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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
I’m not sure I understood what the 613 reshimot are that are laid out in a perfect pattern. Are those life events, how do we regocnize them when the come along, how do we recognise when the action is done to us by the light and that it was changed? Can you please explain the Masach more and how it manifests itself. Thank you
Hi Martina,
The reshimot are our spiritual genes. Just like when we investigate our corporeal genes, we reveal our entire ancestry, where we came from, as well as the reasons for our inclinations, tendencies, etc. Similarly, the reshimot are our spiritual genes. They are all the states that we have gone through and all the states that we will need to go through in the future.
In other words, they detail the process we need to undergo starting from the initial thought of creation all the way until the end of correction. Essentially our entire path of development is preset in these reshimot. So all the forms we need to evolve through and all the desires that will awaken in us is also preset there. The only choice we have is in the pace we go through it. It’s like all of life is one big strip of film or a movie reel. Every new moment is a new frame, a new reshimot is shown to us. And we cannot change the movie at all, but only to fast forward or go one frame at a time.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/07/the-whole-world-is-inside-the-reshimo/
As for the screen (masach in Hebrew), it is the intention that is placed over the desire. It’s the calculation of how much the desire can receive in order to bestow.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman and the Guest & Host analogy in Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond for more details.
Albert @ KabU
When I signed up for this course, there was some time before Week 1 started, and there were several chapters in Rav Laitman’s three basic books that was adviced that we took some time with reading until Week 1 began.
I followed this advice, but something strange happened. When Week 1 became accessible to me, most of the week had already gone by.
I’m a very slow reader, especially with material like what we study here, so I really had to spend most of my time only reading. However, I can’t do that because I also struggle with PTSD, and it has a way of starting a monologue in my mind, like a record being played over and over, and I constantly find myself having lost 15 minutes here, 40 minutes there, and so on. Also, I need time to process what I read, I can’t hurry from one chapter to the next.
But I really did my best.
When I found Week 2 had begun, there was only 2 days left. 2 days, and I had read maybe 25% of the preparation material, 20% of Week 1’s material, and none of Week 3’s material.
So my question is this:
If you do happen to fall behind with some of the reading material, is it acceptable if you, instead of trying to hurry through it all and ending up not really having read anything thoroughly, take the time you have to take if you want to read, process, and learn in a way that allows you to remember, even if it means there are bits or chapters of text you don’t manage to read during the week you were assigned that material?
– What I mean is, will the above be accepted if I am able to keep up in every other way, answering the check and knowledge questions correctly, and so on?
I apologize for being so late with this question.
Thank you in advance.
In the lesson soul root was mentioned a few times and I might be wrong but there was no mentioning that those roots are different for each as the root of lets say left shoulder of Adam can’t be equal or the same as the root of Adam’s knee or toe . The question – are we going to study a bit more in depth things like ” how do I understand the root of my soul and my place and role  in the correction of the world depending on that ?”  Thank you very much in advance .
Hi Andrey,
These things are relative to each person. So each person will need to discover it for himself throughout his spiritual development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/03/returning-to-the-root-of-ones-soul/
Albert @ KabU
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