[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Williams,

It’s perfectly normal to get confused. We go through many ups, downs, and confusions on the spiritual path. The important thing is to just keep going, to keep placing yourself under the influence of the light and it’ll balance everything out.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/

And if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the forums here. We’ll be happy to answer them for you.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Seraphim, great question!

Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature. As a result of this correction, we become similar to the Creator, and reveal this general force of love and bestowal in practice, in our lives. What are the signs that someone is a Kabbalist, that someone attained spirituality? Can we see it on his/her appearance? Maybe they wear robes, have long beards, and sound smart? Or maybe we expect of this person to perform miracles and magic tricks? Or perhaps such a person is rich and never has to work a day of his life? Or maybe he’s super healthy and never gets sick?

The correction that Kabbalah talks about is an internal correction, on the level of a person’s thoughts and desires. Externally, such a person would appear just like any other normal person. He continues to work, take care of his family, health, and live life in a normal way. In other words, there are no external signs that someone attained spirituality.

Alright, so if I cannot judge whether someone else is in spiritual attainment, perhaps they can just tell me if they are? In Kabbalah, we don’t talk about our personal revelations. It’s like someone that has a diamond in his pocket that is worth billions of dollars, he would not go around telling others about it, otherwise he risks losing it. Same thing here. Spiritual attainment is the most precious thing in the world, worth more than all of the diamonds and pleasures of this world put together. A genuine Kabbalist will never openly reveal the fact that he is in attainment, since this might evoke negative envy in others which can cause him to lose this special connection.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details on that: https://laitman.com/2011/05/do-not-trigger-fire-upon-yourself/

So we don’t share our personal revelations with anyone, but at the very least we can say that all of the instructors here have been studying Kabbalah with Rav Laitman for many years and have been extensively trained by Bnei Baruch to be instructors for beginners. After completing the courses on KabU, you should have a strong enough foundation to connect directly to Rav Laitman’s lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ricardo,

Yes, you can say that the spiritual correction affects the corporeal world. This follows what we learned in the lesson on the perception of reality, that the entire external world is nothing more than a reflection of our inner egoistic state. So when I correct myself, the external world will appear corrected as well. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Maria,

All of humanity is interconnected in one single system. So it’s not just when we reach the full correction, but with every single action that we take, we’re influencing the ENTIRE system.

Keep in mind that each one still has their own personal correction that they need to perform, we cannot perform the correction instead of the others. But if we reach our correction it makes it easier for the others to reach their correction. Just picture that all of humanity is part of a 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. Each person is responsible for his own piece. If I find where my piece fits, it makes it easier for others to find where their piece fits. But no one can do the work instead of the other.

As to what happens after the final correction, Kabbalists hint that there are further degrees of development beyond that point. But it’s still beyond our ability to understand and research such things, so we’ll need to get there and see for ourselves.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/what-happens-after-the-final-correction/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Maria,

This site was created for the English speaking world. But we have other courses made specifically for other languages. Check out our portal site for details. You can also check out our Italian Youtube Channel.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Gedula, great questions!

1. We cannot speak from the Creator’s point of view because we don’t attain such things. Kabbalah is a science, with clear limits of what we can and cannot research. Kabbalah differentiate two parts to the Creator. The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator simply because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.

The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.

So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. Whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/12/the-holy-names-of-bestowal/

2. The ladder is the 125 degrees of difference between us and the Creator. The Earth is our desire to receive, it’s our egoistic nature. And the heavens is the Creator’s nature, that of pure love and bestowal. To the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder. All of this follows the law of equivalence of form.

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

Albert @ KabU

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