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For those of us who are stuck at the fourth factor by showing great resistance to choose the environment that they sense it is the right soil but hit a wall (meaning joining the ten); Is this a problem with the seed (the individual not having Equivalence of Form) or the environment being too strict (requiring to join a ten on order to find the purpose of life)?
I find it a lot easier to join the whole Bina Baruch group, but feel choked to connect to just 10 people in it. What is the source of this tremendous resistance? Is the Creator asking me to let go as I do not fit? Or is He asking me to stay and develop this way? Honestly, I do not expect an answer to this part, I am just airing frustration with the Creator to answer my prayers to either fish or cut bait.
Hi Jack,
We learn that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. Meaning that we cannot force anyone to do spiritual work. So no one will force you to join a ten if you’re not ready for it.
But if you do go through the KabU courses, you will be gradually taught these things, about the shattering in the system of Adam HaRishon and how our entire work is to repair that shattered connection. Meaning that eventually we’ll come to connect with the whole world. But we don’t go directly to working with the whole world.
It’s just like a bodybuilder that wants to lift 1000 pounds. The bodybuilder does not start lifting 1000 pounds right away, rather he starts with something smaller and builds his strength gradually until he can handle the 1000 pounds. So working in a ten is like starting with a small weight. When we master that, we can expand that connection to include more and more tens until we include the whole world in that connection.
Keep in mind that we’re still in the fundamentals of Kabbalah, so the work in the ten is not so important for us at this stage. At this stage, it’s more important for us to properly absorb the fundamentals. The most important thing you can do for your spiritual advancement now, is to set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic sources, weekly lessons, videos, books, etc. Such a habit of regularly returning to the source of the light will help you throughout your entire spiritual development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
it is very interesting and I’m still learning freedom of choice or get to choose we don’t have that I’m trying to get it
Hi Luis,
Freedom means rising above our egoistic nature. As we learned in this week’s lesson, we do this by building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment.
Baal HaSulam talks about this in the article, the Freedom. He writes: “Harut (carved) on the tables”; do not pronounce it Harut (carved), but rather Herut (freedom), to show that they are liberated from the angel of death.
Throughout the article he explains how our current egoistic nature is that angel of death. Meaning although we are technically alive and surviving, relative to spirituality, our life is considered death. True life is within a completely different nature, that of bestowal. 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 egoistic 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
I battle food addiction. If impulses seeking pleasure, ie to eat pizza, and my thoughts are already programmed by the Creator, to what do I attribute my resistance to eating pizza?
Hi Matanah,
Our inner work is to attribute EVERYTHING to the Creator. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Just keep in mind that our battle with food has nothing to do with spirituality. Spirituality means acquiring the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. Love and bestowal is measured not towards food but towards other people. We do this work first of all with those closest to me spiritually, meaning those with awakened points in the hearts that are with me on the spiritual path. Later on, once we build a certain nucleus of connection with these awakened points in the heart, we can expand our work towards the rest of humanity.
We’ll learn about these things in detail in the more advanced semesters in KabU.
Albert @ KabU
I think about how many times I and the rest of society complain about things that the Creator programmed as part of our makeup. It brings tears to my eyes thinking about it. I have been through many stages in my life (since 5 years old) in search of spirituality, true spirituality. This teaching is another stepping stone to the acceleration and correction of my spiritual growth. Thank you instructors for donating yourselves to this work.
Hello,
Would you please explain the meaning of KELIM. What it is…in its essence? What is it in a person in our world? What’s the difference between kelim when the world was created before ….tzimtzum…and after tzimtzum. Do we all have kelim…and what about the kelim of the upper worlds / stages. Can I call myself a kli? Mini version of the bigger version of things.
Thank you!
Hi Aaron,
Kli is Hebrew for vessel (Kelim is the plural, so vessels). A vessel is a container. What does it contain? Light. Light = pleasure. What vessel can contain pleasure? A desire. So kelim are desires.
We all have different desires, but these are corporeal desires for food, sex, family, money, honor, power, knowledge, etc. Kabbalah does not deal with these types of desires. Kabbalah only deals with the desire for spirituality.
But do we have a desire for spirituality? Not really. At most, we have a single point, called the point in the heart, out of which we can build a true desire for spirituality. How do we do that? By connecting our point with other points in the heart.
This is why we learn about the shattering in the system of Adam Harishon. This is the system of connections between our points in the heart. This is the only thing that was broken and the only thing we need to correct. Once we properly connect between us, we will rebuild that spiritual kli through which we can perceive spirituality.
Keep in mind that we do this type of work only in this safe environment that we call the Kabbalistic group. With the rest of the world we need to act in a normal way, just like everyone else.
We’ll learn more about these things in the more advanced semesters.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
As for the restriction (tzimtzum in Hebrew), check out the Guest & Host Allegory in Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond:
http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/4180?/eng/content/view/full/4180&main
Albert @ KabU
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