Rabash, Article No. 31, “Concerning Yenika [Nursing] and Ibur [Impregnation]”: …meaning that he cancels self-love, called Malchut, whose original essence is called “will to receive in order to receive,” and enters the vessels of bestowal, called Bina.

Question: What does it mean to enter the Kelim (vessels) of bestowal called the quality of Bina?

Answer: It means entering the quality of bestowal. Can someone understand at least a little of what bestowal means? That is, to feel someone’s desires so that a yearning awakens in me to fulfill not my own desires but the desires of another.

And I need my desires only to fulfill my neighbor. That is the way we need to work. Then we will begin to become like the Creator and feel what He feels, that is, the upper state.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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Question: Should we stop associating ourselves with our body and individuality and associate only with the Kli (vessel), meaning the “I” that is us?

Answer: Of course. Why should I always feel that I live in an animal, and this animal commands me, a man? It is as if a donkey is sitting on my head and riding me, and I follow its instructions, and so I exist. I also spend my whole life and energy serving this donkey.

And then what? Then the donkey dies, that is, my body, and there is nothing else, just pointless suffering, for what? Therefore, you must think about how to make your life more efficient.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is love?“

Love is our most exalted connection with everything outside of us, which harmonizes us with nature and its laws.

Love is a means to become like nature, which is a quality of love, bestowal and connection. It exists outside of us. There is no love in individual beings.

Love is the exclusive quality of nature that is given to us, and with the help of such a quality, we can elevate ourselves from the animate degree of existence to the human degree. In Hebrew, the word for “human” (“Adam”) comes from the word for “similar” (“Domeh”), and a human is considered one who becomes “similar to the most high” (“Domeh le Elyon”). In other words, becoming a human means becoming like nature’s quality of love, bestowal and connection, which is outside and opposite to our inborn animate qualities.

Based on “Kabbalah Express” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on December 6, 2021. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: What is the correct education of boys?

Answer: The correct education is the realization of a man in his corporeal and spiritual manner so as to become an absolutely perfect element and fully realize what is inherent in him by nature, that is, to ascend and become similar to the Creator.

To become a common integral element of nature is what is inherent in us. Does anyone know that? No. This is what we need to study and reveal.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up, Generation of “Lady Gaga”” 3/10/10

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” Item 13

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 129

Lesson on the Topic: “Faith Above Reason”

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Question: When the annulment of egoism comes from the Creator, it is a very painful state. How can we achieve the property of annulment by ourselves? Is it possible?

Answer: It is impossible. The only thing we can do is just to ask the Creator to do it. We are creations. And a created being is what has been created and cannot change itself. So nothing will help us.

But to seriously ask the Creator to really do what is needed is possible only through a group, which is a system through which we connect with the Creator.

We understand that in our age of technology if I want to connect with someone, I must act through some kind of a switch that will connect me to the place where I want to get through. That is, a network, a connection, a line, is needed; knowledge of how all this is done is needed. And all this is done through the group.

Part of the group must be created by us, as Rabash and other Kabbalists write. These principles have been known for thousands of years. And the other part is made from above, by the Creator, in accordance with our efforts. This is mutual work in a group where we begin to meet with Him.

When we create a group and each time improve it and make it more composed, devoted, and connected with each other and with the goal, we build ourselves and our connection with the Creator, and He changes us. That is how we act.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/7/22, “Annulling before the Friends” Lesson 2

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Question: How do we fill the space between us and the Creator?

Answer: It is very simple. We strive to help each other get closer, unite, and thus reveal that the Creator is among us.

He didn’t go anywhere; He didn’t hide. It is we who, by our egoism, our mutual rejection of each other, have hidden Him among us. And now, when we try to get closer, and thus gradually, to the extent of our efforts, to understand, feel, and help each other, to that same extent we reveal the Creator, who was always between us.

He was only in hiding, as they say, in exile. And now we are pulling Him out of this exile and asking Him to be revealed.

Question: How can we ask the Creator to fill the space between us if that space is created by a lack of interest in connection?

Answer: You must develop this interest in the connection. Otherwise, you won’t achieve anything. You must always feel that there is an emptiness between you, and you must overcome this emptiness until you are in one desire, in which the Creator will be revealed.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/9/22, “Asking the Creator to Fill the Place Between Us” Lesson 7

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Baal HaSulam, Shamati 99: “He Did Not Say Wicked or Righteous”: If one does not have any desire or craving for spirituality, if he is among people who have a desire and craving for spirituality, if he likes these people, he, too, will take their strength to prevail, and their desires and aspirations, although by his own quality, he does not have these desires and cravings and the power to overcome.

If a person finds himself inside a group and those people whom he sees in the group are pleasant to him and do not repel him, then by being with them, he is gradually imbued with their goals, aspirations, desires, and ideals.

Therefore, we must be aware that we are in a Kabbalistic group and humble ourselves before our friends in order to envy them and to draw near them.

Question: What does it mean that people who strive for spirituality are pleasant to me?

Answer: You love them, respect them, and you want to be like them and be with them because they, like you, yearn for spirituality. And you realize that without these people you will not reach spirituality.

Question: Are they pleasing to me only because they yearn for spirituality? I don’t care what they are really like?

Answer: Of course not! What difference does it make whether they are black, white, red, have a beard, or are lop-eared! The main thing is that I have same desires as them and strive for the same goal. I understand that without them I will not achieve it.

Imagine that you are in a raging sea in the same boat with ugly, scary people. But you will not reach the shore without them! What can you do? Anyway, you gradually realize that this is what your egoism depicts to you.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/8/22, “Deriving the Greatness of the Goal from the Friends” Lesson 4

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Question: Do we attract the reforming light when we strive to connect with the ten?

Answer: Certainly. How else? I can realize this connection only if I attract the upper light, the upper force, the quality of bestowal, love, and connection. It cannot be otherwise.

We somehow separate ourselves from the group and the Creator and cannot imagine all this together. And at every moment of our life we must envision this to ourselves as the goal. What I am advancing to? What should I achieve? What should I see in front of me as the next state?

Me, the group, and the Creator—this is called “Israel, the Torah and the Creator are one.” That is what I have to imagine. And then there will be no problems and mistakes.
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From the International Convention “Rising Above Ourselves” 1/6/22, “Approaching the Creator Through the Network of Connections Between Us” Lesson 1

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