Kabbalah Introduction

Why is Kabbalah a science about reception of pleasure?

Why is Kabbalah a science about reception of pleasure?

In Kabbalah we understand pleasure as filling in all its manifestations: material, moral, intellectual or physical. Furthermore, here we speak of delight (filling), which is absolute, eternal, perfect and infinite.

Delight is felt only when a very strong desire is present - provided there is a crystal-clear desire for something, which is unavailable. The received pleasure instantly extinguishes desire which in turn reduces pleasure. The greatest delight is felt only during the first contact of the desire with the desired, the way the first bit of food feels in a hungry man's mouth.

Then hunger subsides, the desire disappears and satiation sets in. The food stops bringing the delight that was felt at the beginning of the meal. Gourmets leave the most delicious dishes for the end of a feast, because greater delight compensates for the lack of desire.

If we start researching the various kinds of pleasure we receive from knowledge, power, riches, sex and food, we'll notice that all of them diminish upon reception of the desired. Oftentimes man works for years to get what he wants, but having received the object, stops enjoying it.

It is the disappearance of the sensation of pleasure forces us to look for new delights.

Advertising, fashion etc. supply us with new desires, and we get carried away by the constant pursuit of anticipated pleasure. Once the desired is received, we feel compelled to seek new enjoyment. This process is endless. Hence, man can never really be delighted. He is constantly moving.

Kabbalah teaches man how to receive non-vanishing pleasures: eternal, absolute and perfect, revealed as permanent peace and delight.

Hence, this method is called " Hochmat HaKabbalah " (the science of reception).

It was given to us by the Creator so that our enormous desires would be immediately satisfied and then new desires would emerge, be fulfilled and so on. The absence of a gap between a desire and its filling would allow us to enjoy never-ending peace and delight.

How can such desire be created? It does not exist in our world. Hence, the soul is opposite to our entire world. It differs from this world by its property of altruism called "a screen" in Kabbalah. The process of acquiring a screen is the subject of Kabbalah studies.

We speak about a strictly practical approach, about mastering a special method. It can be accomplished in the process of studying certain Kabbalistic books. For example, the principal Kabbalistic six-volume composition "The Study of Ten Sefirot" is compiled as a regular academic textbook: in each of its 16 parts, on more than 2000 pages the structure of the upper world is expounded in modern language.

The part of the books entitled "The Inner Reflection" gives a more detailed explanation of its functioning.

The part called "The Meanings of Words" provides questions referring to the meaning of the words used.

Finally the part called "Questions and Answers" deals with descriptions and explanations of spiritual phenomena.

We welcome and await all those who find no peace searching for the answers to the questions about the structure and functioning of the universe, about the purpose of life.

These are the people who discover the spiritual point in their hearts. It is for them that we created our internet site available in 22 languages - http://www.kabbalah.info .

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