[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul,

I cannot comment on your personal situation, we can only talk about these things in general.

1. In general, everyone has a certain set of issues that they are dealing with in life. Some have issues with money, some with health, some with family, etc. Everyone.

2. Kabbalah is not a magical pill to get rid of all of our problems. Such a thing does not exist. This is because we’re egoists and avoiding pain is one of the major motivating forces for us. If we were to get rid of that force, then we would have no drive to continue our development.

So what good is studying Kabbalah then? It’s in order to correct our egoism. Once we correct it, we will no longer need problems and suffering in order to push us to develop because we ourselves will generate the force for our development.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/

3. How do we deal with these issues in the meantime? We must take care of all of them in the normal way that is customary in our society. If I’m sick, I go to a doctor and follow the doctor’s advice. If I lose my job, I write a resume and go job hunting. If someone is hurting me, I stop them, call the police, etc. We must continue to resolve all of our problems in the normal way. That’s our external work.

4. Internally, we must ascribe everything that we’re going through to the Creator, to “none else besides Him”. But this is our internal work. It does not cancel out any of the normal actions that we need to do in life in order to deal with our problems in the regular way.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/dont-ask-for-the-death-to-the-wicked/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Stephen,

I agree, the method can be confusing at times, especially since we’re used to learning intellectually whereas experiencing the Creator is an emotional process. We need to keep in mind that the Kabbalistic studies don’t work in a typical way in which we learn to accumulate knowledge. In Kabbalah we’re concerned with reaching spirituality in practice, feeling it. And for that purpose, “it’s not the wise that learns”. Meaning we’re not learning this material simply to acquire knowledge, to store it in some box in our brains. After all, If knowledge was the path to spirituality, then a supercomputer loaded with all of the Kabbalistic texts would be the most spiritual being in the world. Obviously this is not the case.

So why do we spend so much time studying if not to gain knowledge? Because through the study, we draw the force of the light. This force is what makes all the internal changes, clarifications, corrections that need to be made. After we extract enough light and correct ourselves to a certain degree, then we won’t just intellectually philosophize about spirituality or the Creator, but we will begin to feel Him in practice. And only out of that feeling will we begin to truly understand these things.

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 Alessa,

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 Julia,

Yes, animals are naturally in balance with nature on their level and don’t require any correction.

Although we do sometimes see animals suffering. This is because the speaking (human) level is at the top of the pyramid of nature. And since the human level is not corrected, it corrupts all the lower levels of nature. In other words, when we correct ourselves, we will see the rest of the levels of nature come back into their natural balance.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/01/chernobyl-is-flourishing/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Julia,

No, we don’t incarnate as plants or animals, rather all those levels of desires are inside of us.

As for mastering the desires, everyone has a certain set of desires that they need to experience before the point in the heart awakens. But you don’t need to fulfill all of your desires or go through all the other desires to reach the point in the heart. Rather, whenever it’s awakened within a person is when he can already start to realize it. If you’re here, it’s already a sign that the point in the heart awakened in you.

Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:

https://laitman.com/2018/09/my-world-is-a-collection-of-desires/

https://laitman.com/2012/11/still-vegetative-animate-and-speaking/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Melissa,

Restriction means to stop using the desire to receive. After the restriction comes the screen, which is an attempt to use the desire to receive in order to bestow. Check out the Guest and Host analogy in Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond for more details.

Albert @ KabU

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