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Posted on August 19th, 2024
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Question: What can be done to make the ninth of Av not a day of mourning? What state must we reach for it to become a holiday?
Answer: Change yourselves from those who receive to those who give, from those who hate others to those who love them, and this day will become a holiday.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Cast Their Seed Among the Nations”
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Question: According to Baal HaSulam, humanity is divided into the enterprising and the laggards who make up the majority. Regardless of the social system, a small part of the enterprising will always exploit the laggards.
Why is there such a division? How can this be related to the purpose of creation?
Answer: Such inequality is based on the correspondence of a person with those periods that he must go through in his development in order to achieve the goal of creation. It depends on generations, on the degree of connection between people, and is a process of correction.
That is, we must be in different states in order to gain some kind of life experience.
Question: Does it have to be imprinted in every soul?
Answer: Yes, and it needs to be able to be directed correctly.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24
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Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse around on which the Earth travels (Stanisław Jerzy Lec).
Question: Today is a time when it seems that many zeros are sure that they are the orbit in which the world revolves. Why is a person given this feeling of “I am the orbit in which the world revolves. Am I building the world”?
Answer: Yes, I build the world. Why is it given? So that a person realizes what a low creature they are.
Question: That this is not exactly so?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What, in your opinion, should be the feeling of a true leader?
Answer: He should feel that he does everything to set a correct example for his people.
Question: What is the correct example?
Answer: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Question: Should he live like this in relation to his people?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Have you seen such leaders? Were there ever such leaders?
Answer: I hope so. It is not noticeable from the outside. I think there were such leaders.
Comment: Our kings, who were in their time…
My Response: Maybe.
Question: Maybe Solomon and David?
Answer: I do not know.
Question: I see. But is this a true leader?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Will the future leader also be like this?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Will then the world change immediately?
Answer: Of course.
Question: Will the world also become loving?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Does the Creator instill such leadership in a person?
Answer: Of course. Who else?
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24
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The Creator created only one thing—something that does not exist in Him and can ostensibly exist outside of His essence.
This something is called creation; it is the desire to receive and be filled and is opposite to the Creator. This is our embryo called “Adam,” from the word “like the Creator” (Edomeh), which is similar to Him in that it comes from the Creator. It is opposite to Him in properties, but similar in expression.
Adam is the property of receiving that exists only as a bestower. The Creator created the desire to receive, but this desire manifests as completely annulled relative to the Creator—an embryo, a point of Bina in the upper light.
And then it divided into many parts and each particle of this property Bina became opposite to the Creator and the light that created it.
As the property of bestowal is divided, it is distanced from the Creator since many different properties that are similar to the Creator in their original form, begin to separate in their similarity and differ from each other. Everyone wants to give to the Creator as He wants to give to them, but everyone is different from the others.
It is how what is called the 600,000 basic parts arise since the system called Zeir Anpin consists of six parts each of which or all together are at the level of 10,000; this is the level of Keter of the world of Atzilut. Thus it is considered that there are 600,000 of them.
In Kabbalah, there is no concept of parts. Spirituality is not divided into parts, but differs from each other in its power. Therefore, when we say that the soul was divided into 600,000 parts, we do not mean quantitatively, but qualitatively, i.e., the level of that spiritual object that the Creator created at the level of “Keter of the world of Atzilut.” It is to this state that we must reach in our correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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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 (Baal HaSulam, Letter 4).
When our collective soul shattered, it fell to the very bottom—the level of our world. When we are engaged in correction we do not look at male and female bodies, we mean the correction of people.
The inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature does not concern us in our spiritual work. We use it because we need to live, and this justifies its existence. But in the future, we will see on spiritual levels how everything that exists can be used—all atoms of the cosmos and everything created in the universe—because it all belongs to the collective soul.
For now, we must understand that our work in correcting the only desire created by the Creator is at the lowest, most primitive level where we initially found ourselves.
Therefore, we must unite to help each other attain increasingly higher states with greater qualitative and quantitative connection, mainly in the quality of our connections. This is the meaning of being at the lowest egoistic level, the level of the world we perceive.
As soon as we begin forming more complex structures from ourselves, interconnected by good forces, we will perceive, not the egoistic form of this world, but its more altruistic form, called the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: How can we properly feel proud of our involvement in the spiritual path and the same time not fear falling into pride, which is hateful to the Creator? What is the way out?
Answer: You should simply continue to study constantly and not fear falling into pride. People should feel that they are moving closer to the Creator, and the Creator will always support and help them. You have the right to do this. So move forward without fear.
Comment: We are created with an evil inclination, and even in this, we feel His infinite love. That is, we have both pride and fear.
My Response: Try to discover all your positive and negative qualities through love for the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”
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Question: The path of truth differs from the path of lies precisely in intention. It is human nature to deceive oneself. How can one check one’s intentions at every moment?
Answer: You can check your intentions together with your friends and also when you turn to the Creator. You see how you draw closer or move away, how much you understand the Creator and He understands you. It all depends only on your intentions.
Question: When a person feels shame because they cannot create the right intention, what helps to move from this state to a corrected one?
Answer: It is only by uniting with friends. We have nothing else.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”
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Question: If a Kabbalist expects some special event in the future, how does he combine the two approaches: liberation from egoism now and waiting for a special opportunity after some time?
Answer: This comes from the surrounding light (Ohr Makif), from his vision of the future.
Question: Sometimes you tell very impatient students: “Calm down, this is a long path; it isn’t quick.” How should they combine these two approaches?
Answer: One must be very impatient while simultaneously developing patience within oneself.
Question: At every meeting of the tens, should we check the inherent extremes?
Answer: Yes. From here comes revelation and understanding. As it is said: love will cover all transgressions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 13
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Question: What does it mean to draw mercy in order to bring salvation closer for everyone?
Answer: It means that I do not think about myself at all and ask the Creator to reveal His mercy in the world so that the world will feel Him more and unite into one single group.
I strive to channel through myself to all people in the world the inner desire of the Creator—universal unity.
Question: The Creator is a great miracle worker, and He gives us such gifts that just gratitude is not enough. How else can you thank the Creator?
Answer: By spreading the method of connection between all people in the world and with the Creator through yourself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”
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