Audio Version Of The Blog – 7/11/23
Posted on July 11th, 2023
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When I started studying Kabbalah, there were no sources where the inner work of a person was described; they were all hidden. Even my teacher Rabash kept all this in his archive. And just because I studied with him, was his assistant, secretary, and student, I took the whole archive and started publishing it. Otherwise nothing would have happened!
It all started with the book Shamati (I Heard). And then Rabash’s aticles were published from which it became clear to us what to do. Otherwise humanity would not have had it.
Without a teacher, without receiving clear instructions for many years, when lessons go in a systematic manner and the material is hammered into you over and over again until it makes a hole in your egoism and begins to fill it with another quality, it is impossible to attain the upper world.
This is a huge job that cannot be done by the person himself. Just as a small child cannot grow up without the help of others and reach the level of an educated adult, it is the same here.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You Cannot Advance Ahead Without a Teacher” 7/23/11
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Comment: When you describe incorporation into other people’s desires, everyone always imagines that you gave something to someone: either you brought a cup of coffee to a friend or something like that.
My Response: No, a Kabbalist does not work at this level. Illusionists can work at this level—to guess a person’s desires and thus perform tricks. A Kabbalist does not perceive desires of this type at all.
For him, mutual desires are desires for connection: whether they exist or not and as far as we can combine them. Our task is the restoration of one single organism, the parts of which we must connect after shattering. We have no other concern. That is, I perceive you as a part that needs to be attached to a common organism. That is how a Kabbalist sees it.
Therefore, bringing someone a cup of coffee or something else is not what is required. The Kabbalist’s desire to feel the other is not at that level, although in general he should take care that this other, who seems to exist outside of him, has what is necessary for existence.
Comment: After all, the material is also included here.
My Response: Yes, in this way the existence of an extraneous desire or an organ of this desire is evaluated within us. Each of us is a separate organ that exists at the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels.
On the still, vegetative, and animate level, I have to take care that the other has everything necessary, that is, what any animal needs.
On the human level, I have to take care to create all the necessary conditions for him to properly connect to spiritual nutrition.
How does the part of the desires that is called human, feed? Only when it connects to one shared system. I have to bring him to the possibility of connecting to this system.
But he still has freewill. Without the fact that he realizes himself and connects himself to the common system, nothing will happen.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Other People’s Desires” 6/27/11
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There are materials in Kabbalah that prepare a person to correctly relate to the text and materials of the text itself. Kabbalists write both for us.
In addition, there are texts that they write for themselves, which are called “bird” language. These are letters, symbols, and incomprehensible squiggles. Baal HaSulam has texts that we do not even publish because he uses words in them that do not exist in our world.
For us, they are just a set of letters. But when you reach a certain spiritual degree, you suddenly begin to understand what they mean. And the feeling, its name, and what you read from it immediately matches and adds up to one place. But this is only for those who attain because we are not touching this part now.
So far, we are only interested in two parts of Kabbalah: how to prepare for the correct reading of the text and reading the text itself so that it affects me. That is all. That is what is there.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hidden Power of Books” 7/9/11
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Question: How should a person properly adjust himself in thought?
Answer: Our job is to combine all our desires into one single desire, all thoughts into one single thought.
Apart from desire and thought, heart and mind, there is nothing else in a person. It is necessary that all hearts and all intentions come together. In principle, nothing else exists.
The more effectively you connect with others, the more you have a great opportunity to experience the inner world, not our animate world, but the next degree where we are connected.
Such a gradual, consistent, causal connection goes through 125 degrees until our complete connection.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Thought” 7/9/11
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Comment: You once said that praising someone for the work he has done in spiritual development is bad for a person because he advances not on his fuel but on the fuel of others.
My Response: It depends on what he is praised for and how. But it really can stop a person. There is the concept of a jinx. In Hebrew, this is called an evil eye.
If a lot of people think badly of you, then, of course, nothing good comes out of it. At some level, this affects a person because we are all connected.
There are a great number of forces in the world with a hierarchy and purposefulness. If I have to go forward, lead others, or do something, then in doing so I call some negative opinions upon myself. It all depends on what I do.
There is no single force at work here, but a whole system. My teacher Rabash emphasized this and said that one should be afraid of the evil eye, i.e., others’ bad opinion when people talk and think badly about you. You have to try to avoid it because it harms you.
The main thing is not to cause feelings of envy. It is not good. Therefore, when they scold me and say: “And who are you after all?” and so on, I am content.
Comment: But in Kabbalah, on the contrary, envy advances a person.
My Response: If you are envious of something good in a person and you want to be like him, then such envy advances you. But when you are envious and want him to fall below you so he does not have what you envy, this is bad envy. That is why it is called the evil eye, not the good one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Protection from the Evil Eye” 7/21/11
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Comment: It is said that you can go mad from Kabbalah.
My Response: Kabbalah introduces you to the general hologram of the universe, and you see an absolutely correct, real picture, and everyone in it from the outside: how small and flawed they are, that they are perceiving everything somewhat distorted, like little children.
But it is impossible to go mad from Kabbalah. Of course, this is not an easy science, but it is a method of personal development.
While engaging in the implementation of the method, you are under pressures that force you to develop. Therefore, it often seems to a person that he loses himself, passes from one ray of vision to the second, third, and fourth one, that he looks at the picture of the universe from different angles, and sees the entire reality from inside and outside. He changes at every level, which a person in corporeal life generally cannot do. Of course, this is not easy.
But, on the other hand, although it is stressful work, it never fails. Never! Of course, it takes nerves, there are strong tensions, but this is development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Brain Of A Madman” 7/12/11
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There is a higher force in nature that controls the reality we live in, and no matter what efforts we make, we can do nothing outside of this force’s plan and control.
We should thus try to understand the destination to which this force advances us, what it wants from us, and that everything we have done, do and will do is its outcome.
We hope that one day we will attain true knowledge and awareness of where we are, what existence and environment we are in, and the forces that operate on us.
We are tiny particles of creation who think that we understand something about it. Also, when we understand something, we use that understanding solely for self-benefit.
What can we thus say about our participation, efforts and the goal we try to place before ourselves? Until now, it was all for the worse.
The more we have developed science, technology, medicine, art and culture to improve our lives, the more we find ourselves immersed in increasing problems on all scales, with abounding depression, anxiety, stress, drug abuse, suicides, social division, unemployment, poverty, crime, nuclear anxiety and natural disasters, to name a few.
Everything that we have created to benefit ourselves, from our self-centered mind and feelings, has ended up in the creation of a terrible world, which continues sinking into more and more problems from one crisis to the next.
We are fast approaching the realization that our myriad efforts to make a better world are futile, and it is in order to show us that we are operating on faulty self-aimed desires that base our every thought and action.
Until we undergo an upgraded learning process to discover the nature of our desires, our world, the laws of nature, and how we can harmonize ourselves with those laws, we will continue bearing witness to a deteriorating world.
Based on the video “Where Has the World Come To?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 18, “When Is One Considered “A Worker of the Creator” in the Work?”
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