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Question: Can we say that our action of bestowal consists of active connection; for example, during a lesson, preparing for a lesson, studying and working in the ten are the desire, the passive vessel for work in active connection, and the work is the request for correction of the vessel, its fulfillment, and transmitting the light to the entire world?
Answer: Yes, this should be our intention. Therefore, before we open the computer and connect with our friends, we need to think about why we are doing this: to be connected together in one single vessel, to direct it to the Creator, and to reveal the Creator within it.
If we direct ourselves toward connection with friends, toward reading articles, and each time overcome various obstacles with an effort, we naturally receive much greater benefit from this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”
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Question: How can we be rewarded with going by faith above reason?
Answer: Mainly through turning to the Creator through prayer.
Question: Can we help friends in the ten to go with faith above reason?
Answer: Of course, if you connect, you will help each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”
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Question: UNESCO plans to send information about the cultural heritage of humanity to the Moon. They are translating it into 275 languages and significantly investing in this. The capsule will be sent aboard a Japanese automated module. This decision was explained as a necessity to preserve some information about the human race in case of a global catastrophe on Earth.
Do you think anyone will need the experience of humanity that managed to destroy itself?
Answer: No, but that is just what we are accustomed to do.
Question: Do you think no one will need it after all?
Answer: I think humanity is still in such an embryonic state that any possible other civilizations are several levels higher.
Question: So are we some kind of children?
Answer: Yes, therefore it is very easy to scan us.
Question: Are we, as you said, petty egoists on the surface of this Earth and that is it?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: And all the experience, all culture, all the science, all the millennia of development—all of that…
My Response: What about science? Science exists in nature and is open to all. Art is also very relative as it depends on the organs of perception.
I believe that no one needs this. But humanity wants to cheer itself up a bit, to uplift itself, as if to say: “Look at what we are doing, we are declaring to everyone who we are and what we are.”
Question: What do you think if we received a message now that once there were people who created a civilization here, some living beings, and then they killed each other and disappeared, would that study teach us anything?
Answer: No, that is how it was, but it did not teach us anything.
Question: Do we even know why they destroyed each other?
Answer: It is the usual human egoistic nature.
Question: Did this knowledge not lead us anywhere?
Answer: Nowhere, of course.
Question: Why does experience not teach us?
Answer: It is not even in our genes to be afraid of this. There is nothing at all.
Question: Why did the Creator exclude this possibility in us?
Answer: So that we would be independent from our nature.
Question: So if we are dependent on our nature, we learn nothing?
Answer: No.
Question: And if we become independent of it, then who do we learn from?
Answer: That is impossible!
Question: Is it a catch-22?
Answer: Yes.
Question: How can we navigate through this?
Answer: We need to reach the level of anti-egoistic interaction with each other.
Question: What is that?
Answer: As it is said in Kabbalah—faith above reason.
Question: So is all our interaction egoistic?
Answer: It is absolutely egoistic. And we have no possibility to exist if we do not rise above this nature.
Question: On the other hand you say that it is also not easy to rise above nature.
Answer: It is not easy, but it is possible.
Question: Do we need to have a proof of this—that there were people who rose above? We come back again to the fact that people who rose above have some experience?
Answer: No. In principle, we did not have such examples in the past.
Question: Where does your confidence come from that this is possible?
Answer: Because the Torah states so, and it was given for this purpose. We need to use the Torah to rise above our nature.
Comment: Please tell me, you just used the phrase “faith above reason.” This is actually the basis of Kabbalah.
My Response: Yes.
Question: Can you explain it simply to ordinary people? What is “faith above reason”? I live according to reason, right?
Answer: Yes, we live entirely according to reason. But we need to rise to the next degree, the degree of faith above reason.
Question: Does this mean that I just believe?
Answer: No, it does not mean just believing. It means governing yourself from the degree above our egoistic nature.
Question: Should I imagine myself being on this degree?
Answer: It is impossible to imagine. So it is a problem, but it is solvable. I think that ultimately humanity will solve it.
Question: Basically, we understand what faith below reason is. It means that we are told: “Believe.” Is that below reason?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Faith at the level of reason is also more or less understandable. This is science, which says: “I have proven it.” This can be so. But faith above reason, you say, is a degree above reason that we need to reach?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Essentially, is the Creator on this degree?
