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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:8: Be cautious regarding the lesion of tzara’ath, to observe meticulously and you shall do according to all that the Levite priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, [so shall you] observe.
“Lesion” and “leprosy” are the most external problems a person has because skin represents the outmost layer of egoism.
A person’s body, from inside out, is arranged as follows: marrow (Mocha), bones (Atzamot), tendons (Gidin), flesh (Basar), and skin (Or).
The eruption of lesions on the skin is the manifestation of the last degree of breakage. You must interact correctly with these problems, that is, cure yourself from leprosy through the Cohen (priest) and Levite in you, through your highest, very best corrected desires that can correct the lowest uncorrected desires in you. Otherwise, you cannot determine what this is and be cured.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16
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In the News (Psychology Today): “Why do we hate? The reasons are complex, but following are some of the factors that may play a role in helping us understand hate and, hopefully, work toward change. …
“According to A.J. Marsden, assistant professor of psychology and human services at Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida, one reason we hate is because we fear things that are different from us.
“Behavioral researcher Patrick Wanis, cites the in-group out-group theory, which posits that when we feel threatened by perceived outsiders, we instinctively turn toward our in-group—those with whom we identify—as a survival mechanism. Wanis explains, ‘Hatred is driven by two key emotions of love and aggression: One love for the in-group—the group that is favored; and two, aggression for the out-group—the group that has been deemed as being different, dangerous, and a threat to the in-group.’ …
“According to Washington, D.C., clinical psychologist Dana Harron, the things people hate about others are the things that they fear within themselves. She suggests thinking about the targeted group or person as a movie screen onto which we project unwanted parts of the self. The idea is, ‘I’m not terrible; you are.’”
Question: What is hatred from your point of view?
Answer: Hatred is everything that isn’t beneficial to me.
On the other hand, this is a good quality, because with its help, I check what else I need to change in myself. The entire world is basically the Creator, which I must treat with absolute love! And if I treat something with hatred, it means that I am not corrected within myself.
True hatred is only revealed on the way to love. If I advance to love correctly, I discover hatred for something or someone, and it becomes clear to me what I must correct in myself in order to achieve love.
Current events in the world are an expression of a very big hatred of everyone and toward everyone. This is a natural getaway, an explosion of our inner nature when we absolutely hate each other. In this case, only our negative qualities are manifested, since we don’t have positive qualities and we only want to use each other.
Our egoism is the hatred and we must correct it so that it will become love. This is done with the help of connection and the special good force of nature that we discover.
Question: But this hatred that currently exists in the world is revealed not on the way to love. Is it a hatred as such?
Answer: No, it still arises on the way to love because we are on the path to correction. This is just a period of the recognition of evil. We feel evil, but still don’t understand its causes, its consequences, and what to do with it.
In fact, evil is the lever by which we will turn everything around and come to good.
As soon as we recognize evil, the turnover will happen. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks about it. It tells us how to use all this in practice.
Therefore, come, study, and you will see a different world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/13/17
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Impurity and purity are concepts that refer to roots in the spiritual world. There are two levels in reality: the spiritual world of desires and intentions and the corporeal world where the bodies are. The spiritual world is the root and the corporeal world is the branch.
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Question: If my desires and the thoughts come from the Creator, then is my job in life only to run ahead and carry out His orders?
Answer: What is there in creation but the Creator’s desires and thoughts? We are actually swimming in the thought of creation that is around us and feel a bit of it as our independent life. But we can feel the whole multi-dimensional picture, and this is what our development is about.
The main thing is the desire, and we have to focus to think according to desires. If the desires operate, a person can easily think, whether he is young or old. The main thing is to want; the main thing is to live in our desires!
Our thoughts can be very lazy. But even a lazy thought is good because it will not interfere with your desires, but actually helps them. The thought is always secondary, and the desire is primary.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17
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Question: What must one ask for to achieve spiritual ecstasy?
Answer: Spiritual ecstasy is possible to achieve through being found together with the friends in adhesion with them. This is the only thing one must ask for and what will be discovered inside is what will be seen.
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Question: Does the characteristic of bestowal and love that is acquired by a Kabbalist limit his external behavior somewhat such that he cannot swear, shout, or be insulted?
Answer: It depends on what. A Kabbalist can forgive, and he will necessarily forgive every person for everything, and he will not consider the behavior of a person as an offense, except for what is relevant to the Creator. However, anger, indignation, and impatience exist in a Kabbalist in abundance.
Question: Can a Kabbalist lie?
Answer: Well, I deceive you constantly to attract you more deeply into the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is impossible to lead the ego directly to spiritual development in any manner because it will object. It is possible to overcome it only indirectly, through a “lie.” You cannot imagine how much everything you hear and learn damages our ego.
Question: It is said that spiritual pleasure is the greatest pleasure in our world. Is this a lie?
Answer: Spiritual pleasure is the greatest not only in our world, but in all the worlds, but only after we attain it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17
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Question: What does the word “Zohar” mean?
Answer: Zohar is the upper radiance that descends upon a person. By correctly studying this book, he receives a certain impact from it, which in the Aramaic language is called Zehara Ilaa, the upper glow.
The fact is that a person in our world does not possess any spiritual properties and this refers to the animate level.
In total, the four levels of development of nature are distinguished as: still, vegetative, animate, and speaking. The inanimate level is all non-living matter. The vegetative level is everything that relates to botany. The animate level includes all kinds of living creatures, that is, everything pertaining to a normal animal organism that is born, lives, and dies, including the human body.
Therefore, in taking care of our body and living inside it, we are clearly on an absolutely animate level. But in each one of us, there is also a spiritual potential. It is revealed in the form of a question about the meaning of life.
This question arises, practically, in every person, but later on, we “jam” it, bury it, and do not let it show up because it causes us great suffering: “What do I live for? Why? What kind of life is this?”
It turns out that through this question, through a very small, specific desire, we have some connection with the upper world. This desire is called a point in the heart, but we do not develop it.
However, there are people who cannot accept the lack of an answer to this question. Of course, one can end this life. Isn’t this life given to them, too? It turns out that they have no choice but to seek an answer. But in order to find it, a person must exert great effort until he finds a group, teacher, and books.
In principle, all Kabbalistic books come from The Book of Zohar. If in one of them it is written: “It is said in The Book,” then it is The Book of Zohar that is meant. The word “Book” is not even mentioned together with Zohar because it goes without saying.
Other works are not even considered books because this Book is special. It connects a person with the upper world and teaches him how to attain it. Then, it justifies its name, Zohar, radiance, because a person begins to receive a glow from above, developing him spiritually.
Thus, from a small, specific desire for spirituality, a real, strong desire develops, and a person is born spiritually.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/2/17
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