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Senseless Sacrifices

549.02Question: Why are animals and plants in our world, as a rule, sacrificed?

Answer: Our desire consists of four parts: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human. Therefore, for thousands of years of development, humanity believed that sacrificing someone or something atones for a person’s sins, makes him better, luckier. As a result, humanity has a custom of sacrifice. There were even some nations who sacrificed people.

Comment: But that is wrong.

My Response: What about animals, is that right? Also it is not.

Question: So, you think that external actions do not make any sense?

Answer: If you think that you can kill someone, stab, or ruin something and it will make you feel better, this is, of course, wrong.

There were periods when people deliberately caught not only animals, but also other people in order to sacrifice. Today we are living in a different time.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/8/23

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Judges and Prosecutors Decided to Spend Some Time in Jail

961.1In the News (SOT): “Fifty-five judges in Belgium chose to spend a special weekend: they voluntarily locked themselves in a prison in the Brussels region to see what life is like for a prisoner, Belgian Justice Minister Vincent van Quinkenborn said in a statement.

“‘Judges obviously know what it’s like to be inside a prison, but experiencing this experience offers them a unique opportunity, which can help them impose sentences with full awareness,’ the minister continued.

“They will follow the prisoners’ daily schedule, will not be allowed to use mobile phones, will follow the same diet and have the same responsibilities as the prisoners.”

Question: In principle, prisons in Europe are somewhat different. For example, in 2020, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the country to pay five thousand euros to twenty-five prisoners who complained of violation of hygiene rules and lack of physical activity.

So, it is clear what kind of prisons these are. But how do you like the fact that prosecutors and judges went to prison, to see what conditions prisoners are in?

Answer: That’s great! I would let all of them through such institutions. People need to know what they are doing with prisoners, where they are being imprisoned, and whether prisoners have any opportunities to improve.

Question: How can this affect the correct sentencing? For example, the judge felt that it was terrible for him. What will be his next steps?

Answer: The next step will be to let them sit and figure out who felt what and who thinks what needs to be corrected. They have to make a prison so that people who have served a certain time in it, each of their terms in appropriate conditions and for appropriate offenses, would come out of there corrected. Otherwise, what is prison for?

Question: Why has everything changed so much in our lives: prisons have changed, judges have changed? Why did such a coup happen? You are now talking about the ideal…

Answer: No. I’m talking about what should be, but never was, because people don’t care. Previously, they just dragged a man to the block, chopped off his head and that’s it. And by doing so, they were ridding the world of him.

Comment: Or they were put in terrible conditions, in some pits or shackles, and so on. There was such evil and hatred all the time. Imprison him!

My Response: Yes, in order to eradicate them.

Question: What is it? Why is there no desire in a person to “fix” so that he goes through this process of correction?

Answer: What for? Do we need another person in society? It is better to isolate him, to send him somewhere.

Question: So, this nature acts in a person, to ruin, to putrefy?

Answer: Yes. Get rid of the unnecessary, as it seems to them, elements.

Question: What can be done to make something else triumph, so that some spark of love arises in a person?

Answer: No, our world is absolutely not striving for this. Therefore, why should we make some special, correct people out of prisoners? What does “the correct people” mean for our world?

Question: How can we turn the situation around?

Answer: Nowhere, in any country in the world today, are correctional institutions engaged in correcting people. At best, they are organized for some kind of work, and they work eight or ten hours a day. But this is good, it somehow still straightens them a little.

Question: But how should the world change in order for all this to change?

Answer: We need to change ourselves! We need to understand that we are prisoners in this world and must correct ourselves!

And we have to work on our correctional work that is internal, correcting ourselves. And then we can begin to correct the world around us.

Question: Which means, only as a result of correcting myself will I be able to look at the other correctly and direct him to correction, and not ruin him?

Answer: Yes, of course.

Comment: It’s a long way to go.

My Response: I don’t think it’s long. It all depends on awareness.

Question: If there is awareness, can it happen quickly?

Answer: By itself, no. You just have to talk about it and explain a lot.

