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Question: I no longer derive pleasure from anything, and I even feel that I cannot bring pleasure to anyone else because I no longer remember what it is like. How, then, can I bring contentment to the Creator, and what action should I take for this?
Answer: There are such concepts as commandments. Do whatever you want for the sake of the Creator, and everything will be fine.
Question: But the Creator is an abstract system. How can I do something for it?
Answer: This system is connected to your mind, your nerves, your desires, and your intentions. So perform actions for its sake, then you will quickly see how it responds to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Action and Thought”
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There must be many separate people in the world, each of whom carries an elementary piece of common egoism. We are the consequences of our previous changes. As Baal HaSulam writes, there are no new souls in our world that are just beginning their development from the most elementary states.
Each of us carries very important information, and without it, there will be no complete correction, no perfect states of the soul—the creation. Everyone should understand their responsibility for the opportunity to advance the whole creation to the Creator by their own efforts, because without him it is unattainable.
Each person is not just a small particle striving toward the Creator and advancing the collective soul by a tiny millimeter, no! In spirituality, this is a much more complex and comprehensive movement. When a person works on uniting with others, they completely become that single soul created by the Creator.
Spirituality does not divide into parts, does not dissolve, and does not multiply. It gradually reveals itself to a person as an eternal, perfect, and unified state. Everything happens only to the extent that our perceptions are corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: What is the meaning of true pleasure in life?
Answer: The meaning of life is to attain the Creator because this is the highest pleasure we can achieve.
We are made in such a way that the light we absorb from the Creator, called His revelation, is the greatest fulfillment; there is no other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”
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Question: How can we live without coming back to the question about the meaning of life?
Answer: This question will be repeated every day and even several times a day. We cannot advance without it. Therefore, the Creator sends it to us.
But when we answer this question, we feel it differently every time: deeper, more exalted, and so on. So, we must ask ourselves what the meaning of life is and make attempts to rise.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”
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Question: If we receive blessings in intention, does it mean that the specific action we perform does not matter?
Answer: If this action leads to the dissemination of Kabbalah and correction of the world, then this action is of course desirable and higher than others. We work on the intention for the action. Intention alone, without action, has no right to exist.
Question: There is the intention we create before the action. And there is the true intention that we receive as a result of our efforts in the actions. How can I understand if I am feeling the true intention or if I am deceiving myself?
Answer: Deceive yourself, it does not matter. The main thing is that you are engaged in the work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Action and Thought”
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The Creator is everywhere. This is the common, united, single, constantly operating force of the entire universe. Everything that exists besides Him is called a creation, specially created by Him and existing in Him.
We are inside the Creator—inside this common light. Our task is to reveal Him, to unite with Him, to achieve absolutely complete dissolution, unification, similarity, and adhesion with Him.
This is the meaning or reason for creating created beings that are opposite to the Creator. Our work, our goal is to understand what the qualities of the Creator are and how we can change ourselves to come closer to Him.
This is the essence of human existence in our world in the state in which we find ourselves—in a state that is created by the upper light, working on our egoistic desire to receive, enjoy, maintain ourselves at every moment of life only for ourselves.
This desire automatically works in us, and we must realize it and understand it—whether we agree with it or not—and then rise above it in order to achieve coupling, connection, and agreement with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Who understands life is no longer in a hurry,
He relishes every moment and watches
As a child sleeps, an old man prays,
How it rains and how snowflakes melt …
(Omar Khayyam)
Comment: Even at the moment I was reading, a sudden calm came over me.
My Response: Of course.
Question: Is this understanding life? Just observing?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What does it mean to just observe life? After all, I am living it.
Answer: It means seeing how everything in it passes, moves, develops, fades, and dies.
Question: So, I just observe? But I am a participant in all of this. These are my loved ones.
Answer: You can be a participant depending on how you perceive it.
Question: What does observing mean to you? You still perceive things, that there are problems and everything.
Answer: I would say that I perceive life as a slowly flowing river. Only our absurd actions disturb its state of smooth, good balance.
Question: How can a person become the observer of their own life?
Answer: Look from the side, and most importantly, do not accept everything that is about you and for you.
Question: How?
Answer: Understand that it flows next to you, then everything will be simpler and more accurate. I do not think life should be perceived as if it always wants to tell you something personally. This will cause such internal disturbances that a person will not be able to relate to life correctly.
Question: It is said that everything exists for man. What does that mean in this context?
Answer: It is for them to see themselves in this stream of life. Just as we attend the funerals of others so others will attend ours. And so on. There is nothing unnatural about it; everything flows.
Question: So is that how I should live?
Answer: Yes, this is not indifference; it is just a way of perceiving life.
Question: Is this the right way to perceive life?
Answer: Yes.
Question: But we are always looking for the meaning of life. It would be good to find a higher meaning of life to strive toward. Where does this simple observation you talk about fit in? Does it disappear and some kind of drive begins?
Answer: No. What can drive achieve? On the contrary, if we want to see meaning in life, we must immerse ourselves in it and flow along with it.
Question: When it is said that everything is within a person, what does it mean that everything is within me?
Answer: It means that both the correct and the harmful attitude toward the world, people, and oneself are within a person. A person should still attune himself to the fact that everything in the world is indeed flowing. This is a vast river. And if they want to throw themselves into it, I do not think that is right. It is better to observe.
Question: Where does this river flow? It is known that rivers flow somewhere.
Answer: This river, yes. As written in the Torah: Gihon, Pishon, these rivers flow into the system of the upper world, to paradise, to hell, and so on.
Question: But one would still like to flow into paradise. Or does a person have no such thoughts?
Answer: Throw yourself into this river, close your eyes, and let it carry you. And do not think. Because the one who created all this determines everything.
Comment: I remember a simple example. When I eat, I eat quickly. And I eat an apple the same way. But you once described how Rabash would sit down, peel an apple, and eat it slowly. I remember this somehow gave the impression of a certain attitude toward life.
My Response: He had a very serious attitude. He took every minute very seriously. Very seriously!
Comment: For some reason, that example stayed with me. I would like to live like that.
My Response: Take an apple, a plate, a knife, sit down, start peeling it, and cut off pieces.
Question: And live like that?
Answer: And live.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/8/24
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When I studied with Rabash, I went through very different states, just like my students do now, and they were even worse because I was alone with the teacher.
Now three hundred people share my attitude toward them, but I was alone. It was very difficult for me; I often had breakdowns and neglected my studies. A person must go through everything. Rabash, of course, understood this.
Question: Did you miss lessons?
Answer: No, never. Never! Only one day could I not leave the house. He called me demanding that I come immediately. But I answered that I could not, I was being held back by such a force that I could not get out. Then he said: “Yes, now I feel what this force is.”
It was a very interesting state when you cannot do anything; there is no calculation here, you just cannot. I cried into the phone that something was not letting me in, I could not move, absolutely! Like a man whose body has been taken away.
Question: And what should you do in this state?
Answer: Nothing. It teaches you who you are, what kind of “hero” you are.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalist’s Supersenses” 3/11/10
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Question: Kabbalistic books describe two tendencies that exist in nature: Igulim and Yosher—circles and a straight line.
Therefore, we see a tendency toward globalization to completely erase a person’s personality so that everything would be one whole.
On the contrary, there is also a tendency toward nationalization, some kind of national values, individualism, and so on. How can both these trends be linked?
Answer: We still have to realize and go through this, but in principle, by no means should we sacrifice the individuality of each of us, but rather we need to allow it to develop.
We must understand that the future of humanity lies only in the complete unity of everyone with each other, but not in the sense that it pressures a person and forces them to be like others. That is, there must be a combination of these two tendencies.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24
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