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Kabbalah Revealed
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First I’ll talk briefly about Kabbalah in general, and then you’ll have an opportunity to ask questions and the lecture will be in line with what you’ll want to hear, so to speak.
Kabbalah emerged approximately 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, Babylon, when the first egoistic leap in humanity occurred. Unlike the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature, a human being develops from generation to generation. We are born as little children and develop; we don’t simply become bigger, we develop. This is not the case with animals. An animal is born small, with corresponding reason, and it ends its life with the same reason. However, a person develops, and every subsequent generation is smarter and more developed than the previous one.
All of this is based on the fact that the egoism within us is constantly developing and pushing us to pursue greater and greater knowledge. Consequently we develop from purely bodily pleasures, gratifications, and satisfactions (desires for family, food, shelter, and sex—what the body would desire even if we lived alone) to desires that are more broad, external, and social (desires for wealth, honor, fame, knowledge—desires which would not arise in us had we not lived in a society). From generation to generation, these desires gradually evolve. They become different. This denotes the difference between generations. Animals have hardly changed over the course of a few thousand years, while humanity has changed greatly, particularly during our time.
This human egoism showed itself for the first time, or was revealed, through a sudden rise (the first of five such egoistic leaps in humanity) during the times of Ancient Babylon. This is discussed in the Torah: people became so proud that they wished to learn, see, and become all-powerful. At the same time, egoism did something else to them: they stopped understanding each other. Before this, they lived in commonality and understood each other instinctively, like one family. Then they suddenly ceased to understand each other. For the first time, there emerged unfounded hatred and a tearing away from one another. Hence from thereon, those people—that Ancient Babylonian civilization, the source of our civilization—spread over the whole world. Almost all of today’s population on earth derived from this ancient Babylonian civilization.
However, in the same Babylonian civilization there also emerged a completely different science: not about how to use egoism for one’s own sake (to develop various sciences and techniques in order to satisfy this egoism), but instead, how to rise above it. In other words, despite the fact that egoism grows in us, this science tells us how to maintain a commonality among us.
The founder of this idea was Abraham, who by the way was an idol worshipper and a pagan in Ancient Babylon. He was an educated person. He began to understand that the egoism growing in that civilization rose purposely so that people would continue to stay together in one community and in unification with the others. It then turned out that egoism specifically provided that binding among the people, and because of it people rose spiritually. He discovered this theory and began to experiment with it in a practical manner.
The Torah recounts that he opened the tent and began to call his Babylonian brothers, inviting them, “Come,” and teaching them this science. Students gathered around him. He called his teaching “Kabbalah,” from the word “to receive”—how to receive properly. Therefore, it is called “the science of reception.” In such a manner, a group of students was formed. Then Abraham left Babylon and came to the place now called Israel. Because of this, he began to be called “Abraham haIvri,” from the word Ever (crossing). Subsequently, the Jewish people arose from this group.
Jews are not a nation or a nationality like all the other nations. It is that same ancient Babylonian nation that separated from Ancient Babylon only in its ideological origin, so to speak. In actuality, even today, if we check the biological foundations, the data of modern Jews and that of those few in number, ancient Babylonian tribes which remained in Babylon, we will see that they are identical. Science shows us this.
Hence, Kabbalah emerged in this manner and existed over the course of several thousand years until this tribe expanded, went through Egyptian exile, and came out of it. Then the tribe’s egoism rose even more (the next egoistic leap occurred) and this time they were able to rise above it under the guidance of the next great Kabbalist, Moshe (Moses). He elevated the nation to a level that we call “the First Temple.” It is a great spiritual level, which the nation existed in.
Beginning from Abraham, this Kabbalistic group constantly developed and existed in the perception of the Upper world, the spiritual world. Alongside with what we feel through our five senses, our universe, they also perceived an additional world, which is higher, and from which the forces that control our world descend. Before the downfall of the Second Temple, egoism rose to such an extent that the people could not rise above it. (Overall, there are five of these egoistic leaps in humanity.)
This happened during the times of Rabbi Akiva. Although he taught his students “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” there emerged unfounded hatred amongst them. He was preparing 2,400 Kabbalists, but in the end only five people were able to conquer this egoistic leap and thereby remain in spiritual perception. All the others fell into the perception of our world, meaning that the perception of the Upper World vanished from them. They were left to feel only our world in the same manner as we, their descendants, feel today.
In the beginning of the exile (they knew about this exile; and by the way, there are also four exiles, ours being the final one), one of Rabbi Akiva’s students, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, wrote a book that incorporated all of Kabbalah, the well-known Book of Zohar. However, this book was hidden and was to remain hidden until our generation. There is even a date indicated: the year 1995. Until that time, this book was mostly hidden. It opened up slightly while the commentaries needed for our generation were being made.
So why is the Book of Zohar to be revealed now? It is because the spiritual exile ends in our generation, and we are supposed to rise once again to a perception of the Upper World. How is this done? It is done very simply. Humanity (the people who left Babylon, settled around the whole world, and thought that they could achieve something egoistically) begins to feel complete disappointment from their so-called progress.
In the past it always seemed that the next generation would live better than the previous one (our children will be better off than we were); it seemed that science, art, and all the other things we do would lead to happiness. However, today we see that none of this actually does. Depression is the leading problem of humanity. There are drugs, terror, complete confusion, ecological problems, etc. All of this is a consequence of what we contribute to nature.
Hence, that same egoism which we used while we were able to shows us the depravity and hopelessness of this path now. Therefore, an interest toward the second path, of which Abraham spoke, emerges in humanity once again.
For this reason, humanity is developing an interest in Kabbalah today. It occurs spontaneously from within and for no apparent reason. Kabbalah begins to be disclosed, along with its various uses and changes, depending upon the ways different people understand it. Nonetheless, all the paths lead to the revelation of the true and correct Kabbalah. It was hidden over the course of two thousand years, and many different legends and stories formed around it because no one really knew anything about what it actually entailed. It was passed down from ‘mouth to mouth,’ from a teacher to a student (there was no other way) until our time. This chain was observed from the time of Abraham through many, many Kabbalists up to our time.
