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Posted on September 11th, 2019 at 9:55 pm
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/11/19
The signs of solidarity, mutual respect and social resilience that we saw after the horrible 9/11 attack in New York, have all disappeared. Today it is painfully clear that people unite only under great duress or trouble. It has been fifteen years since that tragedy, and against the backdrop of global terror, the United States is more frightened than ever of another national disaster. As a result, the government has declared September as a National Preparedness Month, where citizens, business owners and communities are encouraged to prepare for any unexpected crisis or emergency that the US might face. Yet alongside the defense strategies, the one thing that will bring lasting security and balance to our lives is unity. The connection between us has a tremendous power that can prevent any unexpected disaster, and most importantly, to guarantee our good life.
Presidential Proclamation – National Preparedness Month, 2016
From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/11/19
We have returned to Israel from the World Kabbalah Conference held in Chisinau, Moldova. The conference brought together some 1,500 of my Russian speaking students. It is a great joy that the Creator gathered us to such a wonderful assembly. We achieved more from the conference than I expected. And now on we will move forward together, in one heart. I wish you all to be loved and desired by the Creator!
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Question: Why do Kabbalists constantly use the word “love”?
Answer: Our matter and the matter of all nature is desire. Love is mutual satisfaction, when I satisfy your desires and you satisfy mine, and only thanks to this state do our pluses and minuses become connected, and we turn into one single spiritual body, into one single desire.
Question: If instead of “love,” I say “the force of attraction,” is this correct?
Answer: Say “the force of gravity, unity, or connection.”
Remark: After all, the phrases “love of one’s neighbor” and “love your neighbor as yourself” are so overused and confuse us so much.
My Comment: I understand. I remember I also stumbled on this. Now I cannot imagine some carnal attraction as a synonym for love. After all, these are animal instincts.
Question: The method of Kabbalah consists of establishing the correct connection between people. Through this, as Baal HaSulam writes, we invoke energy from the states we were previously in. The energy begins to affect us and bring us together in the same way that molecules once came together. Only their rapprochement was unconscious, and we must do everything consciously.
What is this action of drawing closer to other people? What should we do?
Answer: We should perceive the desires of other people and try to fill them, and they must do the same with your desires.
Perhaps, we will somehow be able to feel the desires of others, although it is very difficult. We have no idea how to actually do this. If we want to fill them, we will begin to feel how much our egoism counteracts this. We will then have to fight with ourselves, put ourselves below others, and this is already a spiritual action.
Question: How will I fulfill the desires of others if I cannot even fill my own desires?
Answer: You do not have to. Leave your desires alone and fill others’. Then you will see that only in this way you can fill yourself.
Question: But they have a lot of desires, won’t I only be busy filling them all day long.
Answer: It means you will be busy filling yourself all day. Only through others can you fill yourself. That is why humanity is becoming more and more devastated.
Remark: Yes, but I do not feel that way. I do not enjoy filling them. Only if I love someone, then, yes.
My Comment: Therefore, you must demand that you have love for them. This is already above your egoism.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 12/11/18
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Question: The purpose of nature is to develop all its parts to the state of polar opposites and then combine them. Why is this so? What is the meaning of such development?
Answer: Only in this way do we reveal everything. Our attainment consists of differentiation and integration of all parts of what we observe.
Remark: We see that our nature, our desire to receive, is constantly evolving, becoming more powerful, more egoistic.
My Comment: In the same way, the ability to integrate this, to capture the interconnection between all parts, is developing in us. This is what our perception of reality consists of.
But the next Kabbalistic awareness of reality is that there is no reality as such. We only project our inner properties onto the upper light, and we feel and consider this picture, which we ourselves create with our feelings, as the world in which we exist.
Question: “Upper Light” is a new term. Why do Kabbalists in their sources use it instead of the concept of “Creator”?
Answer: The Creator/Upper Light is a property of bestowal and love, and therefore, we associate it with the light of the sun, the light of the mind, with something higher.
Against the background of the upper light, the properties of bestowal and love, all our egoistic desires paint a three-dimensional, living picture of this world. But actually it doesn’t exist. I only observe my internal properties.
Therefore, to the extent that I am moving closer and closer to the properties of the upper light, this world dissolves and becomes more and more elusive, until I find myself in absolute light.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah” 12/10/18
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Violence and outbursts in the still, vegetative, and animate levels of reality increase as the human ego develops. The human being is like a volcano and erupts as a way of coping with growing internal pressure and imbalance. There is no reason to be violent toward others as we are all activated by the same upper force and can achieve balance with one another through this force. All troubles come to us to teach us that we need to connect with this upper providence. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how to relate everything to this upper force that is the source of all balance and peace.
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We completed the Russian-language congress in Moldova. It’s a great joy that the Creator gathered us at such a large gathering. We received more than I expected from the congress,. From here on, let us proceed forward, together, in the group.
