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Posted on May 23rd, 2024
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Question: Is it necessary for everyone to dine together in the family?
Answer: No, it is not necessary. Usually, the wife and children eat separately and the husband eats separately. But once a week on Shabbat, they all dine together.
We are naturally designed in such a way that the wife is the home, and the husband works and earns. This comes from spiritual roots. We did not invent this, and it is not for us to change it. We just have to continue on this path.
Question: Why does this seem primitive to many people today?
Answer: I do not think it is primitive. I believe it preserves the family when the mother cooks for everyone, and if the daughters are already grown up, they help her, and everyone sits at the same table and dines together. This strengthens the family.
Question: But still, if I now tell myself that your place is in the kitchen, that is your job: both spiritually and physically, it is like… There are days when I spend most of my time at home doing household chores, but at some point, I feel that it dulls me. Are these some new qualities in women?
Answer: Perhaps. But the most important thing is simply to understand how we can be closer to each other. And the meal is certainly a very important, shared property. After all, while preparing it, we think about each other: what he likes, what I like, and how we can enjoy the prepared food together. It is a whole process.
Comment: When I cook for the family, I really love listening to your lessons. If I do not turn on a lesson, I feel like something is missing. Then I turn it on, and it feels completely different.
Answer: Correct, spiritual nourishment goes along with regular food.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 4/2/24
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In a family of Kabbalists, the wife fills her husband not only with food calories but also with her desires, and he must fill her with his spiritual work.
Desire is transmitted through food. Rabash was amazingly developed: he could tell by the food what was happening in the family.
Question: Can a woman tie a man to her by what she cooks for him?
Answer: Of course. It is not in vain that it is said that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Question: And what is the way to a woman’s heart?
Answer: Only through one’s attitude. Nothing else. Show her love and affection. Spouses should not just exist in the same area but should be connected spiritually and physically.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 4/2/24
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Rabash writes in the article “Partnership” that a man must work. Just as he used to go hunting animals, today he goes to earn money and brings his earnings home.
Question: Is it in the nature of men to work hard or do they like to earn and bring money to the family?
Answer: It depends on the wife: how she sets him up, how she sees him off, and how she greets him once he is back. This is very important and can even affect earnings.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 4/2/24
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Comment: We often come across the fact that we understand you, we want to pass it on to others, but we cannot.
My Response: The process of transmitting spiritual information can be explained in the language of Kabbalah.
The highest attainment takes place inside the vessel (Kli), which is called Ohr Hozer (reflected light). I get a certain upper feeling in the form of Ohr Hozer, and then I pass it on to you.
Basically, I should only give you the coordinates so that you, by yourself, can receive the same higher attainment. I could just tell you what I am thinking right now, meaning give you a direction where to go.
Instead, I myself am passing on to you what I felt and received along with my package of Ohr Hozer. That is, what let’s say cost me 15 years of work, I am passing on to you so that you can somehow perceive it.
This is a microdose of the feeling that I was experiencing at the time when I was explaining it to you, but you still got something and understood precisely because I gave you a complete set, a complete package. And you cannot pass it on because you get direct light in the reflected light and in the desire—all three are packed together. I am passing it to you with the desire, with the light, and with packaging.
All that is needed on your part is some kind of common desire, as it happens during the lectures. This is how I give people some information. In general, not even information, but a feeling, because a person cannot understand the information. He catches certain logic between this and that, some fragments. But in general, we understand that a person perceives with his feelings, and then if he wants to continue, then with logic.
Only when this information ignites him, only then will he turn on the logic, come to us for a series of integral education talks, and start working on his first feeling.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Feelings that Cannot be Conveyed” 2/14/12
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Question: We have many aspirations: unity, adhesion with the Creator, bestowal, and love. What should be the unified desire in which we will unite? Why are we missing the same point?
Answer: Everything you listed is one point, the point of our connection with each other and with the Creator.
Question: If a friend temporarily leaves the group due to disagreements so as not to disturb the others, how should we interpret the Creator’s actions in this event?
