Introductory Lecture

The Tel-Aviv Educational Center "Nekuda SheBalev"

July 18, 2004

Science and Kabbalah is a vast and complex topic. It is difficult to cover this complex subject fully. I have been engaged in science and Kabbalah for many years, but only in recent years have I discovered their points of intersection. The region of contact between them began to emerge 70 to 80 years ago, when scientists who were studying atomic particles discovered their dual nature: sometimes we see them as particles of matter and sometimes as waves.

It depends completely on us (i.e., on the researcher using some device) as to how they are perceived, analyzed, and studied. Questions began to arise: do waves and all matter around us have a certain form, or is this matter “the way we perceive it?” This dilemma struck scientists: what is our world really like? Indeed, if we use other devices, we will perceive not matter, but waves and some types of plasma or energy.

In recent years scientists began to discover things that have long been revealed in the science of Kabbalah: beyond man there is no reality that can be perceived and researched in any other way than by our sense organs.

As is well known in Kabbalah, the surrounding reality is the Upper Light, some force field. The picture we perceive depends on the viewpoint of our analysis and on the correspondence of the perceived reality to our properties, conditions, and interpretations.

We perceive our world depending on our senses, much like a holographic image changes depending on the visual angle. The science of Kabbalah explains it in the following way: there is no difference between the spiritual and the material. If a person understands how he perceives the corporeal picture, in what way it appears before him, it will be much easier for him to pass to spiritual perception. Indeed, the same man perceives both worlds.

The science of Kabbalah says that the will to receive is the only material of creation. This desire demands to be fulfilled. It feels the fulfillment in accordance with its properties. If the will to receive is small, it feels only its own life, its own existence. We see this in the example of the inanimate, vegetative, and even animate life on a simple level. If the will to receive is large, it develops alongside itself a mental system, which helps it to fill itself. There exist a heart (will to receive) and a mind beside it.

The bigger the desire grows, the keener the mind becomes in its search for ways to fulfill the desire. The more perfect a creature is, the more perfect these two parts of it become. The will to receive reaches a state where it can perceive the entire reality, i.e., receive all the fulfillments that are its due (whereas at the previous levels only partial fulfillment is possible).

If the desire for earthly pleasures prevails in us, then our mind is busy looking for ways to satisfy that desire. Desire has its certain inner properties, and the Light that fills it creates the general picture of the world, of reality together with the desire.

Reality is not something that is before us or something that exists beyond us. It completely depends on our properties. Our reality consists of two parts: the revealed and the concealed. It is divided into inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels; into solids, liquids, gases, all of which correspond to our properties. If we change these properties, our reality will change too.

This is exactly as in atomic particle research: if we look at atomic particles from one viewpoint, we see them as matter; if we look at them from another point, we see them as waves. Everything depends on how we look at it. The same goes for us: if we changed ourselves, we would see a totally different reality. Where we see a solid body today, we would see a completely different picture, e.g., transparent waves or some other properties – in accordance with our own characteristics.

With the crisis in science of 30 to 40 years ago, scientists realized that science could not continue to develop while at the same time disregarding the properties of the researcher. That is why, nowadays, as science approaches the peak of its development, scientists find themselves at a dead end.

Science has always maintained that we perceive the world in accordance with certain formulas, regardless of who does the research. All of a sudden, the whole of reality was shaken, when it was discovered that everything depends on how we change. Thus, the connection between science and Kabbalah began to be manifested. Only 20 to 30 years ago it was utterly impossible to talk with scientists about Kabbalah because they could not comprehend its approach; now they have begun to listen, and admit that everything depends on man and the whole of reality is illusory, an imprint of our own properties.

All of our sensations and actions exist in the world that we imagine, while reality per se is non-existent. If we change our viewpoint, meaning our properties, we will see waves instead of matter, and vice versa, matter in place of waves. This can be compared with the scientists’ discovery of elementary particles in the last 30 years of the past century.

