Entries in the 'Body and Soul' Category

Why Is There So Much Suffering In The World?

laitman_571.06Question: Why does humanity suffer so much? Why is such suffering necessary if it does not directly impact the point in the heart? What is the connection between the suffering and the awakening of the point in the heart?

Answer: In order to understand this, we need to learn about the general structure of the soul. The soul is one and we are all inside it as shattered particles since the time of the shattering of the general soul, which resulted from what we call the sin of Adam HaRishon. There are five levels of Aviut (thickness) of the ego in the soul, and in addition to that it is divided into different attributes in all kinds of combinations.

It is therefore very hard to say why every individual has this or that predestined fate. It depends on the reincarnation of the souls. After all, we connect to each other endlessly, merge, break up, and draw apart. It is impossible to imagine the extent to which this system operates in mutuality and takes into account our initial state when we were connected, and then when we were shattered into different parts, and now when we are starting to gradually come together.

The ultimate goal is to reach the same level of unity as there was at the beginning, but now it already includes all our efforts to connect, by which we become absolutely identical to the upper force, to the light, to the Creator.

And the fact that each one has such a complicated fate, we cannot understand; it is not clear why some people suffer more and others less. For this we need to study and to know the whole system. Then you will see how perfect everything is, without any concessions or exceptions for anyone.

On the other hand, you do not see all reincarnations of lives. You do not understand what those people had and what those people will have. Eventually no one can say that it is better for someone to have something and for another to have something else. No one can do that, not even the greatest Kabbalists, not to mention those who are the furthest away from the wisdom of Kabbalah who have not even have been born yet, and where they exist and how is unknown.

I can assure you that no one can reproach the upper governance about any injustice. If you attain the system of the soul, you will see how integral it is and how each and every moment it guides us to the attainment of the absolutely perfect whole state.
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From Kab TV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/9/20

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Old Age Is A Relative Concept

laitman_756.2Question: What is old age from the physical point of view and from the spiritual point of view? Do you feel like an old person?

Answer: Old age means that a person is already filled with some kind of knowledge, whether it is correct or not, and he keeps this knowledge to himself. Just like a small child will not release his grip on a toy, will not give it to anyone, the old man also holds on to his knowledge because he is completely in it.

The knowledge and habits formed and formatted him, and he can no longer act differently. Therefore, such a person is harmful to society, and nature destroys him through viruses.

Question: Do you feel like such a person?

Answer: I hope not because I am constantly subject to changes, ready for them, and I myself try to promote them and guide them through young people. I feel young.

But if I have to change the shell, I will. Cycles of life – nothing can be done, they are necessary.

Kabbalists relate to this very simply. My teacher said: “Just like in the evening you take off your shirt and throw it in the wash, so at the end of this life you take off your body and in the next life you will have to wear another one.” So nothing terrible happens.

Remark: You have given an interesting definition of old age. It turns out that it is not about age at all. Even a young person, if he is filled with knowledge and does not want to change, nature, as it were, replaces that person. This is what constantly happens in all systems and technologies.

My Comment: If the system is ready for an upgrade, then there is no old age. On the contrary, it is moving toward a better, more advanced, progressive replacement of itself.

Question: So nature is always in the process of improvement and we should assimilate to this process?

Answer: If we walk in unison with nature, we do not need anything to pull us forward: no viruses, no nudges. We would feel absolutely comfortable.
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From KabTV’s “Coronavirus Is Changing Reality” 3/26/20

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The Point In The Heart And The Cycles Of The Soul

laitman_627.1Question: Suppose a person in this incarnation has revealed the point in the heart and the growth of the soul has begun. Then the body dies. In the next incarnation, this person does not remember a thing. Does one need to go through the process of revealing the point in the heart and growing again?

Answer: No. Nothing like this. Our animal body only accompanies us so that we enter the spiritual world, we can be independent in its attainment. But, in principle, it does not give us anything.

