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My question concerns the dynamics of giving and receiving. I think I understand that even if I had the capacity to bestow to the Creator this would be impossible since the Creator is only a Will to Bestow and so has no Kli to receive anything. However, my friend does have a Kli to receive because my friend, like me, is nothing but a Will to Receive. So, were it somehow possible, by some miracle, that could actually have the intention to Bestow (even while I remain a Will to Receive) could I confer my intention to Bestow upon my friend in lieu of the Creator? Does my friend become a kind of Receiver in place of the Creator cannot receive?
Or, is it the case that, even though the Creator is always already a Will to Bestow, the Creator can create a Kli for Himself through an intention to receive. In other words, does the Creator also have a “masoch” through which he can intend to receive, even though His Nature is to Bestow? Or is all of the Creator’s receiving done through the Kli of my friend by proxy?
Hi Seraphim,
Yes, you are correct in what you stated in the first paragraph. The Creator does not have any vessels of reception. We bestow to Him by bestowing to other people. It’s like a mother whose only concern in life is her children. If we want to do something nice for the mother, we can do something nice for her children, and through that, we will make the mother happy. This is called going “from the love of the created beings, to the love of the Creator”.
Keep in mind that we practice this primarily within this safe environment, this spiritual lab that we call the Kabbalistic group. We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Tatjana,
This will make more sense in the next semester when we learn the concept of “there is none else besides Him”. None else besides Him means that the entire world is nothing more than a game between a person and the Creator. That there is a singular benevolent force behind EVERYTHING, behind all of the different people, events, thoughts, and desires that we come across.
We’ll learn this in depth in the next semester, but in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: http://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
How exactly is this world a reflection of me? Is it not impossible to answer apart from my own experience? How can we share events and happenings as different shattered parts of one initial being, do we share some qualities and not others? In what way are we different? Is this why we must consider every other person we see in this world as completely corrected, and in what ways I see them as not it is myself that is not? Does the number of people I see in the world with a spiritual inclination correspond to the desires in my heart with a spiritual constitution? Have I singularly held back the world from eternal bliss with the inclinations of my desire to receive all this time?
Hi Timothy, great questions!
The world is a reflection of my egoistic state. Meaning that I don’t experience some objective reality, but I experience something through the lens of my ego. Furthermore, to the extent that I correct this ego, to that extent the external reality will change as well. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as being dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses (correct myself) then I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
But what about the other people? Do they exist or not? Essentially all that exists is one soul and we are all parts of it, like cells within a single body.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2012/05/from-multiplicity-to-unity/
As for correcting myself vs correcting others, when I do my spiritual work, I correct MY part that is found within everyone. So I don’t actually correct the others and I don’t do the spiritual work instead of the others. For more details, see my replies #57588 & #58059 to Maria below.
Albert @ KabU
I wanna khnow the experience of friends the feeling of first connection.do u feel it in mind or heart ? You feel it with open eyes.dream it when sleeping.hear something?
Hi Ali,
Each person is unique and feels the world through his/her uniqueness. As such, it’s impossible to compare how one person feels spirituality with another. We simply don’t have the tools to compare feelings. But we can say in general that everything that we feel, stems from our desires. When our desires are uncorrected, egoistic, then we feel this world. If we correct the desire, for it to operate in the direction of bestowal, within that corrected desire, we feel spirituality.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
Ok. correcting my desires will take me back to Adam Ha Rishon, and even though i think Torah/Mitzvot is different from kabbalistic aproach, since they are developing in different planes (material / spiritual), does not the spiritual correction, affect the material concious, and by inertia, correct our attitudes to life and those sorrounding us? isnt there a real material change as a result of the spiritual correction?.
Thank you.
Hi Ricardo,
Yes, you can say that the spiritual correction affects the corporeal world. This follows what we learned in the lesson on the perception of reality, that the entire external world is nothing more than a reflection of our inner egoistic state. So when I correct myself, the external world will appear corrected as well. 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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Thank you very much for this teaching, it’s make me to see my life in a very different way.
My questions are:
Why the world population raised so much during the last two century? Is it connected with a bigger egoism?
When we died and reincarnated in a new life, we can choose the time and the life we are going to live?
Thank you very much!
Another question: when a point in the heart reaches the last 125th level and its correction is complete, what happens to all the other point in the heart in Adam HaRishon? Are they influenced and if yes, how? Thanks
Hi Maria,
All of humanity is interconnected in one single system. So it’s not just when we reach the full correction, but with every single action that we take, we’re influencing the ENTIRE system.
Keep in mind that each one still has their own personal correction that they need to perform, we cannot perform the correction instead of the others. But if we reach our correction it makes it easier for the others to reach their correction. Just picture that all of humanity is part of a 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. Each person is responsible for his own piece. If I find where my piece fits, it makes it easier for others to find where their piece fits. But no one can do the work instead of the other.
As to what happens after the final correction, Kabbalists hint that there are further degrees of development beyond that point. But it’s still beyond our ability to understand and research such things, so we’ll need to get there and see for ourselves.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2010/10/what-happens-after-the-final-correction/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Maria,
All of humanity is part of a 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 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.
For more details, see the example of the jigsaw puzzle above as well as this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2017/04/the-fractality-of-nature/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Maria,
1. Yes, the bigger the general level of egoism, the more the population grows.
Rav Laitman wrote 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.”
2. It’s not the person that reincarnates but the point in the heart. Our point in the heart is our spiritual potential. Just like a single sperm cell contains all of the genetic makeup needed to build the future person, likewise with our point in the heart. It contains all of the information about our development, what we went through, and what we still need to go through.
If we realize this potential then we use it to build the soul. If not, this same spiritual potential continues to reincarnate again and again until it gets fully realized.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Albert @ KabU
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