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My question is something like.. if we are always receiving delight, the light itself, and only how we perceive what we are receiving makes it good or bad, how do I navigate something like the pull of alcohol or some other alcoholism/addiction? My “grand scheme” questions of why am I here, and where am I going, are always there. Yet what is this that I feel called to sobriety, yet pulled toward the delight of a few beers? Are both these “calls” the Light just perceived from different perception? Are they calls/pulls from two different creators? If not (which I understand is the case because there is only one Creator) why do I feel both?
Hi Gates,
We learn from the Kabbalists that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. But why then don’t we see this in our world? Why do we see so much suffering and problems in the world?
This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative equals negative.
So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see and feel more suffering and bad things in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Mitch,
We cannot speak about what the Creator feels, because we don’t attain such things. In general, Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts:
The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.
The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator (and any spiritual phenomena) is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
How can we get the desire from the creator and also what is the 613 has to do with our desire and how can we control it?
Hi Mitch,
613 is the number of corrections that need to be placed over the spiritual desire. This number is further divided into 248 desires of bestowing in order to bestow and 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow.
Keep in mind that these 613 desires that we are learning about are spiritual desires, meaning desires that we don’t yet have. This is similar to how a single cell in a body only has some basic desires. But when that cell is part of a greater body, it reveals there higher desires which are impossible for the individual cell to have: desires for money, honor, power, etc. Same with us, until we integrate with the general body of Adam HaRishon, we don’t reveal or understand these 613 spiritual desires. We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced lessons.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/12/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-613-desires/
Albert @ KabU
I see suffering imposed on people who have clearly had no opportunity to take an easier route. Did they choose that difficult path before this incarnation? The bigger picture is hard to find.
Hi Dave,
We learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the external world is a reflection of my own internal world. If I’m not corrected, I see in front of me an uncorrected world with many people suffering. If I correct myself, I’ll look at the same world and same people, but now they will appear the opposite.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Does the concept of reincarnation go along with the teachings of Kabbalah ?
If we cannot fulfill our mission in this lifetime are we coming back? If the answer is yes are we going to have to solve the same piece of puzzle or we’re getting a new task?
Hi Adi,
The purpose of Creation is to reach complete adhesion with the Creator. This purpose is shared by everyone. Meaning that every single person will need to reach it.
Adhering to Him means adhering to His qualities of pure love and bestowal. We do so by correcting our opposite egoistic nature. If we don’t finish this correction in this lifetime, then we’ll continue it in the next one.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2019/04/the-purpose-of-creation/
https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Albert @ KabU
I was intrigued by the seeming parallels with the 613 mitzvot from the Torah and the descent and fragmentation from Adam HaRishon into those 613 parts. I am curious as to whether or not there is a significance (as I know there always is with gematria) connecting the two scenarios with the fragmentation and the mitzvot. Also, if there are sections that are not necessarily attainable, like there are certain mitzvot that can only be done by certain people, in certain places (like only in Israel), etc. Or, are the “pieces” that are sought to be brought back together more representational, and not necessarily actual “goals”, for lack of a better word.
I hope this made sense in how I worded this question. I understand a lot more will be revealed as we progress, but I was curious about this nonetheless.
Hi Aeryck,
The numbers all have their own significance. When a person attains spirituality, he begins to research it, and discovers all these numbers from his research. But what exactly is he researching, what is spirituality?
Essentially we’re always talking about a desire. Our current reality is based on our current nature, the desire to receive. Spirituality on the other hand operates according to a different desire, that of pure bestowal. The different numbers are just a different way to divide up that spiritual desire. This desire can be divided into 613 parts, or 620 parts, or 600,000 pieces, or 125 degrees, or even 10 sefirot.
It’s just like how we can study a person based on his behavior, or based on his anatomy, or based on his external appearance, or his internal chemistry. Ultimately we’re studying the same person, but from different angles. Same with these different divisions, they are all talking about the same spiritual desire but from different angles or a different scale.
So if we are describing the desire as 613 parts, then we’re talking about the number of corrections that need to be placed over the desire. This number is further divided into 248 desires of bestowing in order to bestow and 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.
Regarding the 600,000 pieces of Adam HaRishon, this 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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
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