[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Seraphim,

Yes, you are correct in what you stated in the first paragraph. The Creator does not have any vessels of reception. We bestow to Him by bestowing to other people. It’s like a mother whose only concern in life is her children. If we want to do something nice for the mother, we can do something nice for her children, and through that, we will make the mother happy. This is called going “from the love of the created beings, to the love of the Creator”.

Keep in mind that we practice this primarily within this safe environment, this spiritual lab that we call the Kabbalistic group. We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi,

1. Kabbalah is a science, not a religion.

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

https://laitman.com/2011/06/a-science-about-the-world/

https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/

2. I’m not experts on religions or other spiritual methods, so I cannot comment on what they do or teach there. But in general, most spiritual methods, religions, philosophies, and even sciences in one way or another stem from the wisdom of Kabbalah. Either as a stepping stone for a person to develop through until his point in the heart awakens (such as many eastern traditions), or from an attempt to copy and implement this wisdom (like what early philosophers tried to do, which later on turned into modern sciences), or as a side effect of the concealment of this wisdom (which is how the modern religions and spiritual paths emerged).

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ludumo,

Right now, we’re in the fundamentals, learning the basics of this wisdom. We’ll learn how to put all of this into practice in the more advanced lessons. But one thing that is constant regardless of where you are in your studies is that all of the changes that happen, take place only thanks to the force of the light. Our entire work boils down to extracting more and more of this light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/

So the best thing you can do towards attaining spirituality is to set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning to the Kabbalistic sources, videos, lessons, etc. Such a habit will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Tatjana,

This will make more sense in the next semester when we learn the concept of “there is none else besides Him”. None else besides Him means that the entire world is nothing more than a game between a person and the Creator. That there is a singular benevolent force behind EVERYTHING, behind all of the different people, events, thoughts, and desires that we come across.

We’ll learn this in depth in the next semester, but in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: http://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Megan, great questions!

I think there’s some misunderstanding here. We discuss everything that we’re learning about. We even have workshops between us to discuss these things, reflection forums, etc. But we don’t share our personal revelations (for the reasons I talked about in a previous post below).

Furthermore, even if a person would reveal his personal revelations, it would not be a verification of anything. Just picture that a person comes up to me and says “Hey, I’ve studied Kabbalah and reached the 25th spiritual degree from it”. Is that proof that this system works? No, I would simply be accepting his words on faith, like any other blind belief. Verification means that I experience what we’re learning about from the Kabbalists on myself.

The Kabbalists are the scientists of Kabbalah. Everything we know is based on their research. This is similar to how other sciences work. The Kabbalists are those researchers that have performed a certain experiment and reached a certain result: the correction of our nature, the revelation of the Creator, the force of bestowal, etc. So if we are to replicate their experiment, to follow their procedures we should reach the same results.

But if a person is not yet on the degree of a Kabbalist, how does he relate to everything he’s learning? Like to any other science. For example, when I read a physics textbook, I see different formulas and experiments that research our reality. If I’m reading this textbook in 8th grade, then I have no choice but to accept the things written there since they come from a credible source. If I’m reading this textbook in college, I’m already given some tools with which I can measure and verify some of these things for myself. And yet there are some concepts that are so advanced, that I have no way to verify them until I become a physicist myself and get access to all the tools that will help me research these things.

Same with us here. There are some things I can verify for myself even when I’m just starting in the fundamentals of this wisdom, and then there are things that I can verify only when I myself have reached spiritual attainment.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Timothy, great questions!

The world is a reflection of my 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.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/

But what about the other people? Do they exist or not? Essentially all that exists is one soul and we are all parts of it, like cells within a single body.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/05/from-multiplicity-to-unity/

As for correcting myself vs correcting others, when I do my spiritual work, I correct MY part that is found within everyone. So I don’t actually correct the others and I don’t do the spiritual work instead of the others. For more details, see my replies #57588 & #58059 to Maria below.

Albert @ KabU

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