Ask anything about week 5 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Ask anything about week 5 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

[stephen]

1st week till the 5th week  has caused variants due to the studies I’ve already acquired ,

firstly,

Please explain why Adam Ha-Rishon is the first man, from which origin did he come into being and why ?.

secondly,

All your references are from the sages related in Tanach that adhere to ‘His name is one and His name shall be One’ ,therefore please explain why you don’t mention His name [Blessed be He] , only referring to him as the ‘creator/upper force’ ( maybe it because your allowing for an ecumenical broadness of people or otherwise)

Also you’ve mentioned Hashem   places obstacle’s and thoughts in our journey to attainment ,

why then after all our endeavours adhering to yom kippur doing tschuva and asking for forgiveness are we going to be judged when our nishama is in the heavenly courts.

Thank you most sincerely

stephen green

B’H

 

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Stephen,

That’s normal. We all come to the wisdom of Kabbalah with a certain baggage of past ideas. The main thing is to keep going, keep placing yourself under the influence of the light, especially through the Kabbalistic studies, and it will balance everything out.

1. Adam HaRishon is not referring to a person but rather to a spiritual system to which we all belong.  We’ll parts of this system, like cells within a single body.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/

2. The Creator actually has many names. This is because we reveal Him only by becoming similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. So every time we correct a part of our egoistic desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator, and thereby name that revelation by a different name.

Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:

https://laitman.com/2011/12/the-holy-names-of-bestowal/

https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/

3. The purpose of our lives is not simply to ask for forgiveness and sneak into heaven. Rather the purpose of our lives is to rise to the highest possible state: complete adhesion with the Creator, with his qualities of love and bestowal. This process is broken down into 125 degrees. As long as we have not yet completed this process, we will continue to reincarnate to the level of this world again and again.

As for being judged in the heavenly court, this is not talking about life after death, but rather the internal process by which we judge ourselves in the process of correcting our egoistic nature.

Here’s an excerpt from a Rabash article on this topic:

the judgment that a person is judged in the beginning of the year means that the person judges himself, and he is the arbiter and executor, for man is the arbiter, the litigant, and the knowledgeable one, and witness. It is as our sages said, “There is judgment below, there is no judgment above.”

And a blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2022/03/where-are-hell-and-heaven-revealed/

Albert @ KabU

[Davor]

Why Jesus has not taken the path of Kabbalah, but path of cross?

[stephen]

Hey Albert,

Very much appreciate an immaculate transparency of understanding correcting my thoughts to filter every precious word given.

KabU is a gradual realignment of the most fascinating part on the journey for me by far,

all the teachers have been so accommodating and sincere , its felt most assuring.

admiring you all

 

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Davor,

I’m not an expert in religions, so I cannot comment on that. But in general, these things are not so opposed. Both talk about the importance of loving others as yourself. Kabbalah goes even further and gives us a method to actualize loving others to such an extent that we can reveal in our lives the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.

Albert @ KabU

[Alejandro Escontrias]

Question on the books that were mentioned in the videos:

There are a few versions of these online, which books do you recommend? for:

Sefer Raziel, Sefer Yetzirah, The Bahir, and The Tree of Life (Arizal)

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Alejandro,

Although these are indeed Kabbalistic books and there were countless other Kabbalistic books that have been written in the past, in our days, we mainly study from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. This is because egoism grows from generation to generation, so Kabbalah, the method for its correction, needs to get adapted in each generation for that level of egoism. For example it’s like in medicine, if a person has a headache he can just drink a tylenol and that’s enough to fix him. But if it’s not just a little headache but something cancerous, then that tylenol won’t do anything for him but he needs a completely different regime to heal himself.

This is why Kabbalah gets adapted in each generation to the level of egoism that is currently found in that generation. So although there were many different Kabbalists and Kabbalistic books throughout the generations, nowadays we mainly learn from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, since their writings contains the light that is most suitable to correct the egoism that is found in our generation.

So my recommendation would be to stick to their writings, which you can find in the Kabbalah Media Library.

