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Question: What is the difference between the fact that a person feels dead in spirituality and that he wants nothing but spirituality?
Answer: The difference is vast. In one state, you get everything; in the other, you get emptiness. What could be more vivid about a person’s desires?
Question: There is a void in both places. Does spirituality also unfold from the void?
Answer: Spirituality is revealed not from emptiness, but from the fact that you are empty.
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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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Question: What is an attack on the Creator?
Answer: This means that with the help of the actions that the Creator performs in the world on each of you and all of you, you want to influence Him so that He changes His attitude toward you, helps, and lifts you up.
Question: Is the attack a prayer?
Answer: Prayer, action, it does not matter.
Question: How do I verify that we have made an attack? In a conventional war, this is understandable because the result is immediately visible. How do we see that we influenced Him when He starts helping us? Is this even possible?
Answer: Yes, it is possible. Moreover, you will enter into an action together with the Creator.
Question: How can we organize an attack in the ten?
Answer: Come to an agreement with each other, try it, and see where it leads you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Way and a Far Way”
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This is the meaning of “your eyes are as doves.” Eynaim [eyes] of Kedusha [holiness], called Eynaim of the Shechina [Divinity], are Yonim [doves]. They deceive us and we think that she has no Eynaim, as it is written in The Zohar, “A fair maiden who has no eyes” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 28, “I Shall Not Die but Live”).
The eyes of holiness are the precise, pure attitude of the Creator toward creation. Next to it, there are other degrees. Based on the degrees one merits to reach, he looks at what is happening to him, to the world, and the Creator.
Question: Why does it say the eyes of the Holy Shechina deceive us?
Answer: Because we do not actually see them. Shechina without eyes is faith above reason.
Question: It follows that until we come to bestowal or reveal the Shechina, we are blind and do not see the truth. How can we find the way? How will it be shown to us?
Answer: Only through the connection between you. If you want to unite and reveal the Creator in your unity, you will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writngs of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”
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Question: One day a lot of starfish came in with the tide. When the tide was low they were left to die on the sand. A boy began to throw the stars into the sea so that they would survive.
A man came up to him and said: “This is stupid. There are a million starfish here, and your attempts will not change anything.” The boy picked up the next starfish and said: “No, my attempts will change a lot for this very star.”
Today, many people are suffering, as we know. Is trying to eliminate or reduce this suffering for one person the right thing to do?
Answer: In general, yes. It depends on what calculation you make. You are dealing either with the Creator, or with the suffering of this person, or with yourself, and so on.
Question: If I am dealing with the Creator, then where is the suffering coming from?
Answer: From the Creator.
Question: And they are given to this person so that he could go through it?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And, by and large, do I not even have the right to interfere?
Answer: This is also taken into account by the Creator, so it does not matter, you can do it. You want to save others from suffering so that you can feel better. Egoism has not gone anywhere.
Question: Do you still admit the possibility that I want to save a person from suffering?
Answer: No, you cannot be in his shoes.
Question: So what is empathy for another person?
Answer: This is because you empathize; that is, you imagine that this is all happening to you, and therefore you must make him feel better.
Question: And are you still thinking about yourself?
Answer: And nothing else!
Question: How do we get out of this impasse?
Answer: There is no way out. No way!
Comment: That is, all the people who do charity work…
My Response: Of course, they are doing it only for themselves!
Question: Is the only way out to turn to the source of all suffering?
Answer: Turn to the Creator, and if the Creator puts you in a very special state where He eliminates your egoism, your desires to enjoy, then you will be able to do something for the sake of others, and not for yourself. But these are all exceptional cases.
Question: Let ‘s take such an ideal case. What does it mean to do something for the sake of another person? The Creator gave this opportunity. What does it mean?
Answer: Imagine that you have to cut yourself off from all connection with another person. Disconnect yourself from him and do good to him.
Question: Without thinking about yourself at all?
Answer: In any way! This is called that I disconnect myself from another person.
Question: Is this the help of the Creator if He gives such an opportunity to a person?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So is a person not capable of this in any other way?
Answer: No, he is not. It is not our nature.
Question: How is all this veiled and covered up so that we have the feeling that we are really doing good?
Answer: This is what we do in this life. Nothing can be done to us, we are so unusual
Question: Then the key question is, should you still do good to others or not? Should I try to do this or not?
Answer: I would tell you, do it just in case. 🙂 What an egoistic answer, isn’t it?
Question: You will get credit for that, right?
Answer: Yes. You would say that I once did something, here and there…
Comment: That is, one way or another, you claim that I gain these points for myself.
My Response: You do not gain them.
Question: So I do not gain them as a result. And yet, should I try to do to others what I consider good or not?
