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Posted on February 14th, 2023
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Question: Children are like the next degree, the resulting derivatives. How can it be that a person does not have the data that parents received—you, for example?
Answer: How can he receive this? What does matter have to do with it? It does not exist at all. This is the most minimal layer that is revealed to us. All our other levels are much higher. Our world is the lowest. All Reshimot come from the worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut. So, nothing like that can even be here.
Question: But does your corporeal child exist at the spiritual level?
Answer: He has a Reshimo, nothing more! If he yearns, he will enter this system. I cannot really help him here even if he is my favorite child.
I will help another physically, a complete stranger, because he has a great desire to come closer to the Creator, to reveal the upper world. I will naturally help him based on my new data. That is, spiritual closeness is not physical closeness.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Invention of Cinema” 2/11/12
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Those righteous ones, the authors of The Zohar, and especially Rabbi Shimon, their thoughts and words were in actual deeds, for according to the quality of the innovations in the Torah that they discovered, the upper degrees were promptly set up and arranged after them in actual fact. That is, the righteous build worlds with their innovations in the Torah (Zohar for All, Beresheet – 1, Article “The Sling-Stone,” Item 200).
Question: Are these worlds internal or external?
Answer: Everything is inside a person. There is nothing outside of us. Everything that seems to us as existing outside of us: the world, stars, people, and the Earth is the way we feel what is happening within us. There is nothing outside. All our perception of reality, as if I take something, hold it in my hands, and see it; all this appears only inside me.
Therefore, to the extent that I change and improve my qualities, I see a different world, a new world. But everything is inside a person. A person is a small world and he includes everything.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Torah and Prayer”
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Question: What does a dog think about man? “He feeds me, takes care of me, walks me. He must be God.” What does a cat think about a person? “He feeds me, takes care of me. I guess I am God.”
What do we humans think about the Creator? He feeds us, He takes care of us. What do we think about Him?
Answer: That we are God.
Question: Why? Why can’t I say: “Thank You! You take care of me. You are God.”
Answer: Because by doing so, I lose my independence.
Question: Do I want this freedom, do I need independence?
Answer: Yes, of course. This is how we are created.
Question: So, He as if cut us off from Himself?
Answer: Actually, He concealed Himself so I would re-establish the right relationship with Him myself.
Question: Is this possible only if I do not see Him?
Answer: Yes. If I cannot find Him, but keep looking for Him, I gradually realize that He is, in fact, the center of my existence.
Question: At what point do I start looking for Him? At what point am I dissatisfied with myself, my efforts, and my capabilities?
Answer: When you become utterly disillusioned with your search: for yourself, life, the purpose of life, the Creator, and so on, then you start getting closer to finding Him.
Question: Do I have to reach disillusionment?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: But I have to invest in the search.
My Response: Absolutely, everything you have got.
Question: Is it about doing everything myself; should my efforts be such?
Answer: Yes. And after you realize that you cannot do anything yourself, you begin to wonder where is this connection with the Creator found?
Question: You said: “I cannot do anything.” Is there really nothing I can do?
Answer: Nothing. Until one puts up his hands and completely entrusts himself to the upper force, nothing will work.
Question: Today we see that wars and crises are nearing, there will be more and more of them, environmental disasters, and so on. Will this lead us to the point of realizing that we cannot do anything?
Answer: Good question. What we see today, I doubt will lead to the realization. Humanity still has very little awareness of its situation, its dependence. It thinks it can still do something.
Question: So I have to pull this “rug” out from under me to see I can’t do anything?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And this is the main theme: “We cannot do anything without You?”
Answer: We cannot do anything without the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22
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Question: Is there always a confrontation of forces in the spiritual work?
Answer: No, it only seems that way to us so that we use these forces correctly. They come from the same source, but they do not agree yet within us, so their confrontation occurs only within us.
