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With regards to the video Force of development, is it right that by questioning what we would think of as any “bad/evil occurrences and trying to bring a sense of what possible potential can come out of it, we can begin to learn how to minimise the scale of comparison in our reality and to understand better the path of Torah and Mitzvoh?
Hi Janet,
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 much evil and 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.
So if I see anything bad in the world, it’s a sign that I’m not yet corrected and I need to correct myself.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert,
is thankfulness towards the Creator an attitude that helps to become bestowing? Is thankfulness actually what is meant by the intention “to receive for the Creator’s sake”?
THANK YOU for answering!
Hi Alex,
It’s not the full correction but gratitude is the start of correcting ourselves, our perception of the world, acknowledging that there is none else besides Him and that He’s sending us nothing but goodness every moment.
We’ll learn more about this in the future lessons, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman on the topic: https://laitman.com/2012/08/gratitude-for-the-past-prepares-for-the-future/
Albert @ KabU
In my reading studies material there’s a sentence that says: “The difference between the material and the spiritual is that our lack of material pleasures causes us to suffer, while our lack of spiritual pleasures does not.” I don’t quite understand this idea. For example, it may happen that because our suffering we aim even more a vital spiritual connection with G-d, specially in our darkest moments?
Another matter that makes me wonder is that if is possible to ataind perfection because we are not perfect beings (even we’ve a soul that yearns). Is it through the process described in Kabbalah that we can gain qualities of the Creator and bestow but to be like Him. Isn’t that impossible?
Hi Tamar,
1. We learn that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. So aspiring to it out of suffering is not the right approach.
Furthermore, that quote is really trying to say that we don’t feel the lack of spirituality as suffering. Spirituality means acquiring the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal, if I cannot bestow, I generally don’t feel that as suffering. Whereas in corporeality, if I’m lacking food, for even a day, I’ll feel it right away. But in spirituality, lacking the ability to bestow is not felt directly by us as suffering, instead we see it indirectly in the world, in the chaos and never ending problems that are there.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/10/nature%E2%80%99s-commandments-the-creator%E2%80%99s-laws/
2. We were actually 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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
Albert @ KabU
The 600 000 pieces/sparks of the Original man – are they only that many, or is this a picture of everything man is? I.e. there are currently 8 billion people – are there than that many pieces?
Hi Avi,
The population is relative to the size of the general egoism that needs to get corrected. As the ego grows, the soul is fragmented accordingly so that our common egoism is divided between us, making the work of correcting the ego easier 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
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