Question: If one day goes by without the wisdom of Kabbalah, I feel miserable. Why does Kabbalah have an influence on me like a drug that provides happiness?

Answer: This is because otherwise you would not be connected to a system that can fulfill you.

Question: If the world is perfect, and I am intentionally faulty, then quarrels and confrontations are unavoidable. So how do I balance the good with the bad within me like “plus” and “minus”?

Answer: In any case you should not condemn the good or the bad or elevate this or that, rather only try to achieve their mutual connection, adhesion, and completion. Perfection is found between us, in the middle line.

Question: In our world, are people who are altruistic egoists happier than people who are just egoists?

Answer: Egoistic altruists are still less limited. But to be an altruist in our world, one must be born like this or enter a society like that where they “brainwash” you, and then you will be able to become an altruist and enjoy it. But this is already a particular kind of persuasion, and not a person’s inner inspiration.

Question: What does it mean to acquire the characteristic of bestowal? Explain it regarding feelings as much as possible.

Answer: Ask a mother who is concerned about her baby how she is happy to give him something, to do something for him. See how she takes care of him, follows him, and constantly wants to touch him, to improve something. This is the beastly characteristic of bestowal that shows us that it is possible on the physical level. It is partial and temporary, but it is possible.

Question: What are your wishes for students?

Answer: You have to rush to and resolve everything in the middle line: issues at home, topics in the group, and even in the kitchen, at work, in your attitude to life, and most importantly—the relations between us. Do everything in the middle line—there is no bad and there is no good—there is only everything for the benefit of spiritual progress.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/17/17

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New Life 1001 – New Life For The Nation Of Israel
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Life teaches us that the nation of Israel is unique. Anti-Semitism is returning and is obligating Israelis to do some soul-searching. We need to search for the root causes of domestic division and external hatred. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, we must recognize our egoistic nature and draw special forces from nature that will connect us according to the principles “Love your friend as yourself” and “Love covers all transgressions.” We must lead the world by teaching this method of love through the power of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1001 – A New Life For The Nation Of Israel,” 4/22/18

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Lesson on the Topic: “The Work in Faith Above Reason”

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 4, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Chapter 1, Item 6

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of the Kabbalah and Its Essence”

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“How do I stop enjoying?”—Don’t even think about stopping—this is our nature. We must only replace the source of pleasure—instead of enjoying inside the ego, enjoy fulfilling the Creator. But this change happens under the influence of OM [Ohr Makif]
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah

Spiritual work is gradually receiving less and less in the will to enjoy. Imagine that you won’t receive or attain anything in your ego. Mentally equate yourself to zero. Let your soul merge with the Creator. Increase the will to bestow to Him, doing what the Creator wants.

We’re correcting the common soul of Adam, starting with creating the foundation. It’s hard work since we see excavations of our ego. Only by rising above it do we see our work. Others will finish the construction after us. But laying the foundation is the most important part!

Our generation is restoring the structure of the one common soul, Adam, in the state of the final correction. It’s the most important work ever done on earth. We have to make efforts and the Creator will finish for us. Let’s build a place for His revelation and delight Him.

I want all of my work’s results to be only in the Creator, and I won’t receive anything besides the energy to work, like a car being filled up with fuel, while all my work is for the Creator’s benefit—to such an extent that He won’t even find out about my existence.
#Kabbalah

A person who works correctly is always full of joy since he has the right connection with the Creator in every state. He is always being governed by the Creator and by being aware of this he already gives pleasure to the Creator, and is therefore happy.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah
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Question: What principles will determine the success of realizing my point in the heart?

Answer: There is only one principle: through the group to the Creator. You can use all other Kabbalistic principles only to the extent that you will climb the spiritual steps. Then you will see how they can apply to you.

Question: According to the law the “general and particular are equal,” are all the Kabbalistic principles universal for all the levels of the worlds?

