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Hi Dale, good question!
It means that there are no evil spirits somewhere out there that we need to protect ourselves from. There is nothing evil in the world except for our own egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/07/a-devil-with-horns-or-our-own-egoism/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Joshua, good question!
Yes, it does relate to it. Except in Kabbalah we learn that spiritual attainment actually starts from the Sod (secret) and ends with the Pshat (simple). Meaning that at first, we don’t understand how spirituality works at all. We’re learning it as something vague. This is the level of sod. Later on, we come to feel spirituality to such an extent that it will become pshat to us, as something that is fully attained and tangible.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/when-the-hidden-becomes-revealed/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Clifton, great question!
Practicing Kabbalah means that we correct our egoistic nature and become similar to the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. But just like a PC cannot just change itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own nature. No rituals, diets, restrictions, nothing we do with our own strength will help us to make this change. We need outside help to do this. This help comes to us from the force of the light. The light is a special force thanks to which we can perform this correction. Essentially all of our work boils down to extracting more and more of this light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
So the most practical action that you can do towards performing this correction is to set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning to the Kabbalistic sources, videos, lessons, etc. This will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
We will learn more about these things in the upcoming semester, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Delayne,
Yes, it is safe. Spirituality means becoming similar to the Creator. In other words, acquiring His qualities of pure love and bestowal. We cannot experience any harm when we are similar to Him. It’s actually the opposite, all of the harm we ever feel in life is because we live within our opposite egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is the source of all evil and harm. So there are no evil spirits out there that we need to protect ourselves from, there is nothing evil in the world except for our own egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/07/a-devil-with-horns-or-our-own-egoism/
Furthermore, we don’t enter the spiritual world like we enter through a door. Reaching spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that to the extent that we become similar to spirituality, to the qualities of love and bestowal that operate there, to that extent we will reveal it and “enter” it. The only way to perform this type of correction is while we are alive in this body.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Sarah, great question!
Kabbalah only deals with our desire for spirituality. Regarding the desires of our animalistic bodies, Kabbalah does not deal with these things. Our corporeal desires don’t have any relation to spirituality, so each person can arrange these desires however is most comfortable for them (of course within the context of the law and without harming others).
So in practice we don’t work on restricting our corporeal desires, we only work on making the desire for spirituality the most important thing. Then naturally the rest of our desires will fall into place. For example, it’s like with an artist that is so involved in his art, that he fulfills all the rest of his desires out of necessity so he can quickly return to his passion. Same with us, when spirituality is the most important desire, then we will be able to properly relate to all the rest of our corporeal desires in a balanced way.
Albert @ KabU
