Entries in the 'Holidays' Category

Women, Step Forward!

294.2Question: We have a holiday on March 8th—International Women’s Day. It started as a struggle for women’s rights and then turned into a warm international, global women’s holiday. I remember buying my mom Queen of Spades perfume and a bouquet of tulips. We also bought flowers for the girls. And for special girls, beloved ones, maybe Bird’s Milk cake and something else. How was it for you? Do you remember?

Answer: No, I never gave anyone anything except for my mom.

Question: What did you give your mom?

Answer: I sent her a telegram.

Question: Although you were living together?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But when you were little?

Answer: Yes, when I was little, I went to the post office and sent my mom a telegram.

Question: What did you write?

Answer: Congratulations on March 8th, wishing you health, and that is all.

Question: What would you like to wish for our women now?

Answer:
Dear Women!
From the bottom of my heart, no twist, I love and respect you very much for your huge contribution to fixing the world that your men distort and disfigure.
So let’s continue our work together until the world is fixed. And then all men will understand how much they owe to their women—mothers, daughters, wives. And the world will become calmer and better.

Question: How do women fix the world?

Answer: With their gentle attitude, by not wanting suffering.

Question: Do they intuitively think about their children, that is, this thought immediately arises?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then why do troubles continue and continue?

Answer: It is all because men do such things to the world.

Question: All these games?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So women are not inclined to play games?

Answer: Absolutely not! Women are ready to forgive everything just to have peace. But men are not ready for that. They do not feel like they are achieving anything unless it is through fighting.

Question: What should women do now to come together and raise such a prayer, a cry to stop all of this?

Answer: If women could, then they would make men leave their childish games of war, become more thoughtful, and compel everyone to focus on peace, nature, humanity, and children. But for now, I do not see it.

Comment: But still, you say that women are involved in correction.

My Response: They are involved in correction, but it is very small. They are afraid to step forward.

Question: Do you still have a desire for them to step forward?

Answer: Yes, definitely! They should start governing the world, and the world will become a better place. Exactly then.

Question: Is it due to the fact that they have motherhood in them?

Answer: Yes, They give birth, they want everything to grow, to move forward. But men do not have that.

Question: But still, we both think. A thinking man, a thinking woman.

Answer: A man does not have that deep need for peace in the world. And a woman, she feels with her womb.

That is why this holiday, March 8th, is truly a special holiday. A holiday of hope for correction.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/4/24

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“What Are Your Happy New Year Wishes for 2024?” (Times of Israel)

Michael Laitman on the Times of Israel: “What Are Your Happy New Year Wishes for 2024?

I wish for humanity to come closer to realizing the root cause of the deep mess it is in, and to seek a way out. Indeed, the more we feel responsible and accountable for what happens this year, the closer we will come to a harmonious and peaceful world.

What is the root cause of our troubles? It is our egoistic human nature that has grown so much today that excessive desires for benefiting ourselves at the expense of others and nature are wreaking havoc.

I thus hope that the wisdom of connection will reach more and more people so that humanity will come to feel that by adjusting our attitudes to each other—prioritizing positive connection and the benefit of others over our divisive drives that emerge from our inclination to benefit ourselves at others’ expense—we will find a way out of our destructive nature.

Every person who expands their minds and hearts to embrace a positive, kind and caring connection to each other above the quagmire of greed, the thirst for power, and the cutthroat will for recognition over others, can become a source of light and blessings in the world.

The more this unifying consciousness spreads atop the ever-growing divisive drives that surface from one moment to the next, the more we will balance ourselves with nature’s laws of interconnection and interdependence. This alignment with nature will then serve to draw the positive forces of connection dwelling in nature into our connections. That is how we can make a significant breakthrough into a world free from wars and malevolent influences.

We would thus be wise to learn from those who have applied the wisdom of connection to themselves, to cultivate positive human connection above our egoistic nature, and to direct ourselves at our more unified state where we click into harmony with each other and with nature.

I thus wish the happiest new year that everyone could possibly experience, that we will fuel each other with an ever-blossoming vision of the most perfect kinds of relations that could manifest, and by doing so, draw nature’s more unified states that await us already into our lives at this time.
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Against Egoistic Thoughts

507.05Question: What kind of effort is it in our work when faith constantly protects us from the entry of strangers into holiness?

Answer: This effort is aimed at preventing egoistic thoughts from interfering with us. We must protect ourselves from egoistic attitudes toward each other.

If everyone in the ten pays attention to this, then you will succeed.

Question: So we can assume that in the end this effort will benefit us?

Answer: This will be of benefit only when you selflessly love others and do not pay attention to whether they love you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 44

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A War against Common Egoism

931.01Question: A person fights with his ego for connection with the friends. I just do not understand why I should pause here, and what happens at this pause. Will I fall if I pause?

Answer: No, at this pause neither retreat nor cessation of military activities take place.

You simply begin to better understand where you are, who you are fighting with, and why. This is a forced pause to reassess your strengths and goals. This is Hanukkah.

