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Question: Should we learn to differentiate between the people of Israel and all other peoples in the world?
Answer: There is a much easier path to correcting their souls for the peoples of the world than for the people of Israel. Therefore we do not need to separate these categories. To the extent that we feel the need for correction in our movement toward the Creator, in drawing closer to Him, that is how we will act.
Comment: But we still must awaken this need for adhesion with the Creator.
My Response: If you have a predisposition to this, then you can join and help in the general correction of the nations of the world. Gradually you will begin to feel their souls and will be able to elevate them.
That is a great responsibility that falls on the people of Israel or on those who join in the correction so that they can spread the methodology of correcting souls and unite.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, “The Holocaust Remembrance Day“
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Question: There are people among us who long for the Creator as for a beloved; they want to adhere with Him. And some want to fulfill His will, to take their place in the common system regardless of their state. What should the desire really be?
Answer: Everything is good. A person will still come to their original desire. But in the beginning, let them go the way that attracts them the most.
The main thing is not to stop studying and to constantly communicate with the friends. After all, it is through them that one receives the general direction toward the purpose of creation. Otherwise, nothing else can help here.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, “The Holocaust Remembrance Day“
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Question: Pharaoh can dress in beautiful clothes, and to us it seems that he is the Creator, but in the end, all the work was for Pharaoh. How do we check our intention to bestow, and how do we develop it?
Answer: Through the friends, then we will avoid mistakes.
Question: What is the root of repentance from love?
Answer: It means that we turn to the Creator, not out of what we lack, but out of our desire to express love for Him.
Question: What does it mean to grab the serpent by its tail?
Answer: Grabbing the serpent by the head or tail signifies the right and wrong attitude toward what the Creator does with us.
Question: What is the blood of Passover and the circumcision blood, and what is the difference between them?
Answer: The blood of Passover and the circumcision blood are the final manifestations of egoism. If a person overcomes them, they help him break free from the rule of egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter 10
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If I had a son, I would tell him that the world presents a playful change of scenes, and one should not seek in it either a wise plan or a lofty goal.
If he learns to accept the turns of fate, to love the variability of life, and not to resist it with all the strength of his soul, then he will become the person God intended him to be (Milán Füst)
Question: What did God intend for us?
Answer: We cannot say that immediately. It will only come as a result of our great work on ourselves. Then we will come to a position where we will be fulfilled with God’s attitude toward us.
Question: Will it be important to us?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Do you agree with the statement that “It is not worth seeking in life neither a wise plan nor a lofty goal”?
Answer: It is because an ordinary person cannot do it anyway.
Question: Cannot find them?
Answer: Yes, it is better if he does not seek either meaning or purpose.
Question: How will he live then?
Answer: He will live just to live. Then he will understand the meaning of precisely such an attitude of the Creator toward him even earlier.
Question: So in this simple way, just living, will he still come to an understanding?
Answer: He will come to it faster.
Question: Faster than if he philosophizes, lives, seeks meaning, and so on?
Answer: Yes, undoubtedly.
Question: How do we learn to accept all turns of fate? Here it is said: “Accept all turns of fate. This is a playful change of scenes,” and so on. How do we learn? Today fate turns sharply.
Answer: You have to perceive all this with some excitement, like a game. When, for example, the opponent makes a move on the chessboard or slams a new card on the table, and you have a vision of your next move. Then you should be happy that you are in connection with such a person. You want to reveal the Creator in connection with him.
Question: Is every step I take in response an adventure? My own, internal one? And all my thoughts are: “How? What?”
Answer: Yes.
Question: Then you said the phrase: “You find yourself in connection with the Creator.” Is this thought, even if I do not have it, exactly what leads to such a journey through life?
Answer: Yes, this is what you want to reach.
Question: Is this the final destination of my journey?
Answer: Yes.
Question: They say it is infinite.
Answer: Yes, it is infinite.
Question: So what does that mean?
Answer: Nothing. Live and rejoice in your infinity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/23
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Question: Two chipmunks sit under the warm September sun and one asks the other: “Tell me, what is the meaning of life?”
The second chipmunk thought and said: “Remember last year? There was a drought, the forest was burning, there was nothing to eat, hungry foxes were looking for us, and we were hungry. We had to run around to survive. We were not looking for this meaning. It turns out that there was one then. Look now that we are safe, foxes and people do not bother us, there is a lot of food, life is okay, but we are looking for this meaning. Does that mean we lost it?”
The chipmunk’s logic is ironclad. Why don’t we look for the meaning of life when we feel good.
Answer: What for? There are no desires; there is enough of everything. Therefore, we are not looking for any meaning in life. Life is right there. Is it fulfilled? Yes. Does it give us all sorts of pleasures? Yes.
Question: So, does life have meaning?
Answer: No, there is no meaning to life, but there is no suffering.
Question: Does this mean the Creator must do some kind of trick to make us look for the meaning of life?
Answer: Certainly.
Question: Is this necessary?
Answer: Yes, how else could it be? What about a child? If you do not force him, he will not grow.
Question: So I have to push all the time. Your conclusion is that a person must experience suffering.
Answer: Yes, but people do not understand. They think: “Let’s remove suffering from the world, and it will be a good world. Why didn’t the Creator create it like that?” It is because otherwise, humanity would not advance.
