Question: What does the building of the Creator mean if we have no idea of His existence except for what we hear from Kabbalists?

Answer: We know what hatred, love, rejection, and connection are in our corporeal feelings. No supernatural actions are required of us.

We must ensure that all our concepts of distance, proximity, hatred, and love are directed at our friends. Why are we doing this? So that we elevate the manner our relations with the friends to the Creator.
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From the International Convention “Rising  Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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The Creator created the dependence of each of us on his environment. We see even in the evolution of humanity how people gradually unite and feel dependent on each other. It might have been through conquests, through negative relations between each other, but people are beginning to unite more and more, culturally, scientifically.

Look at the importance tourism has acquired in our time. Where does this desire to go somewhere come from in people? This wasn’t around even a hundred years ago. People didn’t have such desires. But they are gradually developing in us.

Why did the Creator create a person’s dependence, starting from his small environment, home, family, city, country, to a huge environment where I feel the whole planet, all of humanity, and understand that, in principle, I am dependent on them?

We are beginning to feel this, especially lately. We depend on oil and gas supplies, on what kind of harvest there will be somewhere, etc. And then we will move in such a way that we will feel dependence on the whole planet.

And this will lead us to the need for good relations with each other. We will not be able to cancel the dependence between us, but we will be forced to change it from negative to positive. And then we will be cured of all pandemics, from all the problems and viruses that harm us—from anything.

As a result, we will come to the point that we will need all the billions of people, and all this is actually the structure of my personal soul, your personal soul, his personal soul, and our common soul because it is one for everyone.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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 Only the possibility to make a copy is the true criterion of originality. Only authentic truth can be the object of imitation or parody (attributed to Jacques Derrida).

Question: Is there anything in the world that cannot be repeated?

Answer: The only thing that cannot be repeated in the world is the creation of something from nothing. This is the prerogative of the Creator. Everything else can be repeated because you will already be making from what was created out of nothing.

Question: Is there an inner point from this in a person?

Answer: Each person has his own point that breaks away from his egoism and gives him the opportunity to create out of himself a likeness to the Creator. To the extent of this similarity, he will be called man – Adam. “Adam” – from the word “Domeh” (similar).
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 12/6/21

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Question: How does a person become a prophet? Suppose, he is sitting and some kind of insight suddenly comes to him?

Answer: No. He must exit himself, get out of his egoism, and he start interacting with others on the basis of the altruism that develops in him and through them with the Creator. Only then does a person become a prophet.

Moreover, this is an accumulative process that can take decades before he enters contact with the upper force of nature and changes his properties, his nature. It is not the way it seems to us that he is sitting and suddenly some kind of insight comes to him in reality or in a dream. Nothing happens “suddenly.”
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/21/21

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do I love others as myself?“

We know what we want to receive for ourselves. That should be the same as what we want to give to others.

We should thus remember that loving others first and foremost means treating others as we treat ourselves.

Of course, since our nature is egoistic—prioritizing self-benefit over benefiting others, and also often at their expense—then thinking and acting to the same extent toward others goes against our nature and seems impossible.

If we have an initial spark of a desire to love others as ourselves, we should seek regular learning that guides us on how to rise above our inborn egoistic connection and enter into an opposite altruistic one. Also, we should seek a supportive environment, i.e. people with a similar inclination who would provide us with encouragement, reminders and examples to help us make that shift from loving ourselves (egoism) to loving others (altruism) time and again.

Moreover, by engaging ourselves in such learning and a supportive environment, we start attracting to ourselves the positive force of love, giving and connection that dwells in nature. It is specifically this force that grants us the ability to love others as ourselves. We gain such an ability by adapting ourselves to that force by growing our desire to positively and altruistically connect to each other through learning the wisdom of such connection and mutual support.

Based on KabTV’s “The Last Generation” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on June 6, 2018. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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In the News (Times of India): “Low stress and anxiety levels are observed among people who experience … in the decreased activity in frontal lobes, attained during meditation. 24/7 working frontal lobes, processing complex information and events all the time, when experience lower to none activity during meditation practice or prayer, delve into the realm of enlightenment where there is no stress, hassle or worry. Lower activity in frontal lobe is linked with the ‘feelings of surrendering one’s will completely’, states Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist, and the author of The Metaphysical Mind: Probing the Biology of Philosophical Thought. When our egoistic mind submits itself completely to something infinite and larger than itself, it experiences enlightenment.”

My Response: Certainly, because a person erases everything within himself in general. He greatly reduces his ego and sort of dissolves.

This is an incorrect state because at the same time he annuls his “I,” his personality, he wants to be in a passive state of merging with the surroundings in the form of an inanimate element.

Comment: Scientists, however, call this moment balance and proximity to nature.

My Response: Of course if I turn into a stone, then I am close to nature. On the contrary, if I am an egoist who wants to know, discover, feel, and try, then this is already an “I” existing in nature in its individual form.

It is wrong to lower your ego because it is against progress, against development, against evolution, and against nature itself. This brings us closer to the inanimate level. We simply have no way out, this way we come to a state of balance, peace, an undisturbed state.

Yet, in principle, it is necessary to advance to the point where we clearly use all our egoism, everything that can possibly appear should be revealed and developed in us, and at such a huge egoistic peak of feelings and mind, we are in balance with nature.

Question: Does it mean that it is the desire that affects the work of the brain? The more you develop the desire, the more actively the brain begins to work and serve the desire?

Answer: The brain exists only to pursue the desire. If the desire has a task to achieve, the brain helps us to be filled with what we desire.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Anamnesis” 2/19/10

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Lesson on the Topic: “Faith Above Reason” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace”  

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” Item 104

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Question: What can help us increase the importance of friends in practice?

Answer: Practically, we can increase the importance of friends in our eyes only through our efforts when we understand the need for it. Only to the extent that my friends are above me will I be able to reach the state when I discover the Creator.

I am constantly fighting with the fact that my friends are diminished in my eyes because automatically, every moment my egoism throws me down, and by disregarding them, I also disregard the Creator even if I am not aware of it.

The Creator is behind the friends, and to the extent that I elevate them in my eyes, to that same extent I come closer to Him
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Adhering to the Friends” Lesson 3

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Question: What does it mean when the Creator says “You have made Me”?

Answer: The Creator says “You have made Me” because we create what we call the Creator, “Bore,” from the words “Bo-Re,” come and see. We create Him with our properties.

And besides us and what is revealed in us, there is only the upper surrounding light, which we cannot define in any way.

We can only define what enters into our qualities, into our Kelim (vessels), into our desires. Therefore, what we feel in our desires is called Bore (Bo-Re).

It means that what you receive in your corrected desires is called the Creator. And what is outside of Him is a completely different upper force, which you partially receive inside of you and call the Creator.

In general, this upper force remains outside of us and is completely unattainable. There are no Kelim (vessels) and adequate properties within us to be able to determine the properties of the upper light.

We may eventually attain the entire upper light, but for the time being, we clearly understand that we can attain only a small part of it to the extent that we are similar to it.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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