Everything happens for the creatures’ benefit. Growing egoism, Pharaoh, does not allow us to do anything for the Creator’s sake. One is compelled to ask the Creator for forces to bestow. Thus a person enters a war with the ego.
In response to his efforts to ask the Creator, he receives forces of bestowal, the Soul. Thus the Creator burdens one’s heart so one will wish for the Soul.

Man has no desire to bestow. For he exists in animate egoism. But the Creator gives the desire and the fulfillment. This happens in exile. There we receive egoism and desire to climb out of it. But only the Creator can liberate them. Hence they will have to ask Him.
That is how they will rise out of egoism.

If a person feels the need to please the Creator, he understands that the Creator’s only desire is for the creatures to receive pleasure from Him. He then asks the Creator to give him pleasure. For the Creator enjoys only when the creatures feel pleasure.

Growth of egoism and difficulties is to create a need to receive help in the form of upper light, to fight greater egoism. It turns out that precisely the realization of slavery in egoism elicits the need to acquire upper light.
Hence it is written that Pharaoh brings us closer to the Creator!

At first we are in egoism, Pharaoh’s rule, but we do not feel that we are enslaved. Then the Creator brings us closer to Him, and we feel our difference from Him, we feel that we are in egoism’s rule. For there must be realization of egoism’s evil, and then its correction.

Like the serpent who convinced Eve to switch the intention to give for intention to receive, so in Egypt—work in exile is in overcoming egoism, sweetly coaxing one: “do, but for yourself, not for the sake of bestowal, the Creator, above knowledge”—and then everything will be clear and easy for you!

Work in “Egypt” is called PAREH or PE-RAH – sweet mouth. Thus egoists persuade Israe-El, those who aspire to the Creator, that it’s possible to be only in actions of bestowal without intentions of bestowal.
Hence the work of Isra-El in intention is difficult, against egoism, and seems to be regression.

Egoism resists movement toward bestowal, leaving no energy for acts for the sake of bestowal. When man sees the extent to which he is immersed in egoism, evil, and he has no force to resist egoism, all he can do is cry out to the Creator.
In response to this cry, he receives the soul—the quality of bestowal.

The Egyptians persuaded them that the intention of bestowal is not necessary. Since efforts in egoism bring joy of the forthcoming reward. Due to this it is difficult to be in the intention “for the Creator’s sake,” with no reward. This brought problems to Isra-El, those who aspire to the Creator rather than to reward.

And they cried out from work in slavery, from work of attaining the quality of bestowal, since egoism (Egyptians and Pharaoh) awakened thoughts against bestowal, for reward. For them to work in egoism.
And it was difficult for them to object because that is how our entire world is built—the religious and the secular.

“Matsa” is from the words “Mar” and “Meriva,” quarrel. Man’s quarrel with the Creator. Man’s complaints to the Creator: why is it so difficult to attain the quality of bestowal?
Moreover: the more efforts he makes to attain the quality of bestowal, the further he moves away from it.
Hence he feels bitterness (Mar) in his efforts.

If it was easy for man to attain the quality of bestowal, he would not wish to advance further, feeling that he is in bestowal, in adhesion. But the Creator wishes to reveal the entire system of His relationship with us. Hence egoism can only be defeated with the Creator’s help.

The Egyptians, while developing egoism in man, did not allow him to perform acts of bestowal, leading to adhesion with the Creator. By that they demonstratively enslaved him, letting him feel exile in egoism, the impossibility of resisting the rule of the Egyptians, of coming out of slavery, exile.

Spiritual work (Avodat HaShem) is work, efforts, for the Creator’s sake. The result of this work is adhesion of the person performing this work with the Creator. In the process of bestowal, we receive the correcting light into the will to bestow, and then—the fulfilling light.

If no questions arise in a person about his intentions, for whose sake does he act, then he exists like everyone.
But if questions arise, “What for,” from his ego, by that egoism itself compels him to go against it—and thus brings on its own demise.
This is “help against oneself.”

