[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Julia,

No one is born with a masach. This would violate the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. Rather, the screen is something we build by connecting our points in the heart together. We’ll learn about this in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Julia,

1. Everyone has a point in the heart but not everyone’s point in the heart is active.

2. Without an active point in the heart, they cannot choose the path of light. But they are still part of the system and the system is still working on them. They will still experience problems, they just won’t understand the source of the problems.

It’s like with gravity, a baby who does not understand this law of nature can crawl off a cliff and gravity will still be working on it, regardless of the fact that this baby does not understand it. Likewise with those without active points in the heart, the laws of nature will not change for them. They will still experience the path of suffering, but they won’t understand the reason for it.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Paul,

We’re not limited by the number of lives. Rather, the end goal is set. All of life is constantly pushing us to that goal. Our choice is in building for ourselves a spiritual environment, a type of spiritual incubator to help us speed up this process of reaching that goal, or wait for the pressures in life to build up and start pushing us towards that goal.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Loria,

Freedom means rising above our egoistic nature. As we learned in this week’s lesson, we do this by building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment.

Baal HaSulam talks about this in the article, the Freedom. He writes: “Harut (carved) on the tables”; do not pronounce it Harut (carved), but rather Herut (freedom), to show that they are liberated from the angel of death.

Throughout the article he explains how our current egoistic nature is that angel of death. Meaning although we are technically alive and surviving, relative to spirituality, our life is considered death. True life is within a completely different nature, that of bestowal. In order to reach freedom from our current nature, we need to choose and build a spiritual environment for ourselves which will influence us with the importance of acquiring the quality of bestowal.

For this reason, the Kabbalists equate our main freedom in life in choosing to be influenced by a spiritual environment. Not just any environment, but specifically a spiritual environment, since only through the spiritual environment can we get the importance of coming out of our egoistic nature and only through that environment can we draw the light that can help us to actualize this.

In the more advanced lessons, we’ll learn how to build this type of spiritual environment, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jonathan,

I’m not a historian, so I cannot comment on that. But in general, throughout the Kabbalistic study, our views on these things will gradually change. Even what we once considered idol worship will change. From that initial view that people were as if bowing to statues and forces, to the Kabbalistic viewpoint of idol worship which is bowing to our own egoism. In that regard, every single one of us starts out as an idol worshiper until we correct our egoistic nature. We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lessons.

As for the concept of God in Kabbalah, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Jonathan, good question!

The general level of egoism grew. But this is not a bad thing, but rather a sign of progress. It’s like with exercise, when you master a 5 pound weight, in order to keep progressing, you need to add resistance by going up to a 10 pound weight, etc. Likewise the process of correction works according to the rule of “from light to heavy”. Meaning first the lighter, less egoistic souls reach their correction. They become as the pioneers that start this whole process. And only later on we focus on the heavier, coarser, more egoistic desires.

The people in the days of Abraham were less egoistic and therefore started this whole process. After they corrected the egoism on their level, it opened the door for the rest of the world, the carriers of the heavier, more egoistic desires, to reach their correction.

But the rest of the world was not yet ready for this correction. For this reason Kabbalah had to be temporarily concealed and the people who previously succeeded in this method needed to be scattered throughout the whole world. Then in the process of them integrating with the rest of the world, they sped up the development of the rest of the world to this final state of correction.

So we can see from this whole process that it’s not that something bad happened, on the contrary, those pioneers that started this process finished the correction on their level and then received their next challenge.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/08/building-the-third-temple/

Albert @ KabU

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