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What are ways or things we can do to attract the light? Will the light we attract help us to resolve the problems that seem to keep us in a state of lack and suffering? How do we attract the light and correct our inner intention from recieving to bestowing?
Hi Kelly,
1. We attract the light every time we aspire to a higher spiritual degree. That’s all it takes, an inner aspiration, a yearning for that higher degree. This is why the main time that we attract the light is during the study, when we learn about these higher degrees.
Aside from that, we also attract the light when we play out those higher spiritual degree. It’s just like when kids play pretend that they are doctors, firemen, adults, etc. By that they grow and develop. Same with us. When we act as if we’re on those higher spiritual degrees, this too attracts the light. The light then gradually develops and changes us until this game becomes reality. Keep in mind that we practice this only within this safe environment that we call the Kabbalistic group. With the rest of the world, we should act normal, just like everyone else.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/
2. Yes, in general, when we go on the path of light, we no longer need sufferings to push us forward. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â http://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
3. The light is ultimately what corrects our intention, not we ourselves. Our job is only to attract more and more of this light, especially through the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Albert @ KabU
How do we know that there are 613 desires and not say 615 or 598 etc ? Â How did we come to that number? Where is the science that demonstrates this is the case so that we know it to be true ? Could one person have say 728 desires whilst another person be born with only 345 desires?
If I fix one desire and make it a will to bestow could it not revert back to a desire from being a will to bestow? A bit like doing a new year resolution that works for a few months until we revert to old habits? How do you stop this from happening, otherwise it may never be possible to correct all 613?
Thank you
Hi Philip,
613 is the number of corrections that need to be placed over the spiritual 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 how this number is derived in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.
Keep in mind that the 613 desires are spiritual desires that we don’t yet have. Similar to how a single cell in a body only has some basic desires. But when that cell is part of a greater body, it reveals there higher desires which are impossible for the individual cell to have: desires for money, honor, power, etc. Same with us, until we integrate with the general body of Adam HaRishon, we don’t reveal or understand these 613 spiritual desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/12/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-613-desires/
As for how we work with this in practice, see my reply below to Melinda.
Albert @ KabU
Albert, your answer to Kelly’s question above was insightful for me. I was also wondering if there was a specific order desires are corrected or is it based on the individual? Does everyone correct all 613 desires?
Hi Melinda,
Yes, everyone will correct all 613 desires. But keep in mind that in practice we don’t work according to some pre-made list, but simply with whatever is being awakened in the moment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/compliance-with-the-613-mitzvot-commandments/
Albert @ KabU
Why is it that some people seem to be born with true altruism. Does our DNA alter as we progress?
thank youHi Kay,
Baal HaSulam writes in the writings of the last generation that there is up to 10% of the world that has a natural drive towards bestowal and altruism. Just like we’re built to enjoy reception, they’re built to enjoy bestowal. Why is there a need for such a thing, for altruistic egoists? It’s because pure egoism on its own would just destroy the world, so nature implanted a few altruists to balance out the system.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2012/07/altruism-no-more-than-10-or-all-100/
As for our DNA, it does change from generation to generation. Baal HaSulam talks about it in the article “the Freedom“, which we’ll study in depth in the next semester.
And if you’re interested to learn more about Reshimo, which are like our spiritual DNA, see my reply below to Peter.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Kelly,
All of the corrections are done by the force of the light. Meaning that we don’t need to focus on correcting our desires or fighting them. Rather our entire focus is on extracting more and more of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details:Â http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
How does one experience or recognize the “spiritual DNA” on the path of correction?
Hi Peter,
Everything we went through, are going through, and will need to go through is preset in the reshimot. The reshimot are our spiritual genes. Just like when we investigate our corporeal genes, we reveal our entire ancestry, where we came from, as well as the reasons for our inclinations, tendencies, etc. Similarly, the reshimot are our spiritual genes. They are all the states that we have gone through and all the states that we will need to go through in the future.
In other words, they detail the process we need to undergo starting from the initial thought of creation all the way until the end of correction. Essentially our entire path of development is preset in these reshimot. So all the forms we need to evolve through and all the desires that will awaken in us is also preset there. The only choice we have is in the pace we go through it. It’s like all of life is one big strip of film or a movie reel. Every new moment is a new frame, a new reshimot is shown to us. And we cannot change the movie at all, but only to fast forward or go one frame at a time.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/07/the-whole-world-is-inside-the-reshimo/
Albert @ KabU
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