[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sandor,

There are 620 spiritual desires in total. 248 of them are corrected towards bestowing in order to bestow, 365 desires of receiving in order to bestow, and 7 additional desires that are corrected only in the final correction.

So the numbers 613 and 620 are connected. Depending on the context, sometimes Kabbalists include those additional 7 desires and sometimes they omit them.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sandor,

In general, we don’t speak about our personal attainments. Kabbalists don’t share their personal revelations with anyone, since people are not yet corrected and this evokes negative envy, which ultimately harms both parties.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/05/do-not-trigger-fire-upon-yourself/

The exception to this rule is with one’s spouse. Since the spouse is essentially considered an extension of ourselves, like one’s other half. But even then, it should be done very gently, without violating the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sandor,

I cannot comment on your personal feelings. In general, we go through many states, many ups and downs on the spiritual path. The main thing is to just keep going, keep placing yourself under the influence of the reforming light, especially during the time of the Kabbalistic studies, and it will balance everything out.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Allen,

1. Yes, that rule is called “whoever flaws does it through his own flaws”. Meaning that we see the world through our own egoism and therefore we see flaws in it. It’s like seeing the world as dirty because we’re looking at it through dirty glasses.

2. Yes. Just like with the above glasses example, as we clean our own glasses, we’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.

3. Yes. Just keep in mind that aspiring to reveal that spiritual unity is not individualistic work, but mutual work that we do with other points in the heart in the Kabbalistic group. We’ll learn how to do that work properly in the advanced semesters where everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group with whom you can put these things into practice.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/12/fantasies-and-reality-part-5/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

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

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

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

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