Question: But did these prosecutors and judges do the right thing by deciding to be imprisoned themselves?

Answer: Yes. In some ways, they will straighten up a little, within the framework of our world.

Question: So they can have some kind of minimal correction of their own?

Answer: Absolutely.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/22/22

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Worlds Moving Apart

264.01The desire to enjoy determines everything for a man: what he will feel, how far he will feel the space around him, and how to name everything that he feels. Meaning, man’s desire determines his world because he cannot feel that he is beyond the desire, and therefore, it does not seem to exist for him.

Therefore, if the desire in a person is not developed, is at the inanimate degree, then his world is limited by the framework of the inanimate degree. It is like a baby whose world is tiny and does not go beyond the nursery, but it is enough for him, and he is satisfied.

So, we live in a world whose boundaries are determined by the limitations of our qualities, and we are convinced that there is nothing beyond it. Once people thought that the earth was a flat disk and the universe was a rigid sphere with the border of this world covering it like a cap above which there was nothing.

And up until now, our knowledge of the world has been limited by our attainment. Let’s hope that we will soon be able to open its borders, and then we will understand what kind of world we really are in.

Our desire to enjoy is constantly evolving, each time it pushes the limits of the reality we feel to new boundaries. We call these boundaries worlds. And since our desire develops in four degrees: 1-2-3-4, we perceive the world that seems to exist around us at four levels: 1-2-3-4.

Once upon a time, all of humanity existed as one whole, one body, but then we were shattered into many small bodies. And that is why each of us feels and perceives a different reality.

The goal is to get back into one single body, stuck together like pieces of plasticine. And in this form, we begin to feel a new, unified reality that appears real. It is dominated by one upper force that controls this reality and supports it. And there is no great multitude of forces as each fragment feels it. To come to this connection is the goal of our work and development.

We existed as one common body that broke into a great many fragments as a result of the Big Bang. And if we strive to return to this state of unity, then we begin to feel a single, increasingly unified force, as well as to gain understanding, attainment. The whole history of mankind and modern reality with its problems and wars is intended only to bring us to the realization of the need to unite. Nature pushes us to this.

And the more we all get closer to each other and feel more and more clearly our duty to connect, we begin to understand the inner force that controls us, brings us closer, fills us, and eventually leading to the attainment of true reality.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Donkey Driver”

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Not Knowledge, But Life

219.01Question: People who have been studying Kabbalah for a long time understand that when they go through difficult states, there is no point in screaming and getting nervous. They take it more inwardly. Is it due to their experience or to something else?

Answer: Of course, it is due to their experience. Over the years, you become more experienced, you are filled with all kinds of data, and you know how to react to things. It is natural.

But this happens at the stage when a person does not yet fully enter the upper world. And when he enters there, he becomes a boy again: “Ah! Ah!” constantly running from corner to corner as a child looking for something with his eyes wide open, such a Kabbalist.

All the rest are swaggering, important, and filled with all sorts of wisdom, but a true Kabbalist is not like that. He has nothing to fill himself with. He reveals everything in himself. He is as if naked. He does not have great knowledge. He lives in it.

I can tell you a lot about our world, but if you do not know this world and just have to memorize and remember the material, for you it will be just a mass of knowledge. And for a person who lives in this world, it is life. He knows that this is this way and that is that way. He does not need to memorize artificial things because for him they are life itself.

The same is true about the upper world. When it is revealed to a Kabbalist, everything becomes simple. He does not need any special knowledge.

I come to a lesson and they say to me: “Now we will read this article, or study The Study of the Ten Sefirot, such and such a world, such and such conditions, and such and such laws.” If I were a professor in some subject, I would have to prepare myself and refresh the material because I do not live in that era.

And in spirituality, I exist precisely in this. It cannot be easier for me to talk about it. You say one phrase, and I can talk about it for an hour because I live in it. With this phrase, you put me into a certain spiritual state, I see what is happening, and easily talk about it. Therefore I do not need to know anything in advance. On the contrary, it reduces the sharpness of perception.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Proper Self-analysis” 1/21/12

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/20/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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