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Is the rest of nature/creation (still, vegetative, animal) part of the unified soul, even though they don’t have PIH’s?
Hi Alejandro,
We’re all part of one system. In this system, there are internal and external parts. The internal parts include the common soul of Adam HaRishon, while the external parts are all the different things that influence this common soul, including the still, vegetative, and animate parts of nature.
Albert @ KabU
It’s a pleasant experience to hear the deep insights of this video about free will (1). It’s true that in my present state, the concealment is total, and this is what makes it possible to feel the sensation of free will, which is actually ignorance of the laws of nature that are affecting me all the time.
There are a lot of insights in this video that I’ve never realized before. Thank you.
I have learnt about how being locked inside a level makes it impossible to realize how it is actually working; we have to rise above one level to understand how things work there.
I have also learnt how animals interact with the force of nature, and don’t evaluate or question anything.
Another statement that kept me thinking about it is that, being in a group, everything goes fine until I feel some restriction on my desire to fulfill my needs.
Thanks a lot for all of this info.
I’m looking forward to seeing the 2nd video about free will.
Thank you for the advice about the books explaining the meaning of the Torah symbols and stories. I have started reading the book The Secrets of the Eternal Book, and it’s fantastic. I am also reading The Path of Kabbalah, and I’m enjoying it.
Thank you for this course.
Best Regards
I am still struggling a lot with this language of “roots and branches”. I understand that Kabbalists used corporeal words to describe the Upper Worlds, but does this mean that nothing described in Kabbalistic texts actually historically happened? Meaning for example that people like Abraham and Noah in fact never lived and all the events in their lives never happened?
Hi Julia,
The Torah is entirely written in a type of code called the language of roots and branches. This code uses words of our world to describe spiritual phenomena. So none of it is literal. On the other hand there is a law that every spiritual root must touch the corporeal branch at least once. Meaning although these are spiritual phenomena, they must have a corresponding corporeal branch in our world.
For example, Egypt represents the uncorrected egoistic desire while Israel represents the corrected desire, those are the roots. But in our world these things exist as branches as well. There is actually a physical place that is called Egypt and Israel. Likewise with Abraham and Noah, there were indeed Kabbalists with those names. Still, despite all the above, the Torah is not a history book, not a single word of the Torah speaks about our world, history, morals, etc.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
If you’re interesting in learning how to properly decipher the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
Albert @ KabU
Julia, that was an EXCELLENT question – one I have struggled with, personally.
Albert, I also really appreciate your answer and that you have provided further information on the subject.
It is my understanding that, while (some or all) of the people and events in the Torah may have actually occurred, their significance is not limited to the actual event or person spoken of, and the purpose of the written Torah is exactly as Albert stated, which may be described as a chronology of the states each person goes through on the path to spirituality.
Please correct me if I have misspoken.
When we manage to connect to the Creator and the Creator helps us to correct our ego, then almost immediately a new layer of ego appears, greater than before. Why is this so? What is the mechanism of this ego building up? Is there an end to it?
Hi Julia,
We reveal a new layer of egoism in order for us to keep going until we correct everything. And this is a good thing. Through this process we can continue to develop spiritually. It’s like Baal HaSulam wrote in letter 5, that he’s happy when the ego gets revealed. Here’s an excerpt:
“I rejoice in those revealed corruptions and the ones that are being revealed. I do, however, regret and complain about the corruptions that have still not appeared, but which are destined to appear, for a hidden corruption is hopeless, and its surfacing is a great salvation from heaven. The rule is that one does not give what he does not have. Hence, if it has appeared now, there is no doubt that it was here to begin with but was hidden. This is why I am happy when they come out of their holes because when you cast your eye on them, they become a pile of bones.”
And yes, there is an end, it’s called Gmar Tikkun (the final correction). Meaning when we complete all 125 degrees of correction, we will reach that state of the final correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/what-happens-after-the-final-correction/
Albert @ KabU
If a person consciously refuses to receive to their Kelim (refuses to satisfy a desire), does this person emit the light of Hassadim?
Hi Julia,
It’s not enough not to receive, but we also need the intention to bestow.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/01/the-light-of-hassadim-is-all-we-need/
Keep in mind that bestowal, restriction, etc all of these things are practiced only within the Kabbalistic group. This is because spirituality is found only in the connections between us and not in any one of us individually. We’ll learn how to put these things into practice in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Melissa,
Restriction means to stop using the desire to receive. After the restriction comes the screen, which is an attempt to use the desire to receive in order to bestow. Check out the Guest and Host analogy in Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond for more details.
Albert @ KabU
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