[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jj,

I’m not an expert in other methods, so I cannot comment on what they do or teach there.

Regarding the language of roots and branches, this is a type of code that uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. The Torah is entirely written in this code. As such, not a single word in the Torah is speaking about history or our world.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Danielle,

You can say that, but this sounds very religiousy and has many different connotations. We need to redefine these things in a more scientific way to not get confused. What is the Creator? What does it mean to “listen” to Him? What is His will?

The Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal. Our nature is the opposite, pure reception, or egoism. “Listening” to Him means to resemble Him, to acquire his qualities of bestowal. Or in other words, to correct our opposite egoistic nature to operate in the direction of bestowal. As long as we remain opposite from Him, in our egoistic nature, then we’re out of balance with Him and thereby suffer.

Meaning we’re talking here purely about laws, laws of bestowal, of equivalence of form. Are we in balance with these laws or not? If not, then we suffer.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/11/the-reason-for-our-suffering-and-the-alternative-path/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Yehudit,
I’m sorry, I cannot answer that for you. Every person is free to decide for oneself whether to follow religious customs or not.

Keep in mind that Kabbalah is not against religions. In fact we have millions of students worldwide, from many different backgrounds and religions. Many of them do choose to maintain their religion or to perform certain religious customs while studying Kabbalah and there is nothing wrong with that. Just like with any other science, a person can be religious and also be a chemist or physicist. Likewise a person can be religious and also study the science of Kabbalah. Baal HaSulam writes that even after the full spiritual correction people can still keep their religions.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Miryam,

1. Bina. Which stands for our desire to bestow. We’ll learn more about the 10 sefirot in detail in the upcoming lessons.

2.  It’s impossible to reach high spiritual degrees without a big level of egoism. It doesn’t mean that we try to foster the ego. Rather, as a side effect of aspiring towards the light, the ego grows as well.  This is good because then we have a need to draw even more light and can thereby reach even higher spiritual degrees.  See my previous reply to you on the topic.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hello S,

The path of light is called such because we tap into the force of the light in order to speed up our development.

See my reply below to Micha for more details.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Miryam,

That sounds like an interesting experiment, but we need to draw the right conclusions from it. Which is that we are powerless against our own ego.  This is why the Kabbalistic method focuses on CORRECTING our egoistic nature, not diminishing or fighting it. Fighting it directly is an impossible battle.  In fact, the more we fight it, the stronger it gets. It’s to show us that we’re truly powerless against it. The Creator made it like this on purpose, so that without His help, we would not be able to succeed.  So our focus here is not on fighting the ego, but it’s more on drawing the force of the Creator’s light to help us to correct it.  We do this primarily through the Kabbalistic studies, lessons, gatherings, etc.  In which case, I would not recommend missing the Sunday gathering. Missing it would not help you to deal with your ego, quite the opposite.

See my reply to Micha below for more details.

Furthermore, it’s also important to keep in mind that as we develop spiritually, our ego will continue to grow even more.  And this is not a bad thing.  In fact in Kabbalah, the ego is not a bad force but rather a partner that helps us to advance. Meaning we don’t eliminate our ego, we rise above it.  It turns into a type of hill or mountain that we rise above. In other words, the greater the ego, the further up we can climb, and the greater the spiritual level we can achieve. On the other hand if we eliminate the ego, then the spiritual level we can achieve is relatively tiny.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/

Albert @ KabU

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