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The work of men (Hebrew – Gevarim) is based on overcoming (Hebrew – Hitgabrut), on faith above reason. After all, the exit from Egypt is where we wish to unite, so all our work is directed at continuously greater unification. For now, we are all egoists and we try to unite using our egoistic strength. But through these efforts: the study, connection, and self-nullification, we awaken the reforming Light and receive the strength to overcome, starting to work as men.

The most important thing is to return to the same connection that existed in the first man, Adam, before the breaking. However, if we reach this connection now with all of our egoism, it will be 620 times greater than before. Thus, we will reveal not the small, barely enlivening Light, but the whole Light of NRNHY, the Creator.*

The burden of the exile is the sensation of my inability to come to the correct intention. We try to do something and discover every time that it was for the sake of egoism. After all, the Creator wants to bring us to screaming, to the recognition of evil, the purpose of which is to realize that we will not achieve success without His help.**

The main distinction of the wisdom of Kabbalah in defining the work of the Creator is that it is directed at uniting people in order to bring them to the same model that is called Adam, the single system of the common soul, and from love of the friends to come to love of the Creator.

Pharaoh is between us, and we need to turn him into the Creator so that the Creator will be revealed. The Creator is not revealed in any one of us, but only in the connection between us. The Creator is the network of connection and love that unites us.

Just as sea water fills the gaps between the islands of an archipelago, the Torah needs to fill the space between people with bestowal and love.***

“Do not swallow the Maror without chewing it.”

“Do not swallow the Maror without chewing it.” This means that we need to work on our unity with great persistence, regardless of our inability to reach it. If in the group we consent to the need to unite, it means that we have entered Egypt. Before this, we did not consent to it and did not even talk about it. First, the brothers neglected Joseph and threw him out. But then the famine begins, they agree to unite, and then enter Egypt.

At first they live well in Egypt, but then they begin to discern that they are unable to unite. “The children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage” because they were unsuccessful. And then “their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.”

That is what it means that “the Maror cannot be swallowed without having been chewed first.” We must “chew” this work and feel all of its bitterness and heaviness, like the hard and bitter horseradish from which the Maror is made. From the hard work and being unsuccessful, we become softer and turn to the Creator from despair. Only after the hard work do we begin to sense our captivity and the need to come out of it, and we start to sense that there is a force that can help us. ****

Knowing the Creator means learning gradually what unity and love are that do not exist currently in our state. We live in the opposite world. The Creator that later will be revealed is currently being revealed gradually in the opposite form. It is He who broke the vessel of our soul, and that is why He is shown in the opposite form, as Pharaoh.

However, if we wish to rise above it with faith above reason and to reveal bestowal and love between us, we turn to the Creator now, not to Pharaoh. The Creator and Pharaoh are the front and back sides of the same phenomenon.

This whole work is very simple and specific; the difficulty every time is only in turning to the Creator—that is precisely where Pharaoh hides, and he gets in the way.*****
From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/20/18, Writings of Rabash, “Come Unto Pharaoh – 2”
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** (Minute 32:30)
*** (Minute 39:30)
**** (Minute 42:30)
***** (Minute 47:50)

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Question: Suppose a young man wants to start a family. Is it necessary to draw his attention to the fact that when choosing a partner, he should be guided not by sexual attraction but by general social responsibility?

Answer: First, I would not associate sexual satisfaction with the family; these are completely different things. We still have a wrong attitude to this, which in the end causes huge disruptions and does not work in society.

We see that food, sex, and family—three completely different categories of desire in a person—are not related to each other. Do not confuse one with another. Love is love, sex is sex, food is food, and family is family. They do not depend on each other, or on wealth, power, and knowledge.

A person who wants to advance must understand that the family is a natural part of society. Proceeding from this, he needs to know how to achieve harmony between the members of his family and with the outside world, in order for them to be an integral, coherent cell, and then they will feel good.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 8/20/17

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Question: Why did the Kabbalists wear special hats and clothing for thousands of years? Was this a tribute to fashion?

Answer: This tradition was born in ancient times when people living in Mesopotamia, ancient Israel and Egypt covered their heads to protect themselves from the sun. And even today, the Bedouins cover their heads as protection from the heat.

