Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 34, “What Are Day and Night in the Work?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 120

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Question: How do you see the movement of the spiritual force?

Answer: Inside myself! All desires, the entire world exists inside me.

I understand that this world is also inside me. Everything around is in me, in my consciousness, in my desire. I can feel it. This entire world, this entire universe, the people I talk to, all the computers in my office, absolutely everything is inside my desire.

There is nothing but desire, and there is nothing outside of it. The Creator is also in it. If I reveal the Creator, this upper governing force, then I reveal it in my desire.

That is, first, you need to imagine such an infinite sphere, inside which me and my desires exist. Inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, human society, space—everything exists in my desire.

These desires, including corporeal ones, are born, develop and die.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal reality” 6/27/11

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Question: What is faith above reason?

Answer: Faith above reason is faith in spite of reason, in spite of today’s degree. If I move from degree to degree, then at the degree where I am now, I have reason. In order to rise to the next degree, I accept the reason of the next degree as faith, i.e., I go with the head of the upper degree.

This is not at all like in our world in which if you are smarter than me, then I go with your head, and I act with your reason. This is called “faith is above my reason.” That is, I go with my reason anyway but using your reason.

In spirituality, however, if a person goes by faith above reason, he understands and feels that this is against him. But he goes because he wants to go with the head of his teacher.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Зower of Рypnosis” 7/24/11

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Question: Besides the fact that the teacher gives some knowledge to a student, is it part of his function to stir him up, that is, to create difficulties for the student so that he overcomes himself?

Answer: No. This is already individual work of a person. I practically do not do this.

My function in this world is to promote Kabbalah to the masses.

Those of you who will be able to become Kabbalists using what I give will move forward. I think there will be many of them. It will be a whole community of people who, to a greater or lesser extent, will begin to understand the Kabbalistic methodology and feel the upper world.

These include all my students who will represent the brain of the future humanity and will themselves teach others, as they already do today, and disseminate Kabbalah in the world.

I am sure that this will be in demand in the near future.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I Give You Everything!” 7/22/11

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We must make efforts to create an environment where each and everyone could understand the general methodology, the general system, and the general structure of the world. Then a person slowly begins to develop.

At one time I was a very technical person. To this day I do not like watching feature films.

According to my mindset, I was interested in technology, electronic circuits, cybernetic inputs and outputs, feedback, and how it works: if I do this, then it will be in this way; and if I do that, then it will be in that way. That is what I lived for, it was clear to me. The planets, the orbits, and why this affects that, at what angle fascinated me. I saw the world through a system of connections, forces, and various orbits.

Eventually, today I came to a state where I deal, in principle, with feelings, the inner world of a person, although I remained in it practically with the same approach.

Look at how Baal HaSulam also has everything sorted according to standards: Sefirot, worlds, systems, and levels.

So, let people develop! After all, we are all on the ladder of development, each in his own place. We all need to help each other.

Kabbalists are trying to reduce suffering on the path of our development so that we are more pulled forward by sweet candy on a stick and not pushed from behind by all sorts of sharp stimuli.

Sharp stimuli are wars, sufferings, illnesses, and all kinds of problems that are undesirable in comparison with easy, pleasant, kind, and joint movement forward. Of course, it is a pity if suffering starts to shake the world even more.

This is our motivation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Wooden Arm… Bony Leg” 7/9/11

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Question: Mark Twain said: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

Don’t we ever see that this is all as though within us? That is, I always see that this is him who has become wiser? And I was smart all the time.

Answer: Yes. We are amazed at the changes in other people without realizing that it is due to our changes.

Question: But sometimes it is still said that “I have matured, I have become wiser.” A person sometimes says that. Is that the right thought?

Answer: Yes.

Question: At what point does this revolution take place that I have suddenly changed?

Answer: This is the work of the Creator on man.

Question: So I am changing and the world is changing? Is this the formula?

Answer: This is the formula. But who is changing me?

Question: Does the Creator change me? In response to what? Or is it just His will?

Answer: This is in order for me to gradually determine that I am in His power, and He commands the world that only He created. And I am grateful to Him for doing all these metamorphoses with me.

Question: Am I grateful afterward? And before that, is there still hard work going on?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: In order to tell me how I grew up, how I misunderstood my father, what he was like…

My Response: No, it wasn’t you who misunderstood. It was the Creator who guided you through all these states. That is why you have become smarter.

