[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Beth,

The first and second factors point to the part of our development that we cannot change. Meaning that we were created as a desire to receive pleasure. We cannot change that at all. What we can do is to correct this desire to operate in the direction of bestowal, meaning to add the intention to bestow to it.

As for performing that correction and thereby reaching adhesion, it’s not about knowing oneself or being super strong and powerful, rather all that we need to know is how to leverage our one and only point of freedom in life, which is to build for ourselves a strong spiritual environment. Through the spiritual environment we extract the reforming light and the light does all the rest of the work. In other words, the light performs all the corrections on us, our work is only to extract this light through the spiritual environment.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Beth,

As we learned in the lesson on the perception of reality, the entire external world is nothing more than a reflection of my uncorrected egoistic state. Meaning that I don’t experience some objective reality, but I experience something through the lens of my ego. Furthermore, to the extent that I correct this ego, to that extent the external reality will change as well. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as being dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses (correct myself) then I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.

So until we correct our egoistic nature, we’re incapable of properly judging anything that we see outside of us. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Eliyahu,

There is none else besides Him does not mean that we have no free will. It means that we are in a closed system with absolute forces and laws. We cannot change these laws, but we can consciously work on putting ourselves under their influence in order to speed up our development. This is our free will. How do we put ourselves under the influence of these forces and laws even stronger? By choosing/building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment.

See my reply 55264 to Marion below for more details.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Translation of Asher’s post:

Thanks for the answer that you gave me, but I cannot accept this answer. The writings of the father and son are very different. At the moment, I reached the 6th volume of the Study of the Ten Sefirot, and throughout the 8 years that I’ve been studying them, I have come to [see] the differences between Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag and Rabbi Baruch Ashlag.

Hi Asher,

You are right, the writings of Baal HaSulam and the writings of Rabash are very different. Although ultimately they are talking about the same thing, about the spiritual desire and how we correct it, they do so in two different styles. Baal HaSulam writes in a more scientific style while Rabash writes in a more emotional style.

In general, the wisdom of Kabbalah can be divided into two parts, two forms of expressions. One is the language of Kabbalah itself, or sometimes called the language of sefirot/partzufim/olamot(worlds). This language is very technical (at least that’s how it appears to us until we attain spirituality). It’s entirely scientific and uses strict definitions. Baal HaSulam wrote more in this style, especially in the Study of the Ten Sefirot.

There’s another type of style which is also scientific, but it focuses more on emotions. This style is called “Avodat HaShem” which translates to “the Creator’s Work”. This language expresses the many inner states that our desires undergo as we progress on the spiritual path as well as the practical work that we need to do in Kabbalistic groups. Rabash wrote more in this style, especially in his social writings.

Keep in mind that the different style that they used is not so much dependent on them, but rather on the generation in which they lived. For example, this same difference is seen between the Ari and Baal Shem Tov. Baal HaSulam writes about it in the “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”, item 9, here’s an excerpt:

“9) In return for that, we are privileged by Him to have been rewarded with the spirit of The Baal Shem Tov, whose greatness and sanctity are beyond any word and any utterance. He was not gazed upon and will not be gazed upon, except by those worthy that had served under his light, and they, too, only intermittently, each according to what he received in his heart.

It is true that the light of his Torah and Holy Wisdom are built primarily on the holy foundations of the ARI. However, they are not at all similar. I shall explain this with an allegory of a person drowning in the river, rising and sinking as drowning people do. Sometimes, only the hair is visible, and then a counsel is sought to catch him by his head. Other times, his body appears as well, and then a counsel is sought to catch him from opposite his heart.

So is the matter before us. After Israel has drowned in the evil waters of the exile among the nations, since then until now they rise and fall, and not all times are the same. At the time of the ARI, only the head was visible. Hence, the ARI had troubled in our favor to save us through the mind. At the time of The Baal Shem Tov, there was relief. Hence, it was a blessing for us to save us from opposite the heart, and that was a great and true salvation for us.”

Here’s a link to the article in the archive, you can read it Hebrew there if you want: https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/DrsQS1MO?language=en

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Esmeralda,

Nature is a perfect integral system. In an integral system, there are no parts that are more or less important, but rather everyone is equal and everyone is important. If even a single part is missing, then the whole system is incomplete.

Meaning the purpose of creation will be attained by EVERYONE. And if even one person is missing, then we have not yet attained the entire purpose of creation. It’s like a 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle, where if even 1 piece is missing, the entire puzzle is incomplete.

So no one will be left behind, we will all reach the goal. The only difference is that there are those that are awakened to this work earlier and those that are awakened to it later. This is because there is a certain order of corrections that need to take place. It’s like building a large jigsaw puzzle. First you start with all the corner pieces, and only then do you gradually work your way to the center. So those that received awakened points in the hearts are like those corner pieces of the puzzle that need to start the whole process. Later on, due to their good work, they pave the way for the rest of the world to join this process.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Marouane, good question!

Kabbalah is a method by we correct our egoistic nature and as a result become similar to and reveal in practice the Creator. There is a certain level of attainment of the Creator called prophet/prophecy. In other words, the prophets are Kabbalists of a certain degree.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/08/were-the-prophets-kabbalists/

Albert @ KabU

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