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Hi Lucy,
Everything that happens to us in life is geared at pushing us towards the purpose of creation, towards reaching complete adhesion with the Creator, with His qualities of love and bestowal.
If we are still stuck within our egoistic nature, then we’ll feel these pushes as something painful and will want to run away from them.
If we are consciously trying to correct our egoistic nature, then we’ll feel all these things as the Creator’s way to help us come out of our ego. In which case we’ll react with gratitude for everything the Creator sends us.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/09/learn-the-creators-language/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Vivian,
Every moment comes to us directly from the Creator. This is called “there is none else besides Him”. So the expectation is to try to be in a constant connection with the Creator.
We’ll learn more about this in the upcoming 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/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Anna,
The story that we see depends on whether we are advancing on this story through the path of suffering or the path of light.
On the path of suffering, a person is unconsciously nudged forward through pressures and suffering.
On the path of light, a person is consciously trying to correct their egoistic nature. As such, instead of feeling pressures and suffering, a person on the path of light feels that life is arranged to help support them in this process.
This is similar to children who whether they want to or not, must go to school. If they resist, then the parents threaten to punish them. But if the children do want to go to school and they willingly run to school, then not only do the parents stop punishing them, but they can also build a completely different relationship with them. They can take them on educational trips, give them all sorts of puzzles and extra curricular activities, etc.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Lucy,
Everything that we feel, we feel within ourselves. Or more precisely within the desire to receive pleasure. If the desire is not corrected, we feel this world. If the desire is corrected, to the extent that it is corrected, we begin to feel within it the five spiritual worlds. All of this works according to the law of equivalence of form.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2013/04/everything-is-attained-by-the-equivalence-of-form/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Ka Bubot,
1. Yes, it’s there in the form of a reshimo.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/07/the-whole-world-is-inside-the-reshimo/
2. Each person feels it in their own way, but essentially yes.
3. They are all lessons aimed at helping us fix the connections between us, so in those corrected connections we can reveal Him.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/12/there-is-none-else-besides-him/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Mo,
Not necessarily. It could be that you are indeed spending too much time studying Kabbalah.
We need to find a good balance between our corporeal lives and our spiritual aspirations. Without a good balance in our corporeal lives, we won’t be able to advance in spirituality either. This is called “no flour, no Torah – no Torah, no flour”.
Meaning a Kabbalist continues to exist on the level of this world throughout the entire spiritual ladder. So I cannot just turn into a monk and disconnect from this life and only focus on spirituality. On the other hand, if I only focus on corporeality, then I’m no different than an animal.
So the important thing is to find the right balance between the two: to take care of all of one’s normal necessities: to work, take care of the family, health, etc (this is called flour) and to set aside some time on a regular basis to focus on spirituality (this is called Torah).
And in the more advanced stages of our development, we will see how our day to day life helps us with our spiritual development.
Albert @ KabU
