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Posted on February 21st, 2023
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Our success depends on connection. Therefore, we must come to the congress with open hearts, ready to connect.
Imagine that the world is facing a catastrophe similar to the devastating earthquake that recently occurred in Turkey. But now, the earth will shake all over the surface around the entire globe. Scientists have already warned about this danger several times. And we are able to save the whole planet from this disaster.
Let’s try to glue all the parts of the globe together so that they do not move and cause earthquakes. We can glue them together with our desire because human desire is at a much higher level than inanimate nature, plants, and animals. And if we want to cleave to each other at our human degree in order to become as one person with one heart, then of course we will not let the globe crack.
Otherwise, it will become more and more restless, and seismic activity will increase drastically. But it all depends on us.
And we will eliminate not only earthquakes, but any negative phenomena that exist in this world. Let’s say we want to clean up the whole globe from garbage, from all waste that pollutes waters, land, and air. To do this, we need to purify our hearts. After all, it is at the highest degree, and if we cleanse the heart of dirty thoughts and desires, then the whole globe will be cleansed.
We are thinking: how can we clean up the planet? And everything will be very simple, there will be no problems. Nature has all the forces for this; it all depends only on how we use them. Let’s start purifying our hearts and see that the whole world becomes fresh, bright, and clean. Everything depends only on our desire.
In the few days remaining before the congress, everyone should try to correct themselves so that they arrive at it with an open heart. And then this congress will become a place of purification of the world.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/13/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”
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Question: Where did the word “Zion” come from?
Answer: “Zion” is from the word “Etzia” (“exit”)—exit from exile.
If Zionism previously attracted Jews to Zion, today it not only does not attract, but actually repels because it is being replaced by a new form of uniting people, not around some places called “Zion” or “Jerusalem,” which have become symbols of hard Judaism.
Real Zionism, which has gradually formed and is still being formed from the past, is “love your neighbor,” which is the next step in the connection of the people regardless of their land or even their customs.
The most important custom—”love your neighbor as yourself” (the main rule of the Torah)—is what it is calling to fulfill in the first place. This is the real Zionism of today that arose on the ruins of the old one, which has simply served its purpose.
Previously there was an aspiration to the earth, to Zion, to stones, to the Wailing Wall, to something so much more understandable and in some way attractive, like stones in the ancestral cemetery. But in the end, all this disappears and is emptied of the great fulfillment that once existed, even at the beginning of the 20th century.
By the 21st century it has ceased to be something attractive at all. On the contrary, the call to Zionism is something inhibiting, and it manifests itself as a lack of understanding of the current situation and the movement of history.
Now Zionism has taken the place of uniting all people, not only Jews, although the Jews should be in the center. This connection should indicate the future to all the nations of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Zionism” 1/18/23
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Question: If I acquire the quality of bestowal, how will my system of perception work then?
Answer: In bestowal you begin to perceive everything as a common field and nothing else! You will begin to see everything as one single whole that shimmers with all sorts of waves of influence on you in order to change you.
In fact, these waves do not exist either. Then you will come to the conclusion that this is how your sensitivity changes inside you in terms of the quality and quantity of your 613 desires, and therefore, you feel these waves, these shimmerings, these images in the field. Then you will begin to feel that in addition to the field of your perception, there is a constant field of bestowal, love, and emanation.
Question: How will I perceive various corporeal objects?
Answer: In no special way. Like all kinds of inanimate objects, that is, imprints of your desires, the ones that have no actions of their own, like everything else. You look at everyone and everything around you, and perceive them because you see your qualities turned outward.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Other World” 4/27/12
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Question: What is the meaning of the period of our existence on Earth as if being in a dream?
Answer: This stage is similar to those periods that nature has gone through in the development of the Earth. It all began with periods of geological development when there were no plants or animals and only inanimate matter was developing. For millions of years, the Earth gradually exploded and cooled, exploded and cooled.
