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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.
Imagine no one ever had hearing. Suddenly, you’re the first person to develop an ear. You discover a world of sounds. It’s that concrete. Like this, you discover a spiritual world already around you, the dimension of forces operating our world.
There are actually 5 Phases if we include the Keter. Since there’s no Created Being there to speak of, we somtimes deemphasize this root phase. There are 5 worlds, corresponding to these 5 phases.
Hi Helen,
It’s hard, even impossible to imagine attainment since what scientists call facts are something far below this. For example, we don’t attain that dinosaurs lived or that monkeys evolved or that light is particles or waves. Such lenses can emerge such that all that is turned on its head. Those things, we don’t hold in our hands experimentally, the way I test if a ball is thrown up, it’ll come down. And even this is not yet attainment. But let’s say that’s the minimum for what we call attainment. The ball, you attain in the 5 senses that Nature developed in you. Partzufim, you attain with senses that Nature develops, but not automatically. Only with your sincere request. Getting to that is the whole problem.
