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Hi Azhley,
Kabbalah is the method by which we can correct our egoistic nature. As a result of this correction we become similar to the Creator, to the general force of love and bestowal. As a result of becoming similar to Him, we reveal Him in practice in our lives.
Why was it necessary to conceal such a wisdom? Because egoism was still not yet fully developed. For example: if you compare Kabbalah to a medicine that can cure a rare disease, obviously you can’t take the medicine before you’re diagnosed with the disease, but once the disease actually manifests, you can take the medicine and be cured of it.
It’s just like the 5 stages development of a disease within a person. First a person is healthy. Then he is sick, but he does not feel it. Then the disease spreads to the point that he starts to feel pain and symptoms of the disease. This then pushes him to go to a doctor to get diagnosed and find the cure, and etc.
2000 years ago, egoism was still on a very low level, there was no need to correct it. Starting from the days of the Ari, egoism already grew to a certain extent (and technically the prohibition on Kabbalah ended there), but humanity still didn’t feel sick, on the contrary the ego was the main driving force of all of our development. Then from around 1995 egoism peaked and began to show itself as bad, like a cancer that begins to kill the host body. This is the peak at which there was a true need for the cure. Which in essence is what the Kabbalists have been waiting for all these years, for the desire, for egoism to fully ripen.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Milos,
Yes, you can say that everything that happens to us stems from the purpose of creation. Every moment in life is arranged in the most optimal way to help us realize that purpose.
Baal HaSulam writes about this in “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”, here’s an excerpt:
“all the conducts of creation, in its every corner, inlet, and outlet, are completely prearranged for the purpose of nurturing the human species from within it, to improve its qualities until it can sense the Creator as one feels one’s friend. These ascensions are like rungs of a ladder, arranged degree by degree until it is completed and achieves its purpose.”
Albert @ KabU
Hi Manuela,
1. We climb step by step, correcting the system from the root of our soul. It’s like all of humanity is part of an 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. Each person has their own piece in the system. And each one needs to find where exactly their piece fits relative to everyone else.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/the-root-of-the-soul/
In practice though, we’re not working according to a certain list or on fixing ourselves. In practice, the general direction is to reconnect the entire system, starting from a small Kabbalistic group which serves as the nucleus of this connection and gradually adding more and more until we’re able to include the whole world in that connection.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/compliance-with-the-613-mitzvot-commandments/
2. There are Kabbalists with special roles in the system, such as the group of Rabbi Shimon, who wrote the book of Zohar. Their role was to reach that state of the final correction in order to pave the way for the rest of us.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Christian,
The descent is pre-planned in the thought of creation in order to help us to further grow and develop. It’s similar to how we help our kids to grow. We don’t just give them a completed jigsaw puzzle. Rather we take it and break it down into many pieces. Then in the process of them putting it all together, they grow and develop.
If you’re interesting in learning how to properly decipher the stories in the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Helen,
Here’s a blog post from Rav Laitman about the law of equivalence of form: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
We can see an example of this law in radio receivers. That when we tune the internal frequency of the radio receiver to match the frequency of the external radio wave, then we can pick up that wave and hear it. Likewise in our spiritual work, when we become similar to the Creator, we can reveal Him in practice. This is essentially all of our work, to become more and more similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. All the way until we reach complete adhesion with Him.
And you’re right that this work is against our nature. Meaning that we cannot just invert our own nature. We need help to reach this change. This is why all that is demanded of us and all that we’re capable of doing really is just to aspire to be like Him. Even if that aspiration is not real, even if it’s just playing pretend, still, when we play such a game, especially in the Kabbalistic group and during the Kabbalistic studies, this attracts the force of the light. The light then gradually works on us and makes this game real.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
If you have the time, I also recommend reading through the article A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar, where Baal HaSulam talks in detail about the law of equivalence of form.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Helen,
That’s completely normal. The important thing is to just keep going and everything will balance out.
The Kabbalists write about this “it’s not the wise that learns”. Meaning we’re not learning this material simply to acquire knowledge, to store it in some box in our brains. After all, if knowledge was the path to spirituality, then a supercomputer loaded with all of the Kabbalistic texts would be the most spiritual being in the world. But obviously this is not the case. So why do we study if not to gain knowledge? Because through the study, we draw the force of the light. And this force is what makes all the internal changes, clarifications, corrections that need to be made.
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
