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Hi Albert
When it is said that: ” spirituality can be achieved in one lifetime.”
Does that mean, that individual parts of the one soul, Adam HaRishon, can achieve this alone?
Can some parts of the one soul achieve it gradually or must it be all 600.000 at once?In the upper world there is no time and space, and measurement of distance, is in equality of qualities, so does it matter when in time and space, one part of the soul achieves this?
I don’t know If I am making my questions clear, sorry 🙂
Best regards
Hi Peter,
Spirituality is the process of reconnecting to the shattered soul. It can never be done alone because we need someone with whom to connect with. We do this type of work in groups of ten. In other words, we don’t need to wait for all of humanity to reconnect all at once, rather it’s done gradually. First we connect within our own group of ten. Then a few groups of ten connect together, and then a few more, etc. Until we come to include all of humanity in that connection. We’ll learn more about these things in the advanced semesters where each one will receive their own group with whom to practice this.
As for when, yes that is important. It’s like building a giant jigsaw puzzle, first you start with the corners and only afterwards do you work your way to the center. Those with awakened points in the heart are like those corner pieces, they need to start this whole process. Only after they finish their work, is it possible for other parts of humanity to start this work.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Patricia,
Yes, this follows the saying that: the Creator puts man’s hand on the good fate and says “choose this for yourself”. Meaning He awakened your point in the heart and brought it to a good spiritual environment in which you can nourish it. After that the rest is up to you.
So what needs to happen for me to start actualizing my free will here? After all, the point in the heart is seemingly forcing me to be here. If so, then this desire needs to be taken away from me little by little, and there I begin to reveal more and more the place of my freedom.
This is similar to how we teach a child to ride a bike. First the parent holds the child completely. Then as the child learns to pedal and balance himself, the parent lets go a little, then a little more and a little more, until the child continue to pedal without the parent holding him at all.
So we too need to learn to continue to do this work even when that initial desire for spirituality begins to disappear or when the ego grows and begins to pull us into many different directions. When that happens, we’ll feel a need for mutual work in the group, the spiritual environment. On one hand when I fall into my ego, they need to pull me out, and on the other hand I need to help pull others out when they fall. This is why Kabbalists have always studied in groups (physical or virtual).
We will learn more about this in the more advanced semesters on KabU, where you’ll receive your own Kabbalah group with whom you can practice these things.
Albert @ KabU
In regards to the requirements of having the proper friends etc to achieve this, how can I begin to find like-minded others? I have never heard of anyone in my large peer group interested in studying Kabbalah. Or is there something I’m not understanding very well?
Thanks!
Hi Scott,
You’re right, such people are less than 1% of the world, chances are you won’t find someone like that among your corporeal acquaintances or family members.
So where do we find such people? We can find them here. KabU is essentially a place where people with points in the heart come to learn about Kabbalah. Every semester hundreds of students from all over the world start this process. For those that choose to continue their studies with KabU, in the more advanced semesters, they will learn about spiritual work in a group, and be given their own virtual Kabbalah group with whom they can put all these things into practice.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Gabor,
Kabbalists explain to us that there is a goal of creation. This goal is preset, we have no choice there, we must reach it. If we don’t reach it in this lifetime, then we, (or more precisely our point in the heart) will continue to reincarnate again and again until we fully reach that goal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Baal HaSulam explains it briefly in the article “The Peace“, here’s an excerpt:
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The Wheel of Transformation of the Form
First, let me present the view of our sages concerning the unfolding of the generations of the world: Although we see the bodies changing from generation to generation, this is only the case with the bodies. But the souls, which are the essence of the body’s self, do not vanish, to be replaced, but move from body to body, from generation to generation. The same souls that were at the time of the flood came also during the time of Babylon, and in the exile in Egypt, and in the exodus from Egypt, etc., until this generation and until the end of correction.Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, for each time they clothe a new body and a new generation.
Therefore, with regard to the souls, all generations since the beginning of creation to the end of correction are as one generation that has extended its life over several thousand years until it developed and became corrected as it should be. And the fact that in the meantime, each has changed his body several thousand times is completely irrelevant because the essence of the body’s self, called “the soul,” did not suffer at all by these changes.
And there is much evidence pointing to that, and a great wisdom called “the secret of the incarnation of the souls.” And while this is not the place to explain it, because of the great importance of the matter, it is worthwhile to point out to the uneducated that reincarnation occurs in all the objects of the tangible reality, and each object, in its own way, lives an eternal life.
Although our senses tell us that everything is transient, it is only how we see it. In fact, there are only incarnations here, and each item is not still and does not rest for a moment, but incarnates on the wheel of transformation of the form, losing nothing of its essence along its way, as physicists have shown.
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Albert @ KabU
I once heard in one of related videos that the people of Israel spread through the world to spread the point in the heart and I wondered is it hereditary?
If it is, What if I developed in some point in spirituality and never have children. How Will it still reincarnate?Or was it just the matter of spreading their ideas?
Hi Amirhossein,
It’s not directly hereditary. We can see it on ourselves. After all, how many people in our family have active points in the heart? From the hundreds of people in my family circles, I’m the only one interested in studying Kabbalah. It’s the same for most people with active points in the heart.
Albert @ KabU
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