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#Shavuot. The Holiday of the Giving of #Torah:
Hillel the Sage (#Talmud. Shabbat 31:1): “Do not do unto others anything that you hate for yourself. All the rest in the Torah is a clarification of this rule.” Hence the commandment “Love the neighbor” is the main thing in the Torah, and all the rest is only for its clarification and observance.

#Shavuot. The holiday of the Giving of #Torah:
If “love the neighbor as yourself” is the main law of the Torah, then all the rest in the Torah is there only for its observance.
How, then, do we observe the Torah if we don’t attain love for the neighbor?
Why do those observing the Torah’s laws become more and more divided?

The holiday of #Shavuot represents the reception of the light that can pull us out of our egoism so we can reveal our higher, spiritual life.

The Creator’s revelation is possible only after His concealment, when, by joy, concealment is no less important than revelation.
Concealment is equal to revelation only in the intention “for the Creator’s sake,” when pleasing the Creator is the only thing there is, even in concealment, with no support, in darkness, in the lowest state, Malchut, of the upper world.

One should wish to annul, to give up all desires besides the desire to exalt the Creator. Ask the Creator for the ability to be this way. When one sees the body’s resistance to give up its desires, one should ask the Creator to annul all of his desires.
This is already a perfect prayer since one asks for complete self-annulment.

…. – and in the “Seah” the Creator will take pity on him and give him taste in the bondage.
The spiritual state should be until self-sacrifice against all desires, without any reward, meaning or benefit. One does this by exerting only out of self-sacrifice, in spite of any meaning. As one makes more efforts, he elicits suffering—and in the “Seah” the Creator will take pity on him and give him taste in the bondage.
From Twitter, 6/3/19

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Question: What does the desire to study the wisdom of Kabbalah depend on?

Answer: The aspiration toward the Creator depends on the Reshimo (a spiritual informational record) that is revealed in a person. These are not just questions about the meaning of life and its worthlessness because their answers can be purely corporeal.

A pressing question arises in a person about the essence of existence above only filling himself. It does not matter to me how I live, in what way I fill myself, what I have, and when my life will end. It is important for me to understand its inner meaning! Where did it come from and why it was given to me? What is this phenomenon of life? What does it represent?

When this question emerges in a person, he really needs to discover the purpose of creation. That is, the Creator Himself is unclear. However, if the design, the thought with which everything was created: “With what purpose? Why? For what? How? By Whom?” attracts a person, he comes to the study of Kabbalah and remains in it.

Yet, if he was accidentally lured to Kabbalah by other questions that are less focused on the inner meaning of life, he leaves. Therefore, it is written that a thousand enter a dark room and only one remains and goes out to the Light.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/4/19

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New Life 241 – Gratitude And Happiness
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Gratitude for what we have in life brings happiness. Today, the younger generation has everything, so they hardly enjoy anything. A person does not enjoy what he already has since a pleasure is only felt above a need or a lack. If we build a society that will have the love of others within it, we will feel unlimited happiness. In other words, when you love someone, giving becomes an eternal pleasure.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 241 – Gratitude And Happiness,” 10/13/13

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Lesson on the Topic “The Absolute Zero”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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