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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 18
What Is the Difference Between the Reception of the Torah and the Exodus from Egypt?
The Exodus from Egypt is the preparation of the vessels. We take vessels from Egypt, and opposite the point in the heart, we start perceiving the evil within us. “The children of Israel groaned from the labor.” The entire process we undergo culminates in freedom from Pharaoh’s control, i.e., from the control of such vessels and desires. We thereby become ready to confront the doubts, which is considered reaching Mount Sinai.
Without the Exodus from Egypt, it is impossible to speak of receiving the Torah. We need to have the vessels from Egypt, and then we can leave Egypt and reach Mount Sinai with those vessels. Moreover, even as we receive the Torah at Mount Sinai, when the point of Keter—Moses—receives the Torah, the point of Malchut forms an idol, which symbolizes the people waiting at the foot of the mountain seized by doubts about the spiritual work, unable to overcome them, ultimately creating an idol.
It is quite complicated. The process of receiving the Torah is a very long journey, and further corrections are needed afterward. It is due to the Torah arriving in two stages, one following the other:
The process thus does not end with leaving Egypt and the reception of the Torah. When we receive the Torah, we only start refining our vessels. We begin to correct them during the forty years in the desert until we reach the Land of Israel. Before reaching the final correction, there are still many challenges to face, and their purpose is to develop a sense of the true, eternal, and perfect state that is already within us.
In essence, this entire process is a way of opening our vessels so that we can increasingly feel our place. The process only affects the vessels of perception within us. Nothing external changes, only our perception.
It is astonishing how the reception of Godliness is ultimately an inner discovery and revelation; we find out where we truly are and what is within. We can liken it to someone unconscious who gradually wakes up to know where they are. Nothing changes externally, only our awareness and feeling.
The stages of the vessels’ sensitivity in us, which are stages of awareness and awakening, are called the “Exodus from Egypt,” “Mount Sinai,” “Reception of the Torah,” and other names. They are stages that we undergo on our spiritual journey. The change only plays out within us, in our inner vessels. On the outside, nothing changes. We are the ones who change.
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Question: How can we fully appreciate everything you are giving us? This is the best environment one could ask for!
Answer: That is exactly why we must connect with each other and rise our unity to a global scale. I believe we will eventually find ourselves united in one shared desire with one Creator for all. This will be the state of ultimate unity.
Comment: Dear Teacher, please stay with us always!
My Response: I will, don’t worry. The bond between us is one that time cannot break.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Arose”
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You can only help someone who is ready for help. A suffering person sees the world through his pain, which means he is deaf and blind.
Question: Is it impossible to help a person?
Answer: You cannot help when someone is suffering. He himself, through his suffering, must come to a state when he feels a world filled with bliss and goodness.
Question: Until one comes to this, can we help him?
Answer: No.
Question: Does it follow that a person has to undergo all the descents himself?
Answer: Of course.
Question: And no one can help him?
Answer: Practically… only with advice.
Question: Is it obvious that a prayer comes from a person, as well as from an animal? Even animals hurt, a cow prays, it moos. And a person prays asking for pain to go away. Is this a correct state?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So, in fact, is one being led to turn to someone, namely, to turn to the Creator? Is that the reason he is feeling pain?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: This path is a bit brutal.
My Response: No, he is given a bit of pain to feel that he is not in a comfortable state, not in the right state.
Question: And he must bring it to the correct state?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So if I, feeling pain, look for a way out into a comfortable, correct state, then the pain will go away?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What is the correct state?
Answer: When you are at peace with the Creator.
Question: Are we not at peace with the Creator?
Answer: No.
Question: What is being at peace with the Creator, what is it?
Answer: Being at peace with the Creator is having no demands. Not because you do not want or need to, but because you see the whole world as kind and pure.
Question: Is this the state we should come to?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24
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Comment: There are Buddhist sayings about suffering and sufferers. If possible, could you comment on them?
“Never interfere in someone else’s suffering. A person must grow tired of himself and drink the cup of poison allotted to him.”
My Response: This is absolutely correct! Beautifully said! If you try to pull someone out before they have drunk their cup of poison, it will not help them.
Question: They must grow tired of themselves—is that true?
Answer: Yes, even to the point of hatred.
Comment: So I simply live, and then I come to the realization that…
My Response: That all your evil comes from you. For that, you need to change yourself somehow. How is that possible? And here you come to the point of the correct decision.
Question: Does it mean that my life is in order for me to grow tired of myself?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What about the fact that I am allotted this cup of poison, how do you feel about the word “allotted”?
Answer: Yes, it is on one side of the scales, and a drop of wisdom is on the other side of the scales.
Question: Do I have to drink this cup of poison one way or another?
Answer: Without refusing.
Question: Do I open my mouth and take the poison?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Am I allotted a specific dose?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Every person?
Answer: Every person.
Comment: There is no life optimism here.