And now an opportunity has come to disclose it, explain it to everyone, and to study it in all the languages. The world is coming to an occurrence where on one hand Kabbalah needs to be disclosed. On the other hand, nature forces us through its influences (the sufferings that befall us) to begin to think about the fact that there probably exists a different meaning of life and way of life than the one we led throughout all of history. This is the destination of Kabbalah.
Question: Is there a connection between the Torah and Kabbalah?
This is a constant question. As I said before, Kabbalah arose in Ancient Babylon as a method of working on the egoism of a human being in order to penetrate into the Upper World and to connect with the Upper force.
Kabbalah tells us there is another sphere surrounding our world or our sphere. That is the spiritual sphere, from which governing forces descend into our world. Every one of us receives all the data from there. We don’t determine who to be born as, what data to possess, in what family, during what time, with what dispositions, what upbringing to receive, and what society will surround us while we are children.
We don’t plan any of this in advance. All of it descends from above downward. When a person is born and receives all of this, and reaches the age of twenty, let’s say (he becomes an adult), what does he have of his own self? He has everything he was born with and all the things he was given in his childhood. In other words, he chooses absolutely nothing. He does not choose what to be like. He continues his life in this automatic fashion, the way he was brought up. Therefore, in actuality, none of us have free will.
Kabbalah tells us it is possible to become a genuine human being (not just a smart creature but a human being). However, this is possible only when we rise to a level higher than our world: a level where the spiritual data is located and from which the forces descend to our world. These same forces govern our world.
The state of the world today is quite sad and will become more and more threatening. This will force us to rise above our world into the world of spiritual data (the world of governance) and to govern ourselves. Then we will actually acquire freedom of will. Kabbalah talks of this Upper force which governs our world, and the way we can control ourselves and our world through this Upper force.
Kabbalah does not talk about how to improve life in our world (get a better position, make more money) or gratify ourselves by the “direct” meaning of the word. Kabbalah does not engage in amulets, holy water, or red strings. All of that is not Kabbalah. Kabbalah has no such things. Kabbalah only speaks of the ascent into the Upper World and of how to control our world from the Upper World, unlike other studies that try to provide psychological comfort for a person.
The Torah is Kabbalah but it is written allegorically. All of these books (the Torah, the Zohar, the Talmud, Shulchan Aruch, etc.) are called holy books because the Upper World is discussed in them. The word Kadosh in Hebrew means “separated,” “remote,” or existing outside of us, away from us. Kadosh is a word belonging to Bina, the world of bestowal, or the property of bestowal—the property of the Upper World. Hence, all of these books are written only about the Upper world, but in different languages. The Torah and all the other books say the same thing as Kabbalah; the difference is only in the language.
What is the difference between Kabbalah and the commandments executed by people in this world? The fact of the matter is that after the people of Israel descended from the Upper World during the falling of the Temple and fell from the perception of the Upper World, the only thing that was left for them was to execute these attributes, or these external actions called commandments. However, in actuality, the commandments are the correction of a person’s soul.
Our soul consists of 613 desires, and the correction of each of these desires is called a commandment. The correction of each desire leads to the perception of the Upper light, the Upper governance, or the Upper force, in this desire. Then, when a person corrects all 613 of his desires, he begins to perceive the Upper World. He begins to feel eternal and sublime and to govern himself in this world as well as in the Upper World.
In essence, until a person corrects his soul, he has no right, or ability to exist in the Upper World. This is because we exist in our world only due to the fact that we know its properties. We exist in it, we study it, and we adapt it to ourselves. It is the same with a person’s soul. Until a human being from our world gets to know the Upper World, he will not be able to enter it.
Thus, Kabbalah is like a science about entering and existing in the Upper World. And now humanity is approaching a state where each of us is capable of this.
Question: How do Kabbalists feel about all the existing religions?
They don’t feel anything toward them. All the religions are created by man—absolutely all of them. They all originate from the falling of the Temple, the descent of Israel, meaning the descent of the people of Israel from the spiritual world into our world. When all that was left of the perception of the Upper World by Jews was the external Torah, which is executed by the religious population today, two other religions arose: the right, which is Islam, and the left, which is Christianity. All the belief systems that fill the East (Hinduism, Daoism, and so on) have existed since the times of Babylon. It is said that in addition to having a wife, Abraham Avinu had concubines. He taught his sons from these concubines these various belief systems and sent them East. This is how the Eastern religions originated.
All the religions (except Kabbalah, which is a science about comprehending the Upper World) are based only on a lack of knowledge and the imagination that something supposedly exists. Therefore, Kabbalah (being a science) has nothing to do with any of this. All the religions only exist for the purpose of somehow comforting people and telling them that there is a purpose to their corporeal life. In actuality, there is only one purpose in this corporeal life: when after many, many reincarnations we reach a reincarnation, like now, where we finally begin to learn what Kabbalah is and can attain the Upper World through it. Only in this is there a purpose. In other words, the purpose of a human being is to rise to the level of the Upper World. Otherwise, there is no purpose.
Question: Are you aware of the energetic images which constitute the Kabbalistic tree of life, and which were received as a consequence of extrasensory perception?
All of that is a complete whim, and it does not leave the bounds of purely psychological human exercises. If you don’t believe me, talk to scientists or other specialists who engage in extrasensory teachings. By the way, I am not denying extrasensory perception, but it occurs on the same egoistic scope of the person and not in the soul.
Question: From what I heard, famous Kabbalists are of the Jewish faith. Are there any Kabbalists of other faiths?
Kabbalists have no relation to any faiths. Kabbalists are those who attain the Upper World. In other words, in order to attain the Upper world, one needs to correct oneself. Abraham Avinu initially was not of the Jewish faith and neither were the others.
Today the period of human development is such that all of humanity must come to the attainment of the Upper World, or the Upper Force. Therefore, it makes no difference what a person’s religion is, or who one is in general.
It is said that “Everyone comes to know Me—the great and the small alike,” and all of mankind will be compelled to come to this state. All of us are the Creator’s creations; only, there are those who historically received the method for spiritual ascent, and those who did not but are receiving it today. Hence, there is absolutely no difference.
