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Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”

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Our sages said that if a person asks the Creator to revive his soul with faith, then such a request is immediately accepted. Apart from faith, we have nothing to ask for, we will receive nothing else.

There is no point to turn to the Creator with any other questions, there will be no answer. That is, we will receive indirect answers that will gradually turn us toward the correct prayer. This is what is happening to us so far.

Therefore, we must find out what we really want to receive, not money, fame, or small momentary joys. What should we ask of the Creator in this short life? That is, the main problem is not how to turn to the Creator, but what exactly to turn to Him with, which means to find out what is really important to us in life and to turn to Him with it, no matter in what words.

We see that billions of people are constantly turning to the Creator. Every second in the heart of any person there is a request to the Creator, which he may not even realize. But all these requests are not relevant. Therefore, we cannot say that the Creator does not respond to them at all; He reacts, but just a little bit. We have been advancing toward corrections in this way for thousands of years.

Therefore, Kabbalah teaches us how to ask correctly in order to accelerate the process of correction: to ask for the force of faith, the opportunity to move to the force of bestowal and not live in the force of egoistic reception. The answer to such a request is guaranteed to us because this is the purpose of creation. Everything that a person has in this world is given only so that he can ask for the force of bestowal and adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/08/22, Rabash “The Striking of Thoughts upon Man”

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When we move from rejection of others to a connection above our egoism, then we begin to feel this system of communication between ourselves and everyone else. The connection between you and everyone else is called rising along the degrees of the worlds.

To the extent we can reduce the internal distances between us to be heart to heart with our desires, intentions, and fillings, to that extent relative one to the other, we ascend the degrees of the worlds. My egoism is between me and you, and if I divide the ego into parts, then it will have five degrees: zero, one, two, three, and four.

If I can overcome the first degree a little and get closer to you, it is called that I have ascended to the degrees of the world of Assiya. The second degree is the world of Yetzira, the third is the world of Beria, then the world of Atzilut, the world of Adam Kadmon, and Infinity—the place where we completely merge, it means without end, without limitation. That is how it happens.

When I am in this state relative to you, nothing is difficult for me; that is what is called worlds. And there is nothing else but the surface on which we all exist—broken, rejected, separated from each other by our egoism—and we must unite.

Let’s say that the upper world is acting on us now, which means, the global system is starting to work more. But the ties between us are vicious and bad. Therefore, when a small “electric current” passes through us i.e., a small connection, then the system feels in disarray, in crisis, so to say, and we can do nothing about it.

We feel like we are trying to be disconnected from each other, and the system constantly engages us more and more, and we cannot get anywhere. Contrary to this system, we are in an egoistic relationship with each other, but it requires us to be connected and act together. Therefore, the crisis is called global, integral!

Here we have no options in front of us. We must unite and join this system either voluntarily, with awareness and what Kabbalah calls for and helps to do, or the system will turn on more and more, and we will feel sufferings more and more until they convince us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How do you know Kabbalah?” 11/12/13

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Since the Creator contemplated delighting the created beings and the light expanded from Him and seemingly departed Him, the desire to receive His pleasure was immediately imprinted in this light.
You can also determine that this desire is the full measure of the expanding light (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” “Inner Observation,” Chapter 1, Item 11).

The will to receive, which the creation begins to feel, determines the entire essence of creation and the full measure of its fulfillment from the Creator.

It turns out that we can enjoy only the revelation of the Creator and nothing else.

Question: Does it mean that without revelation of the Creator, we will feel everything else as suffering?

Answer: There is nothing more to reveal because everything that is around us and in which we exist is the Creator.

Comment: But, actually, throughout the entire historical development we reveal some new things.

My Response: All this is nothing more than the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.

Question: What else can we reveal that we have not revealed today?

Answer: We can reveal all the Creator’s desires to delight us through what exactly and how He wants to delight us, and we can be able and ready to accept and be filled with this pleasure. We need nothing else. This is the purpose of creation.
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From KabTV’s ”The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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If we correctly tune ourselves with our friends and create a substrate from two opposite qualities, a place in which these qualities will be connected with each other, then a third quality, called the Creator or the middle line, will manifest in it.

