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Shalom instructors,
I have three questions:
1) Is there a relationship between the words Masach and Mashiach?
2) Does the Creator awaken the point in the heart due to His Will or does it awaken as a natural part of the evolution and re-incarnation of the soul?
3) Is the ultimate goal to transcend our humanity or to become a complete/mature/whole human-being?
Thank you.
With Love,
Raymond Franklin
Hi Raymond,
1. Masach is Hebrew for screen. It’s the anti-egoistic screen thanks to which perceive spirituality.
Mashiach is Hebrew for messiah. In Kabbalah, the Messiah is not a person but a force. Mashiach comes from the Hebrew verb “to pull” (Moshech). This is the force that has the ability “to pull” us out of our egoistic nature into the Creator’s nature of love and bestowal.
Essentially you can say that the force of the Mashiach helps us to build the Masach.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/what-do-they-expect-from-a-messiah/
2. All of humanity is part of a single system. Within this singular system, 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. It’s the same with our spiritual work. There are those that are awakened to this work earlier and those that are awakened to it later. 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.
3. The ultimate goal is to reach adhesion with the Creator. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2019/04/the-purpose-of-creation/
Albert @ KabU
But if I need to change the way I perceive events, since everything is the plan of something greater from the creator, that is, even a tsunami is something good, then nothing is bad? Do I have to be content with everything, since everything is good? So I shouldn’t do anything to change the world because everything is good? All I can do is conform and believe that everything is good, since everything is the will of the creator?
Hi Jose,
We learn from the Kabbalists that every single moment comes to us directly from the Creator, this is called “there is none else besides Him”. Furthermore, they also say that He is the “good that does good”. Meaning that every moment He is sending us nothing but goodness. But why then don’t we see this in our world? Why do we see so much suffering and problems in the world?
This is because our world is governed by our egoistic nature. This egoistic nature is opposite to the Creator’s nature. Because of that, it inverts the Creator’s goodness into something bad. It’s just like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative equals negative.
So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to see and feel more suffering and bad things in the world. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, then we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists, and our previous egoistic state would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Albert @ KabU
1.Since we see the path of suffering surrounding us everyday, sometimes real close sometimes bit further away…is this development alson the explanation why we have sso many problems learning from “the past”??
2. How do the 613 mitzvaot in kabbalah differ from the mitvot reshima, since the torah is the path of light, are they vessels/ steps or commands …how should i look at it?
3. my own suffering with this world is that i see so many people complaining about lacking connection but then when teher is it is all about beneficialties in teh corporel world…so not even sustained superficial? How to adress that?
Hi Koriander,
1. You can say that. But keep in mind that avoiding the path of suffering also requires an awakened point in the heart. Otherwise a person is not at all interested in taking the path of light to correct their egoistic nature.
2. There are 613 desires that we need to correct. Corresponding to each desire, there is a mitzvah (commandment). These are the INTERNAL processes by which we correct that specific desire. In other words, Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 mitzvot as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
Keep in mind that the 613 desires are spiritual desires that we don’t yet have. This is 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/
3. We learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the external world is a reflection of my own internal world. 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.
So we don’t need to go out to the world and start correcting things we see there. We only need to focus on our own correction. And when we correct ourselves, this correction will be reflected in the world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Shadrak,
In order to perceive this world, we have the 5 senses, within which there is a certain screen that sends impulses to the brain to give us a perception of the world.
In order to perceive spirituality, we also need a screen. The spiritual screen (Masach in Hebrew) is an anti-egoistic screen. It’s the intention of bestowal that we place over the desires. Once we acquire that screen, in the corrected desires, we’ll be able to perceive spirituality.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/06/how-to-receive-in-order-to-bestow/
Keep in mind that in practice, we don’t have the strength to correct our own desire. The correction is performed on us by the force of the light. Our work comes down to 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: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
How can I understand the divine intentions behind everything that is presented to me and how do I react?
Hi Lucy,
Everything that happens to us in life is geared at pushing us towards the purpose of creation, towards reaching complete adhesion with the Creator, with His qualities of love and bestowal.
If we are still stuck within our egoistic nature, then we’ll feel these pushes as something painful and will want to run away from them.
If we are consciously trying to correct our egoistic nature, then we’ll feel all these things as the Creator’s way to help us come out of our ego. In which case we’ll react with gratitude for everything the Creator sends us.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/09/learn-the-creators-language/
Albert @ KabU
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