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In the video, Rav makes a distinction between our “little ego” in this world and a different “big ego” that grows as we work towards spirituality. The corporeal ego is not something for us to work with? Thanks!
Hi Mona,
We don’t need to correct the corporeal ego. In corporeality, we need to arrange our lives in the normal way (of course without causing harm to anyone and without breaking any laws).
But our main focus is on the spiritual ego. This is what stands in the way of our connection with the Creator. Normally we don’t even feel the spiritual ego. It’s something we discover only 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
My takeaway from this week is to create a spiritual environment and that this will help us achieve freedom.. Didn’t understand more. But no one in my vesinkty practices kabbalah, I go to church so I’m being exposed to simular ideas about being self sacrificing and giving without getting back… But idk if that’s enough
Hi Yeabsera,
Freedom means coming out of our egoistic nature. We can reach freedom by building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment which will influence us with the importance of coming out of our ego and acquiring the nature of bestowal.
For this reason, the Kabbalists equate our main freedom in life in choosing to be influenced by a spiritual environment. Not just any environment, but specifically a spiritual environment, since only through the spiritual environment can we get the importance of coming out of our nature and only through that environment can we draw the light that can help us to actualize this.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/
As for building the spiritual environment, this is possible to do virtually as well. In the advanced semesters of KabU, everyone will be placed in virtual groups of ten and taught how to build a strong spiritual environment in those groups.
Albert @ KabU
Hi,
Sorry if this is a little off topic, but it is part of my quest for deeper understanding.
Is it possible that what we perceive as “psychic phenomena” be a Hereditary Possession? I have precognitive dreams, as does my mother, her mothers mother, her father, etc. My mother and I have also shared the same dream in a night before, are born on the same day, even born on the same time (12hr clock, one PM one AM.) I am not sure where this all fits in with a bigger Plan, but it must be happening for some reason, and can’t surely all be coincidence, since all comes from the Upper force. Does Kabbalah have anything to remark on such things?Thanks so much
Hi Steven,
Our dreams, whether they are regular dreams or precognitive dreams, stem from our egoistic nature. As such, Kabbalah does not deal with these things. Rather, Kabbalah helps us to 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
Hi Judy,
Not necessarily. Freedom means coming out of our egoistic nature. We can reach freedom by building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment which will influence us with the importance of coming out of our ego and acquiring the nature of bestowal.
For this reason, the Kabbalists equate our main freedom in life in choosing to be influenced by a spiritual environment. Not just any environment, but specifically a spiritual environment, since only through the spiritual environment can we get the importance of coming out of our nature and only through that environment can we draw the light that can help us to actualize this.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/
Albert @ KabU
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