Right now, the informational genes (Reshimot) are changing within us at infinite speed, but there are so many of them, and all must be realized in sequence, so it seems as if nothing is changing.

But before these inner changes produce an outer change, like a counter suddenly jumping to the next number, billions of actions must spin inside. So give them time to go by!

It is said: “Those who seek the Creator accelerate time.” All of our participation in creation comes down to accelerating our development.

After all, you are at the bottom, in this world, with the data received during the descent from above downward. You are obligated to ascend the same path from below upward; the path is unchangeable. You can only accelerate your development, make the path quick, desirable, and therefore pleasant.

This is the whole difference between the path of suffering against one’s will and the path of light, through desire.

The path of suffering is long, and the forces of nature act upon us to push us forward with blows. And we, like donkeys, stand and refuse to budge. Such is the natural path of development.

And the second path is when you yourself want and seek how to advance. And so you shorten the path for yourself and make it desirable, meaning it becomes comfortable, pleasant, and also fast!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/9, Baal HaSulam, Shamati № 13, “A Pomegranate”

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Question: Is it possible to transition to bestowal without any pain or suffering?

Answer: Yes, one can make such a transition without suffering if it occurs under the influence of the environment.

The environment is capable of instilling a longing for any goal in me, even the most unrealistic one. If everyone around thinks about it, I will also begin to aspire to it.

And then, it will not be difficult for me at all to value the quality of bestowal as a great reward instead of today’s egoistic reception, provided that those around me think and act this way.

A person is like a computer, and society can erase the old program in him and install a new, more advanced one, with new data, and as this happens, I advance.

I need intellect only in order to follow those who point me toward the spiritual path. It is not so simple to follow them because in doing so, you do not become a robot, but on the contrary, you grow!

You are constantly given disturbances on all levels: still, vegetative, animate, and human, which all interfere with your ability to follow the spiritual path.

And you must lower yourself from the height of your enormous egoism in order to be able to follow the spiritual guide. Therefore, one must have a great intellect in order to decipher all the schemes and cunning tricks of one’s egoism, and to not follow it, but to go above one’s reason and follow the guide.

We are sent such states, we are so confused that we begin to neglect them and even hate them. But if you are able to rise above this and make yourself into “nothing,” “dust beneath the feet of the righteous,” then you are following the righteous one along the spiritual path.

It turns out that you are great, that you are just like him. After all, you receive everything that is in his mind through him; you receive it from the Creator.

When it is said that the people followed Moses like a flock follows a shepherd, it does not mean they followed like animals. It is a special form of advancement where you annul yourself before the teacher, before Moses, and through him, you annul yourself before the Creator.

Just as through love for people we come to love for the Creator, so here as well, we cannot change ourselves in any other way. You transform your previous form and acquire a new one, similar to the Creator.

There is no disparagement in these words. If you annul yourself in the spiritual world against the Klipot at the height of the worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and follow the teacher, you rise to the height of these worlds. It speaks only of the magnitude of your resistance to the disturbances that are sent (that arise).

This is called going by faith above reason because I do not possess the knowledge of the spiritual teacher, and I annul myself with respect to him, annul my reason, and receive from him new knowledge, knowledge of a higher degree—faith.

The lower part of his spiritual Partzuf, the AHP, descends into me, and I accept the darkness as the light for myself even though it appears as darkness in my egoistic desire. In this way, I can progress along the spiritual path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/10, Baal HaSulam, Preface “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot“

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Question: Is there no artificial coercion in the system of integral upbringing and education, unlike what exists in the modern educational system?

Answer: In the system of integral upbringing, there can be no coercion, only the awareness of necessity. The goal that stands before us is completely undesirable to us; our egoism is absolutely against it, but we have no escape. Gradually permeated with this necessity, we suddenly begin to find merits within it: “Let us think, what do we attain through this? Let us assume that it is possible. Perhaps it is utopian, but let us play a fairy tale.”

We begin to explore what actually happens in this case. Is a person fulfilled through it? After all, we want only to attain fulfillment. In what, with what, and how? To what extent does a person become satiated by all of his needs, all of his desires? How many desires in our present state can we satisfy?

Comment: Not many, about twenty.

My Response: Correct. And even then, we immediately and instantly begin to feel a new emptiness, and once more we must run after their fulfillment, rush toward some new sources. But what is integral fulfillment, or what does it imply?

Here we begin to reveal an entirely new form of existence when I, by including myself in others, in connection with others, begin to gain the ability to be filled, to be satiated, to constantly experience literally a sensory and creative “orgasm.” It exists within me and grows continuously.

