[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Alejandro,

Just like a PC cannot just reprogram itself to run as a Mac, we too cannot change our own egoistic nature with our own strength. It’s impossible. It’s ultimately the light that makes all the changes on us. Our work is only to extract more and more of it, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it does all the rest.

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 Marta,

I cannot comment on your personal feelings. But in general, we should keep in mind that perceiving spirituality works according to the law of equivalence of form. To the extent that we correct our egoistic nature in our common work with other points in the heart, to that extent we become similar to the upper force of nature and reveal it in practice.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Alejandro,

We’re all part of one system. In this system, there are internal and external parts. The internal parts include the common soul of Adam HaRishon, while the external parts are all the different things that influence this common soul, including the still, vegetative, and animate parts of nature.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Andrey,

These things are relative to each person. So each person will need to discover it for himself throughout his spiritual development.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/03/returning-to-the-root-of-ones-soul/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Robert,

The revelation of evil means that our nature is completely egoistic and does not allow us to perform ANY actions of bestowal. If we reveal such a thing, then how can we overcome it? It’s impossible. Only the light can give us such strength. So immediately after the revelation of evil comes the time of prayer, of extracting more light to help us to overcome our nature.

We’ll learn these things in depth in the upcoming lessons. In the meantime, 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 Varda,

1. It depends on the context, but you can interpret it the way you did as well.

2. The 613 desires that we are learning about are spiritual desires, meaning desires that we don’t yet have. This is similar to how a single cell in a body only has some basic desires. But when that cell is part of a greater body, it reveals there higher desires which are impossible for the individual cell to have: desires for money, honor, power, etc. Same with us, until we integrate with the general body of Adam HaRishon, we don’t reveal or understand these 613 spiritual desires.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/12/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-613-desires/

As for the 613 Mitzvot, each Mitzvah (commandment) is an INTERNAL process by which we correct the corresponding desire. In other words, Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 Mitzvot as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/

We will learn about these things in depth in the advanced semesters, especially when we start learning articles like Matan Torah.

Albert @ KabU

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