We are all of those same Ancient Babylonian people who scattered over this world and did not want to rise above their egoism. We wanted to build the tower of Babel instead. Now we’ve built it, and we see what the world has come to. Over the next couple of years, we’ll see even more clearly that we have no choice. If we wish to exist, we will be forced to attain the Upper Providence through Kabbalah and to change ourselves and our life on this earth. Those who can hear this today have an opportunity to do this now. In that case, such a person actually possesses an opportunity to control his fate.
Question: Will everything written in the Torah occur in reality, or is it just an object of one’s imagination and unreal?
Everything written in the Torah has already occurred. That is, everything except the correction of mankind, humanity’s ascent, or the revelation of the real general Universe. Look at what’s happening. We exist on this planet of ours, and just look at this pitiful state we are in. We are completely unaware of how the laws of nature are arranged, how they act upon us. We don’t know how we need to act in order to feel well or receive a positive reaction from the people that surround us, nature, and everyone in general. We cannot imagine at all what we need to do and how to do it. This applies to economists, politicians, sociologists, and anyone at all.
There exists an enormous range of information about us, but we are unaware of it. We see that everything in nature is strictly determined, self-contained, and made with unbelievable art and wisdom. We can see this in every cell of our body, how everything in our body interacts and exists in certain harmony. However, we do not know these harmonious laws, and on our human level, in a human society, we do anything we like as if nature does not possess any of these laws. They are undisclosed to us. These laws exist on the level of the Upper World. If we were to know them we would see how pleasant our existence could be, and not only in this world. We would rise to the level of general nature, eternity, and perfection.
Kabbalists tell us that if a person reveals the Upper World, he feels himself to be eternal. He ceases to identify with the animal body. He watches it from the side, so to say, and feels the Upper layer, the one that he eternally exists in. Sometimes he descends and submerges into the animal body, and then rises again, then submerges into it again, and rises. The perception of this Upper layer—the perception of harmony, perfection, and eternity—is what Kabbalah gives us. It is what each of us can perceive by entering that level and existing in such a manner. Right now, nature is already pushing all of humanity toward this. This is life’s purpose.
Question: What is the Creator? How do you see Him?
The Creator and general nature are the same thing: “Elokim Be Gimatria ze Teva.” The most general law of nature, which operates in the Upper World as well as our world, is called the Creator. It is a law. You can beg Him, plead to Him, cry as much as you want, and nothing will help you. It is the same as pleading and crying and then jumping off a roof, in which case the fact that you pleaded and cried won’t help. It is exactly the same. People don’t understand this. They think the Creator has leniency of some sort, kindness, He will help them, He is compassionate and gracious. No, the Creator is a law. “Chok Natan Ve Lo Yaavor. Ani HaVaYaH Lo Shiniti” – there are absolutely precise indications in the Torah.
I believe our history also indicates that there are no easy ways out for anyone. Hence, knowledge of this law, knowledge of the Creator—what Kabbalah gives us—presents such power into the hands of a person, and such an opportunity to live properly, that one no longer fears anything and knows that all doors are open ahead.
Question: How do you feel about Berg’s Center?
It is a psychological interpretation of the Kabbalah for a person to be better off in this world, which he is in. I am not even mentioning the fact that they sell various things there and line their pockets that way; that’s their business. Money is of no importance. However, that is not Kabbalah. I will tell you why.
Kabbalah cannot be studied without original sources. That’s the most important thing. There can be no “ad-libs.” There are no dream interpretations, no predictions of the future, and no methods for finding a match for oneself or being healthy in Kabbalah. Kabbalah does not discuss our world at all; it only tells us how to rise from our world and to attain the Upper World. That’s it.
If Berg relies on Ashlag, then let him teach the writings of Baal HaSulam, Rav Yehuda Ashlag. That’s what we study. When we are studying in our center in Israel, all of our lessons are broadcast on two Israeli television channels in real time. You can also watch them over the Internet in real time, or watch the recordings, translated into Russian, Hebrew, English—a total of seven or eight languages.
We study only original writings of Kabbalists, and never anything else. Their writings contain a special force, which draws Light, which elevates a person. This is the first thing. The second is that none of the writings (you can look at any of Baal HaSulam’s articles or letters) contain any references to red strings, holy water, how to find a husband or wife, etc.
However, if those things help people psychologically, okay. It is like a home psychologist. It is self-deception or self-consolation of a sort.
Question: Can a person join a group the moment he realizes or feels his “point in the heart”?
A point in the heart is an embryo of a soul. We emerged from a drop of semen, then an embryo developed, and then a small person, and now we are these big people. However, it all started with a drop of semen. It is the same with a soul. It is born from a spiritual drop of semen, the drop of data, which is called “the point in the heart.”
The heart is all of our egoistic desires. The point in the heart is a rudiment of altruistic spiritual desire or aspiration towards the Creator, Higher existence. When it emerges in a person, one begins to aspire to something, not knowing what it is; things outside the frameworks of one’s normal life begin to be of interest.
As soon as this point emerges, it needs to be nourished and nurtured. If possible, you can do this in your Toronto group, through the Internet, by studying with us or by studying through our website. We have a so-called Kabbalah Academy, where you’ll be able to gradually go through all the lessons from the beginning. You can receive consultation, advice, and so on here, in the Toronto center. You have all the right circumstances. We have classes in Russian, Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, German, Turkish, and Arabic—many languages.
Question: Is it possible to change your fate once you grow spiritually?
Only if you’ve grown spiritually can you change your fate. This is because, as I’ve already mentioned, on our level we are all marionettes. All the forces descend unto our world and unto us from above. Therefore, if we wish to control anything in our world we need to rise to a higher level of information and governance, and govern from there. Kabbalah tells us this. That level of governance is called the world of Atzilut. We study it, we learn how it is arranged, we learn the way the systems of governance are arranged there, and how we can alter our fate. This is precisely what Kabbalah scrutinizes.
Everything going on in the world today only proves to us that we cannot control our world from our world. It will be this way more and more, until humanity will simply be in perplexity, like a little child who stands there and asks, “What should I do?”
Question: How does a person’s diet influence his studies in Kabbalah?
