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I need some clarity on a couple of things. Do Kabbalist believe in repentance? In Kabbalah for the Student it mentions “Open for me one aperture for repentance, such as a needlepoint and I will open for you Gates work arts and coaches enter.”
From my reading I think that Kabbalah is saying that the creator creates all good and bad events that happen. Is that correct? I have a very hard time believing that our creator would cause children to be beaten, raped and abused so badly. Yes, I understand that good can come from all bad and evil acts, yet a child who has been abused so badly has a lifetime of suffering. I’m not sure I want to believe in a creator that would cause such suffering to happen. Can you explain further, why the Creator would cause this? From the videos and reading Kabbalah is telling us that ALL things come from the Creator. I want to make sure that I am understanding this correctly.
Hi Tina,
1.
In the article Introduction to the book of Zohar, Baal HaSulam describes how we were created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. 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.
In order to put us through this necessary process, the ego was introduced. The ego caused us be in disparity of form with that state of perfection and thereby distanced us from that state. So now, in order to return back to that state, we need to correct the ego with the intention to bestow. This process of correcting the ego to return to that initial state of perfection is called repentance.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2022/10/happy-repentance-teshuva/
Keep in mind that we need to always look at Kabbalistic concepts from the lens of desire. Otherwise we risk corporealizing these concepts and veering into the realm of religion.
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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 Yeabsera,
The right line is our aspiration towards love and bestowal.
The left line is our egoistic nature (also called reason), the desire to receive for ourselves.
Working with the three lines means constantly aspiring to be in the right line, in the qualities of love and bestowal. As a result of that aspiration, we reveal more of the left line, how our egoistic nature does not allow us to truly bestow. As a result of that, we feel a need for the Creator to help us. After all, egoism is our very nature, we cannot just pull ourselves out of it, the Creator must do it for us. So the middle line is the revelation of the Creator.
So after going through this process of aspiring towards bestowal, revealing our nature resisting, praying for the Creator to help us, we reveal the Creator who pulls us out of our egoistic nature and gives us the ability to bestow.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/06/right-and-left-lines/
Albert @ KabU
What i gathered from this week is that we dont have to understand everything but have the right intetnion, how do we activly change inner intetnion and also create equivelance of form ?
How do we rreach our spiritual roots, is this the way to change our life circumstances? For example if i want a bigger home, my intention should be alturistic, like giving my family more space to live so they´re not bumping shoulders all the time, this way i recieve pleasure from giving to them instead of pleasure for my own desire right?
Well then how do we reach these emotional desires and feelings like confidence and self love, feeling whole? I often feel lacking in my apperance, way of being,(non wholeness), what would be an alturistic desire if its just about my slef image?? I struggle alot with comparission and feeling less/not good enough and often fear my partner won´t see me as enough compared to others etc adn i want to be free of this darkness.
Hi Yeabsera,
Spiritual work is something we do within the Kabbalistic group. The Kabbalistic group is like a lab where we practice manifesting the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. In the group we build a strong connection with other points in the heart that are together with us on the spiritual path. This becomes like a nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
As for our corporeal lives, we need to arrange it in the normal way. We need to work, take care of our health, family, house, etc all in the normal way. This is not egoistic, this is simply us taking care of our normal necessities. See my reply 487109 to Steven below for more details.
Albert @ KabU
Okay half understand your reply, neccesities are what they are but the thing about the groups, do you mean the ones we are in right now on the kabbalah journey and was that the reply to my question on emotional desires like wholness confidence?
If so, i understud it as “you cant work on these things yet, until a certian point in your journy”, is that correct?
Thanks for the answeres!
Hi Yeabsera,
1. The group for us right now are those people studying Kabbalah together with us. Our main interaction with them is through these forums. But in the advanced semesters of KabU, everyone will placed into smaller groups of ten and taught how how to do practical spiritual in the group of ten.
2. Regarding our desires, Kabbalah only deals with our desire for spirituality. As for our corporeal desires, if they are necessary for you, you should arrange them and take care of them in the normal way of life. If I’m sick, I go to the doctor, if I lose my job, I go through job forums and apply for another job, if my emotions are not balanced I exercise every day or seek help from a therapist, etc. Take care of all of your necessities in the normal way.
As for our spiritual desires, realizing that requires mutual work in the ten, which we’ll practice in the advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
What is the quality that I feel that keeps me disconnected from others although I truly want to feel connected? How do we over come this? I believe that it is my past experiences that have caused this quality in me but I’m not sure how to trust enough to allow for deeper connections with those around me. I have Walked the Path of Suffering as a child and as an adult have tried for many years to overcome those experiences and even though I have a wonderful adult life there still is this quality that holds me back from true deep connection.
Hi Tina,
It’s our egoistic nature that does not allow us to connect with others. The ego is not something bad that we received from our past experiences, rather it’s a necessary element in the development of every single person. It’s thanks to the growing ego that we can develop to the highest spiritual degrees.
So we don’t need to eradicate the ego, but only to correct it. The more we advance, the more our egoistic desires grow. They turn into a type of mountain that we climb over. The bigger the desires, the higher we can climb, and the higher the spiritual degree that we can attain. On the other hand, if we were to eliminate our egoistic desires, then accordingly, we would only be able to attain a tiny degree of spiritual attainment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
Hello. Yesterday we were due for a live Q&A, and this was my message to the WhatsApp group, when attempting to learn about Bestowal:
“As I am still learning, I am not sure if I am on the right track with bestowel, but my mam hurt her back, so I offered to come and help her, which means i will most likely miss the live Q&A (screaming inside) hopefully at some point I’ll get on, but I feel this is the right thing to do.
On the upside, it made her happy for me to come to her”
Is this “screaming inside” the desire within me which needs correction, as it seems that this is the will to receive that is still active within my heart? This, though I committed the action, the desire to receive was still present and the action made no real difference within?
Thank you 🙏
Is this “screaming inside” the desire within me which needs correction, as it seems that this is the will to receive that is still active within my heart?* My main question 😊
Hi Steven,
The Kabbalists tell us that “necessities are neither praised nor condemned.” Meaning that taking care of our normal necessities that we need in order to maintain a normal life is not considered egoistic. So each one should aspire to arrange his life in the normal way and take care of all of his normal necessities, health, family, etc.
As for the ego that needs correction, that is not found within us at all. As we learn from the shattering of the common soul of Adam HaRishon, our entire work is in fixing the broken connections between people. So the true ego that we need to correct is between us. It’s the quality that is not letting me connect with others. This is the ego that Kabbalah talks about.
We focus on correcting that type of ego first of all within the Kabbalistic group, with other points in the heart. And later on, we’ll learn how to expand this work to include the whole world. This will be more relevant in the advanced semesters, where everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group to put these things into practice.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
https://laitman.com/2011/01/get-down-to-pure-egoism/
Albert @ KabU
When I walk the path of Light and gradually reflect more on my intention of daily actions – how can I know that this is not my EGO working, trying to perform and be a “good student”?
Hi Olav,
Our very nature is egoistic. So naturally it’s impossible for us to do anything against this nature. Meaning that even us studying Kabbalah is done for egoistic reasons. And that’s okay. No one is demanding of us to be saints. No one is demanding of us to have superhuman strength and to conquer our ego.
All that we need to do, and all that we’re capable of doing actually, is just to try. That’s it. We just need to try to be above the ego. We don’t need to succeed, we just need to try. Such efforts are enough to extract the reforming light and it’s the light that ultimately corrects our egoistic nature. Our work is only to extract the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
Albert @ KabU
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