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HI Albert,
you re a busy man, answering so many questions – which is always very enlightening !
I d greatly appreciate understanding about “Torah & Mitzvot”, as I expect others besides myself may not know that part of the background. Can you also speak a bit about what it means by “Above Reason”.
Thank you
Hi Sarah,
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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/spice-up-your-desire/
Likewise we need to properly define the term [faith] above reason. In Kabbalah, faith does not refer to blind faith or a belief. Rather, faith = bestowal; reason = reception. Faith above reason is the process by which we make bestowal more important than reception.
Albert @ KabU
At 19:30 when you’re talking about the screen. Do I feel this screen for instance when I’m writing or doing something? sometimes it feels like the light approves or wants that action, and the light goes in to what I’m doing, and I feel no diminishing. Then sometimes I can feel like it’s not correct, and i fight it a little, and I know it’s not it’s will? I lose a little bit in my heart that. Does this make sense
Hi Daniel,
I cannot comment on your personal feelings.
The screen is essentially the intention that we place over the desire. Check out the Guest & Host analogy in Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond for more details.
Albert @ KabU
Hi, Thanks so much for all the effort put into teaching this wisdom.
My question is:
How can I fine tune my awareness at the point of correction? I am very aware of the path of pain and sometimes I am blinded to the path of light. The awakening lessons seem hard sometimes. How can I stay awake and attuned to the path of light? Is it only through giving to others? Fake it to make it … I think my desire to bestow is sometimes from the ego…
Hi Paula,
Of course our desire to bestow is from our ego. This is because our nature is 100% egoistic. So naturally it’s impossible for us to have a true desire to bestow. And that is 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. Nope. 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 makes all the corrections on us. 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
My questions are already answered in the earlier posts, about the numbers 600.000 and 613. It tickles the brain that the numbers can be so precise, and then when you read about their qualitative meanings, instead of quantative meaning, one starts to understand.
Hello,
So, if a person corrects one desire, that desire will be corrected in all other points of a heart and reconnects them, right?
1. So basically, max. 613 people can reconnect the whole Soul? Let’s say one person corrects one desire, which is then corrected in all other hearts, so 613 people would correct all?
2. And when one desire is corrected, shouldn’t that be evident in the world somehow?
3. Are there any desires corrected yet?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Zorica,
We learn that all of humanity is part of one single system, like cells within a single body. So naturally what one experiences influences EVERYONE else. And if I reach a correction, this same correction influences everyone. But I don’t actually correct the other person, rather I correct MY PART that is found within everyone.
It’s like a hologram where the big image is made up of identical smaller copies of that image. So if there is a flaw in one of the smaller images, that same flaw is found in every piece. And if you correct that flaw in the small piece, it’s reflected in the whole image.
So if I correct myself, I correct my part of this general picture. That is called reaching one’s individual final correction. But each one will still need to correct their part of the general picture. And when everyone corrects their part, then we reach the final correction of the whole world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/04/the-fractality-of-nature/
Albert @ KabU
With new lessons and materials, a more complex question is forming in my mind.
Is our reality like a procedurally generated game? As time in our world progresses we are moving to more and more complex connections
with each other. All parameters change. For example, there are more people with greater corporeal desires. More technology to connect us or destroy everything, radio waves, atom bombs, internet of things, AI, brain-to-brain interface, and then we become a hive mind.
The path of suffering will push technology to transhumanism realms. We can only finish the game earlier and exit the reincarnation cycle.Is my thinking correct?
Hi Łukasz,
Yes, you can say that. This is why Kabbalists call our corporeal world “the imaginary world”. Since once we correct ourselves, relative to that corrected state this life would appear as nothing more than a dream or a game. But keep in mind that until we correct ourselves, this game is very much so real and will continue to be our reality until we fully correct ourselves.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2010/11/this-life-is-a-dream/
Albert @ KabU
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