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Posted on October 13th, 2024
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Therefore, on Rosh Hashanah, one begins one’s work anew. Additionally, the days of the ten penitential days are called “days of forgiving and atonement of sins,” so a man will have every opportunity to join in the work of the Creator once more, even though he’s been so remote from the work (Rabash, Letter No. 34).
Question: What should I repent for after Rosh HaShanah if I have to cross out the past?
Answer: Based on how the present moment unfolds, you should determine your current state in relation to the Creator and attribute all your actions to that state.
Therefore, you have nothing else but to connect with your friends and inspire them toward the goal of creation. In this way, you justify the actions of the Creator.
Question: Should I also process the states that occurred before Rosh HaShanah?
Answer: No, but they serve as the foundation for what you feel now.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/5/24, Writings of Rabash Letter No. 34
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Question: What actions do you expect from us, as a group of ten, in the New Year? Should we bring you joy and through you bring pleasure to the Creator?
Answer: In the New Year, as in the previous year, as 50 or 150 years ago, the same conditions remain—that we desire to help each other ascend to the Creator with the intention of bringing Him pleasure and through our actions bring Him joy.
Question: You said that we must change the state of the world through our unity.
If during the holidays we offer a collective one-minute prayer during the lesson, could that help shift the state of the world?
Answer: If anything can help, it is a prayer. If we genuinely desire to unite and from that unity raise a prayer to the Creator—that is what is needed. Nothing else will help us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/24, Writings of Rabash “The Godliness Made the Concealment”
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Question: How does a person know they are ready to study Kabbalah?
Answer: If a person asks: “What is the purpose of my life” and cannot find an answer, they begin to search for it and often come to Kabbalah.
If they feel that they cannot live without it, it becomes clear to them that the Creator is inviting them to this. And so, they begin to study the science of Kabbalah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Comment: Some say that suffering and pain are contagious.
My Response: Yes, we can transmit our suffering. People tend to suffer when they see the suffering of others. And this is generally a very wrong attitude.
Question: Is that selfish?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So when I share my sufferings with others, I can infect others with them?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is the epidemic of suffering that is going on in the world precisely because we share our suffering?
Answer: Yes.
Question: But how can you not share when it hurts?
Answer: There is no need to multiply it. The best thing is for everyone to live in their own suffering; one can internally talk to themselves and to a higher power, and thus everything gradually changes.
Question: So, this is what you call proper parenting? I endure suffering in myself, I talk to the Creator, I try to fill everything with harmony, and I thus as if transform into harmony myself, and transform the world?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: That would be nice. But it is very difficult.
My Response: This is how it should be.
Question: Is it possible to teach this?
Answer: No, a person must come to this by himself. This is called “karma.”
Comment: This is the first time you have used this word.
My Response: You can do it once.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24
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In the News (NPR):
“On March 27, 2013, John Sweeney, a plumber from Ireland, started a Facebook page called Suspended Coffees. His message was simple: Buy a cup of coffee for a stranger, because an act of kindness can change a life. Eight hours later, the page had attracted more than 20,000 likes.
“Suspended coffee, or caffe sospeso, is a tradition that comes from Naples, Italy, and dates to at least the turn of the 20th century. When customers buy coffee, they also pay in advance for a cup to be given to somebody else — usually someone who otherwise couldn’t afford it. …
“One challenge to making kindness through coffee a staple of American culture is that ‘we’re a society that isn’t very comfortable, culturally, with asking for help,’
Question: Is it possible to come up with such harmony for humanity so that those who have money and opportunity would present something without their names and others would use it without humiliating themselves at the request? Would it bring us closer to harmony or not?
Answer: Partially, yes.
Question: What is the most important element here? That it is offered up and is anonymous?
Answer: That is natural, no last names, nothing. Neither who gives nor who receives. That is how everything exists incognito.
Question: Is there harmony in this?
Answer: Sure.
Question: Does the fact that I give something of mine away without demanding anything in return make the world warmer, better?
Answer: Partially. Our egoism will not allow us to do this every day. You can do this for a week or so but not all the time.
Question: So it cannot be a process of upbringing that leads to this and we would live like this all the time?
Answer: No.
