To avoid descents, one must create them on one’s own in any state, by asking the Creator to come closer to Him—that is, by asking to advance toward the goal. And if one doesn’t ask for it ahead of time, he receives a descent so he will wish for that and ask to come closer.

One should compare the states of suffering and pleasure—and be grateful for redemption from suffering. And it doesn’t matter how much he receives—what matters is how much he appreciates what he receives from the Creator. To this degree, the sensation of what he receives grows, along with one’s closeness to the Creator.

The feeling that one doesn’t advance and even regresses is given by the Creator deliberately so one will feel suffering, lack of adhesion with the Creator. A person thereby creates a Kli inside of him for adhesion—the desire to fulfill the Creator.

Josephus Flavius: There’s no point in fighting with the Jews—they will kill one another anyway!
Indeed, if our enemies left us alone, this is what would happen in Israeli society. It’s what happened during the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples. By directing all our forces at the internal war, we would quickly destroy ourselves!

The Creator operates on a person from outside, through the world, and through inside, through one’s inner nature. We are between two forces in order to reach correction, perception of the Creator’s governance as perfect. Until we balance the Creator’s inner and external forces.

I see around me a reflection of myself, my faults.
I see all of reality and the connections between its parts, as imperfect—this shows how uncorrected I am.
All of reality is perfect. Only man requires correction.
But man can be corrected only through his environment.

We mustn’t correct anything in reality except our perception of it.
We see the world according to our own qualities.
Hence we have to correct our view of creation.
Creation itself, which appears before us, is absolutely perfect.
#Peace in the world is the perfection that we must attain.
From Twitter, 7/19/19

Related Material:
My Thoughts On Twitter 7/9/19
My Thoughts On Twitter 7/7/19
My Thoughts On Twitter 7/6/19

Filed under: Thoughts on Twitter | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Baal HaSulam writes that in the future corrected society every nation will maintain its corporeal traditions because they emerged from different spiritual roots of 70 nations. There should be love in the relations between people, but its externally expressed form will correspond to the mentality of each nation. Most importantly, a person should express love—in this, he follows not his own opinion and understanding, but another person’s perception of love, and he adjusts himself to it. If I, a Jew, want to treat a Frenchman, for whom the most delicious food is frogs, then I will look for kosher frogs for him.¹

We are obliged to unite not because of the fear of the Creator or the government, but because of the integral connection revealed in nature more and more every day. If we approach such a connection, we will feel good, but if not, then it will be bad for us. Nature demands us to unite and there is nowhere to escape from it.

Today there is fear of the danger of the imminent disappearance of life on earth because of climate warming, ozone holes, and high methane gas concentrations in the atmosphere. But all this will not happen, we will suffocate, but we will not die. We will be forced to go through all the suffering until we fulfill the terms of nature. If unity is embedded in the root of creation, in its ultimate goal, then we will certainly get to it; the only question is the price that we will pay for it.²

The law of the society of the future: everyone receives the existential necessities in order to give a hundred percent of themselves to serve society, living on an equal footing with everyone. This is the law of mutual guarantee (Arvut) implemented in corporeal form. We are obliged to it not by the socialist system or philosophical convictions, but by the law of nature, which we must fulfill. If we do not fulfill it, then it will be very bad for us and we will still be forced to obey, but only by receiving blows. We have the opportunity to walk in the path of the light (Achishena).

It is predicted that in fifty years the Earth will be lifeless and burned out: there will be no ozone, no oxygen, no life. But we should not worry about the ozone layer—leave this concern to the Creator. We need to take care of implementing the laws that we are able to fulfill, that is, the law of love of one’s neighbor. By this, we will put all of nature in order.

Over the coming years, we will witness how all our attempts to normalize the environment by taking care of flowers, trees, plants, and disappearing coral reefs, and prohibiting fishing are useless. We can decide that from today onward we will not do anything that could harm the globe, and tomorrow we will discover more and more problems: the financial crisis, the collapse of society.

