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Hi Julia,
All the Kabbalists started out just like any one of us, living in this world. At a certain point their points in the heart awakened, they began their spiritual search, and eventually reached spiritual attainment. But even after attaining spirituality for the first time, Kabbalists continue to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder of development. This is because this world is a necessary starting point for attaining any spiritual degree.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Meine,
Suffering means that the desire is not in balance, not equivalence of form with the forces acting upon it. It’s like swimming upstream as opposed to going with the flow.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Stephen,
Every single person has a completely different experience. But the experiences that each person will need to go through are determined by the root of their soul, by their place in that common system.
For example, a heart cell will experience what the heart needs to experience while a brain cell will experience what the brain needs to experience, etc.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Nathan,
We learn that “necessities are neither praised nor condemned”. Meaning that taking care of our necessities to live a normal life is not considered egoistic. It’s perfectly fine to do that.
As for choosing the path of light, that depends on what we do with the rest of our free time, beyond the time it takes us to acquire our normal necessities. On the one hand, you can say that it’s all about adding the right intention to our lives, but on the other hand, if we don’t invest a certain amount of time in the studies, we won’t be able to extract enough light to make this type of change. So we do need to find the right balance between the Kabbalistic studies and our everyday life.
Also keep in mind that the study is not just the time we read and learn, but also the time that we are connecting with other points in the heart. This is actually the most important part, as we will learn from the shattering of the common soul, the only thing broken in the entire system of creation are the connections between people, so that is really the only thing that needs fixing.
We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
Albert @ KabU
