Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Item 68
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Selected Highlights
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When the situation in the city of Shushan becomes threatening, Mordechai turns to Esther, the wife of King Ahasuerus, for help. Esther asks all the people to fast for three days for her sake. Fasting means that they renounce all egoistic fulfillments. And if they really endure it, then Esther will be able to turn to the king with her request.
And then in the “Scroll of Esther” it says that the king cannot sleep and when he starts to leaf through the annals, he sees that, it turns out, there was such a case when the Jew Mordechai saved him.
He calls Haman to him and asks: “What would you do for a man who saved the life of the king?” Haman, thinking that it was about him, offered that honors be paid to this man. And then the king instructs Haman to do all this in relation to Mordechai.
This is about how it will end in our days, in our time, with all who rebel against the Creator and want to use the egoistic forces of nature to rule themselves instead of the power of the Creator, which consists only in uniting everyone up to love.
The desire to conquer others, to rule over others, just as egoism still rules over us, all this will change and truth, altruism, unity, and love will triumph.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/15/22
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The Scroll of Esther tells that during the feast the queen tells the king how Haman planned to destroy all the Jews. And when the king asks: “What can I do for you,” she replies that she wants to save her people.
Then the king orders Haman to be hanged on a tree. The tree (Etz Chaim or the Tree of Life) is all that is good that descends on us from heaven and descends from above down on everyone in the world except for those who have the grain of Haman in them.
The tree of life is the desire to give, to unite, to spread, and to continue the property of the Creator. Hanging Haman on this tree, meaning our selfish desires, means that they have no right to life precisely because we use them in this way. We kill them with the property of bestowal and love, we deprive them of fulfillment.
In other words, the desires themselves remain and selfish intentions are mortified.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/15/22
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Comment: Scientists have come to the conclusion that some words have not only have energy, but also, first of all, an informational effect on human DNA. Let’s say some old lady is sitting and saying incomprehensible words with negative energy that affects a person like a curse.
My Response: All incantations, slander, and all kinds of spells have a certain meaning. They can affect us because these are desires that are clearly directed from one person to another. Our influence on each other has been tested for hundreds of years.
Some people affect others with more force, others with less. These are not just sorcerers, shamans, and wizards. There really are such forces in the world.
However there is no need to yield to the fear and run to various conjurers or pay money to be cleansed, etc. You just need to understand that everything exists in nature and we need to be above this. If we wish good to bring connection between people in order to rise above evil, then by this we will be able to lower all evil and cover it with good.
Question: Are you saying that all these phenomena exist only in the egocentric perception of a person and the further he moves away from such a perception of the world, the more the influence of these forces on him decreases?
It seems there are different types of negative energy. For example, the evil eye is when a person influences another with his desire, and a curse is when he needs to say certain words in addition. It is clear that there are desires behind this, but is there any power in these words?
Answer: All this is in desire and not in words. A person can say nothing and still affect the other.
Question: Is there no special meaning in the uttered words ?
Answer: If the one who speaks puts some inner effort into it, then of course he also gives an effect to these words.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/8/22
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Question: You say that selfishness needs blows in order for a person to give up his addictions. But what does it mean that the system is proactive and always shows what will happen if we do not use the method of correction?
Answer: We have two options. Or we go driven by nature and we will continue to be pushed by it, but with huge hard blows at all levels. We see that this is already happening quite systematically as the global crises unfold.
The global connection between us is the most terrible thing that can be because our higher state is beginning to unfold, but in a negative form on the earthly level. At the highest level, we are all completely interconnected. When this manifests itself in the material world, where we are connected in a bad way, in bad relationships with each other, then this leads us to mutual destruction.
Therefore, we need to quickly reveal the technique of proper integration so that people see this next level. If you see what happiness is, you will have the strength to change yourself.
I see from our Kabbalistic practice how this works, and I hope that this will come to the people.
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Question: How does one not go mad from the news about the war? It automatically increases the level of anxiety and is perceived as a signal of potential danger.
Answer: Yes, I understand that. We just need to understand the meaning of the war, what we must do to reach the highest goal—connection.
In the process of war, we must identify in ourselves as well as in the enemy all the pros and cons that are necessary for connection so that there will not be war. That is, already during the war we need to create something opposite to it.
We will see that we can turn the means of war not against our opponent, who is just like me, but against the enemy that is within me. Then I will already be at war with my egoism and will rise above it and thus get closer to others.
For me the war will become not a war between people, but a personal war with my ego. As a result, I will be able to defeat it and reach a true victory over myself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 3/1/22
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Haman and his servants cast lots when they wanted to enlist the favor of fate. Haman wanted to understand if he could destroy the Jews. Only after that, he went to the king to seek permission to kill Mordechai.
Therefore the “spinning top” and all games that involve casting lots are popular on the holiday of Purim.
What does it mean that they cast lots?—A person does not know who really controls the world! He has no other opportunity to decide who is right, as the “Scroll of Esther” says about those who lived in such a state in the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
This is also relevant today when there is a war going on. We also see that it is unclear why it is happening. Nothing has changed. Until all of us, to the last person, decides who is right, it will never be clear how the world exists at all.
That is, the war is going on within us, but in order to reveal the Creator as the good that does good or vice versa, so that we do it by ourselves, each one from within himself.
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Comment: Irina asks: “Are there really wars in spirituality too? I always thought there was only love there.”
My Response: From the beginning of the world to the end, the entire universe, except for the sole Creator, the only upper force of love, everything else is built on the battle of opposites, which means, on war.
And the Creator is attained by us when we achieve love in the form of the absolute annulment of hatred, war, and confrontation, i.e., in the complete annulment of everyone in front of others. In this way we form the image of the Creator in ourselves, we create Him. As it is said, “You have made Me.”
Question: Are you talking about a war inside every person right now? Is this a spiritual warfare?
Answer: Yes, and the external is only at the animal level.
Question: You once said that external wars occur because we have not conducted our internal wars properly, and therefore external wars appear. Can you explain this a little more? I did not finish my war?
Answer: I had to fight, I had to resist, and I had to stand, act at the head of the forces of light against the dark forces within myself, and thus see how by this I am moving the world toward a state of connection, rapprochement, and love in all its opposite pieces. And in this way I bring the state of war to the state of real peace.
The word is “Shalom,” “Shlemut,” complete connection (“Ashlama“).
Somehow, I still didn’t finish something somewhere, and therefore I gave it the opportunity to manifest itself in the lowest form, in this physical world.
Question: So now, in order to stop this external war, I have to go back to my internal wars again?
Answer: I have to do it, and everyone has to do it. Because the war is external, it exists only to move us toward an internal connection.
Question: So the resolution of the war by external forces where someone won and someone lost is not the solution of the war?
Answer: Of course not.
Question: And then there will be the next war?
Answer: Of course! We solve nothing by this. This is resolved on the road, on the way: how to continue the next page of the war.
Question: So the next page of the war, one way or another, will be? And maybe even scarier?
Answer: Of course it will be scarier. The most important thing is to quickly determine at the beginning of the conflict what it is and to extinguish it by connecting and complementing the conflicting parties so that they reveal the Creator.
Question: Let’s say there are two conflicting parties who hate each other. How can they suddenly stop at the beginning of a conflict?
Answer: Rise among themselves, rise above yourself, imagine what the world should be like if they were united together so much that they cannot distinguish between each other, but can only feel the connection between them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/7/22
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