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Are our spiritual genes connected in any way with our physical genes? If so, can altering a persons genetics interfere with the awakening of the point in the heart?
Hi Tracey
You can say that the spiritual genes precede and influence the physical ones. They shape us in the necessary form for the exact corrections that we need to undergo to reach the final correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/08/the-genetic-map-of-humanity-part-3/
As for altering our genes, no it wont affect the desire called the point in the heart. It’s just like if a person undergoes a heart transplant, it does not change the person itself or give this person different desires. Likewise, the changes we make to our physical body do not affect our spiritual desires, which are not found in the body to begin with.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
Looking forward on attainment more on dreams, astral planes and how our brain works on this states. I have been experiencing very interesting visions and dreams when asleep.
Liss
Hi Liss,
Kabbalah does not deal with dream interpretations. In general, Kabbalists don’t attribute much importance to dreams or the state of dreaming. They see it simply as a state where the brain summarizes/organizes the daily experiences. Similar to how some computers go through the process of defragmentation.
On the other hand, there is a spiritual state called dreaming which is the process by which we transition from one spiritual degree to another. It’s like the neutral gear on a manual transmission, which requires you to switch to the neutral gear before switching to another gear. In other words, in between every spiritual state is a state called “dream”. But it’s not related to the corporeal dreams that we experience in our physical bodies. Kabbalists don’t ascribe any importance to corporeal dreams.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2016/04/an-ordinary-dream/
https://laitman.com/2015/02/we-cannot-live-without-sleep/
Albert @ KabU
We humans have gone through the length of our history on the path of pain yet we didn’t choose this path we just didn’t know about the alternative path (Kabbalah) which had been hidden from us. Why did the Creator make his Creature suffer on the path of pain for so long?Was it a learning process?
Hi J,
We’re in a process of development in a perfect integral system. There is nothing redundant in this system. Even the smallest blade of grass has a reason to exist and is part of the purpose of creation. All the more so all the levels of development that humanity is going through. Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “Peace in the World”, here’s an excerpt:
“Because any observation of the work of Creation is enough to teach us about the greatness and perfection of its Operator and Creator. Therefore, we must understand and be very careful when casting a flaw in any item of Creation, saying it is redundant and superfluous, as that would be slander about its Operator.”
So what is the purpose of the long path of suffering that humanity has undergone? It’s in order for a person to gradually reach the state called “the recognition of evil”. The recognition of evil is that we recognize that it’s not the Creator who is the source of our suffering. He’s the good that does good and only sends us good. Rather, all of the suffering we experience is because of our uncorrected egoism. We need this process to reach this recognition and eventually even be willing to come out of our egoistic state. Only after humanity has realized that it’s sick with egoism, is it relevant to present it with the cure: the wisdom of Kabbalah, the method of correction of man’s egoism.
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
Is that true that people who can feel the upper reality sometimes use logic (like the scientific method) to describe their feelings in the books? I read Baal Sulam’s Talmud Eser Sefirot and it seems like sometimes he uses …logical connections to explain things to the readers…it feels like he wants to say something that we can’t understand and he tries his best to describe it but can’t (because only the person who feels the upper reality can understand him and some things can’t be explained even using the Language of Kabbalah).
My other question is: what should I read more, Ari’s words or Baal Sulam’s commentaries (or both)?
Thank you!
Hi Aaron,
Yes, you can say that.
As for reading TES, when we study it together with Rav Laitman, we generally first read the section with the Ari’s words twice and then we read Baal HaSulam’s commentaries for those words one time.
Keep in mind that more important than reading it, is setting your intention before you even read it. What result do you want to attain from this reading? The closer that intention is to spirituality, the more we extract the force of the light from these books. As a result of that, the light will begin to gradually influence us and correct us until we ourselves will begin to feel spirituality.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
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