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Posted on July 6th, 2024 at 10:55 pm
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Igor asks:
You once said that the hour of death is not the hour of death but a new birth. How should we take this? I do not believe in afterlife. So what is it about?
Answer: It does not depend on you whether you believe it or not. It is just the beginning of a new cycle.
Question: When you say “the hour of death,” what does it mean for Igor?
Answer: You part ways with this life, with what you have made of it, how you have lived it, and move on to the next cycle.
Question: Does that mean somewhere a child suddenly screams, some boy is born, and so on?
Answer: No.
Question: Then what does new birth mean to you?
Answer: A new birth is, of course, the act of a child being born. But generally, it is the beginning of attaining the upper world and the Creator by what is called man.
Question: Is the hour of death necessarily my physical death, or is it not necessarily so?
Answer: No, not necessarily. It means everything old dies, all that I’ve lived through, all that I considered important.
Question: Can something be born that I did not consider important?
Answer: Naturally, in the next stage.
Question: Can you tell me what I did not consider important in my past life?
Answer: Typically, it is connections with people, love, and relationship with the Creator.
Question: Even though I always talked about love?
Answer: Regardless.
Question: When you say that another love arises, what kind of “other” love is it?
Answer: It is more natural, closer, one that cannot be explained otherwise than simply by opening your heart.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/15/24
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Arina asks:
Why are people not ashamed today to be wealthy and even flaunt it; they build palaces, villas, buy diamonds, cars, and do all this ostentatiously? How can people have a clear conscience when there is so much poverty and sorrow around?
Answer: It has always been this way, at all times. There are those who hide it. There are those who show it.
Question: So you do not think this is indicative of the present time?
Answer: Yes, today of course people are not ashamed of anything.
Question: Why did this happen? Why is one not concerned that someone has nothing to eat while he builds…?
Answer: It is a lack of upbringing, actually. Great people, though they may have immense wealth are not focused on that; what matters to them is inner wealth.
Question: Please tell me, what kind of upbringing should there be to address all this?
Answer: A person should be taught, first of all, to be content with their destiny, whatever it may be.
Second, to not consider themselves above others in wealth, knowledge, or anything else. Only in wisdom concerning the Creator, in modesty. That is the main thing.
Question: Can this be cultivated in someone?
Answer: It can.
Question: Is this not a natural quality?
Answer: No, this can be cultivated, and it must be cultivated.
Question: In principle, will a normal society, even let’s say the society of the future, follow such upbringing?
Answer: Yes. People will not flaunt their cars, houses, and wealth.
Question: So this will not be so valuable to a person?
Answer: It will say a lot, that perhaps he has earned something, but in principle, it will not be as important to a person.
Comment: You said that it is important for a person not to look at either the rich or the poor, but at his own destiny—this is my destiny.
Answer: He should focus on his connection with the Creator—that is what he should look at. A person will only delve deeper into himself: me and the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/13/24
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If several individuals come together with the force that it is worthwhile to abandon self-love, but without the sufficient power and importance of bestowal to become independent, without outside help (Rabash, Article, “Love of Friends -2”).
That is how we feel in the ten: it seems that there are some desires and some motives, but there is no strength, conviction, or intention to annul ourselves before our friends.
All have at least the potential love of the Creator.
They are drawn to this and would like to acquire it. Not by any means, but they would still like to. In general, there is a desire, but it is weak.
Though they cannot keep it in practice, then by each joining the society and annulling oneself before it, they become one body.
That is the most important thing. Neither of us has the strength nor the desire to annul ourselves before the Creator. We cannot do this because we were created unable to do it.
Therefore, if the same ten gathers, and other tens around it—after all, we are not alone, there are many of us—and thus we unite, then each of us contributes his part, his little strength, a little desire to this union.
In this case, our desires add up together, and we become like one person with great force who can invoke the qualities of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”
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Question: You said that a person has nothing of his own, only what he receives from the Creator and what he can give to others.
If everyone should feel the common soul, at what point does he begin to see it from beginning to end?
Answer: We will feel the common soul when we become a spiritual embryo. That is the first spiritual degree we aim to ascend to.
As soon as we reach the first degree of connection, we will immediately begin to feel ourselves as a single whole at the level of Aviut de Shoresh, that is, at 1/125th of the entire soul. Nevertheless, it will be a feeling for all of us together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/20/20, “The Ten”
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Question: When we sit in different tens during workshops, is there some similarity that we can identify whenever we change the ten?
Answer: What difference does it make?! You exist in one organism. All of humanity is one ten that now is broken into multiple parts.
This way, it is not important who you will be with, just like it is not for the cells of one body. Therefore, the most important commandment of correction is “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It means we must reach complete agreement, balance, and unity.
Thus, there is no difference with whom to sit, with these or those. On the contrary, each time you absorb from others some new aspects of connections and approaches—you toward them, and they toward you. In this way, you accumulate a great experience.
As for an entire year, you accumulate experience in one ten, while here at the congress, you can go through all these states within one week. Think about this opportunity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: Sometimes during a lesson your students start walking or doing something. How do you have patience?
Answer: When a person gets up to get a cup of coffee or cold water, I understand that he is tired, he did not get enough sleep, he is having a hard time. But I treat my students with love and understanding.
These are the people for whom I do everything; they are more important to me than children. Essentially, these are my spiritual children.
What do I have beside them? Who else will I pass this information on to? Who do I want to train? Them, to give out as much as possible through them so that they continue dissemination in the right way.
Therefore, my attitude toward them slightly softens the interference that they create. Just like a mother cannot hear her child when he or she makes noise. For her, this is normal, but for a stranger, something flickering and noisy is unbearable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalist’s Supersenses” 3/11/10
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All of Israel became responsible for one another. Because the Torah was not given to them before each and every one from Israel was asked if he agreed to take upon himself the Mitzva [commandment] of loving others in the full measure expressed in the words “Love your friend as yourself” [Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut” (Mutual Guarantee)].
First, there is no such nation as the people of Israel. They came into being out of people who wanted to rise above their egoism because they realized it was impossible to exist within it. That happened in ancient Babylon 3,500 years ago. People understood that if they continued to act egoistically, they would destroy themselves and each other. There was great turmoil, mutual hatred flared up, and the inhabitants of Babylon did not know what to do next.
Therefore, Abraham, the son of the high priest Terach, saw problems, internal strife, and various conflicts among the people, and began to study this phenomenon. He realized that it stemmed from the growth of egoism in each person and that the only solution was to rise above the ego and somehow balance it.
Abraham began to preach this idea among the ancient Babylonians and urged them to unite and rise above egoism to achieve proper mutual understanding, to stop killing each other, and to bring themselves to a normal state.
His father Terach also supported this, but the Babylonian king Nimrod was against it. Nimrod thought that he would lose his power because when people become closer to each other, less aggressive, and kinder, they generally do not care about authority. However, if they become hostile toward each other, a king can intervene and control them.
Therefore, Abraham had no choice but to call upon all those who agreed with his idea of unification and lead them out of Babylon to the so-called land of Canaan. Today, this is the State of Israel. Thus, they came to be called the people of Israel (Yisra-El) from the phrase “straight to the Creator” (Yashar El).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/20, “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”
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Question: What is my internal perception when I am inside a friend?
Answer: You feel no difference between you as your desires merge. They do not just add up arithmetically, like 10 plus 10 or 20 plus 20, but in a different progression.
When you and your friend connect and can combine your desires and intentions, you get a Kli—a desire with intention, which increases, as it is said, 620 times and even much more.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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