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Hi Joel,
1. The artist made everything through the quality of bestowal. We on the other hand look at everything through the lens of our egoistic nature. As such, it’s impossible for us to understand Him. We’re simply operating on two different frequencies. But if we correct our egoistic nature and acquire the nature of bestowal, then we’ll become like Him and understand the reason why He created everything the way it is.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/09/learn-the-creators-language/
2. Ein Sof is commonly translated from Hebrew as infinity. But here the literal translation “without end” is more accurate. This is referring to the state in which the desire is completely fulfilled, to the max. Similar to how you can take a cup and fill it up to the max where it’s impossible to add any more liquid to the cup. Even if you add one more drop it will just spill over. So if you take a desire and fill it with pleasure to the max, that state is called Ein Sof. Keep in mind that we’re talking about spiritual desires and spiritual fulfillment, meaning that of bestowal.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Robert,
That example shows us that a Kabbalist can separate himself from his body. On the one hand there is what the body experiences and on the other is our aspiration for the Creator. The Kabbalist can rise above what the body experiences and live within that desire for the Creator. The disconnection could be so great that even while the body is suffering, the Kabbalist can be happy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/05/what-to-ask-for-when-we-are-in-pain/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Philip,
1. We don’t lose our individual soul. Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/10/each-soul-is-individual/
As for recalling past experiences, the spiritual system is built such that quiet a lot of information is concealed from us simply because it’s not necessary for our development. And to the extent that it is necessary, it will get revealed to us.
2. Our work is not to identify and get fixated on a certain reshimot, our work is to speed them up. The reshimot 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, like 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/
3. Yes, but keep in mind that the only thing broken in the entire system of creation are the proper connections between people. So our entire spiritual work is in fixing those connections. And we measure all of our spiritual advancement in that as well. We’ll learn how to do this practically in the more advanced semesters.
4. We currently don’t have an official way of doing that. You could try to reach out to the technical support team and ask them if that’s possible.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Joel,
1. I was not referring to disconnecting from the world. I was referring to a state where a person discovers that there is such a thing as spirituality and that he lacks it.
2. The dream of this world means that my picture of reality is not fixed, but rather it depends on the lens through which I look at it. If I’m not corrected, I look at it through the lens of my uncorrected egoistic state, and thereby I see a terrible world in front of me.
If I correct my ego, then I’ll start to see the world through that corrected lens and see that I’m actually in the Garden of Eden.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. But the moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Joel,
1. I was not referring to disconnecting from the world. I was referring to a state where a person discovers that there is such a thing as spirituality and that he lacks it.
2. The dream of this world means that my picture of reality is not fixed, but rather it depends on the lens through which I look at it. If I’m not corrected, I look at it through the lens of my uncorrected egoistic state, and thereby I see a terrible world in front of me.
If I correct my ego, then I’ll start to see the world through that corrected lens and see that I’m actually in the Garden of Eden.
It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. But the moment I clean my own glasses, I’ll look at the same world, but now it’s clean and perfect.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/04/in-neutral-gear/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Philip,
1. NRNHY is an acronym for Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida. These are the names of the lights that enter into the spiritual desire. There are five of them because there are five levels of the spiritual desire. Each level of desire has a corresponding light that enters it. You can liken it to intensity, Nefesh being the smallest light and Yechida the greatest.
2. In the article Walking the Path of Truth, Baal HaSulam writes to us about three components in our work: Israel, Torah, and the Creator.
Israel is me, my point in the heart, my desire to actualize myself, to reach spirituality. Torah comes from the Hebrew word Ohr, meaning light. So when Kabbalists us the word Torah they are not referring to the book but rather to the system through which we draw the light that corrects us. The Creator is our root to which we want to return.
He writes that these three components need to be present and equal, otherwise I deviate from the spiritual path. Meaning if I’m just thinking about the Creator, without working with the system called Torah in order to correct myself, then I’m deviating from the path. Also if I’m just working on correcting myself without aiming my work to the Creator, this too is a deviation.
Only when all three of these things are used equally, then we are truly progressing and the light works on us in the most optimal way. It’s like I have a rifle, the rifle scope, and the target. My job is to align the rifle through the scope towards the target. In this way I’m certain to hit the mark.
We’ll learn how to work with these things practically in the more advanced lessons.
Albert @ KabU
