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Question: Do I understand correctly that a person should accept concealment as equivalent to revelation, and this can only be done with the intention for the Creator?
Answer: Not quite. There is still a difference between concealment and revelation. We should strive for revelation while ensuring that concealment does not discourage us.
Question: Can our illnesses and various corporeal problems be considered components of the process of purification from egoistic love?
Answer: No, illnesses and other issues may help in some way but not in a direct sense.
Question: What is the greatest harm I can cause to my ten?
Answer: The greatest harm you can cause to your ten is to try to tear your friends away from unity and movement toward the goal of creation.
Question: If my desires seem unrealistic to me, but they are directed toward goodness and love, should I let them go or continue to strive for them?
Answer: Continue to strive for them, and you will see that at least some of them will turn into real actions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”
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I asked God to give me happiness, and God said no.
He said He gives a blessing, and whether I will be happy or not depends on me.
(“I Asked God,” a Russian parable)
My Response: Indeed.
Comment: The Creator blesses us with happiness, but for some reason we are unhappy.
My Response: We do not accept the blessing.
Question: Why?
Answer: We do not want to be happy.
Question: So all this comes from us?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Do we understand that He blesses us with happiness? Or do we curse everything He gives by saying: “You gave the wrong thing…”?
Answer: No, we do not understand. All of nature, all life, all of this is given to us for happiness.
Question: What kind of creatures are we? We are given happiness, but we run from it. We say: “It is not there.” We are looking for it all the time. We say: “We are looking for happiness,” but happiness is what it is. Is this how it works?
Answer: Yes. That is us.
Question: What can you do to make a person happy?
Answer: Nothing. A person must learn to be happy.
Question: In principle, I must agree that only happiness comes from the Creator, that happiness is all around and I just have to feel it?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And what should I do?
Answer: Remember my book about the wizard?
Comment: Yes, it says that He is always waiting for someone to become his friend.
My Response: Basically this is a story about whether happiness can be achieved.
Comment: This book is even available as an audiobook. It is called Together Forever: The story about the magician who didn’t want to be alone. It is an amazing book!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24
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We call a situation hopeless when we don’t like the way out (Jerzy Stanisław Lec).
Question: So Jerzy Stanisław Lec is saying there is always a solution. We just do not go there because we do not like it. Are there really no hopeless situations?
Answer: I think not. There is always a solution. In principle, a person always has a solution. The fact that the situation seems hopeless is because his egoism traps him within itself.
Question: So it blocks the way out, and a person must somehow trick their egoism, do something. Tell me, please, is there a universal solution?
Answer: Only love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24
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Humanity is moving toward realizing how vicious its egoistic nature is.
Therefore, nothing but problems await us in which people will feel the evil of their nature. And since it is impossible to get rid of it, it is imperative to correct it; otherwise, our lives will become worse than death. This is what awaits all of humanity.
We must explain to humanity what the way out of this is, why these states that come from nature (the Creator Himself) are correct, and that this is how nature moves us forward. It created egoism in us, but gave us feelings, reason, and the ability to reprogram ourselves like a computer.
We have one program embedded in us: receiving for ourselves with maximum benefit at every moment of time in any situation. This program works in us automatically. We need to reinstall and run a second program in ourselves instead; we don‘t have it and must get it from the outside.
The previous program will gradually be replaced by a new one in levels; it starts with the lowest, then more and more, and so on until it completely fills all our egoism and all our desire, which will gradually begin to work differently thanks to the new program being installed. That is all, nothing more.
Then we will understand that the work according to the previous program was given to us from above. We did not even understand that existence in another program was possible. And now, when we see that a new program begins to work in us, it is a discovery for us! And we begin to help it so that it works and reigns in us.
There is a very small difference between these programs. Only one parameter changes. If before I thought only about my own benefit, now I think about the benefit of others. This is the parameter in our consciousness that is called intention.
The rest of the program remains the same: the maximum use of desires, properties, everything that is in us, only now we begin to learn again how to work with a different intention: for the sake of others and not for ourselves. Only this vector changes, and everything else remains the same. Egoism works to receive in order to bestow and before it worked to receive for itself.
All this is very conditional because we imagine ourselves not connected with what is outside of us due to the shattering of the common soul. And when this soul begins to be revealed as a single whole, I begin to strive to bestow to others, just like to my child, more than to myself.
The question arises: am I working egoistically or altruistically? It is not clear at all. Before I thought that I was bestowing to strangers, but now it turns out that it was all for myself. It turns out that we were deceiving ourselves.
In general, all this must be understood. The main thing is to understand that we are only installing a new program. Our properties do not change. Everything that is created in us is necessary. A person should not refuse anything. One should only try to install a new intention—ostensibly for the sake of others and not for oneself. And gradually one will see that this is not for the sake of others, but for myself, that I am using enormous egoism in this—620 times more. The concept of 620 times is conditional; it is billions of billions of times more than before.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that education will not help to teach 90% of the egoists to take care only of the most necessary things for themselves and spend the rest of their time taking care of others, since education does not change the egoistic nature of a person.