To the question of the evil son (the quality of egoism in a person), he replies that he wishes to be in the quality of bestowal above calculations about himself—in faith above reason.
But thanks to your questions, I reveal the understanding that the Creator’s path is in faith (bestowal) above knowledge (egoistic calculation).

Moses is the quality of faith, bestowal, in man, OH. This is the quality of a leader, shepherd, the intention to bestow over all of man’s actions. This is the only quality we need to be in spirituality, in equivalence with the Creator.
The degree of Moses, faith, bestowal in man determines his degree.

The main part of the entire correction is exodus from egoism, Egypt, into the quality of bestowal. Other degrees are just advancements. On each degree we must awaken the joy of redemption from egoistic desires. To this extent we reveal joy and gratitude

Egoism cannot bear the suffering of being belittled, for it is founded on pride. Hence, when it sees that the friends in the group are more successful than it, this elicits forces of growth and ascent in it. This egoistic nature must be utilized intelligently!

Egoism is inherently proud and envious. It wishes not for its necessities, but for what it sees that others have. Hence it can develop infinitely. Everything depends only on the use of the qualities that the Creator has given us, precisely for His revelation.

The condition of redemption from egoism is that all the nations will know Kabbalah, “And the earth will be filled with knowledge of the Creator.” This was the condition for exodus from Egypt, when Pharaoh attained the Creator and permitted the exodus, He called Moses and ordered him to leave to work for the Creator.
(Torah, Shmot 12:31, Baal HaSulam, “The Messiah’s Horn”)
Since there must be realization of the necessity, and then attainment of the desired.

We must attain a state where we will discover that the ego itself drives us out of itself since it has realized that we are loyal to our goal. It calls Moses and Aaron at night and accompanies them out of Egypt. Hence there is an entire Torah portion, “Vaishlah” about this, that “The Pharaoh sent them.”
#Zohar for the People, Shmot 129

Two paths lead to the goal: a forced, long one or a short, preferred one with our participation. The choice is ours. The goal is achieved by a full request (in quality and quantity) for freedom from egoism. Therefore, the quality of connection in the group determines salvation.
All work in Egypt is in a group!

Freedom is possible only when one feels in slavery, exile. In inability to free oneself.
In crying for help in complete despair to free oneself.
Then the help of the Creator comes to him.
Check: what state are you in?

Egoism does not let you do anything without self-benefit and there is a feeling of exile from bestowal and suffering in the measure of desire to work for the Creator.
With increasing efforts, one starts screaming about salvation from egoism.
For liberation is against nature and thus only the Creator frees.

Malchut (point) is the 4th stage of the 4th stage of Direct Light, agrees with what is happening and wants to use the preceding qualities received from the Creator so that by analyzing all the states, even opposite to the Creator, to confirm that there is nothing better than being similar to Him.

A breakage means that every quality that the Creator relates to the creation (nine Sefirot – nine qualities) changes to its opposite in the creation, becomes negative, as if proceeding not from the Creator but from the opposite of the Creator.

A person must constantly explain to himself that there are no other changes beside the internal, there is no different world but only a new perception within himself, according to the new qualities he has acquired.
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Writings of Rabash, Vol. 1, Article 14, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror” (1987)

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Slave labor is a constant opposition to the recurring thoughts against unity and bestowal, along with feelings of bitterness and death in egoism (Maror), thoughts aiming to keep a person in slavery to egoism, which must constantly be resisted. Until a prayer for freedom arises…
#Passover

When you cannot do anything alone, even beg the Creator for help, all you can do then is rely on the group’s help: you must annul yourself to the group completely, without all of your thoughts and feelings—and will receive a new spiritual state from the group!

If while on the path you feel completely indifferent to coming closer to the Creator and you cannot pull yourself out of this state of exile, as if you are in a state of being unaware of the Creator, not sensing the separation—all you can do is pray to feel the separation—this will bring you back to life…

To the extent of understanding that closeness with the Creator occurs in the measure of similarity to Him, bestowing to Him and taking nothing for oneself in order to please Him—one must acquire the quality of bestowal, faith in the greatness of the Creator, annulling oneself, and starting to realize the need for descents to appreciate the ascents.

