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How can we have free will in double & single concealment while everything that happens for us is predetermined?
Hi Manzi,
The concealment is exactly what gives us a sense of freedom, because in the states of concealment we don’t feel that everything is predetermined.
And if we don’t feel everything as predetermined, if we have not yet attained revelation and saw this for ourselves, then we cannot use that information as some maxim by which we limit ourselves.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/10/if-i-am-not-for-myself-then-no-one-will-help-me/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Lucy,
Yes, but keep in mind that Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 mitzvot as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.
The desire to receive is divided into 613 desires. We need to correct all 613 parts. Corresponding to each desire, there is a mitzvah (commandment). These are the INTERNAL processes by which we correct that specific desire.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
Albert @ KabU
While meditating this week, I keep seeing a shape . When I finally was able to find the shape, it said it was called Metatron’s Cube. When I googled Metatron, it brings up Kabbalah and the Zohar. Can you help me understand why I keep getting presented with this figure. Is it connected to the tree of life? Any info would be helpful.
Thank you,
Tiffany
Hi Tiffany,
The images we see in our dreams and meditations stem from our current egoistic nature. As such, Kabbalah does not deal with deciphering these things. Kabbalah only deals with helping us come out of our egoistic nature, into the nature of pure love and bestowal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/02/we-cannot-live-without-sleep/
Albert @ KabU
Is a human with a point in their heart already at the bottom of the spiritual ladder? Does the spiritual ladder only begin when you attain the first spiritual world? Are they the same thing?
Thank you!
Hi Pradeep,
You can say that a person with a point in the heart is at the bottom of the spiritual ladder. Once the point in the heart awakens, a person at least starts to understand that there is such a thing as spirituality, and that they are lacking it. That is already a huge revelation.
Whereas the rest of the people don’t feel that they are lacking spirituality. The rest of the people are simply living out their lives on the animate level of desires, completely disconnected from the spiritual ladder.
Albert @ KabU
I am a bit confused about this sentence from Baal HaSulam in the video: “Video: Inanimate, Vegetative, Animate”.
>> He created creation for His own needs.
In previous lessons, the Creator was described as a force of pure bestowal, always at rest and having No desires. What does “His own needs” mean here?
Thank you!
Hi Pradeep,
He could have created us from the start as similar to Him, with a desire to bestow, but that would have greatly limited our development. Instead we were created as a desire to receive pleasure, we reject that nature that inner “landlord” of ours, and ask Him to give us His strength of bestowal.
This process adds to us a certain level of freedom, without which, we would be no different than machines, or robots, that were programmed to act a certain way and they just carry out this inner script. Instead, we were programmed one way, and we rise above this inner programming, become independent of it, and then develop our own desire to advance towards the Creator.
Albert @ KabU
Thank you Albert for your answers and your help on our journeys.
I should have been clearer in my question. My question was specifically on the Creator’s “needs”. Before this lesson, I understood the Creator as having no needs, just a force of pure bestowal.
>> He created creation for His own needs.
The above statement would make that understanding not true. Do you have any links on what the Creator’s needs are, or anything that explains what Baal HaSulam must have intended here?
Hi Helen,
We’re still in the preparation period prior to the spiritual ladder. But once we start to do real spiritual work, we can measure our progress in our attitude towards other points in the hearts. That I’ll feel how my attitude towards them changes, from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
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