Nature must lead us to the decision to unite. Therefore, we will suffocate without oxygen, burn under holes in the ozone layer, suffer from volcanic eruptions and hurricanes in order to realize that there is no choice, that only through our connection can we calm nature.

Humanity is the highest level of existence in nature. We are all connected together and if we reach balance on the human level, then all other levels will balance automatically, from top to bottom. But if hatred and confusion reign on our top level, then no matter how much we invest in the lower levels trying to preserve the environment, nothing will help. No matter how many committees we open or how much money we invest, everything will be useless. Only one thing will help: the mutual guarantee between us, the correct social education.³
From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/19, Building The Future Society
1 Minute 10:40
2 Minute 12:40
3 Minute 17:00

Related Material:
Society Of The Future: Glory Of Bestowal
New Life #522 – From A New Society To A New Family
The Future Society

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: Is it right to prepare myself in advance to be in one thought about the Creator, the group, and the ten? Suppose tomorrow the usual work week begins. I know that if I do not prepare myself, then the normal working day, with all its problems, will just take it away.

Answer: What you are preparing yourself for is your business, your decision. But preparation is always needed in any case and no matter what for. If a person does something, he must prepare for it.

As soon as you wake up, the best thing is to direct your thoughts to the fact that there is none else besides Him, and then your day will be mainly dedicated only to strengthening unity with the Creator who absolutely controls you in every way and at every moment. Then, inside this you can insert all your earthly problems.
[247331]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

Related Material:
Advice On How To Get Up On The Right Foot
Preparation Is The Key To Success In The Study
How Not To Fall Asleep In Class

Filed under: Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

New Life 1115 – A Formula For The Right Connection
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The goal of human development is to achieve a perfect, inclusive, loving connection between everyone and to feel the power of the Creator or Elokim (God) in it. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the right connection between the parts is the structure of the ten Sefirot, HaVaYaH. Connection can only be achieved when each individual transcends his egoistic nature that wants to control and oppress others. Through connection, a new way of relating will be born in which a higher emotion and mind will dominate rather than the mind and emotion of the level of the individual. When we truly desire mutual connection, a higher, complete, and eternal level of existence is revealed in which everyone is satisfied and new horizons open up.
[247854]
From KabTV’s “New Life 1115 – A Formula For The Right Connection,”5/30/19

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Filed under: New Life | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Lesson Preparation

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World” 

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 76

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3 Audio

Filed under: Audio Version of the Blog | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Only by feeling, while in descents, what an egoistic brute he is, completely ruled by his egoism, can a person appreciate being redeemed from egoism by the Creator, and understand how to ask the Creator for his soul’s salvation so he won’t be submerged into egoism any longer—so the Creator will grant him complete redemption.

Until one attains the Creator’s revelation, his exertion in this increases the Creator’s concealment, with the aim of eliciting additional efforts in the person, required to reach the full measure of efforts necessary for revelation.

By working on himself, a person reaches the feeling of emptiness—a consequence of the Creator coming closer to him. Emptiness is the sensation of the difference between the qualities of man and the Creator. One can fill this sensation of emptiness only with the Creator’s greatness above reason—and that’s what he must ask of the Creator!

If we don’t increase love, it will disappear, like any natural phenomenon.
Repeating causes the pleasure to be reduced.
Thus we must constantly increase our desire for one another.
Then love can go on forever.
Hence the most important thing is to know how to constantly renew the desire.
That’s what Kabbalah is about.

We have to be fulfilled by our prayer. When asking from the Creator, we do not expect to receive anything. The plea to Him will in itself be the fulfillment. In our request to the Creator, we want to saddle our egoism (screen and Ohr Hozer – OH).
In OH I feel the image of the Creator that I’ve built. Since the Creator Himself is unattainable.

