Question: Why is it considered that a person who is in a spiritual descent can only be lifted twice?

Answer: This is a law of Torah. The first time you should try to lift him; even if you fail, your attempts still connect with him..

The second time, you really are working with him, knowing that you have common desires, common Kelim (vessels). When you try to rise together and you feel that you are unable to pull him, you have to leave him. It means that a “human being” has not sufficiently developed within him in order to pull him together with his “donkey” (his animal part).
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/19/16

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We arrived in the land of Israel after 2,000 years, after the Holocaust, after extermination and after pogroms. We returned to our historical land to establish our nation, our homeland, our people here, and we must do everything possible so that what we have gone through will never be repeated.

Wars come and go, there is no end to them. Just as one war ends, preparation for the next war begins.

We need to understand how we can achieve true peace, such a peace where all nations will not feel hatred and rejection toward us and will begin to accept the nation that was established by our hands, as a nation, will stop thinking that we have no right to exist as a people, like every person, as Jews and as a nation.

Why does everyone think that we should disappear from the face of the Earth? We must understand the reason for this, for those who gave their lives for the sake of the existence of the people and the establishment of the nation.  And then we will understand that we are not carrying out our special role on Earth, that we are a special people.

We must be the people of Israel. And the people of Israel are a people that were created on the basis of mutual responsibility, mutual connection, friendship, love, and unity, “as one person with one heart.”

If we become a people like this, we will succeed in establishing a different nation, not like the Western nations. It will be based on spiritual foundations. And then, as a people and as a nation, we can also provide an example to all other peoples and nations who are earnestly seeking ways to a better future but cannot find it without us.

We must be a “light unto the nations” (Isaiah 48:6), an example for them. I very much hope that we understand and implement this. And then the aversion and hatred toward us, the accusation that we exist only to cause harm to all the nations of the world, will naturally disappear.

Let us think about this and carry out our mission together for the sake of those who gave their lives so that we could exist today.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 4/19/17

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Question: I don’t quite understand why I have to feel all of humanity. I have no need for it. I am even ready to overcome my egoism, but I can’t say that it is for all of humanity.

Answer: You should start gradually. Can you imagine how the whole world would change if Europe were made up mainly of educated people?

What not only Europe but other countries and continents would be like? There would be mutual cooperation, mutual help, and mutual support. The world doesn’t need anything else! Our only problem today is education and nothing but that.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/8/17

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In the News (Breitbart): “Hundreds of posters displayed in a migrant-dominated part of Barcelona are urging Muslim men to marry Spanish women in a bid to spread Islam, and inviting members of the community to an ‘information meeting’.

“The posters, which are derogatory about Christians but call on ‘Brothers’ to marry women of the religion to ‘strengthen’ Islam, have been plastered through the neighbourhood of El Raval. Official data collected in 2014 found that 56.7 per cent of residents in El Raval were born abroad.

“’It is permissible and encouraged that the Muslim man marries honest and chaste women who belong to the People of the Book. Even though they have distorted and altered the tradition, they are still suitable for marriage.

“’Brother, enter a partnership with a Spaniard, teach her that Islam is the true religion. …

“Local media reports that El Raval is a key target for Muslim supremacist groups who say followers of Islam have a ‘right of return’ to Spain.”

My Comment: Spain was once conquered by Muslims and stayed under their rule for a long time.

According to Islam, the lands that were once Muslim for some time, first of all, are obliged to return to Islam, not to mention the entire world.

Question: What is going to happen to Spain?

Answer: The same thing that will happen to the entire world: Islam will cover the entire world. Of course, there will be big problems with Christianity, especially with Orthodoxy. But they will settle it. This is what the Torah says.

Question: What about us? Will we be able to handle it?

Answer: When they come up against us, they will become ill. But first they will conquer Europe.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/27/17

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#EU is talking about changing the EU foundation agreement. That will not help. Via education, EU population needs to become as one nation.

#Elites in all countries are divided by hatred without compromise.The solution is above their relationships, through influence of Ohr Makif.

#Trump: No US politician has even been as mistreated as me! Me: It’s precisely the criticism that will turn you into a PRESIDENT!

#WannaCry An extortion virus threatens the world | A global cyberattack.

#Happiness is achieved by overcoming misfortune via the middle line, as Kabbalah teaches. Otherwise, it becomes an endless pursuit.

#Trump leaked secrets? Relax! Only the power of the upper light changes the world, & the power of the light hinges on unity among the Jews.

#WannaCry Only by the unanimous consent of all countries can we defeat evil. This is precisely what Nature is pushing us towards.

A memo to #Trump in honor of his visit to #Israel @JPostOpinion

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Preparation for the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic: “Awakening the Need for the Help of the Creator” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

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Question: What is a Reshimo (spiritual gene)?

Answer: A Reshimo is a record of the complete spiritual state.

Suppose, now I want to be ten years younger. So I arouse the Reshimo (informational record) of the state I want to be in, I realize it, and jump there.

That is, a Reshimo is a complete informational record of a specific state. It contains absolutely everything except for Light.

In this way, I can find myself in any state that is necessary for me to maximally reveal the Light of the Creator in the entire system.

Question: Does this mean that I can travel in time?

Answer: There is no time in spirituality. There is spiral movement in a precise direction. You move not along a timeline, but in spiritual states.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17

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Question: If the Creator awakens desires, and thoughts grow from them, it turns out that desires and thoughts are not mine. Then who am I?

Answer: Nobody. You are the one who realizes that thoughts and desires, mind and heart flow through you. Nothing more.

How can a person have something of his own? The organism is born, it grows and develops. How can anything of his own emerge in a person? From what? From the influence of the outside world? He is an element of the outside world, and what he feels, what flows through him, depends on how the world affects him. Does it really belong to him? No, this is what passes through him.

This is our beastly life.

In fact, every human is really great, but he remains in a dormant, inactive state until he is awakened and opens his eyes. Until then, we live our lives; we come back again and again until our conscious participation is required.

All our listeners have a point in the heart, which at some moment appeared in them. They are no longer enacted just like robots. They were brought to hear, to begin to understand, to see the method, to become aware of the great system of the universe in which they exist, and how they can start to consciously and efficiently work in it by themselves.

From my perspective, these people are completely different from all the others; because in those that simply exist around us, the point in the heart is still asleep. In The Book of Zohar they are called “sleeping.” Their eyes are turned inward because they value only their egoism and nothing else. They cannot yet look outside to see everything through the quality of bestowal and love.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17

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Comment: As is known, many philosophers and Kabbalists mentioned that long ago the ancient Greeks visited Judea to learn from the Kabbalists. For example, the great ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras wrote: “Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that… As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.”

My Response: This is about reincarnation. I can not say whether he understood correctly what a soul is, but what he said is correct.

My teacher used to tell me that the human body is like a shirt, which one changes, but the soul remains the same.

Comment: Socrates wrote: “Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.”

My Response: In Kabbalah, by body, we mean desire. Our physical body is not taken into account; it is nothing more than an animal.

Comment: Aristotle said: “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

My Response: It’s beautifully said. My friend and I are one whole, we are separated only by animal bodies.

In Kabbalah, a friend means a person who is my partner in spiritual work. And everything that I wish to liken to the Creator, I give to him, and he gives it to me, and we exercise together how through each other we can become similar to the Creator. Then a field of mutual bestowal and love is formed between us, in which the Creator is revealed.
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From KabTV’s “A Talk About Soul” 3/30/17

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