Today we can talk with scientists and together address the world with a new explanation of its design. This is a revolution in human perception, and its results are enormous and extremely important. Everything depends on us; in essence, everything depends on man’s inner state. The entire system of this world’s laws, the connections and comparisons, the seeming relationships between parts of the world, all of that depends on us.

There is no objective reality. If this is so, we need only to know how we ought to change and how we should look upon the abstract and static Upper Light so that it would manifest itself to us in the most optimal way. This is precisely what Kabbalah deals with.

In contrast to all other sciences, Kabbalah does not speak about the research of matter beyond us. It initially and simply states how a person should change so that the world he perceives will change as well. In essence, this is what the science of Kabbalah addresses.

Today’s picture of the world seems appalling to us. The world is in blank despair. This leads to drug addiction, crisis in the family, and crisis in society as a whole. None of this happens because the world was designed this way. It is but a copy of our growing desire, which is what forms our picture of the world by projecting itself on the Upper Light’s properties.

A few years ago, when I started to establish contacts with scientists, I discovered that they are ready to accept this approach. They realize that the future development of science depends on it and are ready to cooperate. Kabbalah is the science of the future. It will form in people the correct attitude towards the world.

In the past we used to believe that this world existed by itself, regardless of us. Today scientists agree with our method of world research. They realized this as a result of their experiments, from their investigation of reality. They “shifted” the perception and the causes of external events and made them internal.

The world will not change by itself. The world is the Upper Light that is absolutely static. We read about it in the latest scientific articles. For example, astrophysicists assert that the universe constitutes one single thought that acts intelligently and purposefully. Ecologists have arrived at the conclusion that our planet with its atmosphere and natural manifestations behaves as a live intelligent creature that reacts to our influence as a live object.

From this research scientists conclude that the universe, the globe and everything that exists on it (from the simplest forms of life to the complex ones) are an imprint of man’s properties. Therefore, in the final analysis, all sciences, although developed over thousands of years take place within a very narrow field of our research of reality.

Kabbalah comes to take their place. It absorbs them, functions together with them, and explains to man the right way to research true reality. Reality manifests itself to us in accordance with the equivalence of form, while our properties are compared with the properties of the Light. Every phenomenon will be revealed to us only if our properties become similar to their properties.

This can be explained by a simple example. Sound waves exist outside my ear, but I perceive them only if there is a system inside me that is capable of reproducing the same waves.

The simplest analogy is a radio set. If it has an inner oscillatory circuit that produces a wave, which coincides in frequency with the external wave, it creates resonance and the radio “catches” the outside wave and brings it to the listener. That is to say, I have to possess a certain property to pick up the wave. If I wish to perceive some particular part of reality, I have to know in advance what inner properties I need to have.

We are born with five senses. Each of them has a certain range of perception, within which all of our reactions to outside influences are registered. We do not perceive all the waves that exist around us, but only those within the frequency range of, say, between 15 Hz and 15 KHz. All our other senses work the same way.

We are made in such a way that the world appears to us within the limits of our five areas of perception. If we had additional sense organs with different perception areas, our picture of the world would be totally different. This is a picture that appears to us as a result of our reaction to some outside influence.

Waves (the Upper Light) exist on the outside. Out of all these waves we pick up only an insignificant portion, a small impression within a certain frequency range. This is all that creates our picture of the world. That is how we perceive the surrounding reality and ourselves.

It is clear that the picture that I perceive is an imprint of my own properties. If a person is born without one of the senses, his perception of the world differs from ours. If we acquire an additional sense organ, our picture of the world will change as well.

Science appears as a result of research. It is impossible to demand from a person who is confined to his properties to research something that is beyond the scope of his perception. To this end he needs an additional property called a screen or the sixth sense. Science has not yet completed the development of the screen; a higher level of advancement is needed.

We are powerless to change the innate sense organs of our body; therefore we perceive our world as one unchanging picture. If we had a sense organ that could change, we would have perceived through it a changing world. That is exactly what happens when with the help of the screen we acquire a new ability to perceive a different, Upper world.

