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Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Why is it so hard to show love, compassion to someone that is hurtful, disrespectful to others ?Will it ever be possible to love unconditionally?
Hi Mira,
Loving others is like exercising. We cannot go straight into lifting 1000 pounds. We first need to train and prepare ourselves with lower weights, and then, when we’re ready, we can increase the resistance to higher and higher weights.
So although one day, we will indeed reach love for the whole world, but for now, that is the equivalent of lifting 1000 pounds without training. Instead, we need to start with a lower resistance and build up to it.
That lower resistance is the Kabbalistic group. We first get into small groups of ten, and practice reaching these spiritual qualities of love and bestowal in that small group. After we master that in the group of ten, we can add another circle, another group of ten to that connection. And after we master that, we can add more and more circles, until we come to include the whole world in that connection.
In the advanced semesters of KabU, everyone will be placed into groups of ten and we’ll learn how to do this work practically in the ten.
Albert @ KabU
How is that there is 600000 souls that make up the collective, but 8 billion-ish people on earth, not to mention billions of other planets many likely populated…ect, really a better question for last lesson here it is all the same.
Hi Terry,
600,000 is less of a quantitative number and more of a qualitative number. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it has been fully corrected. So essentially all of humanity is included in this number.
Check out this blog post to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Michael,
It means that all of humanity are part of a single system, like cells within a single body.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2021/11/adam-is-a-collective-soul/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Marguerite Marie,
I’m not sure I understand the question. In what context are you asking it?
By the way, we offer Kabbalah courses in other languages as well. Check out Kab.info for details.
Albert @ KabU
I posted this in week 1 but it was meant for here:
Can regular everyday people connect with the upper worlds without the Torah?
For example: a caveman fulfills his lower desires, for food, shelter, family…he then picks up a stick and carves a flute. he creates songs on it. Later he picks up some plants and creates dies, and draws what he sees in nature, animals, plants, everything in his visual field. There’s a kind of satisfaction of a higher desire, a feeling of connections with the creator. There is no social expectation for him to do these, things, so it seems that this is an exercise of free will.
The second example has to do with intuition. A flight is fully booked but only a quarter of the people who bought tickets arrive. The plane crashes and everyone who took it dies. Through some inexplicable force, the people who didn’t take the flights describe a gut feeling guiding them not to take it. Some are sure the creator was communicating with them, so they acted on their desire to be closer to the creator by abandoning their plans. Are they exercising free will?
Hi Dana,
When we talk about freedom in Kabbalah, we’re talking about freedom from our egoistic nature. Whatever we do within our egoistic nature, there is no freedom there whatsoever. We’re simply like machines carrying out their inner programming.
See my reply below to Giuseppina for more details.
As for the Torah, Torah comes from the Hebrew word Ohr, meaning light. So when Kabbalists refer to the need for the Torah, they are not referring to the book but rather to the light. We need the force of the light to correct our egoistic nature. Then, according to the law of equivalence of form, we will become similar to spirituality and attain it in practice.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2010/12/know-what-you-want-precisely/
https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
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