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Hi Ron,
Tony has a live Q/A event every few weeks, if you want to ask him something directly, that might be a good opportunity.
Here’s the link for the live events page: https://kabuconnect.com/live/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Mohamed,
There might already be some materials translated to Arabic.
Check out our portal site for details: https://kab.info/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Helen,
The 613 desires that we are learning about are spiritual desires, meaning desires that we don’t yet have. This is similar to how a single cell in a body only has some basic desires. But when that cell is part of a greater body, it reveals there higher desires which are impossible for the individual cell to have: desires for money, honor, power, etc. Same with us, until we integrate with the general body of Adam HaRishon, we don’t reveal or understand these 613 spiritual desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2008/12/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-613-desires/
As for the 613 Mitzvot, each Mitzvah (commandment) is an INTERNAL process by which we correct the corresponding desire. In other words, Kabbalists don’t look at the 613 Mitzvot as physical actions to be performed by our hands and feet, but rather as allegories to the internal process of correcting our desires.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2016/02/mitzvot-commandments-the-correction-of-desires/
Albert @ KabU
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
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
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