This is a tremendous shock. And it is constant; it does not tire or repel you. You are no longer drawn to try something else: “Now I would like something a bit spicy…,” because both qualities are present together: the egoism and the attainment of connection above it.

Thus, we begin to reveal a completely new level of sensation of life: sensory and cognitive. We penetrate a new layer of nature and start to become acquainted with the single force that governs all of nature. If God exists (as people usually say), then we practically become equivalent to God. The sensation of time disappears—past, present, and future.

I rise above the flow of all existence. By integrating with others, it forms an eternal, perfect picture within me that constantly changes, shimmering with all its metamorphoses. And at the same time, I continuously enter into ever-greater attainment, satiation, pleasure, cognition, and revelation.

I suddenly reach a state in which my body seems to distance itself from me. It becomes secondary, and the sensation of it disappears to such an extent that even if it dies, I do not feel it. By mastering the entire system, by including myself in it, I do not feel how my animal part dies.

Just as on our current animal level when cutting nails or hair of the vegetative level, we feel no loss or pain, so here, having risen to the next level, Human (Adam), I feel no loss from the death of the animal body. I do not even feel that it happens, to such an extent do I detach from it and adapt to the new level.

If all this is gradually revealed to the listeners, they see that nature is not simply pushing us through all these crises to be born on a new level, but is leading us toward something special. And then they develop serious motivations.

Moreover, this justifies their present state in the world, without work, because by attaining the next, higher level, you thereby provide this world with everything necessary, with harmony as a result of which every grain of sand suddenly gives you an enormous amount of energy, literally according to Einstein’s formula.
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From KabTV’s “The 13th Conversation on Integral Education,” 12/18/11

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We are discussing the topic of perception of reality in order to gradually orient ourselves in the right direction. After all, everything depends on intention. There are many people who study Kabbalah, and in particular, there are currents that have nothing in common with it.

The science of Kabbalah is intended for the correction of our nature, and the more we correct ourselves, the more we feel the upper force, reveal the upper world, become included in it, enter it, and rise above our material life. This is called “liberation from the angel of death” because we stop feeling completely dependent on our body! We rise above our animal, biological body to the degree of general nature.

I do not feel pain from cutting my nails or hair, because my body belongs to the animate level, while nails and hair belong to the vegetative level, one degree lower. And from the height of the animate level, I do not feel any loss from the loss at the vegetative level. In the same way it will happen when I rise from the animate degree to a higher degree, to the degree of Man.

“Man” is not us today. “Man” (Adam) comes from the word “similar” (Edomeh) to nature, the Creator, light. And when I become such a “man,” I will stop feeling loss from what is happening in this material life. Therefore, the science of Kabbalah is called “a remedy against death.”

Let us hope that we will attain such a degree and begin to experience spiritual life today. It all depends only on our inner efforts. Let us try to connect our inner points and appreciate this special state.
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From the International Kabbalah Congress 4/1/11, “We!” Lesson 2

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 17-2, “The Agenda of the Assembly – 1,” (1984) (1.9.2003)

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Question: Why does Kabbalah become the meaning of life and something valuable for some people, while for others it is something unacceptable?

Answer: Those for whom Kabbalah is unacceptable have not yet felt the desire that responds to spiritual light, and therefore they reject this wisdom.

A person, being egoistic by nature, does not want to think about it. Kabbalah irritates him; on a subconscious level it obligates him to something and directs him to a completely different area from the one he is drawn to. He does not want this realm to exist; he does not want there to be a soul or a future world; he prefers to remain within the framework he has invented for himself. This is the first reason.

Secondly, people who come to Kabbalah and begin to study it suddenly discover that it says they must change themselves!

“I came here in order to receive and reveal knowledge, qualities, and feelings; in other words, to be filled. But here it says that I must fill the Creator by filling others, and that only through such movement from myself outward can I begin to sense the spiritual world. I don’t feel any attraction or inclination toward this. So, excuse me! Stay with your Kabbalah, and I’d rather leave.”

There are many people like that. When they leave, they feel deceived: It seemed that at first, they were captivated and drawn in, but then suddenly they discovered that it was not what they thought at all and that they only wasted time and energy. And they leave very disappointed.

They imagined that they would immediately grab the Creator “by the beard,” obtain this world and the future world, begin to control everything, uncover some secrets in order to fill their own precious, beloved self.

But it turns out that it is all different, in an entirely different key. The spiritual world is located on the next level, the level of bestowal, in simultaneous connection with our world, like in an electric motor.

