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Posted on August 27th, 2023
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Question: I believe that I love my friends. But do we know how to love correctly? Is it possible to learn this?
Answer: You must strive to do everything possible for your friends to reveal the Creator. This is our main task.
If a person thinks about this and roots for, that is, cares deeply, that his friends and in general all the inhabitants of our world will reveal the Creator, he will do the greatest work and the greatest favor for himself.
Question: Why does it hurt so much to feel the impossibility of uniting?
Answer: Because this is the very goal of creation, and we must reach it, but we see that we are not capable, that we cannot.
Then the entire program of creation, the entire program of life, collapses. What should you do? There is only one option left: unite with friends and demand from the Creator that He does it for us. We will come to this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/23 “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”
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Question: Each of us has different thoughts and desires. How do we add the right intention on each of them?
Answer: Do not go so deep into every desire. We just want all the desires we work through that lead us forward to keep us in bestowal, in love, and in connection. This way we will move constantly.
We very much welcome disturbances because we are sure that they are all sent by the Creator with one purpose—to bring us closer to Him.
Question: When an obstacle comes, can we add the intention to bring contentment to the Creator to it?
Answer: Of course. We are trying to replace the obstacles that push us apart and distance us from each other with the forces of connection, and this gives special contentment to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”
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Comment: Famous chemist Fritz Haber was a Jew and a German patriot. It is believed he saved at least a billion people. When the world’s population increased as harvests began to decline, in 1909, he came up with a way to produce ammonia fertilizers from nitrogen and hydrogen. It was considered one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century dubbed “bread from air.”
War broke out (World War 1), and Haber wanting to prove his loyalty to Germany, experimented with and chlorine (mustard) gas that was first tested in Ypres in 1915. He watched as 3,000 to 5,000 French soldiers died an agonizing death right before his eyes. Soon after, his wife committed suicide from shame and his son committed suicide many years later.
In 1918, Fritz Haber received the Nobel Prize for his work on ammonia (fertlizers). Then he headed the institute where the Cyclone Bet gas was created. At a certain time, millions of people were poisoned with this gas in gas chambers in concentration camps. His relatives and loved ones were killed. In 1933, Hitler came to power, Fritz Haber was thrown out of his institute, and died a year later of a heart attack. Such was his fate.
How does the desire to feed the world and invent a suffocating gas coexist in a person?
My Response: I believe he didn’t think about the consequences of either. Simply, as a man of science, he was driven by the opportunity to create something effective. But for what, plus or minus, I think he did not realize.
Question: Can one live like this? Thousands are being destroyed before your eyes with your invention.
Answer: You can say this about anything. Einstein is also the father of the atomic bomb. What can you do?
Question: But he later renounced it.
Answer: To renounce it makes little difference. You can come to renounce anything, but they have already used it.
Comment: That’s interesting. Sakharov is the father of the hydrogen bomb, etc., and later they become generally righteous.
So, you believe a scientist is driven by discovery, a desire to create?
My Response: Of course, this is what interests him. He is not really aware of the consequences.
Comment: It is not too good to realize people have no principles they won’t cross, regardless what is done to them.
My Response: Not with a true scientist; they do not sense life at all.
Question: Is life a desire to create for them?
Answer: Yes. And what it gets used for does not interest them at the moment. That is, whoever takes on this scientist, will squeeze out all they want from him.
Question: Can we draw some conclusions from this for how not to fall under such an environment, not to take part in such inventions?
Answer: No, a scientist cannot. He has an inquisitive mind, his only interest is in discovering something new.
Question: But is this how one is led from above? Is it known in advance he will be like this?
Answer: Yes, of course, it is the upper governance.
Question: So you don’t condemn Fritz Haber in this case?
Answer: I don’t blame anyone at all. I can’t do anything about it because it is out of our hands.
Question: Everything has boomeranged back into his family. His wife committed suicide, his son committed suicide, his relatives were killed by the very gas he invented. Tell me, does a boomerang law exist or not?
Answer: In general, all the good and all the bad we do comes back to all of us and our loved ones, of course. And we have to somehow make a connection between these things. Maybe try to draw some conclusions for the future.
Question: So is there such a simple formula where the evil done returns to you in one form or another? Is there such a law?
Answer: Yes. That is, you have to constantly discern very carefully what you are doing, what you are engaged in, and where you are headed.
Question: Will my bad thoughts about others come back to me?
Answer: It is the same; they will surely come back to you.
Comment: If a person felt this, he could be more careful.
My Response: For this, he must be constantly on guard. Every person should restrain himself and control his thoughts, desires, and intentions in general.
Question: Is it right to restrain yourself? Meaning, one says to himself: “This is a bad thing, I’m not going there.” Like this?
Answer: Yes, even in thoughts.
Question: Even in thoughts? But it is very difficult.
Answer: We call it intention.
Comment: But I’m not free in my thoughts.
My Response: It doesn’t matter. What is sent to you, you are not free in. But what you do with it is your choice.
Question: The third question is patriotism. What kind of disease is it when one is capable of doing anything, that is, he can give himself completely? Even more so than in any other area.
Answer: He sets himself a goal that he can justify and be proud of.
Comment: This is my motherland. I am ready to kill for it, do anything, etc.
My Response: Indeed. All this is found in the worst atrocities by the way. Look what Hitler wrote.
Question: Is it a disease or is it in each of us?
Answer: In every person.
