[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Luis, great questions!

The Kabbalists tell us that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. Meaning that we should not force anyone to do spiritual work. Everyone should be given room to develop at the pace that they are comfortable in. So in this regard, this transformation is exclusively within myself.

Furthermore, we’ll learn in the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality that the state of the whole world is a reflection of my own state. Meaning that if I’m not corrected, I see in front of me a terrible world full of egoists. If I correct myself, I’ll see a perfect world in front of me. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.

In summary, we never engage in correcting others, but only ourselves. As a result of correcting ourselves, we’ll see the external world changing as well.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Sean,

In the advanced semesters on KabU, we’ll learn how to do spiritual work in the group and everyone will receive their own virtual group with whom they can put these things into practice.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi James,

Yes the numbers all have their own significance. When a person attains spirituality, he begins to research it, and discovers all these numbers from his research. But what exactly is he researching, what is spirituality?

Essentially we’re always talking about a desire. Our current reality is based on our current nature, the desire to receive. Spirituality on the other hand operates according to a different desire, that of pure bestowal. The different numbers are just a different way to divide up that spiritual desire. This desire can be divided into 613 parts, or 620 parts, or 600,000 pieces, or 125 degrees, or even 10 sefirot.

It’s just like how we can study a person based on his behavior, or based on his anatomy, or based on his external appearance, or his internal chemistry. Ultimately we’re studying the same person, but from different angles. Same with these different divisions, they are all talking about the same spiritual desire but from different angles or a different scale.

So if we are describing the desire as 613 parts, then we’re talking about the number of corrections that need to be placed over the desire. 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. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.

The number 125 comes from the structure of the upper worlds. This structure is just a division of the spiritual desire that we need to correct into sefirot, partzufim, and worlds.

The most basic division of the desire is 1 Sefira. 5 Sefirot compose 1 partzuf. 5 Partzufim compose 1 world. There are 5 worlds in total. So 5 worlds each with 5 partzufim each with 5 sefirot equals 125 (5x5x5) steps on the spiritual ladder. This number symbolizes the gap, the delta, between our nature and the Creator’s nature.

Regarding 600,000, this is less of a quantitative number and more of a qualitative number. It represents the strength of the spiritual desire after it’s been fully corrected.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman to see how this number is derived:

https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Umut,

Yes, virtual groups are groups as well. In the advanced semesters on KabU, we’ll learn how to do spiritual work in the group and everyone will receive their own virtual group with whom they can put these things into practice. After you graduate from KabU, if you wish to join a local Kabbalah group in Turkey, the graduate coordinators will get you in contact with our groups in Turkey.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Shane, great questions!

The Kabbalists tell us that we go “from the love of the created beings to the love of the Creator”. Meaning that our primary work is on building the right connection with others in the Kabbalistic group. Afterwards, in that connection, we reveal the Creator. It’s like in order to catch a big fish, we need a giant net. Our connection is that giant net. Within it we’re able to “catch” or reveal the Creator. Without this net, we’re not able to do anything towards the Creator.

You can test this for yourself. After all, how long can you maintain the thought that “there is none else besides Him”? A few seconds, maybe a few minutes at best. But when we connect together, we’re able to hold each other in that thought all day long.

We’ll learn more about these things in the more advanced semesters.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Tricia,

On the one hand, when we’re around thousands of people, we get completely disoriented. On the other hand, if we’re completely isolated by ourselves, then we cannot reach the Creator’s quality of love and bestowal. After all, in order to love and bestow, I need someone to bestow to. So we need to find the right balance between these two things. How do we do that? By differentiating our spiritual work from our corporeal work:

1) We need to arrange our corporeal lives in the normal way. Meaning to work, raise a family, take care of one’s health, etc. As much as it’s necessary to provide for myself and for my family these normal necessities, I must be part of society and around other people that don’t study Kabbalah.

2) Beyond that, there is my spiritual life. This is the spiritual work that I do in order to become similar to the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. We do this type of work only in the Kabbalistic group. So for this work I don’t need to be around thousands of people, I only need a small group of people with points in the heart that also want to do this work with me. Furthermore, in our days, these groups don’t even need to be physical groups, rather virtual groups are also okay. We’ll learn about this in the more advanced semesters on KabU, where everyone will receive their own Kabbalistic group with whom they can put these things into practice.

Albert @ KabU

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