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There are real wars ahead called “the wars of the Messiah“—the wars of liberation from our egoism. “Mashiach” comes from the word “Limshoch,” “to pull out,” which pulls us out of our egoism. We stop looking at the world selfishly and stop blaming people for it. We must relate this to the Creator and correct our attitude toward Him from absolute hatred to absolute love.
Comment: Can you imagine?! You say: He is to blame for everything, He did everything, He is the main enemy, so to speak, of man.
My Response: If that is how I perceive the world, then yes.
Question: And if I see it differently? What does seeing it differently mean?
Answer: Seeing it differently means that I have to turn myself around again, for, in the end, I correct myself, and there is no evil or harm in the world except for me, my egoism. I have to correct it into the property of absolute love, see everyone as my enemies and haters, and correct everyone I see as loving and beloved.
Question: So I correct myself, and thus they become loving and beloved?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: So everything is aimed at figuring myself out.
My Response: Yes. There is work to be done.
Question: You say there are serious wars ahead. Are we being prepared for them? We are not going to be thrown into this inferno unprepared, are we?
Answer: No! How can it be? It would be like throwing a baby into a real fight.
Question: So one way or another, we are being prepared for this, as we come to want these wars?
Answer: Indeed. We realize their necessity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/7/26
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Question: What is the difference between awe and fear?
Answer: Awe is not a fear for oneself. It is based on love, respect, and striving for the Creator.
Question: What are the types of fears before the Creator?
Answer: It is impossible to list them all. The inclusion of Malchut, in all its variations, into the first nine Sefirot generates a vast array of primary, secondary, and other fears. Any feeling of possible lack of being filled is called fear.
For example, the feeling that I may not justify the Creator is based on animal and social fears. But the fear of whether I would be able to fill Him is already an awe that descends on us through the common system, because the Creator is present in its entirety.
To the extent you connect and associate yourself with everyone, you get an opportunity to fill the Creator.
Question: So contact with Him always happens through another person?
Answer: There is no other way, because the Creator dwells in the whole system.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/11/18
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Question: Is maintaining a constant connection with the Creator a conscious effort, or does everything come naturally?
Answer: These are constant efforts in which we try to exist. But we cannot live in them all the time in a natural way, the Creator cuts off these efforts and gives us other pictures of the world instead. And we again return to trying to define the Creator through them. And so it is all the time: entrance – exit, entrance – exit.
Question: Could this become a habit?
Answer: It does not become a habit but a necessity.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 2/11/18
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Our path consists of ascents and descents, deviations and contradictions, despite the fact that it is straight. You think: “I fell, I was thrown out.” But even if you are walking along a straight line, you are constantly forced to endure blows, falls, problems, and confusion. Apparently, it is impossible without this.
It is only important to see whether you become “older” from this, that is, whether you acquire wisdom (Hochma), whether you see the source, the cause. Do you relate to this in such a way that behind all these blows you see a future structure that is even more beautiful than the present one?
Sometimes it is impossible to build a new building on the site of an old one; it is necessary to clear the place and build anew. This is how to relate to these things. The main thing is whether we are building or not building. A group that begins to discuss this should be ready to enter a state of criticism of its actions and of everything that is happening to it, but it emerges from this more united and strengthened.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18-19/26, Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”
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Question: Israeli children are very noisy and energetic, one could say hyperactive. Is this related to a particular Jewish mentality?
Answer: Jews originate from Ancient Babylon, from a single civilization of earth’s inhabitants who once rose to a spiritual level and then fell from it. Therefore, that ascent and descent have been preserved in their genes. There’s nothing to be done; they are the most active part of humanity in everything: science, culture, everywhere.
They make up literally about 0.01% of humanity, and suddenly 50% of Nobel laureates, 20 to 30% of musicians, 30% of artists, and so on. And all because they were once on a spiritual level, fell from it, and are now engaged in earthly affairs. They should have given this up altogether and devoted themselves exclusively to spiritual work. I hope that eventually this is how it will be. We don’t need “Einsteins” or revolutionaries. We need to engage in spiritual revolutions, not earthly ones.
I think everything is moving in that direction now. The general crisis and everything happening in the world will lead humanity to spiritual elevation, and then this hyperactivity will be realized in spiritual actions.
It manifests in Jews because they fell from a spiritual level to an earthly one, lost the spiritual component, and it turned into something earthly. What remained in them from the spiritual charge at the fall is precisely this hyperactive part.
Therefore, if you see a revolutionary or a transformer in our world, in science, art, or anything at all, then by digging into their lineage you will find that their roots come from a tribe that once stood on a spiritual level. This is the quality of Bina, the quality of bestowal, which alone can enliven humanity.
I am not a nationalist, and I advocate for the correction of the entire world. Therefore, the method of Kabbalah, which emerged from Ancient Babylon, must be realized everywhere. The fact is that the whole world is Malchut. And part of it, which once was on the level of Bina, fell back into Malchut. But only from that part, which is the former people of Israel, once on a spiritual level, does progress in our world originate.
Thus, if you see truly serious activists, it cannot be that they lack a spark originating from the attainment of the upper world that fell to our level. The people who come to Kabbalah today, no matter from where, somehow, somewhere, have received this spiritual virus.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Children of Israel, Part 2” 10/1/10
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Preparation to the Lesson
1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 23, “What Beginning in Lo Lishma Means in the Work” (1988) (1.29.2003)
2nd part of the Lesson — Recording of Rabash, Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 5, Item 6
3rd part of the Lesson — Preparation for the Congress “Connecting in the Ten, Adhering to the Creator,” Lesson 3: “What Stops Us from Truly Connecting”