The science of Kabbalah explains how to feel, grasp, and perceive reality in accordance with your choice. It helps to tune your additional inner sense – the screen, the vessel, the soul (all three words mean the same).

Question: Whatever changes may take place in man, the laws of nature remain unalterable regardless of his world outlook. Nature, that can destroy, maim or please us, will remain the same. You can keep changing us indefinitely, but all the same, we will continue suffering from nature’s ruthless ways…

I believe I gave you an example that can be easily understood. By looking at an object through one instrument, I see a wave. However, when I look at the same object through another device, I see matter. Some say that reality does not change. Reality does change, and it depends on me, on my properties. If I change my properties, reality will change. The reality that we perceive does not exist beyond us. Everything we see, hear, touch is the result of our sensations. You cannot say that the same reality exists beyond us. No one has succeeded in getting out of himself and feeling reality differently.

The results of scientific research and experiments demonstrate that if we change ourselves, the picture that we perceive also changes. I am not speaking about Kabbalah’s viewpoint, I mean scientists. They already understand that by changing man we can change the world because the world is a reflection, an impression of our attributes.

In the course of human history we thought that the world existed by itself regardless of our presence in it. We believed that the universe, the globe, existed irrespective of man. Later on we began to understand that the world picture (according to Einstein’s discovery) depended on the velocity of movement. With the acceleration of movement, reality correspondingly goes through transformation: time and distances change.

The values, which we previously considered as constant, turn out to be variable. Thus, everything is relative. What does “relative” mean? That everything is measured with regard to me, to my attributes.

Later on, another theory (now obsolete) emerged. It asserted that the reality that I perceive is non-existent in itself, but constitutes the combination of my properties with the environment. Something exists beyond me, but I pick up only a small fragment that corresponds to the perception range of my senses. My sight, hearing, touch, etc. form a certain picture, which is part of some vast general reality existing beyond me.

During the past 30 to 40 years scientists arrived at a conclusion that no reality whatsoever existed outside of us. The picture that appears before me exclusively depends on my characteristics, my inner parameters. What I sense, pick up, is not the surrounding reality, but my own reaction to something external. For example, my eardrum responds to an outside wave, and I accordingly pick up a certain part of it.

There can be scores of sound waves of huge frequencies, yet if my eardrum is damaged, I merely perceive my weak, partial, and short reactions. That is all I am able to pick up, and I have not the slightest idea of what happens beyond me. I have no device to help me compare and find out what is outside of me.

I resemble a black box with five holes – five sense organs that correspond to five forms of perception: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste.

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I feel my reactions to something external, but I do not know what is outside of me. The sum of these reactions creates the picture of the world for me. This is my world. Thus, the world is not the external picture beyond me, but an imprint, a projection of my inner properties, the result of the functioning of my sense organs.

Only now has modern science arrived at this conclusion, whereas the science of Kabbalah has known about it since the time of Abraham. We should not fuss about searching for something beyond us. We have done that for thousands of years and see that nothing can be changed. We need to change our properties, and in that way will change reality.

To change one’s properties does not mean to become better, establish good relations among people and hope that everything will be all right. That is wrong. We have to change our properties in accordance with the Upper Light that is beyond us. If I do, the Light will pass through me unimpeded and I will perceive myself as perfect both in my sensations and in the realization of the attained level.

Kabbalah explains how man can correctly compare his inner properties with the Upper Light. This is accomplished with the help of the screen. In essence, the will to receive (egoism) constitutes the walls of the black box.

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If we set the screen above these walls, we equalize our inner properties with the attributes of the external Light. Thus, we attain reality that puts no pressure upon us and resolves all of our contradictions. We perceive the Light as pleasure, wisdom, knowledge, and attainment.

Question: This seems unreal. In that case we would be in an ideal state. Are there any such people and if so, then how many?

As far as we know, there are very few of them today. However, in the course of its development, humanity will reach a state where it realizes the necessity of changing. Otherwise, we will not be able to save ourselves from misfortune, calamity, and suffering. The fact is that the Upper Light stands against our properties and presses upon them accordingly. Our egoism is constantly growing and with it grows the contrast between our egoistical nature and the Creator. Therefore, compared to the Light, the inside of our box is perceived as a life that goes from bad to worse. We will have no other way out but to start changing ourselves.

