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Posted on August 27th, 2022
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World Kabbalah Convention “Preparation to the Lesson 1″
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World Kabbalah Convention, “The Joy of Having a Ten,” Lesson 1
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Selected Highlights Lesson 1
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World Kabbalah Convention “Preparation to the Lesson 2”
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World Kabbalah Convention, “Fortunate to be Studying the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Lesson 2
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The book The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES) is a commentary by Baal HaSulam on the Ari’s work The Tree of Life (Etz Chaim). It practically explains the entire basis of Kabbalah from beginning to end.
The book of the great Kabbalist of the 16th century: Ari’s The Tree of Life, of course, is not easy and this is especially so for beginners. But Baal HaSulam wrote a commentary on it, which you can gradually understand and this is where people who come to Kabbalah start during the first few years of study.
TES begins with the words of Ari.
Know that before the emanated beings were emanated and the created beings created, an upper, simple light had filled the entire reality. There was no vacant place, such as empty air and space, but everything was filled with that simple, boundless light. It did not have a quality of Rosh, or Sof, but it was all one, simple light, completely even, called light of Ein Sof (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot).
This is about the fact that when there were no created beings as such, there was only one interesting substance called “the upper simple light that fills the entire reality.”
When reading these lines, questions immediately arise: What is a simple light? What kind of reality does it fill? What happened before it filled this reality? What does it represent? What does it mean that there was no free space, but the upper light was filling everything?
Moreover, Ari emphasizes that there was no free place in the form of empty air or empty space and everything was filled with infinite simple light. And, as he writes, there was neither beginning nor end in it, but everything was one simple, completely even light, which is called the light of infinity.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot” (TES), 8/14/22
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Question: Is there such a thing as absolute, unconditional love?
Answer: Ideally, of course there is. Someday we will definitely come to it because it is the goal of our development. Nature will lead us to this. And how it will lead already depends on us.
Question: Do you mean it is achievable for a person?
Answer: Definitely!
Question: For one or only together?
Answer: No, there must be a big general movement toward this state.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 8/5/22
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Comment: You recently defined that the student can measure his progress by the extent that he tries to adhere with what the teacher tells him, meaning, the degree to which he replaces his opinion with that of his teacher’s.
My Response: This, however, is not an easy combination, it is not easy for a person to replace his opinion with the opinion of a teacher. This already is a high flight. Who can do it? I do not know.
This is possible when the student and the teacher are in adhesion, in connection. This is learning “from mouth to mouth.” The student rises by faith above reason contrary to his understanding and accepts the opinion of the teacher above his own and is happy about it.
This is a purely spiritual action that can only be done when you are inside a group that supports you because otherwise you have no strength for this; when you receive nourishment from the upper light it changes you. Thus you aspire to a state above reason and feelings. This is a completely different contact and is no longer our world.
Comment: Actually, this is impossible to do in our one-sided perception of the world.
My Response: Yes, you will have to change it. But this does not entail any physical changes. You just need to rebuild the system of values so that the opinion of the teacher, the opinion of the group, and that of the friends is higher than yours and you are ready to annul yourself before them. This is the minimum without which there is nothing more to do because in this way you rise above egoism and you have a new quality, the quality of feeling outside of yourself.
The quality of “feeling” the teacher, the friends, and the group means that you begin to feel something outside of yourself. In this “something outside of yourself” you will feel both the Creator and the upper world. You will make a substrate based on which you can feel this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. How to Find out My Spiritual Level?” 3/21/13
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Question: Why is it that no method accepts criticism of its so-called guru?
Answer: This is certainly incorrect. After all, we are engaged in the correction of man. Let him do anything he wants, just do no harm. Therefore, there are two very interesting laws in Kabbalah.
The first condition: You can do everything you want except harm the group where you study or slander it because this prevents attracting people who want to join this group.
The second condition: When it seems that the Creator tells you: “You will not succeed—why are you here?” You must stay and check! In general, you are given all the opportunities to intensely and fruitfully study, analyze, prove, ask, and convince.
This method requires a very tedious approach. You must bite into it and start implementing it on yourself together with the people who surround you, and not believe anyone. On the contrary, you must doubt everything.
Otherwise, how will you be able to rise and adapt to your teacher and try to be like him? It is from the denial—that he is not right—that you will understand what he is standing on and how he builds himself. This is the only way. After all, everything we have exists based on positive and negative.
If you do not have the opportunity to criticize and be in the state of opposition, how will you be able to build a state of similarity to the group, similarity to the teacher, and similarity to the Creator?
