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Question: In this lesson, you revealed something interesting for me: All the manifestations of the Creator that I observe externally, it turns out, are within me. You said that through myself, I can reveal the Creator to all creations. How can this be done?
Answer: By attaining the Creator, we unite in His desire to fill all creations. This fulfillment depends on our development. It turns out that the more we develop, connect with one another, and feel the inner force of creation, the more we attain what the Creator manifests within us.
Question: Can we, through our unity, accelerate the development of all of creation with the purpose of revealing the Creator?
Answer: Of course. In doing so, we not only accelerate, but also reveal creation in a different way. It is one thing when we are unwilling to advance creation through our development, and another when the Creator does not need to lead us through various problems. Instead, we ourselves wish to uncover, study, correct, and fulfill these problems.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”
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Question: What happens in the universe when a person discovers the Creator in every element of creation?
Answer: If a person discovers the Creator in every element of creation, they thereby reveal the Creator. Gradually, for them, the Creator becomes the only manifesting force of all nature.
This is what a person is given to reveal. In this, they begin to feel the unity of all that exists within the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”
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Question: You said that the feeling of the Creator comes to us after knowledge, attainment, and adhesion, and then we naturally reveal this force that is connected to us. What kind of work must we do to achieve this feeling?
Answer: We try to expand the boundaries of our perception so that they become filled with a greater feeling of the Creator. This is what we can achieve, and the Creator helps us in this process.
Question: How can one expand the boundaries of feeling the Creator?
Answer: Try. Just like in our world when you strive to understand, hear, or see something using all your senses, you gradually begin to perceive the manifestation of the Creator within yourself more broadly each time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/25, “Obtaining Contact with the Creator”
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How can one come to a genuine prayer that arises from a true desire? It is said: “A person is where their thoughts are.” Therefore, one must begin by examining where their thoughts dwell: restricting oneself and one’s desires to a single point, and with that point, clinging to the Creator.
Then I will begin to sense the states passing within me, and in each of them I will return myself to a state of adhesion with the Creator. Even if I don’t know exactly how to achieve this restriction to a single point, I will try, like a child who wants to be an adult.
In this way, I begin to build my spiritual Partzuf and clarify the obstacles that the Creator constantly sends my way from all directions that frighten me, confuse me, and disturb my mind and heart. And every time, I return myself to the point of connection. Nothing more is required of me; through this, I am already creating my spiritual space.
If I nullify myself above all disturbances and once again cling to the Creator, then each disturbance in my mind and heart is corrected and incorporated into holiness. As a result, I will always remain in a true desire and a genuine prayer, constantly striving to return to unity while realizing that I cannot achieve it without the Creator’s help. I will continuously uncover challenges and make efforts to ask for unity with the Creator.
My initial point of unity must be genuine, one where I do not exist, but only my aspiration to cleave to the Creator does. Then I will begin to study the Creator, learn from His actions upon me to understand His attitude, character, and behavior, and to grasp what He wants to convey to me. Essentially this is what is called the science of Kabbalah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/18, Writings of Rabash “A Real Prayer Is over a Real Deficiency”
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I rejoice in those revealed corruptions and the ones that are being revealed.
I do, however, regret and complain about the corruptions that have still not appeared, but which are destined to appear, for a hidden corruption is hopeless, and its surfacing is a great salvation from heaven. The rule is that one does not give what he does not have. Hence, if it has appeared now, there is no doubt that it was here to begin with but was hidden. This is why I am happy when they come out of their holes because when you cast your eye on them, they become a pile of bones (Baal HaSulam, Letter 5).
In other words, all corruptions will immediately turn from seemingly living disturbances into dead ones.
Baal HaSulam writes that he is very pleased with all the corruption, all the problems, and all the terrible traits that are revealed within him. Every day, they are uncovered in an increasingly unpleasant way. This signifies that a person is progressing.
He does not lament the emergence of new, terrible traits. On the contrary, he rejoices in them because their revelation means he is growing, rising higher, and becoming greater.
All these traits exist within a person from the very beginning; they originate from the shattering of the soul. They are revealed because the time has come, because one has earned the right for them to be revealed. This means one is already capable of correcting them.
This is why it is said that if you just look at them, that is, draw the upper light, they will immediately turn into a heap of bones, lose their power, and become a lifeless body.
