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Posted on March 11th, 2024
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Question: What does it mean to make the right decision that immediately leads to correction?
Answer: Making the right decision that immediately leads to correction is difficult. But gradually, we are getting to it.
When we begin to understand the negative and positive influences of the Creator, we influence Him ourselves, i.e., we establish feedback and reflected light (Ohr Hozer). Thus, we gradually choose which of our qualities can differ from the Creator’s and benefit us.
Question: In feedback, is the main thing that we want to reflect the pleasure that the Creator wishes to give us or that we want to return this pleasure to Him?
Answer: The main thing is that we want to return the pleasure.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”
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It is written: “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed.” Our whole life is like a field along which a man walks and collects everything from it that seems useful for his life. But if he wants his state to be like a field that is blessed by the Creator, then he must treat his life as a gift given to him from above.
The Creator is inside this field of life and allows a man to receive from it everything necessary in order to grow a harvest in this field and enjoy the fruit grown with the blessing of the Creator. And then it turns out that his field is truly a field blessed by the Creator.
The field is the upper power of the Creator clothed in the world. And in this field good fruit can grow, and harmful weeds can grow too. It all depends on the man and on how he accepts all this, that is, on what he wants to grow in this field.
The Creator has prepared a field, land, and seeds for a man; the only thing missing is man’s work. And it depends on a man’s attitude to this field of his life: whether he wants good, correct fruit to grow in this field or whether he is indifferent and does not think about it at all.
Therefore, if a person treats his life as a field blessed by the Creator, then he must connect with the Creator and make every effort so that everything that is needed grows in this field.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”
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Question: When the great Newton died, his relatives wanted to sell his writings. Naturally, they wanted to get hundreds of thousands of pounds for it.
Buyers came from the Cambridge Library, from the British National Museum, bishops, and so on. They would open Newton’s writings, start reading them and pushed them away as if it were a plague. His work remained untouched for many, many years.
The fact is, Newton believed in one God. Among other things, he quoted Rambam and followed the Jewish sages.
He wrote about the uniqueness of God, who created everything, who transmitted knowledge about the system of the universe to the first man—Adam, and then to the chosen few up to Abraham, and then to the Jewish people. This is how Newton defined the role of the Jews in the world history.
However, in a direct way, the secrets were accessible to very few. That is, they were accessible to Moses and carefully encrypted in the structure of the Jerusalem Temple. So, Newton began studying the Jerusalem Temple. In every turn and corner, he saw the harmony of the universe and wrote about it.
I do not know if it is possible to make such a comparison, but Abraham and Moses got such access to the Creator, so Newton wanted to get it too. That is, he wanted to break through to the Creator by means of science. Is it possible or not?
Answer: Through science? I think not. Many people wanted to break through science to a vision of the upper world, the upper governance, but no one was allowed to do it that way.
Question: Can you tell us why? Basically, did he take the first steps?
Answer: On the outside, he took external steps toward this in his discoveries.
Question: Yes, and he also studied Hebrew. But why is it not allowed?
Answer: The fact is you cannot reveal it that way. One must discover new instruments for attaining nature and make it so that nature would reveal itself to him. That is, from the side of man to the Creator and from the side of the Creator to man. I do not think this is possible except through Kabbalah and the science of Kabbalah. In fact, many have tried to accomplish this, but encountered such restrictions that they could not achieve this.
Question: So, after such attempts, is there no opening appearing in the heart or somewhere inside a person?
Answer: It opens up a little and it is opening, in fact, in science.
Question: And then one goes back to science?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: So, this fulfillment of the scientist—shuts everything down.
Answer: You can see how it happens. From generation to generation science somehow moves forward in small steps, but it is in fact not allowed to go further.
Question: You have been doing this all your life, and you say, “Only through Kabbalah.” You seemed to have tried to break through both the scientific method and the method of Kabbalah. And you still say: “Through Kabbalah?”
Answer: Yes.
Comment: Here we have one point you keep talking about called “faith above reason.” That is, the scientist follows the mind. The Kabbalist follows faith above reason.
My Response: Yes.
Question: For regular people, can you explain again what is it, what is the difference between the other sciences if faith is above reason?
Answer: I cannot explain it. A person should seriously engage in self-education, but not from other methods or sources.
Comment: Not psychology.
My Response: This is not psychology. One must position himself in relation to nature so nature will let him in.
It lets you in when a person is ready to serve it in everything for the sake of attaining nature. That is, for the Creator to be above all else for him. This is not a religious attachment to the Creator, but rather a devotion to the Creator in the idea, the adhesion to the Creator.
Question: What is the difference between religion and the science of Kabbalah in this case? You said: “This is not a religion.” Religion too has a direction, it has a specific aim. But here?
Answer: Here one must follow the commandments of the Creator in order to attain Him.
Question: But not there?
Answer: No, religion does not offer a direction to attain the Creator; no.
