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A Letter To The Beloved In The Front

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How can we connect what we study in TES about Malchut that raises MAN to Zeir Anpin, the prayer from which the spiritual birth begins, to the women’s convention?

Answer: True, it all begins from the female deficiency; this is the real deficiency, the deficiency of Malchut. Zeir Anpin symbolizes the male and Malchut, Nukva, symbolizes the woman.

We are expecting a strong general desire to be accumulated and gathered in the women in this connection above all the differences and the individualism. We hope that the women will help one another to connect and will be able to raise their general deficiency so high that it will be felt in the spiritual system.

If it is felt and revealed in the general system, then we men will also feel it. I asked the women to write a letter with a request, with a demand, with an appeal from the women’s convention to the men’s convention but, in fact, in the spiritual world; it doesn’t really matter whether this request is expressed in writing; the main thing is that it will be incorporated in the system of the general desire of creation, of the general reality.

A letter, however, can hasten this bestowal and bring it together, since it does obligate us to respond; let’s hope that we will receive a very strong push from the women’s convention, a stimulation, a demand to draw the Light that Reforms.

If we try to attain the Light according to the women’s request, we will have a form that is closer to bestowal compared to the form we could create on our own. Women can even ask egoistically for themselves for help for them to connect and attain spirituality. But when this desire is aimed at bestowal and connection, at least a little, it is connected to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and incorporated in a man; he already accepts it as a spiritual desire, since it is already a foreign demand. So by fulfilling this demand we create a much stronger spiritual act than if we tried to create it by ourselves, for ourselves.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/9/13, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: The Creator is providing the perfect conditions lately for us to express our good attitude towards Him in the two coming conventions: the women’s convention One Global Woman and the men’s convention A Flame in the Desert. How should we prepare in order to fulfill the opportunity we were given successfully?

Answer: It is very important to respect the women’s convention and not look down at it, arrogantly. This is because it is a spiritual action and not a corporeal one. It is a very meaningful action in spirituality, which is no less important than the men’s convention. I see them as totally equal and I really hope that the general deficiency that the women will attain and stabilize in this convention will influence us and strongly operate on us, the men. We will reach the convention in the desert ready and equipped with this great, good, and correct deficiency with yearning for connection, and we will be able to reveal and put together the first part of the corrected soul from all these parts.

Every person has his weak and strong points. But spirituality is a perfect system, and so everyone making a revelation fills all the others. We fill one another mutually. I hope that this will really be realized. If we take serious steps towards connection, we will succeed.

The first part of the corrected soul is the goal of the two coming conventions in order to reach the revelation of the Creator to the created being, in order to bring Him contentment, to reveal the first level of the 125 spiritual levels.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/13, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Dr. Michael LaitmanI see the coming conventions: “One Global Woman” and “A Flame in the Desert” as one convention and I do not differentiate between them. After all, the women’s convention is the preparation without which the men’s convention cannot succeed.

I am coming there in order to organize the desire, the mutual yearning, the female pressure. One woman should help the other to build this enormous desire for the spiritual birth and pass it on to the men for the convention in the desert. Every man should relate to the woman’s convention as essential women’s work thanks to which our home and our family life exist.

We have to help in every way we can to create the conditions for the women’s convention to succeed and turn into a real blow and breakthrough to unity. I warn the global men’s group that if anyone treats this obligation disrespectfully, it will cause great harm.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/13, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Conventions: A New Degree

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: At what new degree should we aim before the conventions?

Answer: Our goal is to exit from ourselves, above ourselves.

By getting closer together, we begin to feel how much this pushes us away, how we withdraw into ourselves and cannot let ourselves be close to make a step forward. The state of revealed rejection, the inability to come closer is the real egoism.

Egoism is not the feeling that we experience in daily life: at home, at work, in communication with people. That is small animal egoism unrelated to the ego we must correct.

We need to correct precisely that egoism that appears during our attempts to become close to each other. Our job is to act against it.

Moreover, in each successive action, egoism pushes us away more and more, and this certain amount of pressure on it and the rejection lead a person to a state of despair. And if a person does not abandon the attempts to continue to act against it, taking part in all the events, he starts to realize that help can come only from Above, only if a special force comes because he is not able to do this himself.

Of course, it is impossible to say in advance, “I am not able to do anything, let someone help me.” To do this, in fact, you need to reach a state of despair. But this only happens when you have put every effort, filled the so-called measure seah (“seah” is an ancient unit of measure) and still have reached nothing. Suppose, you have filled the entire “bag” or “glass” with your efforts, and then at the very top, at the last step you feel: “That’s all! Only from Above can I get help, only that will help me.” It is the moment when a person has an opportunity to ask, and he gets help.

Can you imagine how much effort we need to make? But if we do this together, in mutual aspiration, everything happens very quickly, and if done separately, then it can take not only years but incarnations.

That is why, using our events to unite, we still need to strive and prepare ourselves to break the shell of egoism, to go beyond it, and to connect with the points in the heart. Then we will achieve the same thing that I hope the men reach at their convention. And then we will be uniting.
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The Women’s Convention: Rising Above The Imaginary Show

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What should be the intention of the women during the convention?

Answer: First of all, during the time of the convention, we will direct our thoughts. For this we must hold the correct preparation workshops and discussions, which are devoted to our connection and unity.

All of the convention is directed towards this, in order to be a general, complete “one,” leaving below all the desires and thoughts, our daily egoistic intentions, everything that concerns this world. Each one needs to take from within her heart her point and connect it with the others. Imagine that in front of you there is a basket or plate, and we throw all of our points in the heart there and connect them. Then within them, in their connection, we will feel the upper world.

This needs to be the intention, to rise above ourselves, to forget everything that is happening at home, all the problems, all the daily circumstances of this world, to understand that it happens in order for us to rise above all of it.

