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Dear Albert,
A last question pertaining to lesson3: OK, I understand that there is a ladder of 125 degrees we have to climb in order to get the complete equivalence of form with the creator.( I do not think that we can achieve it in one reincarnation-at least not mine). But there are also 613 (types of) desires to transmute/ correct. How these 613 desires relate to the 125 steps of the ladder?
Thank you again Albert
I know that answering all these questions of us take much of your time,
My bests
These are great questions and answers. But I will go back to the age-old question… I get that ego causes trauma and pain. But! How is it that innocent people were murdered systematically in the holocaust? I can’t believe 6+million were ?being corrected? Thanks for your time.
Hi Robbie,
In the article the Peace, Baal HaSulam describes how we live in a closed system, in between two forces of nature: reception and bestowal. So when there is a lack of balance between these two forces, pressure builds up, and eventually looks for an outlet. Similar to how if you pump air into a balloon, if you put too much, it’ll eventually explode. So the lack of balance between the forces of reception and bestowal causes these types of things to happen.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/10/nature%E2%80%99s-commandments-the-creator%E2%80%99s-laws/
For more details on the holocaust, check out this blog post: https://laitman.com/2018/04/no-fear-of-another-holocaust/
Albert @ KabU
This article re the Holocaust is Incredibly offensive.
pain and suffering serve to help understanding and compassion and opens us to all that isJudgement like this is the worse form of ego ism
I am a different Maggie than Maggie in WC – though our challenges are similar I am in NC
Hi Albert,
Correct me if I am wrong. It is about the “screen” The way I see it, before enlightment (the growing desire to connect with the light in the point of the heart) the screen is conditioned by the distorted perception of our 5 senses. When the desire for connection in the light grows strong enough, this screen get gradually corrected with the development of the 6th sense which progressively enable us to perceive reality as it really is? I hope my question is clear.
Thank you for your answer and good day to you!
Hi Lorie,
Yes, you can say that. To the extent that we correct ourselves, to that extent we begin to perceive a corrected reality outside of us. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
As a person with a degenerative disability and in a wheelchair dependent on others to dress me, take me to the bathroom and dependente financially on a pension and my mother.
Plus the relationships that i have had start with love then the love dwindles.
And I was neglected by my mother in terms of motherly love.
I guess this is the path of pain?
How can i mitigate this? What am i hear to learn, what is my tikkun?
Thank you
Hi Maggie,
I cannot comment on your personal life. We can only talk about these things in general.
In general, before the point in the heart awakens, we’re all advancing on the path of pain. It’s only after the point in the heart awakens that we learn how to tap into the light to speed up our spiritual development.
Regarding disabilities, if a person receives some kind of limitation in life, it’s a sign that it’s necessary for the correction of their soul. In those cases, living out our lives with those limitations is itself a type of correction.
Beyond that, we learn from the Kabbalists that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. But why then don’t we see this in our world? Why do we see so much suffering and problems in the world?
This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative equals negative.
So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see and feel more suffering and bad things in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
Hi there.. thankyou for this lesson.. what arose to be asked was to do with free will.. am I on the understanding that within this teaching there is only a direct result of intention that exists?
And if so, is the intention also fueled by the creator as the expansion and desire to match that of the light grows?
Meaning, is this just an unfolding that is occurring all on its own?
Hi Jodi,
Free will is a very complex topic that we will tackle in depth in the next semester. But just some food for thought:
If our nature is the desire to receive pleasure, meaning all of our conscious or unconscious choices are simply to chase pleasure and run away from pain, in that case, how can we have any free will? If you load a super computer with the same data, the same parameters, it will make the same choices as us. And even if you give the computer more information, more data to use, it will still operate according the same operating system it was loaded with, it will continue to make the same calculation for chasing pleasure and running away from pain. So where is our freedom?
And if we don’t have any free will at all, and everything is simply working according to some pre-programmed algorithm, then what is the point of it all?
You don’t need to answer these questions, just think about it, and we’ll study this topic in depth in lesson two of the next semester.
Albert @ KabU
How are there only 600,000 fractures of soul when there are millions of people in the world? Does not everyone have one? Or are there are fractures within those fractures? Like it keeps fracturing and creating more souls. But the original fracture was 600,000. I’m just looking to understand
Hi Ricky,
The population is relative to the level of the general egoism that needs to be corrected. As the ego grows, the soul is fragmented accordingly so that our common egoism is divided between us, making the work of correcting the ego easier for all of us.
Rav Laitman writes about it in one of his blog posts:
“600,000 is the number of initial fragments, but after that they are fragmented again into whatever number is necessary for the optimal correction in each generation – so that each fragment will have as much egoism as it’s able to correct. Therefore, to the degree that egoism grows, the world’s population grows as well.”
Albert @ KabU
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