Answer: I think the Creator is beyond this degree. But to rise to this degree, we need the Creator.
Question: Does He want us to do this?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What does He do to help us rise to this degree?
Answer: He responds to our prayers. If we truly want this, desire it, and ask Him, He will do it.
Question: If I truly rise to the level of faith above reason, if we rise to this level, what does my state become?
Answer: You begin to feel the force of the Creator who fills all of nature, and you are in contact with Him.
Question: What is your definition of the Creator whom I begin to feel?
Answer: The upper force in which we exist.
Question: What is it like?
Answer: The force of goodness, the force of care.
Question: Do I begin to flow in this state?
Answer: Yes, it becomes your natural state.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24
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Question: What is the first point of contact with the Creator in the ten?
Answer: The first point of contact with the Creator occurs when the Keter of the lower connects with the Malchut of the upper.
The Keter of the lower, that is, the Keter of the ten, is the force of your bestowal. It rises and reaches the Malchut of the upper.
Question: Let’s say that we have gathered with the friends and formed the force of bestowal, Keter between us. How can we now connect with the Malchut of the upper?
Answer: With each other you form your common Keter, and all that remains for you is to connect to the Malchut of the upper. To do this, you must connect all your desires for bestowal, i.e., all your Keters, and raise them to what the upper one desires from you.
Question: How can we feel the Creator in our feelings in order to connect our Keters with Him?
Answer: By forming a connection between yourselves, you will be able to feel what the Malchut of the upper one is, rise to it, group together, and grasp it. This is what we need to do.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/20, “The Spiritual Power of a Physical Gathering”
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Question: The Creator corrects our souls slowly and in portions. Is it possible to speed up the stages of spiritual growth, and what does it depend on?
Answer: It depends on your connection in the ten. If you turn to the Creator on your own, this is one thing. But if several friends ask together with you, and even better the whole ten, the Creator answers immediately and as directly as possible.
In spirituality, we can only strive for ever greater connection. In this way, we protect ourselves from losing important elements of our path along the way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things”
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In order to create a relationship between us, which is called the spiritual world, we need support. Therefore, Kabbalists say that since one person alone is insufficient in the entire scope of the universe, 600,000 souls were created, i.e., the main vessel (Kli) in a shattered state.
Subsequently, this main vessel further divided into millions, even billions of particles.
As egoism manifests more and more, the number of these particles increases so that each one, like an individual atom, can correct itself and connect with other particles based on correction, on the basis of the qualities of bestowal.
Initially, these particles were connected to each other by the Creator’s force in the quality of His bestowal. Then this quality of the Creator disappeared, ascended. Now, we must begin to once again attract the upper light into the connections between us so that it reassembles us into the structure called “Adam.”
Thus, as stated in Baal HaSulam’s Letter 4: You lack nothing but to go out to a field that the Lord has blessed, and collect all those flaccid organs that have drooped from your soul, and join them into a single body – into a single desire. This is what we must engage in. This is our only task. We should have nothing else before our eyes.
In this world, I act automatically: I work, take care of my body, my family, and everything else. But why do I do all this while living as if in a dream? It is in order to connect with other souls and reveal the Creator to the extent of our connection. The Creator manifests as the light that connects the separate shattered parts.
If this is so, then it is natural that the Kabbalists, who began to attain these states individually, immediately realized that this must be done together, formed a group in which people mutually help each other and create such combinations of desires and aspirations that helps their connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: How do we determine what we need to stay on the spiritual path, what we should discard and what else to develop?
Answer: We must constantly develop and increase the connection between us and the Creator.
To increase the connection in the ten means to need each other more and more. I look at my friends and see that I cannot do something without a particular friend or something else without another one. This one sets an example for me, this one annoys me, but all of this pushes me to work on myself. That is, every person in the ten is necessary; that is what the Creator does.
Question: If I have a negative impression of a friend, is it still very valuable? Is this some kind of important signal from the Creator?
Answer: Sure. Least of all I expect positive feelings from them, on the contrary, negative feelings are more suitable for my work on myself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things”
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Question: How can we constantly check that we have not strayed from the spiritual path?
Answer: It is only in a group when you unite and feel that you are all at a single point, in a single desire, everyone leaves his “I,” unites with others, and comes to merge with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 17
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