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When Hearts Touch

Posted on July 4th, 2024

Question: In Letter 40, Rabash writes that when one stone is rubbed against another, fire is ignited. What does it mean when our hearts touch?

Answer: When our hearts touch, all contradictions and inconsistencies manifest themselves between us.

And if despite them we still want to unite and rub our stony hearts, then we begin to feel warmth among us. Hence the physical law of our world.

Question: Is this warmth brought by the Creator or is it our work?

Answer: This is the work of the Creator. He brings warmth to our hearts when we want to erase the contradictions that arise between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/22/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 40

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Non-Jews Who Became Great Jews

Posted on July 4th, 2024

Leonid asks:

Dear Michael Laitman, I recently learned that many great Jews were not originally Jewish. For example, the most famous Rabbi Akiva was not born Jewish, but became the leading teacher of the Jewish people.

King David, the greatest king of Israel, had a grandmother Ruth, who was not Jewish. The well-known Torah commentator Onkelos was a Roman who converted to Judaism and translated the Torah into Aramaic; his translation is the most famous. My question is: how is this possible, and is there an explanation for it in Kabbalah?”

Answer: I do not know the explanations. I just know that it does not matter. A person who wants to be closer to the Creator accepts all the laws stated in the Torah, and thus becomes Jewish.

“Yehudi” comes from the word meaning “connecting with the Creator,” “drawing closer to the Creator.”

Question: Does “Yehudi” mean more like “Jew”?

Answer: Yes, so it doesn’t matter.

That is why we welcome, respect, love, and honor these people.

Question: So it is like there is a navigator—if I want to be closer to the Creator, I get closer to the Torah?

Answer: Yes, of course because the Torah speaks about how to be closer to the Creator.

Question: So initially there is this desire “I want to be closer”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Who instills this desire in a person?

Answer: The Creator.

Question: So it turns out that He is the one who calls upon a person?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Are these selected individuals? Leonid mentions selected individuals like Rabbi Akiva, Onkelos, Ruth?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So there are certain people whom the Creator calls and they come to the Torah?

Answer: Yes and they come to the laws and conditions stated in the Torah.

Question: Next Leonid asks: “What does it mean to go through the conversion process and become a Jew?”

Answer: It means accepting the obligation to fulfill the conditions for drawing closer to the Creator.

Question: Is that what it means to “go through conversion”?

Answer: Yes.

Remark: He asks: “Why is it so difficult to go through conversion today? I know from my own experience.”

Answer: It depends on the time, of course. But mostly, it depends on bureaucracy.

Question: So there are such barriers?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it good that there are barriers?

Answer: Yes, it is good.

Question: So it is good that they initially push you away and make it difficult?

Answer: If it is within reasonable limits, then yes, of course.

Comment: We know that it was easier for King David’s grandmother. She said, “This is my people; I want to be with my people.” And that was called conversion.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: Today that would not happen.

My Response: A lot of time has passed, and people have become much more complex.

Question: It turns out that someone who goes through conversion can even become a leader of the generation, higher than those born Jewish. Doesn’t this offend Jews?

Answer: Not at all. This person who has gone through conversion is 100 percent Jewish and even a bit more. Because he came from outside and made an effort.

Question: So in principle, it turns out that someone who truly goes through conversion and becomes a Jew is even higher than a natural-born Jew?

Answer: Of course.

Question: So a true Jew, who is that, what is that, and how is that? If you could summarize it once more?

Answer: A Jew is a person who desires to draw closer to the Creator. That is it.

Question: Such a simple formula?

Answer: Yes. “Yehudi” comes from the word “Yichud“(bringing together).
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/13/24

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From Moses to the Men of the Great Assembly

Posted on July 4th, 2024

Moses received the Torah at Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the Men of the Great Assembly. (Mishnah, Pirkei Avot, Chapter 1).

Question: The Mishnah has not only a corporeal, but also a Kabbalistic meaning.

Should we approach these texts with literal understanding or should we
seek the reforming light in them?

Answer: We in particular seek texts the force of connection in these so that the Creator can be revealed in us.

Question: Why does the Mishnah specifically mention the transmission of the Torah from Moses through Joshua to other sages?

Answer: At that time, the Torah was still transmitted verbally. Each sage received, what they passed on to their disciples.