My Response: Why? Life begins precisely when you understand that before you is a cup of poison and a beautiful, balanced, and good life. Choose.
Comment: I will choose the balanced and good life, I am telling you right now.
My Response: Only through the cup of poison!
Question: Are you saying I must take this cup of poison and then I will reach this balanced life?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So the road to paradise goes through hell. Can we say that?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Can a person live with this thought?
Answer: People live with it.
Question: Are you saying that this is how we should live, on top of everything else?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/6/24
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Answer: That is true.
Question: When it is said that you will give birth in pain, could it be that this refers not to our physical birth but to the birth of a human within a human?
Answer: In general, it might be so. But in any case, whether it is this or that birth, it is still painful. The Creator specifically made it this way. It is said: “In pain you will give birth.”
Question: But why not give birth in joy, without suffering, without pain?
Answer: I would say that it is indeed a paradox. Because out of all creatures, I think humans suffer the most during childbirth.
Question: That is true. Now, think about how women used to give birth before all these painkillers?
Answer: I think it was easier for them.
Comment: That is, they could give birth without any painkillers.
My Response: They would go somewhere aside and give birth.
Question: Why was it simpler before? The pain was the same, but the attitude toward pain was probably different.
Answer: No, I think the pain was different too. People were more accustomed to pain. They endured all suffering much more easily and, in general, understood that there was no other way, nothing else you could do, you had to give birth.
Question: So in principle, the closer we were to nature, the easier it was to give birth? As soon as concrete and asphalt separated us from nature, we began to give birth with even more suffering, and we needed painkillers?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Now about the birth, as it is said here: “And in mature years, one gives birth to oneself.” What does this mean to you?
Answer: It is spiritual birth.
Question: Why should it be painful?
Answer: It is a long process during which a person must clearly determine if they want to be spiritually born or not. And they must put themselves in such a state and ask the Creator to perform such actions on them.
Question: Is this what is meant by suffering?
Answer: In general, suffering is the process against a person’s natural desires.
Question: Does a person want to be born or not?
Answer: A person still wants to be born. And the Creator wants a person to be born. And they help each other. But still, through pain; there is no other way.
Question: Does everything have to go through pain, what do you think?
Answer: Yes, understanding where you are and where you need to go, being born, the way you go through this narrow path from the womb into this world—it is all suffering.
Question: Sorry for such a question: did you suffer during this long period of your involvement with this science?
Answer: No, but who knows what will happen next.
Question: But before that, was there suffering?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So it is not even the birth itself but the preceding sufferings, like pre-birth pains?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So the whole search and so on, all the depressions is all a kind of pre-birth?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: And then when you suddenly feel that you have found…
My Response: That is joy.
Question: Is it possible to swim in this joy, swim, swim, and swim?
Answer: Yes, while crying.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/24
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Answer: When you get closer, then you will understand.
Question: I feel like He is putting pressure on me, that I have to overcome something somehow, but I do not understand what.
Answer: You must use all your strength to ask the Creator for the opportunity to connect the Creator to the whole creation through yourself: You are in the middle, the Creator is on your right side, all creatures are on your left side, and you connect them. Try this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Gave All that He Had”
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Question: What should I bestow to my friends and the entire ten from my desire to receive?
Answer: You must approach your friends and invite them to go to the Creator together and in such a way that you have no doubts that you are on the right path. In addition, you must give each other support and the right direction of thoughts and desires.
Question: What does it mean to give yourself completely to the Creator?
Answer: It means to be constantly in the intention to act for the sake of the Creator. If a person tries to adhere to this intention, then he has no descents.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Abraham Gave All that He Had”
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Question: How can we help each other in the ten to reveal the common deficiency (desire) through which we can come to know the Creator?
Answer: In the ten, we must be connected to one another through mutual bestowal, mutual support, and mutual connection so that whatever each of us receives is distributed among all members of the ten.
If we think this way, we will begin to feel the connection within the ten. And then anyone who receives even a little from the Creator, from their action, from their prayer, will distribute this among everyone.
Question: How can we help each individual in the ten incorporate in the common deficiency in order to bring contentment to the Creator?
Answer: When you feel the need to turn to the Creator, draw in as many desires, sensations, and connections between yourselves and your friends as possible, and turn to the Creator so that He can unite and fill you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of ‘In Everything’”
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Answer: If you feel that you have faith above reason and it fills you, then you have nothing more to worry about. You should focus only on how to thank the Creator.
Question: Can we consider failure as success, the meaning of which we will understand later?
Answer: No, we must still act, and in these actions feel the Creator’s attitude toward us.
Question: How can one maintain focus on building spiritual Hisaron (lack) in any state and patiently await joy from it within the ten?
Answer: This must be your constant effort. Then you will see what else can be derived from uniting with friends or what to request from the Creator or the group in order to always remain in the correct intention.
Question: How can one strengthen faith that the Creator is good and does good?
Answer: Strive to be like Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Joy”
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