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How is that there is 600000 souls that make up the collective, but 8 billion-ish people on earth, not to mention billions of other planets many likely populated…ect, really a better question for last lesson here it is all the same.
Hi Terry,
600,000 is less of a quantitative number and more of a qualitative number. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it has been fully corrected. So essentially all of humanity is included in this number.
Check out this blog post to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Michael,
It means that all of humanity are part of a single system, like cells within a single body.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2021/11/adam-is-a-collective-soul/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Marguerite Marie,
I’m not sure I understand the question. In what context are you asking it?
By the way, we offer Kabbalah courses in other languages as well. Check out Kab.info for details.
Albert @ KabU
I posted this in week 1 but it was meant for here:
Can regular everyday people connect with the upper worlds without the Torah?
For example: a caveman fulfills his lower desires, for food, shelter, family…he then picks up a stick and carves a flute. he creates songs on it. Later he picks up some plants and creates dies, and draws what he sees in nature, animals, plants, everything in his visual field. There’s a kind of satisfaction of a higher desire, a feeling of connections with the creator. There is no social expectation for him to do these, things, so it seems that this is an exercise of free will.
The second example has to do with intuition. A flight is fully booked but only a quarter of the people who bought tickets arrive. The plane crashes and everyone who took it dies. Through some inexplicable force, the people who didn’t take the flights describe a gut feeling guiding them not to take it. Some are sure the creator was communicating with them, so they acted on their desire to be closer to the creator by abandoning their plans. Are they exercising free will?
Hi Dana,
When we talk about freedom in Kabbalah, we’re talking about freedom from our egoistic nature. Whatever we do within our egoistic nature, there is no freedom there whatsoever. We’re simply like machines carrying out their inner programming.
See my reply below to Giuseppina for more details.
As for the Torah, Torah comes from the Hebrew word Ohr, meaning light. So when Kabbalists refer to the need for the Torah, they are not referring to the book but rather to the light. We need the force of the light to correct our egoistic nature. Then, according to the law of equivalence of form, we will become similar to spirituality and attain it in practice.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2010/12/know-what-you-want-precisely/
https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
What does bestow to the Creator exactly mean ? If we say that the Creator is a giving force, so how does it that the Creator accepts us to bestow to him ? and practically speaking how does one bestow to the Creator ?
Hi Milo,
The Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal. As such, He does not lack anything. Meaning He does not need us to bestow anything to Him. The only ones benefiting from this whole process is us.
Although we sometimes use the words that we perform a certain action in order to bestow to the Creator or to bring Him contentment, but in truth it’s just a game to help us to develop. Just like with kids, when we spoon feed them, they see the example from us and want to pick up a spoon and feed us back. Do we really need them to feed us? Of course not. But we still accept this from them, smile, show them how happy they made us by feeding us etc, since we know that through this game, they grow and develop. So ultimately the Creator is not lacking anything. And all of our attempts to bestow to Him are nothing more than a type of game for our own development.
Furthermore, the Creator is concealed. So we cannot even play this type of game directly with Him. Instead we need to use what is revealed, which are other people. Meaning that if we want to “bestow” to Him in practice, we do so by bestowing to other people. This is called going “from the love of the created beings, to the love of the Creator”.
Keep in mind that the foundation of this type of work is done in a small Kabbalistic group. And once we build a certain foundation there, we can add more and more layers on top of that, until we can include the whole world in that connection.
In the advanced semester everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group and learn how to do these things in practice. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2024/01/communicate-directly-with-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
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