[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Nathan, good question.

But even without such an extreme example of a person addicted to drugs, you can ask the very same question about anyone. How can the average Joe who just works, comes home, spends a few hours watching TV, sleeps and repeats the process, how would the average person ever awaken to the purpose of creation?

Even more than that, we can also ask about ourselves, why is it that we have a desire to to reach the purpose of creation? After all, a few months ago, we were no different than that average Joe. So why all of a sudden now we decided to study Kabbalah? Why not ten years ago? Why not twenty years ago, etc?

It’s because everything depends on the point in the heart. When that desire awakens in a person, regardless of all the other circumstances of life, he will suddenly start searching for answers. And if that point has not yet awakened, then a person would rather engage in drugs, or watch TV, or a million other things that we can be doing in life.

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/

Furthermore, we can also ask why did I receive an awakened point in the heart while another person did not?

This is because there is a certain order of corrections that need to take place in the system. It’s like building a large jigsaw puzzle. First you start with all the corner pieces, and only then do you gradually work your way to the center. So those that received awakened points in the hearts are like those corner pieces of the puzzle that need to start the whole process. Later on, due to their good work, they pave the way for the rest of the world to join this process.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Slobodan,

Developing the sixth sense and perceiving spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. We can see an example of this law in radio receivers. That when we tune the internal frequency of the radio receiver to match the frequency of the external radio wave, then we can pick up that wave and hear it.

Likewise in our spiritual work, when we become similar to the Creator, we can reveal Him in practice. This is essentially all of our work, to become more and more similar to Him, to His qualities of love and bestowal. All the way until we reach complete adhesion with Him.

But since bestowal is completely against our egoistic nature, it’s impossible for us to have a real desire to bestow. In the best case scenario, we can ASPIRE to bestow. We can play pretend AS IF we want bestowal. This is as much as our nature allows and actually this is enough. Such a game, especially when played with other points in the hearts in the Kabbalistic group, is how we extract the reforming light. It’s ultimately the light that corrects our nature and gives us a true desire to bestow. Our work is to extract more and more of it, until it begins to work on us and makes this aspiration a reality.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Robert,

We learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the external world is a reflection of our own internal state. So if we see something bad in the world, it means we still have not finished correcting our own ego. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.

In the next semester, we’ll learn in detail how our perception of the world completely changes between the different levels of concealment and revelation. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Shiloh,

If you’re interested in learning how to properly decipher the stories in the Torah, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/

As well as these books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.

Keep in mind that although the Torah and the entire Tanakh are indeed Kabbalistic books, we don’t really study from them directly in our days. See my reply to Nidia below for more details.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jonathan,

Internally, we try to see all these things as coming from a single benevolent source. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. But externally, we should respond in the normal way. If I’m sick, I go to the doctor. If someone is causing me harm, I move away from them, call the cops, sue them, etc. Whatever is the normal way of dealing with these things, that is how we need to respond externally. And we shouldn’t mix our internal work with our external work. Both are necessary.

We’ll learn more about these things in the more advanced semesters, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/

As for connecting with others, this is done “from light to heavy”. Meaning first we build a strong connection with other points in the heart together with us on the spiritual path. It’s like we’re building here a certain nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Nidia,

There is a part that is passed orally and there is a part that is written.

There have been many Kabbalists and Kabbalistic books written throughout the generations. Although some of those writings still exist today, we don’t really study them directly in our days. In our days we mainly study from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. This is because egoism grows from generation to generation, so Kabbalah, the method for its correction, needs to get adapted in each generation for that level of egoism. For example it’s like in medicine, if a person has a headache he can just drink a tylenol and that’s enough to fix him. But if it’s not just a little headache but something cancerous, then that tylenol won’t do anything for him but he needs a completely different regime to heal himself.

This is why Kabbalah gets adapted in each generation to the level of egoism that is currently found in that generation. So although there were many different Kabbalists and Kabbalistic books throughout the generations, nowadays we mainly learn from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, since their writings contains the light that is most suitable to correct the egoism that is found in our generation.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/

Albert @ KabU

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