[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Clancy, great question!

We can say in general that the Creator’s qualities are those of love and bestowal. But since the Creator is concealed, we cannot measure ourselves accurately relative to Him or to these abstract qualities. Instead we need to measure ourselves relative to what is not concealed, meaning other people. So I can measure if I acquired the Creator’s qualities by checking my attitude towards others, going from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul.

Keep in mind that we do this work primarily within this safe environment, this spiritual lab that we call the Kabbalistic group. And only after we finish correcting ourselves within the Kabbalistic group, can we start focusing on the rest of the world. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Muhammad,

Spiritual attainment does not depend on our knowledge. After all, we can take a computer and load it up with all of the Kabbalistic books as well as all of the knowledge that this entire world has to offer. But this computer will not attain spirituality.

Spiritual attainment depends on one thing and one thing only, the desire. If we build the right desire for it, within that correct desire, we will reveal spiritual sensations. That’s it. And although we spend a lot of time studying, the goal is not to acquire knowledge, but through the study to draw the light, a special force that helps us to build the right desire.

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

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sharon,

I’m sorry but I cannot comment on your personal life, we can only talk about these things in general. In general, we need to remember that Kabbalah is not a religion nor a faith. It does not deal with these types of things. Kabbalah only deals with our desire for spirituality.

As for the past, in general, the healthiest attitude towards the past is to say “there is none else besides Him” and that we went through exactly what we needed to go through. Beyond that, we should be very happy that through everything we went through, we merited an awakened point in the heart. After all, less than 1% of the world has this desire and we were as if handpicked by the Creator to be among such people. So we shouldn’t go digging into the past, but rather we should focus on the present, on the opportunity that is presented before us and be happy for the priceless gift that we received!

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Rachel,

Yes, you can say that. Keep in mind that true bestowal does not exist on the level of our world. Bestowal is the Creator’s nature. While our nature is that of pure reception. So it’s impossible for us to truly bestow. At best we can perform more and more covert actions of reception. For example, I go to the store and I give them my money, but obviously I want something in return. It’s the same with all of our actions of bestowal in corporeality. Either I do it to receive pleasure directly or indirectly from fame, honor, money, or even the pride of knowing that no one knows about this action, or even avoiding pain or guilt is also part of this same calculation.

So real bestowal, above any calculations for receiving for oneself, does not exist in our world. Real bestowal is purely the Creator’s quality. If we want to acquire such a quality, we first need to correct our nature. This is done by the force of the light we evoke through the Kabbalistic studies. And the light begins to work on us even if we don’t have the true desire to bestow. Even if we’re just like little kids, pretending to be spiritual grown ups. It takes this aspiration of ours and corrects it little by little, building in us a true desire for spirituality, for the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal.

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

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Frank,

Yes, that’s exactly what we’re here to do. Under normal circumstances, a person goes through a handful of changes every lifetime. When we begin to study Kabbalah, we as if put ourselves in a spiritual incubator that speeds up our development. So instead having to go through many different lifetimes and countless sufferings, we can go through these changes in a relatively short period of time, without any unnecessary suffering.

How do we speed up our development by studying Kabbalah? Every time we study, we learn about higher and more corrected forms of our development. By learning about them, we start yearning to be in those forms. That yearning is essentially what extracts the light from the studies. The light is a special force that begins to work on us gradually and corrects this yearning until we build a true desire for spirituality. And when we build that true desire for spirituality, we will immediately reveal spirituality within that desire.

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

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sharon,

Kabbalah and Judaism are two separate things. Although they both might use the same terms, Kabbalah defines these things differently.

There are 613 spiritual desires and corresponding to each desire is a commandment. The commandments (Mitzvot) in Kabbalah are not the actions we do with our hands and feet, but rather the internal process by which we extract the force of the light to correct this desire.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/spice-up-your-desire/

As for whether a person should implement these commandments on a physical level, like a religious person does, with his hands and feet? Kabbalah is not a religion, so it does not deal with this. That is completely up to you.

Albert @ KabU

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