[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ricardo,

Yes, you can say that. Keep in mind that the important thing is not just to learn this intellectually, but rather to realize it practice, to fully realize our point in the heart. Which, as we learned in this week’s lesson, is done by choosing for ourselves a strong spiritual environment. It’s like each one of us was given a priceless seed. What happens to that seed is ultimately determined by where we plant it. If we plant it in a good soil, with the proper nutrients, it’ll develop one way. And if we plant it in the desert or a nutrient deficient soil, it’ll develop differently or perhaps not at all.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Antonio,

I cannot comment on your personal state, we can speak about these things only in general. In general, we learn in Kabbalah this concept of “none else besides Him”. This means that there is a singular benevolent force behind EVERYTHING in life. All of my thoughts, desires, all of the life events we go through, EVERYTHING comes from this one force.

But if everything is coming from a singular BENEVOLENT force, why don’t we sense this goodness? Why is life so full of suffering?  It’s because we’re opposite to Him. Our opposite egoistic nature inverts this goodness into something bad. It’s like multiplying numbers: a positive times a negative, equals negative. So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to suffer more and more in life. But if we correct our nature to be similar to the Creator’s nature, we will reveal the true reality in which only goodness exists and that our previous egoistic state was nothing more than a dream.

We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming lessons, in the meantime check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Peter,

Everything we went through, are going through, and will need to go through is preset in the reshimot. The reshimot are our spiritual genes. Just like when we investigate our corporeal genes, we reveal our entire ancestry, where we came from, as well as the reasons for our inclinations, tendencies, etc. Similarly, the reshimot are our spiritual genes. They are all the states that we have gone through and all the states that we will need to go through in the future.

In other words, they detail the process we need to undergo starting from the initial thought of creation all the way until the end of correction. Essentially our entire path of development is preset in these reshimot. So all the forms we need to evolve through and all the desires that will awaken in us is also preset there. The only choice we have is in the pace we go through it. It’s like all of life is one big strip of film or a movie reel. Every new moment is a new frame, a new reshimot is shown to us. And we cannot change the movie at all, but only to fast forward or go one frame at a time.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/07/the-whole-world-is-inside-the-reshimo/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Bonnie,

I cannot comment on your personal state. In general the double and single concealment are states that we (those that are on the spiritual path) are constantly going in and out of.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/01/understanding-his-providence/

As for the past, we shouldn’t regret or try to correct the past. Rather the best thing to do towards the past is to say “there is none else besides Him” and that we went through exactly what we needed to go through. Beyond that, we should be very happy that through everything we went through, we merited an awakened point in the heart. After all, less than 1% of the world has this desire and we were as if handpicked by the Creator to be among such people. So we shouldn’t go digging into the past, but rather we should focus on the present, on the opportunity that is presented before us and be happy for the priceless gift that we received!

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Ludumo,

The main thing is to make efforts. Just like a baby that is constantly trying to understand the world around it. Nobody hands the baby an encyclopedia or a dictionary. Nobody teaches it what every single word means. Rather the baby starts doing SOMETHING, whatever it can. It waves its arms, babbles, opens and closes its mouth. In short, it’s making lots and lots of efforts. From these efforts, it begins to understand and feel how the world works.

It’s the same with us. We need to constantly exert ourselves and make efforts. Even if we don’t understand, even if we have no clue what spirituality is, or what the author was feeling when he wrote the text. It does not matter. Our understanding and feelings don’t come from our intellectual, but it comes from us making efforts to understand, from playing pretend as if we’re spiritual grown ups. As a result of these efforts, the light will come. It’ll gradually correct us and arrange all of these different connections within us. And then we’ll start to feel spirituality for ourselves.

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

https://laitman.com/2012/03/building-blocks-of-the-first-spiritual-degree/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Annililia,

I cannot comment on your personal life, we can only talk about these things in general. In general, pain is an indicator that something is wrong, something is off balance. It’s a defense mechanism for the body. There are even some extreme examples of people who lost their pain receptors for some reason. And we see from these examples how dangerous this state is, that a person can be doing something harmful to himself and he wouldn’t even feel it.

Or another example, let’s say a person is very ill. If this illness causes him some pain, he can go to the doctor and get it treated. But if on the other hand there are no symptoms and no pains, then he would continue this way, and even die from the illness without ever knowing about it. So we see pain serves a very important function for us. We cannot just eliminate it.

Furthermore, within the Wisdom of Kabbalah, we learn that pain and suffering is felt because of our egoistic nature. Our nature throws us out of balance with the Creator, the general force of love and bestowal. So as long as we remain within this egoistic nature, we will continue to experience more pain and suffering in life. This pushes us to correct our egoistic nature. If we were to get rid of that force prematurely, then we would have no drive to continue our development. But after we correct our egoistic nature, we will no longer need pain and suffering in order to push us to develop because we ourselves will generate the force for our development.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/

Albert @ KabU

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