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Hi Leyah,
When a body builder takes a goal for himself that he wants to lift 1000 pounds, he does not go straight into lifting the thousands pounds. He starts with 5 pounds, masters it, and then goes to 10, etc, until he reaches his goal of lifting 1000 pounds.
Same with us. Aspiring to reach unconditional love with the whole world is like trying to lift that 1000 pounds right away, without any preparation. In other words, it’s impossible and might even cause us a lot of harm. Instead we need to start small and build up to it.
How do we do that? First we start with a small group of people who share this goal with us. We call this Kabbalistic group a ten. The ten is the foundation of all of our work. It’s like we’re building here a certain nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
We’ll learn about these things in the advanced semesters, where everyone will receive their own Kabbalistic group with whom they can put these things into practice.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Leyah,
We learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the world is a reflection of my uncorrected state. If I’m not corrected, I see in front of me an uncorrected world, full of wars and sufferings.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. But the moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect. In other words, we don’t need to wait for the world to reach equivalence of form, we only need to correct ourselves, and in that corrected perception, we will see a corrected world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi James,
We don’t work with the whole world right away, instead, we focus our spiritual work in a small Kabbalistic group called a ten. The ten is the foundation of all of our work. It’s like we’re building here a certain nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
As for drawing the light, the more we try to emulate the light, the more of it we can draw. The light is in a state of complete unity. So when we aspire to connect with others, we evoke the need for the light to help us to attain that state. And this too we practice primarily within the Kabbalistic group.
We’ll learn more about these things in the advanced semesters where everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group with whom they can put these things into practice.
In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/05/a-whole-group-of-ten/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Loyda,
It’s normal. We go through many states on the spiritual path. Many ups and downs, cloudy states and states of great insight, and everything in between. The main thing is to just keep going, to keep placing yourself under the influence of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic lessons, and it will balance everything out.
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 Mira,
The Creator created a single desire to receive pleasure. In the process of correction, this desire gets partitioned into sefirot, partzufim, and worlds.
The most basic division of the desire is 1 Sefira. 5 Sefirot compose 1 partzuf. 5 Partzufim compose 1 world. There are 5 worlds in total. So 5 worlds each with 5 partzufim each with 5 sefirot equals 125 (5x5x5) steps on the spiritual ladder, or in other words corrections that need to be performed on the desire.
Zeir Anpin and Arich Anpin are two different partzufim, referring to two different parts of the desire. The main takeaway from the 600,000 blog post should be that 600,000 is not a quantitative number, but a qualitative one. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it has been fully corrected.
As for the technical differences between the sefirot, partzufim, worlds, etc, in the advanced semesters, there is a whole course dedicated to that, where we’ll learn these things in depth. In the meantime check out the article: Foreword to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah for more details.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Sheila, great question!
Authentic Kabbalah has indeed been around for about 5800 years, but it’s been concealed for the past 2,000 years, so people don’t really know what it’s all about. Just picture a 2,000 year old game of telephone and all the distortions that would spring up as a result.
So naturally, due to the concealment, many different methods sprang up that are seemingly “Kabbalah”. Some try to associate themselves with Kabbalah as a way to validate themselves, while others borrowed some principles from Kabbalah and created something else, which is how philosophy emerged and later on turned into science. Or it’s also possible that these methods sprang up as a result of the concealment of Kabbalah, this is how the modern religions emerged. But ultimately, authentic Kabbalah has nothing to do with any other method and for the most part precedes all of the modern religions, sciences, and philosophies.
Authentic Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature and as a result we become similar to and reveal in practice the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/12/true-kabbalah-without-mysticism-or-myths-part-1/
Albert @ KabU
