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Google translation of the question:
How can I know if my desire, based on the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, has begun to be corrected according to the thought of Creation? Through what signs can I ensure that I am moving away from the path of Suffering and, instead, approaching the path of Light?
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Hi Enrique,
To the extent that we correct ourselves, to that extent we reveal the Creator in practice.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/04/when-all-doubts-will-dissipate/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Artese,
The Creator’s qualities are pure bestowal and love. If we want to reach equivalence of form with Him, we too need to aspire to those same qualities.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Keep in mind that we practice this type of spiritual work in the Kabbalistic group. First we build a strong connection with other points in the heart together with us on the spiritual path. This becomes like a nucleus. Once we build that nucleus, we will be able to add to it wider and wider circles of the world, until we’ll come to include the whole world in that connection. But this is gradual work. And until we build that nucleus, we have nothing with which to do any spiritual work towards the world.
Albert @ KabU
Google Translation of the question:
How can I learn to recognize the signs of the Creator, that is, His intention, His Will, what He has in His plans for me, without my egoistic nature interfering with the Creator’s message?
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Hi Enrique,
For that, you need to correct your egoistic nature. This is done through the force of the light that we extract, especially during the Kabbalistic studies.
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
Hi Renata,
There are 613 spiritual desires and relative to each spiritual desire there is a law, a process by which we correct that desire. Keep in mind that in practice we don’t work according to some list of desires, but only according to whatever desire is awakened at the moment. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2015/09/compliance-with-the-613-mitzvot-commandments/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Michael,
We’ll be learning portions from the three course books, but it is recommended to read through the entire books (Kabbalah Revealed and Attaining the Worlds Beyond) by yourself.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Helen,
As we learn in this week’s lesson, our freedom is in choosing to be influenced by the spiritual environment (meaning the Kabbalistic books, group, and teacher). Everything else is a result of that choice.
Baal HaSulam writes about it in the article “The Freedom”. Here’s an excerpt:
“However, there is freedom for the will to initially choose such an environment, such books, and such guides that impart to him good concepts. If one does not do that, but is willing to enter any environment that appears to him and read any book that falls into his hands, he is bound to fall into a bad environment or waste his time on worthless books, which are abundant and easier to come by. In consequence, he will be forced into foul concepts that make him sin and condemn. He will certainly be punished, not because of his evil thoughts or deeds, in which he has no choice, but because he did not choose to be in a good environment, for in that there is definitely a choice.
Therefore, he who strives to continually choose a better environment is worthy of praise and reward. But here, too, it is not because of his good thoughts and deeds, which come to him without his choice, but because of his effort to acquire a good environment, which brings him these good thoughts and deeds.”
Albert @ KabU
