Question: If the method of Kabbalah elevates us above problems, then does a person while breaking away from earth and hovering in the clouds, stop solving his problems on the corporeal level?

Answer: No, this can happen only at the beginning when a person first discovers the method.

Suddenly, he encounters science, people, books, and the teaching—the entire system that explains how everything is arranged in our world. Some people are attracted specifically to this, others are attracted to the opportunity to rise above their problems and enter into different states, a third group want to understand what life and death are, a fourth group want to find out what happens to the souls and their reincarnations, and so on.

In other words, ordinary people have a lot of questions that are solved when they encounter Kabbalah. When this captures a person, he can even abandon his family, work, or anything else. It is necessary to act very cautiously here since the discovery of such a system astonishes people.

Therefore, Kabbalah is not revealed in every generation or without a reason. However, in our generation, it can be revealed because humanity has been through many different states, and in practice, humanity can hardly be surprised by anything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/17/17

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New Life 976 – Can We Control Our Urges?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Like animals, we feel forced to realize our urges. Our impulses operate in two directions: we love what does something good for us and hate what does something that feels bad for us. Control over our urges becomes possible if we are aware of what urges are liable to awaken in us, if we prepare a system for dealing with them, if we acquire a negative attitude toward them, and if we adhere to a greater goal. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to acquire a higher, spiritual emotion and intellect that will dominate us instead of the urges, according to the principle “habit becomes second nature.”
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From KabTV’s “New Life 976 – Can We Control Our Urges?” 3/11/18

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Lesson Preparation

Lesson on the Topic: “Signing The Arvut In The Ten” (Preparation for the Convention “All As One” in New Jersey 2018)

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 3, Chapter 13, Item 1

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Question: Do Kabbalistic amulets exist? Do red strings help?

Answer: Nothing helps! Absolutely nothing! Believe me. Try to tie a red string on yourself and wrap yourself in red rags. Nothing will help!

Question: Yet, can it help psychologically?

Answer: Anything can help psychologically. You can make a toga and wear it like in Ancient Rome. But then what?

Spiritual psychology comes only from the mutual influence of each other within the group. Although friends exist solely in the corporeal world and everyone is an egoist, they can influence one another.

Question: Have you come across in any sources the mention of red strings?

Answer: No. Even if it is mentioned somewhere, it absolutely would not mean any corporeal manifestation. Neither Baal HaSulam nor Rabash have written anything about it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/19/17

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Question: Why is it that in our world people that are not similar, but are opposite, while complementary to each other, unite?

Answer: The thing is that we are very confused in our world, so it is hard to tell how exactly we unite: in likeliness or not. It depends on which qualities keep us connected with each other.

When I aim to reach the highest spiritual goal, our animal qualities lose their importance to me.

I do not pay attention to the qualities that are opposite of mine in my friend, but treat them as necessary for my internal work, for overcoming various antagonisms and problems between us. I care about the intent toward the main goal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/26/17

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Question: What does a holiday mean from the perspective of Kabbalah?

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, there are various levels of the Light that come down upon us. Their intensity determines a special state called a holiday.

“Holiday” in Hebrew is called “Hag” from the word “Mehuga” (arrow), which constantly turns, repeating its circles. In other words, a holiday is something that repeats from year to year. However, it repeats in such a way that at that time a certain Light comes down and brings everyone under it into a special state.

Thus, in the spiritual world, you may exist in the state of “New Year” while I am in the state of “Pesach” (Passover). In addition, one does not interfere with the other. For you, it is one state; for me, it is a different one. Everyone has his own time and his own levels.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/31/17

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The people of #Israel experience darkness and light adjacently and we gain discernments from these combined states. Our remembrance and #independence are as one, in the morning we mourn and in the evening we cheer. “And there was evening and there was morning, one day” (#Genesis 1:5).

The annual shift from #YomHazikaron, the day we pay homage to Israel’s fallen #soldiers and victims of #terrorism, to Independence Day, when we celebrate the establishment of the State of #Israel, is symbolic of the way we can only experience a rise after a preceding fall …

All that remains is to rekindle the national love that is dwindling, to revive the national essence that has been inactive for 2,000 years, to reawaken ourselves to unity and illuminate the light that #humanity subconsciously expects from us. #Israel

Struggles to build infrastructure and develop exports on a land that provides little natural resources has catalyzed our becoming one of the most technologically advanced nations. #StartUpNation

70 years have passed. #Wars and #instability with our every neighboring nation have spurred our development of a well-equipped #army and what has been ranked as the world’s mightiest air force.

However, not even a single day passed of relishing our #independence, and we were once again at #war to hold onto what we were given.
#middleeast #peace

After the utter horror millions of our ancestors experienced in the #Holocaust, the world had mercy on us and supported the establishment of our new national home: the State of #Israel.
#Israel70 (quote from @BIN )

… then we’ve been plagued with the constant phenomenon of #Antisemitism: from slander and blood libel to the devastating pogroms and the #Holocaust.

However, while doing so, since there is a seeded expectation in humanity’s subconscious upon the people of #Israel to bring a completely different kind of prosperity and growth than the materialistic version we’ve brought till now….

In exile, even while detached and dispersed around the world, we found ways to prosper and develop the countries we settled in, making our mark in #education, #economics, #science, #technology, #law, and #society. (#quote from @BINAlerts )

… We have endured states of bitter defeat, where unfounded hatred breached our unity, allowing the Roman Empire to take advantage of our disunity and bring about the ruin of the Temple.
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Darkness and light, descents and ascents, #exile and #glory, are all characteristic of the people of #Israel, ancient and modern. We have enjoyed states of blossoming unity and brotherly love at the time of the First and Second Temples ….

… Everything is included in one another, the good inclination and the bad inclination, right and left, #Israel and the rest of the nations, white and black. Everything depends on one another.”
– The #Zohar, Kedoshim, 7-8.

“Out of the #darkness came forth light, and out of concealment came forth and revealed the deep. One came out of the other. Out of good came forth bad, and out of #mercy came forth #judgment …..

The ego grows—and I grow above it
Entering the sensation of the upper world.
That’s all there is to #Kabbalah.
From Twitter, 4/20/18

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From the time of the Ari and onward, the wisdom of Kabbalah was permitted to be spread among all the nations of the world. After all, the world entered the era of the Mashiach (Messiah), and therefore any spread of the knowledge of Kabbalah is to the benefit of correcting the world.

And before that, there was a prohibition on the spread of Kabbalah, as it accelerated the development of the world, which was detrimental to the people of Israel. It turned out that egoistic forces accelerate their development, outstripping the development of the forces of bestowal, that is, Israel. ¹

The prophet Yeshayahu (Isaiah) said that the nations of the world will carry the sons of Israel on their shoulders to the Temple, that is, toward the end of correction, to complete adhesion between the Creator and creations. To ascend the mountain of the Creator is hard work, which is beyond the abilities of the people of Israel—light desires, desires for bestowal. Therefore, the spread of the wisdom of Kabbalah among the nations of the world is so necessary—it is the engine that will push the entire correction upward to the Mashiach. ²
From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/16/18, Writing of Baal HaSulam, “Messiah’s Shofar”
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² Minute 7:40

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