Question: So why do I follow the commandments?
Answer: To follow His external instructions, external laws.
Question: But this point of attaining Him is missing?
Answer: Yes, although you cannot explain it at all. You need to study and little by little begin to understand what is required of you.
Question: So it still requires me to change?
Answer: Yes.
Question: At what point do I realize I have to change? I keep studying and studying—at what point?
Answer: When complete self-annulment is required.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/8/24
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He is called El, Elokim, Shadai, Tzvaot, EKYEH, so they would know Him in each and every attribute (Baal HaSulam, Foreword to The Book of Zohar, #40).
Question: The names of the Creator correspond to the ten Sefirot. Is it their filling or their naming?
Answer: These are ten Sefirot with light in them.
The name of the Creator consists of the Kli and the light that fills it. Kabbalists express their achievements in almost identical names. These names make it easier to indicate what you are suggesting. Just like in our world, if you talk about someone or something, you express some particular perception of this object, nothing more.
Question: What does it mean that the Kli of the ten takes such a form that it can accept the light or the name of the Creator, for example, El, Adni, or Eki?
Answer: It all depends on the level at which a person unites all the concepts of his relationship with the Creator. In what he is similar to the Creator, he senses this measure of similarity in himself, measures it, and thus names the Creator.
Just like in our world, you say some person is smart and has some kind of feature. That is, you call it that through your perception of its properties.
Question: Concerning the Creator, can I measure and verify this?
Answer: By comprehending the Creator, you measure your likeness to Him. And everyone who reveals Him on the same level calls Him the same way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”
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Our life is a field blessed by the Creator, on which we must grow our spiritual future. And it depends only on us what kind of harvest we will gather from this field.
Everything depends on how we treat this soil from which it should grow, our attitude to working together in the field of all of us, and our attitude to the Creator. After all, the Creator gives this earth the strength to grow crops according to our desire.
Therefore, everything depends on the work between us and our appeal to the Creator. The field is the connection between us in the group and the Creator. And we need to ask the Creator to unite us more so that our common prayer reaches Him and so He gives strength to the earth to grow fruits on it.
This prayer depends only on our desire to achieve a result together and our willingness to put all our strength and hopes into this achievement, then a genuine prayer will be born from us turning to the Creator, which will awaken and oblige Him to give a harvest to our field, as it says: “My sons defeated me.”
That is how we will feel, attain, and discover the whole world, called the field. The world will open up before us like a book, and we will move forward together as one soul, one force, where everyone depends on each other and is connected to each other. That is when we will reveal that we really have a field of life blessed by the Creator in front of us.
We want to receive the strength and knowledge from the Creator of how we can work with our lives to turn them into an uplift and raise them to the degree of the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”
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Question: What does it mean that a person attains the ten Sefirot for the first time?
Answer: Attaining the ten Sefirot means that a person goes through all their properties that are imprinted on him, associates with them, and becomes like them. Thus, he passes through the world of Atzilut.
Question: How do these properties pass through the worlds and become imprinted on them?
Answer: Each property manifests itself before a particular world and by passing through it, gets colored. as it were, in it, and moves on.
Question: Suppose we want to reveal ten Sefirot in the ten. Everyone feels unity and connection with the friends. What does it mean that the ten Sefirot are starting to manifest in this, and each property has attained this feeling?
Answer: A person feels himself consisting of these properties, wants to feel the Creator in each of them, and thus reveals them within himself.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 2/12/24
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And it is said that at the hour when the Creator had a desire to create man, He called together the “camps of the higher angels” and, seating them in front of Him, said: “I want to create a human being.”
They objected to Him: “What is a man that You should remember about him?!” What is special about the person You are going to create? He answered them: “Man was created in Our image, and his wisdom will surpass your wisdom” (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”)
Question: What kind of forces are angels?
Answer: Angels are single forces of nature, each with its own name.
Question: Let us say the force of gravity, is it an angel?
Answer: Gravity is an angel, electricity is an angel, and whatever you want. At the human level, this force can be envy and other properties. We can even control these forces, but only slightly. We do not know how they act because it has nothing to do with earthly sciences, but only with manifestations of the upper forces.
Question: Why does the Creator ask these forces for advice? What does it mean?
Answer: The Creator, i.e., the supreme unifying force, looks at each of them and chooses how to use them to achieve His goals.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/21/24
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Question: Is talking to a person and talking to their soul the same thing or different?
Answer: When you talk to someone, you are conversing with the person, not their soul. Speaking to the soul means opening your soul to each other, connecting on the next, higher degree, and feeling each other there. It is a completely different level of contact between people. But to do this, you need to feel the Creator.
Comment: I have a strong desire to learn how to speak directly to a person’s heart, not just at the level where we communicate, but at a deeper level.
My Response: To achieve this, you need to activate different desires, vessels, and tools. With a little more time, you will get there. Do not rush ahead of time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”
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