Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. The commentaries in brackets are mine.

Two Ways to Discover the Wholeness

There are two ways to attain the goal:

• Through exerting effort in correction, one hastens time and eases one’s path. And when one refines himself from egoism, the correction ends.
• If one does not wish to exert effort, suffering will force one to raise one’s head out of the beastly crib, to soar and climb the rungs of correction.

– Baal HaSulam, Introduction to the Book, Panim Meirot uMasbirot, item 7

The law of gradual correction guarantees the end of correction in its time, meaning it is completely dependent on time. However, by exerting effort in correcting oneself, one completes the correction easier and earlier.
– Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World”
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Writings of Rabash, Dargot HaSulam “Internality and Externality”
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The Book of Zohar – Selected, Chapter “Truma (Donation),” “The Letters,” Item 608, Lesson 25
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Talmud Eser Sefirot Part 1 “Table of Answers for Topics” Item 75, Lesson 40
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“The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee),” Lesson 3
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Question: I must strengthen my desire to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah. The greater my desire, the more I will be able to give to the world. How do we grow a big enough desire that it just spills outside?

Answer: In order to do this, you need to develop an ability to empathize with people and feel their pain. Let us say that you have “fallen” for a certain idea of Baal HaSulam, decided to reveal the Creator, and unite with Him. Now, you want to impose it on everyone else. Will this be bestowal toward the world?

Bestowing to other people means to fulfill their desires instead of your own. You do not force them to accept whatever is important to you. On the contrary, their desires become most important to you. This is bestowal. Otherwise, you want to forcefully impose something on them.

For example, they want to watch soccer, but you close down all the stadiums. “I’ll show them soccer. I’ll asphalt all the fields. I’ll pass a law forbidding soccer as a game.” You think that this way, their time will free up for inner correction. You wish. They do not want any correction; they want soccer.

Do you think this is love? Do you really think that something can be given to people by force? You simply break their lives. Is this really right?

To love someone means to take their desire and fulfill it. This is why we need an educational system, so we can act gradually, gently, and without pressure.

We must explain to people that all their misfortunes are caused by a lack of balance with nature and hatred of others. This is exactly what makes us opposite to nature, and this is why we suffer on different levels.

Explain things whenever an opportunity arises and gradually establish communication with those who get your message to one degree or the other. We need to go to people with things that promise well-being.

For example, it is vacation season now. Give out brochures at the airport to people going on vacations with colorful illustrations and humor which at the same time express the idea you wish to convey. Make this brochure pleasurable for a person to open during the flight or when lounging. Its form corresponds to his mood, while its content is appealing, promising a good time once he gets back home.

Can we issue this kind of a brochure? So far, we have not done this.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/12/2011, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”

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Question: How can we address the world with the message of mutual guarantee? What can we use to interest and excite a person?

Answer: We cannot call a person to mutual guarantee because we have to show him rewards, demonstrate what he may get out of it. Commercials promise plenty of pleasure. “Buy! You just cannot imagine what happiness is passing you by.” Can we use the same style to advertise mutual guarantee? If we cannot, it is better to keep quiet about it.

Thus, we have to prepare the correct explanation after which a person would not be able to stay at home, but will rush to the specified address. If we have something to say, it is worthwhile to start a conversation, but we are not able to do this. That is why we are studying.

Today, we have nothing to attract the world to mutual guarantee. The world initially does not feel the need for it. Mutual guarantee is not food, sex, family, money, power, or knowledge. How can we clothe it in recognizable garments and promise something familiar, understandable? People have to be addressed according to their desires. We have to prepare ourselves seriously, but wait for their initiative.

A few more crises, a few more problems, and accordingly, against this background of emerging needs, we will be able to talk to people. Conversely, it is impossible to reach a person before our proposal meets his or her desires.

Advertising appeals to those desires that are inherent in us originally. It skillfully accommodates them, takes the form corresponding to this pleasure. In what can I clothe the pleasure of mutual guarantee and unity?

The “dress” should be such that people could see the benefits. “I will have more food, more sex, more family happiness, more support and honor. I will obtain strength, education, money, and so on.” If there are no such things, it remains only an abstract idea like “Guys, let’s be friends.” We have to search for the ways to approach people, to communicate with them so as to show them: It is worth it.

What is the benefit of mutual guarantee and unity? Today, we can say that it will let them establish balance with nature, cope with ecological problems such as the jellyfish invasion, solar activity, or with unemployment.

