Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Tony Kosinec- KabU Instructor]

Reflect: Share something from the lesson that blew your mind, or even just gave you a new perspective.

[Laura]

I found all of this lesson valuable. Certain concepts were new to me, and I already had inkling about others. For example our separation from nature.

It was fascinating to learn about the split and how the creation of languages separated us rather than united us. The translation of the word Babylon (Babel) was a huge revelation as it connects alot of things for me including Boney M’s song!  And also learning the true meaning of the words Creator- ” come see” I love this! Also makes more sense now.

And like marc and a couple of commentators above said, I feel a little more sense of peace that comes with more knowing. And yes, it’s early days but I find myself, even in the last few days,  feeling and expressing both an inner and outer smile that I haven’t been able to access until now. Thank you all! 🙂

[Marc]

I can´t say, that there was something directly blowing my mind. The concepts presented they are nearly the opposite I am used to. Somehow I am going  around with a smile now and I see all the different people around the world. Some even have such a gaze that I felt like they look directly at me.
The explanation that we are  just experiencing the world of branches and the world of roots is unknown to us relaxe me very much.

[Kariim]

They are looking directly at you. Ha ha ha. It’s a weird feeling but the more you get into the lessons and get more knowledge, it will seem, like you’re the center of the universe.

[Gates Samaniego]

There was a video in the reflections section in which I learned essentially about the two paths. The path of evolution and punishment OR the path of Revelation and desire to be drawn towards your goal. This blew my mind.

[Melanie]

Kabbalah has become food for me.  I have been studying lots of things but once I got a hold of Kabbalah; I came to realize that there is a clear path to climb the stairway back to heaven.  I am so trilled to be part of this community.   What amazed me is that Kabbalah  isn’t all theory.  When putting the idea into practice in day to day life; the journey down here becomes easier.  It is like having a road map.

[Janice]

I came to this course thinking and explaining to another that it was about a form of Jewish mysticism called Kabbalah. I have since gone back to that person and exclaimed ‘it’s a science’.

[Sima]

Good day to you all.
I asked a few questions last night and you told me that you will email me the answers in a few hours, but I have not received any.
my questions were:

1- we have 5 worlds, 10 Sefirot and 10 dimensions,what are these to each other one, if any?

2- Soul and spirit ?

In advance,

 

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sima,

1. The Creator created a single desire to receive pleasure. In the process of correction, this desire gets partitioned into sefirot, partzufim, and worlds.

The most basic division of the desire is 1 Sefira. 5 Sefirot compose 1 partzuf. 5 Partzufim compose 1 world. There are 5 worlds in total. So 5 worlds each with 5 partzufim each with 5 sefirot equals 125 (5x5x5) steps on the spiritual ladder, or in other words corrections that need to be performed on the desire.

In the book Kabbalah for the Student, there’s an article called Foreword to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/full/64187) which lists these 125 steps in the language of sefirot/partzufim/olamot(worlds). For now, these are just technical terms for us, but in the future lessons we’ll dive deeper into these things and learn how to feel and experience them.

In simpler words, the 125 steps represents the difference between us and the Creator. The Creator is a desire to bestow and we are the desire to receive. Adapting our desire to receive to work in order to bestow takes 125 steps. So to the extent that we correct our nature, make it similar to the Creator’s nature, to that extent we’re “climbing” this ladder.

In other words, ascending or descending this ladder is not a physical action, but rather depends on how much we’re similar to the Creator’s quality of bestowal (ascending) or less similar to it and more egoistic (descending).

All of this operates according to the law of equivalence of form. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/

2. Our nature is the desire to receive pleasure. The Creator’s nature is opposite, that of pure love and bestowal. Our work is to correct our opposite egoistic nature and make it similar to the Creator’s nature.

The soul is also a type of desire. It’s the same desire to receive pleasure after it’s been corrected to operate in the direction of bestowal. So the soul = desire to receive corrected to work in the direction of bestowal.

As you saw in answer #1, the desire to receive can be divided into 5 parts, 5 levels of coarseness of the desire. Corresponding to the 5 levels of the desire, there are 5 levels of the soul: Nefesh, Ruach (spirit), Neshama, Haya, Yechida.

To the extent that we correct our nature for it to operate in the direction of bestowal, to that extent we build and discover these different levels of the soul.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/

Albert @ KabU

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