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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
Hi Steph,
I cannot give you a preset formula here. You need to feel these things out for yourself. The main thing is to keep searching, to keep making efforts in the direction of the Creator, through the group.
We’ll learn more about these things in the more advanced lesson.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Tracey
You can say that the spiritual genes precede and influence the physical ones. They shape us in the necessary form for the exact corrections that we need to undergo to reach the final correction.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/08/the-genetic-map-of-humanity-part-3/
As for altering our genes, no it wont affect the desire called the point in the heart. It’s just like if a person undergoes a heart transplant, it does not change the person itself or give this person different desires. Likewise, the changes we make to our physical body do not affect our spiritual desires, which are not found in the body to begin with.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Liss,
Kabbalah does not deal with dream interpretations. In general, Kabbalists don’t attribute much importance to dreams or the state of dreaming. They see it simply as a state where the brain summarizes/organizes the daily experiences. Similar to how some computers go through the process of defragmentation.
On the other hand, there is a spiritual state called dreaming which is the process by which we transition from one spiritual degree to another. It’s like the neutral gear on a manual transmission, which requires you to switch to the neutral gear before switching to another gear. In other words, in between every spiritual state is a state called “dream”. But it’s not related to the corporeal dreams that we experience in our physical bodies. Kabbalists don’t ascribe any importance to corporeal dreams.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2016/04/an-ordinary-dream/
https://laitman.com/2015/02/we-cannot-live-without-sleep/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Pamela,
We cannot speak on the Creator’s behalf because we don’t attain such things. We don’t attain the Creator Himself, but only how we perceive Him in our corrected vessels. Let’s put this into perspective to understand it:
Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts.
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 again 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/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Pamela,
Sorry to hear that you’re having difficulty with the site. We’re always trying to improve it and make it more user friendly. I’ll pass along your concerns to the developers.
Regarding the need help button, I think it works best in the chrome browser. Alternatively, you can use the “contact” button on the top banner to reach the support team.
Regarding finding the response to your question, it’s always right underneath your post. The newer questions are on the first page and older questions get pushed down into the other pages.
Albert @ KabU
