[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Elvis,

We learn in Kabbalah that there is nothing evil in the world except for our own egoistic nature. This is why Kabbalah only deals with the correction of our egoistic nature. As a result of correcting ourselves, instead of seeing evil in the world, we will see how the world is full of love and bestowal.

Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/07/a-devil-with-horns-or-our-own-egoism/

https://laitman.com/2022/06/how-to-see-good-instead-of-evil/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Steven,

We learn in Kabbalah that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. Meaning that we cannot force someone to do spiritual work. For this reason, we don’t do any spiritual work towards the world, but rather we focus all of our spiritual work on others that want to do this work together with us, meaning in the Kabbalistic group. The Kabbalistic group is like our spiritual laboratory. It’s a safe place in which we can practice everything we learn in Kabbalah.

Furthermore, the spiritual work we do in the Kabbalistic group 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.

We’ll learn more about these things in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Miryam,

It’s not an error, we reread the study materials all the time, because as we change, we discover new discernments in these articles.

Some general advice outside of the topical weekly recommended readings: you can read through the books Kabbalah Revealed and Attaining the Worlds Beyond from beginning to end. This will give you a solid foundation. Kabbalah for the Student on the other hand is a textbook of primary sources. It can be very challenging. So it’s better for now to just stick with reading the recommended reading materials in that one. After you get a good foundation, you can read through that one as well.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Comfort,

According to the law of equivalence of form, in order to come closer to something in spirituality, we need to become similar to that thing. The Creator has the nature of pure love and bestowal while our nature is the opposite: pure reception. So to come closer to the Creator, to reveal Him in practice, we need to correct our opposite nature, for it to become similar to his nature of pure love and bestowal.

It’s similar to how a radio works. That we just need to tune the inner frequency of the radio to match the external wave. Once we tune in to the wave that we want, we right away hear the music that is on that wave. Likewise with us, once we tune ourselves in the direction of bestowal, we will become similar to the Creator and thereby reveal Him.

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

The corrected form of our desire to receive is called a soul. Meaning that it’s not something that we’re born with but rather something that we develop and attain. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Norman,

Yes, you can say that the intention is the main focus, the main correction that gets placed on the desire.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2021/11/desire-and-intention/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Luis,

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

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