Question: So as a result, as Mark Twain wrote about his father, I am saying the same thing about the Creator?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: So, when I got smarter, I realized that You are good and doing good. But until it happens…

My Response: It doesn’t matter. After all, a person reaches such a state when he dies. And then he understands, realizes.

Question: Who is he? You said, “A person dies and then you say, “He understands and realizes.”

Answer: A man, in his soul.

Comment: But he’s dead.

My Response: And what does it mean that he died?

Question: What do you mean he died? You said, “A person dies and then understands.”

Answer: And then he understands and realizes what it means that the Creator has guided him through all the states of this life.

Question: And who is he who understands?

Answer: A man.

Comment: But he’s already gone. He’s dead.

My Response: That he was buried or burned? So what?

Question: And where is he, the man?

Answer: Spirit. This is the man.

Question: So, it is immortal, this spirit?

Answer: Of course.

Question: You are saying that there is an eternal part in a person that feels everything, goes through everything, and it only?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this shell, this body?

Answer: You can bury it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/1/23

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Question: You currently spend a lot of time explaining the principles of Kabbalah in an easy way. Rabash did not need to descend to the level of other people, he just talked and that is it. How different was the language of his explanations from the one you are using for us now?

Answer: You receive the material in a much more systematized way. Every day I give you a huge amount of information, which is more and more chewed over, adapted, and presented in different aspects. You have no idea what you possess!

Rabash was very stingy with words. There are recordings of his lessons and recordings of his conversations with me. You can listen to them and see to what extent it was in unfinished hints. By the way, he wrote amazingly, but could not express himself in spoken form.

Question: How did you manage for such a long time without knowing so many things, without attainment?

Answer: There was no way out! This is what I was born for! What is there in life besides this?

And how does a hard-working person manage when he is responsible for his family?

I have a different responsibility; I was given the opportunity to learn from a great Kabbalist, to gain everything I could from him in order to become his follower. This is a huge responsibility. And it sets you up, alerts, and mobilizes you.

At the same time, I did not feel any self-importance, but the importance of the mission itself was more or less clear to me. Therefore, I pursued only one goal—to absorb from the teacher all I could. Of course, there were also very bad times when I weakened and neglected him. I had to go through everything. That is how I worked. But of course, from above you receive strength, opportunities, conditions, and properties.

How can you refuse such an important task if you feel the significance of your mission at least in some way? I had no other choice.

And now I do not have one student. I have a group, the world group, which is my collective student. It includes everybody as separate parts. Like in a living person, there are legs and arms, parts close to the soul and remote from its inner attainment, gross parts of the body and more subtle ones, so is the world group. And everyone is needed.

That is how I treat everyone. I just pass information trying to fill everyone. We will live and see what happens in the end. But I have no other choice, and I cannot choose one person although there are students who are closer to me, those with whom I work.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Teacher” 5/7/11

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Question: You say that it is important for a person to correctly adjust himself before going to bed. Does it mean that sleep can also be used as a part of the methodology?

Answer: Sleep is disconnection of our animalistic body from the inner, spiritual body, which without external corporeal disturbances connects to a huge brain, a vast holographic system of the universe and performs archiving of all the data.

Therefore, a great work takes place during sleep, and it all depends on how we prepare for sleep. It is enough to dedicate fifteen minutes to this.

Question: What other elements should be considered before going to bed?

Answer: None. Just before going to bed, you must mentally tear yourself away from life, from family, children, from all your past affairs, and again come into contact with spiritual matters. Only spirituality stands before you, puzzles, and fills you. With this, you go to sleep.

Question: How do you prepare yourself before going to bed? Or do you already do it automatically?

Answer: Before going to bed, I work on the computer and watch the news purely for information; it is interesting how spirituality manifests itself in our world. Then with a few small concrete thoughts I go to sleep.

This is enough because I am in it all the time. When I watch the news, I practically do not break away from spirituality.

Students whom I advise to prepare for 15 to 20 minutes are a different matter. I take into account that a person before that worked, went about his business, family, and everything else, that is, all his systems were directed to other sensations, and he must again put himself in order, correctly direct himself toward the purpose of creation. Therefore, I say that you need to read the material for 15 minutes and think about it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Sacrament of Sleep” 7/9/11

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