Comment: You said that pride is the best quality of a person.

My Response: Of course! After all, it is specially created so that a person can see how different he is from the Creator.

Due to the fact that he is at war with pride, he gets closer to the Creator. Every time he uses it the other way around, i.e., belittling himself, not helping his egoism, but reducing it and putting pressure on it, he thus rises above the ego.

Imagine that there is one point in a person and this is his embryo. Pride begins to grow under this point and raises it all the time. If a person can annul pride, then he rises, absorbs it into himself, and grows. If he cannot include this pride in himself, that is, to act with it exactly the opposite, to bestow, then it becomes lower and worse.

This is a very serious period in our life! It takes many years for a person to realize this. This is the most difficult period! Then it gets easier and easier.

Of course, there will also be difficult conditions in the future, but they are understandable and easily processed by the soul, heart, and mind.

In the first stages you become simply untenable and do not know where you are going, where to go, and what to do; you are knocked out of these states and you do not hear anything.

But then, no matter what the states are, you control yourself and understand why they are created in you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Pride Is the Key to Success” 3/11/12

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Question: How should a student behave correctly in order to attach himself to the state you are in?

Answer: It is not easy, I know from my own experience.

The student must try to use the heart and mind of the teacher, to glue to them as if there were none of his own.

When you try to do this, you receive a huge mind and a huge heart opposite to the teacher, and you start to act. Your mind and heart are on the left side, the teachers’ are on the right side. In the middle between them you are trying to create something that connects both of these objects. It is not simple.

There are few such people in our world and there are few among our students. There should not be many of them, but in general, they exist. They try to do it, and that means a lot. The main thing is to try! If there are many such people, they will cover quality by quantity.

Question: How can one adhere to the mind and heart of a teacher?

Answer: Just through the request to the same upper force that binds us together to help you annul before the teacher. Then he would be able to raise you like a little child. Otherwise, your egoism lifts you higher, you feel higher than the teacher, more knowledgeable, understanding, and strong, and as a result, you cannot receive anything from him.

Question: But how can a student analyze whether he is integrated in the teacher correctly?

Answer: You must begin to feel it; otherwise, you will not be able to understand.

Question: Could this be a false sensation?

Answer: It does not matter. Attempts will lead to a correct result.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Best Student”

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “In the beginning, are we all Jewish by birth?“

A Jew is one who develops the quality of bestowal and love of others, as is written in the Torah, i.e. to reach a state of “love your neighbor as yourself” and “love will cover all crimes.”

The positive force that we receive is in order for us to rise above the negative egoistic force, which exists in each of us. If so, in such a way, we do not hate the negative force, but we relate to it with understanding.

The negative egoistic force is our human nature that we were born with, and we also receive its opposite altruistic force, which we crown over the ego. The control of the positive altruistic force over the negative egoistic force brings us to a unique degree where the desire to receive (the negative force) will join the intention to give (the positive force), and with these two forces, we will do good to each other.

Eventually, between these two forces we will start researching, acknowledging, understanding and perceiving nature. We will see that these two forces come to us from nature, and with their attainment, we come to perceive and sense nature’s uniqueness. Our goal is to attain the unity in nature, which consists of both positive and negative forces, and to be adhered to their absolute source.

Based on the video “Who Is a Jew?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Preparation to the Lesson

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Fourth Commandment,” Item 213

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Fifth Commandment,” Item 215

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”

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Miracles do not exist! All miracles are the result of our inner pressure in the yearning to come closer to each other.

This is how we will rise up, see all the worlds, everything from top to bottom. The Creator will be revealed to us as a network that embraces everything and includes everything within it.

We will feel ourselves in a space that has no movement, no beginning, no end; it is in constant motion. All this will be normal, there will be nothing surprising about it. This is how we will exist.

But before the congress, we need to prepare ourselves for miracles because if we want to connect with each other, then our closeness with each other is already a miracle! After all, this is against the fundamental law of nature—the law of egoism.

Therefore, if we aim to rise above egoism, we will attract the influence of huge forces of nature that are above it, that is, the forces of upper nature.

I really hope that we will be lucky, that the Creator will guide us and help us, and that we will connect with each other by the force of bestowal, by the force of love. Then this war will end, and in general—everything in the world will calm down, and we will all become like one man with one heart.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/2/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Following the Creator in the Desert”

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Question: What does the information about the four phases of the expansion of the light in the form of letters give us?

Answer: This information gives us first knowledge that the entire Hebrew alphabet depicts to us the qualities of light and the qualities of darkness—the qualities of creation and the qualities of the Creator.

It is so created to explain to us how different we are from the Creator, and how we can depict our qualities relative to the Creator or the qualities of the Creator relative to us.

Practically all letters are like drawings, images, of the characteristics of the Creator on the background of the qualities or characteristics of creation.

Question: Can we say that a Kabbalist looks at these letters and sees instructions in them on how to receive the light and apply it on his desire?

Answer: Of course, yes.

Question: And the one who does not understand how to do it, how does he use this in life?

Answer: So, he does not understand, he looks at these letters as if they were the Chinese alphabet.

There are no letters actually in the Chinese language—only a great number of images, thousands of hieroglyphs. But they depict conformity between qualities.

It is the same in Hebrew. Although we have only 22 letters, they are enough to depict the relationship between the light and the Kli, creation and Creator. It is a very economical alphabet.

Question: Can an ordinary person use this in his life?

Answer: No. What can he use it for? He can write it down, he can read it. But without understanding the essence of the Creator and the essence of creation, he will not read it correctly.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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How can we justify the Creator when such terrible disasters like the earthquake in Turkey happen? We do not know why the Creator awakens us through such sharp and heavy blows.

But apparently they include both help and punishment. We can try to turn this punishment into a reward through our connection. After all, this is the only action that can help us.

We can immerse ourselves in those states in which our friends found themselves who were physically trapped in the disaster zone, and try to pull them out of all these places and states, and lift them high above our heads.

We value them as devoted close friends yearning to reach a common connection between all of us and the Creator, and we will do our best to constantly feel them deep inside our thoughts and hearts. The Creator arranges everything so that we all become included in this action. In this way He binds us together through this disaster, and we need to unite even more because of it.

We need nothing except the connection; then the light that the Creator shines upon all of humanity will shine more strongly in those groups that have united. Therefore, the stronger our connection, unity, and embrace, the more the upper force, the light of the Creator, will influence us and pull us out of all the troubles.

We embrace all the friends who are in the earthquake zone, we fill our thoughts and hearts with this concern, and thus we will be able to protect them from troubles with the help of the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/7/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Commandments of the Torah, the First Commandment”

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Kabbalah says that there is the upper mind, one we reveal when we connect in a group. If a group goes for connection, then it discovers not “I,” not “we,” but something else above “we,” an absolutely common unified whole, a common desire and a common mind.

This is the system of governance, the upper nature—the Creator. It exists always, only it is concealed from us.

We need to reveal this upper system, the upper mind, and then we will have no problems interacting with each other, controlling everything, and coming to universal communication and connection because we all will be connected to this upper system.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Invention of Cinema” 3/3/12

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