The subject of study of the wisdom of Kabbalah is actions of the Creator, which give us an opportunity to assemble Him from parts: from our thoughts, desires, all sorts of actions, irreconcilable differences, mistakes, and successes. The main thing is that from all this work of disassembling and assembling we come to understand Him, feel Him, and be like Him. This is the uniqueness of our work as opposed to the different endeavors of this world.

Perhaps in them there is something similar to analysis and synthesis as well, an understanding. In fact, this is how we study all inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature: we dissect, examine, understand, and register. However, in Kabbalah we are not dissecting ourselves, our animalistic body. Instead, we connect and disconnect with each other. Only through the connections between us will we be able to understand who the Creator is because He is revealed only within them.

This is special work that does not have an analog in our world. It is called the work of the Creator. After all, He entrusted it to us so that we would get to know Him and become like Him. The path to this lies only through the connection between people. Yet connection is impossible without disconnection: the achievement of unity does not happen without resistance. That is how it happens in all the actions: ascents—descents, convergence—distancing, inhaling—exhaling.

Kabbalah is the science of connection, the attainment of unity. There is no Creator outside of us. He is revealed in the connection between us. This connection does not exist in nature by itself, only if we assemble it. We learn that there was a restriction and second restriction and so the degrees were formed up to this world: the upper worlds, spiritual Partzufim and Sefirot. However, this all exists only in potential in case the created beings come and begin to attain these qualities.

We will discover the degrees descending from above downward if we want to awaken them from below. If we do not awaken them, it is as if they do not exist at all. There is nothing to talk about without the one who attains. The Creator is revealed only within our connection, which is not corporeal or forced, when we feel our dependence on one another or have special feelings for each other.

This connection happens in a completely unnatural, even anti-natural way. Only to the extent that I discover my own nature, the evil hidden in me, the unwillingness to connect with others, in the part that I managed to purify from my “I” with the reforming Light, is there a measure of bestowal revealed. It is not bestowal yet, but a readiness for it, the degree of Bina, Hanukkah.

Once I recognize my evil I begin to hate it, and then I can use my desire for the benefit of others. There can be no good without the revelation of evil and its correction. Good is revealed only above evil, and from this I begin to understand and feel what the Creator is: the force of absolute good that fills the entire universe and me as well. It helps me replace all the evil in me with the good. My work is only in this choice: to discover my evil nature and replace it with the good one, and all this through the connection with the friends.¹
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/10/18, Lesson on the Topic “Revealing The Creator In The Connection Between Us” (Preparation for the Virtual Convention 2018)
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New Life #118 – Creating a Common Mind in the Workplace
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

It is possible to achieve a common mind in the workplace through workshops. We sit in a circle imagining that we are meeting on holiday or in retirement, which enables each person to feel free and reshape themselves through role playing. In order to change internally and build a common vessel, we start with relaxation and warm-up exercises. We learn to express a more positive attitude through participation in exercises involving speaking, motion, looking, and listening. We reshape ourselves through compliments, diminishing ourselves, elating the others, and raising the value of the whole team by becoming more incorporated in them. Whenever each person feels egoistic negations and criticism toward the others they learn to show the opposite, positive attitude. Each one works on himself in relation to the circle and then shares his impression of the exercises and the resulting sense of warmth, connection, mutuality, and closeness.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #118 – Creating A Common Mind In The Workplace,” 12/24/16

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Lesson on the Topic “The Hardening of The Heart – Opportunity For Ascent”

Talmud Eser Sefirot,  Vol. 6, Part 16,  Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, Item 177

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 12/20/18

The United States is withdrawing its military forces from Syria, which will surely weaken Israel. The U.S. is gradually abandoning its traditional role of maintaining world order, and focusing on securing its own future. I have been warning of this development for many months.

Israel will continue to see its global stance weakening, while the nations of the world continue to apply pressure and isolate it more and more. This will go on until Israel understands that it must generate unity and thus enable the global unity of all nations.