A good diet is good. Kabbalah has absolutely no connection to diets, physical exercises, religious or non-religious dances, meditations, or even the execution of the Jewish religious commandments. The execution of commandments is one thing, and Kabbalah is another. I am not saying that they shouldn’t be executed. When a person executes the commandments, he exists in particular frameworks, a particular scope, and he no longer wanders off to the left or to the right, so to speak; it is easier to direct such a person to Kabbalah. However, there is absolutely no way to control the spirit through any religious actions or any physical actions in our world, through the body. So, you can eat healthy and caloric food.
Question: How does Kabbalah differ from theosophy?
There are many materials on this topic as well. Baal HaSulam wrote on this topic, and we have these writings translated. We have many lessons on this topic. Theosophy is a science about religions. Being someone with a doctorate in philosophy, I can tell you lots of things about this if it interests you. But in essence, I want to say just one thing: religions emerged due to humanity’s need to somehow answer the question regarding the meaning of their pitiful existence. Theosophy engages in a comparative study, among other things, of what I would call the psychological attempts at self-compensation.
Question: Has any scientific data been collected affirming Kabbalah?
First of all, today the contact between Kabbalah and scientists is very strong. We write books together. A joint book is now coming out by Erwin Laszlo, a great international specialist in philosophy and sociology, and me. Also, another book came out called Kabbalah in the Context of Modernity by Professor Rozin and me. Professor Rozin is the department chairman of paramount philosophy in the Academy of Sciences in Russia, where I maintained my thesis. I maintained it the Institute of Philosophy and Academy of Sciences, and later I wrote a collaborate book with this institute. Now a book is coming out called Sefirot of Perception, which I wrote together with Professors Svirsky and Arshinov, two great international specialists in the applications of synergetics and Kabbalah. There have also been many writings with scientists who specialize in issues of biology, water, and so on.
What do you mean by “Kabbalah being affirmed by science”? The more science advances, the closer it comes to Kabbalah. This is because science expands our ability to examine our world through our five senses. Meanwhile, Kabbalah reveals a world outside of our five senses which we will never be able to attain through our five senses. Therefore, there is contact, but this borderline contact is very difficult. Although it is relatively simple with psychologists and people who engage in the attainment of reality.
There are numerous materials and works on this topic, by Baal HaSulam and by me. These are issues of attainment of reality. How do we perceive this world? Is what we perceive real or not? How would we perceive it if we had different senses, if the diapasons of perception—vision, hearing, and so on—were altered. How do I know that the same thing exists outside of me as within me? These are very serious issues, and Kabbalah deals with them. We cross paths with the segment of science that concerns itself with these issues. In this respect, there is great progress and much mutual work.
Question: Why did the Book of Zohar only become available in 1995?
The Book of Zohar was written particularly in order to be revealed only in the end of the twentieth century, when humanity would begin to understand that it is on a dead-end path of development. It said so in the Book of Zohar itself. The Vilna Gaon pointed out the same thing in the sixteenth century. The Book of Zohar was allegedly mistakenly revealed in the eleventh century of our era, through the widow of Rav Moshe de Leon.
Moshe de Leon was a great Kabbalist who lived in Spain. He had the Book of Zohar. It was passed down secretively from Kabbalist to Kabbalist. When Moshe de Leon died, his wife was left with no means of subsistence and began to sell his books. She sold the Book of Zohar, since she had absolutely no idea what it was about, and this book landed in the hands of people who began to study it. In such a manner, this book was disclosed, although it was actually only supposed to be disclosed in the end of the twentieth century.
Why is this so? In general, the whole system was developed by Abraham. Since it was not accepted for realization in Babylon, those Babylonians who took the regular egoistic path gave us the humanity of today. Those who took the path of Abraham belonged to the former nation of Israel, and are also on the same level as the rest of the humankind, except for that chain of Kabbalists who preserved the level of Abraham, and therefore this science, within themselves.
Question: Are there Kabbalists-scientists who are not of Jewish descent (except Madonna)?
No, currently there are not. There can be. They existed in the past. Our great teacher, Rabbi Akiva (40 CE - 160 CE), was not of Jewish origin. This was Rabbi Akiva, who said “love thy neighbor as thyself” and was preparing twenty-four thousand students. Later, they fell from their spiritual level to the corporeal level, and because of this the Temple was destroyed and the exile began. Rabbi Akiva is what we have left of that spirituality that was present in our people before the descent, before the destruction of the Temple. And he was not Jewish by birth. There was also Unkelos, a famous commentator on the Torah.
These people still lived during those times. And during our times, everything is opened for everyone. Read Baal HaSulam or read from our site, what the meaning of Mashiach is. Everyone knows this word. Mashiach is the dissemination of Kabbalah among the nations of the world. It is not a person who comes. The dissemination of Kabbalah, its adaptation and realization in all the nations of the word is called Mashiach. These are not my words; Baal HaSulam said so.
Question: Why do you call egoism an integral part of Kabbalah? Why is it egoism specifically, and not another positive word? Doesn’t egoism refer to a situation when something is done for one person, while Kabbalah wants the opposite, for everyone?
I call egoism a very positive trait because only egoism is created by the Creator. There is nothing in us except egoism. The question is how to use it properly. What approach did all the religions, all the beliefs, and the entire humankind, who began to develop egoistically out of Babylon, accept? “Turn off your egoism, desire less, be good, kind, and modest, support the poor, and then you will be okay.” It took even worse forms in the East: “eat less,” “breathe less,” etc. Like Yogis, whose philosophy is “bury me in the ground, and I’ll stay alive.” This lowers a person from the human level of development to the animate, vegetative, and even still. A person can be buried, and he will stop breathing, and then he’ll come alive again. Can you imagine? They are killing egoism. However, in actuality, egoism constantly develops in us and it simply needs correction, not oppression.
Kabbalah says the opposite: the greater a person, the more egoistic he is, the more he can grow. What can be done with a small person, what does he need in life? He needs work, TV, football, a bottle of beer… For this reason, Kabbalah is called a science about reception—reception of not only our world, but also the Upper world. Hence, we should never oppress, force, or suppress anyone (what religions do). We shouldn’t scare people or set any limits for them. Kabbalah is absolutely against this. On the contrary, we should elevate people’s consciousness, so that a person will rise above his egoism up to the Upper world. This is a fundamental difference between Kabbalah and all the other teachings and religions.
Question: I think we can change as a result of something only when we can see it.