Such sciences as psychology, sociology, and ecology already know it. At one point, specialists in all fields of human activity unanimously stated that without adapting our properties to the outside reality we will come to a tragic state, to the brink of destruction.

Our reality is divided into two parts: one that we feel in this world before crossing the Machsom (border, barrier); and another reality that is perceived above the Machsom. A person who lives only in the reality of this world feels what every one of us feels. A person who rises above the Machsom becomes to some extent similar in his properties to the Light and accordingly perceives the Upper reality. By identifying himself with his soul, he already perceives time differently, feels perfection and eternity. At the same time, thanks to his body he feels that he lives in our world (provided that he is alive, of course).

Question: Is there some peak level that man can reach after crossing the Machsom?

I am talking about the sixth sense. By developing it man equalizes his properties to the Light. This is spiritual energy that is absolutely static. If a person acquires its properties, he correspondingly feels eternity and perfection.

Question: Is there any other state?

There can be no other state. Above it is the attainment of the Upper reality, of the purpose of creation.

Question: Can man achieve this?

Man is obliged to achieve this state! Over our entire history we have passed from the lowest bodily desires to desires for money, fame, and knowledge, finally reaching the desire for spirituality. In the third millennium we have come to a state where the greater part of humanity possesses a level of the will to receive that approaches the spiritual.

Hence, the person who finds no contentment in money, fame, and knowledge aspires for something different. However, he does not know what he wants because in our world he cannot feel the spiritual world and Light. He does not feel what it means to be similar to the Light in his properties. Since society is unable to give a person these sensations, he either resorts to drugs, or begins to study Kabbalah.

We see that with every passing year the situation goes from bad to worse. The reason for this lies in our growing will to receive, as our innate Reshimo (spiritual sort of gene) manifests itself more and more and our demands mount. For thousands of years they have determined our cultural, technological, and scientific development. Finally, we have exhausted all available opportunities and reached the limit of evolution within the framework of our material world.

We have practically completed the development of science, culture, and all the other spheres of human activity. We have nothing more to do. Scientists understand that. Therefore, in accordance with our developed desire, we need to pass over to the realm that is beyond us and act inside it. Two thousand years ago it was written in the Book of Zohar that this would happen in our time, and only today do we discover that it is so.

Question: Is the science of Kabbalah related to the religion, history, traditions of our Hebrew people? If it is related to science, then it is “the Light to lighten the gentiles.” Is that why Madonna and other celebrities engage in Kabbalah?

First of all, Kabbalah is a science and it has nothing to do with religion. It studies the Upper reality, describes its structure, and explains how we can perceive it, research it, and live in it. We will then know what will happen to us next moment and next year (today we have not the slightest idea); we will attain our root and discover where we come from and why we were born. In short, we will obtain all that information about ourselves that is inaccessible to us today. We will acquire intelligence and vision and stop living as blind people.

In the second place, Kabbalah is definitely passed on in the midst of the Jewish nation from generation to generation through special people who do not belong to the nation per se. Kabbalists have always studied alone, separately from others, not connected with the nation as a whole.

The string of Kabbalists stretches across the entire history of the Jewish people. They were developing Kabbalah to bring it to the whole world. With its help the world will correct itself and live in the best, optimal way at the highest level.

Allow me to repeat: we speak about a science, about the research of reality and not about religion, prayers, traditions, and precepts in the ordinary sense of these words. Kabbalah is a science that studies existing reality. It is a set of data, results of research and recommendations on how to understand the world in which we live. It is clear that this science is destined for all of humankind. It is written in the Book of Zohar and in Baal HaSulam’s article “Granting of the Torah,” and his other compositions. The saying, “Kabbalah will become the Light for gentiles” is quite correct.

Question: Does this promote anti-Semitism?