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Jews, Israel are responsible for the correction of the world, any damage to it, any state it is in. It isn’t by chance that the nations innately blame the people of Israel for all problems. We’re to discover that drawing on our egoism after World War II brought us to global crisis.

One can’t reveal the Creator before experiencing His concealment and its importance as revelation. It’s possible in the intention for the Creator, for He delights in one’s joy in concealment more.
Agreeing to be in darkness/Malchut of the upper, in joy, one becomes Keter of the lower.

Now it turns out that social, economic, and technological development has been detrimental to us, since it was based on our self-love, on the desire for pleasure. Therefore, it did not bring any relief to our life; it made life more complicated, turning it into an ongoing struggle.

Kabbalists, who are called “Israel,” build a spiritual union where the Creator is revealed, while the “Nations of the World” will unite in order to receive material fulfillment. But since they will receive it from us, it will reform their egoistic union into the altruistic one.

Obstacles in the revelation of the Creator are but the signs of our approaching Him. There’s no other way, since we’re His opposites. Each overcoming shortens the path. When the sensation of distance no longer impacts the movement, it enters bestowal, and the Creator is revealed.

The law of the soul is the unity of its parts connected in such a way that it is attained only from its breaking.

One seeking the Creator, bestowal, is lowered-to understand what to wish from Him, think of the goal. In ascent there’s no concern for spirituality, but a fall is a benefit. The Creator’s caring is in showing one that he has no strength and only He can help. The fall becomes a rise!

Always remember the goal of creation—to delight the created beings; if an evil inclination asks questions, work with them towards bestowal. Questions opposing the path arise not to lower it but to give room to effort to rise to the Creator. It means you are being brought closer!

When one feels exile in spiritual work, wants to escape, he must trust that the Creator is with him and gives a taste of exile so one rises to Him; hence He shows distance. With faith, one gains strengths not to run but accept the work in ascent and descent as movement to the Creator.

Experiencing a low state that you could not even imagine—understand that the Creator is now engaged in you, causing the longing, showing a spiritual form that has no taste for egoism, in order to push you to the adhesion with the Creator, so that you cannot remain in a low state.

He who makes effort feels the power of darkness; can’t overcome the ego. So the desire for help is born. Hence, seeing no progress, one must not abandon the work. The goal is to realize that you must reach the darkness, desire to bestow, and not the light that will come by itself!

Understand that one is in a low state not because he became worse, but to want to achieve bestowal; one reveals his true state, inherent, but hidden. With mercy, the Creator reveals one’s evil, so that he found the prayer, and this mercy of the Creator is in the revelation of evil!

#USA withdraws troops from #Syria. It weakens #Israel. But such will be the tendency: Israel will be weakened and increasingly pressured and isolated—until it realizes its obligation to create an internal unity of the people, in order to influence unification of all nations!

Personal egoism evolved and developed humanity. But it matured to build a single system out of itself. Yet, it has no glue to do so. Contrary to reason, it fights rather than unite to balance the world. While we direct our forces not to correct egoism, nature will show our failures.

Egoism will finish the world: contrary to reason, it makes us fight not unite—not against someone but to bring the world in balance. US economy and living standards are growing, 0% inflation, the world is crumbling around, Paris is burning, China is falling, but the Feds are fighting Trump.

Do not complain about the growing egoism that prevents you from entering the upper world, but trust that by engaging it, the Creator urges you to have a relationship with Him. The Creator delights when you ask to come closer to Him, to be similar to Him.

The Creator evokes thoughts and actions opposite to His loving governance—to draw the light on them if one wants to enter the upper world. Can’t overcome contradictions by the Creator’s greatness. He sends them so one brings upper light on them. There is no other way to reveal the Creator.
From Twitter, 12/20/18