Kabbalah discloses the spiritual world, and a person sees what actually happens. It is like embroidery. Does everyone know how embroideries are made? On one side we have a picture, and on the back we have various yarns crisscrossing. Kabbalah reveals the second side, where the yarns crisscross on an embroidered picture. And then you understand what is connected to what, the interdependencies, and you know how to act in order for harmony, or a proper governance of you, to be achieved.
Question: Why did you stop healing people?
There were many reasons. First of all, it simply tires me out too much. I have too many other things to do. I did this while I was able to, but now all twenty-four hours of my day are devoted to the dissemination of Kabbalah. I consider this to be more important. The time has come when it takes priority even over health. Today the Providence is already different. People need to be helped this way now.
However, if there are special problems with someone who studies with us, I help these people in an exclusive manner.
Question: Based on Kabbalah, as a science, can you assert that there is immortality?
Of course, immortality exists. Our biological body ceases to exist, but the “I” of a person is immortal. Let’s perform transplants of all the organs of the body. When will the “I” change? The arms, legs, head, heart—which of these needs to be changed in order to alter the “I”? Before, people thought it was the heart. That’s not the case. It also isn’t the head. The “I” of the person is not situated within all this meat, and it is immortal. However, you immediately need to elevate it to the appropriate level, because you don’t feel this immortality.
Question: Is there free will on any of the levels, or does Kabbalah only speak of that level?
There is no free will or a free life in general for a person. Every person is an absolute puppet, governed from above. If we wish to govern ourselves, we need to rise to the level of governance. The fact that we don’t see this is merely an illusion of being supposedly free. How free is a little kid? He runs around the room and does certain things. We know just about all of his actions and desires, and he thinks he is absolutely free.
Question: For how long does one need to study Kabbalah, and what will happen once a person learns it?
A person begins to study Kabbalah using original sources, in essence, only Baal HaSulam. I’ll answer simply. I began to study in 1977. I began to study with my teacher, Rav Ashlag, in 1979 and studied with him until his death in 1991. I was his secretary, assistant, and helper. Bnei Baruch, the group, is named after him (Baruch). We constantly studied only the writings of Baal HaSulam in their original form. I also acquired Baal HaSulam’s archive and we study materials from there as well, but only originals. We finish studying all the materials of Baal HaSulam, and we go through them again. When a person studies them anew, it occurs on a completely new level. But we only study him, nothing else. The person who wrote these works was on a very high level at the time, a spiritual level. When one reads these works, one connects to the level Baal HaSulam was on through them. That energy, the so-called Ohr Makif, influences a person.
Hence, there is no other possibility at all to draw closer to the Upper World, or to reveal it, if you read something by someone other than Baal HaSulam. He is the most appropriate Kabbalist for our souls. You can study Ramchal, Agra, etc.—there were many great Kabbalists throughout history, but they all lived in previous generations. Baal HaSulam wrote with consideration for the properties of our souls, the souls that come down during our times. Therefore, there are no materials more appropriate for us.
If you read these writings in their true forms, you will see that there is nothing in them about meditation or success in our world, interpreting dreams, or any of that stuff. This is completely different Kabbalah from what you’ve heard in various other centers.
Question: Does having a grasp on Kabbalah help to conquer illnesses?
Yes and no. This depends on the way you will rise to the top. As you rise, obviously you will escape suffering. Suffering pushes us from below, or from the back, in order for us to go further toward the spiritual. This is the purpose of all sufferings. As soon as we aspire ahead on our own, sufferings no longer reach us since we no longer need to be pushed and poked from the back. Everything depends on how greatly you strive ahead. However, you can conquer illnesses only this way, and not through any sorcery, red strings, or even by paying lots of money.
Question: What awaits North America?
Why should we focus on the bad things? [Laughter in the audience.]
Question: What can you tell us about the works of the Rerichs and the Blavatskis?
They tried to understand what Kabbalah was, but, of course, without a teacher, they could not. They and many others devoted many, many years of their lives to this, but unfortunately, they did not understand it. And among other things, Blavatskaya was mentally ill.
Question: Are the laws of the Upper Providence known?
They are stated in Kabbalah in a very clear manner. However, the issue is not whether these laws are known. Pick up the Talmud Eser Sefirot, and all six volumes of it are the laws of the Upper World. But you need to learn to use them. You need to use them. This study constitutes the subject of Kabbalah.
Question: Can one study the original sources in translation?
Yes. We have all the primary sources translated and you can study them. In addition, when we study them in our center, there are simultaneous translations into English, Russian, and many other languages.
Question: What do cybernetics, the theory of informational governance, and Kabbalah have in common?
Since bio-cybernetics is my first specialty, maybe it led me faster to Kabbalah. Although at that time it was still in the primitive states, since it was the 60’s. I studied issues regarding the existence of rational evolving organisms—cells, living bodies, and the like. I saw how harmoniously each cell is connected to the whole body, how each cell attends to the whole body on the animate level. If a cell is given an order to kill itself, it kills itself because the body’s life is more precious for it than its own. It lives, or exists, only in order to give everything to the entire body, and consumes only what is essential for its survival.
This law of harmony on the animate level is absent on our human level. We need to realize it on our own. If we realize it, there will be heaven on earth. We realize it either the beneficial way, understanding that it is what we need, or by “being hit with a stick” in order to proceed. This is what Kabbalah tells us. It is already beginning. We will not be okay. Unfortunately, we need to be spurred, and very much so.
Therefore, you should understand why we are disseminating Kabbalah. We are doing this in order to somehow reduce the sufferings. When a person knows why he suffers, and that these sufferings are purposeful, meant to push him toward improvement and a revelation of the Upper Providence, so that he himself will begin to govern himself, then this person can reduce the suffering. Otherwise, we will constantly experience greater and greater problems.
Question: Why did Kabbalah become available during World War II?
No, it did not happen during World War II. Kabbalah became available at the end of the nineteenth century, when the nation of Israel also acquired a possibility to return to its land, indicating the end of the exile. However, the end of the exile was gradual. It began at the end of the nineteenth century and continued until the end of the twentieth century. This means that beginning with the twenty-first century, a complete realization of the Kabbalah has begun.
