Torah, Numbers 11:32 – 11:34: The people rose up all that day and all night and the next day and gathered the quails. [Even] the one who gathered the least collected ten heaps. They spread them around the camp in piles. The meat was still between their teeth; it was not yet finished, and the anger of the Lord flared against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very mighty blow. He named that place Kivroth Hata’avah [Graves of Craving], for there they buried the people who craved.

Everyone died except those who did not touch this ration from the sky. This is not talking about people but desires in every person.

All egoistic desires—those that hunt these gifts—are instantly punished in the desert. Therein lies their correction—they die.

This is about one person who advances in his spiritual development and sees that all of his requests can be satisfied, but it will entail his spiritual death.

Question: What are the “quails”?

Answer: Everything in our world results from the influence on a desire of a certain Light and the desire is formed by its influence. The Light generates desires, which then are revealed as dead, and is named in this world.

Question: In principle, do all the desires that prevent one from advancing get cut off?

Answer: On this degree, yes. But then they arise again and are corrected. Nothing remains in the egoistic state.

Dead means not suitable for use now. The next moment, at the next degree, all of this is revived and corrected. Just as we die in this world, in our understanding, in our view of what happens to us, and are then reborn.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/25/15

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Question: Only a person who has crossed the Machsom, the figurative border between the material and spiritual worlds, can understand the essence of Kabbalah. Since today only you managed to do this, then only you understand this essence. What can we do?

Answer: First, not only I have succeeded in crossing the Machsom.

Second, how is it possible to correctly assess Kabbalah, the Creator, the system of the universe, and the forces of governance if you are not in this system?

To cross the Machsom means to enter into the spiritual system and to become at least a minimal component of it so that even through the smallest connection with the system one would understand what it is. Otherwise, a person is in some kind of fantasy.

Therefore, naturally, one who did not cross what is called the Machsom—did not create within himself the system of the upper world according to the method of comparing himself with the rest of the friends—does not understand what Kabbalah is talking about.

We feel this even before crossing the Machsom. You cross, you cross; you do not cross, you don’t. And you are either inside or outside, either one or zero. There is nothing else.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson In Russian 9/10/17

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Question: The Creator is love. When you first came to your teacher Rabash did you somehow connect Kabbalah with love?

Answer: No. Before I came to Rabash, and even with him at first, Kabbalah, in my view, was identified with a purely dry, rigid science that I needed to master.

Question: What was your reaction when you first heard the fact that one must love one’s neighbor?

Answer: I reacted to it as some kind of addition: “This is probably how it is manifested.” I understood that these words were earthly, very limited, very shallow, and based on non-spiritual, material qualities. I explained spiritual love to myself as an aspiration to something exalted, the opportunity to belong to this ideal.

The principle of “love your neighbor as yourself” should be realized in the ten. We must take it in its real live form and realize it between us. Then we will be able to achieve this. We need to try and do this as quickly as possible, before all sorts of natural suffering make us move to this by a long and painful path.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/8/17

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New Life 919 – The Wisdom Of Truth
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The wisdom of Kabbalah is called the wisdom of truth because it brings a person to discovery of the Creator, who is called the truth. It teaches groups of people how to transcend the imaginary reality and enter the true reality of the Creator, how to change from thinking of one’s own pleasure to thinking of love and giving. This truth can only be discovered through the falsehood just as the Light can only be discovered over the darkness. It is a method for the correction of each person who ends up wanting to help everyone to discover the same wonderful truth.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 919 – The Wisdom Of Truth,” 11/16/17

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Lesson on the Topic: “Hanukkah by the Wisdom of Kabbalah”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”

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Natural disasters carry a message from Mother Nature for each and every one of us. For the full article: kabbalah.info #wildfire #california

My latest on @JPostOpinion: “Think the war at Hanukkah was between Jews and Greeks? It was between #Jews and Jews.” www.jpost.com #Hanukkah

Most important is to feel my I detaching from me, instead of I there’s WE, the group cares for US, as everyone used to care for their I, WE begin to #pray for US, and the Light comes to US and makes US into a single whole in which the one Creator is revealed.

A broken creation is demonstrated only in relation to us, our perception. The system is always one. But there’s a purpose to us not being able to correctly recognize the Upper One’s influence, and hence react to Him correctly. We decide it by arranging our group like the system.

Spiritual work always starts anew. We must understand and agree to it, and be thankful for every new beginning. Though it means new stress in overcoming the ego, the sensation as if disappears—everything is erased. Always a new beginning. #gratitude

There are 2 analyses: sweet/bitter—sufficient for regular #existence, and truth/falsehood—manifests in certain people. As it manifests, one rejects falsehood and aspires to truth. It compels to reveal the meaning of life, so one comes to study Kabbalah. #meaningoflife

#Einstein: to jump on top of a table, you must jump higher than the table. Meaning we need a method of rising “above oneself.” Any movement is built on a game. By playing at a spiritual degree in the group, we draw the upper light, and attain it with its help.

Any spiritual action influences the system of ADAM, the unified soul. Therefore, the entrance to any degree it starts at zero (conception, Hibur), to understand and react correctly. We enter the #Soul if we know the cause-action-result.

From Twitter, 12/12/17

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Question: How not to quarrel in the Third Temple?

Answer: The Third Temple operates on completely different grounds, according to different criteria. Quarrels are not possible there. When we ascend to the spiritual world, egoism no longer grows; we are only influenced by the correcting force that we add to our egoism. Therefore, there cannot be further shattering.

All this is stated in theory according to the laws of the correlation between the negative force of reception and the positive force of bestowal. By studying the methodology, we understand that we really are moving toward this state, and there will be no other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/23/17

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Baal HaSulam, The Writings Of The Last Generation: Ultimately, the diligent class will put to death all the elderly and handicapped who eat and do not work, or even if they eat more than they can work, as it is detrimental to society, as it is known that they have no sentiments.

That is absolutely true! When a person lives to a certain age or can no longer bring real benefit, he is treated as if nobody needs him, let alone the sick.

This would be the natural development of capitalism if it continued. But in principle, it is possible that we can come to this. Then we would have a Spartan society: only young, healthy, and robust people would remain, those who could bring benefit to the elite. And if they were not needed either, then they would be destroyed, leaving, say, one billion out of eight billion.

Remark: According to statistics, the number of elderly people per employed person will increase in Europe by 2030. If today there are 1.5 employed people for every retired person, then in 2030 it will be half. Thus, the standard of living will drop from 30% to 50%.

My Comment: Not necessarily. I think that robotics and automation will help us. But the fact is that there will be no one to feed retired people because the desire to feed them will disappear even though there would be the opportunity to do so.

Our opportunities will not coincide with our desires. Therefore, society will slowly prepare them for disposal through the healthcare system.

Remark: It is hard to believe that we could come to this. On the contrary, today the press cries that old people and disabled people do not receive sufficient benefits.

My Comment: The media does it only under orders—which means that some party does it to get votes and win an election.

Question: Doesn’t public opinion support retired people?

Answer: There is no public opinion. There is an opinion of elites who govern public opinion. All the rest is fake news.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 8/7/17

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New Life 312 – Attitudes And Changing Attitudes
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Human character is changing from focusing on “what’s in it for me to what’s in it for us.” As we begin to be curious about the purpose of human life, we gradually build new values based on the concept of “love your neighbor as yourself” above the old value of “love only myself.” More and more, we will try to see the good in others and create an environment based on love rather than mutual exploitation.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 312 – Attitudes and Changing Attitudes,” 3/9/14

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