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Hi Garry,
We don’t experience suffering on the path of light. But keep in mind that choosing the path of light is not a one time decision, rather it’s a continuous process. It’s similar to driving a car on a winding road, we don’t just drive straight, but as the road winds, we need to make constant adjustments to stay on the road. Likewise with choosing the path of light, it requires constant adjustments or else we fall back into the path of suffering.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
Albert @ KabU
My question is, if all we feel is the creator. How should i understand these feelings? Let say there was an event for a group of friends and i was not invited. So now i feel this uncomfortable and negative feelings. What does Kabbalah suggest i do with these feeling? How should i understand them? Usually, i suppress them or take revenge to feel the opposite feeling. But they keep coming back. What is the lesson here?
Thanks
Hi Meron,
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
With regards to the video Force of development, is it right that by questioning what we would think of as any “bad/evil occurrences and trying to bring a sense of what possible potential can come out of it, we can begin to learn how to minimise the scale of comparison in our reality and to understand better the path of Torah and Mitzvoh?
Hi Janet,
We learn from the lesson on the perception of reality that the external world is a reflection of my own internal world. If I’m not corrected, I see in front of me an uncorrected world with much evil and many people suffering. If I correct myself, I’ll look at the same world and same people, but now they will appear the opposite.
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 if I see anything bad in the world, it’s a sign that I’m not yet corrected and I need to correct myself.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Albert,
is thankfulness towards the Creator an attitude that helps to become bestowing? Is thankfulness actually what is meant by the intention “to receive for the Creator’s sake”?
THANK YOU for answering!
Hi Alex,
It’s not the full correction but gratitude is the start of correcting ourselves, our perception of the world, acknowledging that there is none else besides Him and that He’s sending us nothing but goodness every moment.
We’ll learn more about this in the future lessons, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman on the topic: https://laitman.com/2012/08/gratitude-for-the-past-prepares-for-the-future/
Albert @ KabU
In my reading studies material there’s a sentence that says: “The difference between the material and the spiritual is that our lack of material pleasures causes us to suffer, while our lack of spiritual pleasures does not.” I don’t quite understand this idea. For example, it may happen that because our suffering we aim even more a vital spiritual connection with G-d, specially in our darkest moments?
Another matter that makes me wonder is that if is possible to ataind perfection because we are not perfect beings (even we’ve a soul that yearns). Is it through the process described in Kabbalah that we can gain qualities of the Creator and bestow but to be like Him. Isn’t that impossible?
Hi Tamar,
1. We learn that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. So aspiring to it out of suffering is not the right approach.
Furthermore, that quote is really trying to say that we don’t feel the lack of spirituality as suffering. Spirituality means acquiring the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal, if I cannot bestow, I generally don’t feel that as suffering. Whereas in corporeality, if I’m lacking food, for even a day, I’ll feel it right away. But in spirituality, lacking the ability to bestow is not felt directly by us as suffering, instead we see it indirectly in the world, in the chaos and never ending problems that are there.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/10/nature%E2%80%99s-commandments-the-creator%E2%80%99s-laws/
2. We were actually created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. (Baal HaSulam describes this in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar). But this was an unconscious state, like a baby in its mother’s womb. So we necessarily had to come to the complete opposite state, to lose that state of perfection, in order to once again reach it, but this time consciously.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
Albert @ KabU
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