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Hi Julia,
No, we cannot skip any of the degrees, otherwise we will never reach wholeness and perfection. It’s like a child that misses out on a key developmental stage.
In general, our spiritual work goes “from light to heavy”. It’s similar to weight lifting, a person does not start with lifting 1000 pounds, each one starts with let’s say 1 pound. After they master that, they can increase the resistance. Similarly with our spiritual work, each one starts the spiritual correction with the lightest desires. Only after correcting those, do they begin to reveal more egoistic desires to work on. And the bigger the desires that we correct, the higher up we climb spiritually. But it’s a linear process, we cannot just jump directly to the big desires.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Natalia, good question!
Destiny means that the final point is already preset in the purpose of creation. We have no way out of it. The path there is also set. The only choice we have is the pace at which we go through that path: whether we go through it consciously and willingly or whether we wait for the sufferings to build up and push us forward.
We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lessons. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Alessa, great questions!
1. It means that people were relatively undeveloped, that they had a small level of egoism, similar to animals. If you look at ants or bees, they also live in unity, but this is not a spiritual level of unity. Spiritual unity means that there is a huge ego that is separating us from each other and despite that ego, we extract the Creator’s force to help us to unite with each other. That huge ego is a necessary condition to reveal higher levels of spirituality. It’s like a mountain, the bigger the ego, the higher up we can climb in spirituality. Whereas the previous generations had a tiny ego, so even if they were united, this unity could only generate a tiny level of spirituality.
2. We are not trying to get back to zero, we don’t eradicate our ego, we correct it.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/true-evil/
3. Everything that we go through is for our further development. Adam in that original story is like that small level of egoism that I wrote about earlier. That level of ego is not enough to fulfill the entire purpose of creation. A much greater ego is required. How can we reach such a large level of egoism? For that Adam was given Eve, who got “tricked” by the snake into eating that apple, etc. It’s not a trick, rather this entire process was precisely planned and programmed into creation in order to help us to further grow and develop.
It’s similar to how we help our kids to grow. We don’t just give them a completed jigsaw puzzle. Rather we take it and break it down into many pieces. Then in the process of them putting it all together, they grow and develop.
If you’re interesting in learning how to properly decipher the stories in the Torah, check out the books: Disclosing a Portion or The Secrets of the Eternal Book.
4. I’m not an expert in any other teaching or method, so I cannot comment on that.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Carlos Morthera,
All the points in the heart are in one system, like cells within a single body, or like an 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. In this system, all the pieces are equal and important. Even if a single piece is missing, the whole puzzle is incomplete. So it’s not like there are more advanced or less advanced points in the heart. Rather, there is a certain process by which this system develops.
It’s like building a large jigsaw puzzle. First you start with all the corner pieces, and only then do you gradually work your way to the center. So those that received awakened points in the hearts are like those corner pieces of the puzzle that need to start the whole process. Later on, due to their good work, they pave the way for the rest of the world to join this process.
Albert @ KabU
Google translation of the question:
Thank you for letting me learn Kabbalah from scratch. Is the ladder of spiritual development the link between this earth and the spiritual world?
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Yes, you can say that. But keep in mind that the ladder is not a physical ladder, but one of qualities. Climbing the ladder means attaining higher qualities of love and bestowal, while descending the ladder means the opposite, revealing higher levels of egoism.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Julia,
The graph represents the process of spiritual development. Spiritual development depends on the ego. The bigger the ego, the higher the level of spirituality that we can attain once we correct it. Going down means that more egoism is revealed. Going up means that a higher level of bestowal is achieved, or in other words more corrections take place over the ego.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/where-is-the-upper-world/
Why were those Kabbalists depicted as going down on that graph? Because they started out with a very small level of ego and as they developed they began to discover greater and courser levels of egoism.
Albert @ KabU
