Preparation to the Lesson
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #203 “Man’s Pride Shall Bring Him Low”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #181 “Honor”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love of God and the Love of Man”
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Selected Highlights
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Question: In material life, one should be satisfied with what is necessary for him. At less than this level, he will not be able to live. How can he establish what he needs?
Answer: Your spiritual development will provide those material needs that you need. There is no need to establish any rigid and coercive criteria, to put pressure on oneself and moreover on others, but engage in internal development, in what Kabbalah prescribes.
As soon as you start doing this you will begin to go through all kinds of states, sometimes not very pleasant ones, because you will discover who you are, what kind of person you are. As you gradually transform in accordance with what will be revealed to you, you will demand less or more from your life to that measure.
In no case should you change anything in yourself and act according to some canons, books, or other people’s advice. Proceeding directly from his inner change, a person himself will change, he himself will change his environment, he himself will relate to the world in a different way.
Kabbalah says that this is the most natural way of our development, cognition, and bringing ourselves to harmony. That is, you should not do anything, but simply gradually reveal yourself and the world. This is a process of self-discovery.
When you get to know yourself, you will naturally start sorting out the bad from the good and choose what is best. Thus, everything will begin to change naturally, smoothly, and effortlessly.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Centaurs” 1/15/10
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Question: What will make a disabled person feel equal?
Answer: We are not equal to begin with. None of us is equal to anyone else. It is only in the connection between us that we can reach a state in which we complement each other until we reach a state in which we assemble by ourselves a system of one man.
Question: If we gave an example of the right connection in Israel and integrate disabled people in the community, in society, at work, and everywhere, and give the feeling of equality above all the differences, would that be a kind of light unto the nations of the world?
Answer: Yes, if we did that disabled people would feel that they are on a special mission, an upper mission, that they ascend above their disability, and thus would be able to see real life. I believe that this is what they lack, that we should complete them with a soul through which they can reach a perfect world and not feel that they are missing anything.
From KabTV’s “Conversation with Journalists” 12/5/21
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Comment: Our planet is in a very bad condition. In the past there were all sorts of programs to fix things.
My Response: In the past we were more naïve, but now we already understand that there is nothing we can do. The human mind can only ruin, destroy, destruct, or lead us to a dark and gloomy future.
Question: So why do we have such confidence in our minds?
Answer: So that we will fully realize that our mind is worthless.
Question: Is it like a mousetrap?
My Response: Yes. What is the difference between man and all the other creatures? It is supposedly our minds. It sounds as if man is proud of it. We have a machine in our head called a brain and emotions in our heart, but they are both egoistic, closed inside themselves and locked in our daily existence, so nothing good can ever come from them.
Question: So what can we do?
Answer: The only thing we can do is to get closer to each other. We should reach such relations between us in which others are dearer to us than ourselves.
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/29/21
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Question: Does a person determine whom to meet, whom to marry or divorce, and to be successful in his life?
Answer: A person determines absolutely nothing, except for one thing—to quickly realize his state as evil, choose the next correct state as good, quickly gather all the possible forces, and move forward.
To put everything together correctly, to take the right step forward in accordance with the desire of mother nature and to walk hand in hand with it, this is our only freedom of will.
Nothing else can a person change. Based on what he could make decisions? He does not have any data. How do we know our next state: which is better, which is worse, for what purpose?
What do I choose between? Where are two defined circumstances in front of me and the freedom of will between them? In what? A person never has this.
We perceive the lack of information, misinterpreting the situation as freedom: “I am free!” In a minute something will fall on your head, why are you shouting?!
The little man is in such an illusion all the time. But now we are gradually coming out of it and beginning to understand that nature is self-contained, global. After all, all the latest scientific discoveries only talk about this.
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Question: People in Israel have a short fuse that causes a conflict of desires and heightens anger. What is the right way to respond to anger?
Answer: This is due to lack of education. People simply have no patience and cannot control themselves. They are spoiled because we let our children do whatever they want, which is forbidden.
We need to teach and educate children how to cope with different hardships in life from a young age.
Question: We want to educate our youth to respond to anger correctly. What are we supposed to teach them?
Answer: We must teach them how to stop their anger.
Question: Is it better to run away instead of responding to the person in front of me?
