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Hello,
OK, if Kabbalah is a science,
1.- where is the observable and measurable data or evidence, the experiments, the measurements or observations? Where I can find the empirical evidence?
2.- A science must use the scientific method meaning,
a- formulates hypothesis
b- test them trough controlled methods
c-analyze the results
c- draw conclusions that are open to revisions or proved wrong. If the claim, in this case Kabbalah cannot be challenged by evidence, then it is not scientific.
So, Kabbalah must be systematically investigated by using empirical, testable and reproducible methods producing outcomes or knowledge that can be criticized, improved and verified for others.
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Hi José-Carlos,
Kabbalah is a science because it uses the basic scientific method to research reality. The Kabbalists are the scientists of Kabbalah. Everything we know is based on their research. This is similar to how other sciences work. The Kabbalists are those researchers that have performed a certain experiment and reached a certain result: the correction of our nature, the revelation of the Creator, the force of bestowal, etc. So if we are to replicate their experiment, to follow their procedures we should reach the same results.
But if a person is not yet on the degree of a Kabbalist, how does he relate to everything he’s learning? Like to any other science. For example, when I read a physics textbook, I see different formulas and experiments that research our reality. If I’m reading this textbook in 8th grade, then I have no choice but to accept the things written there since they come from a credible source. If I’m reading this textbook in college, I’m already given some tools with which I can measure and verify some of these things for myself. And yet there are some concepts that are so advanced, that I have no way to verify them until I become a physicist myself and get access to all the tools that will help me research these things.
Same with us here. There are some things I can verify for myself even when I’m just starting in the fundamentals of this wisdom, and then there are things that I can verify only when I myself have reached attainment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/
Albert @ KabU
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Hi Albert, thank you for answering me back. What you are describing is pseudoscience and not science.
Nevertheless, Kabbalah cannot be a science since it studies/observes the spiritual world, the world of roots; while science requires observations and measurements only of the material world through the the five senses meaning, the world of branches.
In the example you give, it doesn’t matter if you read a book of physics in 8th grade, and later on in college and later as a physicist, every time you will get the same result based on the experiment, the observation and the measurements.
Kabbalah follows the laws of the world of roots and its causes and the things you can verify for yourself even when you are just starting with the fundamentals of this wisdom, and then the things that you can verify only when you have reached attainment are all and each just in your consciousness and that cannot be measured and observed with the five senses.
Thank you 🙂
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Hi Lori,
The boundary is the desire. As we’ll learn in the upcoming lessons, all of reality exists within the desire to receive pleasure. Everything we attain is within the desire. Even this thing called the Creator is experienced within a desire, a corrected desire, but nonetheless a desire. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator (and any spiritual phenomena) is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2012/12/philosophy-a-building-without-a-foundation/
https://laitman.com/2011/12/the-holy-names-of-bestowal/
Albert @ KabU
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Is there a Kaballistic re-interpretation of the story of Noah’s Ark? Or of Moses parting the Red Sea? Were those stories also written in the code, the branches language?
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Hi Amaranta,
Yes, the stories in the Torah are written in the language of root and branch.
In Kabbalah we look at these stories as the inner process of development that each person will undergo in their spiritual aspirations. Moses for example is that point inside of us that will lead us out of our “Egypt” out of our egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
And if you’re interested in learning how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
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I have finished week 1 lessons and I bought books to see on my computer recommanded readings.
I recently read in the Zohar that there are 613 mitzvot, 248 positive and 365 negative. Why are there so many? In Christianity, there are only 10 in Shemot (Exodus), chapter 20.
Thank you very much to answer me to my first question !
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Regarding the books that are advised for one to read, can one use the LIGHT code, or was it just for the first books recommended?
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Regarding Aramanta’s question about Noah’s Ark and Moses, Moses will lead us out of egoistic nature, WOW!
And this message has been in the Torah the entire time I have been reading/studying Torah. I wonder how many congregants in the synagogue know this when we attend services. From what I have learned so far, my Rabbi Chaim Block definitely knows Kabbalah and the Zohar because he sermons have always reached my soul and even answered questions that I did not know I was asking. Hence, as I continue to learn, I will realize the immense wisdom I will know that will help me along the way.
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Hi Frédéric,
Numbers in Kabbalah are not quantitative, but rather qualitative. They are used to represent certain spiritual states, like the sum of different properties behind that state.
Just like a computer image uses binary code to represent that image, numbers are used in spirituality to represent a certain spiritual state.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/numbers-indicate-quality-not-quantity/
Albert @ KabU
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Hello,
I have two questions.
The first is this one :
1) Why this ancient wisdom of Kabbalah was unrevealed for all many times ?
The second is this one :
2) How to start to feel the upper worlds in our life ?
Thank you !
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Hi Frédéric,
1. Kabbalah is the method by which we can correct our egoistic nature and reveal the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. There are 5 levels of egoism that need to be corrected. Throughout history, as the level of egoism grew, accordingly Kabbalah was revealed in a specific form that will help correct that level of egoism.
For example: if you compare Kabbalah to a medicine that can cure a rare disease, obviously you can’t take the medicine before you’re diagnosed with the disease, but once the disease actually manifests, you can take the medicine and be cured of it.
So in our days, now that the full level of egoism has been revealed, Kabbalah became fully revealed.
2. Revealing the upper worlds works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that to feel the upper worlds, we need to become similar to them, to the qualities of love and bestowal that reside there. This is just like how a radio can pick up an external wave, when we tune the internal frequency of the radio to that wave.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
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