Question: If there were sunshine, we would go outside, feel good, smile at each other, and live, live, live. Are you saying that the world would stagnate in that case?
Answer: Yes, you would see the whole world, how it just lies there, people dying, everything is fine and rotting away.
Question: That is if there is no suffering?
Answer: Yes.
Question: People will never understand this. A person does not want to suffer, isn’t that right?
Answer: Yes, but in principle, we must raise our mental level and our requirements and look at ourselves from the outside.
Question: One way or another, does suffering lead to something?
Answer: Suffering leads to awareness of its cause. When we suffer, we want to know why and how to overcome it.
Question: What is the main cause of suffering? It must lead to something someday.
Answer: Gradually, suffering leads humanity to the realization that man is the whole cause of suffering.
Comment: I start with the fact that my neighbor, or neighbors, or the neighboring country…
My Response: We have gone through this a long, long time ago. If we really wanted to know the cause of suffering, we would quickly understand that it is in our egoism.
Question: Is it in us? Is this the main thing that drives us?
Answer: Yes.
Question: The moment I understand that the whole cause of suffering is in us, in our egoism, what happens? Does suffering stop? Is there no need to drive us away?
Answer: Certainly.
Comment: If we say that the Creator pushes humanity through suffering, then He calms down when we understand that the whole trouble is in us.
My Response: He does not calm down. The Creator does not need to change Himself. If we change, suffering disappears.
Question: The whole problem is in me. I finally understand it. What next? What are my next steps?
Answer: If I strive to eliminate suffering, I look for its cause. If my hatred of everything around me causes my suffering, I change my attitude toward everything.
Question: Do I always have to tune in my hatred?
Answer: Yes, gradually, gradually by changing it, I begin to feel that this is leading me to a good life. That is all. As soon as I rise above this hatred or replace it with love and a warm attitude, the suffering stops.
Question: What is this life called? This is no longer earthly life because our lives are different.
Answer: It doesn’t matter. Let’s call it earthly.
Question: Is this how man and humanity start living?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is this possible? Do you believe in it? It sounds logical.
Answer: I do not believe in it. But if we wanted, we could realize how we can force the Creator to change us so that we do this.
Comment: Meaning, we would feel that the whole reason…
My Response: The whole reason is hatred.
Question: And we should ask Him?
Answer: Yes, we must ask Him. That is all.
Comment: This is a different psychology, the “I can change” psychology. You say that I cannot change.
My Response: I cannot change in any way. The only thing I can do is to ask the Creator to change me. And then the sun will shine.
Question: We do not feel or see the Creator. We pronounce the word “Creator,” and despite this, is my appeal to that which I do not see and do not know or understand at all effective?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So are you in favor of a person who does not understand anything and still turns to the Creator? You say it will work.
Answer: Yes, it will work. We see small children and newborns crying. What they are crying about is unclear, but it is a sign of their bad feelings.
Question: They cry: “Make me feel good!” Should a person do the same?
Answer: Yes.
Question: But in principle, his cry should be, as you say: “Turn my hatred around, make me loving”?
Answer: But this is already conscious, and there are other states.
Question: This is a high state. This is what we must come to, exactly?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/4/24
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It is like a partnership, where if each one does his job, everyone is happy, as it is written, “which God has created to do,” for there is nothing without labor.
Hence, the husband toils and brings money, and his wife takes the money and toils with it, buying groceries and cooking, and seeing that the food is tasty, and then both are happy.
If the woman cooks well, her husband will have good appetite and will then have strength to go to work and bring in money.
Likewise, if the feet walk and the hands buy and give the food to the brain, the brain has the strength to think (Rabash, Notes 503, Partnership).
That is a simple and very correct explanation of marital relationships. The partnership starts from the beginning, from the basics of our lives, and extends to high and lofty matters.
If a married couple wants to reach a higher quality of connection between them, it will lead them to spiritual work.
Question: Do they need to have in mind that they are striving for something more spiritual?
Answer: Of course, certainly! They must coordinate this with each other and understand that they may need to sacrifice something to reach a spiritual goal. Then they will attain a higher connection than the ordinary connection between husband and wife.
To have a spiritual connection, they must understand what they can achieve with its help, whether they are ready for it, and where it will lead them.
Comment: It sounds like some serious sacrifices are required here.
My Response: It does not require sacrifices, but it does require effort.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 4/2/24
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Question: What do we need to keep in the center of the ten in order to pass through the darkness when exiting Egypt?
Answer: The most important thing is to go by faith above reason paying no attention to any obstacles, taking one more step, and another step, and another. Thus, gradually, we will exit Egypt.
Question: If a person truly reaches a state where all his thoughts, desires, and aspirations are directed toward the Creator, then a second before and a second after exiting Egypt, how does his attitude toward the Creator change?
Answer: Before exiting Egypt, a person is in a state of pleading, begging the Creator to help him escape from there, to rise above egoistic problems.
And literally the next moment, he feels gratitude for what the Creator has done for him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Two Labors”
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Question: On the seventh day of creation the Creator rests. In principle, work is prohibited on this day. What does this mean?
Answer: A person should understand that the world was not created for the purpose of working and producing something. There is simply a certain period when he must create (that is why it is called creation), and then the Creator acts Himself.
That is, for six days a person performs certain work on himself, and on the seventh day he is filled. This is already the work of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 3/21/24
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