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Hi Bella,
The numbers all have their own significance. When a person attains spirituality, he begins to research it, and discovers all these numbers from his research. But what exactly is he researching, what is spirituality?
Essentially we’re always talking about a desire. Our current reality is based on our current nature, the desire to receive. Spirituality on the other hand operates according to a different desire, that of pure bestowal. The different numbers are just a different way to divide up that spiritual desire. This desire can be divided into 613 parts, or 620 parts, or 600,000 pieces, or 125 degrees, or even 10 sefirot.
It’s just like how we can study a person based on his behavior, or based on his anatomy, or based on his external appearance, or his internal chemistry. Ultimately we’re studying the same person, but from different angles. Same with these different divisions, they are all talking about the same spiritual desire but from different angles or a different scale.
So if we are describing the desire as 620 parts, then we’re talking about the number of corrections that need to be placed over the desire. This number is further divided into 248 desires of bestowing in order to bestow, 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow, and 7 additional desires that are corrected only in the final correction. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.
Regarding the 125 steps, the number 125 comes from the structure of the upper worlds. This structure is just a division of the spiritual desire that we need to correct into sefirot, partzufim, and worlds.
The most basic division of the desire is 1 Sefira. 5 Sefirot compose 1 partzuf. 5 Partzufim compose 1 world. There are 5 worlds in total. So 5 worlds each with 5 partzufim each with 5 sefirot equals 125 (5x5x5) steps on the spiritual ladder. This number symbolizes the gap, the delta, between our nature and the Creator’s nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/numbers-indicate-quality-not-quantity/
Regarding 600,000, this is less of a quantitative number and more of a qualitative number. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it’s been fully corrected.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
I am truly fascinated by this wisdom. Thank you. Yet I have very important question and it is why is our creator called he or him?
Hi Fawnette,
Male and female in spirituality symbolize the force of bestowal (male) and the force of reception (female). This is why we call the Creator “Him” and the created being “her”. But these are just technical terms, similar to how in electronics we call the plug the male part while the socket is the female part.
Interestingly enough, because our nature is the desire to receive, all of humanity is considered a female in relation to the Creator who is the bestower.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/06/man-and-woman-in-kabbalistic-terms/
Albert @ KabU
In regard to the stages of life, does one have to achieve power and knowledge to get to the point in the heart?
Hi Brenda,
It’s not a linear progression. We don’t need to fulfill all the other desires to reach the point in the heart. Even more so, because humanity is interconnected, awakening the point in the heart does not even depend on me.
All of humanity is part of a single system, like cells within a single body. 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.
So ultimately, whether a person receives a point in the heart now or later depends on their place in the system, which is called the root of one’s soul.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/the-root-of-the-soul/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert
My question is coming from Week 3 recommended reading from the book “Attaining the Worlds Beyond” page 110 from the second paragraph to the end of that page. Please explain it more easy to understand. Thank you
Hi Erick,
Our nature, our inner programming is the desire to receive pleasure. This means that every single action that we take, either consciously or subconsciously, we’re aspiring towards receiving greater pleasure, or at least not to feel pain. If we don’t feel that an action will bring us greater pleasure or less pain, then we naturally don’t have the strength to perform that action.
When we start aspiring towards spirituality, we learn that spirituality means acquiring the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. At a certain point of our spiritual development, we begin to question whether there is any pleasure in bestowing like the Creator. Since spiritual pleasure is concealed from us, we don’t see or feel that there is pleasure in it, and we lose the strength to do anything to reach the spiritual goal.
It’s at that point that we have a genuine prayer for the Creator to help us, because otherwise we see that we are powerless to withstand our own egoistic nature.
Albert @ KabU
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