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Hi Milos,
Just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot just correct our own nature. So it’s the light that corrects us. Our work is only to extract more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi! I was born on June 13 (613), and my path towards the creator has been, well you could say…inevitable. No matter what I’ve done in this life my heart, intentions, and life have been almost pulled towards Creator in powerful ways. In studying Kabbalah I’ve felt as if words were being given to experiences I already had. Do you believe my birthday could be a seal of sorts on my life, connecting me to the Mitzvot?
Hi Zachary,
If that date was truly significant, then every single person born on that date would have the same inclination towards the Creator. But that’s obviously not what we see in practice.
In practice, everything depends on the desire called the point in the heart. If a person received such a desire, then regardless of when that person was born, what gender, background, etc, that person will aspire to actualize that desire and reveal the Creator.
But we need to keep in mind that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. So the point in the heart does not guarantee our success, as that would be coercion. Instead, it means that in potential, we have the possibility to come closer to Him. But this is just in potential, whether or not you actually succeed on the spiritual path depends on you.
It’s like someone handed you a very special seed that you can potentially grow into a big tree. If you plant that seed in fertile ground, then it’ll get all the right nutrients and grow. If you plant it in the desert, nothing will come out of it.
Likewise with your point in the heart. If you place it into a good spiritual environment, it will grow and flourish until you attain spirituality. If not, then no. It’s all in your hands.
We’ll learn more about the importance of “planting ourselves” in a good spiritual environment in the next semester.
Albert @ KabU
“The left rejects and the right adducts…” this is purposefully designed and intended to make man ask God for help. I couldn’t understand this concept.
And If the left rejecting is considered a correction, aiming to divert a person from the right path, how does this help a person develop a need for God’s help? Why is this “left and right” concept or design necessary if a person is already born with this point in the heart? Furthermore, what is the purpose behind being born with the ego?
Hi Ayantu,
If we were strong and could do everything by ourselves, we would have no need to ask the Creator for help. So the system is set up such that we cannot finish the work ourselves. We can try, fail, and then discover the need for His help. This is because the goal is not to succeed, but the goal is to build a connection with Him. And by turning to Him for help, we are at least in some kind of connection with Him.
As for being born with the point in the heart, that is not enough. If we didn’t have this type of system which constantly pushed and pulled us, we would be content with little and not have the drive to continue our development until we reach the full correction and fulfill the purpose of creation.
We’ll study the article “there is none else besides Him” in depth in the next semester. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
Is there 620 or 613 mitzvah/acts/parts of the spiritual body? I may misunderstand something. Will the soul be 620 times more significant by being filled with more light and making 613 acts? Are those numbers significant? Is it only me, or are different texts discussing the same thing, and exact quantities should be ignored?
Hi Sandor,
There are 620 spiritual desires in total. 248 of them are corrected towards bestowing in order to bestow, 365 desires of receiving in order to bestow, and 7 additional desires that are corrected only in the final correction.
So the numbers 613 and 620 are connected. Depending on the context, sometimes Kabbalists include those additional 7 desires and sometimes they omit them.
Albert @ KabU
Greetings! I appreciate any clarification.
Since the Reshimot reveal a pattern for actual spiritual growth, I can know those desires that arise in me for fulfillment are “on time” or “in order” or “suitable for my correction”? It would seem so from the understanding of the perfectly structured situation that created the opportunity to address the desire.
I think I am asking if there are any frivolous desires. But that seems to indicate that the structure of and Thought Behind Creation is frivolous in some way as well. Are all desires potentially and temporarily frivolous if I ignore or suppress them and potentially corrective if I transform and adjust the intention to an altruistic form? And that would be something like choosing the Path of Pain or Path of Light/Torah/Mitzvot?
Thank you,
Allen
Hi Allen,
Yes, you can say that. We are in a lawful system, where nothing happens by chance.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/12/coincidence-is-simply-ignorance/
Albert @ KabU
Hello Albert!
Thank you for the additional article. I relate to the wording of this answer, concerning the system we are in, as
“. . . no mess and no coincidence. We are in a very accurate, rigid, and deterministic system. Everything is arranged in a clear and accurate manner without any defects or flaws.”
There are no “frivolous” desires. They (desires), like the system/Nature, are intentionally designed and purposeful unto revealing the seamless cohesion.
(1) So, is this the case, when I have an experience of disunity or frivolity, (i.e. when I see messiness and haphazardness of any type), it actually only seems so from the perspective of my own inner disunity and uncorrected desires from which I choose to view everything for my own benefit, from-myself-for-myself only?
(2) And, as my inner selfishness is transformed into altruism by the correction of these desires by consciously applying the proper intention, will I see or feel more purely the total cohesion of the system?
(3)And, of course then, if ALL is an actual Unity, then my perceptions of apparent fragmentation have their place in the system as opportunities intended for my correction for the purpose of adhering to the Unity/Creator.
Thank you for your patience with our questions.
Allen
Hi Allen,
1. Yes, that rule is called “whoever flaws does it through his own flaws”. Meaning that we see the world through our own egoism and therefore we see flaws in it. It’s like seeing the world as dirty because we’re looking at it through dirty glasses.
2. Yes. Just like with the above glasses example, as we clean our own glasses, we’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
3. Yes. Just keep in mind that aspiring to reveal that spiritual unity is not individualistic work, but mutual work that we do with other points in the heart in the Kabbalistic group. We’ll learn how to do that work properly in the advanced semesters where everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group with whom you can put these things into practice.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/12/fantasies-and-reality-part-5/
Albert @ KabU
I wonder if anyone can tell me if Itzhak Bentov was a Kabbalist?
I have a couple of his book – ‘the wild pendulum’ and a brief tour of higher consciousness. I’ve also watched a couple of interviews with him. I haven’t finished his books – but I found him before I found Kabbalah.
Just wondering if he is connected to these teachings through what he wrote in his books, and discussed about higher consciousness?
Hi Ken,
I’m not an expert in other teachings, so I cannot comment on that. But in general, a Kabbalist is someone that has made INTERNAL corrections over his egoistic desire and as a result has become similar to the Creator and revealed Him in practice, at least to some extent. All of this is internal.
Externally there is no way to discern if a person is a Kabbalist or not. Meaning such a person can be a man or a woman, lives a very normal life, works, takes care of his/her family, health, etc. Meaning there is no dress code or rituals or anything external by which we can discern that a person is a Kabbalist.
Albert @ KabU
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