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The way I have gained a deeper understanding of my life is knowing the purpose of my existence accepting the creator’s will to extablished on earth
I believe that I have gained a deeper understanding of the Hiddeness of the Creator. I can say all of my prayers morning and night. However, does that truly demonstrate that I have an unshakable faith in the Creator? After my prayers, I know that I can ask the Creator for what I need in my times of great need. I know I cannot fool Him because He knows me. I can feel fear, but never doubt that the Creator will hear my sincere call for help because He is the only one acting Force and there is none other than Him. I know fear by experience many times in life and death situations. And in that grip of fear, I have not doubted the Creator. I have been in life and death situations either because of a fierce earthquakes and evil people who have made an attempt in my life. I have asked The Creator for help. At the age of 21, I was a flight attendant for AeroMexico. We had to sign in for flight at exactly 6am. If we did not, we would be grounded for 24 hours, not good. I lived far from the Airport and a taxi would pick me up. All flight attendants had to, when assigned, be at the airport also at exactly 6am as back ups. This one time, the taxi was late. I arrived at the airport at 6:15am. I had a good reputation and my supervisor did not want me to have a bad check on my record. My assigned flight was to Cancun with a two day layover. My supervisor changed my flight and sent me to Mazaltan, also a two day layover. Mazatlan and Cancun were more or less the same distance from Mexico City. My supervisor sent the back up flight attendant in my place. On our way back, when we entered through the back where all pilots and flight attendants entered, there were a multitude of pilots and supervisors telling us, the crew, to call our families immediately to let them know we were ok. I was living with an uncle to let him know I was ok. He was surprised. It was not yet in the news. Then I saw a group of pilots with whom I had flown before and I went up to them and asked to know what was going on. The shock that I found out that the flight that was for me, the plane had gone down, no survivors and the flight attendant who went in my place, had only been there one month. I cried so much asking myself “why.” I called my Papa the next day and told him what had happened. I asked my Papa “why.” It was supposed to be me. His response was that in the greater Force, it was not my time. To answer the question regarding the understanding of the forces working in the world, I am now learning the “why” that is the Spiritual World. I am now learning that there are forces working in the world. And I am learning that as a human being, creature, living in the lower world, I can achieve, by following the teachings of Kabbalah, how to enter the Spiritual World.
I am in Week 4. However, I have been going back and forth from Week 1-4 and watching all the videos and readings. I watched Dr. Laitman’s video “Understanding the Upper Light vs the Will to Receive” several times. I have watched your videos several times too. When I watch the videos, I seem to understand and able to follow. However, I do get lost. My question(s) are concerning the Upper Light’s Concentric Spheres. I drew them today. I am more of a visual learner. Hence, a soul is created at the center of all spheres (the Red point-Love) and then the soul moves away from the center and loses its quality of Bestowal and Love. I even drew the little lines around the concentric spheres showing how the particular souls move away. At that point or beginning of moving away, the soul thus acquires the opposite quality (reception-egoism). This moving away from the center now the soul begins a journey that is going exist in the most remote sphere of the field of the Light. However, as the soul separates from the center, it leaves a Reshimo (record) of that pathway. At its most distance from the Light, a recording of the whole chain of separation (decent) remains embedded in the concentric spheres. The souls (my soul) is now opposite to Him. “The souls (egoistic) desires perceive the most remote state as a person (soul) in this world.” And then, as stated by Dr. Laitman, from this moment on, the souls begin their way back. Here is my question: ultimately, the souls (us humans) will return to the Light to be aligned with The Creator. I understand that the process of returning is the Pathway of Suffering. If I understand correctly, as the soul returns, this is when we, I, will recognize that I was on the Pathway of Suffering and that Suffering is because my soul, I, will have recognized that I was on the wrong pathway and in recognizing this, that is when I will feel the pain of my Suffering. I imagine this happens to us, souls, at different ages. However, at what point or age do we suddenly recognize that we need to return, follow the recorded pathways back to The Creator? At what point does it click in our minds, soul, heart that we recognize we need to leave egoism behind and move back towards Bestowal and Love? I imagine it is different for everyone, of course. I am 74 years old. I have known about Kabbalah for the last 20 years; reading books, not really knowing or understanding the depth with which I am now involved with. So here I am. What caused, or what clicked in my mind to finally and truly want to learn in depth Kabbalah? I hope I am making sense. A huge thank you. I believe you will understand what I have asked.
Hi Elisheva,
The click is the awakening of the point in the heart, which can happen at any age. When it does happen, it will draw a person to a place where it can get realized. But if the point in the heart is not yet ripe, a person would continue their development on the level of this world for a few more years or even a few more lifetimes until it ripens.
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/
Keep in mind that through our work, we speed up the process for a point in the heart to awaken in others. This is because 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.
So ultimately, whether a person receives a point in the heart now or later depends on their place in the system, which is called the root of one’s soul.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/the-root-of-the-soul/
Albert @ KabU
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