Question: So you can even pull it out of and facilitate it in a person? And push him to the most terrible things?
Answer: Undoubtedly.
Question: So this patriotism was revealed in people who did not expect to be capable of this?
Answer: Sure. We see it directly in their notes, works, letters.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/8/23
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Question: I feel pain because of what is happening in my country. How can I make it so that I feel pain from the lack of adhesion with the Creator and yearning for Him?
Answer: We must ask for both. On one hand, ask the Creator to connect us and give us the quality of bestowal, love, and connection. On the other hand, ask that we rise above our egoism and thus become more spiritual.
Question: I notice that the greatest egoistic pleasure I experience is when I control something, promote something of my own. Then it becomes unpleasant, I experience the feeling of shame and abomination. How can I escape from this?
Answer: It should influence you not because it is unpleasant, but because it is against the Creator. Then you can ask to be raised out of this state.
Question: How can I stay in a state of lowliness before the Creator, in awareness of His greatness, and the fact that there is none else besides Him? It keeps slipping away.
Answer: If you keep trying to do this, you will understand why you are given such conditions and states. You will have the right discernment of the way the Creator educates you.
Question: When I want to ask you a question, I have fear and trembling. But when I turn to the Creator or to my friends, there is no such fear. Is this a manifestation of egoism?
Answer: Practice. Speak on your own the words of appeal to the friends, appeal to the Creator, and appeal to me. In this way, you will slowly develop a habit.
Question: Is it possible to ask the Creator to tremble before the friends?
Answer: Of course. Anything you want.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/6/23, “My Heart Is Slain within Me”
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In order to bring contentment to the Creator, we must pursue the goal of coming closer to Him, to the property of bestowal, to all the people in the world in every action, in every word, and in every thought.
While doing this work, we feel that we are gradually getting used to it. Although we are experiencing resistance, in general, we can move forward.
This is how we must advance until the Creator gathers our efforts together and until we gather all the efforts. Then the Creator will answer us with complete correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/23, “Habit becomes a second nature”
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The thought of creation is to delight His creations, and no pleasure is perceived by the created being while he must be separated from the Creator. Moreover, we learn that the Creator craves to dwell in the lower ones (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, “Two Points”).
Question: If the Creator desires so much to dwell in the lower ones, that is, to delight them, then what is the problem? Why are we not receiving pleasure?
Answer: The problem is that the lower ones should acquire the same desires and the same qualities as the Creator. Then He will be able to dwell in them according to the law of equivalence of qualities.
Comment: On the other hand, people in our world receive pleasure during their lifetime and are not connected to the Creator.
My Response: These are not the pleasures that The Book of Zohar is speaking about. It speaks about upper pleasures. The upper ones mean that you are connected with the whole universe, galaxies, and everything that can be. These are qualitatively different pleasures.
In spirituality, we receive pleasure from attaining the inner system of the universe, how everything is connected, mutually complements each other, and leads everything to unity and perfection.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 8/6/23
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How do we build a group in which its members feel as if they are a single body? What are the necessary conditions for its existence? What are the unique activities that are said to be implemented in it?
Whether the intention of a group is to create harmony, as in a philharmonic orchestra, or to promote personal excellence, as in a sports team, a group whose members are connected “as one person with one heart” will be invincible.
A complete creation means that in spite of differences between the instruments, sounds, and people, they develop a uniform creation. The audience is also part of the game.
Two groups can create harmony between opposites. It is like what happens between a man and a woman. We don’t destroy or blur the gap between us; instead we cover it over with love. Spiritual harmony means that we work toward building a warm connection between us to become one. We begin from the end: Our goal is to reach a state in which we feel each other with our eyes closed. The connection between us is built above rejection, arguments, and criticism. We swallow every eruption. This restraint, the effort to close the internal badness, leads us to feel that we are one.
For example, what actions might we take to develop integral perception on a soccer team? Every meeting between the players begins from a connection workshop: How can we feel that we are one? We interact with each other warmly; we try to help and give support like the individual organs in a single body. In training, we play with one team against another team. We try to create harmony between the two teams, between opposites. If I am irritated by someone during the game, I try to swallow my rage and go on as usual. After the game we will talk about what happened. In the meantime, I tell myself that there must have been a misunderstanding.
In conclusion, when connection is made above separation, suddenly everyone is an angel. “Love covers all transgressions” (Proverbs 10:12)
From KabTV’s “New Life 294 – Group Emotion,” 1/26/14
This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What would you do if you have a lot of influence in the world?“
We each have a lot of influence in the world at every moment.
It is not as some people think, that our influence is only every few years when we have the chance to vote for our respective governments. On the contrary, our impact reverberates throughout our societies, touching those in close proximity—such as our families, friends and acquaintances—as well as those distant, including people we might never cross paths with, even spanning different corners of the globe.
We bring about great changes in nature. Likewise, due to nature’s integrality as a globally interconnected and interdependent system, which is balanced to begin with, it suffers when we cause imbalance to nature. We then feel the imbalance we cause through the myriad problems and crises we experience in our lives. In other words, what we feel in our lives is nature’s positive or negative response to our positive or negative influence upon it.
Based on the video “What Influence Does an Ordinary Person Have on the World?” 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, “And I Pleaded with the Lord”
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Explanation of the Article, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”
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3rd part of the Lesson – Lesson on the Topic “Purifying the Heart”
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