I wish everyone a flight at great height! May you be loved and desired by the Creator!
When without any selfishness, having annulled my ego, I am ready to cling to the point of connection with the Creator—the vessel of bestowal starts to develop from that point. Everything that’s above the point of self-annulment will turn into Hassadim (mercy), bestowal. That is how I build the vessel of bestowal in which I will feel the light of Hochma for the sake of bestowal.
What matters most to me is for the friends to have desires that they are ready to give to me, so I will stitch them together, investing my efforts into this work. This work is the only thing I desire.
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The ten is 10 people, each willing to give himself up in order to enter between the others to support them. He does not demand anything for himself, but only looks for a place of work. He then becomes a stitching thread that sews them together, and by that he delights the Creator.
Darkness helps us to not lose our minds from what we received in sensations and reason. The mind and heart do not act—only darkness works, helping us tremendously. Darkness is a new creation, the Creator begot darkness. Darkness aims us in the right direction and connects us to the Creator.
We feel darkness in the friends because we are different from one another. However, this isn’t darkness, but the reverse side of the light, aiming us toward the Creator. No ally is more loyal than darkness. Grab hold of it because only it will lead you to the truth.
All of one’s actions should be for bestowal and the benefit of the neighbor—this is the condition for man’s complete adhesion with the Creator. One must attune oneself only to bestowal, in order to exert a good influence, to contribute a positive force. We will then draw nearer to the Creator, feeling Him as a partner more and more.
If I include myself in the group and receive from it desires that are higher than my individual, egoistic ones, then I start to see constantly rising or upper worlds. All of my work for the environment is work for myself. That is how I elevate myself and grow.
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I have to be in a group that will help me change my desires to higher ones. I will then experience myself as lower and will therefore aspire to become higher, to rise and see higher and higher worlds. Every picture that I see is called “the world.”
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My influence on the environment determines what I will receive from it, what the group will be like, what my world will be like, and what I will be like. The environment is what the Creator depicts for me. Every person has his own picture—we cannot combine or compare them. By influencing the environment, I thereby influence myself.
The whole world is my desire. In it I see precisely my state; this is my world. If I change my desires or qualities—the world that I imagine will change, and that means I must understand and take interest in the world’s correction, fulfill its needs, and pray for the world.
I annul what I consider egoistic in me—my “self,” and I accept from the Creator what He makes altruistic in me—His “self.” Thus:
1. I annul myself completely.
2. I accept the Creator’s qualities instead.
All of this happens in the group. I invite you to spiritual conception.
When one proceeds “with closed eyes” till the end—this is a spiritual embryo, with limited abilities, meaning “fury and judgements” since one proceeds contrary to one’s knowledge and feelings, overcoming fury and suffering.
Annul yourself to the upper one—and the upper one will make you into what He wishes.
In a state of confusion, one must come out of oneself and understand how to connect outside of oneself with others, until feeling a new reality there. The entire method is: how to come out of yourself to the friends. On the way to them, you will find the light. They come out to you, and you to them: that is how we reciprocally help one another.
The upper forces give us clues and flirt with us. Everything around us is fabricated by the Creator. We will see how He works inside us. There is nothing anywhere around. The reality we perceive is inside each one of us. Afterward we will understand that each one of us does not exist separately, but there is one common reality—the “Kli,” HaVaYaH.
If I feel lost, this is the Creator preparing me for my new state. I have to close my eyes and go toward connection with the friends. The Creator will resist, persuading me that there is nothing to be found there because they are the same as me, and possibly even worse.
The Creator broke us into parts and is between us. To reveal Him, we must connect to one another. To the extent of the pressure, intensity, and sensitivity of our unity and aspiration toward each other, we will start to feel the Creator. By developing love for the creatures we thereby develop love for the Creator.
Realization of evil is the realization that the entire system of Adam shattered into the tiniest fragments and egoism appeared between them. When we correct ourselves now, we don’t eradicate egoism, but create connections among us in spite of it, which are hence 620 stronger than they were before.
Think about how you will absorb the quality of bestowal, love, connection, movement toward it, in order to assemble the common system of Adam into one single whole. We already were assembled in that system once, but without egoism. Egoism entered afterward.
The Creator “created evil, but He created light for its correction.”
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The Method of Attainment, Undistorted by Egoism
Question: All theories of the management of nature are very diverse and are a combination of opposites. Is it in the combination of opposites, precisely between them, that the sensation of our world, or the Creator, is revealed?
Answer: No, I do not think so, because all these theories are egoistic. Man invented monotheism, polytheism, etc., based on his egoism without correcting it.
The only theory that has the right to exist is when a person exits himself, rising above himself, beginning to feel others instead of himself, feeling what happens inside the others, outside of himself. Then, one gets a truly objective impression of who one is, where one is, and what is around him. This “theory” is called “the method of Kabbalah,” which allows us to gain a correct impression of the universe, undistorted by our egoism.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 12/10/18
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