You must realize that with the understanding that you are now gaining, you again need to connect with the Creator and with all your friends in one single desire for love, bestowal, and mutual assistance, and with this go to war against our common egoism.

Question: What if you do not fight the war, but pray constantly?

Answer: This is, in fact, conducting the war, because we choose between two forces of nature: egoistic and altruistic. Any fight occurs only in our desires, intentions, and internal and spiritual actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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The Light Our Ancestors Were Rewarded

275Question: Due to what in Hanukkah do we get additional strength to work with the vessels of reception?

Answer: It is due to the fact that once people fought for it, and now we use it. We try to connect and rely on the upper light that our ancestors were honored with during their Hanukkah. Therefore, no special actions are required of us.

We continue our usual work in the ten, remembering that we are in the days of Hanukkah, and thus attract the upper light that they revealed at the time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah?”

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There Are No Other Options

629.4Question: Hanukkah is a break in the war against the ego, when we set ourselves up for victory. But if we don’t win this war, what can we expect next?

Answer: We will definitely win the war against the evil inclination because everything has already been calculated from above. So, there’s no problem.

But to do this, we must come together in one heart, connect with each other, work together, and support each other only out of a common, mutually united desire. Then we will defeat egoism. There are no other options.

Question: Can we consider that in fact our job is easy, and thus calm ourselves down in order to go into battle?

Answer: We can. It is said that this is not hard work. Only those who develop a love for their friends see how easy it is.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Hanukkah?”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—46

234Question: What is the difference between bestowing for the sake of bestowing and receiving for the sake of bestowing?

Answer: Bestowing for the sake of bestowing is the level of Bina, and receiving for the sake of bestowing is the level of Hochma. There is a very big difference between them.

Question: Can it always be Hanukkah when you hope for the Creator’s help?

Answer: Yes, in this case you are in the state called Hanukkah.

Question: When a person finally comes to the realization that if the Creator does not help him, he is lost, is this a state of victory over the Greeks?

Answer: This is a very good state for a person because now he knows for sure that he needs the Creator.

Question: Is it possible, based on the realization that “there is none else besides Him” and faith above reason, to accept a peace agreement with egoism, and not break it, but to move further together with it along a path that would suit both?

Answer: No, it is impossible. Until you break it, nothing will happen. You must defeat egoism—each one within himself and all together in the whole world. Otherwise we are finished.

Question: We say that on Hanukkah a person has already overcome his evil inclination, the Din (judgment) has stopped, and he can work for bestowal. Why can we not just wait for the light of Shabbat to come, but we need to continue the fight?

Answer: The lights do not come automatically, but only after your struggle and your victory.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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The Property of the “Greeks”

282.02“Greeks” are a person’s egoistic properties that do not allow him to advance to the properties of the Creatorlove and bestowal. At the same time, they help us by the fact that in their opposition, they force us to strengthen our movement toward the Creator, ask Him for help, and rise higher and higher.

Question: But what if the “Greeks” come from the group? Still, it is unclear whether to ask a friend to correct this desire or to raise it?

Answer: And what if the Greeks come from you? What do you do? There are egotistic desires in each of us.

They are called Greeks without any connection with that nation. Therefore, it is necessary to separate the properties of bestowal and love from the egoistic properties that have been called the Greeks for several thousand years.

Question: Is there any kind of a universal answer to all the smart questions of the Greeks so as not to fall into this abyss together with them every time?

Answer: Yes, there is one universal answer, it is the connection between us when, as a result of our spiritual work, we attain one single force of bestowal, fight with the Greeks, and win.

Question: What happens to the Greeks afterward? Do we destroy them, or do they turn into some kind of force?

Answer: We do not destroy anyone. In our wars, we only change our intentions from receiving for ourselves to bestowing to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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When Does the Light of Bestowal Emerge?

598Question: Is it correct to say that the spiritual miracle of Hanukkah is that the Kelim break the connection with evil inclination, stop working in order to receive, and, as it were, generate the light of bestowal themselves?

Answer: Everything is correct except for one thing: Kelim do not generate the light of bestowal. We are not capable of generating anything.

We can only rise above our egoism by connecting with each other, and then the light of bestowal will begin to manifest within us.

Question: Do the Hanukkah candles symbolize the revelation of the opposite world, which is attained not only in faith above reason, but at the level of feelings in the degree of reason?

Answer: The Hanukkah candle symbolizes the light of bestowal when we desire it to shine in every heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/23, Writings of Rabash “Letter No. 44”

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Hanukkah Is a Hope for the Help of the Creator

935Question: If our main job is to connect, then what is the stop during Hanukkah?

Answer: When we fight with our egoism, we begin to feel how weak we are; we cannot cope with it and feel that we need some kind of stop or break.

If we stop and ask the Creator to help us find the right approach to the war against our common egoism in the ten and in the world, then there is hope that the Creator will help us.

This is what Hanukkah symbolizes; it is the week when we stop the war and do not run away; we realize that we need to get stronger and unite even more with each other.

In this case we will be able to return to the fight against egoism and defeat it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/23, Writings of Rabash “Greeks Have Gathered Around Me”

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