Answer: Yes, because the difference between the levels is only according to the intensity of and connection between the forces of bestowal and reception.

Question: What is work according to the wisdom of Kabbalah? Who is the employer, who is the employee, and what is the essence of the work?

Answer: Work in Kabbalah is the work on my egoism, on its correction. The Creator, the upper Light, is what corrects egoism. A person is called “a worker” because he asks for this correction from the Creator. Only according to a request, a prayer, raising MAN, does the Light, which corrects an egoistic intention to an altruistic intention, descend from above.

Question: What is the correct relationship with the environment?

Answer: By “environment,” we mean the group through which we attain connection with the Creator. The correct relationship with the environment is the same relationship that must exist between the person and the Creator.

Question: What does manipulation of the ego mean?

Answer: Manipulation of the ego does not mean manipulating the ego itself, but the intention above it. In other words, I use the ego only to the degree that I have an intention to use it for the sake of bestowal, for the creation of a connection.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/26/17

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Question: Is a person responsible for his thoughts?

Answer: If before himself and the Creator, then yes. If before the rest of humanity, then no, because until thoughts turn into actions, we do not have problems with other people. But in principle, our thoughts are our actions.

Questions: And what if a person is horrified by his thoughts?

Answer: That is not important; they are his thoughts and he must correct them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/7/18

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New Life 993 – Memory From Childhood To Old Age
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

The collective memory exists within the higher system of nature and is available to us if we connect our memories with others. We do not remember the first years of our lives because we did not yet interact with the environment. We have memory problems in old age because the desire to receive is saturated. Kabbalists don’t forget or experience death because they constantly become renewed.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #993 – Memory From Childhood To Old Age,” 4/8/18

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Lesson on the Topic: “The Work in Faith Above Reason”

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 4, Chapter 6, Item 18

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The Creator’s greatness removes all problems, disasters and obstacles. All pleasure/fulfillment comes only from the Creator’s greatness. Any flaw is caused by a lack of the Creator’s greatness and is corrected only by it, until we fill all of reality with the Creator.
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Work in faith above reason (bestowal above reception) is the only thing we must master in this life, building 125 degrees of our spiritual development, equivalence with the Creator. Its foundation is the sensation of the Creator’s greatness above all: Who rules—Pharaoh or Creator.

Faith is the force of bestowal, given from above. Faith = bestowal. All we need for this is to demand for the Creator’s greatness to be greater than egoism. This will draw light to us that will lift us to the degree of faith/bestowal—above reason, egoism and problems.
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The upper system expanded from the world of Infinity till our world, forming us opposite to it. We have to evoke its influence on us,  then it becomes our Creator, as it is written, “You have created Me,” since “There’s no Creator without the creatures.”
#Spiritualwork #Kabbalah

The Book of #Zohar describes the world as a net of tangled connections. The nation of #Israel is the central knot in this net. Its role is to unite and serve as an example of unity for the world. Then Hamas’s attacks will cease, along with the whole world’s complaints against us!

Regarding the need to unite, Kabbalists say, “The main protection against disasters is unity. When there is love, unity, and friendship in the nation of Israel, no misfortune will touch it.” Maor va Shemesh
#Reality_ML #Kabbalah #israelunderfire #Palestine

Rav Kook: “If we don’t blow the horn of redemption (i.e., don’t unite, transmit the method of unity to the world), then Israel’s enemies come – Amalek, Hitler, and others, and “trumpet” in our ears, summoning us to come out of exile. They don’t let us rest.” Today, this is HAMAS.

With our efforts to achieve unity, we can compel the Creator to be revealed and correct us. This is the only thing we can do, since at its basis, the 1st act of bestowal is revealed in unity, and inside it, it then starts to grow and strengthen.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah

Faith above reason is a force that arises around the point in the heart, grows it and enables it to operate. And we reveal that reality is not what it seemed—it is ruled and filled by one force.
This force ruled before too, but now this is revealed.
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