Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 2/5/19
Posted on February 5th, 2019 at 7:00 am
Questions and Answers with Dr. Michael Laitman
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Since every person-nation-country undergoes unique changes, unity among them is possible only if it’s built above their qualities and changes—in the quality of bestowal to others, from oneself and for the sake of the common goal. Otherwise there won’t be any union.
This is what we see in the modern world.
#israel #election
Being enslaved by egoism/Pharaoh, I can’t sign a union with the Creator, I am not free. But I can exit the Pharaoh’s power and become the Creator’s slave. My will: whose power to choose. The transition under the Creator’s authority occurs by signing a union…
Myself – the Group – the Creator.
The union is the connection between my I and the Creator. It is achieved through unification with the friends. In the center of the ten the connection with the Creator is revealed: I (Isra El) – the Torah – the Creator are one. Unification is called the Union …
… and it determines each spiritual state.
Bnei Baruch @Kabbalahinfo is a link between the Creator and humanity. This is our mission. Hence our ascents and descents can’t affect the process of correction, our individual states. We must ensure the Creator’s connection to the nation of Israel and all creatures. This is our role.
The Creator is the upper force and He clothes in the form of the whole creation.
I am positioned between the Creator and creation. I must absorb desires of all the creatures and fill them with the Creator’s light. Hence I perceive creation as my own soul ….
… which I must bring to adhesion with the Creator.
Understanding one’s mission alleviates despair and gives patience to teach people. I am fulfilling a mission and I won’t back down. The Creator sets up various states for me, but I perceive everything as help to keep moving and I’m not impressed by results.
I am fulfilling the role, “Anything but leave.”
Isra-El (the role fulfilled by Bnei Baruch) has no other obligation in the world besides bringing the creatures closer to the Creator, serving as a conduit between them. In this state they shouldn’t experience any turbulence—only constant fulfillment of their mission …
… similar to taking care of a baby.
System of 10 Sefirot:
—its top part: Keter-Hochma rules
—its lower part: desire of ZA-Malchut rules
In the center of Bina —WE connect both parts. Hence we must be:
—filled with the Creator’s aspiration to delight the creatures
—filled with concern so the creatures will want this.
If we look deeper, we will see that there is no nation of Israel or nations of the world—it’s the Creator’s game with us from two sides: the Creator from above and the Creator from below in the form of the nations of the world. So “There’s none else besides the Creator.”
I am between two forces as a point connecting them. My task is to unite everything in the Creator.
“I awaken the dawn”—when I awaken the need for bestowal, the light of Hassadim, darkness dissipates. It’s dark if I see emptiness in my desire for pleasure. But it doesn’t matter to me what condition I am in, if only to be in bestowal, in the light of Hassadim …
… so long as it pleases the Creator.
If a person aims at the Creator, all of his fears and doubts come from the Creator Himself, and only in order for the person to turn to Him with a request to find cover under His wing (screen).
Exactly when you’re experiencing darkness, there’s no need to overcome the desire for pleasure—there’s nothing, nothing left to enjoy! The Creator gave the opportunity called “darkness”—when I feel nothing, want nothing, value nothing.
It is in this state that it is easiest for me to ask for desires to bestow.
Before coming closer to the friends and the Creator, we feel forces rejecting connection. But by correcting them with a plea to the Creator and upper light, their actions of separation transform to the act of convergence, and upon their opposite acts …
… light is revealed instead of darkness and love instead of hatred.
All states come from the Creator; hence, I am happy and grateful for them
Then I feel that this isn’t darkness at all, but an opportunity to bestow.
My bestowal lies in that I don’t demand anything besides the smallest point of unity with the Creator, and no more.
Slowing #economic growth is the law of #social development. It cannot be prevented and leads to political upheavals.
But it is possible to prepare society for new relationships:
1. rational consumption
2. proper connection of people and education at the #workplace.
#futureofwork
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The sin of Adam at the tree of knowledge did not affect the state of Katnut (smallness) that was already corrected before the shattering. Therefore, the upper part of the worlds of BYA, created at the birth of Adam, did not break. It turns out that the upper system around us is more corrected than us who are inside of it. Nature is more corrected than the human.
However, a person has a more elevated task: to become independent, to become a person similar to the Creator. Nature does not have such lofty goals since it consists of desires of bestowal; it is corrected.
This is what we see in our world. If it were not for people spoiling nature, it would act according to its perfect laws, which do not have any freedom of choice. This is what eventually helps us reach correction in both our world and the spiritual world.
The inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature are corrected, and only the inner system called “man” is what corrupts them. The inner part is shattered and it projects all its corruption on the external system, on inanimate matter, plants, and animals. When we correct ourselves, then obviously the whole world will be corrected.1
All inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature are corrected. If there were no human, the wolf would live peacefully alongside the lamb. Yet, since the human corrupted everything with his shattering, the wolf devours the lamb. It is all because of man. Without him, there are only bestowing desires in nature and the wolf can walk next to the lamb as if in the Garden of Eden, and a little child can lead them (that is, a man in the state of smallness).
