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At the end of the fragment of the text recommended “Perception of Reality,” pp. 100-118 we are introduced to the concept of Reshimo “…because the present Reshimo exhausted itself, making the next Reshimo in line “want” to make itself known.” – How can we acknowledge when this new state spirituarily or next step happens?
And if “When a new desire comes along, it actually isn’t new. It is a desire that has already been in us, whose memory has been recorded in the data bank of our souls—the Reshimot.” This means that the desire was before our birth or in previous lifes?
So, how can we better reach our next Reshimo?
Hi Tamar,
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
Good morning,
I am curious if anything at all is ever hidden from the creator? More specifically, does he already know if we will choose to return to him willingly or unwillingly?
Hi Zori,
We cannot speak from the Creator’s point of view because that’s not something we attain.
In general, Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts:
The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.
The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator (and any spiritual phenomena) is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
How can the spiritual have no effect on the physical when from my understanding the spiritual gives birth and is before/ the cause of the physical? If we are the branches and living in the branches that are corporeal realm, then how would the spiritual roots that the corporeal branches stem from not be influenced by them? According to the statement made by
what Are Sefirot? (Tree of Life Unlocked Pt 2) – bit.ly/kes-Kab… – To learn more about Kabbalah join a free online course at KabU.Hi Ricky,
It depends on the angle this explanation is coming from. Many times Kabbalists refer to the corporeal world as the “imaginary world”. Since once we correct ourselves, relative to that corrected state this life would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2010/11/this-life-is-a-dream/
Albert @ KabU
Thank you for article referral! However, my question stems from my interpretation made in the video that nothing corporeal world is effected by the spiritual world. By using the metaphor of the roots and branches to explain the connections of this system of consciousness is it more accurate to use the example of birth? Where one body gives birth to another body only through like parts and form are they connected through this likeness. But are in completely different states? Where father and son are alike and what Roots them together are their equivalence of physical form but are not physically attached in relation to space of one of another? Is that what they’re saying in this video ? When I think of a root I think of a link/chain/connection that is always attached where if it’s only like in form then that’s what they have in common is form but if one is effected the other isn’t because there is no direct link. What do you think? Or could you pass my question on to other instructors to see what they may think as well?
Hey good afternoon albert!
It is at 2:20-3:45, right at the beginning of the video. I’m not making the case about the amulets part he’s mentioning. But more so, the overall theme as far as the statements that correspond with my general thoughts of roots and branches in the posts above is more where it came from for me. Because I thought everything in creation stemmed from a spiritual root? So with that process, everything would contain some level of spirituality
Hi Ricky,
There are spiritual roots to our world, but it does not make any of the objects spiritual.
Ultimately we need to remember that spirituality is acquisition of the pure qualities of love and bestowal. There is no object in our world that contains that, not our protein bodies, nor any of the rocks or anything else in this world.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2017/10/there-is-no-holiness-in-matter/
https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
Albert @ KabU
I have become fascinated by the Siphusauctum Gregarium plant /animal ..Rooted in the Ground yet feeding like an animal “Dog of the Field ” even dreaming about it …..maybe from week 3 video s Just wondering if dream life has meaning with Kabbalah ?
Hi Tracey,
Kabbalists don’t attribute much importance to dreams or the state of dreaming. They see it simply as a state where the brain summarizes/organizes the daily experiences. Similar to how some computers go through the process of defragmentation.
On the other hand, there is a spiritual state called dreaming which is the process by which we transition from one spiritual degree to another. It’s like the neutral gear on a manual transmission, which requires you to switch to the neutral gear before switching to another gear. In other words, in between every spiritual state is a state called “dream”. But it’s not related to the corporeal dreams that we experience in our physical bodies. Kabbalists don’t ascribe any importance to corporeal dreams.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2016/04/an-ordinary-dream/
https://laitman.com/2015/02/we-cannot-live-without-sleep/
Albert @ KabU
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