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New Life 117 – We Are All In The Same Boat
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The world is becoming round due to the economic crisis. Life is becoming more even and connected for all of humanity regarding culture, education, use of the Internet, cellular networks, and even the consumption of junk food. Organizations and individuals share resources to save money. The crisis is forcefully bringing us closer to each other and requiring that we learn how to use the human ego properly. While it is forbidden to limit or suppress a person, we need to learn how to construct ourselves as people who radiate goodness so that everyone will accept us gladly. We need to build the right kind of environment through which we will learn how to be more open, outgoing, and connected with one another above our differences. People will learn, through workshops in which people sit in a circle and discuss issues such as the human egoistic nature, how our development is influenced by others through the environment, and our mutual interdependence. We will build a common desire and a common brain between everyone so that we can effectively look ahead and plan our next moves together.
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Lesson on the Topic “The Hardening of The Heart – Opportunity For Ascent”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “One Commandment”, Title “The Necessity to Observe the 613 Commandments”

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Since the adoption of European Convention on Human Rights, it became clear that the migration issue is a religious, economic, and political issue. Europe has become wiser and today wants to withdraw from the global migration pact. Egoism explains to us that it won’t let us live together!

Instead of solving society’s and the world’s problems, we multiply them, since we don’t see the source.
Yet, it’s programmed in the development of our egoism—to force us to correct it, not its outcomes, which we are constantly engaged in.
Naturally, we can’t rid of them fast enough.

Turning global, the world turns to Jews with a claim—the Jews must assume their role in the development of the world that needs to know how to unite. This method is in the Jews’ hands and only in Kabbalah.
If it’s not learned, the world will face global wars and Jews will be exterminated!

Henry Ford: International Jewry is the main problem of the world.
Jews kept to themselves thanks to the fact that they obeyed the laws of nature, and violation of such led to disintegration of many nations.
This people is a symbol of ancient wisdom, the source of our spiritual wealth.
#jewish #jews

The growth rate of egoism and, accordingly, the emergence of problems is increasing. There’s no solution but to recognize that we must turn to the root of the problems —the egoism growing in man and in society. And we can work with it only by using the method proposed by Kabbalah.

We must realize that Kabbalah doesn’t expect us to know things or even understand the Creator, but to spread the goal of creation and its program—among the Jews, then among the nations of the world and do this not to reduce suffering in the world, but to fulfill the Creator’s desire

I must constantly awaken the friends’ hearts, and by doing so I engage the Creator to fill everyone with love. If I inspire the friends towards love for the Creator, He can fill their hearts with love. This is my duty to help the friends turn to the Creator and receive His love.

In the formation of my soul I must imagine that I am alone in the world and all I see is a reflection of my consciousness. Including my ten. I am surrounded by my qualities. When I reform them into bestowal and love, the whole world will become only a ten, Malchut of Infinity, HaVaYaH.

In our aspirations for the Creator we must always imagine the system HaVaYaH, nothing more. After all, only 4 stages of direct light emanate from the Creator—to the Malchut of Infinity, followed by TZA (Tzimtzum Aleph – the first restriction) of Malchut, and all other actions emanate from this Malchut, the creatures.

To love is to know how to provide another with what he is lacking, while he can fill my lack. This is an integral mechanism of all mankind.

Europeans are developing a critical attitude toward Israel as a state of the white power over religious and ethnic minorities, with the use of force to resolve a conflict. The media forms a negative attitude towards Jews, and the population shifts the acts of Israel to local Jews.

What’s left for the EU to do is to start common Brexit of the entire EU. Or, they will soon face war and discord. There’s another solution: to educate Europeans in the spirit of mutual tolerance and communication. But the EU government is incapable of making such a decision due to its narrow egoism.

December 15-16, 2018 we held the second International Virtual Kabbalah Conference.
Over 3,500 students at 180 Kabbalah study centers and thousands of men and women who connected individually, gathered around the world to unlock the power of unity at a new level.

“Israel became the guarantor of the correction of the whole world by the power of the Torah. Everything depends on the people of Israel: when they correct themselves, all creatures follow them.” (Book Sefat Emet (Language of Truth), Shemot, Yithro)

“In this generation nations desire #Israel’s destruction. As per Talmud “All sufferings come into the world only for Israel” & Tikkunei HaZohar. ” After all, their actions cause poverty, humiliation, murder, and robbery all over the world.”
(Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Book of Zohar)
From Twitter, 12/19/18

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