Question: What should I do to bestow to the friends and to the Creator?

Answer: You must relate to the friends in the same way you relate to the Creator. By this you will delight Him.

You will ask the Creator to give you the ability to bestow upon Him in the same way that you want to bestow to the friends, and vice versa, to bestow to the friends as you wish to bestow to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShana”

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Question: Baal HaSulam writes that the foundation for the future society will not be education and public opinion but something more serious. After all, education and public opinion only will not be able to convince egoists to become altruists. What can it be?

Answer: It will not just be education and public opinion. In such a system, everyone must consider what contribution they need to make to the common fund and receive from it only what is absolutely necessary for them.

Entire organizations will work on this, ensuring that each person gives their share into the so-called common pot.

Question: Baal HaSulam also says that a higher value, the upper force, can become such a basis. As we know from Kabbalah, the upper force is the quality of bestowal and love. It will become the highest ideal for humanity, and everyone will agree with this. How can this happen?

Answer: It is very simple, because people who feel that they are bestowing because they want to help others, to fulfill them, they will in turn receive a spiritual fulfillment, which will bring them to a higher level of existence.

And so, society will gradually elevate itself with all the controlling bodies, all the calculations, and will reorganize itself in such a way that there will be no need for police, overseers, or anything of the sort. Instead, there will be voluntary and honest accounting by each individual.

In other words, humanity will reach a state where it will feel the upper force. Working for it, manifested through working for others, will essentially become the fuel for a person.

Question: You are talking about some ideal state when people feel this. But what if a person does not feel that?

Answer: If a person is on such a level that he does not feel spiritual actions at all, then he needs to be engaged in them. Society must embrace him and show him: the more good he does, the more goodwill society will show him; the more evil he does, the less society will tolerate him.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 8/8/24

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All secrets of nature are hidden in our unity—there is no other remedy for broken souls. Therefore, we use the method of Baal HaSulam in all stages: rising above egoism, joining into tens, and moving toward unification into one man with one heart.

Baal HaSulam expressed the whole science of Kabbalah in a new, rational, and very open form that it is difficult for the world to accept. He brought each person closer to his purpose. We only need to unite into one man with one heart and raise a prayer to Him from this unity so He will manifest in us.

On one hand it seems that time passes and all this cannot be done, but on the other hand, we see that generations are advancing to the extent that they can realize the conditions given by the spiritual environment.

In fact, this progress cannot be considered slow, as some complain. Apparently, we do not understand how huge, lavish, and simply infinite the whole universe is. At our stage, we want to perform actions immediately at the highest level. But until we achieve sufficient force of action and its required accuracy, we will remain on the path.

Only through connection with other people can we turn to the Creator correctly. The more connected I am to the friends on the path, the closer I am to the Creator. We need to enclose ourselves as much as possible within the boundaries of the ten, the Kabbalistic group, and inside it, we will find everything Baal HaSulam wanted to convey to us.

Every day we must try to raise the ten to an ever higher level. If everyone in the ten wants to do this and knows that their spiritual score depends on it, we will succeed.

I hope we will go through the holidays with full seriousness and begin to reveal what relates to our souls. Every day I see my students more and more collected, united, and in agreement with the steps the spiritual forces are taking us through. If we want to accelerate the ascent to the next degree, an attack is required from us through unification with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/13/24, Baal HaSulam Memorial Day, Rav Yehuda Ashlag

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Question: Due to what does the birth of the soul occur? Is it the Creator’s choice?

Answer: A person’s inner Reshimot (informational spiritual genes) begin to awaken and require growth.

Question: How can we sincerely put a king above ourselves if we do not feel it yet?

Answer: It happens gradually. You cannot do it in your mind, but you can strive for it. The main thing is for you to know there is this particular path before you.

Question: It is said that everything is in the hands of the Creator. But what is it? Is this one of the feelings of the oneness of the Creator?

Answer: Everything is in the hands of the Creator, and everything is in the hands of man who accepts this plan and wants to work with it.

Question: Why did the Creator arrange for man to annul himself and make space for Him? What is the purpose of this?

Answer: In this way, a person rises above his animalistic pleasures, sensations, and decisions, and can be truly independent of everything, just like the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24, “Rosh HaShanah”

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 85 “What Is the Fruit of a Citrus Tree, in the Work?” Writings of Rabash, Article 893 “The Fruit of a Citrus Tree,” Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 102 “And You Shall Take You the Fruit of a Citrus Tree’

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Question: What is the correct connection in the ten that will lead the whole world to happiness?

Answer: The correct connection is when we are so connected to each other that the Creator will enter our connection and will not be able to leave.

We will hold on to Him in such a way that the link with Him will become stronger and stronger. Then we can be together. That is, the connection between us and the connection between us and the Creator will be the same.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Rabash,“Happy Is the Man”

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The question is, Is the filling that delights him true or is it imaginary? (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 137, “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”)

Question: Why is the fulfillment that brings joy imaginary and not real? Does that mean that only deficiency is real?

