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Hi Robert,
Each moment is a new reshimo.
As for perception of reality, we see the world through the lens of our ego. As we correct the ego, we’ll begin to see a completely different reality outside of ourselves. It’s like I have these dirty glasses through which I see the whole world as dirty. 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 Robert,
Our job is not to research the reshimo, but rather to speed them up. Think of the reshimo like one big movie reel. All the states we went through and all our futures states are already programmed into that movie. Our job is only be active in this process and speed up the rate at which the reshimo change.
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
Hi Robert,
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/
Also check out my reply below to Helen.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Erik,
Regarding fate, the purpose of creation is to bring everyone into complete adhesion with the Creator. This purpose is preset, we cannot change that at all. Meaning that at some point in our development, each and every single person will reach that state. The only choice we have in the matter is the path we take to get there: whether by the path of light of the path of suffering.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/01/lets-go-with-the-light/
Regarding free will, choosing to be influenced by the spiritual environment is how we reach freedom in practice.
It’s like with a seed, what happens to the seed depends entirely on where you plant that seed. If you plant it in fertile soil, it’ll get the right nutrients to grow and develop. If you just keep it on your shelf, nothing will come out of it. Likewise with us. Our entire spiritual future depends on which spiritual environment we plant ourselves in. Even our good thoughts and actions are a result of placing ourselves in the spiritual environment. Meaning that the work of attributing everything to the Creator is a RESULT of placing ourselves in the spiritual environment.
We’ll learn about this in depth in the next semester, in the meantime, here’s a quote on the topic from Baal HaSulam’s article “The Freedom”:
“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
Hi Nika,
1. We learn that “there is no coercion in spirituality”. If a person wants to leave, we cannot stop them.
2. The course does not promise to get us to any particular state. Rather, by taking the course, we learn about such states. And whether we actually reach it in practice or not depends on whether we ourselves put in the necessary efforts to reach that state.
Albert @ KabU
Hi Nika,
The example with the lighter was to illustrate how Kabbalah is not something mystical, but rather it’s ground within the laws of nature.
Just like with the lighter, a person who has never seen such things might think it’s magic, but a modern person knows that there is nothing magical about.
Likewise with Kabbalah, a person who has no understanding of Kabbalah might think it’s mysticism, but a person who is actually practicing it knows that there is nothing mystical about it.
That’s the extent to which this example is meant to illustrate.
Albert @ KabU
