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Hi Nancy,
Although we sometimes portray desires in a linear fashion, in truth they are not linear at all. Everyday I fulfill my basic desires and the next day I have to fulfill them again. Every day I go to work, everyday I eat, everyday I sleep, etc. So I don’t need to fulfill the basic desires in a linear way, rather I need to find the right balance between the basic desires and our desire for spirituality.
Kabbalists call this balance “no flour, no Torah – no Torah, no flour”. Meaning a Kabbalist continues to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder. So I cannot just turn into a monk and disconnect from this life and only focus on spirituality. On the other hand, if I only focus on corporeality, then I’m no different than an animal. So the important thing is to find the right balance between the two: to take care of all of one’s normal necessities: to work, take care of the family needs, health, etc (this is called flour) and to set aside some time to focus on spirituality (this is called Torah).
Albert @ KabU
Hi Jj,
I’m not an expert in other methods, so I cannot comment on what they do or teach there.
Regarding the language of roots and branches, this is a type of code that uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. The Torah is entirely written in this code. As such, not a single word in the Torah is speaking about history or our world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Danielle,
You can say that, but this sounds very religiousy and has many different connotations. We need to redefine these things in a more scientific way to not get confused. What is the Creator? What does it mean to “listen” to Him? What is His will?
The Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal. Our nature is the opposite, pure reception, or egoism. “Listening” to Him means to resemble Him, to acquire his qualities of bestowal. Or in other words, to correct our opposite egoistic nature to operate in the direction of bestowal. As long as we remain opposite from Him, in our egoistic nature, then we’re out of balance with Him and thereby suffer.
Meaning we’re talking here purely about laws, laws of bestowal, of equivalence of form. Are we in balance with these laws or not? If not, then we suffer.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2008/11/the-reason-for-our-suffering-and-the-alternative-path/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Yehudit,
I’m sorry, I cannot answer that for you. Every person is free to decide for oneself whether to follow religious customs or not.Keep in mind that Kabbalah is not against religions. In fact we have millions of students worldwide, from many different backgrounds and religions. Many of them do choose to maintain their religion or to perform certain religious customs while studying Kabbalah and there is nothing wrong with that. Just like with any other science, a person can be religious and also be a chemist or physicist. Likewise a person can be religious and also study the science of Kabbalah. Baal HaSulam writes that even after the full spiritual correction people can still keep their religions.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Miryam,
1. Bina. Which stands for our desire to bestow. We’ll learn more about the 10 sefirot in detail in the upcoming lessons.
2. It’s impossible to reach high spiritual degrees without a big level of egoism. It doesn’t mean that we try to foster the ego. Rather, as a side effect of aspiring towards the light, the ego grows as well. This is good because then we have a need to draw even more light and can thereby reach even higher spiritual degrees. See my previous reply to you on the topic.
Albert @ KabU
Hello S,
The path of light is called such because we tap into the force of the light in order to speed up our development.
See my reply below to Micha for more details.
Albert @ KabU