Otherwise, He does not exist and the middle line does not exist. There is no one to chase outside; there is nowhere to look for them around you, or somewhere over the stars, or underground. There is nothing to draw any images. Only our correct connection will manifest the Creator. We will find Him ourselves and create this condition and this quality between us. Otherwise He is nowhere.

When you follow such a method, holiness arises only in our correct relations with each other above egoism that is really created in the most correct way, so that from it we build a correct attitude to each other, which is called the Creator.

As a result, a person becomes Adam, similar to this quality, and feels him in oneself. And the fact that such a quality arises in people even at the beginning of their correct connection, such an inner spirit, this is the prerequisite for the smallest light that we must reveal.

That is what we are doing. This is Kabbalah, which is open to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Sectarian Fanaticism” 10/19/13

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Question: Forbes magazine published the rankings of the highest-paid content producers on YouTube. Twenty-three-year-old Mr Beast tops the rankings with 2021 income of $54 million. Nastya, a seven-year-old Russian emigrant, holds 7^th place in the rating; she has  nearly 90 million subscribers.

And what’s going on in Tik Tok?! Tik Tok stars can charge $500,000 just for an advertising post. All of them are young guys under 25 years of age.

What do you think about such young people getting such large sums of money? It is clear that parents and others are behind them. But the fact that young people have such an income from advertising with Tik Tok—what do you think? What’s going on with his psyche? What’s going on with him?

Answer: Of course, this is a very big burden on the psyche. And what will happen to this child next, I do not know. I think that such children will fall into depression. They will not be able to balance themselves and be normal people. They will demand that they deserve everything and everything needs to be given to them. I wouldn’t want that. By no means.

Comment: What if you were to receive money for one of your clips and then more and more?

My Response: Just not that I would receive it personally, but for the organization. Let them spread Kabbalah all over the world and so on.

Comment: Even you, are you afraid that if suddenly you were tested…?

My Response: This is not allowed, in no case.

Comment: I thought you were already insured against this.

My Response: No! As long as you live, you can’t be insured. How can I trust myself? Am I completely in the hands of the Creator, and then suddenly I am my own master?

Question: So a person should not trust himself?

Answer: No. That is why it is said: “Do not believe in yourself till the day you die.”

Question: What kind of death are we talking about?

Answer: Egoistic death. And who knows how much more egoism there is inside each of us?

Comment: Do you think that these tests, which are carried out by people who have winning lottery tickets or who earn millions on YouTube or in Tik Tok…?

My Response: This is a misfortune!

Comment: This is not happiness and one should not be thankful for it; on the contrary, one should be wary.

My Response: I ran away from it. And I had the strength to do so; God led me very well so that I could avoid all this.

Question: And if this happens? Then at least give me a way out, a small loophole. So it happens that a talented person starts earning crazy money. And so young!

Answer: It’s a misfortune.

Question: But what to do?

Answer: You can’t do anything. I don’t think anything can be done against it.

I had such things, but they were when I met strong, serious people who could seduce me with wealth and so on. I was able to protect myself. But of course the Creator did everything, but I tried to slip off.

Question: So for example, if we are talking about a young man, then in general he can no longer slip off?

Answer: How does he even know what he’s doing? He’s still a boy.

Question: Yes, but he wanted to make money and suddenly he earned millions, billions, and so on. We know a lot of broken fates. Does this come from above? Is this a test? Is this how a person is led?

Answer: Yes! A person cannot live without limits, without a solid, rigid framework within which he exists. He just can’t!

Question: And why does the Creator do this to a person?

Answer: To show an example of him to others. As Shota Rustaveli said: “Give away the treasury to the homeless and free the slaves.”

Comment: Meaning, the conclusion is: if a lot of money comes to you, run.

My Response: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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1. One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. This amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per year, worth approximately US$1 trillion.

2. All the food produced but never eaten would be sufficient to feed two billion people. That’s more than twice the number of undernourished people across the globe (World Food Programme).

The U.S. throws away up to 11.3 million tons of textile waste each year—around 2,150 pieces of clothing each second …

Only a fraction of what’s manufactured gets recycled. Eighty-seven percent of the total fiber input used for clothing is ultimately incinerated or sent to a landfill. Fashion brands have come under criticism for practices such as destroying unsold products and sending piles of clothes to landfills (Bloomberg).  

