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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
Hi Andreanne,
We were indeed created in the state of perfection, in complete adhesion with the Creator. (Baal HaSulam describes this in the article Introduction to the book of Zohar). But this was an unconscious state, like a baby in its mother’s womb. So we necessarily had to come to the complete opposite state, to lose that state of perfection, in order to once again reach it, but this time consciously.
And the fact that we had to lose this state is not something bad, but it’s a necessary part of our development. It’s just like with kids. We don’t just give them a completed jigsaw puzzle. On the contrary we take it and break it down into many pieces. Then in the process of them putting it together, they grow and develop. Same with us, this process of losing that state is a necessary part of our further growth and development.
This process also adds to us a certain level of freedom, without which, we would be no different than machines, or robots, that were programmed to act a certain way and they just carry out this inner script. Instead, we were programmed one way, and we rise above this inner programming, become independent of it, and then develop our own desire to advance towards this goal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/01/from-perfection-to-perfection/
Albert @ KabU