After the final correction, even a grown-up man who attained the Creator will only be in bestowal in relation to others, and therefore, he will be called “a little child.”2
From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/19, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, Item 300
1 Minute 30:10
2 Minute 37:05
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Question: What is the qualitative component of a request?
Answer: It is the feeling of aversion of egoism as the enemy.
Question: What is this phenomenon that a person in our times suddenly begins to speak Hebrew fluently without knowing the meaning of the words and even with rhymes? Where in the Torah is it possible to find similar cases? Does this surprise you?
Answer: No, I have encountered this phenomenon. It is the manifestation of the upper Light in him. Incidentally, I haven’t been able to master Hebrew for 50 years now.
Question: Is it possible to relate the degree of fear to not harm connection with a friend to the greatness of the fear of the Creator?
Answer: It is the same thing!
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New Life 1083 – Living In The Present
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe
The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches that there is no past or future, only the present. These days, people measure the value of the past and the future according to the level of importance they attribute based on their will to enjoy. We think about what matters to us. In order to achieve full contact with reality and with the upper force, we need to work in order to connect with each other in groups of ten. When each member of the group wants to fulfill the desires of the others, a new reality above time and place is revealed. We begin to understand why the world exists and the role of humans within it. Each one begins to feel like a baby in his mother’s lap and all he wants to do is to connect to the upper system that is the source of all life.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1083 – Living In The Present,” 12/20/18
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We must connect the whole darkness, all the nights, and demand the light of bestowal upon everything, rise above the darkness. Let the night remain, but I want to be above it. In the light of bestowal I am no longer in the dark, I can bestow, act.
That is how night is replaced by day, through a change of my attitude to the darkness, from reception to bestowal.
There is no state more favorable to ask for bestowal than darkness. Because I have nothing! Even “bestowing for the sake of reception, acquiring the life force” is already moving toward bestowal. Therefore, we must appreciate the darkness:
“And there was evening and there was morning—one day.” so the light of bestowal, Hassadim, will become the light of day.
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What is faith above reason? Within reason means according to our understanding, according to the mind of a person of this world, one’s egoism. According to it, one understands, feels, makes decisions, and acts, which is called: “according to my opinion.” Yet, above my opinion is the opinion of the upper, and it means I must exchange my opinion for the opinion of the Creator.
But I do not know the opinion of the Creator; it reaches me through my ten. If I am connected to it, then by gradually annulling myself and integrating in the friends, I will exchange my opinion for theirs. This is not just a simple exchange of one thing for another, otherwise I would become an angel, that is, a spiritual beast. I perform this action above my reason, keeping my opinion and rising above it. That is, I occupy two levels, and in the difference between them, I find the understanding of a spiritual person.
Nothing gets destroyed and nothing disappears from the person’s senses. Instead, he acquires another, additional nature of the Creator, and then obtains faith above reason. He has his reason and faith above it, and he exists between them. The Creator did not create our desire to enjoy in vain. It is the foundation that accompanies us all the time so that “The darkness will shine as light.” The darkness of my egoism, of my opinion, supports the opinion that is above it. It is from the contradiction between them that I attain the greatness of the Creator upon the background of the lowliness of the created beings.
We do not cancel ourselves and do not lose anything in ourselves. Firmly standing on both feet, we build the middle line, and only in this way do we position ourselves as a man, Adam, similar to the Creator. Everything in this created being is received from the Creator, but according to the decision of a person himself.1
The Creator gives me an adapter that connects me with Him—it is the ten. This adapter is very complicated, but there is no choice, I must connect it and use it, no matter how many years it takes. I must annul myself or I will not connect to the group, because my plug does not fit its socket. The Creator is inside the friends and He helps me connect with them more and more until I start to reveal Him within them. I begin to work with the Creator through the friends because they are my soul and the Creator is the Light that fills this soul.
The main thing is to integrate with the environment. I then begin to receive opinions, desires, and thoughts not just from the upper degree, but from a completely new quality. There is faith above reason inside the group—a new perception, not inherent to a person of this world.
Therefore, there is no choice but to annul ourselves and enter the group, leaving behind all our experiences. We are talking about an adult with a lot of life experience and knowledge, but he makes an embryo out of himself, a zero relative to the group. When one starts receiving knowledge from it and starts growing, then on the basis of one’s previous qualities, thoughts, and desires of the former self, one builds faith above reason. One cannot be without the other.2
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/19, Writings of Rabash, Vol. 1, Articles “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 21 “Concerning Above Reason” (1986)
1 Minute 00:30
2 Minute 33:00
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