The Creator’s concealment is necessary for the soul’s development. Sensations of pain, separation, confusion, concealment, grudges against the Creator—it is forbidden to take offense and curse the Creator for this.
One must believe, in spite of this, that these are sensations inside of egoism and are for our sake. Because the Creator could have eliminated negative thoughts and feelings…

The need for our development by faith above reason, bestowal, is for our desires to become unlimited and be able to attain adhesion with the Creator. In desires that are restricted by egoism, we cannot become even an embryo, included in the Creator, and we certainly cannot attain full adhesion – equivalence with the Creator.

The Tree of Knowledge is a demand to reveal the Creator in the ego, knowledge, rather than in bestowal – faith. But its fruits are forbidden. Yet if the Creator’s attainment happened in the open, in knowledge – egoism, everyone would be Kabbalists, carrying out the Creator’s desires.
But the problem lies in restricting attainments in knowledge…

A person is ready to go toward bestowal but sees that he involuntarily continues on the egoistic path. After reaching despair many times, he is ready to leave the path. He cannot go by faith – bestowal, above – against knowledge, in spite of the states.
But if he doesn’t leave the path, like a chained slave, the efforts accumulate and he comes out to freedom.

Law: in a state of ascent, when feeling the Creator’s greatness, we annul to Him without any reason, in complete agreement. But we cannot enjoy adhesion with Him and the fact that He brought us closer to Him.
Hence we need rejections, in order to appreciate the closeness, to find life and pleasure in them.

#Abraham: how does one attain the upper world, the quality of bestowal?
Creator: through exile into the world of egoism, opposite to it.
There one acquires the will to bestow to the Creator and asks for the Light that Reforms.
One takes egoistic desires from Egypt and receives altruistic intentions from the Creator.
#passover

Descents are given in order to appreciate ascents, but descents can be appreciated only when one is in ascent. They are given by the Creator in order to appreciate one from the other, the force of light from darkness.
Hence there is no redemption from egoism, Geula, without attaining bitterness of exile from it, Galut. The difference between them lies in the Creator’s revelation.
#passover2019

One who wishes to act by the Creator’s greatness, correcting himself to attain equivalence to the Creator, needs His increased greatness. The greatness is given by the Creator to bring the person closer, while the person himself can only act egoistically.
Hence annulling yourself is salvation from exile, and it is done by the Creator!

Going by reason means being in the sin of the Tree of Knowledge. This is revealed as difficulty of going against reason and the question of why should I even bestow to the Creator instead of myself?
#Rabash, Why Do We Ask the 4 Questions Precisely on #Passover Eve?

Concealment is necessary so we can receive from the Creator without shame. But it is only possible when receiving for the sake of the Creator, of bestowal.
Kabbalah (Torat Emet – the true Torah) is given so we can rise above egoism, which separates us from the Creator, and achieve similarity to Him, giving while receiving.

All the efforts to come out of #egoism: what for, why? For ourselves—are egoistic. For the Creator, so one must increase the importance of the Creator so that all the efforts would be for His sake—this is what takes us out of exile.

All the spiritual work is in the prayer (MAN). To do so, the effort (work) must be against the ego, free of its power. Realizing that one cannot leave the power of egoism through his own efforts, the desire to give to the Creator is born, the futility of it is realized, and the prayer is born.

All the suffering of exile in egoism (Egypt) was from the feeling of inability to leave the power of egoism (Pharaoh) to freedom, to be in the intention to do everything for the sake of the Creator. So, in exile, the true desire (Kli) was revealed—prayer for the Creator’s help.

