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Posted on January 7th, 2019 at 9:55 pm
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Exercise: Everyone cancels himself, his self-love before the group, the ten—until one feels it as a single organism, feels that he loves the friends, and then—that he loves the Creator.
Exercise: A member of the group should view himself in the group as a grain planted in the ground. And strive to dissolve in the group, like a grain decomposes in the soil—to grow in a new capacity.
Exercise: Imagine that with each effort of cancelling ourselves and plugging into the group, brick by brick we build the Temple out of our efforts, the collective aspiration above us to the Creator, until “And I will dwell among you” manifests in our Temple.
Exercise: To be in a group in the search and request for achieving unity, when everyone dissolves in the friends; and together, as one, to aim for the Creator, who is waiting for them.
It’s important to prepare for the lesson. From waking up until arriving at the study hall, I must constantly think about why I am doing all of it.
That’s the only way to start the lesson with the right intention and start advancing toward greater unity among friends, and that means
—toward the Creator.
Studying means checking, together with friends, how connected I am to them. If I advance, then at first I feel rejected by the friends and the study. Thus an opportunity of correction, convergence, is revealed to me. Or, vice versa, I passionately aspire to greater unity.
In aspiration to or rejection from the group, I need Torah, the light that returns me to the Creator, who will connect me to others. Inside unity, the quality of bestowal is revealed to reveal the Creator in it. Study is an auxiliary means; the main thing is connection between us.
Articles help one get organized properly, while TES [Talmud Eser HaSefirot – The Study of the Ten Sefirot] draws the light that reforms. Yet its study entails a risk: study for knowledge’s sake rather than Torah, correction. It’s important for knowledge to come from acts of unity, bestowal. One must study only for bestowal’s sake.
People would do anything to reveal the upper world.
But Kabbalah teaches that revelation of the upper is possible only by drawing the light of correction, called Torah, OM [Ohr Makif – surrounding light]. It’s called study in our unity. Only unity and study with an intention of correction are spiritual actions!
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Question: Who do we mean when we say “Kabbalist”?
Answer: The soul. If a person, while correcting his egoistic desires, has created from them a likeness of the Creator, then such a state of desire is called “the soul.” More precisely, the soul is called the part of the desires that have become similar to the Creator. The term “Kabbalist” means a person who has such a desire.
Desire, first restriction, screen, reflected Light, coupling while striking, receiving for the sake of bestowal—that is the Partzuf, the soul.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 8/19/18
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Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly – 1,” Article No. 17, Part 2, 1984: Hence, after all the calculations comes the time of joy and love of friends. At that time, everyone should feel happy, as though one had just sealed a very good deal that will earn him lots of money. And it is customary that at such a time he gives drinks to the friends.
If a person has sincerely invested in spiritual work, he will have absolute satisfaction that everything ended well. When you expect special conditions, it means that you are neither in bestowal, nor in prayer, but just in your egoism.
Question: How should I feel when I leave the gathering of friends?
Answer: As if you remain at least at the same level and now you advance. Friends gave you an elevation and you received strength for further advancement.
Because now he is happy, he wishes his friends to feel good, too. Hence, the dispersion of the assembly should be in a state of joy and elation.
Joy is a sign that the gathering of friends went correctly. You are glad that in this way you performed a certain spiritual action, practical work.
As much as a person can keep himself in a state of excitement, this is progress.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 6/13/18
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Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz
Spiritual charisma is demonstrated when I make myself a zero in order to benefit others and the Creator. The greater a person is, the more he wants to nullify his egoistic charisma and serve others. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches a person how to use the power of the ego as the left line and build the spiritual self above it. A truly charismatic person evokes feelings of fullness, transcendence, pride, importance, and confidence in others. This type of person can be found anywhere, in any situation, without limit. In the future society, each person will realize himself for the good of others, giving the Creator a place to be revealed.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1069 – Spiritual Charisma,” 11/20/18
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Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Right Way To Study The Wisdom Of Kabbalah”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, item 256
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah”
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The fulfillment of the commandments in a Kabbalistic group is the union of ten people (at least two) who decide that they want to comprehend the Creator.
Therefore, they are obliged to unite and form a group united according to the laws of the soul—the laws of mutual bestowal.
The spiritual world is impalpable—we have no matching properties.
We don’t feel radio waves but can build a device that will help to perceive them.
We must build a device that would perceive the Upper World.
This device is called the Soul.
It must have the properties of the Upper world.
#Women don’t want to form a family with men who earn less than they do. Single mothers give birth to children out of wedlock, get on drugs, and quickly get jailed.
Only an upbringing according to #Kabbalah can restore the family institution and rejuvenate the society!
The Creator switches the states we are in—I feel as if I’m driving on a bumpy road and must constantly balance myself and the car.
But if I hold on to the group, my thoughts are focused only on my connection with it—I shouldn’t focus on potholes; I no longer feel them at all;
I balance them with my connection to the group.
In the measure of our efforts to unite in the ten over our egoism towards one goal, in the measure of driving egoism towards connection, bestowal, and similarity with the upper light—in this measure the surrounding light affects, reforms, and corrects egoism ….
… for the property of bestowal and connection.
The more the opinions vary and the stronger the yearning to rise above them to a common opinion is—the greater wisdom and reason are, which gives room to discerning the problems and their solutions.
In fact, all the failures and degeneration of common sense occur only due to the lack of criticism and the suppression of differences.
Exercise: the Temple, the Creator’s House is the desires above “each to oneself” collected in one desire “bestowing to the Creator.” The place of the Creator’s dwelling, the Temple, Shechina, is a request to the Creator, which depends solely on over-the-ego unity of the desires…
… striving for the Creator.
Exercise: a group becomes a single whole (minyan – a spiritual unit) if a common property of mutual bestowal from the group to the Creator arises over its members’ egoism—the property of holiness, bestowal, Divinity, in which the Creator, Shochen, is revealed.
Exercise: To study the Torah means—in the unity of a group to study and implement exercises that lead to the revelation of holiness and the properties of bestowal in the group, up to the properties of love, so that the Creator can remain in them.
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New Life 1068 – Becoming Fully Human Through Social Connection
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz
We cannot become fully human without social connection. Interaction with society gives us an additional power to develop and can turn us into living spiritual beings. This is because the person in front of you is like a mirror in which you can measure yourself and your latent spiritual potential. Correct internal communication with another opens up spiritual senses in a person and reveals higher worlds. By adhering to the principle: “and you shall love your friend as yourself,” you learn to love others as they are. By transferring the command center to another person, feeling his desires, and trying to fulfill those desires as my own, I begin to feel the Creator Himself.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1068 – Becoming Fully Human Through Social Connection,” 11/20/18
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Lesson Preparation
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Lesson on the Topic “The Right Way To Study The Wisdom Of Kabbalah”
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Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 6, Part 16, Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words, Item 245
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence,” Title “The Advantage of My Commentary over Previous Commentaries”
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