[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Katel,

Yes you can say that. We learn that we, as the created beings, can only experience reality out of opposites: hot/cold, up/down, love/hate, bestowal/reception, etc. The 9th of Av represents the revelation of the most opposite state to the Creator. Although this state is not very pleasant, it’s a necessary part of our spiritual development. Without revealing this opposite form to the fullest, we will not be able to fully correct it and thereby reach the final correction.

For more details, check out this clip from the lesson Rav Laitman gave on this topic yesterday: https://kabbalahmedia.info/lessons/cu/exvvR4Vr?sstart=35s&send=5m7s&mediaType=video&shareLang=en

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Tove,

Single and double concealment is in our attitude to the Creator. In single concealment, we try to see how there is “none else besides Him”, how every single thought, desire, and life event all stem directly from Him. But since we experience both positive and negative things in life, we are not always capable of seeing how the negative things also come from Him. And when enough negative experiences accumulate, then we begin to think that there is no Creator, that these things are happening to us are not from the Creator but due to our bad luck or blind fate. That is the state of double concealment.

Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:

https://laitman.com/2012/01/understanding-his-providence/

https://laitman.com/2014/10/a-single-concealment-and-a-double-concealment-of-the-good/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ron,

A Kabbalist is someone that has corrected his egoistic desire into the desire to bestow (at least to some extent). As a result of this correction, a Kabbalist reveals the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal, while they are alive in this world.

Whoever performs such a correction can be called a Kabbalist. Since this correction is internal, it makes no difference if this person is a priest, male, female, elderly, young, religious or secular, etc. None of these external factors have any influence over our spiritual correction, nor are they indicators of a person being corrected or not.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Amani,

Kabbalah is also a science. The difference is that traditional scientists study nature that is found within the egoistic desire to receive. Kabbalists on the other hand correct their egoistic desire into the desire to bestow, and study nature within that corrected desire.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Marcin,

You are correct, this desire, this point in the heart, is something that simply awakens within us and in a way forces us to start our spiritual development. True freedom is attained later on in our development. See my reply #293888 to Maria below for more details.

https://kabuconnect.com/forums/topic/ask-anything-about-week-2-lesson-and-materials-and-get-an-answer-from-a-senior-kabbalah-instructor-2/#post-293888

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ruth,

1. On that same page, he explains that a simple act is when the action and intention match (for example receiving something for the sake of receiving), while a complex act is when the action and intention don’t match (for example giving something for the sake of receiving).

The Creator only gives and we only receive. This is how we were created. But if we remained that way, we would remain like little animals and never grow and develop to become similar to Him. For this reason, this was necessarily “complicated”.

To understand this, let’s take an example of us feeding a goldfish. You (the giver) feed it and it (the receiver) eats the food and that’s the end of that. The goldfish will always remain a goldfish and will never build a desire to become like you. We, or more correctly the desire to receive that the Creator created, on the other hand felt the Creator as the giver and that evoked in us a desire to also be like Him. This thereby sets off the entire system of worlds by which we can gradually do exactly that.

This will all make more sense in the upcoming lesson on the four phases of direct light, where we’ll learn about the initial thought of creation and the process of development that the desire to receive undergoes.

2. Equal to the Creator means to bestow like Him. But since we are the pure desire to receive pleasure, we have nothing that we can give. The next best thing, and the only thing we really can do, is to receive in order to bestow. Even though the action is reception, the intention is bestowal, so the action itself is also considered bestowal.

Check out the Guest and Host Analogy in Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond for more details:

http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/4180?/eng/content/view/full/4180&main

Albert @ KabU

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