Baal HaSulam, Shamati, “Article 138”: When fear comes upon a person, he should know that there is none else but Him. And even witchcraft. And if he sees that fear overcomes him, he should say that there is no such thing as chance, but the Creator has given him a chance from above, and he must contemplate and study the end to which he has been sent this fear. It appears that it is so that he will overcome and say, “There is none else besides Him.”

But if after all this, the fear has not departed him, he should take it as an example and say that his servitude of the Creator should be in the same measure of the fear, meaning that the fear of heaven, which is a merit, should be in the same manner of fear that he now has. That is, the body is impressed by this superficial fear, and exactly in the same way that the body is impressed, so should be the fear of heaven.

Question: So, by invoking a sense of fear in us, does the Creator invite us to switch our attention to Him, to be in awe before Him, or have some other attitude toward him?

Answer: And how else can the Creator awaken an egoistic person who is locked within his petty goals so that he would start paying attention to his development and ultimately to the Creator?

How else can this be done if not by awakening all kinds of anxieties, fears, and troubles that supposedly take place? All this is similar to how we scare a child: “Do not go there! A grey wolf is hiding there.” We must somehow stop him.

Therefore, we have to understand that the Creator is playing this way with us small egoistic creatures in order to direct us toward Him.
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Form KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Question: The concealment of the Creator is the concealment of the fact that everything is sent by Him, that He is within us, He arranges everything. Why does He do this?

Answer: In order for us to demand His revelation. After all, by wanting this, I want to reveal the qualities of bestowal, love, and the qualities of connection in me. And it turns out that then I change myself from an egoist to an altruist.

Question: Is concealment not understanding His goals and plans, even if it is clear to me that He arranges everything for me?

Answer: This is a very complex system of relations, so I cannot answer unequivocally. If we carefully analyze this issue, then we must come to understand what “faith above reason” is.

There are many alternative states that can exist between a person and the Creator, and there are many more than between people.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Question: What is the center of the ten? Each time we touch this concept, but then we lose it. Does it happen when we connect with our points in the heart and annul ourselves?

Answer: The center of the ten is the point from which each of us annuls himself with regard to the other friends. When the whole ten annul themselves with regard to each other, we attain the center. Then the revelation of a wonderful attribute takes place, the attribute of spirituality, and the entrance to the upper world opens up before us.

This is actually a wonder, a miracle, the transition to another dimension that is between us. If each of us fully annuls oneself for the sake of togetherness, the point of togetherness suddenly becomes the gate, the passageway, to the upper world. This is what we have to do, and then everything will be revealed before us.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/1/19

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New Life 1228 – Physical Distance For Heartfelt Closeness
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi

The ego is so great today that the interior and the exterior are not the same. I can shake someone’s hand and hate him in my heart. Love must be developed here so that physical closeness will be the result of an order from the heart. The Coronavirus has prohibited  all physical contact so that we will understand that we are living in a culture of lies. The virus makes it possible for us to think about what must be corrected in the relationships between us: first, do no harm and then become closer, like a single soul. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches people how to work in a group until the heart opens. It is up to me to direct my heart toward someone else so strongly that he or she will feel this without even seeing me.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1228 – Physical Distance For Heartfelt Closeness,” 4/28/20

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All the work is about raising oneself from the level of knowledge to faith above reason. And for this we will have to day-by-day, or rather, night-after-night, fall into the knowledge that is called “night” for us, and rise to the height of faith above knowledge that is called “day.” Indeed, faith is the light of the Creator.

All Kabbalists wrote about this transition from knowledge to faith above knowledge. At all times, they wrote only about this: how to go from the stage of man to the stage of the Creator, or in other words, from the animate stage to the speaking one.

It is difficult for a person to realize this transition. It must be understood that the Creator did not create anything but the egoism within which we are located, and this is called “inside knowledge.” And from this level, we must, through our efforts, request, and prayer to the Creator, rise to the level of faith above reason.

This is what we need to follow: how much are we in knowledge and how much higher is faith in knowledge, how much is the frequency of these transitions from knowledge to faith accelerated. Kabbalists say that in five minutes, 400 such changes of states took place: knowledge — faith is higher than knowledge. It is these changes that form a spiritual perception of reality in us because the Creator created one against the other: below knowledge, inside it, and above it.