Answer: There is no such thing as someone leaving the group to avoid disturbing friends. It means that collectively the quality of connection is insufficient between you.
Question: What does it mean to be like the Creator?
Answer: To be like Him means to be connected with each other and the Creator in one knot.
Question: Can we say that markers of revealing the private governance are my strong feelings in the past, for example, envy that I experienced? Can we use the deficiency from the past, or only to the extent of revealing it in the present?
Answer: Only in the present.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/6/24, Writings of Rabash “The Lord Has Chosen Jacob for Himself”
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Question: There is a well-known story of Rabbi Akiva, the great teacher of generations, when he and three sages stood amidst the ruins of the Second Temple, and suddenly a fox ran through the place where the Holy of Holies stood. All the sages wept, but Rabbi Akiva suddenly laughed. They asked him, “Why are you laughing?! Wild animals are already running where the Holy of Holies stood!”
He said, “One prophecy has been fulfilled, the prophecy of the prophet Uriah, that the Temple would be destroyed, and this means that another prophecy will also be fulfilled, the prophecy of Zechariah, which says that Jerusalem will be rebuilt.” And so on. In response, the sages said, “Akiva, you have comforted us!”
Rabbi Akiva understood that the prophecy of the future Jerusalem and the Land of Israel would be fulfilled.
How would you comment on the words of Zechariah in his prophecy?
His prophecy relates to the period of the final redemption, which is called “the end of times.” He lived 350 years before our era.
Zechariah predicted, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering unto all the peoples round about. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a stone of burden for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it“ (Zechariah 12: 2-3).
What is the “end of times”?
Answer: The end of times is when the time has come to hold righteous judgment over all people.
Question: How can we Jews become a “cup of staggering” for all nations?
Answer: Because the nations will see that in our hands lies the ability to correct ourselves and thus correct the world, yet we fail to do so.
Question: Is this what it means to become a “cup of staggering”? It feels like this time is approaching. I see how people are beginning to treat us.
Answer: Yes, it will come in waves, sometimes rising, sometimes falling, and it will reach a point where the entire world will want to destroy us.
Question: So will it truly become a cup of staggering?
Answer: Yes, but our actions must be the opposite. We must show the world that only by uniting among us can we save the world and then a force called “Messiah” will emerge within us.
It will pull all of humanity out of egoism and elevate them to a spiritual level. “Messiah” comes from the word “to pull out.”
Question: Further, Zechariah writes: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem“ (Zechariah 12:9).
So far, today armies and diplomacies are fighting. In what case does the Creator engage in battle? It is written here that He, the Creator, fights for Israel.
Answer: He does not fight for Israel as it exists today. He fights for the manifestation of faith in the Creator in the world and the need for Him to teach all humanity how we truly should live.
Question: Here it says, “I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” What does it mean?
Answer: Jerusalem represents the fear of God. It is Ira Shlema, complete fear, before the Creator.
Question: Then it continues: “And there shall be no more extermination; but Jerusalem shall dwell safely” (Zechariah 14:11). How do you understand this?
Answer: I understand that from then on, people will no longer attack each other. They will try to live in peace and fully follow, as much as they can each time, the laws of the Creator.
Question: Are you referring to all people in the world in this case?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: Although it is said that “Jerusalem shall dwell safely.”
My Response: Jerusalem represents the whole world.
Question: Moving on. Zechariah predicts: “Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls” (Zechariah 2:8). When there is no need to build walls anymore, what kind of state is this?
Answer: This is already the common redemption of people from their egoism, from all prejudices, beliefs, and so on, and the revelation of the Creator to all nations.
Question: Are you again talking about the world?
Answer: Yes.
Question: “Yea many peoples and mighty nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favour of the LORD (Zechariah 8:22). …in that day shall the LORD be One, and His name one “(Zechariah 14:9).
What does it mean “mighty nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem”?
Answer: Because He must be revealed in this city, in this place. But Jerusalem is in the heart of each person, the most central, secret place. They will strive to feel Him there: “Is there a Creator in me, at the center, in the depths of my heart?” And everyone will seek like this.