If I receive fulfillment from the one I love, then love quickly disappears and can degenerate to hate. Love means that I constantly develop a yearning for my beloved. Then I can be fulfilled by them forever. This yearning is called Reflected Light.
From Twitter, 7/9/19

Related Material:
My Thoughts On Twitter 7/7/19
My Thoughts On Twitter 7/6/19
My Thoughts On Twitter 7/5/19

Filed under: Thoughts on Twitter | Add Comment / Ask Question →

In the state of ascent, we should study the previous descent, and in the state of descent, we should imagine ascent. The whole world is a concealment and that is why it is called so: “Olam” – world, from the word “Alama” – concealment. Therefore, we need to try to imagine ourselves in the upper, exalted state. After all, no changes occurred in all of reality beside the concealment through which the Creator plays with us. He intentionally created the concealment so that we would appreciate the revelation, the state of adhesion with the Creator and existence in the world of absolute good.

We must make efforts to return to this picture by removing the veil from our eyes and from our senses. This concealment is called the evil inclination, our egoism. If a person tries to feel like he or she is in a perfect state, as if in the end of correction, yearning for the revelation of this state with one’s entire being, then one advances to it.

Then we would have more strength, energy, and uplifted spirit to reach the state of truth, that is, the revelation of the fact that there is none else besides the Creator, good that does good, who fills the entire universe. We are in adhesion and connection with Him, and only some cloud obscures our senses and does not let us feel it.

We should not give in to this concealment, the egoistic fog, deliberately created by the Creator, but rather we should try to dispel it. We seek to lift the veil from our eyes and senses in order to feel corrected, connected with each other by love within which the Creator and our connection with Him are revealed to the same extent to which we are connected with each other. We should live so that through the concealment we would reveal the good by dispelling the fog and removing the veil of concealment.¹

If concealment disappeared and the Creator were revealed, we would become angels, animals, instinctively fulfilling the laws of nature, the orders of the Creator. Concealment helps us become human beings, rise to the degree above animals, because it does not let us keep the laws of the Creator unconsciously, but makes us live according to our own laws of concealment. That is why in revelation, we ourselves should bring back the concealment in order to remain separated from the Creator and keep His laws not instinctively but above the concealment for the sake of the greatness of the Creator.

Concealment turns into our screen above which we yearn to resemble (Edomeh) the Creator and then become human, Adam. The Creator does not force us to do this—we ourselves want to become like the Creator. Concealment turns into both the concealing screen and the revealing screen for us.²
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/25/19, To Learn From the Descent in the State of Ascent
1 Minute 0:20
2 Minute 9:52

Related Material:
A Descent Is Really An Ascent
Descent – Ascent
Descent Is Only In Ascent!

Filed under: Daily Kabbalah Lesson | Add Comment / Ask Question →

Question: What does it mean to think about the Creator?

Answer: Thinking about the Creator means seeing the single force that presents itself to you behind all objects, actions, thoughts, and events.

The whole world, everything that affects your five senses, everything that you have before your eyes, it is all the Creator. He simply reveals Himself to you this way in order to tune you to Him through all your senses.
[247778]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/2/19

Related Material:
Single Source Of All Thoughts And Feelings
Living With Thoughts About The Creator
Thoughts And Feelings

Filed under: Spiritual Work | Add Comment / Ask Question →

New Life 1114 – The Art Of Connection In Nature
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

All interconnectedness in nature derive from one central connection between the Creator and the created being. The Creator is the power of bestowal, a spiritual force that glues everything together. He bestows to the spark that exists in every created being and obligates each one to accept the general law of nature and connect with others as a single body. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to achieve our ultimate purpose, which is a comprehensive, perfected, mutual connection that results in advanced levels of matter, energy, and spirit.
[247364]
From KabTV’s “New Life 1114 – The Art Of Connection In Nature,” 5/30/19

Video: Play Now | Download

Audio: Play Now | Download

Filed under: New Life | Add Comment / Ask Question →