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Thank you for this course and this organization. As a searcher, the system of the Kabbalah just makes more and more sense as I learn.
That said, here we are at the end of this first introductory course, and I am so happy, but also, there does not seem like there is a prescriptive path. Is it being generous of spirit to betow? Is it following the commandments? Will we learn more later on the prescriptive side of things?
Thank you.
Hi Clifton, great question!
Practicing Kabbalah means that we correct our egoistic nature and become similar to the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. But just like a PC cannot just change itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own nature. No rituals, diets, restrictions, nothing we do with our own strength will help us to make this change. We need outside help to do this. This help comes to us from the force of the light. The light is a special force thanks to which we can perform this correction. Essentially all of our work boils down to extracting more and more of this light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
So the most practical action that you can do towards performing this correction is to set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning to the Kabbalistic sources, videos, lessons, etc. This will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
We will learn more about these things in the upcoming semester, 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
sometimes is hard to see the thougt behind something “unpleasent” like war and natural disaster. How to attainnthat knowledge is it by asking what the lesson behind it?
Hi Irianti,
Every moment of our lives we’re in a dialog with the Creator. This is called that “there is none else besides Him”, that the Creator is the singular force behind ALL of reality. All of my thoughts, desires, all the events in life all originate from Him.
But the Creator operates on the frequency of bestowal, while our nature is on the frequency of reception. As such, we operate on two completely different frequencies. So it’s currently impossible for us to understand Him. We first need to correct our nature and become similar to Him. Only then will we begin to understand Him and to justify all that we see in life.
We’ll learn about this in the upcoming semester, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/09/learn-the-creators-language/
Albert @ KabU
So to be one with the creator we must think like the creator? This means, I can do this with anything in life? Try to work out the grand design of why. This seems like the way. So my question is this. Is this not only how one should study, but also benefit from practical Kabbalah? If we read something its just words, but if we think of how a person was thinking when we experience the writing it becomes more and the writer is alive again in our thoughts. So in life when changing our intention would it not be similar in everything we do to contemplate what the process was from the creator so we may better understand and know the creator and the methods of natural forces?
Hi Richard,
Yes, you can say that. Essentially all of life is just a game between myself and the Creator. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. We’ll learn more about this concept in the upcoming lesson. In the meantime, check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
Albert @ KabU
Hi Marc,
Yes, you can say that it’s the same thing just described in a different style/language in the Torah. Keep in mind that when Kabbalists talk about the Torah and Mitzvot, they are not referring to physical actions that we carry out with our hands and feet in a religious manner, but rather they describe the inner corrections that take place over our desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
As well as my 221960 below for more details: https://kabuconnect.com/forums/topic/ask-anything-about-week-5-lesson-and-materials-and-get-an-answer-from-a-senior-kabbalah-instructor/#post-221960
Albert @ KabU
If everything comes from the thought of creation, doesn’t that mean the Light that reforms is in all human literature if ones reads with the intention to connect to said Light?
After all, all literature comes from thought and all thoughts come from the thought of creation.Hi Ludumo,
Spirituality means acquiring the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. These are qualities that are unnatural for us, completely above our egoistic nature. How then do we acquire such qualities? Through the reforming light. The light is called such because it gradually reforms us, corrects us. Although naturally we don’t have such qualities, if we just aspire to them, then this is enough to draw this light.
Where can we read and learn about these higher spiritual degrees so we can aspire to them? If I open up just any book, the vast majority of them are not talking about spiritual degrees above our egoistic nature, rather the vast majority of them are talking about states we undergo within our ego. So I won’t find the reforming light there. I will only find the reforming light in the authentic Kabbalistic books which talk about these higher spiritual degrees.
Furthermore, although everything does come from the Creator, since “there is none else besides Him”. But at the same time, there are things that on purpose divert us from Him. This too comes from Him. It’s a type of game that He made for us in order to help us build a true desire for Him. Check out this excerpt from Baal HaSulam’s article Shamati 1: “there is none else besides Him”:
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It is written, “There is none else besides Him.” This means that there is no other force in the world that has the ability to do anything against Him. And what one sees, that there are things in the world that deny the upper household, the reason is that this is His will.
This is deemed a correction called “the left rejects and the right pulls closer,” meaning that what the left rejects is considered a correction. This means that there are things in the world that, to begin with, aim to divert a person from the right way, and by which he is rejected from Kedusha [holiness].
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We’ll learn about this concept in depth in the next semester, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
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