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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
My question has to do with the lesson statement for what we will learn in week 2:
“How you are completely controlled in every aspect of your life and why you still think you can achieve freedom.”
From what I read, it appears that we are influenced by outside forces and inside (internal) forces. However, according to the lesson, “Free Will is really ignorance.”
I do understand that our environment influences our choices (where we were born to whom we were born) but I am baffled by the thought that we are completely controlled in EVERY aspect of our lives.
Please explain. Thank you.
Hi MsNandi Marie,
If we’re presented with two options, we can say we’re free to choose between the two options. But if we’re presented with only one option, then we have no choice and no freedom. This is essentially what our life is like. Although on the surface it looks we’re constantly being presented with multiple options, but if we dig deep into our nature, we’ll see that on the most fundamental level, there is only one option: maximum pleasure, minimum pain.
In other words, our nature is the desire to receive pleasure. As long as we’re within this nature, we’re like programmed machines that will always chase pleasure and run away from pain. There is no freedom there at all.
True freedom is when we start to rise above our nature and then another option opens up: bestowal. It’s only when we have the option to choose between reception and bestowal is there a potential for free choice.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/what-no-fortune-teller-knows/
In order to reach freedom from our current nature, we need to choose and build a spiritual environment for ourselves which will influence us with the importance of acquiring the quality 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
With statements like “the creator places each soul with in an environment that will allow its development”, and “the creator has your whole life mapped out for you” how again am I free to choose my environment?
When the desire for spirituality—the Point in the Heart–finally appears, the Creator places a person in an environment that will allow the soul to develop to perfection.
The third factor, the externals, can affect the quality of development of the essence, but not the essence itself.
There is only one thing that we can change in this entire system–the speed of development so that spirituality can be achieved in one lifetime.
When we give joy to the collective soul, even though each feels the joy and the closeness individually, this reception becomes bestowal.
I am pointing these quotes because it gives me a better opportunity to explain what I have understood and where I find myself. I could write a book about the “externalities” in my life. However, it would be pointless after what I have learned. I believe I have felt the Point in my Heart several times. And then given in to the externalities more than the Spirituality. I believe that at this point in my life, I want to change the speed of my development so that I can achieve Spirituality in this lifetime. I completely understand that I need, we need to belong to a collective soul of like minded individuals to bring about the reception that will become bestowal. In other words, in terms of free will, I have freely chosen Spirituality and will stay on this path so that my soul will continue to adhere to the Creator. I believe and I understand. Thank you!
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