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Posted on October 7th, 2022
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In the process of spiritual development, there is a special state called Yom Kippur (from the word “kapara” – “redemption”), which means the correction of all sins for which a person repents and asks to be corrected.
After all, it is clear that we ourselves cannot correct anything, and the sins we have committed are not ours at all because it is the Creator who created the evil inclination that rules over us and forces us to sin.
We are not guilty that we are immersed in egoism, which every time pushes us to think only about ourselves and not about others or about the Creator. Therefore, both sins and their correction are not our fault and not our merit because the Creator does everything. He has prepared all the sins and all the corrections against them for us, and we are between one and the other, like in a vice.
Our work is to relate everything to the Creator, both the sins and the corrections. We can only connect sin with correction when we can understand and feel that both of them come from the Creator and not from us. The Creator is above sins and above corrections. This is a special higher power above everything.
That is why Yom Kippur is a day of special joy that allows us to rise even higher above creation, to connect with the higher power, and to reach its level. All the sins and all the egoism that have been created by the Creator and the corrections that are achieved thanks to Him are necessary for us to understand the step that is above the evil and good inclinations, that is, to understand the Creator, who cannot be attained in any other way.
The Creator is separated from all creation, and it is possible to attain this essence only in this way, through the experience of our separation to the fullest extent. When we unite with each other, we unite with the Creator.
We rise above transgressions, above punishment and reward, and make these corrections so that only with their help will we reach the Creator who is detached from the whole creation. The Creator has prepared all these states for us so that we can attain Him: one, unique, and unified.
Yom Kippur is the main symbol of the process of attaining the upper force that is detached from the whole creation.
Without unification, without thoughts about the entire world Kli, and without thoughts about mutual help and about all of humanity it is impossible to achieve even the smallest spiritual revelation. All nations are destined to rise above their individual egoism and return to the system of Adam HaRishon, to become like one person, like one desire.
Yom Kippur is a spiritual state in which a person reveals that his transgression is that he thought he himself was transgressing and did not see that everything comes from the Creator. Meaning, he did not recognize that “There is none else besides Him.”
He thought he was doing everything by himself and he evaluated his thoughts and desires in his egoism. But now a person wants to correct his mistakes, all these impure discernments that are not related to the one, unique, and unified upper force. And this is what he prays and asks the Creator for.
This is the essence of the judgment day (translated literally, but usually it is called the Day of Atonement)—the day on which a person wants to atone and correct all the states and clarifications that he could not attribute to the upper force. After all, our whole job is to attribute everything that happens in the world to the upper force and to consider ourselves to be only a creation controlled by it one hundred percent.
The ascent of 125 spiritual steps is an increasing identification of oneself with the upper force until complete unification with it. When we completely correct the Kelim, which was intentionally broken by the Creator, and raise it to His level, then we will be ready to begin the true path to understand and unify with the Creator.
But these are secrets of the end of correction. When we achieve this together—all the creations who are now in this world and those who are not in it—then we will go further and find out what the Creator has prepared for us after the final correction.
In Yom Kippur we reveal that not only good, but also evil comes from the Creator and they have equal value. A person should bless for evil as well as for good because due to both of these forces he attains unification with the Creator.
This unification with the higher power is our common single goal, and therefore any past state must be perceived as an invitation for unification. It doesn’t matter what I feel or what happens in my mind, my heart, my body, or in my relationships, by this I am shown where I can add and strengthen the unification with the upper force.
The meaning of fasting on Yom Kippur is that we act only by the power of faith without using the power of reception.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 9/26/20
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 10/7/22
Today is the eve of Sukkot (Hebrew: Huts), a Jewish festival where the custom is to build huts and dwell in them for seven days. The traditional explanation to this custom is that it is to remind us that our ancestors were wanderers in the Sinai desert and lived in huts, without a permanent residence. But in Jewish spirituality, namely the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is an additional, and very different explanation to this custom, which has to do with improving our connections, and nothing at all to do with where we eat or sleep.
The wisdom of Kabbalah is a method for bringing people closer, for uniting them. Its goal is to bring people to the same level of connection that existed among the people of Israel at the inception of their nationhood, when they were connected as one man with one heart.
All of the Jewish festivals have two levels of explanation. The superficial level usually pertains to an event in the chronicles of the Jewish people. The deeper level pertains to discernments concerning the level of unity or division among Jews, and their mission to be a model of unity, a light to the nations.
Jewish festivals mark particular stages in the process of establishing permanent unity and achieving the final correction in a process called Tikkun Olam (correction of the world). In this process, the world transits from division and hatred into unity and love.
Normally, we live in a permanent residence. This represents a well-established level of connection between us. At such a level, people feel connected to a certain extent, they know what points to touch and what points to avoid, and feel complacent in the level of bonding and care among them. However, their complacency prevents them from touching on points of division that can lift them to higher levels of connection if they rise above them.
