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Question: If there is none else besides Him, then to whom does the Creator bestow?
Answer: It is a closed system, part of which was intentionally given an egoistic addition opposite to the Creator in order to reveal Him more clearly. This part plays everything out within itself.
Imagine that you have an orchestra with no minor or major tones. What would you do? Harmony is necessary.
To create this harmony and emphasize His unity and perfection, the Creator made an opposite system, one that contradicts Him. From this you can freely investigate Him and, most importantly, crown Him.
It is precisely thanks to the egoism He created and over which you work, that you decipher the Creator who hides within this system, reveal Him, and discover that He is the only one and the perfect one.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 9/2/18
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We study that attaining adhesion with the Creator is the goal. The means to this end is the building of a vessel (Kli). Adhesion with the Creator is a vessel filled with light, the final state when the qualities of the vessel become the same as the qualities of the Creator. Then a person fills this vessel with reflected light, with their attitude toward the Creator, and the Creator fills the vessel with His attitude toward the person, with direct light.
A person can build this vessel only with the help of the group because the parts within the vessel can be bonded together solely through the intention “love thy friend as thyself.”
The common intention that a person must attain can be obtained only in the group.
This does not mean that the group gives him the force of bestowal itself. Rather, it gives him the desire to attain the force of bestowal and the understanding that he is incapable of reaching it on his own.
It gives him the awareness that the Creator desires, awaits, and is ready to correct him. A person receives all this from the group to the extent that he relates to the friends and demands these forces from them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”
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Question: In his perception, a person divides time into three notions: past, present, and future. What are these?
Answer: The present is the sensation that comes from the influence of the inner light. This is more complex than Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Einstein described a special perception of the external world, while Kabbalah describes a special perception of a person’s inner world, which is much harder to grasp. After all, one must overturn one’s entire self to understand it, whereas to understand the theory of relativity one needs to overturn only the mind.
The sensation of the past is determined by the light—that is, by the fulfillment that was in the desire and has left it. The fulfillment that is inside the soul is the present. And the fulfillment that stands before the soul, ready to enter it in the next moment, is called the future.
Question: And what is the “soul”?
Answer: The soul is the system through which we sense that we exist and which becomes filled with the upper light. If we develop ourselves through the method of Kabbalah, we begin to feel these fulfillments, and the past, present, and future that are associated with them.
Past, present, and future are the influence of the light that was, is, and will be upon me. My desire to enjoy becomes filled with the upper light, called the Creator.
The sensation of past, present, and future depends on a person’s level of development. Some people are not concerned with the future at all, and others immediately forget the past. Many perceive only a narrow slice of the present. The sense of time is individual for every person.
Question: And where do I exist, in the past, present, or future?
Answer: You exist in the past, the present, and the future because time does not exist by itself; it exists only within your sensation. All your future states already exist, right up to the very last one where you and the Creator merge in equivalence of form and you reveal how the upper force fills you, the light that previously remained outside.
Upon reaching this final state, which is called the end of correction, we become filled with all the light that is now still outside of us.
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From KabTV’s New Life 934 – What Is “The Future?”, 12/19/17
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It is extraordinarily difficult to describe the spiritual world with our earthly words and to imagine it within an earthly mind. In essence, it is completely impossible, because we are speaking about a different nature altogether. But let us try.
We must detach from everything we currently see, feel, and understand, and imagine that pleasure exists from bestowal and that this is the only pleasure that can possibly exist. It is felt only in acts of bestowal, in the Creator.
The Creator wanted to create a creation that would highly value the state of the Creator. And therefore, He created creation with the desire to enjoy and implanted the smallest pleasure of all possible pleasures inside it, a spark, a “thin candle.”
This is a deceptive sensation, because in truth it is impossible to feel pleasure within egoistic desire. It is given this spark only to maintain life so that it can somehow exist. And by means of this tiny spark, our entire world lives.
But true pleasure is possible only from acts of bestowal; this is a law of nature. Yet in order to become capable of appreciating this quality, the loftiness of bestowal, we begin, from the black point of creation to build enormous vessels of receiving, like black silhouettes on a white background.