On the contrary, this will establish peace in the entire world. Gentiles have a feeling that we conceal something from them. At the same time, we also feel that there is something that we withhold from them. This sentiment in the nations is the reason for anti-Semitism, which is rooted in our inability to pass on to all the nations the science of Kabbalah, which is in essence the solution to all our problems.

As far as Madonna and other similar individuals are concerned, this is not serious. Because many people today are drawn to Kabbalah, pseudo-Kabbalah of this sort has come into fashion. Genuine Kabbalah is a very serious science. This is not a manipulation with letters and red bracelets. It really is an extremely profound and complex science.

Kabbalah had been concealed in the past, until humanity matured sufficiently to feel the need for this science. During past centuries the world knew that the Jewish nation possessed some secret wisdom, but had no idea what it concerned. All sorts of fantasies and pseudo-theories emerged around it…

Over thousands of years many books have been written allegedly about Kabbalah, but their authors knew practically nothing about it. Hence, there still exist various mystical teachings, manipulations with letters and numbers, incantations and blessings… Nothing of it is in any way related to the true science of Kabbalah.

As a result of concealment of Kabbalah this continued from generation to generation up to our time. When people reveal the true science of Kabbalah today, they first ask in bewilderment, “Is this Kabbalah?” I hope that within the next few years all of those phenomena will disappear and people will stop ascribing thousands of texts containing all sorts of nonsense to the science of Kabbalah.

Question: There are many systems today that are related to various forms of energy, aura, and karma… What is the attitude of Kabbalah toward them?

Kabbalah is not related to any systems but its own. It neither researches other methods nor is it engaged in their comparative analysis. That is not the subject of Kabbalah study.

A person who studies Kabbalah acquires the sixth sense and with its help begins to perceive the Upper reality. He sees that all sorts of energy manipulations are just fooling around. All of these things are nothing more than man’s attempt to sweeten his life. He needs some confidence in the future, and it is nice to know that there are such things as afterlife, extraterrestrials, and miracles… These are merely psychosomatic phenomena.

Question: How does the science of Kabbalah explain the fact that we don’t understand ourselves, our essence?

We ask ourselves about our life because two forces interact within us: the force of the Creator and the force of creation – Malchut and Bina. If we were not composed of these two forces, we would never be bothered by the question: “Who am I and what do I exist for?” This question is a consequence of the presence of the Upper World’s point in us.

Animals live without this question. Unlike them, we wish to know what else is there besides this earthly life because we possess this so-called “point in the heart.” By heart we imply our will to receive. The point inside it is the point of Bina (the Upper properties).

If it were not for this point that forced its way through the Machsom into our world and entered into us, we would not understand, ask, or be interested in anything that is above the animal level of existence. Like all animals, we would merely seek how better to fill our stomachs.

Question: Is this point my soul?

This point is an “embryo” of the soul and our task is to develop it. The science of Kabbalah teaches us exactly how to do that. This point will take you across the Machsom towards the Upper World. In essence, it is the sixth sense. When it manifests, you begin to perceive what occurs outside of you.

I repeat: we are a black box and can only feel what happens inside of us. I cannot feel what is beyond me. The sixth sense enables me to perceive what is on the outside.

There is a system there that influences me and determines the next moment of my life. I unknowingly interact with that system. Since I have no idea how to interact with it correctly, all of my attempts to improve my life bring constant blows upon me. Without knowing this outer system (of the Light and its laws) we will get more and more confused.

Thus humanity will gradually arrive at the conclusion that it has no other choice. We simply have to know what exists above us. Nothing will come out of it unless we use the scientific method of learning.

Question: You said that anyone could study Kabbalah regardless of his religious persuasion?

Kabbalah appeals to those in whom the question about the meaning of life has emerged.

Question: In his “Introduction to the Book of Zohar” the Baal HaSulam writes that the process of reaching the equivalence of form begins at the age of 13. Does it mean that at this age the Jews can begin correcting themselves in accordance with the method of Kabbalah?

The Baal HaSulam does not speak about the age of 13. He rather means that it is a certain spiritual level. All the Kabbalistic books are written in the root-and-branch language – the language of Kabbalists. There is not a single word in them that designates some notion of this world. They speak only about spirituality.