Answer: Of course it is better, but we know how hard that is.
Question: Many marriage counselors say that it is important to know how to fight. How do you fight correctly?
Answer: That is correct. There is no getting closer and no peace without quarrels, but they have to go in tandem. We must learn how to set an example for one another.
I set an example by making an effort to overcome myself, and although I am angry, I relate to the other with love: “Love will cover all crimes.”
Question: Is it possible to relate to our partner with love when we quarrel?
Answer: It is a matter of practice.
Question: Where do you bring love from when someone is mad at you and hates you?
Answer: It is simple, we cover the rage and anger with love, but the love is inside so it is a matter of balance between the two.
The more I can play with either one, the more I must constantly play with them. I must not totally identify with the feeling of anger or of love but only have the two feelings operate in me so that I control these two ends together.
From KabTV’s “Conversation with Journalists” 12/12/21
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How can love for one’s neighbor lead to love for the Creator? We must always remember that we came from one soul, from Adam HaRishon. The Creator created Adam, filled him, and organized everything in him.
All processes and all states are embedded within this Kli. However, we have data from the shattering, which is opposite to perfection and connection, and in this way, from an imperfect state to a perfect one, we need to reach the intended purpose.
All the data from the previous states is already present in Adam HaRishon; we do not discover anything new. As it says, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Our task is only to put everything in order, to make ourselves ready to accept all the stages of connection and the spiritual world that is being revealed to us.
After the shattering we became opposite from love for one’s neighbor. This was done on purpose in order to connect us with light and darkness, hatred and love, connection and separation, because only out of the two opposites are we able to feel what it means to be a created being and to be a Creator. After all there is no Creator without created beings.
We are lacking this feeling, and therefore we do not notice the Creator. We only say that the Creator is concealed, but in fact there is no concealment. The Creator is everywhere, but we are just not able to reveal Him with our senses. The force of bestowal fills all of reality, but we only reveal a little bit of the force of reception and with it we depict this entire world, our bodies, our universe. There is nothing real in this picture.
Shattering and concealment were arranged in order to give us the opportunity to gradually open our eyes and form a spiritual sensory organ. Otherwise it was impossible to establish the created beings.
The created being is a special concept. The Creator had to prepare all the conditions: from completeness to absolute incompleteness, up to the point of separation and utter darkness, in order for us to rise from this darkness and disconnection, from this almost non-existing state. After all, this state exists only at one point that establishes the relationship of the Creator with the future created beings, which is called a point in the heart or a part of divinity from above or a spark of light.
This spark operates in every created being, advances it closer and closer to the feeling of reality outside of it, that is, the force of bestowal. As a person develops, he begins at least to feel what is happening outside of him in the corporeal world and attains corporeality. Although in fact it is not happening outside, but rather inside of him. Then he comes to spiritual attainment.
This is how we gradually build our Kelim through connection with each other. At first it is an egoistic connection, for the sake of doing well in this world. Then new Kelim, spiritual ones, gradually become revealed within us.
We need to understand that egoism leads us to a dead-end, and we need to come to the truth that is above us. It is not we who establish the laws of the world, but the upper force; there is nothing besides it. We need to study these laws and try to perform the correction.
Everything begins with submission. Therefore the more a person and humanity succumb to their egoistic nature, the more they receive blows, after which they will have to conclude that we have no way to act according to our egoism, but we need to study what actually corresponds to the laws of the world or the laws of upper nature, the laws of the Creator.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/13/21, “Love for the Creator”
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We must justify the Creator at every stage, at every moment. We thus correctly unite all parts of creation and present them as a single whole.
This is our work in order to bring all the reality we feel to unity at every moment of our existence, to feel belonging to the single force of the Creator. This reality is now being revealed to me so that I unite it and reveal in it the force that drives it.
In every state we need to remain in the greatest possible adhesion between us and the Creator. If we work like this in the ten, we will see that it is arranged from above as if we are dancing in a circle holding hands. Each one jumps according to his state, and it turns out that one jumps up and the other one falls down.
But since we do this together, then everything is combined into one common action, and all private ups and downs are combined into a dance, in a single attitude toward the Creator. This is what we need to do in our inner dance, inner connection.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/21, “Love for the Creator”
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