By working on a spiritual level, a person kills animalistic qualities within himself and allegedly eats them as a sacrifice in the Temple. This means that he already is using these qualities correctly.

However, we are not at such a level yet that we can correct ourselves in this way. This is why the Temple was ruined. It was not because it was attacked, rather it came to such a state through the fault of people who were supposed to perform internal corrections.

The egoistic Temple was destroyed, and now we can do only one thing—raise ourselves to such a level that it will be rebuilt, but in a spiritual, not in a corporeal, form.

By the way, in the old days, any person, even the one who is not from the people of Israel, could go to the Temple and participate in sacrifices and in prayer.

The Third Temple will be rebuilt not in the form of stones, but in the form of our inner qualities. It will be in the hearts of all of humanity. The temple represents the spiritual construction of the entire world.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/22/22

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is the best way to settle disputes?“

The best way to settle disputes is not to eliminate them, but to increase our connection above them. By doing so, we use disputes to strengthen our connection, and thus rise above the disputes.

We normally think that we need to get rid of contradictions and thus wish to defeat our enemies, proving to them that they are wrong and we are right. They also, for the most part, try to prove the opposite. However, we can never achieve peace in such a way.

The method of Kabbalah uses an opposite approach, where we realize the reason for disputes that emerge, and nobody tries to force others to accept their own opinion. We aim to connect above the differences so that, as it is written, “love will cover all crimes.”

By letting the crimes and disputes remain, and increasing our positive connection over them more and more, then our disagreements eventually become revealed to their fullest extent, together with complete unification above them. That state is called “the revelation of the Creator,” i.e., the revelation of the force of love, bestowal and connection dwelling in nature into the connections we establish above our divisive inclinations. It is a lofty, eternal and perfect state, and its attainment is the goal of Kabbalah studies.

Therefore, the best way to settle disputes, from the smallest ones to major wars, is to seek how to connect above the dispute and mutually replenish each other.

Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on March 11, 2022. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 55

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The upper court does not judge the animalistic body whose death does not change anything. This is a judgment on one’s own egoism; a person judges himself and begins to feel that all the past within him must perish in order for him to be reborn and become different.

This is why when he evaluates himself he feels as if he is going through hell. This is written in The Book of Zohar, not in Dante’s poem.

Question: Does it mean that a person determines hell and heaven when he judges himself during his lifetime?

Answer: Of course! He feels his deeds, actions, and qualities like hell and heaven. And if he has not disengaged himself from egoism, then there is no heaven or hell for him. He has nothing to compare either of them with. He is just an animal.

When he breaks away from egoism, he sees his past egoistic states as hell, and his future altruistic connection with the Creator as heaven.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/11/22

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What would a world without privacy look like?“

It would be like we are all naked in front of each other.

While it might sound terrible, because we currently count on having all kinds of protections over ourselves, when we would remove our protections, then we would become free. That is, we would feel no need to lock ourselves away from each other, and we could open ourselves up and feel unashamed in front of each other.

We can be free either by having nothing or by having everything. Moreover, we can cover any feeling of insecurity by connecting to the positive force of nature and inviting it into our lives. According to the law that guides our reality—the law of equivalence of form—by adjusting our attitudes to each other so that they become similar to the attitude of the upper force of nature toward us, then we would feel ourselves in the same boundless state as nature.

However, we are currently in an opposite state to nature. We are egoists while nature is altruistic. Therefore, having our privacy removed currently seems like a nightmare to most. It all depends on how well connected we are: If we realize our connections harmoniously, where we each support and encourage each other to construct altruistic attitudes to each other above our innate egoistic drives, then we would feel completely secure, safe and confident, and we would have no fear of losing our privacy.

Based on the video, “How Would a World Without Privacy Look?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: Is it necessary to be afraid of curses?

Answer: It is necessary. You need to make people either not think about you at all or think well of you. They should feel that you are kind.

Question: And this will be protection from curses?

Answer: It depends on what state and what kind of society you are in. If you do all you can do to move humanity towards good… Naturally, there are many people who will see this as a movement toward evil. There’s nothing you can do about that.

Question: From the point of view of physics, the evil eye and curses do not seem to exist. But there is a theory of waves: if a person puts an evil eye on you, then it changes some physical parameters in the body, and the person really feels bad. Is this really so?

Answer: These are our desires, and desires are, in general, our physical actions.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/8/22

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Question: The perception of reality implies that the whole world is made of opposites that are constantly at war. If earlier wars were to conquer, recently they carry a character of enforcing peace. Is it possible to establish peace by force?

Answer: Never. No way. Peace can be achieved if you strive for it with great effort. Peace is a union of antagonistic opposites under a common roof, we have to know how to achieve it.

The fact is that in the state of peace all the internal contradictions remain. They cannot be avoided, erased, annulled, or excluded. They can only be in harmony with each other, in mutual complementation. Only then can this state be called peace.

We have to constantly care for it and fortify it because the contradictions will not disappear. That is, peace is a dynamic state, a state of internal dynamic equilibrium of opposites.

Question: Is it possible to achieve eternal peace?

Answer: To the extent you uphold this state, so it will remain.

Question: Does this process have an end?

Answer: In the end, you will constantly reinforce peace, praise and elevate it. What’s wrong with that? It will be a constantly evolving universe of harmony.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/4/22

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Question: You say there are no material punishments and curses. As long as we remain in our egoistic desires and exist in them, this is the punishment and a curse. But what if you want to bless someone? What does it mean?

Answer: I can try to bring you closer to me and convince you with words, actions, and influence so that you appreciate the greatness of the forces of bestowal and love and try to connect with them.

Question: So, if I bless someone, does it mean that I wish him or even help him to reveal the upper force, the Creator?

Answer: Of course. This is the only blessing.

Question: Is there such a thing as blessing from the Creator? How can we feel it?

Answer: Usually it is still passed through people. If not through them, then a person does not feel in what way it comes to him. He sees only the consequence.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/8/22

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Question: There is such a thing as judgment day (in Hebrew, Yom Kippur). What does a person judge on this day?

Answer: This day is celebrated as a judgment day purely symbolically. On Yom Kippur a person must consider his own actions and be able to evaluate them as sinful. This is given to special individuals and not even in every generation.

And everything else are just theatrical performances from century to century played out among religious Jews.

Question: Your teacher Rabash says that the word “prayer” (“Tefila“) comes from the verb “LeHitpallel” – “to judge oneself.” From the point of view of Kabbalah is prayer judging?

Answer: Yes. A person judges himself and sees that his actions to some extent were absolutely unlawful, wrong. But this manifests itself only to the extent that he receives a certain fraction of the upper light. And in accordance with this light, with its properties, he can evaluate himself.
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From Kab TV’s “Spiritual States” 1/11/22

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