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What does it mean : giving Joy to the creator by giving Joy to other fellow-souls?
Does it mean to help others to understand and progressing in achieving kabballah ?
Does it mean to behave as an individuel with respect and love towards plants, animals, humains, environnement ?
Hi Anja,
In our day to day lives, we should avoid causing harm to others and not break the laws of the society we live in. But beyond that, our spiritual work is focused entirely within the Kabbalistic group. It’s only in mutual work with other points in the heart that we can reveal the Creator, so our main focus is there.
We’ll learn how to apply these things practically in the advanced semesters when everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group in which to put these things into practice.
Albert @ KabU
Are we really choosing an environment since we don’t even decide where we born?
I’ve ridden the text about free (Herut) will and the four factors and isn’t it very limited and external to our freedom? What can we say then about the choice between the path of pain or path of light and the complexity of human life in nature and our nature?
Hi Tamar,
The environment is not simply the city where I live or those people around me. Choosing the environment is me choosing what will influence me today. And sources of influence are not necessarily physical, in our days, every time we connect to the internet, we’re constantly being influenced.
So then the question is how can I change the things that will influence me? If I spend my free time on Facebook and Instagram, I’ll surely be influenced by the values that are found there. If I spend my free time studying Kabbalistic sources and connecting to the Kabbalistic group, then I’ll be influenced by the values that are found there.
Furthermore, even when I already chose to connect to the Kabbalistic environment, there is still room for me to amplify their influence on me. For example: I can be within the Kabbalistic group, studying with other points in the heart and doing a workshop. At the workshop I can listen to the other people there and think to myself that they are fools, what do they know. By that, I completely close myself from their influence on me. Or I can think to myself how great these people are and allow myself to be influenced even more by them. By that I amplify their influence on me and the influence of light that works on me through the Kabbalistic environment.
So the choice in the environment is in me arranging my life to devote more of my free time to the Kabbalistic environment and furthermore in me arranging my attitude to the Kabbalistic environment to allow it to have a stronger influence me.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/
Albert @ KabU
I am a part of Adam ha Rishon and so is every one on the matrix. If my desire for another soul is for healing and restoration; how is that desire for health affect that particular soul; and how my desire to bestow wholeness, a calculation of self satisfaction?
Hi Marie,
If we’re part of one system, like cells within a single body, then if one part of this body is sick, it’s a sign that the body as a whole is sick. So if we want a particular part to be healthy, we should pray and wish for everyone to be healthy.
Furthermore, we should keep in mind that spiritual work is mutual work with other points in the heart. So everything that we’re learning about here, we apply primarily in a Kabbalistic group with other points in the heart.
If we apply it anywhere else, we risk breaking the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality” and generally it wont lead to the goal of the study, which is the revelation of the Creator.
This will be more relevant for us in the advanced semesters of KabU, where everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group to put these things into practice.
Albert @ KabU
why Creator created us so not perfect what now we have develop our souls to perfection? Isn’t we already perfect? He created us ,so ,we are part of him…can you please explain?
Hi Daiva,
We were indeed created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. (Baal HaSulam describes this in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar). But this was an unconscious state, like a baby in its mother’s womb. So we necessarily had to come to the complete opposite state, to lose that state of perfection, in order to once again reach it, but this time consciously.
And the fact that we had to lose this state is not something bad, but it’s a necessary part of our development. It’s just like with kids. We don’t just give them a completed jigsaw puzzle. On the contrary we take it and break it down into many pieces. Then in the process of them putting it together, they grow and develop. Same with us, this process of losing that state is a necessary part of our further growth and development.
This process also adds to us a certain level of freedom, without which, we would be no different than machines, or robots, that were programmed to act a certain way and they just carry out this inner script. Instead, we were programmed one way, and we rise above this inner programming, become independent of it, and then develop our own desire to advance towards this goal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
Albert @ KabU
When I hear about some of the absolutely disgusting tortures and sufferings that humans have inflicted upon one another, I find it really hard to believe that God Himself is the torturer. I find it much easier to believe that we were given the choice between ‘good and evil’ and that some people choose selfish evil acts.
I also don’t like the idea of me doing something selfish and regrettable, and not owning up to it as my mistake. It doesn’t feel right saying that my mistake is God’s mistake, especially in the moment. It’s like I’m using God as a scapegoat.
Hi Chris,
We learn from the Kabbalists that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. But why then don’t we see this in our world? Why do we see so much suffering and problems in the world?
This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative equals negative.
So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see and feel more suffering and bad things in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
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