Coming from this point of view, you can see that all other methods are baseless because people who are engaged in them cannot make anything out of themselves. This is because from the beginning they are prohibited to have such a comprehensive, fearless, and critical attitude toward the very teaching, toward the inner movements, toward the friends, the teacher, and even toward the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Criticism of Kabbalah” 2/20/13
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Question: If the Jews must gather in one territory, in Israel, should something then replace this force that they transmit in other places? Or should some new form of interaction be built? What will it be?
Answer: I think it will be the spread of the Jewish ideology, the Jewish mentality, the outlook on the world, life, society, and relationships all over the world. This all will be spread all over the globe. After all, Jews are not a people, but a worldview.
Ideas emanating from one center will cover the entire world and will replace the egoistic force that now reigns in the world with the opposite one.
Question: Where is the right place for a Jew to live (not good, but right)?
Answer: Here, in Israel. Not good, but right. 🙂
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 8/5/22
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In the News (“A renowned orchestra proves that companies can thrive without a boss”): “A curious game of musical chairs happens every time the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra gets together. After every piece, the musicians shuffle positions, where a violinist in the front might move to the back so another violinist can take center stage. Unlike other classical music ensembles, the maverick New York City-based orchestra doesn’t believe in hierarchies, set seating positions, or roles. And it never performs with a conductor.
Switching seats several times during a single concert reveals Orpheus’s unique perspective on leadership. Instead of relying on a solitary leader wielding a baton or shining a spotlight on a handful of standout performers, Orpheus’s musicians seamlessly go from leadership to supporting roles at every turn.
Per its founding philosophy, Orpheus’s 34 core members resist the usual “corporate path” of symphony orchestras and consider each other equals. Except for the musician who does some advanced work to adapt a composition for the orchestra, each player—no matter their age, tenure or résumé—earns the same pay for every concert and has a voice in all creative decisions. The fellow musicians debate and fine-tune each piece as a collective. …
“Indeed, with many world tours, over 70 albums, and dozens of accolades throughout its 50 year history, Orpheus flourishes because authority and decision-making are shared among all members.”
Question: What do you think about this?
Answer: This is really unique, and goes against nature. In principle, the conductor is the upper force, the upper thought, the head of the orchestra. He connects them and unites them; he implements his will into them.
How they do it all without him, I don’t know, not even at rehearsals, not anywhere. They do not just want to show that they are playing the notes without a conductor. Probably they sit and sort out everything that is happening between them, and dig into the orchestral score.
Comment: But a person, by nature, has his “I,” has his leadership, has his suppression of others. Human egoism is the basis.
My Response: Yes, this is also egoism, but it is still unclear how they can do it without a conductor.
After all, they look at him all the time. He encapsulates them all, unites them, and coordinates them. How can they work without this?
Question: Tell me, please, are you saying that ideally, the performance of music is possible only with this force, so to speak, with a conductor who organizes all this business? What if he is nevertheless removed?
Answer: I cannot imagine. It is impossible to imagine any collective assembled from individual little egoists who would not have a conductor, a boss, or a leader, that is, an upper will that would guide them.
How do they feel this? Of course, they feel each other and themselves more and make some internal corrections and movements, but of course this is very difficult. It would be interesting to talk to them.
Comment: If so, what unites them? Could you please say what it would be, ideally?
My Response: It is the fact that each of them should be a conductor in some way. Through their inner desires, their inner heartbeats, they want to connect and thus manage themselves together. This is a very big job, very difficult. There must be a contact of hearts!
I cannot even figure it out. Musicians? They are each, in general, within themselves.
Even if they want to combine themselves, how do they do it? How do they work in unison? What kind of metronome?
Question: Are you saying they have to look at some single point all the time?
Answer: The conductor is everything.
Question: Suppose this is the way they are; where are they looking?
Answer: Only at their inner feelings of each other. This is what I think.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/18/22
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The technique will be so perfected that a person can do without himself
(Stanislaw Jerzy Lec).
My Response: I do not think we will live to see this and in general that such a state will exist because we cannot do without our inner, spiritual selves. Otherwise, who are we? Are we only going to work for the physiological body?
Comment: It seems so, without oneself.
My Response: Which means what I will do is connect all sorts of machines and all this will function by itself? And my “I,” my thoughts, desires, and dreams, all this? What about my “I”? Who will lead it? Who will revive it?
Question: You are saying: “It is impossible to do without oneself.” What is the “I” that I cannot do without?
Answer: This is a part of the Creator from above that is in you and which you must elevate during your life and return to the Creator as they say. Rise to the degree of the Creator. And you cannot replace it with any devices and machines. It is only you yourself, with your inner efforts, that you can rise to the degree of the Creator.
Question: So there will be no relief here for a person in this work?
Answer: There may be relief, but no one can do it instead of a person.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/2/22
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