The path “from love for the created beings to the love for the Creator” is a very subtle concept. Everyone will agree with loving the Creator, even a completely secular person who thinks about it just in case the upper force does exist, it is better to be on good terms with it. That is why everyone is ready to love the Creator and this is accepted by people in all traditions. A person is even ready to observe some religious rituals because love for the Creator is a non-obligatory abstract notion.

On the other hand, love for the created beings requires a lot because it clearly manifests itself in this world and is visible to everyone, and a person must prove that he really loves the created beings. This is not easy. There is no objection to love the Creator, but no one supports love for created beings. Therefore, it is written that “Israel is a small people,” that is, those who strive to love the Creator through love for the created beings.

Many fall on this path because love for the created beings does not arise in us naturally. Although a person understands that the science of Kabbalah promises him the revelation of the eternal and complete spiritual world, nevertheless, “a thousand enter the room and one comes out to teach.” People start studying and after a few years give up on spiritual revelation, without understanding what is actually being discussed.

There are two completely opposite approaches. One is to take a spiritual message and bring it down to earth, into our world, with reference to our behavior. This is religion. The other one is to elevate this spiritual message upward, rising with it to the Creator. This requires changing our properties, acquiring the property of bestowal, which cannot be achieved except through special exercises to correct the relationship between us with the help of the reforming Light.

Such work is contrary to our desire to enjoy and is possible only with mutual support. If such special people with burning points in the heart who want to attain the revelation of the Creator, adhesion with Him, and the purpose of creation, get together, then they are obliged to build relationships that will be influenced by the upper Light, which will correct them from egoistic to altruistic, for the sake of mutual bestowal. The upper Light will then be revealed within them, which is called “the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.”

From this it is clear that there are two completely opposite approaches about which it is written: “The view of the landlords is opposite to the view of the Torah.”

“The view of the Torah” is the use of the reforming Light called “the Torah,” which builds spiritual commandments in us, inverting every egoistic desire into bestowal.

“The view of the landlords” is the opinion of those who want to remain in their desire to enjoy, and therefore, try to invert the spiritual message for their own benefit so that there is an excuse to remain in egoism, without changing their desire. In this case, the intention remains egoistic. We observe this phenomenon throughout history.

From the moment the people of Israel received the Torah until today, these two approaches to the Torah have existed in the people. The world is about to face great suffering that will compel the people of Israel to understand and fulfill their mission, that is, to bring the revelation of the Creator to the whole of humanity, which means to reach the end of correction.

Meanwhile, however, love for the created beings repels people. They neither desire, comprehend nor want to hear about it. However, this is an obligatory stage—one on which the love for the Creator is being built. We will have to overcome both of these steps and we must prepare ourselves for the maximum possible connection. Although it is still egoistic and incomplete, our pain of being unable to do more attracts to us the Ohr Hozer (returning Light), which works on us.

The Creator will finish the work for us. We need only to raise a prayer to Him, MAN, to express our desire and pain, and the upper Light will complete our correction. Everything is achieved only by our efforts to unite, which lead to prayer, to the disclosure of the correct deficiency according to which the Creator completes the work for us: the upper Light comes and performs the action.¹
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/10/18, Lesson on the Topic: “From Love for the Created Beings to The Love for the Creator”
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Question: How is it possible to stop constantly analyzing my actions?

Answer: Why would you? Constant analysis is imperative. We must, however, connect all of our actions to the Creator: His to me and mine to His, and thus we work in two lines.

Question: How do we develop the ability to react differently and not automatically in an egoistic, beastly way?

Answer: When you act consciously, not automatically, you become spiritual, then you will give a spiritual reaction. Until then, you will be who you are. Don’t expect to be able to control yourself. The Creator controls everything.

Question: What does “Jerusalem” (Yeru Shalayim), which translates to Yira’a Shlema – perfect/complete awe/fear/trepidation mean?

Answer: This is the characteristic of Bina that attains the level of Keter.

Question: What is the most common mistake in the process of self-discovery?

Answer: A person only knows himself when he knows the Creator, and understanding the Creator, he works on self-reflection. Therefore, a person is called Adam, from the word “Domeh” (similar). That is, the degree in which one resembles the Creator, one discovers the Creator, I see myself within the Creator and see myself as in a mirror.

