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Posted on September 20th, 2024
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Question: If the corrections we go through are meant for the soul, what sensations do we feel in the body? It seems like they complicate the work of feeling correction. Why are they given to us then?
Answer: Honestly, I do not understand what you are talking about. If I focus on clarifying my relationships with my friends and clarifying my relationship with the Creator through these relationships, what does the body have to do with it?
Of course, the body also suffers; it shakes and feels various tensions, but I would say these are minor side effects. There is nothing significant about them.
You can rest assured that nothing will happen to your body. The body only becomes healthier if physical states result from your spiritual efforts. I guarantee you that.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”
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Question: It is said: “We shall do and we shall hear.” Is this one action?
Answer: “We shall do” is an action, and “we shall hear” is a result. If my action or request to the Creator is for the sake of bestowal, then we will receive this quality and act for the sake of bestowal.
Question: What is the connection between bestowal for the sake of bestowal and reflected light?
Answer: Any bestowal, whether bestowal for the sake of bestowal or bestowal for the sake of reception, relates to the reflected light.
Question: The intention to achieve bestowal to the Creator may not be entirely pure. How is this corrected? At what moment?
Answer: It is corrected immediately on the spot. As soon as you have any desires, you should immediately examine them, and the desires above egoism we must use for the sake of the Creator.
Question: What is the upper light the Creator gives us for bestowal?
Answer: It is the light of the Creator that corrects our intentions. And then, with these intentions, we can act for His sake through our friends.
Question: If one of the friends feels a connection with true bestowal, how can he gently and correctly convey his feelings to the friends?
Answer: They will feel it themselves. Additionally, the friend can pray that the Creator helps him explain it to his friends without words.
Question: How can I understand that I am giving pleasure to the Creator?
Answer: You must feel it through your connection with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, “Questions from World Kli”
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Question: Your teacher Rabash said that one can still attend a lesson without intention if he has already arrived. If we did not establish an intention of bestowal before the lesson or a meeting with the ten, where should we direct our thoughts?
Answer: At least part of the ten should be in the correct intention, and the others can connect to them. The most important thing is not to be passive. If I have even the slightest connection with the property of bestowal, I must promote or express it within the group.
Question: Can the greatness of the friends be a minimally sufficient intention for a group meeting?
Answer: Yes, you should strive for this. When you feel that through this, you are working for the sake of bestowal to your friends, you can hope this action will also lead to bestowal to the Creator. He will unite you all and bring correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/29/24, Writings of Rabash “He Who Comes to Purify Is Aided – 1”
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Question: Have you experienced situations where your wife’s opinion was very important to you and you listened to her?
Answer: Of course. There are moments in family life when, first of all, I see that I cannot make certain decisions without my wife. On the other hand, her opinion is necessary, not only because she is knowledgeable and understanding, but because she is your other half. It would cost you dearly if you do not listen to her. So I believe it is essential to consult with your wife.
Question: You beautifully said that she is the other half and she is even more precious. It feels like male and female parts come together into one whole. That is very beautiful! Did you ever see such a relationship between your teacher Rabash and his wife that you could take as an example?
Answer: No, in this regard, he was very private. Although I was always around, I did not see any particular external display of their connection.
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From KabTV’s “Men and Women” 8/20/24
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Question: We talk a lot about the need for connection. With men everything is clear, there is a lot written about it in the Torah. But what about the connection of women? Because the Torah says nothing about it.
Answer: A woman, in general, does not connect with anyone. Of course, she can have friends both in childhood and when she grows up. But for her, there is a period when she gets married, gives birth, and takes care of her children and family. This is her whole life. So there cannot be much else here.
Question: It turns out that her main function is still the home.
Answer: Yes.
Question: I can say from my own experience that this fills me very much. I feel like a queen in the house. This is mine!
But what is the function of a man? To give a woman this feeling? Not to interfere or to help?
Answer: It is to give a feeling, not to interfere, to help. That is true.
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From KabTV’s “Men and Women” 8/20/24
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My husband and I both do not understand how we chose each other. We are so different—like water and fire. And when I remember how it happened, I remember that I did not choose him for his beautiful eyes, there was no “at first sight” between us. And not because he is handsome or strong.
I chose him by smell. But it was not the perfume; it was the smell of my childhood. I don’t even know how to explain it. That is why I ask you, please explain it to me: how could smell conquer everything: character, beauty, everything? (From a Letter to Dr. Laitman)
Answer: It can be so because smell is a very natural sensation that attracts and binds a person so much that one cannot get away from it.
Question: Why is the smell of childhood a decisive factor?
Answer: Because childhood leaves a pleasant impression on us.
Question: Forever? The smell of childhood?
Answer: Basically, yes.
Question: After all, a person lives with another person who has his or her own character, his or her own appearance, his or her own, as we said, peculiarities, thorns, and so on. And you say that after all, above all this, above all this is the smell?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What happens? I inhale. Is it something in the nose or in the heart?
Answer: You have a part of the other.
Question: And this cannot be done any other way but by smell?
Answer: No other way.
Question: Please tell me, is it connected to the heart? After all, they became a couple, they continued to live together. The smell, how is it connected with everything: with the heart, with the soul, with the brain, with everything?
Answer: It leaves you with an impression that explains to you that this person relates to those sensations that you once experienced in connection with this smell.
Question: Good ones?
Answer: Yes, therefore, you cannot so easily leave this behind.
Question: If we understand it, is it possible to maintain the smell?
Answer: Of course.
Question: It is possible? Although in fact it probably disappeared.
Answer: It doesn’t matter; we are animals in this regard. Smell is purely an animal thing.
Question: I wonder how can one maintain the scent if it disappeared? That is it, this smell is gone, but still.
Answer: It is in you. It is the Reshimot (records).
Question: The records?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/12/24
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Question: Many women have been studying with you for many years because they have a desire for spirituality. What qualities should they choose so as not to remain stagnant, not to cool off, not to pass through all this, but to truly progress toward the Creator? What should they focus on?
Answer: If a woman wants, then we have courses for both men and women, general classes, and so on. In principle, it is the same information, the same curriculum as for men.
When this course ends and it can last from three or four to ten or fifteen years. Depending on how you study, the person continues studying according to a different plan.
Question: And yet, what will help a woman the most in her spiritual progress? A man, or her personal effort in something specific?
Answer: Generally, a woman does not strive for spirituality in the same way as a man. She is much more involved with herself and her family: children, clothing, comfort, and so on. All of this is very important to her. For a man, if he truly desires spirituality, it becomes everything for him. Everything else makes up only about five percent of his concerns. For women, it is the opposite.
Therefore, her progress depends on the man, on her husband. We see this in life although there have been only a few examples in history—like the wife of Rabbi Akiva or the daughter of Rashi. Generally, a woman cannot progress in the same way as a man. Such women have been very rare.
Question: Did these women have a special soul?
Answer: Yes, but it was still a female soul.
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From KabTV’s “Men and Women” 8/20/24
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Question: We all must come out to the light as one, together. What is the proper work between us in order to achieve this?
Answer: It lies in the fact that everyone strives to emerge from darkness into light and does this for the sake of their friends.
Question: What is the help we give to one another if we see everyone as perfect?
Answer: If we were perfect, we would have no work to do. We would simply be in a state of absolute bestowal to one another, and this state would be called the corrected world.
So we should not consider ourselves or our friends to be like that. After all, we understand that we are all in an uncorrected state and must begin from this point each time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/2/24, Writings of Rabash “Internality and Externality”
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