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Posted on October 6th, 2023
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Question: You once said that if I remain silent in response to aggression or hatred directed at me, then this is equivalent to bestowing in order to bestow. And if I can process it and respond with love, then it is receiving in order to bestow. In any case, is silence best of all?
Answer: No, silence is not best. The best is if you accept getting close to the other, say to your opponent, and want to take your connection to the next level.
Silence is a space where I can process everything in myself, justify it, turn to the Creator, to my friends, and rise to love. Silence is not a correction but just some kind of rearrangement within our Kelim (Vessels).
It is in silence that we reveal the hearts of others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”
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Question: If a person is given a certain portion of light and does not use it, can the light simply break him?
Answer: No! Then this light would reveal itself in him as darkness, and he is forced to run to the light. It is called “by a stick to happiness.”
We are growing from the bottom up. Until you are able to rise to the next level, you will not get it.
First, you have to set yourself up to receive, otherwise in what way will you feel the light? As much as the walls of your vessel grow, you feel its contents. Filling cannot happen any other way.
If a person is given a prospect and he does not use it, then it manifests itself in relation to him not as an opportunity of light, but as an opportunity of darkness, and the darkness thickens around him.
After all, what is a crisis? A crisis is our state that we should have felt as light, insight, saturation, receiving, confidence, happiness, warmth, security, and a good connection with others; but we feel the opposite because we did not prepare ourselves and did not unite to feel all this in the form of goodness.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The light is tearing apart” 9/29/11
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Question: There are histories of wars, religions, and the development of science. Why is human development judged by these three main parameters?
Answer: War is also a kind of development. On the one hand, there seems to be subjugation, death, and cruelty, while on the other hand, a very tough and vivid exchange of information, feelings, and contacts. There is no getting away from this, this is how war manifests.
In addition, the development of humanity is judged by these three parameters since they are very clear manifestations of egoism.
Moreover, egoism is manifested in the internal sphere: the way a person arranges his home, the way a person arranges his society (feudal, slaveholding, capitalist, etc.), including technology and science, and the way a person arranges himself internally, including religions, goals for the past and goals for the future.
All this comes from the fact that our egoistic desire forms in four phases: first, second, third, and fourth, as we learn from Kabbalah. Therefore, we need their parallel development: me as a person—my comfortable physiological state, including family, me in society, me in science, and me regarding spiritual development. That is, we develop on all four levels.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Discoveries” 10/31/11
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Question: A person who studies Kabbalah goes through certain states. First, a point in the heart awakens, he searches and finds Kabbalah, studies it, and then moves on to the Machsom.
Is there any similar development in people without points in the hearts who do not study Kabbalah? Is there a passage through some kind of their own Machsom?
Answer: A person experiences insights like that, but this is not the same at all. Sometimes even people who study Kabbalah before reaching the Machsom have the feeling that something is being revealed within them.
But then all this goes away because they do not yet possess the true screen.
And those who do not study Kabbalah experience nothing like this. They typically experience various animalistic and psychological fluctuations.
Comment: But you say that everyone will have to pass the point of the Machsom and experience spirituality: both Kabbalists and non-Kabbalists.
My Response: Yes, some will cross the Machsom because they work on their own and others because they will join those who work by themselves.
Question: How will they join—intentionally or unconsciously, by accident?
Answer: The first group, the upper one, is the group that strives to attain the source of life—the Creator. In each of them there is aspiration, a need for attainment of spirituality; I just have it and that is all: I want to attain it. Suppose you have such a desire, but your relative does not. It does not depend on anything.
We all come from Babylon, and there is no difference between us. The only difference is whether you had such a need in past cycles or not. But this is also unknown.
And even this does not matter, because as a result of the fall of the ancient Kabbalistic group, it mixed with all of humanity. At the same time, 10 tribes have completely disappeared, and no one knows where they are. Maybe they are Ethiopians, or Falashas, or Pakistanis. Or, maybe Indians.
It does not matter because everything is estimated only according to a person’s desire. If one has a desire, it means he moves forward on his own.
And the majority of people are ready to run forward if they feel bad in this life. And then they need to be shown the way by pressure from behind, when one is driven forward by suffering and pushed by a stimulus—a sharp stick that prods animals. That is all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists and Other People” 9/29/11
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Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Aba rejoiced, wept, and said, “Go, ride the donkey, and we will prod it behind you (Zohar for All, “The Donkey Driver”).
That is, the sages recognized that the force that exists in the donkey (“donkey” in Hebrew is Homer, the matter of all creation) is the dwelling place of the Creator. Therefore, they began to treat differently the one who drives them, accompanies them, and leads them to the goal.
