There are five worlds between the Creator and our world: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira and Assiya. Beneath the world of Assiya there is the barrier and under the barrier there is our world. Our goal in this world is to attain the degree the world of Ein Sof while our souls are still clothed in our corporeal bodies, thus …
Chapter 2.2 – Persistence
Naming a person is done in Kabbalah according to that person’s will to receive. For example, if a certain individual has a desire to attain the Creator, feel Him and cling to Him, then that person is named Israel (from the words Yashar El – straight to God), even if still at …
Chapter 2.3 – The Recognition of Evil
It is not enough to love the Creator and want to unite with Him. It is also necessary to hate the evil in you, meaning your own nature – the desire for self-indulgence from which you cannot escape by yourself. You should come to a state where you look inwardly, …
Chapter 2.4 – The Attributes of the Light
The soul is the only thing that He created; it perceives the sensations of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste, through its filters. Behind the filters of the five senses there is "a computer" and "software". The soul translates what it finds outside it into a language we can relate …
Chapter 2.5 – Building an Inner Attitude
Studying the secrets of the spiritual world leads us to build an inner attitude towards it, which is also expressed in how we relate to our everyday lives. At the end of the process, our lives in this world should be subordinate to spiritual rules. This is the desire of …
Chapter 2.6 – Discovering Spiritual Properties
In order to start perceiving the spiritual world, we must acquire spiritual attributes. But what does "acquiring spiritual attributes" actually mean? And how can we acquire them? People who discovered the spiritual world tell us that looking from the outside, they see the nature of our world as a manifestation …
Chapter 2.7 – Correcting Our Desires
Utilizing my desire in a different way is called “correction”. This is a state where we are completely liberated from it, as though looking at it from the side, not governed by it. For example, we can look at the will to receive as a will to bestow. If I …
Chapter 2.8 – The Right Way to Advance
The society we live in is flooded with perpetual pursuit of beastly (corporeal) pleasures such as: money, glory, and sex. It is impossible to sin in such a state, and it is just as impossible to keep Mitzvot. This is simply not spirituality. However, there is hope in that situation, provided …
Chapter 2.9 – Spiritual Reward
People want to be rewarded for anything they do. Even when working to attain spirituality, we want to be rewarded because we are made of pure egoism and cannot operate any other way. Behind every act, there is always an aim; otherwise our egoism would not permit us to make …
Chapter 2.10 – The Sensation of the Light
The Creator influences us through various things in our environment. It is our duty to understand that every thing that happens with us is nothing but the Creator approaching us. If we react correctly to this influence, we will begin to understand and feel what it is that the Creator …
Chapter 2.11 – Linking the Worlds
Reality consists of a Creator, or the will to bestow and give pleasure, and a creature, or the will to receive pleasure. There is nothing else in our reality except these two components. When the will to enjoy is corrected through a spiritual screen that acts against egoism, it is …
Chapter 2.12 – The Body at the End of Correction
Will we retain our physical body after the end of correction? Kabbalah never speaks of the physical body because it is simply not a part that needs correction. There are no changes in the body except for its aging. Only the will to receive pleasure needs to be corrected. Our …
Chapter 2.13 – Questions & Answers
What Is the Meaning of Our Lives? Q: People asked about the meaning of their lives in previous generations, but in our generation everyone can study Kabbalah. Is that because of our virtues or because of our sins? A: Yes, it’s true that such questions are not new. But in our …