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Question: Now all the friends from my ten have been distributed between different tens. What should I focus on: my ten or the one I am placed in?
Answer: It does not matter. You do not have to stay in your ten. Instead, try connecting with strangers.
They are all similar to you. They have the same states, goals, and understanding that they must nullify themselves and be connected with others in agreement and mutual guarantee.
Therefore it makes no sense for you to be associated with those you know in this world purely physically, externally, or psychologically. You should enter into the same spiritual contact with strangers.
Let’s say I am sitting at the end of the table with five to six people around me. I will discuss some issues and have a workshop with them; that is a ten for me. If I connect with it now, I can already reach the Creator.
In the next lesson, I will be with another ten, a third, and a fourth. Thus, I always look for ways to connect to the Creator.
On the contrary, it is terrific if you act this way. It will teach you how to grasp any state to cling to the Creator through it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: According to Kabbalah, the Creator clothes Himself in every person, in each of us. For example, when you talk to someone, do you perceive that person as the Creator speaking through them?
Answer: It depends on my focus and what I need from the interaction.
If I need to respond to someone on their level so that they understand me, I engage with them on that level rather than connecting with the Creator within them.
In this case, I view the person not as an individual, but as nature. They appear to me not as a personality but as a part of nature through which the Creator manifests in relation to me. So, I do not see the person before me. I see a mass of nature, of humanity, through which I observe the Creator, His actions, and His attitude toward me.
However, when I wish to see the person and his individuality, I need to perceive the Creator as He descends to the level of that person, wants to elevate and shape him, and He addresses me.
Then I address that person directly, while considering the Creator’s influence on him and my own influence on that person so that our influences—mine and the Creator’s—align within him and enable him to rise.
Question: Is this such a complex scheme? Do you separate people into two streams?
Answer: Of course! If it is a person with a point in the heart who needs to move forward, if it is my student with whom I must interact this way, I relate to them as the Creator does—as a unique, distinct spiritual individual and not just a mass.
This approach applies only to people with a point in the heart who work on themselves and reach a level where they represent a spiritual individuality. There are not many such people. But there are not supposed to be many of them.
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From KabTV’s “I got a call. The Creator in Man…“ 3/20/10
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Question: What is this force that will hold us and only strengthen us rather than weaken us?
Answer: It is the force of the Creator. There is nothing else!
There are only two forces in the world: the positive, bestowing and filling force of the Creator, and the negative, receiving and demanding force of creation.
We must exist between these two forces. That is, I must separate myself from the negative (receiving) force, position myself before the positive (bestowing) force, and create within myself a mechanism, a system, composed of the negative force, the desire to receive, and the positive force, the intention to bestow.
I take the negative force from my nature, but make a restriction on it and treat it as something completely external.
For example, I take 10 grams of the desire to receive from my nature and 10 grams of the intention to bestow from the Creator, combine them, and I get a spiritual component—receiving for the sake of bestowing. This is our embryo. And this is how we will develop.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: Can we reach mutual guarantee (Arvut) before or after impregnation (Ibur)?
Answer: Arvut is a necessary condition for the conception of the embryo but specifically in conditions in which we currently find ourselves.
At every moment we are in different states and we must work on nullifying ourselves before our friends and connecting with others in mutual support. This state is called mutual guarantee (Arvut), meaning mutual guarantee and mutual support.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: External influences often unsettle us. How can we keep from these hindrances and enter the lessons with even greater effort?
Answer: The fact is, there is nothing that would unsettle us. On the contrary, we need to look at these actions as extra help because we are given an additional measure of egoism. It seems that it pushes us further back, but in reality this is only so we would unite even more with each other and with the Creator above it.
Therefore, we cannot consider everything that happens to us as obstacles. These are the interferences we rise above. Just as at school we were given all kinds of tasks that needed to be solved, so it is here. Of course, we must make efforts to solve these problems, cling to what separates us, repels us, rejects us, and distances us, but still look at it positively.
Then, we will have a common aspiration forward. Then we will always be happy, no matter the problems.
Question: So the strengthening with which we must enter the lesson is to overcome the obstacles?
Answer: What else is there to rise above if not obstacles? Therefore, whoever the Creator wishes to bring closer faster is given greater obstacles.
