[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi William,

Reincarnation happens on the level of desire. We all have this desire called the point in the heart. This is our spiritual potential. If we realize this potential, this grows into a desire called a soul. If not, this same desire continues to reincarnate again and again until it gets fully realized.

The Torah talks about the changes of the desires but in the language of roots and branches. It describes how this desire is constantly developing. First it’s raw and then it becomes more defined (Egypt), until it becomes corrected and aimed at the Creator (Israel). All of those changes are essentially the reincarnation of the desire.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/06/breaking-israel-news-prominent-kabbalist-describes-near-death-experience/

As to why bother? Correction is a conscious process. If we don’t participate in it, even if a thousand more years and lifetimes go by, we will not reach it. The only thing that will change is that we’ll experience more and more pressure in life to push us towards correction. The Kabbalists call that “the path of suffering”. It’s like a child that refuses to go to school, so the parents put more and more pressure on him. But pressuring and punishing him is not the same as educating him. So after all of the pressures and punishments they put on him, he will still have to go to school and get his education.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/05/we-wont-follow-the-path-of-suffering-forever/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Todd,

We attain the Creator by becoming similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. This follows the law of equivalence of form. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/

If we’re suffering, we become opposite to the Creator and as a result, we cannot attain Him. For this reason, we never focus on anything negative in our spiritual work. All of our aspirations need to be on positive things, on becoming more loving like Him, being more connected, etc. If as a result of that positive aspiration we reveal how incapable we are of truly loving like Him, or how much we are suffering from not being able to resemble Him, that’s fine. That’s also part of the work. But that’s a result, a side effect of aspiring towards something positive. It’s not the goal itself. We NEVER aspire to be in any negative state.

We’ll learn how to work with these things more practically in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Karim, good question!

Although we point to 1995 as to when Kabbalah became revealed, technically the prohibition was lifted much earlier, from the time of the Ari. He was the one to make a very special correction within the entire spiritual system, after which its not only possible, but a must to openly disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to help the whole world reach its correction.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details on the Ari: https://laitman.com/2010/08/the-ari-rav-isaac-luria-the-godly-man/

So why do we say 1995? Let’s put a few things into perspective:

Kabbalah is the method of correction of our egoistic nature, thereby revealing the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. 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

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dan,

In the advanced semester of KabU, everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group with whom they can put all these things into practice.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Dan,

Yes, it’s like a baby in the hands of the mother. The baby does not understand anything about life and relies completely on the mother to take care of it and lead it to the right place. We too don’t know anything about reaching spirituality and we rely completely on the Kabbalists that preceded us and on the Kabbalistic group.

The only difference is that the baby is naturally led by the mother, while we have to consciously place ourselves in the hands of the Kabbalistic group and allow it to lead us towards the goal. We’ll learn about these things in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ali,

Yes, you can say that.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/

Albert @ KabU

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