The entire world exists so that we will understand that we need to transfer ourselves to the side of the Creator. Outside of ourselves, we discover the real world. Then it will be clear that this world was made like an intention aimed at me, like a special theatrical performance where I need to be until I understand that all of this is only a show, that it is like a dream from which I need to awaken and begin to develop outside of. There I will find my real self, in a completely different state, in an eternal and complete state. It is to this state that we must enter.

And our world doesn’t get lost; it will always continue with its theatrical show, but I will already understand the reason why each time I am given a new action. And each time I will rise above this action, higher and higher, in a denser and denser manner with the other things, until I finish all the work in this world, until the general unity above it is in complete connection. And that will be our Gmar Tikkun (the final correction)—one, united spiritual woman.
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The Women’s Convention: A Pleasant Surprise

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: The convention took many women by surprise. It turned out to be a sharp transition from the requirement to be together around men, but every woman on her own, to a state of a “unified woman.”

Answer: The world has changed, and now the state is manifested when we have to take a step forward. Circumstances compel this and there is no getting around it.

I never thought that I would have to deal with women’s groups, talk to women about Kabbalah, about correction, upbringing, and everything else. Talking about raising children is all right, but not about creating a unified image of the woman.

But suddenly there is a need to unite women around men to push the men forward. By the way, I already talked about this a few years ago. Then, at the convention, we took a picture, creating a circle in the shape of a heart, men inside, and women surrounding them, as if pressing on them, as if demanding spirituality.

Four years have passed, and much has changed. There is a demand for women’s unity and their spiritual help for men, and it is necessary not just to put pressure on men and ask: “What spiritual earnings have you brought me?” but to participate in this process more actively. It is the requirement of time.

The time has come when the need has emerged that the women not only stand behind the men, with each of them pushing her husband forward, but that they also unite between themselves in one unified women’s image that is ready to be in front of us—the unified men’s image.

This circumstance appeared as the next step so suddenly that it surprised even me. In principle, I am used to all kinds of changes (how many have I passed through!), but these changes were new to me.

That is why we need to understand that we are entering a completely new level, an ascent to spiritual correction. If we work it out and we can do it very quickly, we will receive revelation, the serious spiritual merging with the upper world. We will start to feel a little of how it “breathes” on us, to look forward to it coming closer. I really hope it happens.
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The Women’s Convention: The Only Desire

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is the union of desire?

Answer: The desire doesn’t refer to the desires of this world: food, sex, family, money, power, and knowledge, but to the desire to unite, to exit oneself, to bestow.

We must strive to get one huge desire that we all want. And when, by having risen above ourselves, we all wish for our unity, we will receive the upper Light that will connect us and form a common soul, a common spiritual system. In it, we will begin to exist.
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The Mirror Of My Ego

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How do we and should we try to overcome the situations when we feel physical hostility, apathy, indifference, and the desire to be just an observer during the congress?

Answer: It all depends on the mood. How can there be a physical aversion, for instance, to your child? Someone else could dislike him but for me he is my own. A woman understands this. So, it all depends on what we will tune ourselves to.

There is no concept of “physical hostility,” there is just the goal. And to the extent it is important to me, I begin to perceive the means to achieve this goal with the same value and greatness of glory as to the goal itself. If for the sake of the goal I have to get close with someone, talk, hug, and feel that we are together in a unifying action, then I do not look at the person.

And generally, what does something external mean? After all, it’s not people I am shown but my attitude to them, my own reflection in a certain image. By observing this person, I can discern how much I need to work on myself and he or she has absolutely nothing to do with it. It is not a person but my own egoism I am seeing in such a form. It is like a mirror in which I view myself. It is a whole system, as stated in one of the Shamati articles: “The Creator is Your Shadow.”

So, how can there be rejection? On the contrary, what puts you off is exactly the most efficient method, a possibility to converge, to rise above yourself. Try it and you will see that this is so. And throughout, it will be tormenting you inside, throwing you back, but you should keep going forward. Do not waste your time! It’s a shame to be losing it. See everyone, try to annul yourself, and then you will be taken by the flow into oneness with all.

I would encourage all women to ask each other’s forgiveness before the congress, forget the old stuff and start at a whole new level. Try to rise above yourselves a little; otherwise, what are you doing studying Kabbalah? You cannot always watch your “self”. On the contrary, you should stamp your foot on it and grind.
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The Women’s Convention: A Prayer

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What prayer should come from a unified woman?

Answer: One unified prayer should come out from a unified woman to a unified man with the purpose of further unity! And nothing more. And the same thing is from the man because through the unity between us we will attain what is called “Adam” inside which the Creator will be revealed, as it is said: “Man, woman, Shechina between them.” We need to reach such a state when the right and the left lines join into the middle line and the Creator will be revealed in it.

So now both women and men are preparing: the women at their convention and the men at their convention at the end of the same week. And then we will see what to do; I think that we will be able to create such desires when the women’s unity gives us a unified image of the woman and the men’s unity a unified image of the man, and then we will able to start uniting spiritually. We will begin to feel how much we miss each other in spirituality, to feel as the property of reception and the property of bestowal begin to connect mutually, and the Creator will be revealed between us. This is what we must achieve.

So, the general woman’s desire (Hissaron) is manifested when rising above ourselves to adhere to the Creator we feel that on the way to the Creator, we need to find our match, the men’s part.

This is the ultimate connection! You will feel how it fills you with joy, the highest ecstasy, its fulfillment! It’s impossible to put into words! Imagine various pleasures of this world, gather them together from all the people on Earth for millions of years, and you will feel this powerful pleasure a billion times more. There is no comparison, and it is only the Light of Nefesh de Nefesh, the smallest spiritual light.
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