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Hi Comfort,
According to the law of equivalence of form, in order to come closer to something in spirituality, we need to become similar to that thing. The Creator has the nature of pure love and bestowal while our nature is the opposite: pure reception. So to come closer to the Creator, to reveal Him in practice, we need to correct our opposite nature, for it to become similar to his nature of pure love and bestowal.
It’s similar to how a radio works. That we just need to tune the inner frequency of the radio to match the external wave. Once we tune in to the wave that we want, we right away hear the music that is on that wave. Likewise with us, once we tune ourselves in the direction of bestowal, we will become similar to the Creator and thereby reveal Him.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman: http://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
The corrected form of our desire to receive is called a soul. Meaning that it’s not something that we’re born with but rather something that we develop and attain. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Norman,
Yes, you can say that the intention is the main focus, the main correction that gets placed on the desire.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2021/11/desire-and-intention/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Luis,
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.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Matanah,
Our inner work is to attribute EVERYTHING to the Creator. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Just keep in mind that our battle with food has nothing to do with spirituality. Spirituality means acquiring the Creator’s qualities of love and bestowal. Love and bestowal is measured not towards food but towards other people. We do this work first of all with those closest to me spiritually, meaning those with awakened points in the hearts that are with me on the spiritual path. Later on, once we build a certain nucleus of connection with these awakened points in the heart, we can expand our work towards the rest of humanity.
We’ll learn about these things in detail in the more advanced semesters in KabU.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Reinaldo, good question!
Kabbalah only deals with our desire for spirituality. As for our corporeal desires, Kabbalah does not deal with these things. Each person should arrange those desires in the normal way, that is customary in our world. Meaning that if I’m sick, I need to go to the doctor, if I lose my job, I need to go look for another one, etc.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Adebiyi,
I’m not an expert in other methods, so I cannot compare/contrast or comment on what they teach there.
As for the concept of Adam Kadmon, this is the first world to emerge in the system of spiritual worlds. It’s called Kadmon (primordial) because it operates in a different way than the rest of the system.
Albert @ KabU