We need to treat them exactly the same way and correctly, rationally, and effectively use both the force of reception and the force of bestowal. There can be no love without hate.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Men’s Games” 4/2/12
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Comment: Let’s say we are doing a project together, and if there are mistakes, we sit down and discuss them. At first, everyone thinks they are right. Then, if a person nevertheless tries to hear another, analysis ensues.
The next time we start to do something, the same situation arises again. You look at this situation: “But you did this analysis yourself! How can you re-enter this state again?” And it happens this way all the time.
My Response: No, not all the time. These are new Reshimot, new informational data, a new time! A person has changed, and even pictures from the past look new.
Comment: When we work together we become closer to each other, a certain importance arises, but when I need to take the next step, there is a wall that I constantly have to break.
My Response: But at the same time, there is an understanding that it was specially created between you so that you could overcome it precisely by yearning for each other.
Comment: This is a very interesting learning process.
My Response: There is still a lot to come, a lot of all sorts of pleasant surprises.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Two Kinds of Disturbances” 3/25/12
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New Life 112 – Working In Sales, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz
In the new labor market that operates according to the integral approach there are no salespersons but consultants with very different attitudes toward the clients than in typical sales. Your client dreams of receiving the same kind of treatment as from a close friend and not a salesperson who tries to push a certain product. The need for shopping is disappearing and the need for connection is emerging. The integral organization should serve refreshments, give gifts, hold events in parks, and give to the needy. The secret of sales and advertising is to provide a warm, loving attitude, just like a mom, through the CNSB model which is based upon closeness, need, solution, and benefit.
This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman
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From KabTV’s “New Life 112 – Working In Sales, Part 1,” 12/19/12
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What might be the motivation behind the phenomenon known as “Jewish self-hatred”?“
Abraham, who researched the laws of nature, saw that the growing human ego of his time was a sign of a maturing society. He understood that nature grows the egoistic desire in people in order for people to positively connect above it. This is because by taking hold of two forces—our innate egoistic force, and the altruistic force above it—we can reach an understanding of the laws of nature, how the two forces of separation and connection act in nature.
There is a very special state between these two forces that we can attain, and which Abraham attained. Abraham started teaching the method of attaining the two forces in nature to the Babylonians of the time, and a special group formed around him.
What we need to understand from this story is that a group emerged in ancient Babylon, and the people in this group developed a sensation of two forces in nature—the egoistic force and its opposite altruistic force, the force of connection that connects the two. The people who attained these two forces received the name “Israel,” and later became known as “the Jews,” which means “unity” (the Hebrew word for “Jew” [Yehudi] comes from the word for “united” [yihudi] [Yaarot Devash, Part 2, Drush no. 2]), because these people received a desire for unity that they further developed into a unified sensation of the two forces. The other Babylonians of the time did not receive the drive to unite, as they were content enough remaining within the natural egoistic approach to the world, and they become known as the “nations of the world.”
“Nations of the world” is the term defining the egoistic force of human nature. When the altruistic force appears in certain people, then this altruistic force also starts urging a more accelerated growth of the egoistic force within the person. As a result, we find a group that includes both forces: the positive and the negative. Due to the growth of the two forces within, that group’s members become more developed. The group with the smaller egoistic force simply does not need as much of a desire, because they have enough in order to live their lives without developing the connection to the altruistic force.
Since the Jewish people initially emerged from the attainment of the two forces in nature, we then also find how this nation is in constant contradiction with one another and with themselves. It is because they host these two opposite forces, and they are thus people who cannot easily get along—neither with themselves nor with others—because they play host to a fundamental inner conflict. Therefore, until today, we bear witness to every Jew consisting of both gentile and Jewish parts, and they thus host an inner restlessness.
This is the root of Jewish self-hatred, i.e. in each and every Jew resides a force of self-hatred, a big egoistic force, and without balancing it out with its opposite altruistic force, then the self-hatred becomes apparent.
Based on the video “What Is the Origin of Jewish Self-Hatred?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Preparation to the Lesson
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Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Seventh Commandment,” Item 223
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Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”
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Selected Highlights
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