Question: Kabbalah rejects religion. What connection does Kabbalah have with following a religion? In particular, what is the meaning of the Kipa (yarmulka)?
It is not that Kabbalists reject religion. They tell us that religions are different psychological ways of comforting a person in our world, “opium for the people,” which is actually true. However, all of these religions take place because people are unaware of their fate, the Upper World, what happens to them when they die or before their birth. Therefore, people have created these various theories in regard to that. If one were to know, there would be no religions. In other words, religion is based on people’s lack of knowledge. However, our corporeal knowledge also doesn’t reject religion because it doesn’t reveal anything from the range that religion deals with. Religion deals with souls and the afterworld.
Kabbalah deals with souls and the afterworld, but it deals with them as a science. And it says, “Reveal that world just like this one. In addition to your five senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste), you also have an inner sense called a ‘soul,’ the sixth sense, or ‘the point in the heart.’ Reveal this sense, and you will begin to simultaneously perceive the Upper World like you feel this world. And then you will feel that, ‘I am in a body right now, and at the same time, I am in a soul. My body can die, but I will continue to exist because my soul exists.’”
Question: Is there such a thing as reincarnations of souls?
Yes. Souls constantly abandon these bodies and descend to this world once again clothed in new bodies. You and I existed in all the previous generations, and we exist today, and we will exist and continue to return to this world again and again until we reveal both worlds as one.
Question: Is there a separation between the soul and the body after death?
What do you mean by “the soul and the body”? That’s it for the body. Today it seems to us that it exists together with the soul. That’s our five corporeal, bodily senses (vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), through which we perceive information. That’s how we perceive this world and our body. Immediately after these senses are gone, this world and this body do not exist. Let’s remove these organs one by one in a person; what will he feel?
Question: How can we tear a teenager away from drugs? What does Kabbalah say about this?
The problem of drugs is a problem for the whole world today. This is merely the beginning. Just wait and see how people will want to run away from all the suffering, emptiness, and worthlessness, to drugs.
In essence, what can we do about this? Nothing except Kabbalah can substitute it. Within all inclination toward depression, drugs, divorce, and terror is the same need of humanity to know, “Why do I exist?” The absence of an answer to this question leads a person to all these excesses. I suggest explaining to him why he exists. We have numerous positive examples in Israel—many of my students came from very difficult drug problems.
Question: How do the governments of different countries that are in authority today feel about Kabbalah?
They don’t feel anything about it. They don’t know about it. This is a problem. We need to bring Kabbalah to them, but it is very difficult to reach them. As a rule, these people are very limited. They think only in a purely technocratic manner. I had meetings with President Putin’s people, for example, his primary, closest advisors, who he consults with directly in matters of politics. We even had a friendly dinner together. This is what they say: “We are interested in things we can achieve today with the aid of money and power. That’s what we have. How should we act with the aid of money and power? Can you tell us how to use these things to make things better in this or that area?”
I had nothing to tell them in response because money and power, in the end, do nothing in this world. But it is what they think they have. I told them that if they want to be better off, let them make me Minister of Education [laughter in the audience]. Education is the only thing we need; we don’t need anything else.
Question: Is asceticism necessary in order to achieve the Upper spiritual world?
Look at my belly and be assured that it is not. [Laughter in the audience.] There is no need for any asceticism. You can eat, drink, and snack as much as you want. There is no need for any of that. Give the body what it wants; learn the spiritual.
Question: Do you teach about the spiritual world?
Of course, we only study the spiritual world. Never does Kabbalah investigate anything in our world. This is because there is nothing in our world through which we or our fate can be affected.
Question: There are lots of different directions in Kabbalah. Which of them is correct?
There are no different directions in Kabbalah. You are making all of that up. There is only one Kabbalah, and that’s it. There are Chasidic people, who pass themselves off as Kabbalists, there are different “Kabbalists”... Kabbalah is that which takes the primary sources and studies them, and that’s it. Kabbalistic primary sources are the book written by Abraham Avinu, Sefer Yetzira, and the book written by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the Book of Zohar. However, the Book of Zohar cannot be read in a simple manner.
In the plane, on my way here, a girl sitting next to me opens the Book of Zohar and says, “Rav Laitman, may I read the Book of Zohar next to you?” I don’t know her at all. It turns out that she studies in this Machon [Berg’s Institute, transl.]. I said, “You don’t bother me. Go ahead.” Of course, I didn’t ask what she can understand in it.
The Book of Zohar is read by people who have already entered the Upper World, or achieved a revelation of the Upper World. The Book of Zohar explains to them what is in the Upper World and what they need to do there. Until one achieves such a level, this book will not do anything for that person, it will only confuse him. Like the Midrash, it is written in an allegorical manner, in the form of various narratives which do not explain anything to a person.
Therefore, we study only the Ari, with Baal HaSulam’s commentaries, and the Book of Zohar also with Baal HaSulam’s commentaries. First we take the books of Baal HaSulam, all of his writings, and then we go back to the Ari, and to the Zohar.
Question: Are the Ari and Chefetz Chaim primary sources?
The Ari is a primary source. Chefetz Chaim is not.
Question: Does Kabbalah engage in medical treatment, such as acupuncture?
What does Kabbalah have to do with acupuncture? Kabbalah engages in scrutiny of the Upper World, with the purpose of having a person become like that Upper World and begin to govern himself through it. Acupuncture influences only our body and has nothing to do with this. I repeat: there is nothing to develop except the point in the heart, which can be developed only by studying Kabbalistic sources.
Never did Kabbalists use any of these things. Where did you hear of such things as acupuncture, diets, red strings, holy waters, or whatever else, fifty or one hundred years ago? People thought of them today in order to sell them. Business is business, I understand. Go ahead, it’s your choice; just don’t say that it’s Kabbalah. But you’ll be able to sell more that way. I get it.
Question: What happens to the soul after a person dies?
Nothing happens to it. It remains on the level it was on while the person was alive. If right now it is within us, but we haven’t begun to develop it yet, the soul is in the embryo state (like a point). It remains a point, like a drop that has not reached the womb of the mother and did not develop. We need to place this drop into the Upper World, and it begins to develop there.