Question: How can we keep holding on if we are being pushed away from each other more and more and need to make maximum effort?
Answer: It seems to you that you are holding on to an old place. You are rising all the time.
At the same time, you need to constantly make internal efforts, do not fall behind, do not distance yourself from your friends, from your tens, from the topic of the lesson. Always feel like you are together.
After all, our task is to reveal ourselves as being in the same connection, in the same field, in the same system called the soul.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”
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The wisdom of Kabbalah deals with elevating a person from idol worshipping. It does not matter what or who is considered an idol. These idols can be more than just statues, amulets, or certain beliefs; they encompass our entire lives that we worship and consider important.
The revelation of the Creator—the single force of nature that governs everything—and connection with it, meaning attaining an upper level, is not deemed important.
Consider how television, radio, and media are filled with various soothsayers, and how the mass media operates, what people perceive, what they think, and even how we teach all sciences. Science today is becoming semi-mystical even though it is considered a science. Look at the hypotheses, theories, and conjectures presented by scholars!
We are returning to the same old circles, to these idols, because we have completely lost our orientation. Therefore, Kabbalah reveals itself and says: “We must return to the one nature.”
Our current crisis indicates that globalization and unity in nature are its main characteristics. One, unified, unique, and integrated—this is the core, the source of all existence.
Therefore, the more we strive for unification, for the understanding of unity, for understanding all the numerous manifestations in nature as merely one attribute, the Creator, the faster we will come to understand the truth and reach a better state.
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From KabTV’s “I got a call. Unity in doubt” 4/13/10
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Igal writes:
I wake up in cold sweat. I was 100% sure it was really happening to me, but it was a dream. If that is the case, maybe I am still dreaming? Maybe this whole life of mine is a dream? My wife, the children, my job, and the war—all a dream? If that is the case, I want to wake up. I am not happy with too many things in this dream.
My Response: His fears overwhelm him.
Question: His fears are overwhelming. He does not like this dream. Here he asks, “After all, is our life a dream or not?”
Answer: Our life is a dream but actually on a different level, meaning, not at the level of suffering or not-suffering, but at the level of existence in general. We do not understand or feel this world correctly.
Therefore you can call it some kind of dream. But, in general, we can get rid of this dream and wake up.
Question: So he asks: “How do I wake up?”
Answer: How? This is the method of Kabbalah.
Question: He continues: “When I wake up, will reality be better or worse?”
Answer: Reality itself may not change. You, your outlook, and your feelings will change, for the better.
Question: Does this mean I woke up?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So there could be the same war in reality, you say?
Answer: It does not matter.
Question: What does it mean if there is a war and I wake up? What are my feelings? The reality is that there is a war.
Answer: On one hand, you see a war going on, people are killing, dying, and so on. But on the other hand, in this you see the necessary action of armies, nations, and so on, which enter into such relationships with each other. And in the end, it leads to the best outcome.
Question: So, I see that no matter what happens, everything leads to the best outcome. Is this called waking up?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What is the best in this case?
Answer: The best is closeness with the Creator.
Comment: You are unshakeable in this.
My Response: Yes, there is nothing to add here.
Question: Another question from him: “Could it be that I am sure I woke up, but it turns out to be a dream again? And so on endlessly.”
Answer: Yes. So what? How do you know if you are awake or not?
Comment: This is the question: how will I know that I am awake?
My Response: There is no way to know.
Question: Is this how we are destined to live?
Answer: No, we are not destined to live like that at all. But there are states called reincarnations when we exist this way.
Question: From dream to dream, from dream to dream?
Answer: Yes, some such actions. But in fact, we come completely out of the boundaries of our world. And then we see it from the outside.
Question: So what do we see?
Answer: We see that everything is controlled by a single Creator, and we are around Him.
Question: What kind of force is the Creator?
Answer: It is a force that by gradually teaching us, leads us to a state of complete harmony.
Question: And the last question: “Is it better to wake up or not?”
Answer: We must wake up in order to achieve a more and more true state and so that all dreams, fantasies, and everything else would disappear from our world.
Then we would not fight, we would not exchange bad words, bad deeds, or bad actions.
Question: Do you mean in the relations between us?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24
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