Question: I also heard that two million cars have been produced globally that were never sold over the past two decades. Over the last 20 years, two million more cars were produced than were sold globally.

In conclusion—an incredible conclusion—we have reached the limits of our world and now need to expand beyond our planet, i.e., to economically develop other celestial bodies.

But today this is not possible. So what should we do? Imagine coming to such a conclusion! They don’t say: “We need to stop this madness somehow. What are we doing?!

Answer: We can’t do anything else. How can we stop it? Stall everything? Turn off the lights?

Comment: We’ve messed up here, so now we need to move to another place, and there we will…

Answer: You are not going to go anywhere, nor will you do anything here either.

Question: So they ultimately ask what we must do? How can a person come to the right conclusion from these true and frightening statistics?

Answer: We have exploited this planet, sucked everything out of it, and polluted it. So now we can die in peace.

Question: Are we unable to stop anything? Over the years there have been so many economists and so many proposals for change!

Answer: No, there were no proposals. These were all unrealistic utopias, nothing really to work with. If you don’t change man, there’s no sense in changing anything else.

Comment: So there’s only one real conclusion—to change man.

Answer: Yes, for one to feel what is worth living for.

Question: And then will he then stop producing so many cars and throwing away so much food unnecessarily?

Answer: He will work only for what is necessary, to make necessity sufficient.

Comment: Your conclusion is very simple—to change man to get by with necessities.

Answer: Yes, because we cannot change the world.

Question: In that case, here is my usual question: Doesn’t each person have their own set of necessities?

Answer: It depends on their upbringing. Everyone will apply this education to themselves personally.

Question: But will it ring true in their minds and hearts? “I don’t need more, this is enough for me.”

Answer: Of course.

Question: Well, you know, this is utopian.

Answer: If this is utopian, then we will go down a different path, a path of self-destruction. Only very simple self-destruction. Stop having children, stop producing anything. Stop the process, begin stalling this planet.

Comment: That is, if we don’t make do with necessities, then it’s self-destruction and there is no other way.

My Response: Yes.

Question: At the point of reaching necessity does one experience happiness that he has enough and needs nothing more? Is this a good, happy state?

Answer: What can he replace it with? After all, his greed also knows no bounds. How can you stop it? My neighbor has more! It’s a race!

An arms race, a technology race, a race of anything. What can you do? We need to change the character of man. We cannot change his nature, but we can change the typical application of his nature. We will either come to this or we will die.

Question: That is, the “I want” will not change. My desire that needs to be filled—this will not change. I have to be filled with something. So how will this sentence conclude?

Answer: I have to be filled so I feel I get everything from the world at the same time! And then I don’t need anything else. I will only get completely fulfilled when we mutually fill each other.

There’s no getting away from this. We will have to figure this out and how to come to this.

We will not be able to destroy ourselves, but rather we must bring ourselves to the realization of this need for change.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are your thoughts on the rise of right wing politics in Europe and around the world?“

The recent rise in popularity of the right is an outcome of our current stage of human development, where more and more people are seeing that the truth is with the more egoistic and resolute forces, i.e. those who stand by their opinion and not those who paint themselves various colors in the name of equality. The latter period is coming to an end.

We are now entering a more serious and realistic period. Nationalism and right wing politics, however, will not solve any problems. It is only a more realistic option than what we had before.

The more we develop, the readier we become to penetrate beyond the “nice words” that we hear, and increasingly inquire into human nature—all the while adjusting our behavior the more we learn about ourselves.

Our next stage of development toward a harmonious world is for us to realize where our egoistic nature situates us. In short, we live in hostility toward one another, and positive development from here requires learning how to positively connect, and what such connection depends on, i.e. fundamental changes in our media, culture and education systems. We can then take some small steps toward a more harmonious state.

The current rise of the right shows us that we want to view ourselves more realistically. Then, when we come to acknowledge our egoistic nature, we can start thinking about how to truly improve our lives.

I am not discouraged by this tendency toward the right, but on the contrary, I see it is a step toward a more correct and realistic state. It is a state that needs to unfold, and afterward, we can think about what we can do in order to transition to a better state.

Based on the video “The Rise of the Right in Europe – A Kabbalist’s Response” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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