[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Irianti,

Losing interest in our physical desires is a temporary state. It’s a present from the Creator to give us the opportunity to plant our point in the heart in a good spiritual environment. But after that, in order to actually develop spiritually, we will discover greater and more egoistic desires within ourselves. After all, what use do I have of the light, if I don’t have what to correct with it? So the more we advance, the more we will reveal bigger and more egoistic desires, and the higher the spiritual level we will attain by correcting those huge desires with the help of the light.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/02/the-worse-the-better/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

google translation of Henry’s question:

According to Tony’s annotation, it is in the state of double concealment where “the person feels a complete rejection of the High and a loss of faith, and it is the period in which a person reincarnates”. I am not clear about reincarnation, if it occurs with the death of the person to return reborn to continue their spiritual path; furthermore, why is it at this stage that said reincarnation occurs?

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Hi Henry,

When Kabbalists talk about reincarnation, they are not talking about bodies, rather they are talking on the level of desire. Reincarnation is the process by which our desire are constantly changing and renewing.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2018/08/reincarnation-in-spiritual-space/#gsc.tab=0

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ozie,

I wouldn’t stress it, it’s completely normal to not understand these things. This is why the Kabbalists tell us “it’s not the wise that learns”. Meaning we’re not learning this material simply to acquire knowledge, to store it in some box in our brains. After all, If knowledge was the path to spirituality, then a supercomputer loaded with all of the Kabbalistic texts would be the most spiritual being in the world. Obviously this is not the case.

So why do we spend so much time studying if not to gain knowledge? Because through the study, we draw the force of the light. This force is what makes all the internal changes, clarifications, corrections that need to be made. After we extract enough light and correct ourselves to a certain degree, then we won’t just intellectually philosophize about spirituality, but we will begin to feel it in practice. And only out of that feeling will we begin to truly understand it.

So it’s normal what you’re feeling. The important thing is to just keep going, keep placing yourself under the influence of the light and it will balance everything out.

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

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

google translate of Henry’s question:

Hello Albert
In earlier writings (/KR #10) “Adam HaRishon is mentioned as the collective soul system under which we still live…”. However, in other writings there is talk of the fragmentation of Adam Ha Rishon. This begs the question: at what level did such fragmentation occur and what was the cause? And what is the relationship between the point in the heart and the root of the soul?
Thanks .

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Hi Henry,

1. There is the true reality in which we all exist and are completely connected with each other, like cells within a single body. This is the state of the collective soul of Adam HaRishon. And there is the current reality in which we feel ourselves as shattered and separate from each other. Kabbalists call our current state “the imaginary world” because the shattered state is not real, it’s only a type of simulation to help us to grow and develop freely.

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

2. The root of one’s soul is our place in the system of Adam HaRishon. Just imagine that we’re all cells of a single body. Each cell belongs to a certain part of the body. This is called “the root of one’s soul”. Accordingly, that root, and its interaction with all the other parts, determines everything a person needs to undergo in all of the many lifetimes until he reaches the full correction. This root also determines when our point in the heart will awaken and start pulling us back to this root.

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 RDB,

Let’s say that I need to exercise but I’m feeling lazy today. What will help me get out of my laziness? Maybe if I had a workout buddy with whom I work out, we can encourage each other. Or if I read about the importance of exercising from a magazine or heard about it on TV. Or maybe if I had a coach who would push me to workout. This is a corporeal example of how we use the corporeal environment to push ourselves towards a corporeal goal, but it’s the same with our spiritual goal.

Spirituality consists of acquiring qualities of love and bestowal, qualities that are opposite to our egoistic nature. So we need support to achieve this goal. This support comes from the spiritual environment. The spiritual environment consists of the Kabbalistic books, group, and teacher. For now, our spiritual environment consists mostly of this KabU platform, the Q/A forums, the Kabbalistic books, lessons, sources, videos, etc. In the more advanced semesters on KabU, each one will also receive their own Kabbalah group with whom they can put all these things into practice.

As for building our connection to the spiritual environment, there is a quantitative and qualitative connection. Quantitatively, I can set aside some time to regularly return to the Kabbalistic books, lessons, source, etc. This is an important foundation. Once we have this foundation, we can work on the quality of this connection: to what extent do I value the spiritual environment? To what extent do I allow it to influence me? To what extent do I see these fellow students not just as random people that have similar interests as my own, but as pieces of my soul? We’ll learn about these things more practically in the more advanced semesters.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Kenneth, good question!

The Torah is a Kabbalistic book. So there is no issue there.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/10/what-came-first-the-torah-or-the-wisdom-of-kabbalah/

The issue is what do we do with these Kabbalistic books? What is the goal of our study?

If our goal is simply to acquire knowledge, then it’s not called that we’re learning Torah or Kabbalah. Rather we’re simply filling ourselves up with data just like we fill up a computer hard drive with data.

If our goal is to reveal the giver of the Torah, meaning the Creator, then in order to do that, we need to become similar to Him. This is what Kabbalah helps a person to do: to correct our opposite egoistic nature, for it to become similar to the Creator, thereby revealing Him in practice, in our lives. This is the goal that needs to be in front of us when studying Kabbalistic books.

Albert @ KabU

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