[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Rigo,

The 5 spiritual worlds are not place like we think, but rather levels of concealment. World (Olam in Hebrew) comes from the word Concealment (ha-alama). So the 5 worlds are 5 levels of concealment between us, the desire to receive, and the Creator the general force of love and bestowal. To the extent that we correct our own opposite, egoistic nature, for it to also operate in the direction of bestowal, to that extent we reveal these worlds, these higher qualities.

Regarding the order and meaning of each world:

First is Adam Kadmon (primordial Man) this is the first form of the desire to receive that became similar to the Creator, but it operates in a different way then the rest of the system, so it’s called primordial.

Atzilut (from the Hebrew words etz lo: at his place, in his possession). This is the place where the Creator exists, meaning the pure desire to bestow.

Beria (creation), comes from the Hebrew word Bar, meaning outside of. Meaning that it’s already a distinct degree of remoteness from the quality of bestowal.

Yetzira (creation), also means creation but this time it stems from the Hebrew word yetzer, inclination. Meaning there is already an inclination of its own to the Creator.

Assiya (action), this completes the action of creating the desire to receive.

Keep in mind that we usually don’t translate these words when we use them in the lessons. A lot of times it’s better to use the Hebrew word instead of being confused by the translation.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Google translation of the question: How and through what practices, precepts and procedures can I turn away from the path of pain and instead move forward on the path of light? What can I use to achieve this change of path?

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Hi Enrique,

The path of light means that instead of moving forward by suffering, we use the light to help us to advance forward. We extract the light primarily through the Kabbalistic studies, where we read about our future states of connection, bestowal, and love and aspire to be in those states. Our aspiration for those future states is what draws the light upon to help us reach those states.

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

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Mathieu DANHO,

Kabbalah is a method through which we can correct our egoistic nature. As a result of that correction we become similar to the Creator, to His qualities of love and bestowal. As a result of becoming similar to Him, we reveal Him in practice, in our lives. This is why we study the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Baal HaSulam writes about this in “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”, here’s an excerpt:

“all the conducts of creation, in its every corner, inlet, and outlet, are completely prearranged for the purpose of nurturing the human species from within it, to improve its qualities until it can sense the Creator as one feels one’s friend. These ascensions are like rungs of a ladder, arranged degree by degree until it is completed and achieves its purpose.”

But just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just change our own nature. We need an outside force to make this change on us. We call that force the light. And we extract that force specifically through the Kabbalistic books. It could be from the Torah, Zohar, writings of Baal HaSulam, Rabash, etc. Ultimately all these books are simply means by which we extract the force of the light to change our nature.

We’ll learn how to do this practically in the upcoming lessons. In the meantime, 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

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Roberto,

It’s possible that he was a Kabbalist. But since the Kabbalistic writings don’t talk about him, we can’t say for sure. So we could speculate one way or another, but these would just be speculations. We should keep in mind that Kabbalah is a science. Kabbalah only deals with the correction of our egoistic nature and the revelation of the Creator. It has no connection to faith, religion, or religious leaders.

But ultimately these things are not so opposed. Both talk about the importance of loving others as yourself. Kabbalah goes even further and gives us a method to actualize loving others to such an extent that we can reveal in our lives the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi René

We also have similar courses available in French and other languages.

Check out this website for details: https://kabacademy.eu/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jasmine,

It’s not my place to comment on your personal life, but we can talk about these things in general.

1. The Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal. As such, He does not lack anything. Meaning He does not need us thinking about Him or loving Him, etc. The only ones benefiting from this whole process is us.

Although we sometimes use the words that we perform a certain action in order to bestow to the Creator or to bring Him contentment, but in truth it’s just a game to help us to develop. Just like with kids, when we spoon feed them, they see the example from us and want to pick up a spoon and feed us back. Do we really need them to feed us? Of course not. But we still accept this from them, smile, show them how happy they made us by feeding us etc, since we know that through this game, they grow and develop. So ultimately the Creator is not lacking anything. And all of our attempts to bestow to Him are nothing more than a type of game for our own development.

2. Coming closer to the Creator works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that we can come closer to Him to the extent that we become similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. But since He is not in need of us loving Him (point #1), this is done in practice specifically with other people. Meaning that loving other people is the way by which we come closer to Him. In other words, there is no such thing as disconnecting from people while thinking about the Creator. Our closeness to Him is specifically through our closeness with other people.

The foundation of this type of work is done in a small Kabbalistic group. And once we build a certain foundation there, we can add more and more layers on top of that, until we can include the whole world in that connection.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/

3. We learn from the Kabbalists that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. But why then don’t we see this in our world? Why do we see so much suffering and problems in the world?

This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative equals negative.

So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see and feel more suffering and horrors in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.

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

Albert @ KabU

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