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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 21
How Much Does Our Work Depend on Going in the Right Direction?
We need to understand what the purpose of creation is, what the Creator wants from us, and what our heart’s desire is, which is called “recognition of evil.” We examine and learn how far and how different our “self” is from what it needs to be in our current state, not how it should ideally be in its root at the completion of correction, but right now.
We should always improve relative to our current state and not compare ourselves to other people’s states or a different stage of development from our own. Just as a five-year-old is regarded as a five-year-old and not as a ten-year-old, it would be disheartening if that child suffered from growth delay and required the support of various treatments and corrections.
At every moment, we have all the data needed to discover, examine, see, and understand how we should be and whether we are moving in the right direction. It depends solely on our effort and labor. There is no corruption from above; all corruption exists within a person, and we are granted permission to discover and heal it.
However, we need the reforming light to come and illuminate our way. It is a light that reveals our nature and clarifies the extent to which we are tarnished by various thoughts, impulses, and desires. We draw this light by studying Kabbalistic texts. Therefore, it is all in our hands; only studying can help us see the gap between our current “self” and our ideal “self.”
Moreover, an overly-strong desire to immediately see the extent of the deviation between identities will not help, as transgressions, mistakes, and feelings of distance, disparity, and separation from the correct state all gradually accumulate and surface. They are specifically where we feel the revelation. Therefore, such information gathering requires a long time. We develop this ability to perceive over years, depending on the quantity and quality of our effort.
The mechanism will always be prayer and correction on the prayer, on the desire in the heart. Whenever we feel our presence in the world, at every moment, we essentially discover the gap between who we are, what is in our heart, and who we are meant to be. At the end of the day, the pressures or pleasures that the world provides are forces of correction that act on us.
For a corrected person, the worlds disappear. All the worlds exist within the person. They are a mechanism, a system, that constantly surrounds and corrects us. They guide us closer and closer to the goal. The more we approach the goal, the purer the worlds become. They become purified from the world of Assiya to the worlds of Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut, until they disappear and become replaced by simple light.
In a person who has reached the goal, there are no worlds. There is no longer a mechanism of worlds between the simple light and the person; instead, the person becomes attuned to the simple light.
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Question: What does it mean to receive blessings from all sides?
Answer: From women, from men, from those who are distant and those who are close, from friends, and the Creator, a person must strive to restore and maintain his connection with all these sources. Gradually he will begin to sense that he can receive fulfillment through these connections.
Question: What does it mean to receive a blessing in the ten?
Answer: It means that within the ten, there is a feeling of the Creator addressing them. In this case, they can connect and direct the connection emerging between them toward the Creator. In this way, they establish contact with Him.
Question: How can perfection in the ten be achieved?
Answer: By each person desiring to receive with the intention to bestow to the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/24, Writings of Rabash “The Discernment of “In Everything”
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Question: How can one rejoice in the past when they realize that they lived like an animal and manipulated the lives of others?
On one hand you understand that it all came from the Creator, and it was the Creator who plunged you into the abyss. But this is not an excuse because even then you could have made the right choice, but did not.
Answer: You could not have made it. When we come to the future world, then we will know the whole truth. For now we must continue to act and attribute more and more of everything that happens within us to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Joy”
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Question: What is the inner dance of the ten that gives unceasing joy?
Answer: If we are constantly looking for an ascent, then we will naturally begin to descend and rise from it. Such ascents and descents are called a dance that we must remain in; that is, we need to constantly seek how to rise to spirituality and beware of being lowered.
Our egoism will always work to lower us, and we must be grateful to it for the opportunity for another ascent. This is the correct work with our egoism.
Question: Is this ascent of the soul, the dance of the soul, and love for the Creator a support within knowledge?
Answer: No, all this is above knowledge. Within reason we do not see, feel, or sense any taste.
Question: How can you make the ascents and the descents happen at a fast pace so that the joy never stops?
Answer: You must be responsible for the state of spirit in your ten, and then you will achieve a lot.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/24, Writings of Rabash “Joy that Comes from Dancing”
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We need to tell people about the causes of the multifaceted, multilateral global crises: political, economic, spiritual, moral, climatic, etc. because it is practically one crisis.
We must explain to everyone what state we are in. Until there was a global crisis, we were silent. We spoke about ecology and economics and how they were heading toward collapse, but these were empty conversations. Now that we see with our own eyes what is happening in the world, in society, in everything, and everywhere, it has become easier for us to explain this.
We, as the last generation, as representatives of the Creator, can truly do everything possible for people to understand this.
Each of you is unique in that you have received such a desire, aspiration, and connection with the next level of humanity, to which it has yet to ascend. You already have some kind of contact with this level; therefore, you must explain how to master it, how to transition to the next level, and what to do with it.
This is your mandatory mission. This is why you are living. You do not exist for yourself. And thank God, we understand that a person cannot exist for his own sake; after all, the upper world is entirely about bestowal.
Therefore you should constantly use every opportunity to post your notes and articles, to reprint what we write, and to adapt it to the reader you are addressing. This is permanent, mandatory work, and there can be no excuses here. You have no idea how this benefits you.
You will feel that your mind and feelings, your heart and head, will open up as a result of your care for the correction of the world. After all, we are like a guiding group, like a head. By itself it cannot exist if the body does not exist. Therefore we must think about how to disseminate.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: Should we engage in dissemination for elderly people?
Answer: An elderly person is still a part of the global soul! What difference does it make that they are elderly?! The important thing is that they can hear.
Let us say they have five years left to live, these are incredibly significant years! They will think about it because physical death is approaching and possibly some kind of connection with an eternal state.
