We have been given a quality of shame so that through certain efforts, we will gradually rise from our inborn corporeal lives, where we are locked within our desires to enjoy for self-benefit, to spiritual life in the opposite desire—bestowal.
In the method of Kabbalah, we relate to shame constructively as a stage in our advancement to the spiritual goal—the attainment of the desire to bestow—and we do so in a group setting. That is, we surround ourselves with people who share a similar desire to achieve a spiritual goal in life, and we then start working on how we can come closer and connect to these people according to the principle, “love your friend as yourself.”
By doing so, we arrange ourselves in conditions to attract nature’s force of love and bestowal, and when we feel this sublime spiritual force, we then see our own egoistic nature opposite it. Such a process continues until we feel ashamed of our nature in comparison to the altruistic spiritual nature, and we use this revelation constructively in order to exit our current corporeal level of wishing to constantly receive fulfillment for personal benefit, and rise to the level of nature itself, with a desire purely to bestow and to love.
Based on KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on December 5, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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