Answer: Do it, but at the same time, think that by doing this you are not doing anything for yourself. Then it will actually be more or less clean.
Question: That is, do I not gain anything from this, as it were?
Answer: No. I do not gain, I will not gain, and I do not want to gain.
Question: What if it hurts me so much that there is no way for me to get out of this nature?
Answer: Then you are a good egoist. A good egoist means that I would like to rise above my egoism, but I cannot. And that is why I suffer.
Question: Is this a good state by and large?
Answer: No, this is a wretched state. 🙂
Question: Can this state be called a prayer or not?
Answer: Any state can be called a prayer.
Question: Which prayer is correct, in your opinion?
Answer: A correct prayer is when I am looking at a wallet lying on the ground and I imagine that there is a bank note for a million dollars in it. 🙂
Question: And I ask that it be so? That is, after all, one way or another, it is for myself?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And if it makes me feel bad, and I want to get rid of it?
Answer: No, when you understand that this is your nature, then you will not feel bad.
Question: Coming to the conclusion that this is my nature, precisely understanding this in my heart and mind, is this practically the starting point?
Answer: Yes, from this you can start moving.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/18/23
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One of the worst blunders is to think that pedagogy is the science of the child; no! It is the science of man (Janusz Korczak, How to Love a Child).
Janusz Korczak’s ideas and practical pedagogical achievements permanently went down in the history of Polish and world pedagogy. They have become a unique source of knowledge, ideas and inspiration in the quest for new educational solutions… .
For Korczak, his social and educational work with the child firmly at the centre was a way of showing reverence for what is human in the figure of the child. It was also a way of recognising, through action, the child’s full human worth. …
The company of children can indeed be tiring, Korczak conceded. But this is not because we have to strain to lower ourselves to their level. On the contrary: the exertion lies in our having to raise ourselves to their level, to their feelings, so as not to hurt them. Once we have learned to know children we realise, Korczak claimed, that we have no reason for boasting.
“As to feelings, they outdo us with unbridled power. As to intellect, they are our equals, lacking only experience …” (Topicality and Relevance of Janusz Korczak’s Pedagogical Approach to Children and Their Upbringing).
Question: In your opinion, is pedagogy for children or for adults?
Answer: It is to understand the children.
Question: So, it turns out that it is for parents, for teachers, and not for children?
Answer: Yes, and what is there to teach a child? How can you teach him?! He will gradually learn on his own from life.
Question: So, all these institutions where they teach, teach, teach, in fact …?
Answer: They don’t teach anything. The child has his own conceptual apparatus; he is constantly in it and processes all the data received from the outside world. And it all happens very rapidly for him.
Question: Does the child process it on his own, as you say? Is he studying precisely by himself?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Then why does the whole system of upbringing, education, all this huge system, exist?
Answer: It is spinning around us on its own and that is it. There is nothing we can do with it. You cannot put anything into a child, but just the environment, friends, teachers, also partly. But all this creates the inner world of the child, who then enters into life. And then he begins to take from life.
Question: What do you think parenting is? You have pushed education back a bit now.
Answer: First, education and upbringing are not the same thing. Education is filling a child with all sorts of wisdom, and parenting is an example of an adult to a child of how to behave in certain circumstances.
Question: Is an adult a teacher, a parent, an environment, and so on?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So, it turns out that the right upbringing is to put the child in an environment that gives the right examples. What examples should be shown to a child so that this child grows up correctly and is brought up correctly?
Answer: It is impossible to say. The child selects these examples himself and assimilates them.
Question: I’m showing an example, but maybe he takes something of his own from this and only understands that?
Answer: Yes.
Question: How do you penetrate into this child’s world?
Answer: There is no need to! Let him develop on his own.
Comment: But I have to guide him somehow.
My Response: I don’t think it is necessary. Let him run down the street, communicate with his peers, and thus he will develop.
Question: Should there be an ideal environment for a child to grow up in?
Answer: Children and animals.
Question: To have children and animals around. And where is the place for an adult?
Answer: There is no place for an adult there. Adults will impose all sorts of behavioral laws on children, and this is not necessary. Gradually, the child will grow up, and he will discover these laws for himself.
Question: Should an adult get involved in the children’s battles?
Answer: No! I think there should be no teachers here.
Question: And then what grows out of a child if, as you say, he is surrounded by children, animals, nature?
Answer: In accordance with his inner world, he soaks in and absorbs everything that can be obtained from the world.
Comment: There is also drawing, dancing, and natural history. There is a place where an adult comes and says: “Let me teach the child.” Things like that.
My Response: There is no need! He will learn by himself. And all these disciplines imposed on him, on the contrary, will limit him.
