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Hi Helen,
The Creator created creation in a state of perfection. If it was possible to cancel any of the three states, it would cancel the perfection of creation.
If for example you cancel the first or third state and we’re just in the second state, it means the perfect Creator created something imperfect.
If you cancel the second state and we remain in the first state, then we remain in an unconscious state, which by itself is also not perfect.
But since creation is perfect, there is no chance to cancel any of these states, meaning each and every one of us must necessarily reach that third state of complete perfection. If so, where then is our freedom in this system? Baal HaSulam continues that article by explaining that since the end goal is set, our freedom is only in the path we take to get there, whether by the path of light or the path of suffering. That’s the main takeaway from the three state model, if you understand that, you’re good.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
http://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Zachary,
Although the Talmud are indeed Kabbalistic books but we don’t really study them directly in our days. In our days we mainly study from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash. This is because egoism grows from generation to generation, so Kabbalah, the method for its correction, needs to get adapted in each generation for that level of egoism. For example it’s like in medicine, if a person has a headache he can just drink a tylenol and that’s enough to fix him. But if it’s not just a little headache but something cancerous, then that tylenol won’t do anything for him but he needs a completely different regime to heal himself.
This is why Kabbalah gets adapted in each generation to the level of egoism that is currently found in that generation. So although there were many different Kabbalists and Kabbalistic books throughout the generations, nowadays we mainly learn from the writings of Baal HaSulam and Rabash, since their writings contains the light that is most suitable to correct the egoism that is found in our generation.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/11/the-great-kabbalists-and-their-works/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Magdalena,
The healthiest attitude towards the past is to say “there is none else besides Him” and that we went through exactly what we needed to go through. The more we develop, the more we’ll see that nothing happens in a meaningless way, but rather everything was prearranged in the perfect way for our development.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/03/is-it-worthwhile-for-an-older-person-to-study-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Zachary,
Time in Kabbalah is not defined by the passage of seconds, but rather by the changes that take place within the desire. It’s possible that within one lifetime, we didn’t make any efforts to correct our egoistic desires. So spirituality, it’s as if time has not passed at all. And it’s possible that in our lifetime our desires went through many corrections. So spirituality, time was accelerated, and it’s as if we lived out multiple lifetimes.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/06/what-is-time/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Zachary,
Spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal it, we need to become similar to it. So everything that the Kabbalists discovered, they did so by correcting their egoistic nature and thereby becoming similar to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal. As a result of that correction, they revealed spirituality it in practice. As a result of that revelation, they were able to discover all of these different measurements.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
As for 600,000, keep in mind that it is less of a quantitative number and more of a qualitative number. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it’s been fully corrected. So essentially all of humanity is included in this number.
Check out this blog post to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Christian, great questions!
There are different levels to this thing called a soul. In the beginning, we all have an animalistic soul, meaning a certain force that enlivens our animalistic body, similar to any other animal. But the human level of the soul is not something we have by default, but rather something that we acquire by correcting our egoistic nature. In other words, each one of us has a human soul in potential which we call the point in the heart. If we correct that point, out of it, we can build the full level of the soul. If not, that same potential continues to reincarnate again and again until it gets corrected.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
As well as this article from the book The Kabbalah Experience.
As for the population, we’re all part of a single system, like cells within a single body. This body was initially shattered into 600,000 parts but it continues to fragment as necessary in order to divide the common egoistic load and thereby make it easier to correct.
Rav Laitman writes about it in one of his blog posts:
“600,000 is the number of initial fragments, but after that they are fragmented again into whatever number is necessary for the optimal correction in each generation – so that each fragment will have as much egoism as it’s able to correct. Therefore, to the degree that egoism grows, the world’s population grows as well.”
Albert @ KabU