When they arrived at the house of Rabbi Yosi, son of Rabbi Shimon, son of Lakunia, they saw Rabbi Shimon there and they were glad. Rabbi Shimon was glad. He told them, “You must have passed through a road of miracles and high tokens, for I have been sleeping now and saw you and Benayahu Ben Yehoyada sending you two crowns through an old man, to crown you. It must be that the Creator was on that way, for I see that your faces have changed.” Rabbi Yosi said, “You said well—that a sage is preferable to a prophet.” Rabbi Elazar came and placed his head between the knees of his father, Rabbi Shimon, and told him the feat.
That is, they did not fully understand everything, but now that they have finished their journey, they are beginning to reveal that in fact, they have passed such degrees that they never assumed or knew they would pass. They talk about this further in The Book of Zohar.
It means that this is just the beginning, just the first chapter, and then the whole Book of Zohar tells about what they found there, on these degrees.
Question: It is clear that there is some allegorical meaning here. Because it is said that Rabbi Elazar, the son of Rabbi Shimon, who wrote The Zohar, came and placed his head between the knees of his father, Rabbi Shimon, and told him the feat, about what had happened to this donkey driver. What does “came, placed his head between the knees of his father” mean?
Answer: Placed his head between the knees of his father means that Rabbi Elazar bowed before the wisdom of his father and, as the one who follows him along the spiritual degrees, asked for help to ascend to the next degree.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 9/3/23
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Today we are beginning to feel that the past paradigm of the world is not working. We cannot improve our condition in any way. Everything is over. It is as if we are being pulled out of the sandbox and pushed into a new society where we must be mutually connected with each other in some kind of adult enterprise.
When we played in the sandbox, everyone could play in their corner, with their own cars, roll them, and make cakes out of sand. And now we have been thrust into a completely different state.
We have been placed in some kind of community and told: “Now you must be in good dependence on each other, find a common language among yourselves, and somehow communicate correctly.” And we do not want to. We want to continue being independent, and not take on any obligations. That is where the problem is.
Question: Let’s say a person has power, fame, security, a car. How can such people be convinced? They absolutely do not want to move away from that “sandbox.”
Answer: I think that they will quickly become convinced that they are losing everything and are under a great threat for their very existence, and that they suddenly are becoming beggars. For such a person to become a beggar means to descend to the level of a normal, ordinary middle class.
For him, it is just something unimaginable. And it will happen. All his external gloss will disappear, no social, political, economic ties with the help of which he held onto his level will work.
There will only be one thing left: to agree that the whole of humanity, as nature suggests to us, should really be connected on one single level, in full interconnection, mutual assistance to each other, and thus achieve the highest comfortable state, spirituality.
Comment: As a rule, the more a person has, the more difficult it is for him to connect with others.
My Response: If only a person would start engaging with something above this level, with the purpose of existence, the laws of nature, our development, and so on, then, in general, he will easily tolerate parting with what he had before; it will, of course, seem superfluous to him.
Comment: But by nature, the less a person has, the easier it is for him to make a revolution in his life.
My Response: No, it just seems that way; it is purely psychological. I do not think that is really the case. Not to that extent. It depends not on the status, but on the level of his knowledge, attainment, and awareness of the necessity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How not to Lose Money?” 10/31/11
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The most important and needed action in our lives is turning to the Creator—the upper force of love and bestowal—and asking Him for help: to help us correct ourselves from the situation He created us in— the evil inclination, i.e., the egoistic desire to receive for self-benefit at the expense of others—and lead us to the desire to bestow.
In such a way, we will become corrected, i.e., we will acquire the desire to bestow in place of our egoistic desire, and come to feel the spiritual reality.
We currently feel the corrupted corporeal reality in our egoistic desires, a reality of short-lived, transient pleasures and incomplete perception. By discovering the spiritual reality, we will also be able to feel an endless world, an eternal and perfect life above our existence.
The trigger to activate such a revelation is our own request for it: that we ask the Creator to elevate us to the spiritual reality. He expects and awaits such a request from us. That is why there is no action in our entire lives more important and special than prayer, i.e., turning to the Creator to help us exit our self-centered desire and to connect with each other. Moreover, to the extent that we connect with each other, with the Creator’s quality of love and bestowal illuminating in our connection, we likewise connect with the Creator. That is actually of utmost importance in our lives.
Based on Lesson 4 from the World Kabbalah Convention, October 1, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man”
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