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Posted on February 13th, 2024
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Question: Two students looked at a waving flag. One said: “The flag is moving.” The other replied: “No, it is the wind moving making the flag move.” Their teacher came and said: “You are both wrong. It is a thought that moves in your head.”
Why does everyone have their own perception of reality?
Answer: The perception of reality is different for everyone because we are all brought up on different foundations and ideals.
Comment: But I see the table, I see this flag.
My Response: But he sees it differently, and the third person sees something else. So everyone sees according to how they are brought up.
Question: So we cannot agree on the fact that the flag is moving? We can’t agree on this together?
Answer: No.
Question: Someone will object? He will say: “Is it the wind”? And another will say: “A thought.”
Are we supposed to agree at all? We say we should come to the same point of view. We keep saying: “The decision made together is the right one.”
Answer: But as I understand it, they cannot make a decision together.
Question: They cannot. How do we make a decision together?
Answer: There is no way. They will abandon it and leave. Later, they will be gathered together again from above, directed, and pushed.
Question: How did the Sanhedrin make their decisions 2,000 years ago? There was a Sanhedrin in Judea, a governing body. How did they make a single decision with so many people?
Answer: There were a lot of discussions and opinions. Still, they were all not simple people and they understood there were those among them closer to the upper force, to the Creator, or to nature, who understood and knew more. And they more or less yielded to them.
Question: So, we need to annul before the loftier people?
Answer: There can be no tricks or contrivances here, only whoever is more elevated is right.
Question: But how does anyone determine they are more elevated? Again, we are faced with the perception of reality. How does each one feel?
Answer: In our reality, this is impossible.
Comment: So you are bringing us to the realization that it is impossible to make a common decision.
Answer: Of course not. Whoever is in charge of the army, or the law enforcement agencies, or anything else is right. This world is doomed.
Comment: It feels like the blind are walking not knowing where they are going. I would still like to give the world a chance.
My Response: To give it a chance is not up to us. We can see that. Giving a chance is only up to the upper world.
Question: Should we come to the conclusion we are governed from above? Should everyone understand we do not lead but are led?
Answer: Yes.
Question: If we come to this understanding, to this annulment before the upper force that controls everything, then what?
Answer: Then we will look for the wisest among us and follow him. This is called a chain of blind who are following the sighted.
Comment: This is not easy for the world.
My Response: Then it has a lot more to learn.
Question: But there is only one conclusion that it must come only to this?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Okay, we can understand the wind. The flag moving is also clear. How does thought control or move, say, objects?
Answer: Wherever I direct my thoughts is where I am. All my forces are headed there too. Thought is first.
Question: Does thought come first? That is what we forget all the time. We think: “This is me going,” but is it a thought that sent me there? And who directs thoughts? Is it this upper force?
Why can’t it direct our thoughts now to the seeing, to the fact that we can only get out if we grab onto the sighted?
Answer: Because we have not matured yet.
Question: So we are yet to mature?
Answer: Yes. When my teacher died, I clearly realized we are not mature yet. But we have to advance.
Question: Why did it happen at that particular time? You said: “That was the exact point.”
Answer: Because the world has become an orphan.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/4/23
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Question: What does it mean to constantly care about the Creator’s benefit?
Answer: Taking care of the Creator’s benefit means doing everything for His sake.
Question: How do we form such an intention?
Answer: As far as you understand, do everything for His contentment. Give Him your desires, your thoughts, your aspirations, and your dreams. Send everything you have to Him. And He will feel it and delight in you.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/30/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘As I Am for Nothing, so You Are for Nothing,’ in the Work?”
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Question: What does it mean that a person corrects the inner body and reveals the NRN of Nefesh of the world of Assiya? Are these some degrees of connection?
Answer: A person corrects his or her desires, which first rise to the level of the world of Assiya, then to the level of the world of Yetzira, then to the level of the world of Beriya, and the world of Atzilut. There are four degrees before us that we must climb.
This correction occurs in connection in the ten, when you discover the Creator, the light, inside your unity with the friends.
Question: How does a person understand that now he or she has risen to the degree of the world of Assiya and not just experiencing a feeling of connection with one’s friends?
Answer: At the level of the world of Assiya, a person still does not understand this. One must ascend to Yetzira and Beriya. At the level of the world of Beriya, a person comes to understand where one is and what is happening to him or her. Then comes the world of Atzilut.
Question: Do these degrees have anything to do with the connection between friends? What is added in these details: Assiya, Yetzira, Beriya? Is this some kind of connection density?
Answer: Yes, it adds a feeling of unity with friends and the ability to hold the light in their connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot”
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Question: What should our thoughts be focused on to come to study the Torah, as it is said, day and night?
Answer: To do this you need to understand that everything that happens in us that arises in our thoughts and desires comes from the Creator, and we must only react correctly to this.
Question: If all thoughts and intentions are from the Creator, then the prayer given to me is also from Him. At all points I connect myself with Him. How can I outsmart and persuade Him to reveal Himself?
Answer: Beg, do not persuade or somehow deceive. Just ask, that is precisely where your freewill lies.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Thought Is a Result of the Desires”
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Although it seems as though he is a great person, he should nonetheless look into his actions and think, “What makes me great?” (Maor VaShemesh, Ekev).
Question: It says a person should find what he is respected for. Does it mean that I go to the group for the sake of respect?
Answer: You come to the group not for respect, but to put yourself next to your friends so that you are the smallest of them, and they are the great in everything. And when you have such an inner attitude toward them, you will be able to start receiving a certain amount of spiritual energy from the Creator.
Question: But if I cannot do it and I have to consider myself the smallest, how do I get rid of the resentment against my friends?
Answer: You should, on the contrary, thank them not verbally, but internally for giving you such conditions, and you can put yourself even lower. And then a carpeted path awaits you.
You are all valuable elements that the Creator has created in humanity because you are the closest to the Creator and bring the upper light from Him to all humanity. Therefore, you must respect your friends as the greatest and most important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/24, ”Preparation to ‘Life in the Ten’ Convention”
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Question: How can one dissolve into the world Kli to affect the world to come toward peace?
Answer: It depends on your prayers, words, and thoughts. If you want peace in the world and all your friends to come together in one heart, that is how it will be.
Question: How do I let go of the control over all my states and go by faith above reason?
Answer: Let them go. What the Creator will do to you will happen.
Question: It says: “One should only take care not to harm the society.” How can we harm society?
Answer: By the fact that we would rise above zero in our pride.
Question: Should the connection of the ten and all of Bnei Baruch take place simultaneously?
Answer: No, by no means. It may happen that today you will have a spiritual ascent and the rest of the ten in a month or two.
Question: What kind of intention should the ten build to raise the proper prayer?
Answer: So that we can all be united. So that everyone aspires to be the last, but he will be the first.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah 1/26/24, ”Preparation to “Life in the Ten” Convention”
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Question: I want all of us to connect in one heart, bring contentment to the Creator, and reveal Him. How do you feel about it?
Answer: Everyone should imagine themselves being the last of our entire group. Everyone should help others and see others above themselves. Everyone should be sure they are moving forward on the path to the Creator.
As a result, we should feel like a single body during the convention. Then we will be successful.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah 1/26/24, ”Preparation to “Life in the Ten” Convention”
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