The Baal HaSulam wishes to describe the spiritual processes while saying not a word about this world. He explains that from a certain age (i.e., starting with the 13^th level) man performs such and such actions.

What is correction? Our heart consists of 613 desires. We need to correct each of them with the help of the screen, and thus we will be able to cross the Machsom. Correction of each desire is called a commandment. In this way, man has to gradually correct all of his desires. Upon accomplishment of this task he completes correction of his Kli, which is called the Final Correction.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the commandments that are observed on the material level with hands and feet. Even if, God forbid, a person has no legs or arms, he still can achieve the state of a full-fledged spiritual Kli.

Moreover, in the article “The Last Generation” the Baal HaSulam writes that even by the end of the correction process in the last generation, when all is corrected, everyone will be able to remain within the framework of his religion. How is it possible? Religions and various beliefs refer to man’s need to appease himself. That is the real reason for the emergence of all religions. Religions have no other higher purpose than the creation of a framework for a nation and its preservation.

Question: The results of scientific experiments depend neither on what I feel nor on my spiritual level. That makes them absolutely objective, doesn’t it?

You must just drop the word “objective”. Such a word is non-existent in science. The results of my experiment cannot be objective because I do not perceive what is beyond me. I am always the one who tests and feels everything.

Question: Wouldn’t it be better if we were born with the sensation of the Light in the state of perfection?

If we were born in such a state, we would not be able to feel it. Only in the quality of material that is opposite to the Light can we feel the difference between the Light and us. Only in the point of contact between two poles, by contrast between the Light and the darkness, can we feel something.

All of our sensations are born on the border between two opposites: fulfillment and emptiness. Nothing is felt in the still, constant state. That is the way our senses work. Hence, we have to go through the entire process of evolution. Each of its stages leaves in us Reshimot (records, memories), which assemble into one common Kli. Only then can we feel the Light.

Question: Why does our soul require correction?

The soul needs correction because its desire is initially focused on absorption. We cannot achieve perfection in this form. There exists a law, which states that the aspiration to fill a desire cannot be realized because pleasure nullifies desire. Let’s say that you want something very much. As soon as you get it, the enjoyment stops.

Question: Yes, but that is the realm of matter…

This is not the realm of matter; it is the realm of desires. You will never fill a desire directly. Suppose you have a desire that you want to satisfy. You hardly begin to fill it when it gets nullified and the sensation of pleasure disappears. Therefore, while being inside of our desire and aspiring to receive all pleasures, we will never be happy. On the contrary, we will feel greater and greater emptiness.

During the entire history of humankind the will to receive has been growing from generation to generation, with each of our incarnations and every subsequent generation being plunged deeper into problems and misfortunes, feeling greater emptiness. We can see it by comparing this generation with the past one.

The sensation of emptiness will increase until we understand that it has to be filled (yet in a different way). That is exactly why our science is called Kabbalah. It teaches how to receive (Lekabel), to fill oneself. When your state becomes critical, you will realize what you should do. We circulate the science of Kabbalah to save man from hard blows, to help him grow wiser before these blows come.

Question: According to what you say, there was no “standing near Mount Sinai,” which means that we did not receive the Torah from the Creator.

There is no contradiction here. Moshe (Moses) passed the Torah to the nation at the foot of Mount Sinai. What is the meaning of “we received it from the Creator”? Of course Moshe was a Kabbalist. He did not invent anything by himself. He attained the Upper reality and received the Knowledge. Everything that man has, he receives through the attainment of reality. Moshe really was a great Kabbalist, who attained the Upper World and gave the Teaching to the nation.

Question: So this means that man invented Kabbalah?

Man invents nothing. Moshe passed the Knowledge to the nation. He gave us the method with the help of which we can correct ourselves and reach the spiritual level. The people remained in the state of spiritual attainment up to the destruction of the First Temple (not material, but spiritual), the loss of the screen, and partially, up to the destruction of the Second Temple. After that, all fell from the spiritual level and stopped feeling the world in which they really existed. Like us, they felt completely detached from the Creator, the Upper Force, the Upper reality. As a result, the nation was left with only external ritualistic actions (model of spiritual work).

