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Hi Francisco,
Great questions and I’m glad to hear that you’re reading your fellow student’s questions. It’s a really good way to develop your desire for spirituality.
1. Yes, if you correct yourself, you reach equivalence of form with the whole system and feel the whole system.
2. As for how my correction affects the correction of the world, some food for thought: Why is it that you were awakened now to ask about the meaning of life, to study Kabbalah, to correct yourself and rise above the material world? Why not a year ago, or 20 years ago, or in the many reincarnations that you had before this one?
It’s because we’re all part of one system. In this system, we don’t choose when to be awakened, but rather there is a certain order of corrections that needs to take place, and each one receives a spiritual awakening when it’s his turn for correction.
It’s similar to building a house. There is a certain order in which you need to build it. I’m not an expert on house building, but for the sake of the example, let’s say first you dig the foundation, then pour the concrete, lay the beams, etc, and only at the very end do you paint the house. Meaning that there is no point in even taking out the paintbrush before you finish all of the preliminary stages.
Likewise with us. Those that were awakened to this work first are like the foundation of the house while the rest of the world belongs to the later stages. So until those with awakened points in the hearts complete their correction, there is no point in even awakening the rest of the world for their correction.
In other words, the fact that my neighbor does not care about spirituality does not depend on him, it depends on his place in the system. So how can my correction help my neighbor reach his correction? If not for my correction, my neighbor will not be awakened to this work, just like we saw with the above house example.
3. As for the fractality of nature, I agree that it’s very difficult to comprehend. This is because the system of nature is one whole, while we are completely opposite: separate and divided. As long as we remain within this egoistic nature which paints for us this picture of a divided reality, it’ll be impossible for us to truly understand the wholeness of nature.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2009/10/how-do-you-calculate-infinity/
And for anyone else reading this question later on, here is the link Francisco referenced in his question: https://laitman.com/2017/04/the-fractality-of-nature/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Joseph,
Yes, you can say that. But keep in mind that 600,000 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. So essentially all of humanity is included in this number.
Check out this blog post to see how this number is derived: https://laitman.com/2010/09/love-and-hatred-of-600000-souls/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Branden,
Friend (Haver in Hebrew) comes from the word connection (Hibur in Hebrew). So when we say “friend” in Kabbalah, we’re not talking about our corporeal acquaintances & buddies, but specifically the Kabbalistic group in which people are aspiring towards a spiritual connection within which we reveal the Creator.
As for your corporeal acquaintances, it’s not my place to tell you what to do there. But in general, I wouldn’t recommend to make big changes in your corporeal life. I would recommend to simply set aside some time to regularly return to the source of the light, meaning the Kabbalistic lessons, books, videos, etc. From that you’ll begin to relate to everything else in life in a very balanced way.
And of course remember that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. So don’t pressure anyone to engage in spirituality if they are not ripe for it.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Dyrk,
There is something to that, but these are 2 separate things. On the one hand, we do need to place ourselves under the influence of the spiritual environment and allow it to guide us. On the other hand, a very big and important part of our development are questions and answers. Researching and trying to resolve our own questions as well as hearing the questions of our fellow students is an important part of our development. So don’t be shy, if you have a question, ask it.
Alternatively, you can also try to find the answer to your questions by yourself first, by looking it up on Rav Laitman’s blog (https://laitman.com/blog). And if you don’t find it, you can ask us on the forums.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Dyrk,
You can say that, but in practice we need to follow the rule that “a judge has only what his eyes can see”. Meaning that our “truth”, our reality is what we feel. And what we feel is relative to our level of development.For example, the reality for an embryo is the womb inside the mother. This is its entire world. Once the embryo is born, reality turns into that baby’s room. A little older the child’s entire reality is the borders of his house, and etc.
It’s the same with us. Our reality right now is what we experience within the desire to receive pleasure. What about the soul? The soul is the state when we correct the desire to receive to operate in the direction of bestowal. That corrected desire is called the soul. Since we don’t yet have this corrected desire, we don’t yet have this thing called a soul. And so we don’t experience that reality yet. In other words, until we correct ourselves, our truth is what we experience within the egoistic desire. And only once we correct ourselves, will we reveal a different truth.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/06/what-happens-to-the-soul-after-death/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Nemo, great questions!
1. We are constantly guided. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. Meaning that all of life is a simply a game between myself and the Creator. And although I see many different forces acting in the world, as well as something that seemingly stems from myself, my own thoughts, and desires, this is still all coming from Him.
But this does not mean that we can reach correction in a passive way, as this would violate the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. So despite everything coming from Him, we still need to find our place of freedom in which we can develop in this system.
We’ll learn more about these things in the next semester, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
2. As we’ll learn in the upcoming lesson on the perception of reality, we experience all of reality within our desire to receive pleasure. If this desire is not yet corrected, then we feel this corporeal world. If it is corrected, then within the corrected desire, we feel the spiritual world.
This is also why Kabbalists call the corporeal world the “imaginary world”. Since after we correct ourselves, relative to that corrected state this life would appear as nothing more than a dream.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/05/what-is-the-soul-4/
Albert @ KabU
