[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Maddy, great questions!

1. Yes, the Hebrew Bible was written by Kabbalists in a special code called the language of roots and branches.  Meaning that it uses 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/

2.  You’re right, it’s hard for us to work directly with our desires. After all, there is no button in me that I can just press and have the right desire. So we do need to use actions which help us to reach the correct desire. The main action that we have in Kabbalah is the study. Through the study, by simply aspiring to be in those higher levels of love and bestowal that we read and learn about, through that aspiration we extract from the study the light. This is a special force that gradually works on our desire and builds in us the right desire.

So the best thing you can do for your spiritual advancement is to set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic sources, lessons, videos, books, Q/A forums, etc. Such an action of regularly returning to the source of the light will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.

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 Muhammad,

That’s a good question. If you didn’t get the answer from the lesson, feel free to ask it in the questions forum, and we’ll be happy to answer it for you.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Bonnie,

That’s a good question. If you still didn’t find the answer, please ask it in the questions forum and we can answer it for you.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ty,

The next course in this series is Kabbalah in Action. You should have already received the details by email on how to register to it. If not, you can contact the support team through the “need help” button on the bottom right, or by emailing [email protected]

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mohamed,

600,000 is less of a quantitative number and more of a qualitative number. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it’s been fully corrected. So essentially all of humanity is included in this number.

Check out this blog post to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mira,

All the Kabbalistic books, including the Tanakh, Talmud, Zohar, etc are written in the language of roots and branches, meaning it uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand there is a law that the spiritual root must touch the corporeal branch at least once. Meaning although these are spiritual phenomena, they must have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world.

For example, Egypt represents the uncorrected egoistic desire while Israel represents the corrected desire, those are the roots. But in our world these things exist as branches as well. There is actually a physical place that is called Egypt and Israel. Still, despite all the above, the Torah is not a history book, not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/why-do-we-need-the-language-of-branches/

Albert @ KabU

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