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Hello,
My question is somewhat personal. I had a “spiritual awakening” experience about 2 years ago, and since then I believe I am going through the Dark Night of the Soul.Does Kabbalah speak on this state of spiritual dryness and how to go beyond it? Is this a part of the 125 rungs? Also where can I learn what each world is and the 125 degrees?
Thank You!
Hi Nikhil,
Just like in our world that there is day, then night, then day again, then night again, likewise in spirituality, we go through cycles of ascents and then descents. So it’s normal. The main thing is to just keep going, to keep placing yourself under the influence of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it’ll balance everything out. We’ll learn more about these things in the advanced semesters.
As for learning about the worlds and 125 degrees, you can read about them in technical terms in the article Foreword to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. This too we’ll study in depth in the advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Johan,
Our nature is the desire to receive pleasure. It simply means that every calculation we make is to chase pleasure or avoid pain. This is similar to how any other animal functions. By itself, there is nothing wrong with this nature, it’s simply the program by which we function and preserve ourselves.
Egoism is when this program begins to be used in a way that harms others. Not only do I want to receive pleasure, but I want to receive it at the expense of others, at their detriment. This is the corporeal ego.
There is also a spiritual ego. 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/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Johan,
Everything that we reveal, we do so within our desires. We reveal the current world in our egoistic desires. When we correct the ego, in that corrected desire, we will reveal the spiritual world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Johan,
It’s a type of malfunction in our egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2022/04/how-can-mental-illness-be-cured/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Johan,
When we take our desire to receive pleasure and correct it the direction of bestowal, that corrected desire is called a soul. Since none of us are born corrected, we don’t yet have this thing called a soul, but only a soul in potential, which we call the point in the heart.
If we realize that potential, we can grow that desire to the level of the soul, if not, this same potential continues to reincarnate again and again until it gets fully realized.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Albert @ KabU
Everywhere I look I see evil. I turn on the TV, I see evil. I put the radio on, I hear evil. When I hear celebrities and the like, I hear evil. The school system across the world is failing. Do you believe that the wisdom of Kabbalah should be disseminated across all avenues of media, all children to be forced to learn this wisdom the way they are forced to learn “His” “Story” in school? Should the wisdom be heard on the TV, radio, and billboards to get more people involved in this wisdom and understand the laws of nature from the very beginning of their life? Thank you.
Hi Ronny,
Disseminated to the world – yes.
Forcefully – no.
As we learn “there is no coercion in spirituality”. But we do disseminate as widely as possible, so whoever is indeed interested in learning these things, will have the opportunity to do so. We’ll learn how to properly disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah in the more advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
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