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Question: Many of your students are at an ordinary level, meaning they do not sense spirituality. Their sensations are no different from those of the public to whom they want to convey information.
How can they better receive the information they wish to obtain in their egoistic feelings, as well as incorporate some informational message into it?
Answer: Yes, this is a problem. They should try. There is nothing else. Try.
By the way, such a person has an advantage because he is in the middle.
On one hand it is a problem. On the other hand, this problem is not artificially created by nature, but is a natural problem that is solved along with our correction.
We need to receive information precisely in its heavy, uncorrected form, and try to make it more accessible. It is this effort that causes our correction. And the correction leads to a different type of information, and so on.
We should understand that all of this is a part of one common solution, that is, a part of one common equation that includes the consumer, the source, the Creator, the teacher, and the students. We all engage in our common self-service together.
Therefore I do not think there is anything that needs to be changed here. We just need to go on this way and keep in mind that our state is a correct one. Accept it as it is and act from it. Do not try to break something in it as you must work within this framework. Then you will see how justified it is.
Question: Should we still sometimes mix with our clientele’s desires?
Answer: Yes, otherwise nothing will work. How can a mother not feel her child? First of all, she feels him with all her soul. And then she begins to feel what else could she add. Only in this way, naturally.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Try and Attempt” 6/1/10
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Question: Can we influence group work? For example, our ten has decided to get together. What can we add to this point?
Answer: We all have to end up in one point and not leave it. Then everything will work out for us in a quick way.
Question: What is this point? Meaning, the first impulse is for me not to emit any anger, to hold it, to remain neutral and appeal to the Creator right away?
Answer: Yes
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/1/25, “Connecting to Lishma”
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Comment: A study was conducted to explore whether revenge in humans is induced by nature. They took 330 children between the ages of four and eight and played a game with them, built in two stages.
In the first stage, the researchers could give the child three stickers or keep them. The child should have thanked them and given them a gift in return. In the second stage, the task was to steal a sticker from another person. In response, one could punish or not punish the offender.
It turned out that children, even the youngest, were ready to strike when someone tried to steal their stickers. Children did not always want to reward others. Thus, the researchers concluded that people’s desire for revenge is more primal than their desire to be grateful.
My Response: This is natural. This is called “evsed mi karen” (loss from the fund).
Let us say I had a dollar in my pocket, and it disappeared somewhere. I would twist and turn, thinking, “Where could it have gone?” I would look for it as if I really needed it because I had it, it was mine, and now it is gone. That is why it is worth more than a dollar to me, worth maybe 20 dollars. This is how I feel about this loss.
Therefore if a person has harmed another, the latter considers this act worthy of tenfold retribution because this is how the magnitude of his friend’s negative attitude toward him is felt.
Question: Why does one not show gratitude?
Answer: Because I am sure that I am good, that I am the best in the world; that is what my mother told me. Therefore I am owed. To what they tell me, I reply, “Yes, I am pleased. Thank you; I will thank you too on occasion.” I turn around and walk away.
I think I got what I was supposed to get; as to what was stolen from me, it seems ten times more than it actually is! That is how I feel. If something positive comes my way, I value it ten times less than it is worth. But if something is taken away, I accept the loss as ten times worse. That is how we are built.
Therefore the fact that children want to take revenge on those who have done them even a little wrong, and moreover take pleasure in that revenge, I understand that very well. I was like that myself. I clearly remember these instances.
Question: What changed this approach in you, not to take revenge?
Answer: I began to realize that I share the same common desire with everyone; therefore I should not harm myself in this way, egoistically. We must try to always give in a little. It is better this way, more peaceful. It gives you some safety and surrounds you, at least, with more neutral people. So the main thing is to be careful not to harm another. In short, this is the conclusion.
And if you do harm, then of course, expect very serious reactions.
Comment: Researchers have an opinion similar to yours. They believe revenge is always a choice between the desire for revenge and the opportunity to forgive.
My Response: Who might have the opportunity to forgive? It just gets forgotten, or you cannot take good revenge because you are such a weakling, a loser, the other guy is stronger than you, etc. So there is nothing left for you to do.
Man is a selfish little animal. And if he can eat another, he does.
Question: Does revenge have any positive sides? Is revenge useful?
Answer: Then it is no longer revenge but education.
