[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Zorica,

You’re right, Kabbalah studies don’t work in a typical way in which we learn to accumulate knowledge. In Kabbalah we’re concerned with reaching spirituality in practice, feeling it. And for that purpose, “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. Obviously this is not the case.

So why do we spend so much time studying if not to gain knowledge? Because through the study, we draw the force of the light. This force is what makes all the internal changes, clarifications, corrections that need to be made. After we extract enough light and correct ourselves to a certain degree, then we won’t just intellectually philosophize about spirituality, but we will begin to feel it in practice. And only out of that feeling will we begin to truly understand it.

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

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Richard, great question!

The Torah is entirely written in a type of code called the language of roots and branches. This code uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand there is a law that every spiritual root must touch the corporeal branch at least once. Meaning although these are spiritual phenomena, they must have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world.

For example, Egypt represents the uncorrected egoistic desire while Israel represents the corrected desire, those are the roots. But in our world these things exist as branches as well. There is actually a physical place that is called Egypt and Israel. Likewise with Moses, there was indeed a Kabbalist named Moses. Still, despite all the above, the Torah is not a history book, not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world, history, morals, etc.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/

If you’re interesting in learning how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.

https://www.kabbalahbooks.info/collections/books/products/disclosing-a-portion?variant=34617901809797

https://www.kabbalahbooks.info/collections/books/products/the-secrets-of-the-eternal-book-1?variant=34617980125317

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Michelle,

Knowing Hebrew is helpful, but you don’t really need to learn Hebrew to study Kabbalah. All of our materials are professionally translated to English and many other languages.

But does the translation pass the full spiritual meaning? No. Hebrew is a language built for passing spiritual meaning, not just the meaning of the words, but every single letter and shape of the letter is a code for a spiritual state. So any translation is good but it will never give you 100% of the true spiritual meaning, it’s impossible.

So how big is the loss? For a person who is not yet in spirituality, the loss is very very small, even minuscule. In fact we have thousands of students worldwide studying with us on a daily basis, in a language other than Hebrew. Whenever Rav Laitman visits these groups, he always remarks how there is no difference in the spiritual advancement between these students and the students in front of him (all Hebrew speakers) that he studies with daily. This is because spirituality does not depend on knowledge but only on the desire. If we build the right desire for spirituality, we will feel it, if not, then no.

If you want an in depth explanation of the significance of the Hebrew language, check out this article. The ties between letters, words, and numbers:

http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/60270?/eng/content/view/full/60270&main

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dadyaran,

For material and courses in other languages, check out our portal site: https://www.kab.info/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Janika,

Baal HaSulam writes about this in the article The Peace:

“To avoid having to use both tongues from now on—nature and a supervisor—between which, as I have shown, there is no difference regarding the following of the laws, it is best for us to meet halfway and accept the words of the Kabbalists that HaTeva (the nature) has the same numerical value (in Hebrew) as Elokim (God)—eighty-six. Then, I will be able to call the laws of God “nature’s commandments,” or vice-versa, for they are one and the same.”

Here’s a breakdown of the numerical value of the letters

the nature = הטבע

ה = 5

ט = 9

ב = 2

ע = 70

 

God = אלהים

א = 1

ל = 30

ה = 5

י = 10

ם = 40

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/09/elokim-is-nature-in-gematria/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Amirhossein,

Keep in mind that these things are relative to the particular aspect of the desire that is being emphasized. So you might see a different order depending on what is being emphasized.

In general though, we ascend from the still, to the vegetative, to the animate, and lastly to the speaking levels of desire. This follows the spiritual rule that our work goes “from light to heavy”. From the smallest desires to the biggest desires.

Albert @ KabU

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