The elderly are more fertile ground than the youth. Do not neglect them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”
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Question: When we study the Torah in the ten, we read it first as a text. What happens to us when we suddenly begin to see, as Baal HaSulam writes, the upper worlds: Yetzira, Beria, and Atzilut?
Answer: These are levels of attainment, levels of connection, and levels of mutual influence between you and the Creator. At some point, you or the ten begin to feel these levels and everything that happens in a different key, like a child who has grown up and now feels the world and others differently.
Question: How does this happen with a Kabbalist? Does he come to the lesson, read the text as it is, and can rise to the sensation of the upper worlds? Or is it some kind of cumulative process over the years?
Answer: For a Kabbalist, this is a cumulative process. In addition, he is at a certain level to begin with.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”
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Victor asks:
Your Moses led the people to the land of Israel, he did everything that the Creator told him. And then, when they had already approached the border, the Creator suddenly said to Moses: “Turn over your duties—you will not enter this land. You will die here on this mountain.”
How is this possible? It is clear that people committed all sorts of sins before the Creator, but Moses was His devoted servant. Let him enter, he was waiting for this moment so much!
Comment: Indeed, in the Midrash Rabba it is written even more coolly. There are even thoughts of Moses, who says: “I have walked so much, let me at least touch this land! After all, I was walking and dreaming of entering this land.”
My Response: You walked and dreamed of fulfilling the desire of the Creator every day, every minute, with every step.
Question: Is this the main thing? Was it my goal to come to this, in fact? Is this my final test, then, which I have to pass?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is this not cruel?
Answer: It may seem cruel to us.
Question: Is it necessary that I deserve to enter there? Or do I have to, as you say, annul myself and work as He guides me every moment, and that is it?
Answer: You must devote yourself to the Creator every moment.
Question: Then there is a question. It is written there that there were sins of the people, and there was the sin of Moses. Can it be said in relation to the sins “Because of your sins you will not enter.” Can this happen?
Answer: In general, yes. It is written this way.
Question: Is not to sin a possible option, or will we sin in any case?
Answer: It is impossible.
Question: So, we sin?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Can we say that today humanity is being punished by the Creator for not entering a land?
Answer: In general, yes. Of course, judging by our daily states, we are undergoing punishment. But on the other hand, this punishment is still purifying us, changing us, and bringing us closer to the Creator.
Question: Can I come to terms with what is happening while I am living with this thought?
Answer: What else can you do?
Question: Does it mean that I am going through purgatory?
Answer: Yes, You need to grasp the fact that you must adhere to the Creator every moment and stick to Him as much as possible.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24
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Question: I read an article that says the Italian thinker, writer, philosopher, and politician of the 15th century Machiavelli wrote:
If you are chosen as king, and the crown turns out to be big, then first it will fall on your eyes… And you will not see anything!
Then it will fall on your ears… And you won’t hear anything!
Then it will slide down to your lips… And you won’t be able to say anything!
In the end, it will fall on your neck… And it will become your collar, by which your own slaves will lead you to execution!
And you will see everything, you will hear everything, and you will be able to say everything…
But no one will listen to you anymore and you will have nothing to say!
Please tell us: The crown symbolizes power; what does it mean when it stays on your head and does not fall?
Answer: When it is on your head, it means it crowns you, that you are the king. It is the symbol of the head of the state.
Question: So you are the first person in the state. You are a parent, and so on. What does it mean when the crown gradually falls off, that it is too big? What is it regarding a leader? What happens to the authorities when they do not hear?
Answer: The leader sees nothing.
Question: Doesn’t he see anyway?
Answer: Look at these leaders.
Question: Can you tell us why this is so?
Answer: Power! It is all about the power.
Question: So when you treat it like, “It is all about me, this is my power”—is that the end?
Answer: That is the end. You are being gradually shut out from the whole world.
Question: So it turns out if the crown on my head does not fall, then do I not say: “I am the power, I am the king”?
Answer: The king must learn from everyone, he must understand that all wisdom is, in fact, among the people, among the masses. And those he selects and brings near him are not his close ones.
Question: So I won’t be able to learn anything from politicians or my close associates?
Answer: Correct.
Question: The quote says the crown goes through all the states, falls on the throat, becomes a collar, and you are led by your slaves to execution. And now you see everything, you can say everything, but no one hears you. What does it mean that slaves are taking you to execution?
Answer: That you stopped being an authority to them. Conversely, they see their future in your destruction.
Comment: That is, all these revolutions, coups, and so on is when the crown fell on the throat, and the slaves would lead one to execution. But this has happened in our history all along.
My Response: Sure.
Question: And slaves are the ones who always lead them to execution. Why is this happening? Do we never learn?
Answer: No, a person who reaches power stops hearing and listening, and is no longer capable of anything.
Question: How do you see the future politician keeping this crown?
Answer: I see a future politician surrounded by the smartest people! They are chosen as advisers only because of their special abilities. The king is elected by them and thus exists for the good of the country.
Question: Should there be fear, an awe in him: “If I …”?
Answer: There must be responsibility. He should constantly be in touch with them, constantly working with them.
Question: And when his “I” suddenly wakes up in him: “I am the leader, I am the king”? What should he do about it?
Answer: It is necessary to convince him that he must kill his “I” all the time.
Comment: You once said the leader of a state, say, a king, a tsar, should be a father to his people.
My Response: Yes.
Question: When you say this, what do you mean by it, other than what we understand?
Answer: He must care.
Question: Is that the main thing?
Answer: Yes, caring about everyone.
Question: Is such a level of empathy possible?
Answer: In general, yes.
Question: Do you see such leaders arising in the future?
Answer: I do not know. We are already on a different path. So that…perhaps through some obstacles…
Comment: Thorns.
My Response: Yes, we will break through.
Question: Will we break through?
Answer: We will.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/29/24
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