It is in the ascent, the exit from slavery to egoism that one tastes the Maror (bitter greens), because especially in the ascent can one taste the bitterness—the taste of the fall.
After all, light comes out of darkness.
It turns out that bitterness is sweetened with an ascent. Light is enhanced by darkness—this is the correction of darkness.
#Passover

Until egoism has been fully revealed, it cannot be eradicated—it’s impossible to receive the force to eradicate it from above. Hence all efforts against egoism reveal it even more—until the entire force of egoism is revealed and the full desire to erase it—then the Creator destroys it!

With the manifestation of the intention “for the Creator’s sake,” egoism moves away. One discerns the extent to which it rules in man and how far man is from the Creator. This change seems like separation from the Creator, but it is growing closer since one starts to feel a need for the Creator’s help.

Until one tries to act with the intention “for the sake of bestowal,” he doesn’t reveal egoism’s resistance. But when one realizes the meaning of bestowal, “not for one’s own sake”, the expression of the desire to eradicate egoism, the intention “for one’s sake,” egoism’s total resistance is expressed to not allow itself to be eradicated.

In the beginning of exile we feel egoism’s rule, followed by the impossibility of coming out of it. We discern the meaning of bestowing “not for your own sake.” Although one wishes to act for the Creator’s sake, he sees that he cannot, but justifies his lack of intention, and does not feel very distant from the Creator. This is the beginning…
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We love you as you are”, “Look at the others and see how successful they are,” “You have nothing to fear, go for it”—what advice is right and what is harmful? Eight phrases we use, and the correct position of the wisdom of Kabbalah towards them.

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Question: Should we constantly cultivate the importance of the principle “There is none else besides Him”?

Answer: If the friends in the group think about how none of them should forget to identify the Creator as a root cause of their states, then you will really help each other.

This stage is called mutual guarantee; it begins from the fact that we simply mechanically want to help each other keep ourselves in the thought that “There is none else besides Him.” At the same time, each of us thinks about the other.

When we all think this way about each other together, we “turn on” the mutual guarantee and it works. In this case, each member of the group remembers more often that the Creator is the source of his or her thoughts and feelings, and they begin to form, to connect with each other into one network.

By constantly helping the friends remember that we are mutually included into each other and connected to the Creator, we try to identify the Creator as our common source. Each of us then becomes connected with others in such a way that the signal from the Creator passes through each one to everyone else. This is another level of connection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/19

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Question: Who is the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is the upper force that includes in itself all the other forces of the world.

Question: It is written in the original sources: “It is impossible to understand the Creator without having experienced Him.” Is this right?

Answer: Yes, because everything we understand, we learn from sensations—like a child who puts everything in his mouth in order to touch, to feel. For him, taste is the most important receptor, the most important organ of sensation. In the same way, we should experience everything in our five senses including sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste.

When we feel something in them, it all assembles into a precise system and all our sciences originate from it. In addition, we complement our senses with tools that expand the range of our natural sensory organs: binoculars, microscopes, telescopes, etc.

However, there are forces in the universe that our senses do not perceive. The science of Kabbalah lets us develop an additional organ of sensation that includes the same five senses, but on a different level.

Exploring their nature, we reveal their common source, called “the Creator,” and begin to attain how they affect us, how they determine all conditions, forces, and circumstances in which we exist. Then, we already study the system of forces that determines our life.

So begins the conscious existence of man, when we already know what has been, what will be, why it has been and why it will be, whether we can change something in the future, etc. That is, life becomes not only conscious, but also manageable. This is the subject and the purpose of the science of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “The Essence of the Science of Kabbalah, Part 3” 11/12/18

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New Life 215 – Sibling Relationships, Part 2
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What is jealousy and sibling rivalry, and how do we teach children through games and workshops to use such qualities to create a relationship in which personal satisfaction and mutual giving exist? Jealousy between siblings is natural and can help children develop. We educate children by giving them an artificial system of behavior in which to build a second nature. Children can be rewarded for efforts to connect and be considerate.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 215 – Sibling Relationships, Part 2,” 7/25/13

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Writings of Rabash, Vol. 2, Article 22, “Why Are Four Questions Asked Specifically on Passover Night?” (1989)

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