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Hi Clara,
It depends on the context, but typically Kabbalists don’t speak about our corporeal body, but rather about the desire to receive and the changes that take place within it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2021/06/circles-of-souls/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Catherine,
NRNHY is an acronym for Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida. These are the names of the lights that enter into the spiritual desire. There are five of them because there are five levels of the spiritual desire. Each level of desire has a corresponding light that enters it.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Daniel,
Yes, you can say that the screen is the intention. How do we implement it practically? What are we intending with our intention? To bestow like the Creator. In order to bestow, we need someone to bestow to. Since the Creator is concealed, we cannot bestow to Him directly. Instead, we need to practice bestowal on other people. But since there is a rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”, we cannot just practice this with just anyone, we need others who have the same goal as us. Meaning others with a point in the heart that are together with us in the Kabbalistic group. So in order to build an intention for bestowal like the Creator, we need to practice it with others in the Kabbalistic group.
We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters where everyone will receive their own Kabbalah group with whom they can implement these things.
Albert @ KabU
Hi John,
In practice, we cannot defer to “there is none else besides Him” if we have not attained that for ourselves.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/10/if-i-am-not-for-myself-then-no-one-will-help-me/
Attaining that state works according to the law of equivalence of form. Meaning that in order to attain spirituality, we first need to become similar to it, to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal. But since this is completely against our nature, we need a supportive environment that will help us in achieving this goal.
It’s just like with the example of going to the gym and lifting weights. Naturally this is something extremely painful and unpleasant. But when we’re under a good influence of the gym environment, have friends that value such things, read lots of articles about staying healthy etc, we begin to enjoy these things. And what was previously a painful activity turns into something pleasurable. It all depends on the influence of the environment.
So through the spiritual environment, we get the necessary support and importance of coming out of our egoistic nature. And even more importantly, through that same spiritual environment we draw the force of the light in order to actualize this change. For this reason, the Kabbalists equate our main freedom in life in choosing to be influenced by a good spiritual environment.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Dustin,
Our freedom is in choosing to be influenced by a good spiritual environment. The rest, including our good thoughts and deeds, is a result of that influence. 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 upon him good concepts. If one does not do this but is willing to enter any environment that appears before 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 more accessible. 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 this 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 or 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 actions.”
Albert @ KabU