Question: What experiments are carried out in Kabbalah?

As in all sciences, we have to know what we study and research. In the final analysis, a person studies his nature and its imprint upon something. The same applies to Kabbalah, but here we achieve an unlimited form of self-knowledge.

What is the subject of our usual research? We study material: inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human, depending on what field of science it refers to: physics, chemistry, biology, etc. We study what Kabbalah defines as four levels of the egoism of matter.

In Kabbalah we study not the behavior of material, but how it can be changed in order to impart to it a different property: from material (the will to receive) we come to the Light.

Suppose we research some phenomena in chemistry. In reality, however, we study the will to receive. We seem to research a process, where one molecule attracts another under conditions of heat, cold, pressure, etc., and their interaction. As a matter of fact, although we do not use such notions as “egoism” and “will to receive” (they are absent in scientific terminology), that is precisely what we research in all sciences.

In Kabbalah we study not the external forms (e.g., liquids, gases, pressure, heat, particles in physics, or interaction between parts in mechanics), but the essence of matter. Hence, we obtain the true picture. We study not exterior shells, but the content; therefore Kabbalah is called the root of all sciences. As a matter of fact, all of them are particular forms of it.

Question: In all sciences we conduct some observations, infer proofs, and formulate laws as in the case of Newton who was hit on the head by a falling apple. Where are such observations in Kabbalah?

The difference between Kabbalah and all other sciences lies in the fact that Kabbalah takes into consideration man’s inner property. If we study reality the way it appears before us while leaving man (regardless of whether he is good or bad) out of the equation and disregarding his qualities in our research, then it means that we engage in conventional science. Only now do we begin to discover that a person can influence matter (say, plants) with his thoughts.

If we do take man’s qualities into consideration and speak of how a change in his properties can change various phenomena, it is called Kabbalah. In all sciences today humankind realizes that all of our opportunities in the sphere in which we do not change ourselves are exhausted. Furthermore, in all sciences we eventually come to a state where penetration deep into matter and the research of reality depends on us.

We have no other method but the science of Kabbalah, which states: “If you change yourself in a certain way, you will see reality accordingly. If you change in a different way, you will be able to influence reality differently.” Kabbalah opens new horizons before humanity while showing how we affect reality by our thoughts and desires, how we connect with it, and change it. We cannot do the same in the conventional sciences because our will to receive is not under our control, influence.

Thus, Kabbalah includes two parts: one teaches a person how he can change his properties; the other explains how we change reality in accordance with our own changes.

Question: Are other religions related to Kabbalah?

By saying that Kabbalah is unrelated to religion, we imply that it is a totally different sphere, that it is a science. Religion concerns itself with satisfying man’s religious needs, solving his psychological and social problems.

If we knew absolutely everything, would we need religion? The purpose of religion is in supplementing that part of the picture of the world that we neither know nor understand. It gives us confidence and inner fulfillment. If a person is connected with the Upper Force, researches, comprehends, and feels it, he does not need the psychosomatic support of religion.

The Gematria (numerical value) of the words Teva (nature) and Elokim (Creator) is the same. That is to say, nature and the Creator are one. Therefore, it makes no difference if we study nature or the Creator. So if we know the Creator (nature) in His entirety, there will be no room left for religions.

Nothing remotely close to that exists in any religion or science. Right are those who assert that we possess something special. The point in the heart awakens in everyone in the world, and it has to manifest in all regardless of their nationality. The Baal HaSulam writes in the article “Granting of the Torah” that this notion has nothing to do with nationality and that we received the method of Kabbalah to pass it on to other nations, when the time comes for the points in their hearts to manifest.

Question: Are precise scientific terms used in Kabbalah as, for example, in mathematics?

Mathematics is a language. Science is research. The only accurate science is Kabbalah. We already see the limited nature of other sciences.