As for the Kabbalists, in no way do they connect themselves or their Kabbalistic attainments with external rituals. This is unnecessary for both people and the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/12/17

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New Life 964 – Pioneers Of The New World
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

The Creator awakened a pioneering spirit in Jews so they can teach the world how to love by adhering with Him. Like our father Abraham who was a spiritual pioneer, the Jews need to devote themselves to the good of the society and the environment. Jews had begun to accomplish this mission throughout history when they broke out in a variety of areas. After this, a bourgeois period began to develop in Israel since the Jews had a desire to build a nation just like all the other nations. Israel needs to aim their development, once again, toward the highest level of pioneering, which is to break out from our dark world into an illuminated, spiritual world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 964 – Pioneers Of The New World,” 2/13/18

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Preparation for the World Convention in New Jersey 2018

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 3, Chapter 5, Item 1

Lesson on the Topic: “Holocaust Remembrance Day”

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Trade wars pose a threat to the world.
Countries develop toward proximity, but the growing #ego separates them.
Therefore, #Kabbalah advises that the only right path is to correct the ego so they will interact as parts of a single body.
#TradeWar #Ego #crisisaverted

Dissolve in streams of thoughts
At the lesson
And soar in them, like a bird.

What is #good, and what is #evil?
For others’ sake is good, and for your sake is evil.
Now you’ve found the spiritual compass.
#spirituality

Blood stops still
In anticipation
Of a world of changes

The final form determines the original one
This means everything is inside me…
And is perfect for attaining the goal

The world in front of you is you
The world inside of you is the Creator
Combine the worlds.

A warm cloud envelops me
It’s the Creator embracing me
Not concealing His love

Always in anticipation,
Holding my breath
It’s about to happen…

Finish my poem for me
However you wish!
I will gratefully accept it

Thoughts fly by like the wind
Feelings pass by like waves
And I am like a cliff…

Fillings by the Light are tastes (Taamim)
Outpours of the Light are reminiscences (Nekudot)
Anticipation of the Light is birth (Leida)

The heart whispers a prayer
But the mind makes it wither
To my dismay

Bow down your pride
If G-d will permit you
To bow down before Him

My article, “The Future of Jobs: Working on Being Human” on #BIEN Basic Income Earth Network is trending on #REDDIT #UBI #futureofwork

Like the heart valve lets blood pass
So my screen lets in the Light.
But the pressure increases…

For creatures, start and end are preset
But who will get there first:
Me or the Creator?
#Wisdom

Suffering is absence of the Creator,
The connection between us –
Fill the whole world with Him.

Erev Rav (the mixed crowd) chases those fleeing Egypt…
These are those who leave & those who attack.
When they come to their senses, they will be corrected, but after everyone else.

The #heart whispers a #prayer
But the mind makes it wither
To my dismay

Bow down your pride
If #God will permit you
To bow down before Him
#quotesoftheday #Wisdom

PART II:
All #problems come from the Creator.
All problems are solved by coming closer to Him.
#Spiritualwork_ML #Kabbalah

PART I: Those wishing to walk the path of the Creator always see that they are mistaken and evildoers. They cry out to the Creator to bring them out of evil, as when coming out of Egypt. (Rabash. The Creator’s face is for evildoers)

A person with a point in the heart
Has one mission:
To create Adam and the Creator out of others

How do you look inside yourself?
Look at the friends and feel your reaction.
This is called “looking inside yourself”

The next moment,
I live in the present

This broken #world gives #joy
As it moves toward #change
The hour is close.

Who should I thank more:
The Creator for the group
Or the group for the Creator?

Pride dries up over the years
In order to humbly
Reach equivalence with the Creator.

The world has competed its EGOISTIC path
What’s next: the path of light or suffering?
Depends on me… How scary!

So delightful are the moments
Of contact with the Creator–
All of my sources are in You…

I implore you to check
If I am on the right path?
Twilight…

Our mission is to unite and by doing so, allow the spreading of that heightened unified #consciousness to spread to humanity as a whole. #Israel

Atop a board for many years
Bowing my head before the waves
I want to be like Rabbi Akiva …

Two angers have grabbed hold of me
A good one and an evil one —
Fighting for possession of me …
From Twitter, 4/8/18

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