Comment: I’m already talking about simple disciplines: dancing, drawing. Will he master even that?
My Response: Yes.
Question: Is there any conclusion to be drawn?
Answer: The conclusion is very simple: leave children alone with your great thoughts and instructions, pedagogy, everything-everything-everything that is in you.
Question: What about the parents then? Parents, adults, somehow still exist. How should parents raise their children properly?
Answer: I do not see in any generation, and we have lived for many, many, many hundreds of generations, that some generation took something useful and good from their parents and achieved something useful and good. Every time we just relearn.
Question: So, you learn from your mistakes, you learn from your life, you learn everything yourself. And it is necessary to leave, you say, a person with this “himself,” to leave him to go?
Answer: Yes. I hope that we will come to a state when we understand how we should treat children in general. I hope that this will be understood and realized in the near future.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/14/23
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Question: You patiently explain the same things year after year. Where do you get such patience from?
Answer: You know me. I am impatient! But I have no choice. That is an example of the greatness of the goal, the vision of the upper picture of the universe prevailing over all my animal qualities.
I am terribly impatient and harsh. I cannot stand people. I am an introvert. I have so many negative qualities I am shocked at myself.
But when I see a spiritual system, get involved in it, and work for it, then all these qualities work the other way around, oppositely. I become patient and explain the same thing twenty times. For many years now, I start every morning and end every day like this. But it could never have happened before!
I made many revolutions in life until I came to the science of Kabbalah. I am not even talking about myself, but about the fact that this system, once revealed to you, conquers you, seemingly enslaving you. You cannot stop working for it because its greatness, harmony, and perfection will not let you go.
You cannot turn to something different because it is like falling into manure. Will you stay there? No! You still have to get up and dust it off.
While here is the Garden of Eden! True, it hurts to see it unfinished like this, but the system itself is shining on you. So you have to take an active part in reviving it completely.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Negative Properties” 1/5/12
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Question: One boy had a very bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and said: “Whenever you offend someone, hammer one nail into the fence.” On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails. Then he began to learn to control his anger, and the day came when he did not hammer a single nail.
His father said, “Now for every day that you have managed to restrain yourself, pull one nail out of the fence.” One day there was not a single nail left in the door, he pulled everything out.
The father said, “Son, you have done a great job. But look at how many holes are left in the wood. It will never be the same again.”
The moral is this: Every time you offend someone, it leaves scars. You can take back your words later, but the scars will remain forever.
The question is, is it possible to resist offending another? After all, you say that we are egoists anyway. Can we do it?
Answer: No, every moment we try to lower others; otherwise, I do not feel that I am living!
Question: You see and feel it, but you do it anyway?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: And by this we, as if, leave scars.
My Response: This is the principle of existence of our world.
Question: It means it is all covered in scars, by and large. Are the scars in me or in the one I am lowering?
Answer: In fact, it is in you.
Question: So, these scars remain in me. If we cover our transgressions, the fact that we offend someone, as you say with love, what happens to these scars?
Answer: Then they heal! There are no traces left!
Question: So, is the assumption that it is possible to heal scars so that no traces remain true?
Answer: None of the traces.
Question: This is the most important advice! If you cover all this transgression with love.
Answer: It is said about this: “Love covers all crimes.”
Question: How can you cover with love? How can you do it?
Answer: Selflessly. That is, just love. That is all.
Question: You just now humiliated him.
Answer: No, not just now, it cannot happen right away.
Question: You felt that you humiliated him, and it made you feel bad. Is this the case in stages?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Do you have to somehow evoke love for him? Can this love be evoked? It does not exist in me.
Answer: Yes, love can be evoked. From where? Because there is hate. This hatred, from the opposite side, manifests itself as love.
Question: So my hatred for this person is what causes love. At what point? Is it when I feel like I am wrong or what?
Answer: It is under the influence of the upper light.
Question: But do I need to feel something? That I want to make it up somehow, it hurts me, I feel bad, I have scars! Should I feel this?
Answer: Yes. It has to be present.
Comment: Then, this is a man before us.
In most cases, we do not feel it. Basically, we justify all the scars we inflict.
My Response: It means that we will have to check ourselves and correct ourselves a lot more.
Question: Why are we not hurt by these scars, we have so many? We have already “massacred” many people.
Answer: But we do not feel it. Our egoism erases it all carefully.
Question: When do I start to feel this, and what is it to “cover with love” hatred or dislike for the other?
Answer: I cannot say any more. Imagine that you are writing on a blackboard and then you start gradually erasing every word you say and writing the opposite.
Question: Do you mean “I hate” – “I love”? “You” – “myself,” like this?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/8/24
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