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Hi Logynn,
If you take something from here and from there, of course you can find a contradiction. How can there be a proton but also an electron? We have to build something that consists of many opposing parts. We can say, though, that we always apply efforts. It doesn’t matter if they seem ‘egoistic’ as long as they’re in the direction of the spiritual goal, closer to connection, and so on. From not with an intention of for the Creator’ we come to the intention of for the Creator.
Here is a blog about this from Dr. Michael Laitman:
A question I received: The information you present to the world is fascinating. Everyone in my family is Orthodox Christian, and I’ve read the Bible and the New Testament since childhood. My question is: Where is Jesus Christ in your science? This worries me most of all, and is the only thing about your method that raises a concern.
My Answer: He’s absent, because I only base my teaching on the three main Kabbalists: Rashbi (The Book of Zohar), the Ari, and Baal HaSulam (view his available works in English). Just like any other science, Kabbalah bears no relation to any religion. It is the physics of forces that are perceived and examined through our sixth sense – the corrected desire.
In contrast, religion speaks about carrying out certain actions and rituals in our world, rather than correcting one’s egoism by means of the Upper Light. However, all religions want this action attributed to them.
This, we can never know, from our degree, but only by rising to the degree of the authors of the Zohar. Even if we translate a word, the next word we don’t know what degree it speaks of, and thus how to translate. The Zohar is not a study text, but one that we study only as a segula [remedy] that we study for the Reforming Light. How a remedy works, we don’t know; but apparently the doctor knows. That’s all I need to know.
No, I don’t think Elon has anything to do with Kabbalah. He has his own meaning of life (terraforming mars, making money, etc).
Hi Joan,
I don’t think learning Hebrew is central to the first major stages of advancement. Most words that are in Hebrew need to be in Hebrew untranslated. Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut, Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya it does no good to have some prosaic translation of. If you know Hebrew, in fact, you need to unlearn it so as not to confuse your definitions with terms that you really can’t define until you attain them. But we have a course in Hebrew here at KabU, which gives you the few basics I think you need. For example, there are a handful, such as Ohr (Light), Kli (vessel) – maybe 10-20 terms covered in the course – which are essential, but also you’ll quickly just absorb them being around us.
The most important explanation is that it directs you to the sources and not to instructors. Meaning you have to have what’s called “faith in the sages.” They write about the spiritual world that they attain, and provide you a method to do the same. Beyond that, there are no guarantees. It only seems to students that some instructor testimony would be of assistance. It turns out that that would require belief in someone as well – someone of far lower stature than Baal HaSulam, Rabash, Dr. Laitman.
