[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi,

Yes, there are a lot of Kabbalistic books that have been written throughout the generations, including what is called the “old testament”.  Keep in mind that Kabbalistic books are written in a type of code called the language of roots and branches. Meaning that they use words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena.

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

Dispelling Myths About Kabbalah, Part 4

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Anthie,

Yes, you can say that the story from the book of Job is an example of the path of pain, that we are constantly being pushed by sufferings towards the purpose of creation. But if instead of waiting for the sufferings to push us, we start to  aspire towards that purpose by ourselves, then we don’t need those sufferings anymore.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Esther,

Adonai translates to “my lord”. There are a lot of different interesting connections in the gematria of the words, like the one you mentioned about Elohim. We’ll learn the important ones together throughout the course.

Regarding the roots and branches they are like cause and effect. The root is the cause and effect we see in our world, the branch.

It’s like watching TV. Let’s say I’m watching a TV show and want to change something in the show. I can start yelling at the show or even turn it off, or go to sleep or make a thousand other actions, but ultimately it will not change the show itself. In order to make any change, I would need to go to the source. In this case maybe contact the director or something.

This is how our world works. That we’re on the level of branches, like that end result of a TV show that was already made. And in order to make any change, we need to go to the roots.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/09/from-root-to-branch/

From Branch To Root

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ali,

In our days, studying in a group is not exclusive to physical groups, there are also virtual groups. In fact, since the start of the pandemic, our entire organization is studying virtually. So it’s possible to correct yourself even in a virtual group. In the advanced semesters of KabU, everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group with whom they can put these things into practice.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Elizabeth,

If you’re trying to connect with others then you don’t need to focus on yourself. Essentially each one of us is perfect. We don’t need to change anything about ourselves.

Just picture that all of humanity is part of a single system. Like a 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. In a jigsaw puzzle, you wouldn’t start cutting off pieces or recoloring the pieces to make them fit. Likewise with us. Each piece of the puzzle (each person) is perfect by itself and does not require any correction. The only problem is knowing where each piece fits in with all the other pieces.

We’ll learn about this more practically in the more advanced semesters when everyone will get their own Kabbalah group with whom they can put all these things into practice. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Esther,

1. Shay is referring to the number 310. In the Gematria of the Hebrew letters, it’s the written form of the number 310. So for that article, you can replace the word Shay with the number 310.

Check out this article for more details: The Ties between Letters, Words, and Numbers

http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/60270?/eng/content/view/full/60270&main

2. Kabbalah is the method by which we correct our egoistic nature. There are 5 levels to the ego. Corresponding to each level is a light which corrects that level and fulfills it with the pleasure of bestowal. NRNHY is an acronym for the lights. It stands for “Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida.” Yechida is the highest form of light.

3. This is referring to the law of roots and branches. Every object in our world has a corresponding spiritual root. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2009/09/the-law-of-roots-and-branches-the-most-imporant-law-in-kabbalah/

The Law Of Roots And Branches – The Most Important Law In Kabbalah

4. You’re right, we are limited. As a science, Kabbalah is quite aware of our limitations and works precisely within these limits. This is why Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts.

The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator simply because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.

The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.

So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator (and any spiritual phenomena) is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/

The Concept Of God In Kabbalah

Albert @ KabU

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