Baal HaSulam writes that such periods alternated every 30 million years, when the Earth ignited like a fireball and then cooled, and again ignited for 30 million years—lava and hot streams rose from below, the earth’s crust exploded again and cooled again.
This continued until the conditions for the development of life appeared. This stage lasted several billion years.
And then, for millions of years, vegetative life was born. Then for hundreds of thousands of years animal life, and then man.
Naturally, all these periods successively shortened, as they passed along the axis of the natural logarithm. From about the period of 2.67 such a reduction in time began to occur.
The same correspondence between the first (inanimate), the second (vegetative), the third (animate), and the fourth (human) development exists in any segment. If we take any of them, it will be similar to the general one, as in a holographic picture.
Now we are at the stage of only preliminary awareness of the evil of our nature. But we see to what extent time becomes more compressed, how it is being more and more compressed from year to year.
I think that over the next few years we will come close to the need for a singular transition—a leap in our understanding, awareness, sensation, and in the internal restructuring of each of us and all of us together, in the need to make an internal revolution and feel, see, and realize where we really are.
Then we will reveal a different world, which will be revealed to us as eternal, perfect, and infinite. After all, when a new vision of the world is revealed to you, everything is rebuilt in you.
Imagine that from this moment onward you begin to feel that you exist eternally, endlessly and to what extent your attitude toward yourself, toward the world, toward life, toward people, toward everything would change. We cannot not imagine it, but such a restructuring of consciousness will take place and change everyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Dream 400 Years Long” 4/7/12
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Question: When someone falls spiritually, we have to support each other along the way. You say a person must go through these states. What is the limit of our intervention?
Answer: There is no limit. If you are doing it with love, there are no prohibitions. To support means to help with love. If you think about the benefit of a friend and do not think that he is being punished for his benefit, then everything will be fine.
Question: Suppose a person cannot wake up for a lesson. Where is the fine line between the fact that I have to bring him to class and the fact that I will harm him by doing that?
Answer: It is necessary to treat such situations very delicately, to try to be gentle with your friends.
I was not always successful with that. I remember I got very irritated, I could not stop myself. “How is it possible not to get up for the lesson?” One day, another day, and the same every time. You wake up the friend. “That’s it, that’s it, I’m getting up,” he shouts from the balcony, and ten minutes later, it turns out that he fell asleep even more soundly. And how to wake him up? You no longer know what to do. I tried everything. Of course, it was wrong, I was still a beginner then. But all this was not simple.
Our entire path is not easy. Now it is much easier because the masses create the corresponding field, and it is already easy for every beginner, he feels that there is such an action in the world, such an opinion, such a desire, such a relationship. There are already talks about it: something is soaring somewhere.
Today it is so easy compared to what it used to be! Before, it seemed quite the opposite. It was very hard! I think the support is getting better and better every day.
Question: How can I not to give in to the misconception that I am doing good for another person to overpower what is not worth doing?
Answer: Nothing will help! Until a person is corrected, nothing will help.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Pull out the Friend“ 3/11/12
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Question: What happens in the intermediate state, when a person has not fully felt the power of bestowal and has not fully completed the work with his egoism? He is neither here nor there.
Answer: Neither here nor there is the most complicated, suspended state. It is necessary to do everything as soon as possible to pass it; there is nothing left to do.
Question: But this whole path is still a transition between the two worlds?
Answer: I understand that this path is unpleasant, but you cannot get away from it.
This is the path where you simultaneously discover both descents and ascents, and yet you cannot balance them, supplement one with the other, or justify them. That is why the years of internal struggle and adaptation to new spiritual conditions are very difficult. I see this in my students, but unfortunately, I cannot help them more than what I am doing.
Just like a teacher at school, can he do something instead of the student? The student is obliged to go through his school years, absorb all the material himself, and complete the required number of tasks, tests, and exams because otherwise he will not know anything at all and will not be able to go out into life.