Therefore, they leave very disappointed and become our opponents.

Yet we still support this. It is said that a thousand enter the study, and only one remains. It does not matter that they become haters of Kabbalah. How else can an egoist react?

But the person still retains a connection with Kabbalah, and gradually something seeps into him. Even as our opponent far away from us, he is still connected with us. Within him the spark he received has already begun to stir.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/29/17

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Question: What is the difference between suffering along the natural path of development and suffering when time is accelerated? If the only difference is time, does that mean I would have to suffer a hundred times more?

Answer: There are terrible tragedies that shock the entire world. The whole world feels some blows because everyone tries this situation on themselves, knowing that it could happen anywhere.

It is possible to transfer these sufferings to the spiritual level and avoid the tragedies. To what extent did these sufferings advance humanity toward goodness, toward understanding the need to work on unity? Not more than a millimeter.

Instead, it would have been enough to make the very smallest spiritual effort—to agree at least a little that salvation lies in unity, in bringing everyone closer together in our global world, to engage the heart and the mind just a bit—and we would have neutralized these sufferings.

Both paths move us toward the goal. But what an enormous amount of suffering is required to advance by the natural path. Fourteen billion years were needed for the development of inanimate nature on Earth. A couple of billion years for the plant world to develop, another billion years for animals, and another hundred thousand years for a monkey to become a human being.

Look at the proportion between inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human development. At the high, human level, development proceeds very quickly.

The same principle applies to all modern technology: it becomes faster, more sensitive, and far more powerful. The greater the force of nature, the more concealed it is and the faster it acts. This is precisely the difference between the natural path and the acceleration of time.

Many sufferings could have been avoided, and time could have been accelerated.

Question: Does this mean that tragedies and terrorist attacks will happen more and more often?

Answer: Terrorist attacks can be avoided if we use the method of unity that Kabbalah offers. As long as we do not do this, attacks will occur more frequently because the world is constantly advancing, and our egoism is steadily growing.

The world does not remain in the same state; by learning through blows, it is moving forward. It has its own dynamic of development. Egoism keeps intensifying. That is why, twenty years ago, one major blow per year was enough to teach us something, whereas today we already need twenty blows a year.

Our egoism has grown. It is like a child who has become more egoistic, ruthless, and stubborn, and therefore must be punished more than one who is merely a little lazy. That is why today the world receives far more blows than it did ten years ago. And if we do not begin to advance by the path of light, this will continue: blow after blow, more and more.

I only hope that it will not come to natural disasters. For now, it is limited to global warming and typhoons, but if we do not engage in our correction, it could reach real natural cataclysms.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/15/2016, Rabash, Article No. 16, 1985 “But the More They Afflicted Them”

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Question: At one time, I observed how birds fly and was very surprised; they are truly a single organism. Some descend and rest, others take off and form shapes that are simply indescribable. They feel one another, and they have no leader. Is it really possible for people to reach such a state?

Answer: There is nothing to achieve. You only need to group together, and then you will discover the force that connects and forms us all.

The point is that it is not that we become smart. Birds aren’t that intelligent, they simply reveal the connection between themselves on the animate level, and then the common force of the Creator manifests within them from within. They simultaneously feel Him, governs them, and is their foundation.

Question: Is this the unity that you speak about all the time?

Answer: Of course. And when humanity reaches this, it moves as one. These are amazing manifestations of unity, harmony, eternity, perfection, and transcendence over life and death, over the limitations in which we exist. Moreover, completely boundless perspectives manifest here in all sensations—the world of infinity.

This is not carried out by us but by the upper force. We only need to move forward and demand from it to do this.

I think that we will devote the coming year precisely to such rapprochement, to connection into one common body. And then we will discover the Creator within this common body, the force that in fact governs absolutely the entire universe, everyone in a single movement, like a flock of birds or fish.

The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about this. Rapprochement, adhesion, connection into one single organism, a return to one unified organism, these are the 125 degrees that we must traverse. All of Kabbalah is built on this. It simply explains to us with mathematical precision and meticulous detail what needs to be done. First, it explains in words that we can understand: egoism, altruism, rapprochement, hatred, and love.

And then, when we pass into the sensation of these qualities, it explains in terms of measurements, in specific dimensions (so many grams, so many such-and-such forces) how to work systemically, consciously grouping this system, and understanding it. Because by returning to this complete, integral system, we attain the Creator, His actions, how He formed and assembled us, and in what manner He created this system.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Unity Without a Leader” 9/11/10

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