Check Oneself for Purity of Thoughts and Feelings

624.07Question: How can we try real bestowal so that the heart and mind serve exclusively the Creator?

Answer: It depends only on your request, prayer, and nothing else.

There is no golden key or secret lock cipher here. Just check yourself for the purity of your thoughts and feelings directed toward the Creator, correct them all the time, and ask Him to correct, direct, correct, and accept.

We must put our hearts and minds together and try to make them work in the same way toward the goal. That will lift us to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Mind and Heart”

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Strengthen the Circle of Bestowal

509Question: What determines the state of affirmation of the Creator’s power over oneself and how can we develop it?

Answer: It depends on how much you think about it, get closer to such thoughts and desires, and ask the Creator to make them the strongest in you. Gradually, this work leads to choosing the necessary desires and qualities to build the right Kli.

Question: How can everything we receive from the Creator be accepted properly and directed back to Him? What does it mean to constantly strengthen and maintain the circle of bestowal between me and Him?

Answer: We try to determine the intentions, desires, and thoughts of the Creator and why He does what happens to us. That way we will be getting closer to Him all the time.

Question: What is the identifier of my corrected qualities? And what is the quality of bestowal in the corrected qualities?

Answer: The quality of bestowal in the corrected quality can be determined by how much you rise to connection and mutual help with your friends. That is the most important thing, as it is said: let a man help his neighbor.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Thought Is Regarded as Nourishment”

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The Choice of a Kabbalist

961.2Question: What kind of tool is it that either creates or destroys?

Answer: These are our thoughts.

Using thoughts correctly means understanding that they all come from the Creator and are clothed in our friends and us. Of all our thoughts, we must determine which ones will help us move forward and which ones will not allow us to move forward. That is our choice.

Question: How can we go beyond the desire to receive in our thoughts?

Answer: Any thought reveals itself in the inner qualities of a person. Therefore, our job is to transform these qualities under the influence of the upper light into the qualities of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Thought Is Regarded as Nourishment”

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 3/15/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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Are We Going to Prolong Life?

204Question: A person complains about his life to God: this is not good, and that is not good, and I have problems at work, trouble with the family, debts, and  poor health. God manifests Himself and says “This is all understandable. But tell me one thing: Are we going to prolong life?”

Should we prolong this life?

Answer: I think if God is asking a person, then the person should answer “Sure, give me more.”

Question: So, it means that for all our complaints this is bad and that is bad, we still should continue?

Answer: If we live, we have to live.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/18/23

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How Can You Protect the Heart?

630.2Question: How do you protect the heart from selfish pleasures?

Answer: You have to start tracking what your heart feels. What exactly does it want? How does it seek to connect with the Creator? Is it the proper connection?

Comment: The right intention fades and turns into “for yourself.”

My Response: There are no excuses, you should check for this.

You have no other goal but to ask the Creator to open your soul, correct it, and fill it. That is what we need—three actions: to open, to correct, to fill. That is what you should ask the Creator for.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Mind and Heart”

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American Universities Promote Freedom of Antisemitism

448.9Comment: These days, only an indifferent person avoids talking about American antisemitism, about what is happening at universities there, and so on. I would like to talk about it.

My Response: This was already happening 15 to 20 years ago when I was still visiting universities.

Comment: I know the foundation was laid and money was invested there. Significant sums of Arab money were invested in order to promote it. It amazes me that the script was written then for many years to come.

My Response: They understood what they were doing.

Question: They quietly invested money in universities and promoted this hatred. And now it has manifested itself very clearly.

We know Congress called for a meeting with the Presidents of three top universities: Harvard, Univeristy of Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They were asked the same question over and over. Their video went viral on the Internet. They were asked: “Do calls for the genocide of Jews violate the code of conduct at your university?” It was the exact question: “Do calls for the genocide of Jews violate your university’s code of conduct? Yes or no?”

And they would not answer yes or no. They tried to avoid answering. Do you think they are afraid? Or is this antisemitism already deeply ingrained in them?

Answer: I think they are not just afraid, although there is also something to be afraid of, even physically.

Question: If they were defending the Jews, then they or their relatives would be threatened physically?

Answer: Yes, but there is nothing you can do about it anyway. This is the natural development of the world.

Question: So do you think it is already a part of them? And nothing can change it?

Answer: It will only change if the Jews change! So it is said in the Torah, so it is said everywhere, and so say the antisemites.

Comment: We see heroes always find an indirect path. And you say we need to sort things out within ourselves.

My Response: Why should we hate them? It all comes from above.

Comment: Well, they want us to disappear.

My Response: Then disappear in a spiritual sense in your attitude toward the world, toward yourself, and others. Rise to the level of giving, bestowing, and loving. And you will see how the world will change.

Question: Is this your call to the Jews now?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Specifically to the Jews? Will it continue until there is a revolution within the Jews themselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It seems we are now approaching this revolution after all?

Answer: I hope our people will be able to realize it, come to their senses, and turn around.
This is our task.

Question: At the same time, all three presidents of the three universities stated the need to protect free speech. Here is the phrase they used to hide behind—”freedom of speech.” What do you personally understand by this phrase? Is there a place for it?

Answer: We need to educate generations to the point where free speech in itself intentionally remains only in calls for rapprochement.

Question: Are these calls free speech? To be free to call for rapprochement?

Answer: Yes and everything else will just disappear.

Question: Well of course, for now it means something else—saying what you want, whatever comes into your head, and calling it free speech. You do not call this free speech?

Answer: No.

Question: What do you think it is? Saying whatever they think?

Answer: Considering the nature of man, this is just propaganda of hatred, mutual rejection, and calls for mutual destruction.

Question: Is that because we are in such a state today? Is this what comes out of us? What then is freedom of speech?

Answer: Free speech can only be called as such when it promotes mutual dependence and rapprochement.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/11/23

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Demanding Goodness Is Ignoble

549.01He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged (Bnejamin Franklin).

Answer: That is good, it is true.

Question: Is that another way of saying, “Do not expect good from someone to whom you have done good”?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: But I secretly expect good things.

My Response: Yes, as if you paid and now want it back.

Question: Yes, I did good to you, so you also do good to me. Is it wrong?

Answer: It is not that it is wrong, it is ignoble.

Question: So, it is in our nature, right? We have a sordid nature.

Answer: Certainly.

Question: So if I do good to someone, does it turn out, according to Franklin, that it is contagious, and I can do it again and again and again?

Answer: Yes, it generally happens as a habit. And a person already develops a need to do good.

Question: So, you can develop it like a muscle? Simply exercise it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you advise a person to do this?

Answer: Of course, why not?

Question: When you say “good,” what does it mean? To do good to another, what is good for him?

Answer: I don’t know what is good for him! What is good for him, that is what I should do.

Question: But before I do it, do I need to find out what is good for him? Or am I deciding based on my perception?

Answer: You still need to find out. You need to know the other person and put yourself in his shoes. And you need to do such a good thing, such a good action that would fit in precisely.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/23

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The Spiritual Treasury

212We have been lost in the terrible desert along with all of humanity, and now we have found a great, abundant treasure, namely the books of Kabbalah in the treasure (Baal HaSulam “The Last Generation”).

Why does Baal HaSulam call Kabbalistic books a treasury? The fact is that all Kabbalistic books describe the origin of man, our Earth, and human society—where it should move, based on what laws it exists, and how it can change itself in nature and nature to suit itself.

All this applies to Kabbalah, and even more so if we are talking about the last generation. After all, we are talking about a state we must reach in the future.

The information contained in the book shows humanity how it should exist. In this way it can ensure its good development for many, many years until it reaches the highest stage of its development as the last generation.
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