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Posted on January 21st, 2024
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Comment: Recently an incident occurred in Israel that shocked the whole country. As you know, we have a sacred attitude toward hostages. We want to free them with all our might; the whole nation is behind it. When three hostages managed to escape from captivity, reached our positions and were almost free, they were mistaken for terrorists and killed. Huge shock was felt all over Israel.
The press started digging, discussing, and looking for who to blame. And the mother of one of those murdered boys sent an audio message to the soldiers.
“I am Yotam’s mom. I love you, I want to hug you even from afar. My son’s death is not your fault. Please take care of yourselves! You are doing the right thing in the world. Do not blame yourselves for my son’s death. You must protect yourselves in order to protect all of us. Come visit us at the first opportunity, whenever you want. We want to look you in the eye, hug you, and tell to your face, no matter how hard it is, that at that moment you made the right decision, you did the right thing. No one in our family condemns you or holds a grudge against you.”
My Response: Yes, it is hard!
Question: I cannot imagine where a mother can get such strength. The most precious thing has been taken away, and she is rising above it. Tell me, where does such strength come from?
Answer: From above! There is no other way… It is revealed from above.
Comment: And this happens right when the search for those to blame is underway, when everything is being discussed. Suddenly, this voice sounds. What is going on here? A mother is the only one who unites the people. Can you imagine? Suddenly everyone feels what they are and what she is!
My Response: Yes, it is a great breakthrough.
Question: When you talk about the role of the Jewish people, that we should come to show an example of good connections by rising above hatred, can we say this mother is an example?
Answer: Yes, what she did was great.
Question: Can we call this a call for the unity of the people?
Answer: Sure.
Question: Can it influence us?
Answer: I do not know. We have already been through so much! And you see that after all this, there are demonstrations again, there is a search for whom to blame again.
What has been killing us for thousands of years continues to kill. It is our inability to unite above all our accusations and problems. I do not know how to achieve it.
Question: Still, can we say this is a call for it?
Answer: It is the call. It has to simply be on everyone’s lips all the time. Even if people do not feel it, to just say it. Then they will hear themselves.
Question: What should be said? That we should rise above everything, above all differences…?
Answer: Rise above all the differences and unite, embrace, connect, just stick together.
Comment: No matter what happens between us.
My Response: Yes! Above all!
Comment: This woman, this mother, Iris, could have shut down and blamed everyone.
My Response: You see, in this state there are people who rise above themselves. There are no words to describe her condition and her actions. It is just beyond human strength.
Question: What would you say to her if you met her?
Answer: I do not know. I would bow to her and that is all.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23
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Michael Laitman on the Times of Israel: “Over 100 Days of Prayer for the Hostages and Soldiers”
For over 100 long days, the people held hostage in Gaza have endured a chilling and uncertain situation in the shelters. It is very hard to fathom what they are going through. The key is for them to cling to an upper force, trusting that it protects them, echoing the wisdom that “Even if a sharp sword is resting upon a person’s neck, he should not prevent himself from praying for mercy” (Berachot 10a).
We, too, must exert great efforts in our hearts for them. Let us intensify our prayers, turning to the upper force of love and bestowal—the Creator—seeking a connection between us and them. We should implore the Creator to draw closer to them, and for us to unite with them in thought, living with them in one heart so that they will feel that they are not alone.
For the safety of the hostages and the soldiers, people from all walks of life who did not choose to be in the dark situation they now find themselves in, we need to be cautious. We must not allow divisive voices to erode our unity, which is our sole strength. We need to resist the temptation to let the forces of evil, which operate to divide us, materialize.
Every one of us should be mindful that speaking ill of another person is akin to harming one’s own kin. Conversely, showing love and readiness to protect those around us, whether in our buildings, on the streets, or literally anywhere, ensures our well-being. This unity keeps us all safe, wherever we might be.
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Question: What role does the ten play in individual comprehension?
Answer: You perceive spirituality in the Kli (vessel) created by your ten.
Question: Why with these precise friends and not with others?
Answer: This is determined by the Creator.
Question: Is it possible to feel the state of a friend only when we are together at the same level in spirituality?
Answer: No, not necessarily. If you strive to understand each other and connect with each other, then it is possible in specific connections.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost”
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Question: Rabash’s articles pull me to a state I am not yet at, but want to be. After this, when we begin sorting them out, the mind and the egoistic nature turn on and seek some kind of justification.
How can I make sure that the entire ten and I will catch up with the state of Rabash and the desire of the heart?
Answer: The fact that you feel the difference between your mind and your heart is already good. The fact that you can even control yourself is also very good.
Now, you just need to check whether you agree with your heart and mind and whether you can bring them closer to each other. Then, you will feel what is essential in them and what is secondary.
The bringing together of heart and mind depends on how one aligns oneself with the Creator, the group, and the teacher. And then it turns out that he can simultaneously work in both the heart and the mind.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch”
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Comment: The article “Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave” is, in principle, very difficult to understand, just like other articles in The Book of Zohar. But you say they should be read as a magical remedy, a segula.
My Response: A Segula is a certain property that unfolds as you use it. In other words, it is an action that affects you even if you read it without understanding anything. And you change according to what reveals to you.
