Question: What is the slavery in Egypt? How is it different from the work during the spiritual exodus from Egypt?

Answer: The slavery in Egypt is a state of consciousness of being totally subordinate to our egoistic desires. Who created them? Who is inside egoism? The Creator Himself.

Then our spiritual work in Egypt begins. We want to detach ourselves from egoism and not to be subordinate to it. This is called the seven years of hunger in Egypt.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy, “Ki Titze,” 23:04: An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even the tenth generation shall never enter the assembly of the Lord.

The desires called Ammonites or Moabites cannot be corrected in the form that they exist. They can be corrected only through death. It means that a person completely annuls his egoism.

In other words, all ten Sefirot are in the impure area, in receiving for one’s own sake, and in such a form that they can’t be corrected; hence, they must go through the complete annulment of intention. This is death. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, all that goes to bestowal is called life, and to reception, death.

Therefore, all the desires that are called seven nations of the world cannot be corrected. We only can kill them within ourselves, and only once their egoistic use completely ceases can we begin converting them to altruistic use.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/19/16

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Comment: Chemists who study the brain describe different chemical reactions for different desires. In fact, they have understood that it is possible to describe everything except intention. It is specifically this which differentiates a human from a beast.

In a beast, intentions and desires correspond, whereas in the human, the more he develops, the more his intention is separate from his desires.

My Comment: Intention is above nature, it is above matter. This is what I would like to achieve with the help of the influence of the upper Light on me. Intention is not desire and not Light.

Light is the origin of external energy. Desire is what already acts within my substance. If I want to achieve a new state, then the desire itself becomes intention. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, I don’t associate the intention with matter, but with the upper Light that changes me.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/25/16

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Question: What is the difference between conscious spiritual work and unconscious spiritual work?

Answer: Unconscious spiritual work is summed up by the fact that all of us automatically carry out the instructions of nature, the work of the Creator. Working consciously means to begin to participate independently, wisely, with understanding, through planning in advance; and then our eyes will open and we will see where we are truly found.

In what way is the intelligence of a little child different from the intelligence of an adult? An adult understands where he is and what he is doing while a little child does not. The same thing happens even in the spiritual world. We still don’t understand or see the spiritual world because we cannot exist within it correctly. When we begin to acquire its characteristics, to the degree that we become equal to its characteristics, we begin to discover it among us.

Question: What does it mean that all of us are working for the Creator? If we are already carrying out the laws of nature, so where is the problem?

Answer: We carry out the laws of nature automatically, against our will. The problem is that you must consciously take upon yourself all of the functions of the Creator and fill His place. When we are in His place, meaning that we adhere to Him and fully attain His relationship with creation, to that degree we become like Him. This is the goal of development that has been placed before us.

Question: Does this mean that I am a slave of the Creator against my will?

Answer: Certainly. You are now like a guest sitting in front of the host and swallowing everything that the host gives him. So you must get up and say: “Stop! I am not interested in carrying out your instructions, except on condition that I will carry them all out independently, with the understanding that I am doing this to bestow to you both pleasure and goodness; I no longer want to be a slave but a conscious human being; I want to be like you!”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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New Life 842 – How Racism Works
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

An enlightened person is someone who transcends his racist egoistic nature, a person who achieves the characteristic of “Light.” This person sees that perfection can exist only with connection and completion between all the different parts of the puzzle.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 842 – How Racism Works,” 3/21/17

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