People Don’t Change, You Change

laitman_546.03Question: The nicer I am to others, the less they take my opinion into account. Is it me who has changed or have the people around me changed?

Answer: You are the one who changes. People do not become different; they do not change.
You are the one who changes.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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New Life 890 – Kabbalah And Self Love

New Life 890 – Kabbalah And Self Love
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What is the purpose of the attributes we were born with? Why do we measure ourselves according to the way others see us, and how does a person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah measure himself?
From KabTV’s “New Life 890 – Kabbalah And Self Love,” 8/1/17

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Thou Shalt Not Lend Upon Interest To Thy Brother

laitman_527.01Torah, Deuteronomy 23:20: You shall not give interest to your brother, [whether it be] interest on money, interest on food or interest on any [other] item for which interest is [normally] taken.

It is forbidden to give with an expectation of receiving more in return, that is, to charge interest anywhere and in anything! I cannot give you use of my donkey expecting for you to give me back two, as is common in business practice today. After all, in what you gave me is your gain, not mine, because you gave.

Jews were blamed for usury, but it was not actually usury, but interest on the debt. We are only now beginning to understand why a person must return a greater sum of money to the moneylender who lent it to him.

Torah, Deuteronomy 23:21: You may [however,] give interest to a gentile, but to your brother you shall not give interest, in order that the Lord, your God, shall bless you in every one of your endeavors on the land to which you are coming to possess.

“A foreigner” is the desire that is still aimed “for me.” In the process of correcting these desires you want to extract maximal profit for the quality of bestowal from them and reshape egoistic qualities to altruistic ones with as high an interest as possible.

In the Torah, when it is written that you can steal from non-Jews, rob them, etc., what is being referred to is the way we need to transform our egoism because the Torah only speaks about the inner correction of the individual.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/26/16

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 9/27/17

Preparation for the Lesson

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Lesson on the Topic: “The Resistance to Kabbalah”

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Writings of Rabash, Vol. 1,  Article 31, “One Does Not Regard Oneself as Wicked”

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Don’t Change Life But The Attitude To It

Laitman_715Question: How does a person’s daily life reflect the fact that a person gets to know the program of creation and becomes a partner of the upper force?

Answer: Such a person begins to live in two dimensions simultaneously, his body lives in our world and his mind is in the upper world. He raises his head above the clouds and can see the entire world from one end to the other.

He sees the entire process that the creation goes through and the end of this process when we comprehend there is one force acting in nature called the Creator.

Question: How does this affect his everyday life?

Answer: This affects all his decisions, his attitude toward other people, and moreover, he feels himself the happiest and belonging to eternal nature. He does not have a feeling that his life will end soon because he exists above life and death.

Question: And how does he relate to different events in his life?

Answer: He himself defines these events and therefore perceives them as good. If for the time being not everything is revealed to him, then he learns from this. However, in principle the goal is to make everything clear to him from the beginning to the end so that there will be nothing to add. Such a state is called adhesion with the upper force.

Question: How should a person relate to the events if he has not yet reached complete agreement with them?

Answer: He must try every time to rise above his states and agree with them in order to turn these events for the benefit of his progress and for the common benefit.

Question: Can he feel guilty?

Answer: If a person in his desire to enjoy does not perceive all events as good ones, this indicates that his desire is not corrected yet. Through this he should understand what he is lacking in order to agree with the upper force and enjoy its governance.

If he is on the correct path, he will feel himself in the world of absolute goodness without any contradiction between him and the upper force and in complete adhesion.

Question: So, how do I, at every moment in my life, need to relate correctly to everything that is happening?

Answer: We must not try to change our lives, but our attitude toward life. After all, this is how we establish connection with the upper force, understanding that only it controls life and reveals its absolute kindness. In this case, we reach adhesion with the Creator, which is the ultimate goal of our development. Then we will see what happens next.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 7/25/17

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The Birth Of The Soul And Its Spiritual Parents

Laitman_632.4Question: How does the birth of the soul happen? What are spiritual parents?

Answer: Spiritual parents are Aba ve Ima (Father and Mother), qualities, Sefirot Hochma and Bina.

The upper Light descends from the world of Infinity and builds five worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya, which can be represented in the form of circles. Another additional Partzuf called Adam is being built inside of them.

Adam HaRishon was born in the world of Atzilut, which consists of the following Partzufim: Atik, Arich Anpin, Aba ve Ima, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut and they are called ZON (Zeir Anpin and Nukva).

Partzuf Aba ve Ima is Father and Mother from which Adam HaRishon is born. After his birth, he descended to his place, to Malchut. All this happens due to the influence of the upper Light.

Then the desire called Adam wants to rise to its final state, the complete correction, which is complete similarity to the Creator (green arrow), which is also called Infinity. However, when Adam makes an attempt to rise to this state, the lurking serpent in him is immediately revealed.

Usually the serpent sits deep inside the desire and nothing interests it. However, as soon as it is influenced by the upper Light directed against it, it wakes up immediately. We have a very interesting picture: on one hand, there is the upper Light, and on the other hand, there is the serpent. That is, we have two opposites.

As a consequence, the entire construction of Adam falls downward (the blue arrow) into the states that are called below the Parsa, where pure the worlds Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya exist and against them also impure worlds Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya (egoism, Klipa).

The soul that is born from its lowest state called the “fall of the soul” comes to the space between pure and impure worlds.
Thus, a soul is a desire—there is nothing else in it. It was born from its parents Aba ve Ima and is called Adam from the word “similarity” (Dome) with the Creator, which it must attain in the future. The moment it wished to ascend and become like the Creator, a serpent was revealed in it in relation to the upper Light, and therefore it fell into the created pure and impure worlds and began developing in them.

From here we have three lines: the left (blue line on the drawing), the right (green line), and the most important middle (red line).

When all three lines work with each other, they are called a soul (yellow color on the drawing). One cannot exist without the other.

Question: Must the dark worlds necessarily exist against the pure worlds?

Answer: Yes, and moreover, everything exists precisely because of the impure worlds. We underestimate egoism. It would be impossible to do anything without the serpent. Thanks to the method that is called the Torah (from the word “instruction,” or “light” (Horaa, Ohr), we can isolate the separate correct parts from the serpent, correct them, and move on.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/14/17

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The Creator Is The Source Of Everything

Laitman_049.01Question: If only the Creator exists and He is absolute good, who and what is the origin of all the suffering and deficiencies of the creature?

Answer: It is the Creator. He is the origin of everything. He says so, “I created the evil inclination” (Kiddushin, 30b). He doesn’t even ask for forgiveness. You will suffer thousands of years, but then it will be good for you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/17

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Everything Is Decided Only In The Upper World

laitman_237The truth is that The Book of Zohar does not speak about this world at all, but only about the upper worlds. (The Book of Zohar, “Vayetze”)

In our world there are no changes; we cannot do anything in it, and therefore, there is nothing to say about it. We see how we bang our heads against the wall trying to solve something, but in fact, nothing is solved in this world.

Everything is decided only at the upper level. And our world is just a place where we prepare ourselves for the entrance to the next level, to the upper world.

Our purpose is to achieve it and start working in it. Therefore, in our world there are no corrections; all the corrections take place only in the upper world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/12/17

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