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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
suffering is needed to correct our nature . my question is what does a new born baby diagnosed with cancer has to correct? The Creator places greater obstacles in order to increase our capacity . A baby does not yet have the capacity to understand. so why all this horrible pain?
Hi Elizabeth,
1. Is suffering necessary? As long as we’re in our ego, suffering is an important motivating factor to push us forward. Without which, we would be content to remain as is, and would have no motivation to reach our spiritual correction. But once we rise above our egoistic nature, we will no longer need suffering to push us forward.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
2. Our correction does not happen in a bubble. Each person is connected like a cog in a wheel to every other person in the world. So the things we go through are not necessarily just tied to our own correction, but also to the correction of those around us, as well as the continuation of our correction from previous reincarnations.
Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “The Peace“, here’s an excerpt:
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THE WHEEL OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE FORM
First, let me present the opinion of our sages concerning the unfolding of the generations of the world: although we see the bodies changing from generation to generation, this is only the case with the bodies. But the souls, which are the essence of the body’s self, do not vanish, to be replaced, but move from body to body, from generation to generation. The same souls that were at the time of the flood came also during the time of Babylon, and in the exile in Egypt, and in the exodus from Egypt, etc., until this generation and until the end of correction.
Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, because each time they clothe a new body and a new generation.
Therefore, with regard to the souls, all generations since the beginning of Creation to the end of correction are as one generation that has extended its life over several thousand years, until it developed and became corrected as it should be. And the fact that in the meantime each has changed its body several thousand times is completely irrelevant, because the essence of the body’s self, called “the soul,” did not suffer at all by these changes.
And there is much evidence pointing to that, and a great wisdom called “the secret of the incarnation of the souls.” And while this is not the place to explain it, because of the great importance of the matter, it is worthwhile to point out to the uneducated that reincarnation occurs in all the objects of the tangible reality, and each object, in its own way, lives eternal life.
Although our senses tell us that everything is transient, it is only how we see it. In fact, there are only incarnations here—each item is not still and does not rest for a moment, but incarnates on the wheel of transformation of the form, losing nothing of its essence along its way, as physicists have shown.
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3. Lastly, as we develop spiritually and begin to reveal the reality outside of our ego, our attitude to life and death will change.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/06/life-and-death-in-the-eyes-of-a-kabbalist/
Albert @ KabU
I have a deficiency. Please, help us.Â
The collectives soul was shattered into 600,000 parts, and each one of these desires, having a piece of the original. I wish to ask, what does it mean by:
1- Each of the desires have a piece of the original? and
2- What is a piece and what do you mean by original?Thanks!
KimaHi Kima,
We learn that all of humanity is part of one single system, like cells within a single body. Each one of us is like a cell, but each cell belongs to the common body. In other words, each cell does not function on its own, but everything that happens to it is a reflection of the whole body.
It’s like a hologram where the big image is made up of identical smaller copies of that image. So if there is a flaw in one of the smaller images, that same flaw is found in every piece. And if you correct that flaw in the small piece, it’s reflected in the whole image.
So if I correct myself, I correct my part of this general picture. That is called reaching one’s individual final correction. And when each one will correct their part of the general picture, then we reach the final correction of the whole world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/04/the-fractality-of-nature/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Kima,
The Creator, and everything He sends us, operates on the frequency of bestowal. While we are looking at life through the lens of reception. As such, we operate on two completely different frequencies. So it’s currently impossible for us to understand Him. We first need to correct our nature and become similar to Him. Only then will we begin to understand Him and to comprehend properly all that we see in life.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/09/learn-the-creators-language/
Albert @ KabU
In the video The Path of Light you stated “shattered into 600,000 parts with 613 desires”. Could you elaborate on this concept? Does the 600,000 refer to new souls at that time?
Hi Albert,
600,000 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. So essentially all of humanity is included in this number.
Check out this blog post to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
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