A Long Preparation For A Short Encounter

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What do I do if I am feeling everything is great, if I don’t have a desire to rise to a more exalted state?

Answer: Let’s take a convention, for example, after which we felt a descent, it was an opportunity to reach an authentic plea, a cry, a prayer. It may be that we need more such actions. Think about it before going to bed and when you get up to attend a lesson, ask yourself: “What for? Why? How?”

Kabbalists suggest that we should take lesson preparation very seriously and take hours if necessary. Preparation is more than the lesson itself. The Light doesn’t require much time; a person doesn’t need to study all day long; one or two hours is enough. If during the day a person keeps building the intention and preparing himself for the encounter with the Light, then what matters occurs in mere minutes.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/2011, Writings of Rabash

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An Internet Link To The Creator

Dr. Michael LaitmanIn truth, the Internet has a hidden force, the Creator! This means that within the virtual connection between people (if it evolves and increases in gaining a benevolent form) the upper force becomes revealed.

The Internet emerged specifically in order to connect people and demonstrate that a connection based on our egoistic nature can bring only evil and harm, while unification with the upper nature is good. The upper nature elevates us to another dimension, to eternal life, and liberates us from all problems. That is what the Internet will reveal to us, and I am certain that it will occur very soon judging by how quickly it is developing.

It’s impossible to stop it now, and no one will be able to unplug people from the Internet. In some places of the world they are trying to do just that, but they won’t succeed. People will feel that they are willing to destroy those who remove them from the Internet, as if they are being cut off from life itself.

We will not be able to return to the previous life that didn’t connect us all via the Internet. If anyone attempts to do so, he will become the greatest foe of humanity, and he will be annihilated just because he unplugged the Internet.

After all, it is the instrument of connection between people. By now a person has come to realize that the Internet allows him to step into another realm of existence where the entire world is before his eyes! But when this world discovers how empty it actually is, that will become a springboard to make a leap into the future world.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/2011, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot

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Get To Know Yourself, Get To Know The Creator

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Creator created a perfect state where we are perfect and exist in adhesion with Him. However, in order for us to feel this state, we must first develop a sensibility to it and learn to discern its components. This sensibility must come from within us; we must acquire a spiritual perception. It’s impossible to receive the sensation externally, even though the Creator is omnipotent.

The creature has to sense its own state in relation to the Creator’s. It has to delight in adhesion and the perfection between itself and the Creator and feel the similarity to Him because there is nothing more perfect. For this, the creature has to contain two states, two details of perception, or two qualities: what it is and what the Creator is. It must be able to distinguish the difference between these qualities in depth. Only then will the creature feel the value and the loftiness of adhesion with the Creator.

The created being must include two opposites within itself. Coming from a perfect state created by the Creator, we must first of all get to know our own nature, as if the Creator doesn’t exist. And then, step by step, we have to go through the stages of getting to know the Creator’s nature.

Then we will reach the goal: We will feel our nature and the Creator’s nature, and the separation and unity between them. Ultimately, this will give us strength and a sense of greatness of the perfect state in which we already exist.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/2011, Writings of Rabash

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48 Hours Until The End Of The World

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Let’s imagine that in 48 hours an asteroid will collide with our planet and completely destroy it. How can correction be accelerated in these remaining 48 hours before the destruction of the planet?

Answer: If people felt that there were 48 hours until the end of the world, they would be overcome with such a great desire for salvation that they would perhaps hear that everything depends on the desire! If for the sake of salvation we would aim our desires toward connection between all the people in the world and wish for the upper force to correct our connection, it would happen instantly. This is the law of nature: If the desire evokes the Light, the Light acts upon it and correction happens instantly.

When the Light acts upon a common desire to unite, then in this common desire we instantly begin to feel the upper world. And if we’re all connected in our perception of the upper world, we no longer sense our reality and our world. Let it blow up! However, there will be nothing to blow up since all explosions are forces that we weren’t able to correct.

First of all, if we unite, our world won’t blow up. There will be no force of destruction because by uniting we cancel out the evil force on all levels: still, vegetative, animate, and human.

Second, if this was the desire of all humanity, we would reach a state where our world would disappear from our senses and we would exist only in our perception of adhesion, without any material form that is now imagined in our desires. Our desire will draw forms of bestowal.

Question cont.: What if people say: “We have 48 hours, so let’s have fun!”

Answer: This is unrealistic because unless you can prevent or change something, the knowledge of the impending end will erase the remaining minutes and prevent you from really living. Imagine that you are heading toward an abyss, and the moment you’re about to fall, your car turns into an airplane. But if you don’t have this solution that allows you to rise to a higher level above the catastrophe, you are already dead.

Question: How can we start feeling the necessity for uniting?

Answer: We’ll have to unite on our own; otherwise, nature will force us to do so.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/2011, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 02.27.11

Writings of Rabash, Shlavei HaSulam, “What Is Peace in the Work”
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The Book of Zohar — Introduction: “The Fourteenth Commandment” Item 250
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Talmud Eser Sefirot 3, Part 8, Item 92, Lesson 53
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Rav Yehuda Ashlag, “Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot,” Lesson 9
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