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- April 21, 2020 at 6:43 pm EDT #28801
Tony Kosinec- KabU InstructorModeratorAsk anything about week 3 lesson and materials and get an answer from a senior Kabbalah instructor.
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- June 8, 2023 at 11:23 am EDT #321773SherryParticipant
I probably have many questions but they are brewing at the moment. I just really want to thank the instructors for the lessons and the graphics and their knowledge and wisdom and desire to teach us such deep and inspiring and mind blowing lessons. I take so many notes and listen to all the videos and read the books but somehow I get confused when test taking time comes so I really have to work on that part. Each level of coursework just wants to make me know more and more.
- June 4, 2023 at 11:46 pm EDT #321467愛Participant
マザッハスクリーンとはどのようなものでしょうか?
- June 5, 2023 at 11:20 am EDT #321502Albert – KabU InstructorModerator
Google translate of the question: What is a Masach screen?
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Hello,
The screen (masach in Hebrew) 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
- June 3, 2023 at 2:33 am EDT #321331VeraParticipant
If I understood correctly, one of the mostvimportant parts when we start to study Torah, to respect the mitzvot, is the right intention, as well as the prayer. Could you please explain a little more in detail how would the right intention should be formulated for example when I start to study Torah or other kabbalistic books, or accomplish mitzvot? Thank you!
- June 4, 2023 at 2:55 pm EDT #321438Albert – KabU InstructorModerator
Hi Vera,
We learn from the shattering of the system of Adam HaRishon that the only thing that is broken in the ENTIRE system of creation are the proper connections between people. So all of our actions need to be aimed at returning that system to a state of connection, all the way until we reach complete love between all the parts. This is why Kabbalists tell us that the main commandment is “love your friend as yourself”.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
You can also check out Baal HaSulam’s article Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah). We’ll learn it together in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
- June 2, 2023 at 12:38 pm EDT #321294Karen AssayagParticipant
THANK YOU! The lessons in part 3 are truly transformative. I can’t begin to put it into words.
- May 30, 2023 at 1:37 pm EDT #321105Steve MileyParticipant
I must admit, when I first started this course, I thought the forum chat room thing was kind of silly, now I think it’s one of the most interesting parts of the entire course. I don’t really have a question so much is just a statement the whole screen thing. It’s kind of confusing however, I figure my questions of it will probably get answered if I’m patient and keep on Truckin with the course. Thank you so much . instructors for your insight and just as importantly, thank the rest of you for your interesting questions I really am beginning to feel that we are sort of a family here.
- May 30, 2023 at 1:32 pm EDT #321103JuliaParticipant
As far as I understood, there is an hierarchy in the evolution of the desires: still, vegetative, animate, human, all of which are supposed to be mastered before the final spiritual level opens up. Does this mean that we incarnated as plants and animals before incarnating as humans (in order to master the vegetative and animate levels first)?
- May 31, 2023 at 2:14 pm EDT #321176Albert – KabU InstructorModerator
Hi Julia,
No, we don’t incarnate as plants or animals, rather all those levels of desires are inside of us.
As for mastering the desires, everyone has a certain set of desires that they need to experience before the point in the heart awakens. But you don’t need to fulfill all of your desires or go through all the other desires to reach the point in the heart. Rather, whenever it’s awakened within a person is when he can already start to realize it. If you’re here, it’s already a sign that the point in the heart awakened in you.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2018/09/my-world-is-a-collection-of-desires/
https://laitman.com/2012/11/still-vegetative-animate-and-speaking/
Albert @ KabU
- June 1, 2023 at 12:13 pm EDT #321244AlessaParticipant
Hi Albert,
Thanks for your answers and links to Julia’s questions!
I’ve just read the second linked article, about the still vs vegetative vs animate vs speaking levels, and in it it’s stated that there are 620 spiritual desires, not 613? Why he difference? Are we removing the 7 deadly sins from the 613 count??
- June 1, 2023 at 2:16 pm EDT #321251Albert – KabU InstructorModerator
Hi Alessa,
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
- June 5, 2023 at 10:33 am EDT #321499AlessaParticipant
Thank you!
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