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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
Hi Erico, great questions!
1/2. Nothing is lost, rather each person will discover themselves on a higher level. It’s like feeling yourself existing as a cell vs feeling yourself as the whole body.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-formula-of-infinity/
3. Spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to reveal it, we need to become similar to it, to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal that are found there. But our nature is completely opposite, pure egoism. So how can we possibly adapt our nature in an opposite direction? We need help to make that change. This help comes to us from the force of the light. The light is the only force that has the ability to correct our nature. Our work boils down to extracting more and more of the light, especially through the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Kelti,
Is this the quote that you are referring to?
“That it’s magic? Well, magic implies the use of hidden upper forces in order to manipulate people to get what you want and to cause certain outcomes for your benefit or against other people and so on. But it is impossible to make any contact with the upper forces at all unless a person changes their moral inner nature. The attainment within Kabbalah is a matter of inner transformation and it is impossible to be in contact with the forces without that. This simply has nothing to do with anything except somebody’s vivid imagination.”
In this context, moral inner nature refers to correcting our egoistic nature. He used the word moral to emphasize an inner change as opposed to simply performing certain actions or rituals which don’t actually change us internally.
In general, Kabbalah does not deal with “morals”. This is because morals simply teach a person to choose between good or bad behaviors. The problem with morals is that our nature is egoistic. So no matter what behavior we choose externally, it’ll stem from our egoistic nature. As long as our actions stem from our ego, they will also be considered egoistic and will ultimately not lead us to anything good.
This is why Kabbalah does not deal with morals. Rather, Kabbalah deals with the root problem, our egoistic nature and how we can correct it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Anthony,
This course is the first step of the structured learning path. It’s recommended for everyone to go through the structured course in order to get a solid foundation in Kabbalah and to be eligible to join a KabU Kabbalah group in the future.
Beyond that, if you have the time and desire, you can also go through some of the other courses, VOD, and materials on KabU and the Kabbalah Info youtube channel.
Albert @ KabU
