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What determines the awakening of the point in the heart? And if it happens and you don’t listen to it… being too anxious, too preoccupied or whatever… will it go back to sleep or will the pressure just increase? I know there is no coercion… but will it just get back to rest? And if that development towards spirituality means so much effort in order to stay on the middle path and the goal is attainment of spirituality, and connection, but you are not supposed to outwardly share the wisdom… because no one around you will benefit from coercion… how to deal with the growing distance in the beforehand seemingly fullfilling corporeal relationships if the awakening and work leads to more awareness of the importance of connection, but you cannot reach that connection in your corporeal relationships? In other words, if you are not lucky enough to have people with a desire for Kabbalah around you, won’t this process make you feel even more lonely than before when you were just an isolated ego but connected corporeally to other egos?
Hi Verena,
1. All of humanity is part of a single system. Within this singular system, there is a certain order of corrections that need to take place. It’s like building a large jigsaw puzzle. First you start with all the corner pieces, and only then do you gradually work your way to the center. It’s the same with our spiritual work. There are those that are awakened to this work earlier and those that are awakened to it later. Those that received awakened points in the hearts are like those corner pieces of the puzzle that need to start the whole process. Later on, due to their good work, they pave the way for the rest of the world to join this process.
2. If a person does not realize their point in the heart, that too is part of the process. Just like that jigsaw puzzle example, if you take a piece and try to find its place in the puzzle, but after examining it, you realize you’re not yet ready for that piece, so you place it back down for later. Although you did not use that piece, but at least you sorted it out, so that too brings us closer to correction.
3. It’s forbidden to coerce people, it’s not forbidden to share this wisdom. If you’re able to do so in a gentle way, without getting into arguments and explanations, but by simply sharing a book or sharing a link to the site, then it’s perfectly fine to share it. And if you have a desire to do more, after you graduate from KabU, there will be opportunities to get trained and join an official Kabbalah dissemination project.
4. At the beginning of the spiritual path, there are a lot of tendencies to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. But the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see that we don’t need to isolate ourselves. Even Baal HaSulam and Rabash were not living in isolation in some Kabbalistic environment, rather they had normal jobs, families, and lived in a typical neighborhood of their time. How then did they attain such high spiritual levels? By tapping into the strength of the spiritual environment.
So if we build for ourselves a strong spiritual environment, then it will influence us even stronger than the corporeal environment that we’re in. But this is not a one time choice. Building and strengthening the spiritual environment is our constant work. As we progress, our ego will grow more and more, and the corporeal environment will pull us more and more. This is done purposefully so that this resistance will force us to build an even stronger connection to the spiritual environment, and thereby reach an even higher spiritual level.
It’s just like with a bodybuilder. If he lifts only a 1 pound weight all the time, he will not get very strong (this is equivalent to us living in isolation or closing ourselves in a small community). In order to grow, that bodybuilder needs to constantly increase the resistance that he’s lifting. So the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see how the everyday problems, experiences, work situations, etc we undergo in the regular society are a necessary part of our correction. That we don’t erase these things, but above them we need to stay connected to the spiritual environment. And this will determine the level of our spiritual attainment.
We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters of KabU.
Albert @ KabU
I have understood that there are properties within each seed that will determine what can grow out of it. Also I have understood ,that we are all fractals of the „one soul“. Now ,I am wondering about the essence of those fractals…do all fractals have the same essence, and thus the same development to follow up, or do the fractals have complementing essences, and thus may follow different pathways, like cells in a body, which form different organs complementing each other and creating a functional body systems… ? In other words… are we finally all the same, and complement each other only in that we are at different stages of development? Or are there complementing essences?
Hi Verena,
We’re all different. So cells in a body is a good way to look at it. That despite our differences, when we connect together, we experience spiritual life in that greater body.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
Albert @ KabU
Can I say if my partner raises concern about the amount of time I spend studying Kabbalah , I am not in the right environment?
Hi Mo,
Not necessarily. It could be that you are indeed spending too much time studying Kabbalah.
We need to find a good balance between our corporeal lives and our spiritual aspirations. Without a good balance in our corporeal lives, we won’t be able to advance in spirituality either. This is called “no flour, no Torah – no Torah, no flour”.
Meaning a Kabbalist continues to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder. So I cannot just turn into a monk and disconnect from this life and only focus on spirituality. On the other hand, if I only focus on corporeality, then I’m no different than an animal.
So the important thing is to find the right balance between the two: to take care of all of one’s normal necessities: to work, take care of the family, health, etc (this is called flour) and to set aside some time on a regular basis to focus on spirituality (this is called Torah).
And in the more advanced stages of our development, we will see how our day to day life helps us with our spiritual development.
Albert @ KabU
I am very happy and grateful for the teachings of the course, but I have some questions:
1) When will we have the group of 10?
2) With how much time of study and participation in the group of 10 will I be able to gain some drop of perception of the higher reality?
Hi Renata,
1. In the advanced semester we will go in depth about the spiritual work in the ten. It is at that point that everyone will receive their own group of ten with whom they can put those things into practice.
2. We learn that “there is no time in spirituality”. Reaching it does not depend on time, but only on the right desire. If we build the right desire, within it, we will right away reveal spirituality. If not, then even if a few thousand more years were to pass by, we would still not reveal anything. It all depends on us, on our efforts to build that desire.
Albert @ KabU
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