[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Prescilia,

In simpler terms, bestowal means giving. But why is it so difficult for us to understand bestowal? It’s because true bestowal does not exist on the level of our world. Bestowal is the Creator’s nature. While our nature is that of pure reception. So it’s impossible for us to truly bestow. At best we can perform more and more covert actions of reception. For example, I go to the store and I give them my money, but obviously I want something in return. It’s the same with all of our actions of bestowal in corporeality. Either I do it to receive pleasure directly or indirectly from fame, honor, money, or even the pride of knowing that no one knows about this action, or even avoiding pain or guilt is also part of this same calculation.

So real bestowal, above any calculations for receiving for oneself, does not exist in our world. Real bestowal is purely the Creator’s quality. If we want to acquire such a quality, we first need to correct our nature. This is done by the force of the light we evoke through the Kabbalistic studies. This light begins to work on us, even if we don’t have a true desire to bestow. Even if we’re just like little kids, pretending to be spiritual grown ups. It takes this aspiration of ours and corrects it little by little, building in us a true desire for spirituality, for the spiritual qualities of love and bestowal.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: http://laitman.com/2013/02/sunbathing-in-the-rays-of-the-reforming-light/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Esther,

An example is like looking at the world through dirty glasses. If my glasses are dirty, I think the whole world is dirty. But in truth, it’s just my own dirty glasses. The moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.

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 Will,

The root of our soul is like our place in the system. Just picture that all of humanity are like cells within a single body, each one of us has a certain place in this body, a certain organ that we belong to. Or picture that humanity is an 8 billion piece jigsaw puzzle. Each person has a specific piece that is only his own, and his role is to reconnect that piece back into the general picture.

So our root is our specific place in the system. The goal for all of us to return to their root, to their place. And the process by which we reach this goal, everything we have undergone in our development in the past, everything we’re going through now, and will go through in the future, all of this is dictated by each one’s unique place in the system.

In other words, every moment of our lives is shaped by this root in order to help us to reach this goal. And every unique experience we have gone through is because we needed to go through exactly that for our personal correction.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/10/the-root-of-the-soul/

Albert @ KabU

[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

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