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Hello, my question is, how is it that students/ teachers study for so long…it seems that at a certain point one becomes a teacher to pass on the wisdom. At what point? Also, can teachers of Kabbalah say they are no longer like us, being able to interpret only 2000 bits out of 400 billion or more? Was that ever scientifically challenged?
Hi Tamar, great questions!
The student/teacher relationship remains for so long because everything that we learn from our teachers, gets passed down to us in a chain. It’s like when water trickles down a staircase. It goes from the top step, to the next step, to the next, etc, until it reaches the bottom step. In other words, this chain, this structure will always remain. Everything we get, we will always get from our teacher. And everything our teacher will get, he will always get from his teacher, etc. Even if the teacher passes away, this chain will always remain. And this chain goes all the way back to the very first Kabbalist.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2019/02/the-ladder-of-attainment-is-constant/
https://laitman.com/2017/01/receiving-light-through-the-teacher/
And yes, at a certain point a student becomes a teacher for the next generation to pass this wisdom onward. But this does not necessarily mean to teach in a frontal way, because there are many different means by which we can share this wisdom with others. We’ll learn about these things in the more advanced semesters.
As for teachers of Kabbalah being not like us, it depends. On the animate level, they are exactly like us. So much so, that even during the pandemic, our teacher also went under lock-down, just like everyone else. His animate (animalistic) body is no different than any one of us.
So what is different about a Kabbalist? It’s not in their animalistic bodies, but rather in their soul. A Kabbalist has corrected his egoistic desires, at least to some extent, and has converted them to operate in the direction of love and bestowal. In that corrected desire (called a soul), a Kabbalist reveals different levels of spirituality.
Can we measure these things? If we are on the level of a Kabbalist, we can measure these differences in the desires in an extremely precise way. But if we are still not, if we still only exist on the level of this egoistic world, then we still lack the tools to objectively measure these things.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
P.S. This is the reflection forum, please post future questions to the question forum.
The readings really awakened beautiful sensations in me even just the instruction manual of “How To Read The Text”… the idea that the work happens while i’m reading, and not through intellectual interpretation but sort of as a deepening in awareness of the feelings developing inside of me… on that note, another very very *very* fascinating thing i learned… that the feelings i have inside of me that propel me to make decisions aren’t actually mine but stem from the Creator, and that these feelings lead me to my egoistical desires and the feeling of disappointment they bring lead me to turn to altruistic desires, such as being One with Creation… also that the perception of the three aspects of life being separate (The Path, The Self and The Creator) is an indictor of where I am in my Path and that they are in fact not separate.
That all of what is written in the books of Kabbalah i.e. Zohar, Torah etc are written in the language of branches and is not what it seems literally. Woow, i began to wonder if i have been living a lie all my life!
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