Question: Do I have this point of fear before the Creator?
Answer: You do. Every person does.
Question: Will they find precisely this point? Then what does “shall the LORD be One, and His name” one mean?
Answer: Then they will connect all these points in the heart, and God will be one and His name will be one.
Comment: This is very beautiful! If we say, “the LORD is one,” then all religions, all beliefs…
My Response: All of that will be abolished. There will be one aspiration.
Question: When we say “The LORD is one,” are we talking about the quality of the Lord? Love, bestowal, is that what we mean?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Moving on: “Thus saith the LORD: I return unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth” (Zechariah 8:3).
This phrase I return unto Zion always goes after the Jews, after the people. Poets and Psalms talk about this. What does the return to Zion mean for the world, if we are already talking about the world?
Answer: Zion, or rather, Tzion, comes from the word “Etzia,” exit and distancing. That is, through distancing from Jerusalem and coming as if to Jerusalem, through these small steps, the Creator creates a real desire in us to reveal Him.
Question: If you said that this is the point of fear before the Creator within us, then we lose it, find it, lose it, and find it again. Does it become stronger as a result?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So, by doing so, do we come closer and closer to it?
Answer: Yes, in this way it is revealed more and more in us each time.
Question: Should there always be these entrances and exits in us?
Answer: Yes.
Question: They do exist. You lose, then you find… All the time either in disbelief or in faith, that’s how you are.
My question is: Jerusalem as the “city of truth.” “Truth” what does it mean here?
Answer: Truth is when it will be revealed that there is truth in the world.
Question: Does this relate to the fear before the Creator?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is this what truth is?
Answer: Truth is to know the Creator.
Question: We constantly say, “We seek the truth. We seek the truth.” Is this what we are seeking? Are we constantly seeking the Creator?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: But He hides behind all the clothing, and so on.
Further, there is a very beautiful phrase, just the song of songs!
It says: “Thus saith the LORD of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women sit in the broad places of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for every age. And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof” (Zechariah 8:4-5).
My Response: Beautiful!
Comment: Very beautiful!
My Response: This is tranquility, this is wisdom that descends upon the city, which represents all the aspirations of humanity, and which will receive all this wisdom and distribute it to all the nations.
Question: It is very interesting here. Why does it speak specifically about the elderly who will sit in peace “with his staff in his hand for every age” and then it immediately talks about boys and girls playing?
There is not some kind of middle, just old age and youth.
Answer: This is because the more a person strives for wisdom, the younger he becomes. The wisest and the youngest in each person will find each other, understand each other, and coexist in joy.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/18/24
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We should know what vessels of bestowal mean.
There are three discernments that we find in an act of bestowal:
1) He engages in bestowal upon others…in order to be rewarded for it. But if he weren’t confident that he would receive honor in return for it, he wouldn’t do what he does for others.
2) He engages in bestowal upon others and does not wish to be given any reward for his work, meaning another thing, something else. Rather, he settles for performing acts of bestowal. It is in his nature to enjoy doing good to others and this is his whole pleasure.
3) He is working in order to not receive any reward (Rabash, “Concerning Bestowal“).
Question: Is a person capable of the third form of bestowal where they do not receive anything at all for it? How is that possible?
Answer: We need to understand that this is indeed a form of receiving pleasure. This is what bestowal is. I respect the person for whom I perform selfless actions so much, I love and value him so much, and he is so great in my eyes that I am ready to do everything for him without any compensation.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 3/28/24
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Question: Is it possible to work directly with the Creator, for His sake, without regard for others?
Answer: No, first, a person must learn to work correctly with the environment, with others, not with just one, but with many, and only then can they achieve similarity to the Creator by receiving or bestowing only for the sake of others.
Question: What does the patent itself consist of? Suppose I wake up in the morning and start figuring out what I need to bestow to others. Do I walk around with these thoughts and just consider what to bestow to them?
Answer: No, you are simply thinking about what actions of yours can bring contentment to the Creator, how you can please Him, and what He would like to feel from you. If these actions are clear to you, then start gradually approaching them.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 3/28/24
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