Why is that so? In Kabbalah we do not make any assumptions. Our research is based on the material of creation, the will to receive. Nothing else exists; everything is based on this material and its forms. The inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature, sounds and colors derive from that base, from the essence of creation, which is the will to receive pleasure. Hence, any other science that disregards the essence of creation is inaccurate.

Kabbalah takes only this into consideration. There is a law that states: “One can judge only according to what his eyes see.” Everything is proved empirically. A Kabbalist is not allowed to describe something that is not the result of his own experience in the research of the Upper World. Delve into this science and you will see how many accurate scientific definitions it contains.

Question: What is happening to humanity? Does collective perception exist?

This collective perception is what exists now because we all live in the same simple egoistical properties. We differ from one another only by our aspirations. One craves for food and sex, another wants money, the third aspires for recognition and power, the fourth strives for knowledge, and the fifth seeks spirituality. We may understand each other’s desires or not, but the difference is confined to a relatively narrow sphere because we share the same sensations and a similar mechanism of choice. Each of us has the same aspirations, wants one thing or another.

However, none of us has any desire for what is beyond the Machsom; hence we are unable to understand Kabbalists, and in this we are completely detached from them. Therefore, it is really impossible to explain anything about the science of Kabbalah, and all that I say is merely to attract you a little, get you interested, and to make you begin your own advancement. There is no way to explain what occurs in the sixth sense and what it looks like because we lack the Kelim that the spiritual essence can fill. First of all, the material (a certain level of the will to receive) is necessary that will be able to perceive these phenomena.

That is why the Kabbalistic books are meant only for Kabbalists. When it is written: do this and that, or carry out such and such Zivug de Haka’a … you see what you do and what you receive. This is an instruction for those who already possess such Kelim. And for those who do not have them yet, these are mere words.

Question: How do scientists understand you?

They understand me in the same way you do. However, they approach the matter from another direction. I explain various phenomena from the point of view of Kabbalah while they approach them from the scientific perspective. It is as if we meet on two opposite sides of the same wall. Scientists are ready to understand me because they have already bumped into the wall. They do not really understand, but they are ready to go and learn.

Scientists have had no choice lately because their only option is to gather some more data about the material. However, no further advancement in science is possible without changing the researcher. Yet, they have no clue how to do that, they lack an instrument for changing man.

Scientists realize that without inner transformation man will grasp nothing of this reality; a few more details and nuances, perhaps, but the whole picture will remain unchanged. We cannot grasp the general law of the universe: how should we influence nature and what should our attitude toward each other be for us to feel good. We do not know what is going to happen tomorrow, cannot control our own destiny. All of these formulas exist in nature, but they are beyond us and science disregards them completely. Scientists already understand that they need to start changing themselves to apprehend these external phenomena.

Let’s say a cat is sitting next to me. I can get excited, cry, and laugh while the cat sleeps. Nothing that influences me will have any affect upon the cat because the part of reality that I perceive remains imperceptible to it. At the moment I am such a cat and I am near a big man. How can I change myself to turn the animal into a person? That is what scientists feel: they have to elevate their essence, but they lack the means to do that. Although they feel this deficiency, they cannot achieve that goal.

The reality around us submits to the laws that affect us. There exist phenomena that we see but cannot probe or touch. To that end we need to acquire additional senses and become humans instead of cats. Scientists do not have them hence they are desperate.

Many articles have been written about this, and when they discover that there is a method that enables a person to change himself and to feel additional reality (so as not to remain a cat that cannot rise above its nature and to acquire new properties for the reception of human sensations), they take it as a heavenly miracle.

When I explain to them the essence of Kabbalah, they exclaim in bewilderment: “Can anything like that exist? If so, it can solve all of our problems because we are at a dead end.” We find it difficult to understand how powerless a scientist feels because in all fields of science: in physics, in psychology, in medicine, etc., the further advancement is possible only by means of changing man.

It is impossible to answer all the questions within such a short lecture. Believe me, it is for the lack of time, and not for the lack of answers.

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