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Question: What is the correct intention for reaching connection?
Answer: The desire for connection is the correct intention. We must see adhesion with each other as an essential and necessary goal.
If we connect in our aspiration toward the Creator, through this aspiration, we create a vessel (Kli) to reveal Him within us. This is our work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: I saw a documentary showing how prisoners participate in circles, like workshops, in which they connect. They reveal all sorts of childhood desires and often scream to release them.
Will similar things happen in our case? Or does the upper light smooth everything out and make our process gentler?
Answer: We are not dealing with psychology, but with Kabbalah, and we go through much more complex states. Simultaneously, our Kli (vessel) constantly expands, our sensations become more powerful, and we can contain more within ourselves. Therefore, we do not experience such psychological outbursts as in the groups you mentioned.
On the contrary, a person who advances in the study of Kabbalah appears much calmer externally. That is not because they are working on themselves to restrain emotions, but because, under their screen, there is an enormous capacity for desires, feelings, and sensations.
Thus, they can calmly endure states that would be difficult for an ordinary person to bear in our world.
Otherwise such a person might lose their sanity, as neither their nerves nor mind could handle it. But in Kabbalah it is possible precisely because we are constantly developing our Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: How can we continue to work on connection so that a spiritual miscarriage does not occur?
Answer: Our main task is to achieve the state of Ibur (embryo) where we unite in the ten. There should be ten people, no more. Less is possible.
As this happens, we will go through the so-called “three days of the absorption of the seed.” The seed that has penetrated the uterus must attach to its inner wall.
It takes three days, which symbolizes the three lines. In our world all this happens as a consequence of the actions of the spiritual world.
We must go through this state and fully attach ourselves as a group to the Creator in three lines.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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If the total ruin that they are destined to bring upon the world is still not evident to the world, they can wait for a third world war, or a fourth one. The bombs will do their thing (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).
Question: The current situation in the world is such that Baal HaSulam’s words about third and fourth World Wars sound especially relevant. What should people hear every day to move away from this state?
Answer: In the words of Baal HaSulam, people should see precise instructions for the desired actions that will reveal the secret of creation to them, and then everything will be settled. We are working in this direction.
Question: Baal HaSulam writes that everyone should take only what is necessary for existence, and direct the rest of their efforts to benefit their neighbor and the Creator. How can those who want to use nuclear weapons today suddenly change and begin to take care of the welfare of their neighbor?
Answer: This will come to a person from above, “they will turn their swords into plowshares.” All this will come, but not in the way we think. The Creator will put other thoughts into a person’s head, and people will start acting that way. So much so that if you tell the person, “You thought differently yesterday,” they will not believe you.
Question: What kind of understanding should be conveyed to the public every day?
Answer: After consulting each other, we must test our conclusions on some group and then bring this knowledge to the world so that people do not reject what we present to them.
We must give them an understanding that our evil nature, egoism, pushes us away from each other and is the cause of all our suffering. That is the first one.
Second, we cannot correct egoism through any political, economic, or other decisions, but only with the help of our connection and the desire to reveal this point within ourselves that unites everyone with the others.
In this form, we will begin to get closer to each other, and to this extent, we will feel how drawing closer saves us and lifts us above all nature.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/18/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Writings of the Last Generation”
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There is indeed only one soul in the world… .That same soul exists in all the children of Israel, complete in each and every one, as in Adam HaRishon, since the spiritual is indivisible and cannot be cut—which is rather a trait of corporeal things.
Rather, saying that there are 600,000 souls and sparks of souls appears as though it is divided by the force of the body of each person (Baal HaSulam, Article “600,000 Souls”).
Every person has a soul, and this same soul is present in everyone. We cannot truly imagine this. It is like the theory of relativity—not everyone can grasp what it describes, and the spiritual world is even more challenging to comprehend.
There are several principles that we accept on faith because Kabbalists speak of them from their experience. Until we cross the Machsom, the barrier separating our perception of our world from the perception of the spiritual world, we cannot fully understand them.
