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Hi Ben,
Spiritual advancement happens specifically from the ups AND downs. It’s just like the EKG chart that measures the heart. If there are ups and downs, the heart is beating, the body is alive. If it flatlines, the body dies.
Likewise in our spiritual work, our advancement is composed of many ups and downs. But if we’re in the same state for a long period of time, then we stop advancing and are spiritually dead.
So what you are experiencing is normal. We go through many states on the spiritual path. Many ups, downs, and everything in between. The main thing is to just keep going, to keep placing yourself under the influence of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies (lessons, videos, Q/A forums, books, etc), and it will balance everything out.
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
Hi Yijun,
Kabbalah has been passed down from teacher to student for almost 6000 years.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/kabbalah-without-a-trace-of-mysticism/
Kabbalah avoided religious style expansion because the Kabbalists followed the strict rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. Meaning that we cannot force someone to study Kabbalah. We just wait until a person develops the point in the heart and then they themselves come searching for it.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Verena,
We’re all different. So cells in a body is a good way to look at it. That despite our differences, when we connect together, we experience spiritual life in that greater body.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Lezlie,
Kabbalah Revealed and Attaining the Worlds Beyond can be found in our online Kabbalah library.
Kabbalah for the student is a collection of articles from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. All the articles that are in that book can also be found in that same library.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Shadrak,
In order to perceive this world, we have the 5 senses, within which there is a certain screen that sends impulses to the brain to give us a perception of the world.
In order to perceive spirituality, we also need a screen. The spiritual screen (Masach in Hebrew) is an anti-egoistic screen. It’s the intention of bestowal that we place over the desires. Once we acquire that screen, in the corrected desires, we’ll be able to perceive spirituality.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/06/how-to-receive-in-order-to-bestow/
Keep in mind that in practice, we don’t have the strength to correct our own desire. The correction is performed on us by the force of the light. Our work comes down to extracting more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
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
