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Posted on October 8th, 2023
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Imagine that you open your hearts and let all the participants of the convention in. In this way we will unite with our friends in the ten, then in tens, in hundreds, and in thousands.
And the more we connect, the more we will feel the common Kli, the upper light that will come to us through all the friends.
All I need to do is to connect with everyone and carry through myself all this upper light, energy, and love for absolutely everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”
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Question: How do we awaken love for our friends?
Answer: If I think about it for a long time, if I try to connect with my friends and realize that otherwise I will not achieve the goal of creation and love for the Creator, then my heart gradually opens up, and I come to love my friends. We have to work on ourselves. It’s not easy.
Question: How can we plunge into the ocean of love at the convention, among so many friends and dear hearts where we all see and feel each other?
Answer: There is no hardship here. You just have to imagine that each of you opens your heart and lets all the participants of the convention in.
Question: Usually egoism does not allow us to accept love. How can we set our hearts to accept the love of our friends, to give them the opportunity to be bestowers?
Answer: This is a problem because in this case we feel obligated to others. This is what egoism resists.
Question: There is a powerful connection around the center of the ten. It is like a sphere in which the greatness of the Creator is revealed. When we move away from the center, connection is felt less. Is my task to feel the boundaries of connection and how to narrow or expand them?
Answer: No, by no means. You want the whole ten to be like one single whole.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”
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Question: When we pray together with friends, we can hear each other’s aspirations. But how can I hear my friends when in silent prayer?
Answer: Listen to the heart of your friends, and in this silence you will hear what the heart wants to express.
When there is silence, when we are not pronouncing words, then you can hear the heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/23, “On the Merits of Silence”
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What does it mean to believe that by all your actions you bring contentment to the Creator? At first, take it for granted.
We need to constantly think about how to bring contentment to the Creator, and therefore, we must always be ready for this state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/27/23, “To Criticize Oneself”
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Suddenly, a War in Israel“
In an abrupt and unsettling turn of events, the specter of war has descended upon Israel. From the morning hours, Israelis find themselves glued to a web of information sources, receiving constant news updates, and sharing their thoughts with family, neighbors and friends. A palpable sense of anxiety weighs heavily among Israel’s residents as Israel suddenly finds itself at war again.
Indeed, we had a major security lapse. It is a failure characteristic of our tendency to underestimate our adversaries and our lack of military readiness. However, we should not mistake this lapse for an isolated incident. It is rather a symptom of a deeper enduring malaise afflicting our nation.
The heated divisions in Israeli society of recent times have been recurring for 75 years, if not centuries and millennia. Today, as in the past, we find ourselves again completely missing the point when it comes to our role in the world, and the overblown ego within each and every one of us intensifies our division.
Israel—i.e., the people of Israel—is a nation founded on the timeless principle, “love your neighbor as yourself.” Whenever we stray from the path to unite above our divisions, letting our connections become polluted with mutual animosity, we invite tragedies upon ourselves.
It is worth asking, then, what else could we expect? By letting hatred relentlessly accumulate toward each other, how could we think that hatred would not also surface toward us? This enmity clings to us like an unshakeable specter. The demonstrations of hatred in Tel Aviv, and all of our insults and the attempts to harm each other can only yield one outcome, for which we must all shoulder accountability. We need to acknowledge that we alone bear the responsibility for drawing these conflicts upon ourselves, as is it written, “No calamity comes to the world but for Israel” (Talmud Bavli, Yevamot, 63:1).
Our catastrophe is that we let the egoistic and divisive drives within each of us get the better of us, a sentiment King Solomon wisely cautioned against when he urged, “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth” (Proverbs 27:1).
How can we avert more severe trials in the days ahead? It is by fostering humility and cultivating a genuine yearning for heartfelt connections today. As the text Maor va Shemesh (Light and Sun) attests, “The primary shield against calamity is love and unity. When love and unity prevail among the people of Israel, and they abstain from harming one another, calamity finds no foothold.”
The pivotal factor for achieving a life of harmony and peace is our attitude to one another. We should hold no concerns or fears other than that of letting divisive drives overpower our motion to unite.
Everyone following the unfolding events would thus be wise to contemplate the deeper reasons behind the situation that has befallen Israel today. Only unity above division can lead us to a peaceful resolution, one that assumes paramount importance in these trying times.
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Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on October 7, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “Love of Others”
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2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”
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