Preparation to the Lesson
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is the Torah in one sentence?“
The Torah is a methodology of receiving light, i.e. of inviting upon ourselves the influence of the upper light so that it changes our nature from reception to bestowal.
Based on KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on November 20, 2022.
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As created beings, we exist in two worlds at once. The so-called lower world is the world that we feel now according to our initial nature, that we were born with and in which we develop. But Kabbalists tell us that there is also the upper world to which we need to ascend.
The difference between these two worlds comes from the difference between two forces of nature: the force that separates us from each other and the force that brings us closer. It is like a plus and a minus, only they exist at the human degree. The closer we become to each other, by annulling egoism that separates us, the more similar we become to the upper force, the force of the Creator, the force that attracts and unites, which means we can move from the sensation of this world to the sensation of the upper world.
So far we are in the grip of the desire to enjoy, which forces everyone to act only for their own personal benefit. We need to reach connection by annulling our egoism and connecting above it as one man with one heart. This is the level at which the Creator exists—the single force that controls the entire universe.
Only these two levels exist in nature: the egoistic level and the altruistic level, the level of hatred and the level of love. We are at the final stage of our egoistic development and gradually we are beginning to learn that apparently there is another level where we exist as a united humanity.
Whether in a good way or by force, we will have to get acquainted with this second floor of reality and climb up to it. There are two possibilities for this: a good path or a bad path.
The bad path is a path of suffering under blows that we have already felt once in the past and that we still have to face in the future. The good path is a path of light, a force that connects, that brings us closer, and that teaches us how to be at the uppermost level of existence.
The wisdom of Kabbalah talks about this path of how to rise from our level, from the level of separation and confrontation, to the level of unification. Kabbalah has been talking about this for thousands of years. We will have to study this methodology and implement it in the relationship between us and between all the inhabitants of this world.
All Kabbalistic books write about this. These two forces exist in nature and it all depends on how we use them.
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Question: In principle, we turn to the Creator not because we receive blows to our egoism and suffer, but because a person really wants to be in the quality of bestowal and love, but he does not succeed. He wants to be like the Creator and wants to love everyone and cannot. Is that why his heart is broken?
Answer: Yes, a person tries to achieve such states, but cannot. A broken heart is when one is unable to come to love one’s neighbor and through this to love the Creator.
Comment: People have been suffering for billions of years.
My Response: They suffer because they don’t get what they want. This is egoistic suffering. It is like a small child who cries because he does not get the desired toy. And this is where everything ends until a person begins to wake up and realize that he can approach the quality of the Creator only to the extent of similarity of form to the Creator.
And ordinary material sufferings, when a person does not get what he wants, do not lead to an appeal to the Creator or to the appeal to which the Creator gives an answer.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22
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The whole of reality is contained in Ein Sof and extends existence from existence. Only the will to receive is new and extends existence from absence (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Inner Observation, Chapter 4, Item 18).
Question: How can the will to receive appear from absence?
Answer: Naturally nothing can come from absence. It is just that a desire arises from a higher degree called the Creator who determines the whole development of creation.
Therefore, at first a desire appeared from absence. In the process of its development, it reaches ten Sefirot, worlds, and all kinds of connections between them. This continues until one general large picture is obtained.
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Question: It is written in Kabbalistic sources that a person with a broken heart is called a hero. Please explain why a hero is the one with the broken heart?
Answer: Indeed it sounds so unusual. It has even been said that there is nothing better than a broken heart. After all, when a person feels that all his desires, intentions, passions, and impulses are broken, and he has nothing he can cling to like an anchor so he does not drown in life, then such a state is the best.
It is good in that we have nothing to hold on to other than the Creator.
Comment: But if we could hold on to the Creator without any dramatic situations, that would also be nice. 🙂
My Response: No, this is not possible. A person can only cling to the Creator when he is hanging by a thread with nothing to hope for and in a second he will drop and fall down. This feeling is so terrible that death is better than such a life. It is in this state that he can come to the Creator.
Of course I do not advise anyone to come to this. The wisdom of Kabbalah says that we should recognize this and come to the Creator in advance, knowing that there is none else besides Him; He governs everything and all our future states are in Him.
In general, although there is none one besides Him, we should still try to choose the states ourselves as close as possible to the Creator.
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The generations are redeemed only by the merit of righteous women in the generation (Midrash Zuta, Ruth 4:11).
Question: How do you perceive this?
Answer: I perceive it as perfectly normal.
Question: Then what does the key phrase “righteous women in the generation” mean?
Answer: They are the ones who understand how to conduct themselves and how to educate the generation. They look at their entire generation as their children who need to be brought to the correct understanding of life. This is called a righteous woman.
Question: What is righteousness? What is the correct understanding of life?
Answer: Righteousness lies in bestowal, love, and connection of everyone with each other, like in a proper family.
Question: Is there such an inclination in a woman?
Answer: Yes, it is precisely in a woman that it exists. She must take a man, the masculine strength, and compel, force, teach, and direct this masculine strength to creation, to the correct attitude to the world.
The direction is women. Strength is men.
Question: Do you feel that this is how it will happen in the future?
Answer: Yes. It is necessary to break the connection between men and women in such a way that a woman would control the thought, intention, direction, and so on. The corrected Malchut operates through the male part. This is when this connection will work.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away (Antoine de Saint-Exupery).
Question: Could you please describe the state of complete harmony for a Kabbalist?
Answer: I believe that we reach perfection through revealing two opposite forces, reception and bestowal, which interact with each other and balance each other in order to reveal the single force that creates them, and only within which they can coexist.
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