[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Gabor,

For now, yes, you can say that. In the more advanced phases, we’ll get more tools to work with, like the Kabbalistic group.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Rae,

Freedom means rising above our egoistic nature. As we learned in this week’s lesson, we do this by building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment.

Baal HaSulam talks about this in the article, the Freedom. He writes: “Harut (carved) on the tables”; do not pronounce it Harut (carved), but rather Herut (freedom), to show that they are liberated from the angel of death.

Throughout the article he explains how our current egoistic nature is that angel of death. Meaning although we are technically alive and surviving, relative to spirituality, our life is considered death. True life is within a completely different nature, that of bestowal. In order to reach freedom from our current nature, we need to choose and build a spiritual environment for ourselves which will influence us with the importance of acquiring the quality of bestowal.

For this reason, the Kabbalists equate our main freedom in life in choosing to be influenced by a spiritual environment. Not just any environment, but specifically a spiritual environment, since only through the spiritual environment can we get the importance of coming out of our egoistic nature and only through that environment can we draw the light that can help us to actualize this.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi William,

(this answer is a continuation of my previous answer to you below this one, so you should read that one first)

Becoming one with all of humanity is a very high degree. We don’t start our spiritual work there. Just like if we had to climb a 100 story building, we can’t just jump to level 90 and start climbing from there, rather we need to start at the bottom and climb up.

So our initial spiritual work is all in the Kabbalistic group. This 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.

So until then, how do we behave towards the rest of the world? We behave normally there, just like everyone else. Meaning don’t make a saint of yourself and at the same time don’t cause harm to others, but just act there the way normal people act.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi William,

“There is no coercion in spirituality”. So we cannot do spiritual work with just anyone. We need to find those with active points in the hearts that are interested in doing spiritual work together with us. Given that these types of people are rare, less than 1% of the world, chances are you won’t find someone like that among your corporeal acquaintances or family members.

So where do we find such people? In the Kabbalistic group. The Kabbalistic group is made up of many people around the world that are interested in using the Kabbalistic method to reach spirituality. And in the more advanced phases 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 Sarah,

It could be both. It could also be that by extracting more light, we begin to relate to life not as a string of unwanted experiences, but as constant exercises that come to us directly from the Creator to help us to develop towards the purpose of creation.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sarah,

I cannot comment on your personal situation, but in general, all of our advancement on the path of light is by extracting more light. We do this through the Kabbalistic studies and through the game of playing out these higher degrees of bestowal that we are learning about in the Kabbalistic group.

We’ll learn more about these things in the more advanced lessons. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: http://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/

Albert @ KabU

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