What will help to do this if not education, not the opinion of society?
Answer: Disseminating the idea itself will. Show all of humanity its historical path, its foundation, its roots, and the goal that it must achieve.
Thus, it will be clear to everyone in what state they are, in what nature they exist. This will help humanity to begin climbing out of the egoistic pit in which it finds itself.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24
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All the worlds, upper and lower and everything within them, were created only for man. … In the beginning, they were restricted and hung down degree by degree and world after world, down to our material world (Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 9).
Our world is at the very end of the spiritual degrees. All this is built in order to enable souls to ascend these degrees from the bottom up. Only then will people be able to give everything and receive nothing; that is, they will be in the opposite state compared to today.
In the meantime, a person, being completely receiving, i.e. being in the most remote state from the Creator, becomes the opposite of the Creator.
Later, thanks to the soul clothed in him, he constantly engages in the Torah and the commandments. Then one begins to attain higher degrees from the bottom up and thus climb the spiritual ladder.
This is how a person changes his or her qualities until one attains the qualities of bestowal and is liberated from the desire to receive. And then one completes one’s perfection in true adhesion with the Creator, for this is the only reason a person was created.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”
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We do not know what the Creator is because we ourselves cannot define Him. We can only define something relative to our feelings.
Therefore we call Him the Creator because we begin to become aware and define Him only from the state when He gives birth to us and defines Himself as our Creator, only from this moment but not before.
We differentiate these states into one that is not given to us in sensations, Atzmuto, which means existing by Himself, and the state when we begin to feel Him, that is, we give Him some of our own definitions, designations, and descriptions. And these descriptions, i.e., what enters into my properties that I can work with, I can remember and pass on to others.
From what we know and can determine, we can say that the Creator has created one soul in His likeness, meaning equal to Him but opposite of Him. Therefore, we can talk about it as “creation.”
Creation is that which is not in the Creator. In itself, this is an incomprehensible action, but it is precisely what is called creation. And the one who performs this action is called the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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By being together with my friends, in a group where there is love of friends, I will be able to rise to the house of the Creator. That trail is called “a path of bestowal,” and it is against our nature. In order to be able to reach the house of the Creator, there is no other way but love of friends (Rabash, “Love of Friends – 1”).
Love is the overcoming of mutually repulsive egoistic forces between us when we try to overcome their mutual rejection.
Moreover, those who experience a stronger rejection from others have stronger souls. As it is written: “Everyone whose attainment is greater, his ego is greater.” Therefore, in fact, Kabbalists are huge egoists on the inside!
For those who enter into the attainment of the upper worlds, this work is with such great egoistic desires that I have no words to convey it. There are no such repulsive forces in our world to imagine the forces Kabbalists overcome. How much they hate everyone! How much they repel everyone!
But all this is to the extent they can overcome such forces. They form a huge Aviut, the thickness of desire, and above it a restriction (Tzimtzum), a screen, and everything else.
As it is written in The Book of Zohar, the students of Rabbi Shimon, who wrote this greatest book on Kabbalah, were ready to kill each other! Can you imagine what kind of rejections arise between everyone?!
Love cannot be without hate; in nature everything is balanced. Therefore, if we talk about love, we mean that it arises above the rejection of each other. We feel this rejection and build closeness and unification over it up to adhesion and love, while there is hatred and rejection inside. This dichotomy we achieve holds the whole system of the worlds.
Therefore, do not be naive and try to be like a state of an angel: everything is fine, we love each other, we unite. If I do not feel rejection from another, I cannot feel attraction to him, or spiritual love. If these are spiritual feelings, they always consist of two properties: an egoistic property and an altruistic one above it.
This road is called the path of bestowal, and it goes against our nature. To come to the house of the Creator, that is, to a state where we unite in love, there is no other advice than love for our friends, which we reveal above hatred for them.
Thus we look very realistically at all of nature, at all states, both hatred and love at the same time. Only then does it exist forever and support one another since between them there is a restriction, screen, and reflected light, a desire to work with egoism in the property opposite to it. There is no love and bestowal in us; it happens when we work against our ego. This is called correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention
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Question: To save something, you need to acquire it. Where can I get a great desire to run toward general unification, toward you, and receive everything you want to convey? Where can we get true Hisaron (deficiency) to make His desire ours and accept everything He wants to give us for the sake of bestowal?
Answer: From the Creator, the Creator is the source of everything we need; therefore, with any desire, we must turn to Him and ask.
Question: Do we ask for ourselves, our friends, or the entire world Kli?
Answer: As you wish.
Question: Is it necessary to protect the unification achieved in the ten?
Answer: Certainly, if you always think you want to increase unity, you will definitely not lose it.
Question: Is it possible to influence the Hisaron of the ten?
Answer: You can influence each other with your actions and words.
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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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