[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Robert,

1. It is our main choice in life, but we don’t make it directly. Rather we choose to place ourselves in a strong spiritual environment, and as a result of that choice, we have the strength to advance by the path of light.

It’s like with a seed. If we plant it in fertile ground, then it’ll get all the right nutrients and grow. If we put it in the desert or just keep it on a shelf somewhere, nothing will come out of it at all. So all of our work boils down to finding the best spiritual environment in which to plant that seed. And what will ultimately happen to that seed is a result of the environment we put it into. We’ll learn more about this in the next semester, when we study the topic of freedom.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/08/what-path-will-you-take/

2. Without an active point in the heart, a person has no interest in advancing spiritually on the path of light.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

google translation of the question:

Watching this video again after completing the course, I am interested in joining a ten (a group of ten students of the wisdom of Kabbalah) to continue studying according to the dynamics recommended by Rav Laitman. Is it possible to manage joining a ten through this KabU platform?

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Hi Enrique,

Yes, everyone will be placed in a ten in the advanced semester of KabU.

The prerequisites for that is to first finish the fundamental courses (Kabbalah Revealed 1 & 2) and the intermediate courses (Kabbalah in Action & Kabbalah Experience).

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Natu,

1. I cannot comment on Judaism because that’s not what we’re learning here. Here we’re learning Kabbalah. Integrating Kabbalah in your life should indeed be done in a balanced way. This is because without a good balance in our corporeal lives, we won’t be able to advance in spirituality either. 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, health, etc. And to set aside some time on a regular basis to focus on spirituality.

And in the more advanced stages of our development, we will see how our day to day life helps us with our spiritual development.

2. Connecting with others is a central part of the Kabbalistic method, so there are plenty of opportunities to do so. In the early semesters, our main point of contact with others is through the live zoom lessons and through these Q/A forums. In the more advanced semester, there will be an opportunity to join a virtual Kabbalah group and learn how to do spiritual work in the group. There are also a few regional Kabbalah retreats every year that you’ll have the opportunity to participate in.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Verena,

We learn that the Creator is the good that does good and only sends us goodness. So if every moment we’re receiving only goodness, then the only prayer we should really be working on is to correct ourselves, so we feel that true state.

Furthermore, we learn that praying for myself in the majority of cases is egoistic. Even if I’m asking for lofty things like bringing the Creator contentment, if it’s focused on myself, then it’s egoistic and actually causes me more harm than good. So we should work on focusing our prayers on others, on helping our Kabbalistic group to advance towards the Creator. As for me, since I’m part of that group, I don’t need to pray for myself, rather, my prayers for the group include me in there as well. It’s like a cell in a body being concerned with the whole body. If the body is balanced and healthy, then the cell will also be balanced and healthy.

As for the preparation to the prayer, the true prayer is the peak of our work. All that we do beforehand is the preparation for that true prayer. For example, we spend a lot of times studying and learning about higher spiritual levels. As a result of that, we typically reveal just how opposite we are from them, how much our egoism is standing in our way. As a result of that, we begin to feel despaired with our own strength and then we feel a true prayer come out for the Creator to help us overcome the ego.

All of this is just scratching the surface of the topic of prayer. We will be learning about all these things in great depth in the more advanced semesters.

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

https://laitman.com/2011/01/praying-in-order-to-change/

https://laitman.com/2017/03/what-is-prayer/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Demilew,

See my reply #393030 below to Petra.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Koriander,

Our nature is egoistic. So whatever intention towards bestowal we try to set, it’ll just be corrupted by that egoistic nature. So first of all we need to correct this egoistic nature.

We do this through the light. The light is a special force that can correct our nature. Our work boils down to extracting more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it performs all the necessary corrections on us.

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

Albert @ KabU

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