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Hi Julia,
No, we don’t incarnate as plants or animals, rather all those levels of desires are inside of us.
As for mastering the desires, everyone has a certain set of desires that they need to experience before the point in the heart awakens. But you don’t need to fulfill all of your desires or go through all the other desires to reach the point in the heart. Rather, whenever it’s awakened within a person is when he can already start to realize it. If you’re here, it’s already a sign that the point in the heart awakened in you.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2018/09/my-world-is-a-collection-of-desires/
https://laitman.com/2012/11/still-vegetative-animate-and-speaking/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Melissa,
Restriction means to stop using the desire to receive. After the restriction comes the screen, which is an attempt to use the desire to receive in order to bestow. Check out the Guest and Host analogy in Chapter 3 of Attaining the Worlds Beyond for more details.
Albert @ KabU
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
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
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
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
