Kabbalah as a Means: Meditations on the Kabbalah

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Kabbalah revolves the problems concerning the spiritual worlds. Therefore, the student attracts spiritual lights during the study of the Bible. Studying other parts of the Torah also awakens a certain spiritual illumination, but the intensity of the light during the study of Kabbalah is much stronger than when studying other writings.

However, one must make sure one is studying in the right path of instruction, otherwise he is liable to achieve the opposite result - the more he studies, the more he�ll feel himself to be righteous instead of feeling his own evil (which is the desired result). That would make it easier for him: just imagine studying for several months, each month feeling that you become meaner and meaner, can you call that sensation pleasant? Not at all - but this is nonetheless the truth! If you keep feeling better about yourself, then you are learning a lie, a pleasant one, but still a lie. On that basis society can be divided to two opposing groups: �Homeowners� and �Torah Owners.�

Homeowners are those who study Torah and are content with the study. They feel that they accumulate merit for the world to come. This world already smiles at them and they are confident that they will be happy in the next life.The Torah owners however, are people who wish to do something with themselves.

These two groups are in complete opposition to one another. Though their outward appearance is the same. They consist of an entirely different spiritual filling, just as two computers can appear identical but use two different operating systems.All religions relay on one�s efforts for reception of reward in this world and the next.

A Kabbalist however, can only be a person who ascribes no significance to reward but strives to find the truth. It is true that there are very few such people, but the numbers increase significantly with each passing generation. There are cases where one comes to a certain point in his quest for truth and then gradually leaves.

Our current state is the lowest possible. It is a state of absolute slumber,unconsciousness. We have no sensation whatsoever of who or where we are. It is even a lower state than �this world.� It is so low that we cannot feel any spirituality, not even as good or bad.
The Torah is not a historic epic, though there is a correlation between the text and human history. But this is only because the construction of the worlds is based on the same principle: everything that happens in one spiritual world is reflected in its adjacent lower world, down to our own.

In principle, everything that happened or that is happening in the spiritual world has already happened in ours, everything except the coming of the Messiah, the ascent and the exit to the spiritual world. This is all that still waits to happen. But the times to come before the ascent are also the hardest, darkest and most painful.

A person who �works� on himself with Kabbalah enters a state called the