Also check out this blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/

Albert @ KabU

[Varda kahalany]

Hi, I had some difficulty understanding the correct answer for 2 of the  ‘qualities we should rise above’. 1 is  ‘constantly seeking additional pleasure ‘ and 2 is ‘ identifying with the will to receive’. The first actually causes us to keep on learning, searching and trying to attain more spiritual understanding so why we have to rise above it ???? The second, is actually our nature, the way we were created, so instead of rising above it we just have to learn to apply it differently – receive in order to give. Could you please clarify?

My second question is related to a topic that is very prominent in my life and this is regarding the 613 desires that need correction and how they relate to 613 mitzvot in the Torah. In one of the videos Tony mentions that no physical action can affect the spiritual world and I just wonder if this is so, then the Tfilin, the Mezuza, the reading in the Torah book do not have meaning ? How about all the Kashrut related laws ?  There are countless books in the Judaism about describing various Halachot written by known and respected Rabis, how all this connects ? It is very confusing, especially when famous Rabis and teachers are very keen in observing CORRECTLY the mitzvot in the Torah (even though some are causing for real division between people with different customs, beliefs or religion…..and even between families). All my life I am searching to make some sense out of these things , and I would be very grateful if you could clarify them, even a bit.  Thank you 🙂

Varda K.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Varda,

1. It depends on the context, but you can interpret it the way you did as well.

2. The 613 desires that we are learning about are spiritual desires, meaning desires that we don’t yet have. This is similar to how a single cell in a body only has some basic desires. But when that cell is part of a greater body, it reveals there higher desires which are impossible for the individual cell to have: desires for money, honor, power, etc. Same with us, until we integrate with the general body of Adam HaRishon, we don’t reveal or understand these 613 spiritual desires.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/12/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-613-desires/

As for the 613 Mitzvot, each Mitzvah (commandment) is an INTERNAL process by which we correct the corresponding desire. In other words, Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 Mitzvot as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/

We will learn about these things in depth in the advanced semesters, especially when we start learning articles like Matan Torah.

Albert @ KabU

[Ilya]

From the intro to this lesson:

Instead, only when, prior to the Creator’s revelation, the person will already be in the same internal form as the Creator, will He be revealed. The instant a person becomes even 1% similar to the Creator, he or she crosses into the spiritual world. This is the Law of Equivalence of Form.

Are crossing into the spiritual world and revelation of the Creator the same? In other words, with 1% similarity, comes a kind of 1% of the revelation?

Or, as it’s written, “when… the person will be… in the same internal form as the Creator, will He be revealed,” the Creator is revealed only when there’s 100% equivalence of form? If that’s the case, what is every degree prior to that?

[Varda kahalany]

Thank you ! 🙂

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ilya,

Yes, crossing the barrier and revealing the Creator is the same. And yes, 1% similarity comes with 1% revelation. Although spirituality is a state of wholeness, so even at 1% similarity you still reveal all of it, but to a smaller degree. It’s like the difference between feeling the world as a baby and feeling the world as an adult. The baby is alive in the same world as the adult but feels it to a much smaller degree.

Albert @ KabU

[Steve Miley]

Is anyone else having problems? With the translated videos of Dr. Lightman  seems like I can understand and relate alot more to Tony and the other instructors but maybe it the translation or the format of the interviews but it just seems flat, perhaps disjointed and not concise where I can really relate to Giovanni and Gil and Tony 100 times better. Just wondering if I’m the only one or not? Thanks I am really enjoying the courses.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Steve,

I’m sure you’re not the only one and that the translations probably do add an extra level of difficulty. But it’s okay, it’s a gradual process to connect to Rav Laitman. It’s still very important to keep trying though. After all, all of the instructors here are students of Rav Laitman. So EVERYTHING that the instructors know about Kabbalah, essentially we received it all from him.

We’ll learn more about him and the great Kabbalists that paved the way for us in the more advanced lessons. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/

Albert @ KabU

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