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What is the significance of the 600,000 souls? With 8+ billion humans on this planet where are the 600,000? Who are the 600,000?
Similarly, what about the steps that we descended to this dimensional experience? what is the significance of the 125 steps?
Tony mentioned 613 desires. Where can we learn more about these desires?
Lots of numbers. Are the various numbers significant in any way?
Thank you,
JamesHi James,
Yes the numbers all have their own significance. When a person attains spirituality, he begins to research it, and discovers all these numbers from his research. But what exactly is he researching, what is spirituality?
Essentially we’re always talking about a desire. Our current reality is based on our current nature, the desire to receive. Spirituality on the other hand operates according to a different desire, that of pure bestowal. The different numbers are just a different way to divide up that spiritual desire. This desire can be divided into 613 parts, or 620 parts, or 600,000 pieces, or 125 degrees, or even 10 sefirot.
It’s just like how we can study a person based on his behavior, or based on his anatomy, or based on his external appearance, or his internal chemistry. Ultimately we’re studying the same person, but from different angles. Same with these different divisions, they are all talking about the same spiritual desire but from different angles or a different scale.
So if we are describing the desire as 613 parts, then we’re talking about the number of corrections that need to be placed over the desire. This number is further divided into 248 desires of bestowing in order to bestow and 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.
The number 125 comes from the structure of the upper worlds. This structure is just a division of the spiritual desire that we need to correct into sefirot, partzufim, and worlds.
The most basic division of the desire is 1 Sefira. 5 Sefirot compose 1 partzuf. 5 Partzufim compose 1 world. There are 5 worlds in total. So 5 worlds each with 5 partzufim each with 5 sefirot equals 125 (5x5x5) steps on the spiritual ladder. This number symbolizes the gap, the delta, between our nature and the Creator’s nature.
Regarding 600,000, this is less of a quantitative number and more of a qualitative number. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it’s been fully corrected.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman to see how this number is derived:
https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
I watched the video where someone asked about crossing over to the spiritual. the answer dealt with needing to be part of a group in order for this to take place. I was a little concerned that I would not be able to accomplish this as an individual and how I can be apart of a group of 10.
Hi Sean,
In the advanced semesters on KabU, we’ll learn how to do spiritual work in the group and everyone will receive their own virtual group with whom they can put these things into practice.
Albert @ KabU
Hello and thank you for your feedback.
In this weeks ‘tip’, Why am I doing what I’m doing? What is my intention?  When I am participating in a Kli [group], should I set my intention on feeling with others, or practice observing and set my intention on loving support instead?
When I took out what is toxic, and who is toxic in my life, I started to see what I need to fix in my life; and started to desire to want that fulfillment of love and light and peace that I always longed for. I find that I get more perturbed when I am around people. I love being alone But the way my life is I have to be around a lot of people. My question is. how can I find that peace and happyness that light when I am around 1000’s people that will perturbe me?
Hi Tricia,
On the one hand, when we’re around thousands of people, we get completely disoriented. On the other hand, if we’re completely isolated by ourselves, then we cannot reach the Creator’s quality of love and bestowal. After all, in order to love and bestow, I need someone to bestow to. So we need to find the right balance between these two things. How do we do that? By differentiating our spiritual work from our corporeal work:
1) We need to arrange our corporeal lives in the normal way. Meaning to work, raise a family, take care of one’s health, etc. As much as it’s necessary to provide for myself and for my family these normal necessities, I must be part of society and around other people that don’t study Kabbalah.
2) Beyond that, there is my spiritual life. This is the spiritual work that I do in order to become similar to the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. We do this type of work only in the Kabbalistic group. So for this work I don’t need to be around thousands of people, I only need a small group of people with points in the heart that also want to do this work with me. Furthermore, in our days, these groups don’t even need to be physical groups, rather virtual groups are also okay. We’ll learn about this in the more advanced semesters on KabU, where everyone will receive their own Kabbalistic group with whom they can put these things into practice.
Albert @ KabU
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