[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Bella,

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 620 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, 365 desires that operate on receiving in order to bestow, and 7 additional desires that are corrected only in the final correction. We’ll learn about this in detail in the more advanced lessons on KabU that deal with the structure of the upper worlds.

Regarding the 125 steps, 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.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/11/numbers-indicate-quality-not-quantity/

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

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Barbara,

Yes, you can say that.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Bella,

Yes, you’re not alone in your concern. In fact, everyone comes with a certain baggage to the wisdom of Kabbalah. That’s normal and fine. We just need to keep going, to keep placing ourselves under the influence of the light, especially during the Kabbalistic studies, and it’ll sort 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]

Here’s the link to that answer: https://kabuconnect.com/forums/topic/ask-anything-about-week-1-lesson-and-materials-and-get-an-answer-from-a-senior-kabbalah-instructor/#post-498582

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi John,

1. By religion we mean the customs and culture of a group of people. As for our beliefs in a certain deity, a person in spiritual attainment reveals the Creator in practice, in their lives, so there is no room for beliefs.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/10/religions-place-in-our-lives/

2. Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 commandments as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/

But if a person does want to perform these actions physically in our world as well, Kabbalah is not against that, but encourages doing so with the right intention. This follows the saying that “a commandment without an intention, is like a body without a soul”.

So if a person is Jewish and this is part of their customs, they can continue to carry these things out physically if they want. But the most important thing is to carry these things out internally, on the level of our desires.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Bella,

Reaching spirituality means correcting our egoistic nature. This correction goes “from light to heavy”. The first generations to start this work were working with the smallest levels of egoism, so it was easier for them to correct it and reach spiritual attainment. We on the other hand are working with the biggest levels of egoism, so it’s harder for us.

As for evidence of this, you can turn on the news and see for yourself the level of egoism of our generation. Despite all our resources and advancements in technology, there are still wars in the world. Divorce is at an all time high. We’re becoming more advanced yet more distanced and alienated from each other. These are all signs of a growing ego.

Keep in mind that it’s not bad that the ego grew to such a high level, these are still signs of advancement. The bigger the ego, the bigger the spiritual level that we can attain when we correct it.

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

Albert @ KabU

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