Question: There must be ups and downs?
Answer: Otherwise it will be like some kind of tax and so on.
Question: It would no longer be an effort?
Answer: Yes, and there must be an effort.
Question: It is clear that this is a process of education more for someone who suspends, that is, for a rich person. And for the one who accepts, what is here? Is there any kind of upbringing for him?
Answer: He must understand that someone has thought of him. And therefore, when he gets the same opportunity, he will have to do it too.
Question: It is beautiful! Is a mutual upbringing process taking place?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is it possible to do this?
Answer: This is a mutual agreement. This can, of course, be done.
It is possible to come to this through education. A person becomes educated and then it becomes a habit. And he thinks about it, does not forget, and does it. Or it could be under pressure, like some kind of tax.
But there is no other way because egoism in us is constantly growing and requires that we feed it.
Question: So a person will somehow adapt to these efforts?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Can we say what the final way to harmony is?
Answer: The final approach to harmony is when we do not feel our egoism would force us to do something. It is when we rise above it and are truly free. This is, of course, aerobatics! But it will happen.
Question: You slowly lead into a mini-dead-end, and then suddenly you say: “But it will be.” Do you want to calm us down or will it happen?
Answer: I am sure this will happen, and humanity must come to this. It is written in our genes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/13/24
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Question: How can I determine in which quality I need to adhere to the Creator now?
Answer: According to what your heart leans toward. You should follow the path where your heart guides you.
And not your animalistic heart but the one you want to expand within yourself so it becomes more connected with the Creator, with the quality of bestowal and love.
You must constantly nurture and grow this heart.
Question: You advise listening to one’s heart, but how can we trust this advice when it is said that the heart of a person is evil from birth?
Answer: You must correct it, and to the extent that it is corrected, you will feel that you are in the right position.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”
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Question: I feel some kind of mystery behind the number “600,000.” Is this feeling correct?
Answer: “600,000” is a purely symbolic marking of the number of souls that must unite to fully reveal the Shechina. Therefore, you should not cling to the number.
The main thing for us is to be together in mutual help and fulfillment of one another so that we can feel the entire Kli, the entire soul together. Then we will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”
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Question: Can a person have power over his “horse” (body)? Doesn’t the system work so we work for the Creator and receive light from Him, which corrects my “horse” and my entire desire to receive?
Answer: As a rule, the horse takes the owner’s care of him for granted. But if so, why does the owner keep him in the stable rather than his home? It is because at home, a horse can smash and dirty everything.
Therefore, the owner builds a stall for it and keeps it there only for the horse to serve him; otherwise, he would not have put him there.
A person believes he is the master of his body, which is like a horse. He tells his body: “I give you so much food and care, not because I love you, but because you can work for the Creator. I cannot work for the Creator directly; I can only work through you. And what I give you, you receive only to the extent that you direct yourself to the Creator. If you work this way, you fulfill my intentions and further my actions—for the sake of the Creator.”
Therefore, it is considered that the horse belongs to its owner and receives everything necessary from him to benefit the owner. This is called “for the sake of bestowal.”
This is how a person performs good actions for the Creator, for himself, and his “horse.”
Question: How can a person determine what restrictions should be imposed on his “horse” at a given time?
Answer: To do this, he just needs to know his “horse” and do everything for its good work. That is, a person does not think about the Creator, and does not think about himself or the “horse”; he thinks of how to do a good deed for the Creator through the “horse.”
Question: What if, due to these restrictions, the “horse” starts bucking and behaving worse?
Answer: Then we need to get the “horse” in order. The “horse” must understand that what the owner does to it is necessary.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Horse to Ride On”
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Question: How can one open their heart to the Creator so that He takes us out of egoism?
Answer: This is precisely why we study the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is to understand how to receive everything the Creator wants to give us, which can only happen through the connection between us.
Therefore we must strive to connect above our egoistic desires, and to the same extent, the Creator can be revealed within us.
Question: How can one desire to know the Creator Himself and not just what He gives?
Answer: It depends on your readiness to connect with the Creator rather than receive from Him. You must be ready to accept what He wishes to give in order to connect with Him and bring Him contentment through that connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Shechina [Divinity]”
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