You can be healthy, handsome, an athlete, or a decrepit old man, you can be a man or a woman, it does not matter. It is important that you have a point in the heart. By connecting your point with strangers, you can create a common Kli, a vessel. This is how it works.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/16/20

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Four Stages Of Soul Development

laitman_243.03The structure of the soul consists of four parts. Therefore, the following condition that passes through a person after the intrauterine development of the soul is a division into certain parts, the so-called TANTA: Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, Otiot or Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin (Tifferet), and Malchut.

The main thing is that these stages, like the four stages of direct light, initially build us according to the levels of Aleph, Bet, Gimel, and Dalet. Thus, the desire derives from the light, i.e., from the property of the Creator, and the property of creation develops through four stages, the desire to receive comes from the desire to give.

Similarly, in the four stages at each level in each segment, the so-called four-letter changes occur called Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin, and Otiot. They are manifested onto every smallest desire, both onto desires that are joined together and onto those that combine together in one spiritual Kli (desire).

That is, the law is simple, a four-stage distribution, formation, and creation of desire. We can track the same thing in our world on inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels of nature. Each of these levels is divided into its four stages.

Therefore, when we develop spiritually, we will surely go through all four stages on our desire, which gradually begins to create and grow us through internal division. In principle, as it happens in a human embryo it also happens within us.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/16/20

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The Beginning Of The Development Of The Soul

laitman_231.04Question: How does a person’s soul grow?

Answer: A person’s soul grows from scratch just like an embryo from a drop of semen develops in our world. Instead, the embryo repeats the same stages of development as the soul.

Once in the right place, the semen, or the so-called Reshimo, that is, a given spiritual state begins to develop. Conception occurs in the world of Atzilut, and then the further growth of the soul continues.

A person, of course, does not know how his soul develops. He begins to feel this when he goes through the stage of spiritual birth and then the stage of external development, which is carried out not in our world, but in the attainment of the upper world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/16/20

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Мodernization Of The Soul

712.03A Kabbalist feels the death of the physical body as if one were changing a shirt. If the main thing is me, not the shirt, that is, the soul, not the body, then each time I change shirts, due to this I change,I get more and more elegant attire.

There is nothing scary about death except the loss of the ability to make corrections. But if I didn’t make corrections in this life, I can calmly return the shirt because I have nothing to regret.

Question: Why does a Kabbalist work on a correction every time as if starting to live anew, nevertheless have to die at some point too and change his body?

Answer: There is a huge difference between the forms that a person changes throughout one’s life and the new form for which one must die. This will be a new reality, a significant modernization, as if I were constantly repairing my computer by installing new programs on it, and at some point, I suddenly found out that the computer itself was no longer suitable and would have to be changed.
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From 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/11/20, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Peace”

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Search For The Cure Against The Virus

laitman_229The coronavirus lets us know that all our activities are not really necessary and our entire life has not been aimed in the right direction. The upbringing that we received and are now passing to our children is wrong. One must understand that the world needs to exist in a new way: on the basis of unification.

We can come to it because there is the method of Kabbalah. The higher force intentionally sends us various obstacles so that we abandon our far-fetched activities and begin to build life in a new way where there is no difference between this world and the spiritual one, and the difference between life and death disappears; that is, there will be no death. Death will be only for the desire to receive—this is how we will perceive it.

I am certain we will succeed. The main thing is to progress day after day with understanding, awareness, good connection between us, and to raise humanity’s desires to the Creator. Even if their requests stem from the fear of the coronavirus, we absorb these desires, raise them to the Creator, and ask Him for medicine.

It does not matter to me what medicine the Creator will give, I do not tell Him what medicine it should be: against the virus or against our egoism. We then find that it is one and the same—there is no other pest besides our egoism. It is just that now it appears as a virus.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/20, “The Arvut”

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More Than One, Do Not Gather!

laitman_293If now I feel that I have connection with the Creator, it will corrupt my work. I will be satisfied that I am connected to the Creator and am near Him, bestowing to Him, and feeling his reaction.