As a baby, being born in this world, until he understands his parents, he feels them purely physically and gets used to what they are doing to him as good. So we gradually reveal faith above knowledge, the absolute goodness of the Creator, who organized all the path we have traveled, our entire history, past, and future. Thus, a person gradually sets himself opposite the Creator.

The main thing is to imagine in any state that it came from a higher power, beside which there is nothing. Only the Creator organizes my whole life, my thoughts, my desires, and even my attitude to Him now, no matter how it seems to me that I define it myself. So we correctly process all the states within the knowledge given by the Creator in order to rise above them with our efforts and prayer to faith above reason.

Only this is worth talking about and worrying about, and with this we will fix all problems. There is no greater crime than remaining within knowledge. The Creator throws us there, “kills,” but only so that we rise above knowledge.

This is what we must try to do every moment. It doesn’t matter that we don’t yet feel how the Creator organizes our life, but it is these efforts of ours that are very dear to the Creator, like a parent is pleased with the baby’s smile much more than the smile of a grownup child.

Therefore, while we are in a state of a newborn who is just beginning to respond to the Creator, relate to Him, ask, we already bring the Creator more pleasure than we will bring in the future. So it is arranged in the spiritual where there is a reverse order of lights and Kelim.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/19/20,  Baal HaSulam, Shamati 225 “Raising Oneself”

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Lesson on the Topic “Concerning Above Reason” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 49

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Question: Has the Creator, nature, started judging the Earth?

Answer: I do not speak on behalf of the Creator, but personally, I would like His judgment of humanity to begin so that we will feel the clear distinction between good and bad. This could already direct us toward the goal of creation in a way that is not soft and confusing but in a rigid and very clear manner: a step to the left, a step to the right, and that is all.

Question: Do I become younger, healthier, and stronger when I draw the influence of the upper light?

Answer: First of all, you become wiser, and then in addition to wisdom, you choose who you want to be as you become wiser.

Question: Is it right to write positive statements to myself saying that life does not stop because of the coronavirus?

Answer: Life does not stop anyway. The virus does not stop it but is only meant to give our lives a new direction, a new motion.

Question: What efforts can women who have recently graduated from the Academy of the Wisdom of Kabbalah in Moscow make?

Answer: Only in dissemination.

Question: What are the best actions that any person can perform now?

Answer: It is only to explain to everyone that we have to unite. This is how we will overcome all the problems that will now constantly emerge for all of us together and for each one individually. Today, nature is starting to push us in a very clear and rigid manner toward the goal, toward the general connection.

Question: Why didn’t the death of 40 million people from the Spanish flu at the time lead to good relations?

Answer: It was not the right time then. But now, the time has come.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,”3/22/20

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Question: What steps should we take in order to meet nature halfway?

Answer: First, we simply need to unite and understand that all of humanity is one single family. Indeed: inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, together with man, is one single organism.

Second, we, as parts of this single-organism system, should try to be as close to each other as possible, understand each other, consciously act with common concern for nature, and think about how to make our connections integral and global.

Practically everything should be aimed at “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Of course, this is a very distant goal, but the pursuit of this goal already allows nature to react positively.

It will soften our enormous universal egoism and somehow balance it. We will no longer fall into increasingly selfish levels where we are indifferent to everything that happens to us and to others.
We must definitely invoke the positive power of nature upon ourselves. And for this, we must unite.

If thousands of people are united, if they understand how the integral picture of nature is arranged, how we all depend on each other and on nature itself, how a person can start moving toward the other, they will cause a common positive force and it will transform everything.
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From KabTV’s “Meetings with Kabbalah. Victoria Bonya,” 3/29/20

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Question: Why is it bad to live without faith in the Creator?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah does not claim that it is bad. Kabbalah does not compel people to believe in the Creator or to pray to Him. It is only if a person feels a need and a necessity to do so; if he sees that there is nothing else but the revelation of the Creator and adhesion to Him, that he operates this way.

There is absolute freewill when it comes to that. It is as we say that “there is no coercion in spirituality.” Not in any way! When a person comes to our group, one stays if one wants to, and if a person doesn’t want to he leaves, he doesn’t owe anyone anything in any way.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/1/19

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