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Kabbalists on Reincarnation

Who must return to this world after death?

“It is known from books and from authors that the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah is an absolute must for any person from Israel. If one studies the entire Torah and knows the Mishnah and the Gmarah by heart; if one is also filled with virtues and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, but has not learned the wisdom of Kabbalah, he must reincarnate into this world to study the secrets of Torah and wisdom of truth. This is brought in several places in the writing of our sages.”

--Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to From the Mouth of a Sage”

Why does the study of Kabbalah dismiss returning for another lifecycle?

“There is a wonderful, invaluable remedy to those who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah. …through the yearning and the great desire to understand what they are learning, they awaken upon themselves the Lights that surround their souls. …these Lights that are destined to reach them are considered “Surrounding Lights.” …they stand ready, and wait for one to purify one’s vessels of reception. At that time, these Lights will cloth the able vessels. …One who has not been awarded in this life will be granted in the next life, etc. …This means that every person from Israel is guaranteed to finally attain all the wonderful attainments that the Creator had calculated in the Thought of Creation to delight every creature.”

--Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

All You Ever Wanted to Know about Reincarnation, but Didn’t Dare to Ask

What is a soul?

A soul is a new desire that appears in each of us at some stage in our development. This desire makes us ask questions about our lives and the reason we exist, and gradually brings us to take interest in the spiritual reality and crave it.

Who has a soul?

Contrary to what most of us think, not everybody has a soul. A soul is a spiritual vessel, a kind of “sense” through which the Kabbalist perceives the Creator—the perfect and eternal force of giving and benevolence. We can talk about the birth of a soul only from the moment a person begins to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, the method that develops one’s soul. If one studies Kabbalah and strives to feel the spiritual world, the sensation of the soul begins to formulate in that person.

About reincarnation

In our ordinary lives, there aren’t any “real” souls or incarnation. There are only lifecycles. We pass time on Earth. An incarnation occurs from the moment we begin our spiritual path. The term “incarnation” symbolizes a new, higher spiritual state, that our soul reaches.

Can one reincarnate as an animal?

Contrary to superstition, the soul never reincarnates in animals. It is also not connected to the vegetative degree, and certainly not to the inanimate (minerals etc.). The soul can only reincarnate in a person.

What happens when we die?

When the physical body dies, we continue to exist in our soul, but only if we have developed a soul during our physical lives. If we haven’t, we will find ourselves in this world again, with another life and a completely different scenario.

Don't wait for the next life

Our lives are like a sequence of scenes. The highlight of the story is the meeting with the wisdom of Kabbalah, when we take the reins into our hands and set the pace. Only then do we begin to reincarnate, and each incarnation is a phase in the spiritual development. Each incarnation brings us closer to the Creator.

Things You See from Here, You Don’t See from There

“Come and see what is written, ‘If thou know not, O thou fairest among women’: the Lord replies to the soul, if you have come and did not look at wisdom before you came here, and you do not know the secrets of the Upper World, go thy way, you are not worthy of coming here without knowledge… meaning reincarnate a second time into the world.”

--The Book of Zohar, Song of Songs, Vol. 10, item 486

Kabbalists, researchers of reality, did not return from the dead to tell us what happens there. Rather, they lived in our world and in the spiritual world simultaneously. The surprising element about it is that we don’t have to die to know the next world. Instead, we can and should achieve this sensation while we are still alive.

Kabbalists left us with a method that grants each of us the possibility of reaching the same wondrous attainments that they experienced. To understand this, we must understand what life and death are, and lift the mystery surrounding reincarnation.

Kabbalah on Katrina

Got the following from the Huffington Post off of Neil's blog:

"This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming.  Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and–now–Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children."

Yes - everything happening in the world is our fault  but it has nothing to do with global warming.

The only Kabbalist & Scientist in the world, Dr. Michael Laitman often explains how nature is in perfect harmony - and how the only thing out of whack in the natural order of things is the human ego.  Everything that is happening around us in the reality we live in is all simply to direct us toward taking care of the issue we were put here for in the first place - and that is getting our ego in perfect sync with nature.  That is the only way we can advance and rise above our obsession with material things that actually give us no lasting type of filling.

Here is the part that we can't see in our current state: Humanity is ONE - and not divided into all these groups - Republican, Democrat, American, Christian, etc. All that is an illusion and is simply like that to distract us from the main goal - which is to return to that state where we are all truly as ONE MAN WITH ONE HEART - just like we were when we received the Torah at Mt. Sinai. 

What am I trying to say here?  We are all on the same team - we have a job to pull off here together.  If you don't have a burning desire to know the meaning of your life then we're going to have to wait for a few more of your incarnations until you're ready.  The greatest Kabbalists throughout time who achieved very high levels of adhesion with God cannot get to the final stage until the rest of us have woken up.  Think about that for a second.  If Katrina isn't making you think about the meaning of your life today, maybe the next disaster will ...

As Baal HaSulam writes, we can choose to advance through suffering or pleasure - the choice is up to us.  That is actually the only real thing we choose here on earth.  The script for everything else we do here was written a long long time ago.

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Kabbalah: The Power To Change Reality

I really recommend checking out this morning's lesson (1 hour video with full english translation) - Rav Laitman is talking about how Baal HaSulam's material gives us light for the entire way.

The last greatest Kabbalist to grace the earth in our time, Baal HaSulam (hebrew for: owner of the ladder) explains where we exist, in which status, the reality around us, who we are, how we perceive our lives and reality, how we should relate to it, and whether it is in our power to change reality.  How we go through this world and return again in different incarnations. Are we in some other situations than our current situation?  Are there other dimensions?  In another time? That we can be in at the same time as that we're in now?  There is time and space and movement.  Can we alter that? And if so can we move between this world and other dimensions in a different manner?

The answer to all this comes from recognizing who we are.  As we come to know ourselves, we see clearly the reality that is inside of us, and from that point that we begin to develop.

No Such Thing As A Coincidence

A client of mine was just here for a meeting. We got into a very long discussion about Kabbalah, and of course he forgot his notebook (and actually just came back to pick it up as I started writing this). This is perfectly normal.

A fellow blogger of mine just had a similar experience. He visited my new blog yesterday, left a comment, updated my link on his site to the new domain etc., and all of sudden got a very unusual kabbalah sign from Above.

This is something I forgot to mention in my Monster-In-Law post. Jennifer Lopez runs into the man of her dreams (in the movie) about three times in a matter of two days - and she knows that there has to be a reason. She's absolutely right. We get signs all the time but often choose to ignore them because change requires effort. And we are very lazy by nature.

All we do throughout the day is simply to reach a state where we can chill out at the end of it all and do absolutely nothing. That is because in the Upper World life is like that all the time. There is no hustle and bustle up there because we're all connected as one so there is no need for any of that. That is why the Sabbath (a day of total rest) was created so we could start training for that type of existence. Actually everything we do in the other six days is all just for achieving the state of "Shabbat".

Kabbalists are people that can achieve that state of Shabbat any time they want. A few times a week, or even a few times a day. But don't expect to ever catch them with their feet up on the sofa watching tv. Our guys get up at 3:00AM every single morning for a 3-hour lesson that is broadcast on Israel TV and to the rest of the world on www.kab.tv.

So what am I trying to say? If you're reading this - don't kid yourself. It's not by chance. You may not do anything about it right now but don't expect the signs to be there forever. There's always your next incarnation. Me? I'm not planning on coming back to this world. I've set my sights on a better place and I have every intention of getting there.

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