These connections will only weaken me and bring all sorts of egoistic calculations: I to the Creator, and the Creator to me. So maybe it is better not to see that but to yearn and long for Him? What is better for a person in order to be drawn to the Creator as much as possible?

We also see this in our world: If two lovers are separated by distance, they worry that they are far from each other and dream of meeting again when they will embrace and be together as one body. Then, when they actually meet, connect, and achieve what they desired, then all the romance disappears. The desire that burned in them when they were separated vanishes and all taste is lost.

If there is no hunger, no appetite for a meal, then you cannot enjoy it. First you need to accumulate the deficiency for the meal and be hungry, then this hunger will help you reveal the tastes in the meal.

Now during the coronavirus epidemic, the Creator wants to divide us by distances. He says, “Do not come closer than two meters to each other! More than two do not gather together!” Tomorrow it will be impossible to come close to one another at all until we feel how divided we really are. We should accumulate a need to connect, tire of sitting at home alone and dream about being with people, feeling them, and understanding them.

Then I will think: I wish the virus would disappear so that I could communicate with others and be with friends, not just to be together, but because within our connection, we can reveal the Creator, a higher degree of existence where we feel our life as eternal. Now I sit at home and I am afraid of death. I know that I will die anyway, if not from this coronavirus, then in another ten or twenty years. No one doubts this.

However, now I am as if slowly beginning to see: Is this virus appearing to give me eternal life so that I can live forever in a completely different form, without worrying about making money, air pollution, and all the other problems? This virus is directing me to ascend to another level.

I am at the degree of this world and the virus wants to take me to the next degree where life is eternal and perfect. It gives us the opportunity to penetrate through the connection between us into another essence of nature where we are not connected with physical bodies, this earth, the globe, or this universe. It is like we are slipping into a different dimension.

It turns out that I can use this critical state to achieve eternity and perfection and to rise above my nature.

My dream is not for the virus to simply evaporate as if it did not exist, but to reach a special, higher state through it, to rise above this matter to spiritual matter, from the feeling of this reality to a higher reality. There are many degrees, but the main thing is to go from the corporeal degree to the spiritual one.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/26/20, Lesson on the Topic “Building The Future Society”

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Acceleration Of Spiritual Development

laitman_938.04Question: American neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky said: “Alter one gene among tens of thousands, and approximately half way through one’s life there occurs a dramatic transformation of personality.” Taking the ten as an example, how does the development of an individual soul influence the system as a whole?

Answer: We can influence the development of all souls in the entire system that represents one soul and bring it to the state of Adam from the word “Domeh,” which means “similar to the Creator.”

If we accomplish this through our own efforts, we will accelerate our development, but not under nature’s compelling blows, as they say, “with a stick,” but we move ourselves toward the goal.

In essence, our only opportunity to progress is in an acceleration of our development. In this case, we will naturally get rid of this stick that hits us from behind and progress independently like a child who wants to be learning on his own and not by coercion.

We already exist in our ultimate, perfect state, we just don’t sense it. We need to walk all the way through and accumulate certain conditions, then we will feel that final state.

Question: Does the acceleration depend on us?

Answer: It depends on how we get together. Such gatherings as congresses and even being together like we are now, significantly speed up our spiritual development. So it is worth doing it more often.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/9/20

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Signs Of Soul Growth

laitman_939.02Question: What are the external and internal signs of your soul growing?

Answer: When we start connecting, we give the light an opportunity to spread inside of us. We are beginning to sense and perceive it as fulfilling. In that we see the system of connection between us, in other words, we attain the structure of the soul. This is the most important part because as we gain insight into the structure of the soul relative to how it comes to life influenced by the light flowing through it, we begin to sense the Creator talking to us: how in a wavelike pattern He changes the relationships between us and how by altering the connections between us we can respond to Him. This is our contact, our communication, with the Creator.

Question: Does a person whose soul is growing feel that he is changing?

Answer: Very much so. It all happens absolutely realistically through mutual contact between a person and the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/9/20

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