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    Ask anything about week 2 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.

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    • #367328
      JamesM
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      Loved the idea that our concept of free will is based on ignorance. We only imagine ourselves to be free because we are ignorant of the forces at work on us. Mind blowing…

    • #363203
      Johan
      Participant

      Why are we, human beeings,  the only ones that don’t follow nature’s laws?  What happened?

      • #363384

        Hi Johan,

        If we simply followed nature’s laws instinctively, like any other animal, we would not have any free choice. 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 the goal.

        Check out my reply 363142 to Jonah below for more details about reaching freedom.

        Albert @ KabU

    • #363123
      Diane
      Participant

      Again I am assuming… that “this one small area of freedom” you mention in video 2, is not truly available to us till our older years when we are allowed to have the freedom to choose our environment. Before this, we have to conform to the family, culture, faith, etc. we were born in. Does this timing of freedom to choose the environment have any connection to the activation of the point in the heart? Thank you.

      • #363145

        Hi Diane,

        Yes, the awakening of the point in the heart is the precondition to reaching freedom. Not just any freedom, but specifically freedom from our egoistic nature.

        Check out my reply 363142 to Jonah below for more details.

        Albert @ KabU

    • #363118
      Diane
      Participant

      Shalom, I have a question about the word we use often in English called “soul”

      in video 1 in this lesson above, you state: “Our point of freedom lies in the root of our soul”

      which “soul” are we talking about in Hebrew?

      I ask this because in other lessons I hear that we have to attain this “soul”, by striving to become like our Creator after the Point in the Heart is activated. That this particular “soul” is outside of me and if I’m not mistaken I have heard KabU teachers teach that if someone ignores this point in the heart he/she is without this “soul”. In Hebrew, there are 5 levels of the soul and each one has a different name – Nefesh, Ruah, Neshama, Chaya & Yechida. From my understanding, (and I can be wrong) life’s basic level of soul is Nefesh. So I’m assuming I am born with a nefesh. Because my language skills in Hebrew are very limited when we read these texts in Hebrew, which word is used? What did God breathe into Adam when He created him that was over and above the animals? Can you please set me straight? I hope I am not asking for too much at this level of learning 🙂 Thank you.

    • #363099
      Jonah
      Participant

      Is my ability achieve freedom proportionate to my ability to give up the will to receive?

      • #363142

        Hi Jonah,

        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.

        In the more advanced lessons, we’ll learn how to build this type of spiritual environment, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/

        Albert @ KabU

    • #363094
      Manuela
      Participant

      The intention of the Creator is to help his Creature become like Him. And He has a Plan. This means everything happens in our life is a conseguence of being aligned to the intention or not. I have always thought that everything happens in our life is always FOR US and never AGAINST US, But: what about serial killers for example? (I saw a movie yesterday evening and this question arose in me😊). Do we have to accept passively because it is the Creator will? What about Justice then? I guess I am missing something… ThankU!

      • #363141

        Hi Manuela,

        The corrections that we learn about in Kabbalah are internal corrections, on the level of our thoughts and desires.

        As for the physical level, there we need to operate according to the rules of the physical world. So if someone is trying to harm me, I need to stop them, defend myself, turn to the cops, etc. If I’m sick, I need to go to the doctor and take some medicine. If I lose my job, I need to go job hunting, etc. We need to take care of our physical problems in the way that is customary in our world.

        So internally, we must ascribe everything that we’re going through to the Creator, to “none else besides Him”. But this is our internal work. It does not cancel out any of the normal actions that we need to do in life in order to deal with our problems in the regular way.

        Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/dont-ask-for-the-death-to-the-wicked/

        As for serial killers and the like, we see all of these atrocities through the lens of our egoistic nature. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect. So when we correct ourselves, we’ll reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and that our previous egoistic perception was nothing more than a dream.

        Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/this-life-is-a-dream/

        Albert @ KabU

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