However, our message must be presented in a clear, concise, and simple form, without philosophical parallels between mutual guarantee and the price on cottage cheese. In people’s eyes, they have to be clearly linked to each other: “If you join mutual guarantee, you will have ten packages of cottage cheese per day. If you do not, you will not be able to buy any at all.” Our explanations have to be clear and obvious to this degree.
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From the 5th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/12/2011, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”

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Question: If we continue to work on our inner unity and interconnection, will we also love each other more in the outside world?

Answer: Yes, but it doesn’t only apply to us, but to the whole world. After all, it is all one system. If at our level (which is higher than that of the rest of the world) we try to draw our spiritual parts closer to unity, in so doing we will also bring the material parts, meaning people, to unity between them.

Indeed, there are no people, and there is no unity or rupture between them. These are the same souls, only they picture themselves and the connection between them from the viewpoint called “this world.” Everything that you see is the same very souls in the same network, only they perceive themselves and the web of connection between them as our illusory world.

Therefore, if we aspire to build this connection, being within this common system with them, only at a higher level of awareness and understanding, naturally this will impact everyone else.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/2011, The Zohar

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The Zohar, Chapter “Truma (Donation),” Item 585: One who clings to Malchut below the letters, she elevates him because from there she is built for a Zivug PBP [face-to-face] with ZA…for she is everything—included in all, from above, from below, and from the middle.

From this we see that we have nothing to worry about other than how to connect to Malchut. As we inject our desires into Malchut, parts of Malchut unite between themselves, and the first nine Sefirot begin to influence her.

Malchut is the points of connection between the souls in the common network that connects them all. Malchut is the connections between the souls. If we inject into these connections our desires, which we receive from one another, then these desires unite between themselves in Malchut. And to the extent that our common desires are present in them, the qualities of the first nine Sefirot, which are the qualities of the Creator or ZA, are manifested in them, and the Light is revealed in this connection.

Therefore, we must not worry about the first nine Sefirot, about Zeir Anpin and the other qualities of the Creator, but only about our desires so as to unite them. The more we talk about it, the more we are imbued with it, the more we hear and think about it, the more this new desire for unity takes shape within us. We understand that the world today is in need of this unity and is moving towards it, both in the spiritual and in the corporeal sense.

This is precisely what we must see in everything that surrounds us—all we lack is this unity. And it is the only means of correcting all the deficiencies.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/14/2011, The Zohar

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Telenedelya (TV Guide), a leading weekly magazine in Russian, published a big article titled “Michael Laitman: To Be Happy Is An Entire Science. But I Know What I Have To Do.” The article is based on the interview with the magazine that I gave during the Moscow Convention.

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Opinion: (Jeffrey Sachs, professor, Director, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the Financial Times): “Either Greece with its eurozone partners will agree on a long-term solution, or the rioters in the streets of Athens will prevail the next time that the Greek political system is pushed to the financial brink.”

My comment: No loans can solve the problem. Other EU countries will go bankrupt. The decision to stay together or apart is not a solution, and to separate is a catastrophe. The only solution is to pursue complete unity. But this is impossible to realize without a whole European-wide education program. They should begin to teach people how to live in the new conditions!
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We start to develop correctly when we finally understand that we have to provide a new desire for our development. That is why we need a group for studying. The group awakens us and gives us a desire, and by studying, we draw the Light that Reforms.

The Light turns the desire obtained from the group, the environment, to bestowal. Thus, we start to grow spiritually. From now on, the reins guiding our development are in our hands, and we have to begin to manage them with the help of the environment and the Surrounding Light.

The person who has received an invitation to rise must see that his desire is constantly renewed. We are given the usual, initial desire, “substance,” but we ourselves need to add the spiritual aspiration for the form for which we want to use our natural desire: for reception or bestowal.

Therefore, we must always aspire to be in ascent, in a state of searching and demand help from the group and the Surrounding Light. If a person feels that he has no desire and no demand for the Light, this means that he has not received this additional desire from the group and does not feel the need to ask about his correction.

Not only are certain people actively seeking correction and studying Kabbalah, but today, all of humanity is at this turning point, and it is called a crisis. This is a real crisis because we have to review our entire attitude toward life.

Until now, we were advancing in the compulsory order, involuntarily, driven by our growing egoism. The Light worked on the desire to enjoy and developed it linearly, progressively. However, suddenly, a new coefficient, “the catalyst of advancement,” has been added to this function.

Due to this coefficient, we are changing our development both qualitatively and quantitatively. From now on, we are not developing along a gently sloping, straight line—we rise qualitatively toward the Creator. Thus, we begin to grow as people called Adam, man.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/13/2011, Shamati #21

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