In the spiritual world, there is only one soul that exists in each of us and in all of us together. It is not that if the soul is in each person, it is a small part of the collective soul, and if it is in everyone, it is one collective soul. No, it is one and the same soul.
Everything depends on how much a person reveals this soul. In other words, the extent to which he acquires the quality of bestowal, connection, and love determines how much he perceives the collective soul, whether in greater or lesser volume. But essentially, it is always one and constantly shines upon him.
In our perception of reality, we cannot imagine that the collective soul, being one for everyone, can reside in each person’s perception, or be felt as a part.
Our egoism prevents us from seeing it fully. For this reason, two discernments were made in the corporeal body, [meaning, in the egoistic perception]: In the first discernment, one feels one’s soul as a unique organ and does not understand that this is the whole of Israel. [This is the only thing created by the Creator.]
In the second discernment, the true light of the soul of Israel does not shine on him in all its power of illumination, but only partially, by the measure he has purified himself by returning to the collective.
The sign for the body’s complete correction is when one feels that one’s soul exists in the whole of Israel, in each and every one of them, for which he does not feel himself as an individual, for one depends on the other.
At that time, he is complete, flawless, and the soul truly shines on him in its fullest power, as it appeared in Adam HaRishon… . [That is, as it was in the state in which it was created by the Creator.]
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”
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Question: Is your Hebrew based on a limited vocabulary?
Answer: Yes, indeed, but no more is needed.
In the last century, there were two great Kabbalistic sages: our great teacher Baal HaSulam and the great Kabbalist Rav Kook. Rav Kook always told Baal HaSulam that he envied his small vocabulary, with which he could convey huge layers of knowledge, sensations, and insights.
Rav Kook himself was, so to speak, the master of the spiritual word, the literary language. His language is very flowery, verbose, complex, and confusing. As long as you read one phrase, a page and a half long, like Leo Tolstoy, you can hardly understand anything. But that’s how he expressed himself. It also depends on the character of the person.
As for me, since at my core I am still a researcher, scientist, and systematiser, I do not tolerate anything superfluous. Therefore, in my speech, in my explanations, I try to make everything concrete.
I believe that this is the most important thing in human education. And feelings already depend on his inner work.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalist’s Limitation” 4/17/10
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Comment: A person under the avatar “Truth-Seeker” asks, “Why does the whole world hate Jews, and I do too?”
My Response: Because the world is arranged in such a way that Jews have the only true point of this world. This is the feeling of the Creator. For this, everyone hates them.
Comment: But ideally, it should be the other way around.
My Response: No, the truth is attained only from the darkness. Therefore, we must constantly be on the transition between darkness and light.
Question: What does this indicate?
Answer: This indicates that the Jews, the people of Israel, have a tool. This tool can determine whether I am following the Creator or anything else.
Question: Does a Jew have such a tool?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Why hate them for it?
Answer: Because they have it.
Question: Is it like they have it and I do not? Is that the game?
Answer: Yes, it is even higher. It is because the Creator makes it so. If it were at the level of our world, it would be only half the trouble.
Question: So if it were just between us, you say it would be half the trouble. Does that mean the Creator directs this hatred toward us, the Jews?
Answer: Yes.
Question: The fact that Truth-Seeker admits as he writes at the end, “And I hate them too,” how do you interpret that?
Answer: That is how he feels inside. If he feels it, then that is how it is.
Question: Tell me, please, when he says, “And I hate Jews too,” is there pain in this, that “I hate you”? What do you think?
Answer: This is the pain of the Jews’ connection with the Creator. I can have anything, but if I do not have this point of connection with the Creator, then I am simply nobody.
Question: What should we do to be truly connected with the Creator?
Answer: We must justify that we are Israel. “Israel” translated means “straight to the Creator.” That is all.
Question: What do we need to do for this?
Answer: Leave everything aside except this yearning to the Creator; it is the most important thing.
Comment: So everything else is just toys, you say.
My Response: Yes.
Question: Should only this remain?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24
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