Now we need to develop this aspiration of ours toward the Upper World with the aid of the proper materials, materials which will not lead us astray. We need to direct it, or glue this drop, this desire of ours, to the Upper World.
Question: Do all the feelings remain in the soul after death?
Do you feel anything in your soul now? A soul is a Kli, a vessel, which consists of ten Sefirot, which we study in the Kabbalah. If a person achieves such a level of development of this point, where it has expanded and become a sphere, with ten Sefirot, then this person perceives the Upper World within these ten Sefirot.
Question: Can Kabbalah explain the fact of life after death, or rebirth?
Life after death is not the same life as before death. One can either have it or not. Therefore, if today a person achieves any contact at all with the Upper World, that is what he will be left with.
Question: Can you briefly state your opinion about the spiritual act called “the blow of fire,” or Pulsa Denura?
This was a curse that took place in Israel. A friend of mine, Avigdor Eskin, gathered a couple of other so-called mystics and performed a curse over the grave of Rabin. Afterwards, he was put in jail. I tried to give a speech in the courtroom, to tell them that he simply doesn’t know what he’s doing, and it is all silliness. However, he was being sued for something else, something political. Whether this does or does not have to do with Kabbalah didn’t interest the judge. I purposely went to Arabic Jerusalem to protect him. I just felt bad for this stupid person.
None of that exists; it is all silliness. Pulsa Denura really is a very big spiritual act, which is performed on the spiritual level, in the spiritual world. It is a blow with Light. It is not a blow of fire; it’s Light.
It’s impossible to do harm to anyone in our world through Kabbalah. It is a science. The spiritual world allows a person to enter only to the extent of his correction or similarity. Hence, you receive power only when you can use it correctly. It is not like our world, where an idiot can be given a certain responsibility, and he can do harm to the entire world. This is impossible in Kabbalah.
Question: Does this mean that there exists only one reality?
That’s correct.
Question (cont’d): ...and we will need to return in order to achieve the proper level, or a transition to another reality?
That’s correct. You will need to return to this world, to the state it will be during the next time, until you attain the spiritual world. You understood absolutely correctly.
Question: Is it possible to study Kabbalah without a teacher?
No, it isn’t.
Question cont’d: Who is a Kabbalah teacher?
A Kabbalah teacher is one who teaches you Kabbalah according to authentic Kabbalistic sources and directs you to a perception of the Upper world, or the Creator, rather than to finding a better position, a husband, being healthier, winning the stock market, or in short, excelling above other people. How can a spiritual science tell us how to excel here?
Question: How important is it to undergo the beginner stages of the revelation of egoism in one’s development? Is it possible to reach the Upper level, by-passing the lower stages?
You don’t understand anything in this path. You need to simply study, and the book, the writings, will pull you up by the same exact path as the one by which your soul descended. You do not know this path ahead of time.
Question: Are the books that laid the foundation for Kabbalah also written by people?
Kabbalistic books were written by Kabbalists, who were in our world (sat down and wrote a Kabbalistic book) and at the same time, their soul was in the Upper world. For this reason, what a person like this feels in his soul, he describes in his book. This bridge that he forms between his soul, which is in the spiritual world, and his hand, which is in this world, is particularly what we need. This is why we study only these kinds of books.
Question: Is Kabbalah the only way to attain the Upper level?
Yes, and I’ll explain. There are numerous different methods: the prediction of the future, finding out the past, various “spiritualisms,” etc. These things still are not the soul; they are merely psychological states of a person.
People come to me and say, “Do you want me to break a glass here?” I look at such a person and say, “No, I don’t need any broken glasses here.” Or, someone says, “Do you want me to light a match?” and I respond, “No, I don’t need a fire here.”
There are Bedouins in Israel who serve in the Israeli army as pathfinders, and by looking at a bird flying in the sky, they can tell what is happening fifty kilometers away. This is perception of nature. At some point in our past lives, we also felt nature that way, because all of nature is static. Such a person feels it.
When we studied with Rav, one person in the group also felt it. Once we were sitting there, and he says, “Oh, your wife became pregnant.” “Why?” someone asked. “Today you picked up your cup of coffee differently.”
This has nothing to do with Kabbalah. This is a more refined perception of our animate world. These people tell us about this world. The fact that they predict the past or the future pertains to the bodies, not the soul. It does not pertain to the soul. There can be no predictions about the soul.
The soul cannot be predicted at all because it depends only on your (specifically your own) individual ascent. No one—not a single person in the world—can tell when and what will or will not happen with your soul. You are absolutely free in this respect. It is the only act in the world, where there exists a freedom of will.
Look at how allegorically prophets described everything. That is because they didn’t know how everything would turn out. And now too, we don’t know how it’ll turn out. There are two paths, the so-called Beito Ve Achishena, two paths: either the path of suffering or the path of Light. Which way we will go, or whether it will be between them in some proportion, is unknown. Every person chooses their own path. Somewhere on one’s journey is the path of Kabbalah, the path of Light, the drawing of the Light from above, and somewhere there is suffering. When a person becomes lazy, he is pushed from the back through suffering. We don’t know. Starting with the point in the heart, the spiritual path of development depends solely on one’s freedom of will. No one can predict this freedom of will ahead of time, or else it would not have been freedom.
Question: I am getting rid of egoism.
Good job!
Question (cont’d): But how do I rid my wife and children of super egoism? [Laughter in the audience.]
Kabbalah says that everything that happens around a person is the Creator’s influence upon this person. Take the first article of Baal HaSulam’s book, Shamati (I have heard). This is an essential book for spiritual work, or the spiritual ascent of a person. This is a book published by me; it was concealed. My teacher gave it to me. He gave it to me before, but while on his deathbed, he gave it to me and said “Do with it as you see fit.” Therefore, I published it. He had dozens of other students, but this book was not known by anyone else. I published it after his death because I thought it should be disseminated and given to the world. The very first article is about the oneness of the Creator. It is called There is None Else but Him.
Hence, you should perceive the wife, the children, the friends, the mother-in-law even, and everyone who influences you, as an influence from above. And you should react properly against it all.
Comment: Thank you!
So, don’t correct anyone but yourselves. No one—even your children. It is said, “Raise your child by his path.”
Question: By learning Kabbalah, do you believe in God?
