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Hi Sharon,
Kabbalah is a science. So of course everything the Kabbalists pass to us in this wisdom is measured and precise.
Regarding 613 corrections, this number is further divided into 248 desires of bestowing in order to bestow and 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow. These numbers are based on the structure of the upper worlds. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the technical structure of the upper worlds.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Rune,
A list won’t really help you here because these are 613 spiritual desires that we don’t yet have. Similar to how a single cell in a body only has some basic desires. But when that cell is part of a greater body, it reveals there higher desires which are impossible for the individual cell to have: desires for money, honor, power, etc. Same with us, until we integrate with the general body of Adam HaRishon, we don’t reveal or understand these 613 spiritual desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/12/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-613-desires/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Soudia, great questions!
1. Attaining spirituality does not depend on a person’s religion, gender, or anything like that. It depends on one thing and one thing only, the desire. If a person has such a desire (or at least an active point in the heart, which is the beginning of this desire) then this entire wisdom is open to that person and they can use it to actualize their desire for spirituality.
2. Generally yes, as a person studies Kabbalah, his attitude to life completely changes. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/06/dispelling-the-myths-about-kabbalah-part-9/
3.  We learn in Kabbalah that the entire external world is nothing more than a reflection of our own uncorrected egoistic state. And to the extent that we correct this ego, to that extent the external reality will change as well.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as being dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses (correct myself) then I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
But it doesn’t mean that we’ll change our corporeal gender, country, or anything like that. Rather the external world will appear more corrected, loving, connected, etc. We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality. In the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
4. To the extent that you aspire to the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal that the books are talking about, to that extent you’ll be able to decode them. This follows the law of equivalence of form. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Sharon,
1. Yes, you can say that. Furthermore, the more we advance spiritually, the more that we will see that morals wont help us at all. On the contrary, we will find ourselves more and more powerless to do ANYTHING against our egoistic nature. Why? Because this is how the system is built. It’s not built for us to be superheroes and to take control of our nature. Rather it’s built for us to recognize our weakness and use it as an opportunity to turn to the Creator, to use His strength, to tap into His light. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.
2. It’s not coincidence. Rather, according to the law of root and branch, every spiritual root must touch a corporeal branch. Despite this, the Torah is not a history book. Rather it’s talking only about our inner world. All of the characters and places are our inner qualities. As we begin the process of correction, we will begin to see this story play out inside of us. We will reveal the qualities of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Pharaoh, Israel, and etc inside of us, meaning inside our desires. The story is talking about the inner process of how our desires develop from being completely egoistic, to becoming corrected and operating in the direction of pure love and bestowal.
Check out the links I shared in the above post to Corey for more details.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Miryam,
1. The science of Kabbalah does not speak from the Creator’s perspective since this is not something we attain. In general, Kabbalah differentiate two parts to the Creator.
The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator simply because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.
The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator (and any spiritual phenomena) is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/12/the-holy-names-of-bestowal/
2. The whole process we undergo is for our own growth and development. The Creator is not deficient in anyway because of this process. It’s just like the spoon feeding example I gave you in a previous reply in the KR1 week 5 questions forum.
Albert @ KabU