Therefore, the Mishnah describes the sages passing on their spiritual attainments. Antigonus received certain teachings from Shimon the Righteous and passed them on. Yose ben Yoezer of Tzreida received from Yose ben Yochanan of Jerusalem and passed it on. Yose ben Yochanan of Jerusalem said something, meaning he taught his disciples a particular principle, and so on.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/22/24, “Mishna, Pirkei Avot”

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The Hidden Corners of Your Heart

Posted on July 4th, 2024

Question: When you studied with Rabash he surely told you: “Do not ask questions. The time will come and you will understand everything yourself.” At the time, did you believe that you could reach spiritual attainment?

Answer: There is a concept of “faith in the sages” where a person has no choice but to trust those who have attained the upper world. You may not believe it and you can go check with others or try to do something yourself; this is your choice.

In our world, you are in a suspended state. The question arises: how will you move forward? With your own intellect? Then you will spend your whole life inventing a perpetual motion machine, going from blow to blow, like everyone else or like various inventors, enthusiasts, and experimenters.

You have no other choice but to trust your heart: what does it suggest and to what should you attach yourself? The world is full of sages, all opposed to each other, and all of them are right and all of them are smarter than you. What can you do? You have only one thing—your heart. Your mind is filled with who knows what! Your heart is also confused!

Therefore, you need to try to feel with the most hidden corners of your heart, with all your inner self, where the truth is and what you need. But at the same time, try to cleanse yourself from all sorts of layers imposed by life and feel from within: where is mine?

Maybe you will find that you need meditation, Scientology, new psychosomatic inventions, or whatever. Or maybe you need to try yourself here in Kabbalah. It is the heart that should show a person his place. Nothing else.

Do not take anyone into account. Our world has already learned that there are no geniuses. You talk to any smart person and after a couple of days, if not the same day and in the same conversation, you begin to understand that all of it is limited, and derived from some sources built on semi-deception, semi-guesses, and and semi-beliefs.

Why trust someone or something that the human mind has invented? You should trust only your heart.

After all, beyond the heart, there are no Kabbalists, no philosophers, no Buddhists, no one; trust what lies in its very depth.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Believe a Kabbalist” 1/28/10

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A Simple Idea

Posted on July 4th, 2024

The science of Kabbalah itself is very simple. It is difficult to implement it, but its idea is quite simple.

The Creator created one single desire that He broke into billions of parts. These parts, which are separated by egoism, must be reunited into the same system in spite of the ego.

At the same time, egoism should not interfere with them. On the contrary, it helps them connect. Then their connection, compared to the past, will be 620 times stronger, and these desires will not feel the state they were in initially before the shattering when they felt only themselves, but they will begin to feel themselves at the level of the Creator.

This is the movement of the shattering and its subsequent correction. Everything happens only according to the method of drawing closer and the connection of the broken parts, that is, between us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Friends Are an Integral Force

Posted on July 4th, 2024

Question: How can I annul before my friends?

Answer: Try your best. Please them, serve them, smile, try to do everything you can.

Question: And how can you annul yourself in relation to the Creator?

Answer: There is no way. Only by annulling yourself before your friends will you begin to feel the special integral force that they all represent together. You will call it the Creator.

Question: Should I combine the annulment in front of the friends and the Creator together? Is this the integral force?

Answer: You do not have to fantasize about anything. The friends are in front of you. You can really, seriously engage in annulling yourself in front of them.

And as for the Creator, you do not have a job yet. It will appear only when the friends shape into one single whole in your feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Is It Worth Making Predictions for the Future?

Posted on July 4th, 2024

Question: When we in the ten become a single desire, do we attract other people or is there a rejection effect here?

Answer: Neither one nor the other. The fact is that we are not in a normal state. Everything we are doing is new; Kabbalists have never acted like this. They developed individually.

According to Baal HaSulam, when we reach the level of the last generation, then, based on what all Kabbalists have written at least for the last few centuries, we must create tens or a large group, and begin disseminating to all of humanity. Therefore, sometimes I cannot give you an exact answer to the question posed.

Kabbalah is a very practical science. What we are doing is what we see. So it is written: “A judge has only what his eyes see.” Only based on what we can explore, see, and record, it becomes clear to us that this is how it should be.

I do not know how future events in the world will happen. I can only guess and sometimes write about it. But in general, I try not to make predictions because in reality nothing is known for sure.

We must act according to the same principle of drawing closer to each other and to the Creator, and the result at each stage can sometimes be different. This is a natural phenomenon in nature. But it is always for the better even if it feels undesirable to us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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