[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mo,

Not necessarily. It could be that you are indeed spending too much time studying Kabbalah.

We need to find a good balance between our corporeal lives and our spiritual aspirations. Without a good balance in our corporeal lives, we won’t be able to advance in spirituality either. This is called “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, health, etc (this is called flour) and to set aside some time on a regular basis to focus on spirituality (this is called Torah).

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

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Lori,

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 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/2011/12/the-holy-names-of-bestowal/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Verena,

1. Yes, you can say that.

2. We suffer because of our uncorrected egoistic nature. The process of development is to help us to reach that conclusion so then we would be willing to correct that egoistic nature.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/

Keep in mind that if you are to share some of what you’re learning with others, this needs to be done in a VERY gentle way, not to violate the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. And if your explanation turns into an argument, then it will ultimately harm you and weaken you on the path. This is why the sages say that “silence is a fence for wisdom”.

So its best not to start preaching this wisdom to others. If you think someone might be interested in it, the safest thing is simply to give them a link to the course or one of the books written for beginners.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/11/only-people-with-the-point-in-the-heart-can-feel-that-kabbalah-is-the-salvation/

Albert @ KabU

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Albert - KabU Instructor.

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the feedback. Keep in mind that we’re still in the fundamentals, learning the basic knowledge of this wisdom. The practical application of what we’re learning will be covered in great depth in the advanced semester.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Rich,

There is only one spiritual being, one thing that the Creator created, and we’re all parts of it, like cells within a single body.

We’ll learn this in depth in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Renata,

1. In the advanced semester we will go in depth about the spiritual work in the ten. It is at that point that everyone will receive their own group of ten with whom they can put those things into practice.

2. We learn that “there is no time in spirituality”. Reaching it does not depend on time, but only on the right desire. If we build the right desire, within it, we will right away reveal spirituality. If not, then even if a few thousand more years were to pass by, we would still not reveal anything. It all depends on us, on our efforts to build that desire.

Albert @ KabU

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