It turns out that we construct the evil, egoistic beginning from a single tiny black point called “the tip of the letter ‘Yod.’” And when we work on this black point, trying with all our strength to turn it toward acts of bestowal, precisely because of this it grows in the opposite direction, in the form of receiving.
We reveal within this tip of the letter “Yod” all the other letters, all the qualities, everything that exists, because in this black point we become completely opposite to the Creator. And therefore, the more we try to resemble the light, the more we become convinced of how opposite we are to it, revealing more and more details. This is how we inscribe all the letters, within which all qualities, spiritual Partzufim, worlds, and all existing connections are contained.
And the main thing is that in every state we build the combination of the right line with the left line, that is, with those desires we revealed thanks to our efforts to attain bestowal. The more we strove to bestow, the more we revealed our egoism, the left line. But despite this, we still attempted to compare those egoistic desires we revealed within ourselves to bestowal; that is, we tried to transfer them into the right line.
By doing so, we drew upon ourselves the light that returns to the source so that it would act upon those black letters that are revealed within us, give them a clearer form, and reveal all the components of the interaction between the light and the desire, the entire TANTA (Taamim–Nekudot–Tagin–Otiyot).
Thus, moving from below upward, from a point sketching out the contours of letters and, within them, the full TANTA—all the sensations from the entry of the light into the vessel and its exit, we ultimately attain the light that is revealed within the desires. We advance in the reverse direction, from below upward.
When the worlds descend from above downward, everything happens in the opposite sequence: first occurs the striking unification (Zivug deHakaa) in the head of the Partzuf, then the TANTA, the entry of the light into the vessel and its exit, and at the very last stage the letters (Otiyot) are formed, and ultimately, we reach the black point that lies at their foundation.
And in exactly the same way we build our path from below upward, only in reverse. By revealing in the right line the extent to which we are capable of resembling the light, we thereby establish balance between the material that is within the letters, their thickness, and the light that is outside the letters, around them.
Those black contours of the letters that we ultimately see against the background of the white light is the middle line that we have arrived at.
In the middle line, two forms of prayer come together. On one hand, the “general prayer,” a request on behalf of many. And on the other hand, it is such a general prayer through which we all integrate into Malchut and clarify the common goal as one person. To the extent that we are able to combine these two components, this prayer will also enter the middle line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/24/12, Rabash, “The Importance of a Prayer of Many”
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Comment: They say that men change the world and women improve it.
My Response: There is something in that; I agree. A woman organizes the world. She tends to connect it together, to make it more convenient, more comfortable, just like she wishes to arrange an apartment. This is how she sees the world.
A man, no. He breaks forward. He needs changes in the world, leaps, perhaps even rather extreme “surgical methods.”
Women generally do not go for that, and therefore they are more suited for governing the world.
In general, governance should be in a pair. We know that in every family the wife quietly commands, and the husband carries out. And if he does not, then it is not a family. Usually, it is always this way. If a man understands this, it is good. It is said in the Torah to Abraham: “Do as Sarah tells you.” This is correct. I think this is how one should educate.
Comment: Forty years ago, the company Xerox conducted large-scale research in its sales department about who sells better. It turned out that women are better salespeople than men. Since then, management’s attitude toward women has become more favorable.
In a study involving about 3,000 managers, several characteristic qualities distinguishing men and women were identified: their differences, advantages, and disadvantages.
The first is power and leadership as strengths. Men are interested in official recognition of their authority. They push forward forcefully and therefore often reach greater career heights and salary levels compared to women.
Women are more focused on internal processes. It is important to them that the work be structured as they envisioned, and it does not matter who formally stands at the helm.
The downside: men, striving to satisfy personal ambitions, are less loyal to the company.
Women may not desire power less than men, but they are often inclined to indecision in the struggle for the leadership chair.
My Response: This is natural. A woman by her nature is not inclined to conflict; she is inclined toward peace, ready to concede in order to preserve the environment, the company where she works, her place, and so on. A man may destroy everything in order to achieve his authority. For a woman this may be completely foreign. Naturally, women are ready for all kinds of sacrifices, while men are not.
In general, in most cases women are preferable. Perhaps the only area where this is less significant is the army, and even there not in planning. In developing military plans, I would involve women as well. Their absence there seems to me necessary to address.