Question: How many years of inner work are required on average to pass through the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: The years don’t matter, although in the Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot, Baal HaSulam wrote that it requires at least five years. However, I think that even with all our efforts, it can’t take less than 10-15 years. This is an inner correction of many properties in a person.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/18

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The 9th of Av is a day of mourning for the broken collective soul abandoned by the Creator’s upper light. We don’t wish for Him to return, to restore the broken soul—that is the destruction and the crime to regret. You have to lament the ruined Temple, the broken soul, within you.

The Treatise of Jonah: The 2nd Temple was destroyed by unreasonable hatred. Despite studying the Torah, Commandments, Charity—not selflessly, but for a reward. This means their efforts were not for unity. That’s why their work turned from the elixir of life into a deadly poison.

The destruction of the Temple occurs daily: If it is not spiritually restored—it is still in ruins! This is easy to see in our relationships: Not only do we not wish to be closer, but we constantly reject each other—thereby distancing the Upper Light of goodness and love.

We don’t want to correct ego-nature and build good relationships, the Temple. It’s done thru the awareness of the destruction. We don’t want unity, for we are the outcome of destruction. Hence, everyone understands self-interest and builds well-being on the destruction of others.
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Question: How are the levels of knowledge of the soul different and how are they measured?

Answer: They are levels of the revelation of the Creator.

The fact is that we reveal the Creator only to the extent of our similarity to Him, like any physical law. We are given a very simple property—a property of bestowal and love, emanation. We must discover this within ourselves.

To the extent that we can generate it, we will attain it according to the law of equivalence of form. As much as we can be similar to it from the inside, it will manifest itself from the outside.

The quality of bestowal and love fills everything, but we currently have absolutely no perception of it because we are opposite to it. As soon as we resemble it, we will begin to perceive it and reveal the upper world in which we will exist in this quality.

Question: Will I then see everybody around me as loving?

Answer: Yes. I will see everyone that way because by correcting my qualities from hatred to love, I correct all the enemies, turning them into loving ones. I will then see nothing bad outside and the enemies will suddenly become friends.

About this, it is written that the one who turns hatred into love is a hero among heroes.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/4/18

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Question: A person who reaches the highest level is a person who is completely corrected. What is his task and his relationship to people in everyday life?

Answer: It is to show people the possibility of spiritual correction. There is no other task for a person in our world except bringing the entire world to this state.

Question: A higher radiance operates on the reader when reading a book of Kabbalah. Is this enough in order to move from beastly love to spiritual love, to the attainment of the characteristics of the Creator?

Answer: It is not enough. You must perform what the Kabbalists write in their recommendations for working with the group. No matter how difficult it is to interact with others, it is still necessary.

Question: What in Kabbalah can be attributed to a person’s self-knoweldge if, as I understand, a person himself does not exist?

Answer: A created being reveals the human – Adam (similar to the Creator). To the degree that he discovers this similarity within himself, he is called a human (Adam).

Question: What determines the attainment of the nearest spiritual point?

Answer: Connection with my friends and then attraction of the upper Light. This makes it possible for me to ascend.

Question: What is the “inner voice” that seems to advise each one of us? Or is this intuition?

Answer: This is intuition that has no relevance to the Creator or the soul. Don’t think that the soul speaks within you.

Question: Is it possible to discover my mission in life?

Answer: The mission of life is to “break” yourself.

Question: How can a woman become like Malchut?

Answer: Just like a man can, only through promoting unity. Malchut is part of the Partzuf, the soul, which unites everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/18

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 7/22/18

The ego holds us captive, chains us to a dividing worldview in which we can never rebuild our society. At the moment, it seems like the need for change will only come with intensifying troubles, wars, struggles and protests. But there is another way. Shorter, faster and more pleasant to all of us. It is through consciously playing, through practice, through education.

For two thousand years the Kabbalists have been pointing to unity as a solution to all our troubles. They warn us in every way they can that if we don’t connect to our common spiritual root, the events of life will teach us to do so in a very difficult and long-winding path. Therefore, we must begin relating to the better future we want for ourselves and our children, to the positive relationship between all of us.

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