Question: Suppose a person has read this article. How can he check what has changed in him?
Answer: From reading one article, he cannot do anything yet. But gradually, by reading The Book of Zohar and going through all the properties and circumstances described in it, he begins to feel changes within himself.
Question: For example, we talked about fear. Is there a way I can check if I have developed a fear of the Creator?
Answer: Yes. You can check to what extent you have thoughts about what is said in the Torah is true and worth following. For example, if you start experiencing fear that you will not be able to fulfill the main commandment of the Creator, “love your neighbor,” then this may be a criterion that the book is influencing you. And if the awe does not arise, it means something needs to be changed.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/24/23
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Question: It is said that one should praise the Creator at night. in what situations can this advice be used?
Answer: Whenever you can, use it.
Question: Is it possible to use it when you feel a descent, when it is difficult for you to pray?
Answer: From any state.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/23, Writings of Rabash “What Are Truth and Falsehood in the Work?”
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Question: Do we only need to be concerned with correcting desires, and the agreement of the heart will be the test?
Answer: Heart and desire are the same thing. If you check your desires, it means you check your heart.
Question: When I try to stay on the subject, I notice that I am failing hopelessly. Why?
Answer: To show you where you are. Therefore, this is good.
Question: We do not want to pray with our hearts because we fear losing. How can we stop being afraid of losing the feeling of this illusion, i.e., our egoistic life? Where is my ten in all this?
Answer: You need to find the ten. You need to feel the ten. You just need to adhere to the heart of your friends.
Question: It is said: “Do not judge a friend until you are in his place.” Does this mean that we should completely abandon the assessment of the actions of our friends? Or is it not worth dwelling on it? What should be our attitude to this?
Answer: The main thing for us is to take care of coming closer to a friend so we can understand him correctly. After that, we can do other actions.
Question: A prayer from the heart should be such that we are not afraid to lose all our egoistic desires. Why?
Answer: A person must be willing to lose all his egoistic desires to be able to connect with the ten. That should be his prayer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch”
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In our world, we are all connected through animalistic senses: vision, hearing, smell, touch, and tactile sensations. A person must go beyond their boundaries in order to begin to feel the upper, that is, what is above the corporeal senses. This is not something mystical, but something that a person does not perceive in his physical body now, but it exists around us!
The technical devices we use now give us a very small additional range of sensations. They only expand them, because behind the devices there are people who still translate these huge expanding ranges into information accessible to them, otherwise they will not understand what is happening with the device. It turns out that we do not go beyond ourselves.
Therefore, we do not need to invent all kinds of devices, but to correct and expand ourselves: “Do we have this in us?”
Kabbalah says that when a question arises in a person about the meaning of life, it means that he has a need to expand the perception of his five senses. Not in expanding the spectrum of frequencies in each sense organ, but in expanding oneself into some new area.
If you want to truly deepen your perception, you must radically change it from reception to bestowal, i.e., begin to contact the environment not in your senses, but outside of them, because they limit you. They refer to your animalistic body.
How can you leave the body as if it were not there? How can you make yourself feel life outside of yourself, not disturbed by your body? Then you can talk about something that really exists objectively. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah deals with, as it does not study at all what we perceive in the body.
Therefore, when people say: “What about vision, and hearing” I have nothing to say. Kabbalah immediately rejects all this, leaving it to psychology and other methodologies, this is their business. It has no connection with those desires, qualities, and thoughts that an ordinary person has because all this relates to the same quality of reception.
We need to move from the quality of reception to the quality of bestowal, i.e. neutralize ourselves by absorbing all perceptions, learn to exit ourselves and feel the space undisturbed by our body the way it really is. This is called “exiting the body,” “exiting into the spiritual world.”
Then it does not matter whether your body is alive or dead. After all, you begin to feel everything with completely different qualities that have nothing to do with your physical body. Therefore, this wisdom reveals to us the eternal perfect world. And you, to the extent of adaptation to it, to the extent of your coexistence with it, to the extent of your consolidation in it, become eternal and perfect.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Eternal and Perfect” 12/1/11
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Question: After a long stay in the cave, Rabbi Shimon’s body was covered with holes and sores. Rabbi Pinchas began to cry and said: “Woe that I have seen you so.” What do holes and sores mean?
Answer: Holes and sores symbolize rusted metal. Before that, Rabbi Shimon’s body was as if covered with an iron shell, meaning something very hard and reliable. And now this iron shell was struck by rust, and it began to crumble.
Therefore, Rabbi Shimon replied to Rabbi Pinchas: I would not have been rewarded with the revelations of the secrets of the Torah, for he was awarded all the great sublimity of his wisdom during those 13 years of hiding in the cave.
Question: And he also added: Happy I am that you have seen me so, for had you not seen me so, I would not be so. How should we understand this?
Answer: Rabbi Pinchas was a great Kabbalistic scholar. The fact that he saw Rabbi Shimon as if covered with rust suggests that Rabbi Shimon reformed while sitting in the cave, did everything he could for his people, and now he can safely leave the cave and teach.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/24/23
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