[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Linda, great question!

We learn that the Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal. Every single moment He sends us nothing but goodness. This is called “there is none else besides Him” and “He is the good that does good”. But why don’t we sense this goodness? It’s because we’re opposite to Him. Our opposite egoistic nature inverts this goodness into something bad. It’s like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative, equals negative.

So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to suffer more and more in life. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.

We’ll learn more about this in the next semester, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Pooya, good question!

Everything that we achieve is in accordance with the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal something, we need to become similar to it. It’s just like a radio receiver that can catch different external frequencies by matching them on the inside.

So in order to reveal our life’s source, in order to reveal the Creator, we need to become similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. We’ll learn more about these things in depth in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Joseph,

Yes, you can say that. Connecting to a ten is the way to connect to the Creator. This is because we don’t reveal the Creator within ourselves, rather we reveal Him in the connections between us.

It’s like cells or organs in a single body. Each organ by itself is not really alive. But when all these organs are together in one body, then life can flow between them. Same with us. Each one of us is not alive spiritually. Only when we connect between us, do we reveal the Creator, the force that connects and enlivens our spiritual body.

We’ll learn more about this in the advanced semesters.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Nicole,

Evil is the force that is opposite to the Creator. The Creator is the pure force of love and bestowal. We were created opposite from Him, in the pure force of reception, or egoism. This opposite egoistic force is called evil.

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

Evil Is The Foundation Of The World

True Evil

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Joseph,

That’s a normal part of the path. It’s written that “there is no greater pleasure than the resolution of doubts”. This is because spirituality is built on the combination of two polar opposites: bestowal and reception. In every new degree, we discover new challenges and new doubts on how to go about doing this. When we succeed in that, we feel an outburst of joy and pleasure. Afterwards we grow and discover greater challenges and doubts, and so forth throughout the entire spiritual ladder of development.

It’s just like with the puzzles that we give kids to help them grow and develop. In 1st grade, we give them easy puzzles. They solve them and grow. Then in the 2nd grade we give them more challenging puzzles, etc.

Likewise with us, once we resolve one set of doubts, we grow and reveal a new degree with a whole new set of doubts. And we shouldn’t despair from this, but understand that it’s thanks to this process that we grow and develop spiritually.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/the-benefit-of-the-doubt/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Joseph,

At the beginning of the spiritual path, there are a lot of tendencies to isolate ourselves from the world. So what you’re feeling is normal. But the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see that we don’t need to isolate ourselves. Even Baal HaSulam and Rabash were not living in isolation in some Kabbalistic environment, rather they had normal jobs, families, and lived in a typical religious neighborhood of their time. How then did they attain such high spiritual levels? By tapping into the strength of the spiritual environment.

So if we build for ourselves a strong spiritual environment, then it will become much stronger than the corporeal environment that we’re in. But this is not a one time choice. Building and strengthening the spiritual environment is our constant work. As we progress, our ego will grow more and more, and the corporeal environment will pull us more and more. This is done purposefully so that this resistance will force us to build an even stronger connection to the spiritual environment, and thereby reach an even higher spiritual level.

It’s just like with a bodybuilder. If he lifts only a 1 pound weight all the time, he will not get very strong (this is equivalent to us living in isolation). In order to grow, that bodybuilder needs to constantly increase the resistance that he’s lifting. So the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see how the everyday problems, experiences, work situations, etc we undergo in the regular society are a necessary part of our correction. That we don’t erase these things, but above them we need to stay connected to the spiritual environment. And this will determine the level of our spiritual attainment.

We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters of KabU.

Albert @ KabU

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