I don’t believe in God; I feel Him. These are two different things. Kabbalah says, “Daa Et Hashem Elokeicha Ve Yaavdeu” (attain the Creator). Once again, “attain” and not simply “believe.” What will belief do? Someone told you something. What do we believe? It is either something we made up ourselves or something someone else made up. Isn’t it so? Someone tells me something. If I accept his words as a fact, this is belief. It is no longer a science at all. Kabbalah is a science, a science of an absolutely evident attainment of the Upper governing force.
Question: You mentioned that the world is becoming more dangerous. When will this change, when will it become better?
The laws of nature are unchanging. The world is going to push us ahead through suffering. It will push us ahead until we attain the Upper World and change our state on our own. Only one force comes down from Above. It is the force that must bring us to equivalence with the Creator, a level where we will know Him, feel Him, and be in one complete connection with Him. This is a level attained through our correction. If we come to desire it, here is a method given to us; if we don’t want it, the suffering will be horrible every time.
Kabbalah tells us that there will either be our correction, or a third and even a fourth world war. And obviously, they won’t be regular wars; they will thermo-nuclear. After that, there will remain a small number of people on Earth who will still complete the correction. However, our Earth, and our world in general, exists only in relation to our sensations.
Our only goal is to once again reach the Upper World from our world, through our freedom of will. And the freedom of will depends on the feeling of necessity to attain the Upper World. The feeling of necessity to attain the Upper World depends either on one feeling this necessity, cultivating it within himself, and aspiring toward it, or on suffering, which will force me to do this. This is our whole freedom, that’s our choice.
What can I tell you? You need to study. I have nothing else to say. Questions are endless until you begin to study.
Question: Is it possible to receive the information we need without studying from books?
It is impossible. You don’t need to read; it is enough that you listen. Turn on our website, www.kabbalah.info, get some information, or you can do this if you study here, with our Toronto group. You can do this once or twice a week, or even every day. Go ahead, you can use any of the sources. There are books in Hebrew, English, Russian, etc. You have all the opportunities available. You can write to me with your questions, and I will answer. You have what you need to tune into; you are given this opportunity. After all, this opportunity is not given to everyone, and it also compels you now.
Question: You said that only by developing the soul and attaining the Upper World is it possible to fix our fate. In our understanding, this means finding a better position in this world, getting married successfully, making more money, or finding a better job. If a person attains the Upper World, doesn’t he become a part of the governing system?
A person that attains the Upper World becomes a part of the Upper system of governance.
Question (cont’d): And he is no longer interested in this world?
No, he is quite interested in this world. He is interested in how much this world as a whole advances toward the Goal of creation. He is interested in the whole world being in a state where it feels comfortable and well. He is interested in elevating this world to a state of eternity and perfection. Such a person simply doesn’t egoistically look out for himself: “How do I arrange everything better for myself?” However, he cares for and thinks about the rest of the world constantly. Therefore, everyone who penetrates into the Upper World, is a great help to us all. So, I invite all of you to do this.
Question: Is such a person considered to be Baal HaSulam?
Yes, he is considered to be Baal HaSulam, one who has ascended the ladder.
Thank you all very much. I will come again and meet with you with pleasure when I have a chance. You can write with your questions to our website, and you will receive answers to them. Until next time, good luck in everything!
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Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, PhD.,
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World leading Kabbalist, Rav Michael Laitman, PhD has an MS in Bio Cybernetics and a PhD in Philosophy and Ontology.
Rav Laitman is the author of 25 internationally selling books on Kabbalah; his books have been translated into nine languages.
His lessons are broadcast live throughout the Internet and cable TV to tens of thousands of students the world over. In recent years he has become a sought-after lecturer in academic and learning circles in the US and Europe
His search for the meaning of life led him to the teachings of Kabbalah in the 1970’s. At first he studied Kabbalah with various teachers in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel. In 1979 he discovered his true teacher, Kabbalist Rav Baruch Shalom Halevi Ashlag (1907-1991).
From the time he met Rav Baruch Ashlag (known as the Rabash), he was never apart from him and spent most of his time in his presence, as his disciple and personal assistant. Up until his death, Rabash passed on to Rav Laitman the wisdom he had acquired from his father, Kabbalist Rav Yehuda Ashlag, known as Baal HaSulam for his Sulam commentary on The zohar (The Book of Radiance).
Rav Dr. Laitman held a successful public meeting in San-Francisco in March 2005 with leading American scientists, participants of the blockbuster hit "What the Bleep Do We Know?" Here are some of the impressions of the scientists after meeting Dr. Laitman:
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www.kabbalah.info
/engkab/ebook/kab_
for_beginners.htm
•"What the Bleep…"
Video Discussion:
www.kabbalahmedia.info/
~video/KabbalahMeets
ModernScience/Kabbalah
MeetsModernScience_
pilot_eng.mpg
Rav Laitman's Latest Book Releases:
•The Kabbalah Experience
Never has the language of Kabbalah been as clear and accessible as it is here, in this compelling, informative collection. The depth of wisdom revealed in the questions and answers of this book will inspire reflection and contemplation.
•The Path of Kabbalah
“Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness” (Exodus 20:3). This commandment from the Bible is the basis of the Kabbalistic wisdom, for Kabbalists know that the only true reality is that of His Essence, the Upper Force.
For more information on obtaining these books and others, visit:
http://www.kabbalah
books.info/default.php
View these fascinating video clips from Rav Laitman's world lectures !!
The Needed Shift in Human Consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=4Q0NsgtFMhI
05:11
Dr. Michael Laitman's speech at the World Wisdom Council meeting in Tokyo, Japan,
"Creating a New Civilization" - November 2005.
Creating a New Civilization - Tokyo 2005
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=WZF2L4CEfZc
06:23
The World Wisdom Council's 3rd meeting "Creating a New Civilization" in Tokyo, November 2005.
Israeli artists meet Rav Michael Laitman, PhD
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=-mUumQWnlGM
07:36
Israeli artists meet with Rav Michael Laitman, PhD to talk about the meaning of life, free choice, and life's basic questions.
Attaining the Worlds Beyond
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=uUWl8-WPeKk
05:14
A video inspired by text from Rav Michael Laitman's book "Attaining the Worlds Beyond."
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