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From the past classes , understand that this work of kabbalah is the work of spiritual upper world instead of this physical world, and our spiritual purpose would be getting closer to the creator.
But at this moment we are in the physical world and bounded by it, no matter how our 5 senses perceived / what desire level we are in, we are still bounded by the physical reality. I want to spend more time to study or take spiritual acts. But physical block me e.g. my mum office work or annoying colleagues consume my time and I have less time to do spiritual study.
Another example is, we say share with others with love and treat each other as myself… But sometimes I don’t have the way / resources to share. E.g. my friend is looking for job opportunities but I don’t have openings for her.
So how can we jump out from then bound and becoming like the Creator, if we still live in the physical world?
Hi Sarah,
1. At the beginning of the spiritual path, there are a lot of tendencies to isolate ourselves from the world. So what you’re feeling is normal. But the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see that we don’t need to isolate ourselves. Even Baal HaSulam and Rabash were not living in isolation in some Kabbalistic environment, rather they had normal jobs, families, and lived in a typical neighborhood of their time. How then did they attain such high spiritual levels? By tapping into the strength of the spiritual environment.
So if we build for ourselves a strong spiritual environment, then it will influence us even stronger than the corporeal environment that we’re in. But this is not a one time choice. Building and strengthening the spiritual environment is our constant work. As we progress, our ego will grow more and more, and the corporeal environment will pull us more and more. This is done purposefully so that this resistance will force us to build an even stronger connection to the spiritual environment, and thereby reach an even higher spiritual level.
It’s just like with a bodybuilder. If he lifts only a 1 pound weight all the time, he will not get very strong (this is equivalent to us living in isolation). In order to grow, that bodybuilder needs to constantly increase the resistance that he’s lifting. So the more we advance, the more we’ll begin to see how the everyday problems, experiences, work situations, etc we undergo in the regular society are a necessary part of our correction. That we don’t erase these things, but above them we need to stay connected to the spiritual environment. And this will determine the level of our spiritual attainment.
We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters of KabU.
2. We learn that “love your friend as yourself” is a great all encompassing rule of our spiritual work. It is essentially the path through which we come into contact with the Creator. But who is a friend? When Kabbalists use the word “friend” they are not referring to our corporeal buddies. A friend, in the spiritual sense of the word, is someone that is close to me spiritually, someone that shares the same spiritual goal as me. In other words, a friend is someone with an active point in the heart that is together with me on the spiritual path. This is why the spiritual work of “love your friend as yourself” is primarily carried out in a Kabbalistic group.
Furthermore, the spiritual work we do in the Kabbalistic group is the foundation of all of our work. It’s like we’re building here a certain nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
So until then, how do we behave towards the rest of the world? We behave normally there, just like everyone else. Meaning don’t make a saint of yourself and at the same time don’t cause harm to others, but just act there the way normal people act.
Albert @ KabU
Good afternoon, egoist is speaking 🙂
So my question is..how many people RIGHT NOW (how many teachers) achieved within the 80 / 70 years of their lifetime the final correction and reached the level of “Love your friend as yourself”. If you know someone who finished the process that means I can do it right? That’s what I would like to know. If there are humans out there who did it then it’s good.
I hope you don’t have to die and live another 3+ cycles of 70 years or whatever to achieve that state.
Is it possible to achieve that in one lifetime? Like RIGHT NOW? (What I understand is that the hardest time is a time of preparation before you go through the barrier and then it becomes easier). Because right now my problem is all I think about is how to receive and sometimes don’t give a d***mn about spiritual work” I get tired at work, have problems, etc. So I live within the ego my ego talks and writes the message and I am trapped and don’t even understand the evil and dark situation I am in right now. I feel that’s my state is normal (I would like to feel the darkness and do something, I just CAN’T) and I’m at the same time scared to become like the Creator because I don’t understand what happens next after that barrier crossing).
Thanks for answering the question.
Sincerely,
A confused KABU student 🙂
Hi Aaron,
There have been countless Kabbalists throughout the generations. At some point in history, even the entire Israeli nation attained spirituality. So there is no shortage of examples of people that have corrected themselves.
As for the difficulty of this work. If we try to correct ourselves, then it’s not just difficult, but it’s impossible. Just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a mac, we too are incapable of correcting our own ego. We need help to perform this change. This help comes to us from the force of the light. Our entire work boils down to extracting more and more of this light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
As for being an egoist, the real ego is something that we reveal only after we do some serious spiritual work on trying to reconnect the shattered soul. We do this work together with other points in the heart in a Kabbalistic group. But we have not yet started to do this type of work, we’re still in the fundamentals learning about the basics of this wisdom. As such, none of us have the real form of ego that needs to get corrected. All that we have right now is a simple desire to receive pleasure.
As for being scared about the state after crossing the barrier, our current situation is the lowest and worst possible state. There is literally nothing worse than our situation in which we are completely disconnected from the Creator. So whatever comes after the barrier will definitely be better than what we’re in now.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/11/to-not-return-to-this-world/
Albert @ KabU
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