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Hi Iheb,
All the worlds, starting from the spiritual, until it descends to our world.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/a-science-about-the-world/
We don’t become the Creator, we become LIKE the creator.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/everyone-is-a-point-everyone-is-infinity/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Iheb,
Both are true. Adam, Abraham, etc represent spiritual levels which each person attains.
At the same time, there did indeed exist Kabbalists with those names in the past, which continue to reincarnate generation after generation (generation in the normal sense of the word).
Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “The Peace“, here’s an excerpt:
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THE WHEEL OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE FORM
First, let me present the opinion of our sages concerning the unfolding of the generations of the world: although we see the bodies changing from generation to generation, this is only the case with the bodies. But the souls, which are the essence of the body’s self, do not vanish, to be replaced, but move from body to body, from generation to generation. The same souls that were at the time of the flood came also during the time of Babylon, and in the exile in Egypt, and in the exodus from Egypt, etc., until this generation and until the end of correction.
Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, because each time they clothe a new body and a new generation.
Therefore, with regard to the souls, all generations since the beginning of Creation to the end of correction are as one generation that has extended its life over several thousand years, until it developed and became corrected as it should be. And the fact that in the meantime each has changed its body several thousand times is completely irrelevant, because the essence of the body’s self, called “the soul,” did not suffer at all by these changes.
And there is much evidence pointing to that, and a great wisdom called “the secret of the incarnation of the souls.” And while this is not the place to explain it, because of the great importance of the matter, it is worthwhile to point out to the uneducated that reincarnation occurs in all the objects of the tangible reality, and each object, in its own way, lives eternal life.
Although our senses tell us that everything is transient, it is only how we see it. In fact, there are only incarnations here—each item is not still and does not rest for a moment, but incarnates on the wheel of transformation of the form, losing nothing of its essence along its way, as physicists have shown.
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Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/05/dispelling-myths-about-kabbalah-part-4/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Lana,
Our freedom of choice is in choosing to be influenced by the spiritual environment (meaning the Kabbalistic books, group, and teacher). Everything else, including our intentions, is a result of that choice.
Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “The Freedom”. Here’s an excerpt:
“However, there is freedom for the will to initially choose such an environment, such books, and such guides that impart to him good concepts. If one does not do that, but is willing to enter any environment that appears to him and read any book that falls into his hands, he is bound to fall into a bad environment or waste his time on worthless books, which are abundant and easier to come by. In consequence, he will be forced into foul concepts that make him sin and condemn. He will certainly be punished, not because of his evil thoughts or deeds, in which he has no choice, but because he did not choose to be in a good environment, for in that there is definitely a choice.
Therefore, he who strives to continually choose a better environment is worthy of praise and reward. But here, too, it is not because of his good thoughts and deeds, which come to him without his choice, but because of his effort to acquire a good environment, which brings him these good thoughts and deeds.”
Albert @ KabU
Hi Allen,
Yes, you can say that. We are in a lawful system, where nothing happens by chance.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/12/coincidence-is-simply-ignorance/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Kima,
#2.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/02/constructing-the-lego-of-the-souls-shards/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Kima,
1. Spirituality is the extent to which we become similar to the Creator, to His qualities of love and bestowal.
2. At the root of everything is the desire. Thoughts are generated by the desire to help it to reach what it wants. Intentions are how we aim those desires, whether we use the desires in order to receive or in order to bestow.
3. Bestowal and love means being able to fulfill the desire of someone else.
You can say that everything on the human level is spiritual. But we’re not yet on the human level. There are 4 levels in nature. Still, vegetative, animate, and speaking (or human degree). Within each level, there are 4 sub levels: the still of the still, the vegetative of the still, the animate of the still, the speaking of the still, etc. Humanity as a whole is currently found on the speaking sub-degree of the animate level. Meaning we have not yet reached the true speaking degree, which is a spiritual degree. We reach the speaking degree when we become similar to the Creator, meaning when we rise above our egoistic nature into the nature of love and bestowal.
Check out these readings for more details:
https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
Shamati 153: A Thought Is a Result of the Desire
Guest & Host Analogy from Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond
Albert @ KabU