Answer: A real deficiency (Hisaron) is exactly what we need to fill, correct, and raise to the Creator. If we do not have this need, we have no reason to turn to Him. That is why Rabash writes that there are different states: there are people who are sick, those who are healthy, and those who do not even feel that they are sick.

For us, the most important thing is to reach a state where we feel our illness and ask the Creator for its correction. A true deficiency can be revealed through discussions with one another where each person shares his desires and goals relative to others.

Question: What is imagination if everything I see is my internal perception?

Answer: What difference does it make whether it is imagination or feeling? It is what you perceive from the Creator. Therefore, you need to clarify whether this feeling gives you a correct connection with the Creator. If not, ask Him to change that connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/24, Rabash, Assorted Notes, “The Lack Is the Kli [Vessel]”

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Hence, if the Creator afflicts when he has no spirituality, the suffering compels a person to make great efforts until he must obtain the spirituality that he feels he lacks (Rabash, Assorted Notes, 337, “Happy Is the Man”).

Question: We still cannot imagine what spirituality is. How can we feel the lack of something we have not yet truly felt?

Answer: This applies to people who already feel the lack of spirituality and regret not having it. Such feelings become the foundation for their advancement.

As a person engages in Kabbalah, they gradually perceive that the light of the Creator is acting upon them and guiding them forward toward correct feelings.

Question: Does that mean not everyone in this corporeal incarnation will come to spiritual attainment?

Answer: No, whoever is meant to come will come.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/24, Writings of Rabash “Happy Is the Man”

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Question: A viewer asks: “You recently answered my question that when the Torah mentions birth, it’s not about physical birth, and when it says a child was born, it refers to spiritual birth. What does it mean to be born spiritually?”

Answer: To be born spiritually means to rise above egoism and ascend to the quality of bestowal.

Question: Is this what is meant when it says: “Isaac was born to Abraham, Jacob was born”? Is this a gradual process of birth?

Answer: Yes.

Question: “Why isn’t it clearly written that a soul was born to a person and it was named, for example, Abraham?” asks our friend. Why isn’t it stated directly?

Answer: I think for those who wrote and read these texts, it was all clear. They were at a degree where they understood what needed to be written and what did not.

Question: So today we read it as an historical story, but in reality, they read it as a path of the soul?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Another question: “I have also heard that there is the concept of a miscarriage, not in corporeality, but in spirituality. What does that mean?”

Answer: A miscarriage occurs when instead of overcoming egoism and progressing toward altruism, the opposite happens—altruism is suppressed and egoism prevails. Therefore the person falls back into egoism.

Question: The increase of egoism? So this is where the miscarriage occurs?

Answer: Yes, it is already a miscarriage at that point.

Question: What do the nine months of pregnancy mean in the spiritual sense?

Answer: These are the nine Sefirot that we must pass through from Malchut up to Keter. Only then are we ready for spiritual birth.

Question: This movement from Malchut to Keter—what does it represent?

Answer: It represents moving from the desire to receive (where one starts) to the desire to bestow. It is not that the person suddenly desires to bestow, but rather they want to merge with the Creator’s quality.

Question: And this is what is meant by passing through the nine months?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In spiritual terms, what does it mean when the embryo does not turn with his head down before birth?

Answer: That is a problem. It must be turned.

Question: What does it mean when it does turn?

Answer: It means the person changes their attitude toward the world and is ready to exit with a new perspective. Initially, they are head up, focused on themselves, but now they turn head down, and are ready to enter the world.

Question: Why is being head down a sign of readiness for birth?

Answer: It signifies that the person considers all their previous qualities unsuitable for further spiritual development.

Question: Egoistic qualities?

Answer: Yes. That is why they end up head down. The person must pass through a narrow passage, as we see in our material world, and then gradually spiritual birth occurs. There are many stages in this process, but we will not go into detail now.

Question: Does turning head down mean some kind of submission?

Answer: It is a reversal in their relationship to the world.

Question: So it is like going from “the world exists for me” to “I exist for the world”? Can we put it that way?
Answer: Yes. And thus, the person is born head down.

Comment: This correlation between the spiritual and material always amazes me. You said it is very dangerous if a baby does not turn in the material world either. They must turn.

My Response: Of course.

Comment: It is such a direct consequence.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Does a spiritual cesarean section exist?

Answer: There is no such thing in nature.

Question: Nature does not interfere?

Answer: No.

Comment: So that is our invention, purely of our world.

My Response: Yes, of course. It is violence, and humans have been practicing it for many, many years, hundreds of years.

Question: Can birth be called the next spiritual degree of man?

Answer: Birth is the next spiritual degree of man, which is born in him, and he ascends to it and begins to function at that degree.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/15/24

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