At that point, we must relinquish the comfort of our permanent residence and venture into a temporary one, where matters are not so clear and the bonding not yet solidified. However, if we want to become a model nation, we must show the world how to rise above adversities, and division is precisely the adversity to overcome.
Once we are in a temporary residence, and the connection between us is shaky, we must raise unity above our heads, meaning make it the most important, superior value. If we do this together, unity becomes our shield, our Sechah (canopy), which covers and protects us from the elements, namely from division.
The unity that is revealed under the canopy is called Ushpizin (guests), whom we welcome into our hut. Once we have completed seven manifestations of division and unity that we have built above it, and have hosted seven “guests,” it is considered that we have established and solidified a new degree of unity.
In such a state, it is considered that we return to our permanent residence with the new level of unity we have acquired. This marks the end of the festival of Sukkot, when we return to our homes. May we always strive to foster deeper and deeper connections among all Jews, above all differences, so we may be a model nation that brings peace to the world.
Photo Caption: RonAlmog, (Flickr page), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
In our connection with our friends, we are looking for and want to grasp the Creator like radar captures the right wave. Therefore, we need to create such a connection that will have the qualities of the Creator, that is, mutual bestowal between us. If we have all achieved mutual bestowal, then we are definitely aimed at the Creator.
Everyone has seen how a radar spins in search of the desired wave; that is how we need to set up our connection. We ourselves do not know how to do this, but we ask the Creator to change us so that all of us together turn out to be a dish, an antenna, directed at the Creator according to the equivalence of our qualities. In accordance with this, everyone changes himself and adjusts to his friends so that everyone together matches the Creator.
Through such work, we unite into one soul and begin to receive instructions from the Creator inside our locator inside the ten about how we can change ourselves in order to catch the ray of light sent by Him even better and more correctly. And this ray, through its impact, begins to change us, turn us, and correct us so as to connect us with the Creator.
And at all the next degrees where we build a connection with the Creator, we tune in to Him more precisely and connect with Him at higher and higher frequencies with greater force.
For a perfect prayer from the ten, it is necessary to understand what each of the friends wants. And therefore, when reading Rabash’s articles about the group, we try to connect so that each passage connects us with the Creator.
In this way, we are getting closer and closer by building all kinds of forms of connection until we begin to feel the source influencing us and our responses to this influence, this means being connected to the Creator through direct light and reforming light, and building a spiritual Kli out of ourselves.
Then we reveal the Reshimot, spiritual actions, the entry and exit of light, the rise of the screen from degree to degree within the connection between us. We will study all the phenomena in the spiritual Partzuf described in Kabbalistic books on ourselves, as taught by Baal HaSulam, Ari, and other Kabbalists.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/22, “Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)”
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In the Introduction to The Book of Zohar, Baal HaSulam writes that although it seems to us that everything is happening before our eyes, it is clear to anyone with reason that all these pictures exist solely inside our brain.
Only when we manage to achieve such an understanding will we begin to gradually approach what the science of Kabbalah speaks about. Therefore, The Book of Zohar is hidden from us, and we do not know how to open it and read it. After all, the key to its understanding is the correct perception of reality.
The Book of Zohar must be approached only through internal concepts by imagining everything told in it within oneself, all the definitions, sounds, worlds, spiritual objects, souls, mutual relations, and especially the parameters of perception of reality: world-year-soul, above time, movement, and space.
If we perceive the text as unfolding into a scheme of relationships of forces and properties within us, then we will gradually reveal ever deeper inner states in ourselves. Then it will become clear to us that this external reality does not exist, no matter how real it may seem to us, that it exists externally and is not subject to us.
It is only now that I am under the delusion that it is not me who creates this reality, but it itself unfolds in front of me, it existed even before my birth and will remain after my death. We must try to change all these views until we begin to understand what The Book of Zohar wants to explain to us.
The entrance to The Book of Zohar, the key to it, lies precisely in the transfer of everything into oneself according to the principle “Man…comprises the entire world.” Therefore, it is possible to understand whether I am studying correctly by the extent to which I expect to feel and reveal all my future inside myself.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/10, The Book of Zohar “VaYechi”
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A person must reach a state where the very act of prayer fulfills him so that he does not need any reaction to it.
If I have a connection with the Creator and I pray to Him, pour out my heart and my entire soul to Him, and give Him all my hopes and aspirations, then I am so fulfilled with this that I no longer need any answer.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/03/22, “Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)”
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If I annul myself before the friends, it already indicates that I have faith in the Creator. Therefore, by annulling ourselves before the friends, we can come closer to the Creator. After all, the Creator does not exist without created beings. If we connect, then our connection is called the Creator. We create Him ourselves and work with Him.
The united group is like a radio telescope that captures influence from the higher degree. An ordinary person cannot feel it, but a united ten receives this special, unattainable force from above. This force is revealed inside the ten, which acts like a radar, a satellite dish, that detects this upper quality.
