[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ismar,

We learn that all of humanity is part of a single system, like cells within a single body. So the being that descended those 125 steps is the collective body to which we all belong. In the process of descending, this body gradually loses the feeling that it’s all connected until the point of our world, where we feel completely alien to every other person in the world.

We learn about all these things because reconnecting this shattered system is the main spiritual correction that we need to perform.

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

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Leighton, good question!

The language of roots and branches is a type of code that uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. It’s similar to how binary code works in computers. To us it seems just like a bunch of zeros and ones, but a computer can properly decipher those things and display what those zeros and ones represent.

Likewise with the language of roots and branches, if we’re not in spirituality, Kabbalistic writings seem to us like stories talking about our world. But for Kabbalists, those that are able to decipher these words, they can reveal the spiritual phenomena behind them.

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

https://laitman.com/2013/09/from-root-to-branch/

https://laitman.com/2010/12/the-spiritual-decoder/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jacob,

I’m not an expert in philosophy, so I cannot comment on that. But in general, most spiritual methods, religions, philosophies, and even sciences in one way or another stem from the wisdom of Kabbalah. Either as a stepping stone for a person to develop through until his point in the heart awakens (such as many eastern traditions), or from an attempt to copy and implement this wisdom (like what early philosophers tried to do, which later on turned into modern sciences), or as a side effect of the concealment of this wisdom (which is how the modern religions and spiritual paths emerged).

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jarrett,

Bestowal is MUTUAL work with other points in the heart.  We’ll learn how to put it into practice in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Elizabeth,

1. Is suffering necessary? As long as we’re in our ego, suffering is an important motivating factor to push us forward. Without which, we would be content to remain as is, and would have no motivation to reach our spiritual correction. But once we rise above our egoistic nature, we will no longer need suffering to push us forward.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/

2. Our correction does not happen in a bubble. Each person is connected like a cog in a wheel to every other person in the world. So the things we go through are not necessarily just tied to our own correction, but also to the correction of those around us, as well as the continuation of our correction from previous reincarnations.

Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “The Peace“, here’s an excerpt:

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THE WHEEL OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE FORM

First, let me present the opinion of our sages concerning the unfolding of the generations of the world: although we see the bodies changing from generation to generation, this is only the case with the bodies. But the souls, which are the essence of the body’s self, do not vanish, to be replaced, but move from body to body, from generation to generation. The same souls that were at the time of the flood came also during the time of Babylon, and in the exile in Egypt, and in the exodus from Egypt, etc., until this generation and until the end of correction.

Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, because each time they clothe a new body and a new generation.

Therefore, with regard to the souls, all generations since the beginning of Creation to the end of correction are as one generation that has extended its life over several thousand years, until it developed and became corrected as it should be. And the fact that in the meantime each has changed its body several thousand times is completely irrelevant, because the essence of the body’s self, called “the soul,” did not suffer at all by these changes.

And there is much evidence pointing to that, and a great wisdom called “the secret of the incarnation of the souls.” And while this is not the place to explain it, because of the great importance of the matter, it is worthwhile to point out to the uneducated that reincarnation occurs in all the objects of the tangible reality, and each object, in its own way, lives eternal life.

Although our senses tell us that everything is transient, it is only how we see it. In fact, there are only incarnations here—each item is not still and does not rest for a moment, but incarnates on the wheel of transformation of the form, losing nothing of its essence along its way, as physicists have shown.

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3. Lastly, as we develop spiritually and begin to reveal the reality outside of our ego, our attitude to life and death will change.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/06/life-and-death-in-the-eyes-of-a-kabbalist/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ken,

I’m not an expert in other teachings, so I cannot comment on that. But in general, a Kabbalist is someone that has made INTERNAL corrections over his egoistic desire and as a result has become similar to the Creator and revealed Him in practice, at least to some extent. All of this is internal.

Externally there is no way to discern if a person is a Kabbalist or not. Meaning such a person can be a man or a woman, lives a very normal life, works, takes care of his/her family, health, etc. Meaning there is no dress code or rituals or anything external by which we can discern that a person is a Kabbalist.

Albert @ KabU

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