He must do something. Otherwise, he will have to deal with huge gaps. At least he graduates from school and has an idea of what biology, zoology, botany, geography, history, and mathematics are, at least something, somehow.
You can finish school and university, and, in general, know nothing. Maybe, you will not need all this in your life except for a general understanding of what is happening.
But in spirituality it is different. If you do not know the laws of the universe, if you fail to apply them to yourself, then the upper world will not be revealed to you. After all, you attain it to the extent of your understanding, your power of adaptation. You only reveal what you can practically work with.
Like a child, to whom only a small part of the surrounding world opens up. He does not understand what exists above him. He is interested in his toys and his mother; here is his car, something big that is moving, and this is his world. Everything else, something much bigger, especially in terms of quality, like connections between people and the like, he does not understand at all. He knows that this is his nanny, this is his mother, this is his grandmother, and the fact that there is some kind of connection between them, that there is some kind of life going on behind them, all this is not yet for him.
If we do not grow out of this state, we will not reveal anything. In the spiritual world, if you have not developed the power to understand, realize, and interact inside yourself, then you stay at the same level. You cannot grow automatically. You grow only to the extent that you open the world with your knowledge and abilities.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. All Suffering Has a Purpose” 2/11/12
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Does unconditional love exist between two partners?“
Unconditional love can exist between two partners if they work on it and attain it.
Love is based on mutual concessions, yielding to one another, and finding joy in doing so. When we love our partner, then we have no demands for any special attention or care from them. Instead, we enjoy the pleasure we receive from sacrificing ourselves for their sake.
Such pleasure is similar to the feeling of satisfaction that we get when we give something to our children. However, our children are naturally closer to us because we feel them as parts of us. With our partners, though, we are separate in our desires and opinions, but by correcting the love between us, then we can bridge that separation.
By nature, we focus mostly on our own desires with little regard for our partner’s. In other words, we relate to our own desires with a higher level of importance than to our partner’s desires. In order to shift from this nature-given self-centered state to a state of love, we need to merge our desires so that they adhere as a single desire. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, this condition for achieving love is described with the phrase, “Make your desire like His, so He would make His desire like yours.” Such love discusses the love that we achieve between the creation, which is a desire to enjoy, and the Creator—the source force of love, bestowal and connection. By adhering our desires into a single desire, when we prioritize fulfilling the desires of others over our own desires, we then reach a state that Kabbalah describes as “husband and wife, and Divinity between them.” That is, we require the force of love itself to enter our connections in order for us to be able to truly love others, to aim to benefit others outwardly with no wish to receive anything in return.
Achieving such love requires connection-enriching education. That is, we need to place ourselves under the influence of learning, guidance, exercises as well as social, cultural and media influences that describe the nature, need and importance of reaching a state of love.
We need to understand that the use of our loved ones and families in order to primarily benefit ourselves ultimately brings about neither joy nor love. The sole way of finding true and lasting fulfillment is to learn how to love correctly—where we prioritize benefiting others over self-benefit, and where we become willing to concede our own desires for the sake of fulfilling the desires of others.
We can bring joy to others and to ourselves by giving endlessly. This altruistic modus operandi would act as a source of everlasting fulfillment. That is, by aiming ourselves in the direction of fulfilling others, we place ourselves into a cycle that positively boomerangs back to us with feelings of absolute and eternal love, as well as eternal life. Instead of trying to consume everything for ourselves, we can bring life to everyone around us with our love. Doing so would enable us to ascend to a higher dimension where we experience Heaven on Earth—an eternal and perfect life.
Regarding our partners, we should shift our focus from searching for love to building love. We need to stop expecting people to act in extraordinary ways toward us, and instead find partners who share a common goal and understanding of what true love is. We can then enter the process of learning and exercising the achievement of true love together with our partners.
Based on “A New Life” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on July 30, 2015. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Nicola Fioravanti on Unsplash.
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