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Hi there.
Would then all physical (illnesses/diseases/symptoms) envies and hatred disapear througout the study of this great Science, for oneself, and thus others?
I am asking because my father is sick and bedridden, he has been trown out from his ten, but he doesn’t give up. We both make our great effort to study the Creator/The science. it is becuase of him (of course becuase of the Creator) that i ma back and fully focused in this course. The why the heck, is still the Creator been so rude and harsh towards my father? Knowing that puts and makes extreme efforts to study Kabbalah?
Pedro
Hi Pedro,
I’m sorry but I cannot comment on your personal situation, we can only talk about these things in general. In general, Kabbalah is not a magical pill to get rid of all of our problems. Such a thing does not exist. This is because we’re egoists and avoiding pain is one of the major motivating forces for us. If we were to get rid of that force, then we would have no drive to continue our development.
So what good is studying Kabbalah then? It’s in order to correct our egoism. Once we correct it, we will no longer need problems and suffering in order to push us to develop because we ourselves will generate the force for our development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
As for issues within the ten, I cannot comment on that either. In general, it’s very rare for a person to get removed from a ten. It’s because we’re all learning and learning involves making lots and lots of mistakes. Usually all the members of the ten understand this and are therefore very patient with each other. The only times a person get removed from a ten is if a person is directly causing harm to others. And harm is not necessarily that someone is picking up a knife and trying to hurt someone else, but harm can also include spiritual harm, that we’re diverting the friends from the spiritual path. But this is very rare and generally involves a lengthy discussion within the ten and the ten coordinator. But again, it’s not my place to comment on such things, you can contact the Latin American tens coordinator to discuss this further.
Albert @ KabU
Dear Albert.
First of all, I want to thank you for your time and dedication in answering my questions, as well as for getting back to me with such solid content!
I think that my father’s got to solve his ten issues himself. His situation seemed to be quite unfair and confusing, but now that you describe the reasons for one to be thrown out, many things make sense.
I look forward to continuing with this course and moving on to the second part, to one day be able to work within a Ten. I will also be attending the coming congress over the weekend.
Kind regards,
Pedro.
Can anyone answer this question? What will happen to Neshama after Yechida? Like a jar falling into the sea! There will be water inside and outside the jug! It’s so scary! We become nothing! We disappear and are attracted to the Creator (צלם).
Hi Asher,
We don’t disappear. If anything, the whole process that we’re undergoing is the process by which we clarify further and further who we are. We learn this from the 3 phases that Baal HaSulam describes in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar. That we were created in the state of perfection but this was an unconscious state, like a baby in its mother’s womb. So we necessarily had to come to the complete opposite state, to lose that state of perfection, in order to once again reach it, but this time consciously.
So even though we return to that initial state of being in complete adhesion with the Creator, thanks to the process we underwent, we remain as two separate things. Baal HaSulam describes this with the candle and torch analogy in the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. Here’s an excerpt:
“The reason why the will to receive must cascade by the four above-mentioned discernments in ABYA [Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya] is that there is a great rule concerning the Kelim [pl. of Kli]: The expansion of the light and its departure make the Kli fit for its task. This means that as long as the Kli has not been separated from its light, it is included in the light and is annulled within it like a candle before a torch.
This annulment is because they are completely opposite from one another, on opposite ends. This is so because the light extends from His self, existence from existence. From the perspective of the thought of creation in Ein Sof [infinity], it is all toward bestowal and there is no trace of a will to receive in it. Its opposite is the Kli, the great will to receive that abundance, and is the root of the initiated creature, in which there is no bestowal whatsoever.
Hence, when they are bound together, the will to receive is annulled in the light within it, and can determine its form only once the light has departed from it once. Following the departure of the light from it, it begins to crave it, and this craving properly determines and sets the shape of the will to receive. Subsequently, when the light dresses in it once more, it is regarded as two separate matters: Kli and light, or Guf and life. Observe closely, for this is most profound.”
Feel free to check out these articles directly here:
Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah: https://kabbalahmedia.info/sources/kB3eD83I?language=en
Introduction to the book of Zohar: https://kabbalahmedia.info/sources/ALlyoveA?language=en
Albert @ KabU
So, there really is no contradiction between the Tao, the Zen understanding of the world, the Jewish worldview at its core, and Kabbalah, because the latter is the most basic understanding of all the former, and it reveals the way the universe and reality really are. Kabbalah, predating religion, is the way by which we can detect the world above, correct our perceptions of reality, and live better, more fulfilled lives. Is that correct?
Hi Sam,
I’m not an expert in religions or any other spiritual method, so I cannot comment on what they do or teach there. As for Kabbalah, Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature. As a result of this correction, we reach equivalence of form with the Creator, with spirituality. As a result of that, we reveal these things in practice, in our lives.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/kabbalah-without-a-trace-of-mysticism/
Albert @ KabU
Exactly how did Adam HaRishon decend through a system of worlds, through 125 steps? Are theses steps degrees (in) angles of light? What are the system of worlds, and what are the 125 steps?
Hi Taylor,
The number 125 comes from the structure of the upper worlds. This structure is just a division of the spiritual desire that we need to correct into sefirot, partzufim, and worlds.
The most basic division of the desire is 1 Sefira. 5 Sefirot compose 1 partzuf. 5 Partzufim compose 1 world. There are 5 worlds in total. So 5 worlds each with 5 partzufim each with 5 sefirot equals 125 (5x5x5) steps on the spiritual ladder, or in other words corrections that need to be performed on the desire.
In the book Kabbalah for the Student, there’s an article called Foreword to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/full/64187) which lists these 125 steps in the language of sefirot/partzufim/olamot(worlds). For now, these are just technical terms for us, but in the future lessons we’ll dive deeper into these things and learn how to feel and experience them.
In simpler words, the 125 steps represents the difference between us and the Creator. The Creator is a desire to bestow and we are the desire to receive. Adapting our desire to receive to work in order to bestow takes 125 steps. So to the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder.
In other words, ascending or descending this ladder is not a physical action, but rather depends on how much we’re similar to the Creator’s quality of bestowal (ascending) or less similar to it and more egoistic (descending).
All of this operates 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
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