If you and I are playing chess or another game, and I am teaching you, then you feel that I am outplaying you with no intent to harm you; on the contrary, to give you some kind of pleasure, benefit, and so on. That is, it does not cause you to take revenge, but it still makes you feel awkward, and unhappy with the situation.
Imagine I am teaching and showing you how to play, but you still cannot. I am also smarter, wiser, and luckier than you; how unpleasant it is for you anyway.
Question: Yes, there is disappointment. So how can we move from taking revenge and supposedly restoring justice to motivating a person to move on rather than limiting ourselves to some parochial score-settling?
Answer: To do this, you need to make a very special calculation, meaning someone wanted to harm me, to see me poor, fallen, or damaged, and I must reach a state where he will be desperately jealous of me. Then I will revel in his seeing my position, which he is unable to do anything about it. That is how I want to get back at him.
On the other hand, I have to say, “I am grateful to him that he did this!” After all, I rose up thanks to him; I was doing it to cause him distress. But in the end, I did not!
That is, he somehow—without even suspecting, maybe without thinking—caused such forces in me that I rose higher, became more successful, intelligent, etc. I must tell him: “Thank you so much for doing this to me!”
The first person discovers that this is an educational process for him. Therefore he tells the second person, who wanted to harm him, “Thank you for doing that.”
Question: And what happens to the second person?
Answer: A double whammy. On the one hand, he sees that the former has succeeded, and moreover, he feels he is superior to him. He is seriously above him.
The conclusions are very simple. Add to this: “I did this and told you so that you could try to rise above yourself.” This is already a knockout. “There is thrill in battle!”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/4/19
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In the past, Kabbalists were hidden, but they still formed groups among themselves.
The first group, consisting of several thousand people, was created by Abraham, who singled them out from ancient Babylon and led them to the territory of present-day Israel.
This was done intentionally to place the group under the greater influence of the upper force, because every part of the Earth is affected by a specific upper force. Here it manifests the most.
People who come from abroad to Jerusalem say that there is a special phenomenon there. They suddenly start feeling different. Artists say that there is a special yellowish air there. I find this a bit unclear, or maybe I do not want to believe it, but still there is something to it.
But the fact that by changing location we change our fate is absolutely true. And not because the society is different in another place, but because in every place on Earth, the upper force manifests itself in a unique way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Environment” 6/10/10
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Question: Can we do an exercise of moving from Lo Lishma to the intention of Lishma every moment, in thought, in prayer?
Answer: Yes.
Question: I begin my prayer for my friends even though I have some self-interest, my egoistic nature. How can I gradually eliminate it so my request ends with Lishma?
Answer: Compare your goals with a common goal, and you will see how much of your goal disappears in the common one.
Question: Is the common goal and the goal of bringing the Creator contentment the same, or are they two different things?
Answer: The purpose of bringing the Creator contentment is unclear to us; these are just words. Therefore, we need to somehow put it together in the ten.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/25, Preparation to “Connecting to Lishma” Convention
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How Is Our Free Choice Expressed?
In “The Freedom,” Baal HaSulam writes, “Therefore, he who strives to continually choose a better environment is worthy of praise and reward.” We have only one choice: to constantly choose a better environment. This includes “books and authors,” the study and a group that inspires positive thoughts, guides us toward the goal, and gives us the strength to continue—“fuel.”
There is no other choice because, in State 1 and State 3, we are all connected “as one man with one heart,” in one soul. This soul is currently divided into 600,000 parts, but in the perfect state, we are all united. From this unity, from above, we can draw additional desires and strength. Only society can guide us on how to do so.
Why society? What does society have that we as individuals lack in the world? We are inherently interconnected in our root as souls, dwelling in those around us. In this world, we can receive strength from connecting with friends, drawing additional desires and forces. When we are in a state of descent, we have the opportunity to draw strength from the collective forces of the group.
Therefore, the only true choice we have is the choice of society. Baal HaSulam writes that a person fulfills their free choice only by continually striving to find a better and more suitable environment. There is nothing to do in life other than to constantly flee from the company that is called “the seat of the scornful” and seek the company of the wise.
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 298, “Associating the Quality of Mercy with Judgment”
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2nd part of the Lesson — Preparation to “Reaching Lishma through Envy”
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