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Thanks for 3rd week lesson, it blows my mind. If we need to do the correction, from where the Kabbalist comprehend the steps / method to correct it. Is it from the Creator? If yes, How, is it transferred? through a messenger or revelation ( like in several religion) ?
Hi Lucky,
Kabbalah is a science. The Kabbalists are the scientists of Kabbalah. Everything we know is based on their research. This is similar to how other sciences work. The Kabbalists are those researchers that have performed a certain experiment and reached a certain result: the correction of our nature, the revelation of the Creator, the force of bestowal, etc. So if we are to replicate their experiment, to follow their procedures we should reach the same results.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/
Albert @ KabU
Should I be trying to memorize all those Hebrew names and numbers? Is that important? I tend to look at the gist of the teaching. My mind tends to skip numbers and such.
Hi Loyda,
It is helpful to have some of the basics memorized, but it’s not a must. Essentially it’s not our memory that will get us into spirituality, but our desire. If we build the right desire for it, in that desire, we will reveal spirituality. If not, even if we memorize all the Kabbalistic books, we will still not feel it.
And although we spend a lot of time studying, the goal is not to acquire knowledge, but through the study to draw the light, a special force that helps us to build the right desire. Meaning that we don’t need to be super strong, wise, or talented in order to succeed in Kabbalah, all we need is to extract more and more of this light and it does all the rest.
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
In The Attaining the Worlds Beyond reading we were given, p. 109 is says, “Eventually, one will come to earn the Light of Faith, which will bestow the gift of confidence upon the person.” What is this confidence? Confidence in what? Is it confidence that requests to the Creator will be granted/fulfilled? I’m thinking along the lines of Jesus, the Messiah, and his healing powers and producing miracles. Is this what a fully ascended Kabbalist can also do? Is it that he is so close to the Creator that the Creator will work through him and that he can have confidence that the Creator will work through him?
Hi Sue,
It depends on the context. Here’s a few excerpts from that same chapter:
On page 100 he writes:
“Faith – the power that gives an individual confidence in the possibility of attaining a spiritual life, coming alive after being spiritually dead. The more clearly we realize that we are spiritually dead, the more strongly we feel a need for faith.”
On page 101 he writes:
When we gain confidence in our own altruistic strength, we can gradually begin to experience pleasure for the sake of the Creator, for by so doing we are pleasing the Creator. Since it is the Creator’s Will to bestow pleasure on us, this congruity of wishes brings the Giver and the receiver closer together.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Milos,
Just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just correct our own nature. So it’s the light that corrects us. Our work is only to extract more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
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
Hi! I was born on June 13 (613), and my path towards the creator has been, well you could say…inevitable. No matter what I’ve done in this life my heart, intentions, and life have been almost pulled towards Creator in powerful ways. In studying Kabbalah I’ve felt as if words were being given to experiences I already had. Do you believe my birthday could be a seal of sorts on my life, connecting me to the Mitzvot?
Hi Zachary,
If that date was truly significant, then every single person born on that date would have the same inclination towards the Creator. But that’s obviously not what we see in practice.
In practice, everything depends on the desire called the point in the heart. If a person received such a desire, then regardless of when that person was born, what gender, background, etc, that person will aspire to actualize that desire and reveal the Creator.
But we need to keep in mind that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. So the point in the heart does not guarantee our success, as that would be coercion. Instead, it means that in potential, we have the possibility to come closer to Him. But this is just in potential, whether or not you actually succeed on the spiritual path depends on you.
It’s like someone handed you a very special seed that you can potentially grow into a big tree. If you plant that seed in fertile ground, then it’ll get all the right nutrients and grow. If you plant it in the desert, nothing will come out of it.
Likewise with your point in the heart. If you place it into a good spiritual environment, it will grow and flourish until you attain spirituality. If not, then no. It’s all in your hands.
We’ll learn more about the importance of “planting ourselves” in a good spiritual environment in the next semester.
Albert @ KabU
“The left rejects and the right adducts…” this is purposefully designed and intended to make man ask God for help. I couldn’t understand this concept.
And If the left rejecting is considered a correction, aiming to divert a person from the right path, how does this help a person develop a need for God’s help? Why is this “left and right” concept or design necessary if a person is already born with this point in the heart? Furthermore, what is the purpose behind being born with the ego?
Hi Ayantu,
If we were strong and could do everything by ourselves, we would have no need to ask the Creator for help. So the system is set up such that we cannot finish the work ourselves. We can try, fail, and then discover the need for His help. This is because the goal is not to succeed, but the goal is to build a connection with Him. And by turning to Him for help, we are at least in some kind of connection with Him.
As for being born with the point in the heart, that is not enough. If we didn’t have this type of system which constantly pushed and pulled us, we would be content with little and not have the drive to continue our development until we reach the full correction and fulfill the purpose of creation.
We’ll study the article “there is none else besides Him” in depth 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/
Albert @ KabU
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