Ultimately, I do not see where a man has an advantage over a woman except in precise implementation.
Comment: The second factor is locus of control depending on gender.
Researchers concluded that as men age, they increasingly rely on their own experience and skills. Men have an internal locus of control and therefore often higher self-esteem than women, who give greater importance to image and others’ opinions.
For example, when problems arise in a school, a female principal gathers teachers and parents to discuss and find a solution together.
My Response: Yes. Men tend to use a more forceful method.
The downside: relying on oneself makes a man less flexible and can lead to excessive self-confidence.
A woman may be more vulnerable due to an external locus of control. Business often demands rigidity, and therefore women in high positions sometimes adopt masculine qualities and constantly balance between personal life and professional duties.
Answer: The main thing is the collective. If the collective understands that, in principle, it is better off with a woman leader than with a man, then the whole collective benefits. Where is the question for this answer?
Question: The next factor is internal corporate processes. A businessman creates a team. Men are more result-oriented. They value employees who are more effective and produce better results.
A woman boss creates a family. She senses the mood in the collective, concentrates on overall comfort. Women tend to have more developed emotional intelligence for creating such an atmosphere.
The downside is that a man may reduce efficiency due to a weak individual approach to each member. A woman may become overly concerned with what is happening in the collective. How can this be balanced?
Answer: We do not manage to do this even in family relations, much less in today’s mixed collectives.
This requires a truly wise collective, where everyone understands the nature of men and women. By discussing everything together, they rise above their egoism.
Here there are no personal gender relations in the usual sense. They reason as clear psychologists: how they can connect in the middle line, not feminine and not masculine, but precisely in the middle. And the middle line is the most effective, correct, and possible combination of these two lines.
This is very difficult. One must constantly work on it. It cannot be done once and for all. Therefore, within a collective there should be such a person, or perhaps even a pair, who would constantly support the mutual complementarity of the inner aspirations, decisions, and visions of the male and female parts. Otherwise, the collective will not be truly effective.
Comment: The next factor is strategy for earning money.
A male leader is naturally less patient and wants quick profit “here and now.” Therefore, he is ready to take risks, to use creative approaches that push business forward.
A female leader often makes decisions more thoughtfully and conservatively. She thinks more long-term and strategically.
The downside: men, due to their need to take risks, are inclined to make rash decisions and incur serious financial losses.
My Response: But they enjoy risk. For them, risk is itself a kind of reward: “I may lose, but I took the risk! I was in it!”
A woman by nature must act thoughtfully. She must care; stability is primary in her—maintaining stability now and in the future. A man does not have this in the same way. For him, the main thing is to leap forward.
Both movements are absolutely correct; only their mutual complementarity is problematic for our society.
Comment: The fifth factor is communication style.
Men are excellent orators who inspire the masses. A woman wins in close-range communication. Women are naturally better at reading nonverbal behavior, possess strong listening skills, and are more sensitive to their own experiences.
The downside: men often do not pay attention to details and may lose negotiations over obvious matters. Women, with an external locus of control, spend considerable energy analyzing how others perceive them.
My Response: A man does not see what is near. He does not read faces or subtle actions—the things a woman notices, absorbs, and orients herself by. A man does not see them.
In everyday life, this is an astonishing ability of women, to sense the surroundings. Like an animal going out to hunt and sensing everything around it with its whole body, so is a woman. A man is not like that. He is goal-oriented; his main thing is to reach a specific point, he sees nothing else.
We are created differently; nothing can be done about that. A person and his qualities cannot be remade. We correct egoism, help a person rise above his egoistic nature, but not above his inherent qualities. A man remains a man, a woman a woman. We must only understand how to combine them correctly.
Therefore, we must choose the proper combination of our actions.
Question: What should leaders, men and women, take into account in their work?
Answer: A proper leader must assemble a collective of several men and women, ike a board of directors, who will correctly understand the collective itself, through discussion properly understand its tasks, correctly understand their own nature, and determine how to combine it in such a way as to develop the middle line, which optimally accounts for both approaches and yields the best result.
And still, this result will naturally be neither feminine nor masculine, but intermediate. It will always be some kind of compromise.
We must learn to live precisely in the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/26/19
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