Without such a group, we will not be able to reach the revelation of the Creator. Only by connecting with each other in a certain way do we create, rotate and adjust this radar dish, our common desire, so as to catch inside it what is called the Creator, that is, “come and see” (Bo-Reh).
The Creator Himself is above our attainment and the only way to reveal Him is to connect with each other and tune ourselves to Him, similar to the way any radio receiver can only receive the incoming wave but not the transmitter itself. Therefore, there is nothing more important than our connection because it leads us to connection with the Creator.
No matter how much I try to adjust my desires alone, in the end I realize that I will not be able to reach connection with the Creator and I need a connection with the friends. After all, only through them will I be able to come to connection with the Creator. I myself am the last Sefira, Malchut, and my friends are the first nine Sefirot, which through this address, the Creator reaches me.
A necessary condition for prayer is to become so integrated into the friends that we feel that within our connection we can receive a message from the Creator. When I catch this message, I want to answer it together with my friends. Through it we can rise and reach real contact with the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/3/22, “Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)”
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Question: Do you have no fear of suddenly stepping somewhere aside?
Answer: What kind of fear can there be? Fear of what? That something will lure me somewhere? What can attract me?! Give me any people, even the smartest, or give me any other method in the world. And then what? Would that attract me? Will any religion or mysticism fool me?! What can tempt me in this world?
Comment: But you once said that temptations are waiting for us at every step.
My Response: True, but you do not have to go anywhere for this, they will be given to you in any condition.
Comment: I mean the danger of straying if you suddenly have some needs that distract you.
My Response: Which ones? Watch a movie, go to the opera, take a walk in nature, see a beautiful city? I have seen it all, I have been everywhere.
I visit many places, enjoy them, admire them, and understand that this is a creation of human hands, understand how it was made and with what perseverance and thoroughness people worked on it. At the same time I understand what a person invested his work into? Whom did he worship? Who needs his beautiful works? Architecture, culture, art. For whom? What for?
This does not capture me because all this is on a small level of our world, a futile attempt by a person to perpetuate himself and to somehow express himself, I would say, in a rather dead form.
How much work you need to invest at the inanimate level of your development in order to then rise a little to another level!
Today we also erect monuments to various people. In principle, this is the oldest worship of the alleged immortality of man.
This is idol worshiping because we cannot be connected with the spirit of man. I understand the desire to thank, the desire to elevate, the desire to leave in memory. But in what?! Humanity has nothing else.
I hope that our time will turn us around a bit.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Protect Yourself?” 6/25/13
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It is better for a person engaged in Kabbalah to be in a state where he feels that he is not connected enough with the group. Then he will at least have a clear understanding of what else he needs to do. It is very important. It is better to feel yourself always lagging behind in spiritual work so that it spurs you on.
Imagine a group of good enthusiasts who feel that they are lagging behind, but they have to catch up with someone by all means. They are engaged in some serious development and are limited in time, but they have very big desires. This is very good.
Comment: But a person can fall into deep despair from this.
My Response: Well, let him fall. Do not look for any tricks, maybe you could do this or maybe you can do that. We are talking about the laws of nature. You match them—yes, you do not match them—no.
There is nothing here that you can turn over and somehow wriggle out: “I did it!” You will succeed only when you change yourself according to this level. That is it! Nothing else.
So there is no place for searching for any other ways, “maybe there is something else,” except for clear conditions that we are constantly scrutinizing. And they are the same.
All this only leads a person away, gives him some hope that suddenly he will read something, wriggle out somewhere, jump up somewhere and grab.
There is a group, and there is a connection between friends. You do it—yes, you do not do it—no.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It’s Better to Be Behind” 7/7/13
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How can Israel have more condemnations from the UN human rights council than all other countries combined?“
It is because Israel is responsible for everything that happens in the world, everything bad and good. We determine the attitude of the upper force of nature in terms of how it relates to everyone.
The UN singles out Israel because we are indeed special. We cannot get rid of our uniqueness and be normal ordinary people that are judged by the same standard as everyone else. Why? It is because we cannot escape being Jewish. I have written and spoken extensively about the role of the Jewish people, how our nation is unique in that we share no biological foundation but an ideological one, that we attained a state of positive connection (“love your neighbor as yourself”) above division (”love will cover all crimes”) and today, the world needs such a tendency to emerge in order to transition to a harmonious and peaceful state.
Everything that unfolds in the world is a result of the relations inside of Israel and nothing will help unless we positively connect with each other. Only through our positive connection will we bring about a major shift in the world, an inversion of the myriad increases of crises and suffering to a state of calm, tranquility and love. It is indeed in our hands to do, and the disproportionate hatred toward us is in order to tell us that we have such a role, which we are not yet carrying out.
Based on the video “Why Israel Has More Condemnations from the UN Human Rights Council Than the Other Countries Combined?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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