Although at first, we are always horrified by the corruptions that are revealed, in the end, it is good. Ultimately, this is how we progress. It is only important to approach what arises within us with a sound mind and to remember that all of it comes from the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”
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Question: Where does the awakening from below come from?
Answer: The awakening from below comes from the Kli, from the same system that gradually awakens from its shattered state. That is why increasingly shattered states are revealed in us; they progress from minor to major so that we may correct them.
All the awakened states reveal our shattering to us, our separation from each other and the Creator. Above these states, we must create a connection between us, not by erasing or leveling them, but by building bridges of connection between us despite them. That is the essence of correction.
In this process, we will have the left line (states awakened from above), the right line (corrections awakened by us with the help of the upper light), and the middle line where these two lines merge and produce a common result, that is, our adhesion with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/5/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “Turning to the Creator”
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Also, we were given the path of faith, which is above reason, namely not to take our sensations and reason into account, but say, as it is written, “They have eyes and see not. They have ears and hear not.” Rather, we should believe that the Creator is certainly the Overseer and He knows what is good for me and what is not good for me. Therefore, He wants me to feel my state as I do (Rabash, Article 3, ”The Meaning of Truth and Faith”).
Our feelings always come directly from the Creator. He wants me to feel and understand things in a specific way. Everything comes solely from Him.
And for myself, I do not care how I feel myself, good or bad, because I want to work in order to bestow, meaning to rise above my personal or, one might say, egoistic feelings.
Therefore, the main thing is that I need to work for the Creator, justify Him in everything, and reach a state where any condition I perceive as good.
And although I feel that there is no wholeness in my work, meaning I cannot completely justify Him or say that I perceive Him as “Good that does good,” nor can I say that He governs everything, as sometimes it seems to me that the earth is entirely handed over to the power of evil people, wicked thoughts, and forces, still, if I am drawn into the vessels of the upper one, attempting to enter the Creator’s qualities, then in the Kelim of the upper one, meaning from the perspective of the upper one, I am utterly complete.
In essence, the Creator sees us in a state of perfection, as He sees everything in existence. The intermediate states we are currently going through are regarded by Him as we regard a child who breaks something, gets dirty, or makes mistakes, they are growing pains.
As it is written, “The cast out will not be cast out from Him.” Hence, I am satisfied with my work—that I have the privilege of serving the King even at the lowest degree. That, too, I regard as a great privilege.
In other words, I do not measure the level I am on, whether it is greater or lesser, or whether I deserve more than I currently receive. My only desire is for the Creator to allow me to come closer to Him.
The reward, therefore, is not about attaining a level where I can see, understand, feel, or be fulfilled, but rather about being able to bestow, to fill others, and through them, bestow to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/4/19, Preparation for convention in Moldova “The Work in Concealment”
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Question: Igor asks: “Why do you Jews have everything the other way around? Why does everyone write from left to right while you write from right to left?”
Answer: Not just us, but in general, yes.
Question: Why?
Answer: The right side is the spiritual side and the left is not. That is why in Hebrew, they write from right to left.
The right side is the right, and the left is the left.
Question: In general, how do you define closeness to spirituality? What does it mean?
Answer: It is a spiritual root that exists in nature. And it is closer to the right side than to the left.
Question: What is this root?
Answer: It is the spiritual force, the quality of bestowal.
We shake with the right hand. We still treat the right side better than the left.
Question: So a person is even unconsciously drawn to this because it is his root?
Answer: Yes.
Question: “Why does the whole world celebrate birthdays, but you, on the contrary, celebrate the death day?”
Answer: We do not celebrate the death day, but simply honor it for the deceased because we believe that this is an important date for him. That he has departed from us and entered completely into the spiritual world. The death of a person, the exit from this world, the ascension to the upper world, is the correction of the soul.
Question: What ascends into the spiritual world?
Answer: The soul.
Question: What do you call the soul?
Answer: The soul is the inner essence of a person.
Question: What is it like?
Answer: It is impossible to point a finger at it. But a person ascends and becomes closer to the Creator.
Question: When you say a person becomes closer to the Creator, what do you mean?
Answer: I mean the spiritual entity, the one that does not die.
