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Hi Greg, great questions!
1. If you don’t see your nature as standing in your way, then you have no drive to do anything about it. So it’s good when we reveal such things. It’s only then that we have a true prayer for the Creator to correct us.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/03/what-is-prayer/
2. We need to find a good balance between our corporeal lives and our spiritual aspirations. Without a good balance in our corporeal lives, we won’t be able to advance in spirituality either. This is called “no flour, no Torah – no Torah, no flour”.
Meaning a Kabbalist continues to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder. So I cannot just turn into a monk and disconnect from this life and only focus on spirituality. On the other hand, if I only focus on corporeality, then I’m no different than an animal.
So the important thing is to find the right balance between the two: to take care of all of one’s normal necessities: to work, take care of the family, health, etc (this is called flour) and to set aside some time on a regular basis to focus on spirituality (this is called Torah).
And in the more advanced stages of our development, we will see how our day to day life helps us with our spiritual development.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Debra,
I’m not an expert in such things. We can speculate one way or another, but ultimately it would just be speculations.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Anne,
Some of the books and courses were already professionally translated to Chinese. Check out this site for details: http://www.kabbalah.info/cn/
Albert @ KabU
Hi João Chico,
The path of light means that we develop consciously under the influence of the light.
Whereas the path of suffering is an inactive form of development, where we wait for sufferings to accumulate until we start to move. It’s like a child that refuses to go to school, so the parents put more and more pressures on him until he agrees to go.
Keep in mind that we don’t really advance on the path of suffering. Since pressuring and punishing a child is not the same as educating him. So after all of the pressures and punishments they put on him, he will still have to go to school and get his education.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
https://laitman.com/2015/05/we-wont-follow-the-path-of-suffering-forever/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Christian,
The “I” is the part of the Creator in us.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2022/08/you-cannot-do-without-the-human/
You can also read more about it in Baal HaSulam’s Introduction to the Book of Zohar, items 8-9.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Christian,
The heart represents all of our desires. Among all of them, there is a certain point, a very small desire, that we’re incapable of satisfying with anything in this world. This is the point in the heart. If it awakens, it pushes a person towards spirituality. If not, a person will aspires to fulfill all of the usual desires in life.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2008/06/when-the-point-in-the-heart-awakens/
Albert @ KabU
