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I feel we all have experienced those moments when you ask should I take the road less taken? I had experiences in which my soul tested spiritual journey and my higher self that inner voice said time to make a decision: to transform or continue on the path of pleasure and pain that ultimately is a cycle of life that goes in circles but never transcends to higher awareness…
Hi Xavid,
Yes, you can say that. Ultimately we’re all parts of a single system within which everyone will need to reach their spiritual correction. The only difference is that there are those that are awakened to this work earlier and those that are awakened to it later. This is because there is a certain order of corrections that need to take place. It’s like building a large jigsaw puzzle. First you start with all the corner pieces, and only then do you gradually work your way to the center. So those that received awakened points in the hearts are like those corner pieces of the puzzle that need to start the whole process. Later on, due to their good work, they pave the way for the rest of the world to join this process.
Albert @ KabU
is the path of light or the correction will naturally reduce the physical desire like sex, money , power ? I am asking because the more I awaken, the more I dont have desire of that physical desire.
Hi Irianti,
Losing interest in our physical desires is a temporary state. It’s a present from the Creator to give us the opportunity to plant our point in the heart in a good spiritual environment. But after that, in order to actually develop spiritually, we will discover greater and more egoistic desires within ourselves. After all, what use do I have of the light, if I don’t have what to correct with it? So the more we advance, the more we will reveal bigger and more egoistic desires, and the higher the spiritual level we will attain by correcting those huge desires with the help of the light.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
No questions. Feeling especially stupid like I’m not really getting any of this. I believe this is just fear based resistance.
Hi Ozie,
I wouldn’t stress it, it’s completely normal to not understand these things. This is why the Kabbalists tell us “it’s not the wise that learns”. Meaning we’re not learning this material simply to acquire knowledge, to store it in some box in our brains. After all, If knowledge was the path to spirituality, then a supercomputer loaded with all of the Kabbalistic texts would be the most spiritual being in the world. Obviously this is not the case.
So why do we spend so much time studying if not to gain knowledge? Because through the study, we draw the force of the light. This force is what makes all the internal changes, clarifications, corrections that need to be made. After we extract enough light and correct ourselves to a certain degree, then we won’t just intellectually philosophize about spirituality, but we will begin to feel it in practice. And only out of that feeling will we begin to truly understand it.
So it’s normal what you’re feeling. The important thing is to just keep going, keep placing yourself under the influence of the light and it will balance everything out.
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
Just a comment that this is really very simply and clearly explained and it is making great sense to me on an ordinary corporeal level and at the same time I am feeling the impact of an energy which I feel is very positive and is moving me forward experientially, beyond what I would expect form straight forward knowledge, so many thanks
The lesson was excellent. But i did have a question about something you mentioned in one of your responses to a question above.
In your answer you mention:
So if we build for ourselves a strong spiritual environment, then it will influence even stronger than the corporeal environment that we’re in. But this is not a one time choice. Building and strengthening the spiritual environment is our constant work. As we progress, our ego will grow more and more, and the corporeal environment will pull us more and more. This is done purposefully so that this resistance will force us to build an even stronger connection to the spiritual environment, and thereby reach an even higher spiritual level.
My question is: What does a strong spiritual environment look like?
And how do i build one?
Thank you!
Hi RDB,
Let’s say that I need to exercise but I’m feeling lazy today. What will help me get out of my laziness? Maybe if I had a workout buddy with whom I work out, we can encourage each other. Or if I read about the importance of exercising from a magazine or heard about it on TV. Or maybe if I had a coach who would push me to workout. This is a corporeal example of how we use the corporeal environment to push ourselves towards a corporeal goal, but it’s the same with our spiritual goal.
Spirituality consists of acquiring qualities of love and bestowal, qualities that are opposite to our egoistic nature. So we need support to achieve this goal. This support comes from the spiritual environment. The spiritual environment consists of the Kabbalistic books, group, and teacher. For now, our spiritual environment consists mostly of this KabU platform, the Q/A forums, the Kabbalistic books, lessons, sources, videos, etc. In the more advanced semesters on KabU, each one will also receive their own Kabbalah group with whom they can put all these things into practice.
As for building our connection to the spiritual environment, there is a quantitative and qualitative connection. Quantitatively, I can set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic books, lessons, source, etc. This is an important foundation. Once we have this foundation, we can work on the quality of this connection: to what extent do I value the spiritual environment? To what extent do I allow it to influence me? To what extent do I see these fellow students not just as random people that have similar interests as my own, but as pieces of my soul? We’ll learn about these things more practically in the more advanced semesters.
Albert @ KabU
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