Question: “Why does the next day begin with the sunset for you and with the sunrise for everyone else?”
Answer: This is a really interesting question. The next day begins with sunset for us because everything begins with darkness. Our nature, our world, space, and everything else, everything begins with darkness. And the next day also begins with darkness.
Question: And when dawn comes, what does it represent?
Answer: It represents a person’s attainment, one’s contact with the world, with the Creator. And therefore, on one hand, the 24 hours are measured by the hours after sunset, and the days are marked by sunrise.
Question: Then he asks: “Why do Jews wear a headdress out of respect for God, while the rest of the world, on the contrary, takes off its headwear out of respect?”
Answer: I do not know how the rest of the world views it. Headwear is a sign of respect. When I honor someone, I put on headwear. I don’t think it is important. The main thing is what you feel.
Question: Why do observant Jews wear a Kippah on their heads?
Answer: A Kippah is the minimal head covering that a person should never part with and should always wear. In this way, he expresses his respect for the Creator. He covers his brain.
Question: Next. “Why do most nations celebrate the New Year in winter, and Jews do so in the fall?”
Answer: It is written in the Torah that we should celebrate the New Year in the fall. There is nothing we can do about it. This was long before January 1st was adopted.
Comment: Christmas and so on.
My Response: Yes, none of this existed yet.
Question: But our chronology is different, naturally. We are already approaching the 6,000th milestone. Tell me, where does this chronology come from? All years are different. Where does it begin?
Answer: It all comes from Adam. He decided everything, he initiated it, he substantiated these facts, and from here the years begin.
He revealed the Creator, the connection with Him, from which day, on which days are which holidays, which special days. That is why we continue like that.
Question: You are now saying “he.” Can we even say that there was such a person Adam?
Answer: Adam HaRishon, yes.
Question: That is, the person who revealed the Creator? And from that moment he said: “We begin the chronology”?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And is this the correct chronology?
Answer: It is correct because he is the first. That is all.
Question: That is, if this is the revelation of the Creator, then it is correct?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Further. “Why do Jews bury the dead as quickly as possible, while in the world, on the contrary, it is customary to say a long farewell to the deceased?”
Answer: The Jews believe that the deceased must be buried on the same day.
Question: Why so quickly?
Answer: From the earth you came, to the earth you return. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Question: That is, long mourning for the body, farewells…
Answer: No, that is also not allowed because there is the upper mind above all of this, and it commands everything. So, we have no right to do what is beneficial or convenient for us, or what we think. No, it must be done very clearly and very simply.
Question: And quickly?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Tell me, what does placing the body into the earth represent?
Answer: Returning to the earth. From the earth you came and to the earth you will return. The spiritual root is that we are connected to the earth.
Question: And the last question: “Why does the Jewish tradition begin the new year with the Day of Judgment and not with a celebration?” Everyone celebrates the New Year, but for us it is Yom Kippur and so on.
Answer: Because this is the end of the previous year, and a person must evaluate his actions and in this way appear before the judgment as if to start a new life.
Question: So, it is judgment first?
Answer: Of course.
Question: Should I admit my guilt, or should I be declared guilty?
Answer: You should admit it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/21/24
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Why Is the Goal Called “Adhesion with the Creator” and not “Correction of the Soul”?
The goal is referred to as “adhesion with the Creator” because it involves attaining a specific state, while correcting the vessels is a means to that end. Correcting the vessel is necessary, but the primary focus is the ultimate purpose for carrying out the correction.
Correction without understanding its meaning is not genuine correction. One could simply be a “good person,” but the Torah demands more—it demands adhesion, equivalence of form, and becoming Adam (man, human)—a term derived from “Adameh leElyon” (“I will be like the most high”).
How can we know what to correct without knowing the Creator? It is through “From Your actions we will know You.” We need some level of revelation of the Creator to emulate Him and understand what we need to become. When we truly seek revelation to understand what we need to correct, the Creator reveals Himself to us. This is called “From Lo Lishma, one comes to Lishma” (from “not for the sake of the Creator” to “for the sake of the Creator”).
Initially, we seek the Creator’s revelation for personal benefit. However, with the revelation, our attitude shifts—we start valuing and desiring the Creator Himself. The Creator reveals Himself to the extent that this revelation changes us and not merely fills us with pleasure.
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