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When it comes to finding someone to study with are there resources for finding and selecting
a partner? Are there resources to help a new study group?It is quite ‘human’ in our egocentric way, to wonder what is our progress in any given endeavor, the wisdom of Kabbalah included. But I am noticing that as I take these steps, unknowingly and not by my own volition, I realize that the Creator is giving them to me. Work on the study, concealment, memories, conversation with the Creator, more like a plea for correction, revelation of what happened, back to my studies, seems to be the progression. After concealment I go back to this course or sometimes one of the others I am enrolled in seems a better choice at the given moment and then the revelation.
So back to wondering about progress, I will venture to say it seems to me that there are no bells and whistles going off as one progresses, no Congratulations, Welcome to the next World celebrations, nothing to tell you which of those names might apply at any given moment, except the feeling inside, the internal knowledge of one’s own progress, with no labels really, as the labels would relate only to the ego’s need. Just a recognition of the growing desire and the corrections made, the concealments worked through, and the appearance of reshimot that comes out of the depths of one’s being and the push to continue with the work.
We learn these names, light phases, sefirot, worlds, even the growth of the soul. But these names we are learning, do we just feel them, nameless inside, a deep knowledge of that growing connection to the Creator, or is there some point where we actually have a recognition of where we are on the written chart? And does it matter really? It seems to me that we all start out at a different level and the same with attainment. That the names are there for our learning, our understanding of the progress for everyone. Can you comment? Thank you.
Hi Sheila,
Spiritual work means reconnecting the shattered soul back into one. We can measure our progress of this work 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.
And when we succeed in reconnecting that shattered soul, even on a small scale, in that corrected connection is where we will reveal spirituality and all of those names, lights, etc that we learned about.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
Albert @ KabU
Thank you Albert. So what you are saying is that we correct the individual parts of us to make the whole function correctly, together. But the important part here is that we feel the other parts too, other points in the hearts of the other people on this journey, as a part of my own soul also. And so the fact that I am reading the questions and feeling the feelings of the other students here as a part of my own journey to where I feel the need to answer, or to ask, to be a part of their journey together with mine, is a beginning of connecting the point in my heart to theirs. I do feel that. From the beginning of studying here I felt that connection to the instructors, away from space and time as it was said, and I guess this comes from my own ego to notice it.
Hi Sheila,
Yes, essentially the entire correction is in connecting with others. Just picture all of humanity is part of a single system. Like a 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. Each piece of the puzzle (each person) is perfect by itself and does not require any correction. Meaning that we don’t need to recolor any of the pieces or cut off any seemingly excess parts. The only thing we need to do is find where each piece fits relative to all the other pieces. And by that we correct everything.
We’ll learn how to do these things practically in the more advanced semesters, but reading other students’ questions is definitely a good start.
Albert @ KabU
The two videos about Revelation & Concealment, have helped me to understand what level of Spiritual Attainment I think I am at.
But how do I admit this without feeling egotistic about what I think of myself?
How do I get confirmation from an additional source so that I don’t feel like I am “smoking my own fumes” 😊
Hi Diane,
Spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. To the extent that we become similar to it, to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal, to that extent we reach spiritual attainment. And to that same extent we reveal the Creator in practice. In other words, if we were truly on a spiritual degree, then accordingly we would reveal the Creator on that level.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/04/when-all-doubts-will-dissipate/
Albert @ KabU
If I have well undestood, each of us has a Spiritual “Level”. To be optimistic 🙂 I am at Klipat Noga. You also said that reaching my personal correction means that I have corrected my flaw that is found in everyone. And when each one will correct their part of the general picture, then we reach the final correction of the whole world.
Question #1: This means that each of us has a specific flaw to correct? Or do we have to climb the whole ladder, step by step, correcting one flaw at a time?
Question#2: In the history of Humanity we had great Kabbalists who attained the final correction, but on the other hand, we are living in a world that is rapidly moving to the ever greatest egoistic pick. How could it be that way?
ThankU so much for your help🙏
Hi Manuela,
1. We climb step by step, correcting the system from the root of our soul. It’s like all of humanity is part of an 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. Each person has their own piece in the system. And each one needs to find where exactly their piece fits relative to everyone else.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/the-root-of-the-soul/
In practice though, we’re not working according to a certain list or on fixing ourselves. In practice, the general direction is to reconnect the entire system, starting from a small Kabbalistic group which serves as the nucleus of this connection and gradually adding more and more until we’re able to include the whole world in that connection.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/compliance-with-the-613-mitzvot-commandments/
2. There are Kabbalists with special roles in the system, such as the group of Rabbi Shimon, who wrote the book of Zohar. Their role was to reach that state of the final correction in order to pave the way for the rest of us.
Albert @ KabU
hi. i have a bunch of questions.
did egoism come when the will to receive evolved to the human level? and also we are really a higher part of the animal level right (because the human doesn’t correspond to the souls level does it?)? and if we are a part of the animal level is it still true that our will to receive is greater than all the animals?
the spiritual animate: “doesn’t feel others”. how can you be in the spiritual and not feel others when the spiritual is about connection?
why is the spiritual still considered spiritual when in the outline of the video it shows that there is an entry point to spirituality (klipat noga) that is after the still and vegetative?
why is it possible to have an “individual final correction” when we are supposed to be all connected? or why is it that with someone who has reached the speaking level, which i still imagine to be about connection (who can fill others needs with his own light), others are not aware of it? how do you connect with others without them knowing?
i’m confused about what the will of the master is… is it the will to receive or is it the plan to bring us to bestowal?
Hi Michael,
1. There are 4 levels in nature: still, vegetative, animate, and speaking (human). Within each level, there are 4 sub levels: the still of the still, the vegetative of the still, the animate of the still, the speaking of the still, etc. Humanity as a whole is currently found on the speaking sub-degree of the animate level. Meaning we have not yet reached the true speaking degree, which is a spiritual degree.
So yes, humanity is currently on a higher part of the animate level. And yes that there is no egoism on the animate level. Even the ego that we currently reveal is not the true spiritual form of egoism. Spiritual egoism is everything that stands in the way of our connection with the Creator. Normal people don’t have a spiritual ego. This is only something that we discover after doing some serious spiritual work.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/true-evil/
2. Not yet feeling others means that they relate to others through themselves. For example, there is the rule of “do not do to the other what you yourself hate”. Meaning that you don’t yet feel the other, you just feel yourself. But you understand yourself, you understand what it is that you hate, and at the very least, you don’t cause that harm to others.
3. Because at least in action, that level is able to maintain itself in a spiritual framework. It’s still not true spirituality, since spirituality means acquiring the pure qualities of love and bestowal, which is an internal correction.
4. It’s like a hologram where the big image is made up of identical smaller copies of that image. So if there is a flaw in one of the smaller images, that same flaw is found in every piece. And if you correct that flaw in the small piece, it’s reflected in the whole image.
So reaching my personal correction means that I have corrected my flaw that is found in everyone. And when each one will correct their part of the general picture, then we reach the final correction of the whole world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/04/the-fractality-of-nature/
5. The Creator gave us our nature, our master, so going against our nature is like going against the Creator. According to the saying “My sons have defeated me”.
Albert @ KabU
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