[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Maria,

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Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Gedula, great questions!

1. We cannot speak from the Creator’s point of view because we don’t attain such things. Kabbalah is a science, with clear limits of what we can and cannot research. Kabbalah differentiate two parts to the Creator. 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 is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. 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/2011/12/the-holy-names-of-bestowal/

2. The ladder is the 125 degrees of difference between us and the Creator. The Earth is our desire to receive, it’s our egoistic nature. And the heavens is the Creator’s nature, that of pure love and bestowal. To the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder. All of this follows the law of equivalence of form.

If you’re interesting in learning more on how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Maria,

1. Yes, the bigger the general level of egoism, the more the population grows.

Rav Laitman wrote about it in one of his blog posts:

“600,000 is the number of initial fragments, but after that they are fragmented again into whatever number is necessary for the optimal correction in each generation – so that each fragment will have as much egoism as it’s able to correct. Therefore, to the degree that egoism grows, the world’s population grows as well.”

2. It’s not the person that reincarnates but the point in the heart. Our point in the heart is our spiritual potential. Just like a single sperm cell contains all of the genetic makeup needed to build the future person, likewise with our point in the heart. It contains all of the information about our development, what we went through, and what we still need to go through.

If we realize this potential then we use it to build the soul. If not, this same spiritual potential continues to reincarnate again and again until it gets fully realized.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Muhammad,

We reach adhesion with the Creator by becoming similar to Him, meaning by correcting our opposite egoistic nature towards the direction of love and bestowal. Things like meditation help to calm us down, but ultimately it doesn’t correct our egoistic nature. So it’s not a part of the authentic Kabbalistic method.

How then do we correct our ego and become similar to the Creator? Only through the light. The light is a special force that can correct our nature. 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/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jeff,

The Kabbalists tell us that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. Why then don’t we see this in our world? Why don’t we feel everything that is happening as something good?

This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers, a positive times a negative equals negative.

So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see more evil and suffering in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists and that our previous egoistic state was nothing more than a dream.

We’ll learn about these concepts in more detail in the future lessons, but 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 Sandra, great questions!

1. No, the language of roots and branches is a type of code by which Kabbalists use words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. Why did the Kabbalists need this special language? Because they have no other means by which to describe spirituality. There are no words or objects in spirituality, it’s a world of forces. But each of these forces have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world. So by using the names of the corresponding branch, they can point out and talk about its spiritual root.

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

2. I’m not sure which verse you’re referring to, but in general, roots and branches are like a tree. At the source of the tree are its roots. And these roots sprout and result in branches. Likewise with us, there is a certain root to everything that happens in our world. Our world is the result of these spiritual roots. Meaning we’re in the world of results, of branches.

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/

3. I don’t know, I’m not an expert on religions.

Albert @ KabU

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