[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Helen,

They are bestowing because they are completely following the Creator’s commands. This follows the saying that “there is not a blade of grass that has not an angel above it that strikes it and tells it to grow.”

As for the Creator’s bestowal, it’s not by Him being nice to us or giving us gifts. Rather the Creator’s bestowal is in Him creating the entire system of nature that envelopes us and gives us everything we need in order to help us reach the highest, best possible state: to be like Him, to fully adhere to Him.

In other words, His bestowal is only evident relative to the purpose of creation. And if we try to examine Him through the lens of our egoistic nature, we won’t see Him as good and bestowing. Since the purpose of creations is not to pamper our ego, rather it’s to help us rise above the ego. Only above the ego can we identify the Creator as good and bestowing.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/06/how-can-we-justify-the-creator/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Shiloh,

We’ll learn about the spiritual meaning behind these things. But the most practical tool that we have is building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment.

This is because spirituality is against our egoistic nature. So it’s impossible to do real spiritual work by ourselves. We simply don’t have the strength to do it. Where do we get this strength? From the spiritual environment. The spiritual environment is like a support group which gives us the strength to do something we’re naturally incapable of doing. It’s just like with the example of exercising. If I don’t feel like going to the gym and exercising, but if I have friends who do enjoy this and want to do this, if I value these friends, by this I’ll receive their strength to overcome my resistance and will also go to the gym and exercise.

So all of our spiritual work boils down to building for ourselves a strong spiritual environment. All the rest is a result of that work. We’ll learn more about this in lesson 2 of the next semester.

For now, your spiritual environment consists mostly of these different KabU forums, weekly lessons, live sessions, etc. But in the more advanced semesters, everyone will receive their own virtual Kabbalah group with whom they can put these things into practice.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2012/10/bestowal-should-become-fashionable/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Helen,

They are already in balance with nature because there is no egoism with them. So they are simply carrying out their instincts, their inner programming, like machines.

Humans on the other hand were given an egoistic nature. The ego on the one hand throws off our inner balance with nature and thereby causes all the harm and destruction that we see in the world. But on the other hand, it allows us to have free will. And once we correct the ego, we’ll reach a much higher degree than the other levels of nature.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/10/nature-is-not-a-resource-for-the-ego/

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Helen,

In general, we don’t speak about our personal attainments. Kabbalists don’t share their personal revelations with anyone, since people are not yet corrected and this evokes negative envy, which ultimately harms both parties.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/05/do-not-trigger-fire-upon-yourself/

As for measuring our spiritual degrees, we’re not yet on any spiritual degree, we’re still in the preparation period prior to the spiritual ladder. But once we start to do real spiritual work, we can measure our progress in our attitude towards other points in the hearts. That I’ll feel how my attitude towards them changes, from complete indifference, all the way until I feel them as pieces of my soul. We’ll learn more about this in the more advanced lessons.

Albert @ KabU

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Joe,

The main takeaway is that the external world is a reflection of my own internal state. So if I see something bad in the world, it means I still have not finished correcting my own ego. 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

[Albert – KabU Instructor]

Hi Nathan, good question.

But even without such an extreme example of a person addicted to drugs, you can ask the very same question about anyone. How can the average Joe who just works, comes home, spends a few hours watching TV, sleeps and repeats the process, how would the average person ever awaken to the purpose of creation?

Even more than that, we can also ask about ourselves, why is it that we have a desire to to reach the purpose of creation? After all, a few months ago, we were no different than that average Joe. So why all of a sudden now we decided to study Kabbalah? Why not ten years ago? Why not twenty years ago, etc?

It’s because everything depends on the point in the heart. When that desire awakens in a person, regardless of all the other circumstances of life, he will suddenly start searching for answers. And if that point has not yet awakened, then a person would rather engage in drugs, or watch TV, or a million other things that we can be doing in life.

Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/11/only-people-with-the-point-in-the-heart-can-feel-that-kabbalah-is-the-salvation/

Furthermore, we can also ask why did I receive an awakened point in the heart while another person did not?

This is because there is a certain order of corrections that need to take place in the system. It’s like building a large jigsaw puzzle. First you start with all the corner pieces, and only then do you gradually work your way to the center. So those that received awakened points in the hearts are like those corner pieces of the puzzle that need to start the whole process. Later on, due to their good work, they pave the way for the rest of the world to join this process.

Albert @ KabU

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