Kabbalah Fundamentals. Clip "The Language of Kabbalah"

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December 10

01:08 PM

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Michael Sanilevich: In this article, "The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah", Baal Sulam explains that over thousands of years, Kabbalists used a specific language in order to communicate their spiritual states, and there were four such languages. Also, I heard you say that music is a language and drawing, but let's focus on these four languages, which are the language of the Torah, Halakha, Aggadah, and the language of Kabbalah. And why is specifically the language of Kabbalah more suitable for our generation?

Rav Michael Laitman: The thing is that when we attain the higher world, then this attainment is strictly personal, inside the person. And when he needs to pass something on to another person, then there are no words for it because it's an inner feeling. You need to somehow express it through some external actions that another person can get an impression from, and by that, to generate inside himself the same feelings, understanding, as did that person who attained the upper world. Meaning, in order to pass on to another person that's supposed on the same level as I'm on, more or less, for that, you also need to find some kind of code. It's like today, where we connect between ourselves, between modems, my computer with your computer. Then there is some kind of a box that makes the connection between us, connects one computer with another, back and forth. And what you get is a kind of communication. How do we do it between ourselves? In the ordinary world, we have some kind of collectiveness of feelings, understandings, circumstances. Meaning, we have a language that's taken from our day-to-day life. And in the spiritual world, when we initially don't have that language, and we don't know on what level and where is our counterpart, if he does feel the spiritual world at all, and therefore there is a problem of how do we connect, what laws of communication, commutation are there here. And thus, Kabbalists needed to invent a language in order to speak amongst them in a way that they'll understand each other, where each of them is on what level of attainment of the higher world, what exactly does he feel, perceive, very possibly that what I feel, another doesn't, even though that they too are in some kind of attainment, or maybe it only seems to them that way, or to me. Meaning, there is a tremendous range of uncertainty here that we somehow need to scrutinize, sort, start working with. And here appears a problem of communication, even sheerly externally. How will I explain to people in what words, letters, expressions, gestures, maybe through dance, colors, sounds, etc.? How? How can I draw it all? All the methods of communication of information from person to person are earthly. And how can I pass on something spiritual? All these things don't exist in spirituality. What exists in our world? And therefore, Kabbalists, first and foremost, discovered the language of branches. Meaning, that everything in our world has its initial starting point in the spiritual world, and the spiritual forces gradually descend into our world, and in our world, they give their physical manifestation, some kind of volume, some kind of form, some kind of expression, sound, color, etc. Eventually, any chemical elements, organic, doesn't matter, they all stem from spiritual forces. Meaning, they looked at the objects of our world and named spiritual states by the objects of our world. Yeah, meaning, if I say glass, then I mean a glass in the higher world, meaning a certain force that in our world generates this object.