hi Nemo, great questions!
1. We are constantly guided. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. Meaning that all of life is a simply a game between myself and the Creator. And although I see many different forces acting in the world, as well as something that seemingly stems from myself, my own thoughts, and desires, this is still all coming from Him.
But this does not mean that we can reach correction in a passive way, as this would violate the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. So despite everything coming from Him, we still need to find our place of freedom in which we can develop in this system.
We’ll learn more about these things in the next semester, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
2. As we’ll learn in the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality, we experience all of reality within our desire to receive pleasure. If this desire is not yet corrected, then we feel this corporeal world. If it is corrected, then within the corrected desire, we feel the spiritual world.
This is also why Kabbalists call the corporeal world the “imaginary world”. Since after 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: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
Hi,
My question has two parts;
1) when I read that the term Creator, Nature, and Naturals Forces are used interchangeably, does that make Kabbalah pantheistic?
2) At point will we be versed in the Language of Branches, and be able to read texts such as the Zohar, Torah, and Talmud, w/o the help or the interpretation of a Kabbalah Instructor?
Thank you
Hi Euler, great questions!
1. Kabbalah is not a belief system, rather it’s a science based on the research of the Kabbalists. As a science, there are clear limits to what we can and cannot research about this thing called the Creator. 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 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 (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/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
2. The language of root and branches is not something you learn but rather something that comes with spiritual attainment. Without spiritual attainment, we cannot truly understand these things. It’s like a blind person that is trying to study colors. He can learn the wavelengths behind each one, the different feelings they all evoke, but ultimately he will never truly understand colors. But if this blind person was to undergo an operation and gain his sense of sight, how easy and simple it would be to teach him colors. We would simply point to it and say “this is red”. It’s the same with the language of roots and branches. It’s currently impossible for us to truly grasp these things. But once we gain our “spiritual sight” we would pick these things up very easily and naturally.
And although we spend a lot of time “studying” in Kabbalah. But the goal of the study is not to acquire knowledge, rather the goal is to extract the reforming light. It’s ultimately the force of the light that gradually corrects us until we become similar to spirituality and begin to attain it in practice.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
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