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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
1) When the creature was created and his will to receive expanded till he reached the barrier and break thru it, is there already within the creature the will to receive a small part of the will to bestow which is the point in the heart?
2) Does this point develop in us a desire the moment we feel all the corporeal desires means nothing and are empty in itself? And that is a much greater desire than the corporeal ones?
3) If there is nothing else besides Him, is it correct to say that our life experiences are all lessons for us driving us to the path of Light?
Hi Ka Bubot,
1. Yes, it’s there in the form of a reshimo.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/07/the-whole-world-is-inside-the-reshimo/
2. Each person feels it in their own way, but essentially yes.
3. They are all lessons aimed at helping us fix the connections between us, so in those corrected connections we can reveal Him.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
1. I am understanding that there are many predetermined factors in the lives of human beings; and that suffering in terms of experiencing man-made or non-man-made desasters desastersare part of the soulś path of development. Do I get it right, that all of this is meant to be? All of this is pre-determined ? And that this is a way more interconnected process than one would think? After all, just thinking of what humans are doing to humans… each of the acts will affect many more than the just directly involved individuals. And is it right, that in this interconnectivity, each act happening t o „one“ human is something that happens in order for all souls to develop?
2. I am wondering what could be a rational for people who are actually suffering? Especially, when they have been on their way to gain spiritual understanding. I feel itś a really fragile spot, and I am wondering how to help bridge that subjective experiences of the cruelty of life on the one handside, and the spiritual worthiness in those situations of real hardship o the other. Is it a BUT?… it is true pain in this life, BUT it has a spiritual purpose? It feels hardly possible just to tell them „this is because he wants it so“. I would be afraid that it would drive them even further away from any perception of light. What would be a rational to help those involved understand to bridge this gap between their subjectively felt pain, and its possible spiritual purpose? Would it be the message „there are no victims in spirituality, but it can feel like it being human“? And would it be correct to say that?
Hi Verena,
1. Yes, you can say that.
2. We suffer because of our uncorrected egoistic nature. The process of development is to help us to reach that conclusion so then we would be willing to correct that egoistic nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/
Keep in mind that if you are to share some of what you’re learning with others, this needs to be done in a VERY gentle way, not to violate the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. And if your explanation turns into an argument, then it will ultimately harm you and weaken you on the path. This is why the sages say that “silence is a fence for wisdom”.
So its best not to start preaching this wisdom to others. If you think someone might be interested in it, the safest thing is simply to give them a link to the course or one of the books written for beginners.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/11/only-people-with-the-point-in-the-heart-can-feel-that-kabbalah-is-the-salvation/
Albert @ KabU
In my opinion, it would be helpful if the instructors occasionally were more specific. E.g. In instance [Y] on [date], an [incident] occurred and when I consciously considered the Light I [X].
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