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The soul of Adam ha Rishon shattered into 600,000 parts; each part with 613 desires (one of which is the Point in the Heart which doesn’t need correction)..My question: how does the 600,000 become the approx. 8 billion people now on the earth?
Hi Garry,
The point in the heart actually does need a correction. This is why it’s called a “black dot”. Since it’s still aimed in the direction of reception. If it was already corrected, we would be experiencing spirituality within it.
As for the population, this is simply a reflection of the level of egoism that each generation is working with. The greater the population, the more that our common egoism is divided between us, and the easier the work is for all of us.
Rav Laitman writes about it in one of his blog posts:
“600,000 is the number of initial fragments, but after that they are fragmented again into whatever number is necessary for the optimal correction in each generation – so that each fragment will have as much egoism as it’s able to correct. Therefore, to the degree that egoism grows, the world’s population grows as well.”
Albert @ KabU
Based on the recommended reading, it seems that the 613 mitzvot in the Torah and 7 mitvot de rabbinan are the methods by which one can ultimately reach the ultimate state of correction. However, I have read and heard elsewhere that many of these mitvot cannot be performed by Noahide’s or people not of the Jewish faith, suggesting we each need to convert to Judaism so that we can perform as many of these commandments as possible. Can you please correct any misunderstanding I may have. Thank you
Hi Anne,
Torah comes from the Hebrew word ohr (light). So when Kabbalists use the word Torah, they are not referring to the physical book, but rather to the light. This is a special force that we can extract, especially through the Kabbalistic studies, in order to correct our egoistic nature.
And when Kabbalists use the word Mitzvot (plural of Mitzvah) they are not referring to the corporeal Mitzvot that a religious person performs with his hands and feet. But rather the Mitzvot are the INTERNAL processes by which we draw the light and correct the egoistic desires. So no need to convert to Judaism. All we need to do is extract more and more of the light, especially through the Kabbalistic studies, and we’ll begin to correct our egoistic desires. This is essentially how we fulfill the commandments to correct ourselves.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/spice-up-your-desire/
Albert @ KabU
Do Jewish people who can and to some degree must perform mitzvot, have the potential to correct the rest of humanity? Or to serve as their light and elevate them? Could it be that Jewish people have this responsibility toward those not from their faith? Rav Laitman was not a practicing Jew … and gradually understood that becoming observant had something to do with elevating the broader learnings he immersed himself into. There may be a different set of responsibilities for those of the Jewish faith that are not highlighted so as to avoid alienating/deterring others from learning and transforming, each to his ability.
There has been a question in my head since I started the course.
The question is this.
Long ago a kabbalist told me that our Creator knew me before I knew myself, and if I was in a certain painful situation it was because the Creator put me exactly where I wanted to be.
I disagreed, because I did not like the situation at all, and I explained that I waited for a sign from Above to start changing the situation.
Who was right?
I assumed that everything comes from Hashem, so the situation as well,and Hi would show me what to do.
Was I wrong?
Thank you
Hi Elena Ester Rivka,
I cannot comment on your personal situation, we can only talk about these things in general.
In general, everything indeed comes from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. But the Kabbalists also say that “He is the good that does good”. So everything should be good, why then don’t I feel everything as good? It’s because his goodness passes through the lens of our egoistic nature. This nature is opposite to Him, so it inverts His goodness into something bad. It’s 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 bad things in life. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists and that our previous egoistic state was nothing more than a dream.
We’ll learn more about these concepts in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime, check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
http://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
It’s interesting, this episode makes me wonder, as we are becoming more of a global society, more and more connected and unified externally, through technology and social media, and we see masses of people turning towards social justice, is this a manifestation of the corrected desires of individuals being corrected in the collective?
Hi Dustin,
There are no free rides towards correction. This is called “there is no coercion in spirituality”. Meaning that no one gets corrected without putting in their own efforts towards their correction.
So what then are we seeing in the world? On the one hand, we see how the ego is constantly developing and pushing us forward. On the other hand, we see how the very thing that drives us, our ego, is actually the source of all of the problems in life. This process is called “the recognition of evil”. It’s a necessary part of our development, since without seeing the harm caused by the ego, we don’t feel the need to come out of it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/08/the-sinking-of-science-the-past-pride-of-humanity/
Albert @ KabU
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