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How does one practically go about drawing in the light? Are there ways of meditating or contemplation that will help? I find that doing good for others becomes more and more natural and compelling. I cant walk away without helping in some small way, even if I cant give something, I give a little prayer or feeling of compassion. What more can I do? How to I prevent my sadness for the suffering of others from causing harm to myself, due to my own distress? I feel like I am discovering that “ignorance is bliss”, in the sense that awareness of my fellow man and his suffering is very painful and distressing, if I can only do the meagre bit that I can for them. The way back is difficult. Does this mean I am on the path of suffering? Since I cant yet see the light…
Hi James,
We don’t work with the whole world right away, instead, we focus our spiritual work in a small Kabbalistic group called a ten. The ten is the foundation of all of our work. It’s like we’re building here a certain nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
As for drawing the light, the more we try to emulate the light, the more of it we can draw. The light is in a state of complete unity. So when we aspire to connect with others, we evoke the need for the light to help us to attain that state. And this too we practice primarily within the Kabbalistic group.
We’ll learn more about these things in the advanced semesters where everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group with whom they can put these things into practice.
In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/05/a-whole-group-of-ten/
Albert @ KabU
I dont understand the shattering into 600.000 parts of the colective soul of Adam Ha Rishon. If it was further shattered into an even bigger number as it descended through the other 4 worlds, and all of this happened before the big bang, where were these parts for millions of years until “evolved” humanity came along? And if each part corresponds to a point in the heart (of a human) shouldnt there allways be the same number of humans on the planet?
Hi Carlos,
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
Does the phrase “not my will, but yours” denote that the will to receive does not get us to spirituality, but the will to bestow, coming down from “above”?
Hi Zachary,
Getting into spirituality means that we become similar to it, to the qualities of love and bestowal that reside there. This follows the law of equivalence of form.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
Why does God simply not give the Creature the ability to clearly hear, feel and see Him in our daily lives all the time? The Path would be way easier. Why make this path of endless suffering? It seems that God Divorced himself from His Creature and now is getting us to asking Him please can we enter into Marriage again with Him.
Hi Allen, great questions!
We were indeed created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. (Baal HaSulam describes this in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar). But this was an unconscious state, like a baby in its mother’s womb. So we necessarily had to come to the complete opposite state, to lose that state of perfection, in order to once again reach it, but this time consciously.
And the fact that we had to lose this state is not something bad, but it’s a necessary part of our development. It’s just like with kids. We don’t just give them a completed jigsaw puzzle. On the contrary we take it and break it down into many pieces. Then in the process of them putting it together, they grow and develop. Same with us, this process of losing that state is a necessary part of our further growth and development.
This process also adds to us a certain level of freedom, without which, we would be no different than machines, or robots, that were programmed to act a certain way and they just carry out this inner script. Instead, we were programmed one way, and we rise above this inner programming, become independent of it, and then develop our own desire to advance towards this goal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
Albert @ KabU
Thanks for 3rd week lesson, it blows my mind. If we need to do the correction, from where the Kabbalist comprehend the steps / method to correct it. Is it from the Creator? If yes, How, is it transferred? through a messenger or revelation ( like in several religion) ?
Hi Lucky,
Kabbalah is a science. The Kabbalists are the scientists of Kabbalah. Everything we know is based on their research. This is similar to how other sciences work. The Kabbalists are those researchers that have performed a certain experiment and reached a certain result: the correction of our nature, the revelation of the Creator, the force of bestowal, etc. So if we are to replicate their experiment, to follow their procedures we should reach the same results.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/kabbalah-and-other-sciences-philosophy-and-religion/
Albert @ KabU
Should I be trying to memorize all those Hebrew names and numbers? Is that important? I tend to look at the gist of the teaching. My mind tends to skip numbers and such.
Hi Loyda,
It is helpful to have some of the basics memorized, but it’s not a must. Essentially it’s not our memory that will get us into spirituality, but our desire. If we build the right desire for it, in that desire, we will reveal spirituality. If not, even if we memorize all the Kabbalistic books, we will still not feel it.
And although we spend a lot of time studying, the goal is not to acquire knowledge, but through the study to draw the light, a special force that helps us to build the right desire. Meaning that we don’t need to be super strong, wise, or talented in order to succeed in Kabbalah, all we need is to extract more and more of this light and it does all the rest.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
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