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Hi Aguinaldo,
It’s difficult because we’re trying to understand it intellectually. 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 a world full of colors would be complex and completely incomprehensible for him. 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”.
Likewise with us, it’s only after we reach spiritual attainment that we will truly and easily be able to grasp all these things. Until then, we should remember that the goal of studying Kabbalah is not to fill us up with knowledge, rather the goal is to help us reach spiritual attainment. And we do that by extracting the force of the light through the Kabbalistic studies.
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 Lei,
Ein Sof is commonly translated from Hebrew as infinity. But here the literal translation “without end” is more accurate. This is referring to the state in which the desire is completely fulfilled, to the max. Similar to how you can take a cup and fill it up to the max where it’s impossible to add any more liquid to the cup. Even if you add one more drop it will just spill over. So if you take a desire and fill it with pleasure to the max, that state is called Ein Sof.
So if we’re calling the Creator the Light of Ein Sof, it means that He wants to fill us up with pleasure to the max.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2020/07/ein-sof-infinity-the-attitude-of-the-creator-to-the-created-beings/
Albert @ KabU
How has exploring the differences between Kabbalah and traditional religious practices influenced the perspective on spirituality and personal development?
Hi Nadia,
I’m not an expert in other methods or religious practices so I cannot comment on that. But in general, we can say that Kabbalah is a scientific method through which we can correct our egoistic nature. As a result of that correction, we become similar to the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. As a result of becoming similar to Him, we reveal Him in practice, in our lives.
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
Can you explain in a practical example what mean “When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal”?
Hi Jul,
To bestow in practice requires someone to bestow to. Since the Creator is concealed, it’s impossible to bestow to Him. Instead, we need to practice spiritual bestowal with other people. We do this type of spiritual work first in a small Kabbalistic group. Afterwards we can expand this work to wider circles until we include the whole world in this connection.
In the advanced semesters of KabU, everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group and will learn how to practically do this type of spiritual work in the group.
Albert @ KabU
If the external world is a reflection of our internal world, then what I see and understand through gifts from a higher source, which is only for our good and correction, and I do not question it myself, but I have feelings of compassion and the need to pray for the connection of all of us as a whole. Is this an adjustment to my needs? When I feel that my own physical needs have faded and I see not only myself as center but above all the good of others and the need to connect us with the light. Is this my path of light towards the creator? Is this how it feels like? Best Regards Ewelina
Hi Ewelina,
I cannot comment on your personal feelings, but in general, going from me to we is part of the process. We start this process in a small kabbalistic group, and expand it more and more, until we come to see the whole world as parts of our soul.
We’ll learn how to implement this practically in the more advanced lessons. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
Albert @ KabU
My question is something like.. if we are always receiving delight, the light itself, and only how we perceive what we are receiving makes it good or bad, how do I navigate something like the pull of alcohol or some other alcoholism/addiction? My “grand scheme” questions of why am I here, and where am I going, are always there. Yet what is this that I feel called to sobriety, yet pulled toward the delight of a few beers? Are both these “calls” the Light just perceived from different perception? Are they calls/pulls from two different creators? If not (which I understand is the case because there is only one Creator) why do I feel both?
Hi Gates,
We learn from the Kabbalists that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. But why then don’t we see this in our world? Why do we see so much suffering and problems in the world?
This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative equals negative.
So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see and feel more suffering and bad things in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
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