[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

On the one hand, you’re on the right track in your thinking that as we go more towards connection we don’t need a human leader because we are all in the revelation of the Upper Force, the Creator who leads all of reality. And then there can be no disagreement or confusion. All is clear to all. But as long as some of us are not in open attainment of the Creator, there has to be a person or a handful of persons who together, with a single opinion, lead the others. And actually, the Upper World is built in such a way (and this is why humans are prone to attach themselves to false gurus) that in the Upper Worlds there is always an Upper Degree that you must nullify to, in order to rise to the next degree. In other words your teacher is always your teacher. As you rise through the degrees, you discover them higher than before. So, on the other hand, the concept of one teacher above the student never goes away. I will always have my teacher, Rav Laitman; he will always have his, RABASH, and RABASH will always have his, Baal HaSulam.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Duke,

You’re right that one can’t understand with the intellect. Not really. Because, look, our mind is a product of the world around us. Our language too: descriptions of the world we inhabit. We don’t inhabit the Upper World. It’s utterly concealed from our senses. So, no language exists in our vocabulary in any language that can describe the Upper World. But generally speaking, the Endless World means that all reality is your desire. Yours. What you see, what you don’t see yet. And it’s all for you. You also don’t feel what’s before you as an endless world, full of abundant possibilities to enjoy, fulfilling the goal of Creation, which was to delight the Creature. But it has to be enjoyed in a different way. In a form called Receiving in Order to Bestow, so that we, the receivers, would not be in an opposite form to the Creator, whose quality is bestowal, but that we would both receive and achieve the main goal, which is Equivalence with Him – since nothing is better than that. So, there is a process, long but worth it, of inverting our pure Will to Receive, first to Restrict it, then turn it to Bestow in order to Bestow, and later, finally, to receive in order to bestow. It’s a great adventure, in and of itself. But it’s all in feeling, not mind. Your mind is a product of your feeling in your current five senses. And your spiritual mind has to also be a product of your feeling (which you don’t have yet, not of the spiritual world). You can’t grasp anything of it with the mind that developed in you out of the experiences of our world. You have to start with a Point, which has no volume, a black point, that is the beginning of the spiritual sense. You have to develop it, very consciously and with purpose, strength and dedication. This happens through the Reforming Light that one draws in the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah – to more and more absorb materials by those who experienced the Upper World and wrote to us from there – especially Baal HaSulam and Rabash, as well as all kinds of exercises they give. This is the method we provide here at KabU.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Esther,

All psychological states (and all of us are in a certain psychological state that characterizes our perception of reality, in which we feel ourselves existing in a world, in which there was some history before I existed and there will be people existing after I die) are a product of the shattering of the singular system, in which there weren’t different people, but one Creation, a single desire. Now, I experience a shard of this once whole desire. My whole essence is this desire. And if I would go deeper into my true essence, it’s the whole integral desire that is common to all those broken pieces of it, which include all the people that exist and ever have existed and will exist. All of us, towards the true, whole and perfect reality are truly like someone with a severe cognitive disability. Towards that reality we are blind, deaf, unable to taste, and completely distorted in all possible ways. We don’t even know in what world we exist. And that’s why people are miserable in it, and why the world is going in the direction it is. It’s clearer by the day to everyone that no good future is possible for humanity. With this comes the increase in mental illness, both inborn and acquired. All of this is a product of the shattered perception of reality, which is inborn in every person to varying extents. We need to correct this perception. Through connection with others, for which we need the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is the wisdom of how to connect the shattered desire, we reveal the whole, eternal reality, above time and space. And there, there is no mental illness. Now, those in our world who are born with a severe mental illness or disability, they play a special role in the system that includes all people. All people are on the path of suffering actually, and this is just their particular participation in the correction of the broken vessel, in an unconscious manner. And all of us are involved in the gradual, painful correction of this broken vessel. If we have an awakening to the wisdom of Kabbalah, we need to move to a conscious, proactive, and far more pleasant and quick correction process.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul, sorry it seems I missed this one. That’s the way the Creator built reality, that if I want to reveal Him, reveal the Upper World, I need to start keeping the laws that exist there before it gets revealed. It’s like a child needs to know the street laws before crossing an intersection. But here, it’s even more. It’s like I live underwater and to exist above, I need to develop new organs of survival. In the spiritual world one cannot exist in the qualities we have now. Therefore, I need an Upper Force to add to my qualities these new organs of perception, 5 new senses. I can draw this force by various exercises the Kabbalists advise for us to practice in the Kabbalistic group. I need to act towards them, as much as I can depict it, like I will act in the spiritual world. I won’t be exactly right, it’s a game of sorts, but I nevertheless will invite the Upper Force to change me.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Duke. In an individual. Each person has to have a society, a spiritual society, towards which he is working. He has to be towards them like the Creator is towards reality. That is, he has to try to think of them rather than about himself, since the Creator does not think about Himself. He has to try not to be indifferent to them, as the Creator thinks always about the wellbeing of the whole of reality. So, the student needs to do many exercises so that the Upper Force will work on him and make these changes in him. The exercises are not an end in themselves, rather a means to invite the Upper Force. Now, this Force also doesn’t fundamentally change what he is. We’re a Desire to Receive pleasure – and nothing besides. Therefore, that won’t change. This desire to receive, when it is in its current, inborn form, is called hatred of others. Usually, we are not even developed enough to identify it as such. It doesn’t reach hatred, but mere indifference to everyone who is unrelated to different forms of self-benefit that could come to my desire. And again, this nature won’t change, it’s going to stay. Except for one thing. A new thing is born atop this desire, called Kavana/Intention. And through this intention it is deemed that I enter equivalence of form with the Creator. And I find out that only the direction of the desire determines my entire perception of reality – whether I’ll perceive this imaginary dream world, or be born into the spiritual world. It is revealed in one birth into it, like a baby born from the womb into a brand new world; and then it is attained more and more. Each time, it’s revealed more by starting with hatred/self-interest/indifference towards others or the Creator, and then covering it with a greater love. This is the spiritual path. And even before this process there are many stages of a similar process, prior to spiritual birth. That’s why I need a Kabbalistic group to measure myself with, to what extent I’m in passion, indifference, or hatred towards the spiritual process.

[Gianni – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul,

Problem: all our language comes from experiences of the world we are born in. There are no words in our language to describe the Upper World. There are no experiences that are similar. Even the words that we somehow use to help a person try to imagine what they should do to reach the spiritual world – the person of course doesn’t hear them correctly. But these words are, again, not in order to describe spirituality, but to give the person a depiction that, even though it’s not correct, it is a depiction towards which he can move in the direction of spirituality. And he also doesn’t move in the direction of spirituality but he, by this, positions himself before the Upper Light, which is standing by to make the changes in the person, which bring him to Equivalence of Form with the Light, a form of bestowal rather than reception. And by Equivalence with that Upper World, he feels it.

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