Method and Action

595.06Question: Let’s say a person comes to a state that he evaluates as bad, but at the same time he justifies the Creator.

What is the difference between simply justifying the Creator and faith above reason?

Answer: Faith above reason is a way to connect with the Creator. And the justification of the Creator is an action that leads a person to faith above reason, to connection with the Creator.

Question: If I am in a bad state, it is understandable. And when I am in good state, what does it mean to justify the Creator?

Answer: You are already justifying if you are in a good state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Clean and Righteous Do Not Kill”

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When Failure Becomes Success

49.01Question: When obstacles or difficulties arise (which the Creator creates), how does one examine whether it’s given to strengthen oneself or whether to just avoid it? How can you determine that you shouldn’t bang your head against the wall?

Answer: Such a thing cannot be! Everything is always directed only toward creating unity with the group and with the Creator. Only in this way can we determine the correctness of our actions.

Anything that leads us to unity with the group, humanity, and the Creator is correct, while anything contrary to this is incorrect.

Thus, I do everything, as well as those mechanical tasks that I am obligated to do that are required by my boss, spouse, or someone else.

But even here, I apply the correct intention; I do this in order to perform certain mechanical actions in this world and attach the necessary intentions to them, for what purpose do I even exist. And then all these seemingly completely unnecessary actions for spiritual ascent become useful.

Question: Suppose, in a certain situation, we perceive something as a negative influence; we feel bad and it’s hard for us. How do we still understand when it’s worth putting in even more effort, or whether we shouldn’t tackle it at all? You once said: “Apparently the Creator does not allow this to happen.”

Answer: This can only be said after you have absolutely done everything and nothing worked out, then it shouldn’t have worked out! So failure itself becomes success, the most correct result.

But how do I know that it should be like this, that this is correct? After I have exerted all efforts, I have no problems with what happens! I don’t evaluate anything at all, and it turned out as it turned out. The main thing is that I maximally invested myself as much as I could.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Attitude to Difficulties“ 12/23/11

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The Creator Helps Everyone

546.03Question: How do we come to a state that the words of the Torah stay in the heart?

Answer: If your heart is not connected to other’s hearts, keeping what comes from the Creator is impossible.

To distinguish whether it is connected with the hearts of your friends, you must constantly check for yourself what you are studying, and then you will know.

Question: What does it add to a person if he discovers “carving” on the tablets of the others’ hearts?

Answer: He discovers how the Creator helps others, and this gives him the strength to ask the Creator to help him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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Fill the Heart with Good Deeds

239“My heart is Halal [hollow/slain] within me,” and then he is awarded freedom from the angel of death (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 178, “Freedom“).

Question: What is this state of “my heart is hollow within me”?

Answer: A hollow heart means that a person cannot fill it with good deeds.

Question: If we are grateful for the teacher and for the friends, are these good deeds?

Answer: These are good deeds, and they will keep you in spirituality so that you do not fall.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/4/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Freedom”

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Questions about Spiritual Work—80

557Question: In our work together, do we attain first everything revealed to us by the great Kabbalists and then are rewarded with the concealed part of the Torah? Or does it happen in parallel gradually?

Answer: No, first we attain what we can with our efforts and mind, and then through the connection between us, we reveal more.

Question: At what point does the soul begin to teach us? After all, we only have a germ of a soul.

Answer: It does not matter. The germ is what is revealed to us. We receive everything through the soul.

Question: What is the danger of premature revelation of the secrets of the Torah to a person? Or is it impossible at all?

Answer: Firstly, it is impossible. Secondly, it would just confuse a person.

Question: If while living in the physical world, I have no opportunity to attend lessons, but I have a strong desire, like someone is pulling me toward spirituality, then is it the soul teaching me or the Creator pulling me?

Answer: It is the soul.

Question: What should we come to at the current degree to focus on the next one?

Answer: To unity, unite as if you have everything in common without disagreement.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writing of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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The Code of The Book of Zohar

65The souls of Cain and Abel were extended from the name Elokim. However, because of the filth that the serpent cast in Eve, the soul of Cain was the first to come out of the letters ELEH, then Abel came out from the letters MI (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “Heaven and Earth”).

Cain and Abel are two opposing forces that exist within one force called “Earth” and their connection transforms the Earth.

Question: And what does it mean that one killed the other?

Answer: These are not physical properties but properties of nature. It is about one force killing another, and then that force revives. At first glance, it looks like a fairytale description, but in reality, this is what happens to spiritual forces.

Question: Interestingly, The Book of Zohar was written thousands of years ago, yet to this day, if you analyze it purely externally, it creates an impression that there is some set of words that no one can decipher. Why is everything so hidden?

Answer: No, it is not just a set of words! And it is not hidden. The Zohar is incomprehensible to a person not in the spiritual world. And for someone who has attained it, it is a plain description, and that person effortlessly travels through all levels of the spiritual world.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/21/24

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 2/21/24

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is Half a Shekel in the Work – 1″

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 7, Item 44

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”

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“How Can I Overcome Manipulations?” (Times of Israel)

Michael Laitman on the Times of Israel: “How Can I Overcome Manipulations?

I received the following message on social media from Dimitriy that expresses pain in how politicians and propagandists know how to manipulate societies who follow them, often to slaughterhouses…

I have been enraged lately. Why do we succumb to politicians and propagandists who are throwing us off? They are the reason there is so much grief. You see clearly blood spilling, people killing each other, and hating each other. It is all because they are egging on, but everything is, after all, illusory and fake. We die for this lie while they get fat. They make lots of money off this bloodshed, their children roll in luxury, and they too are doing well. Why are we giving in? Where is our basic reasoning? Where is the fear?

Indeed, people in such power positions take advantage of our little egos, our desires to enjoy ourselves at the expense of others, and thus entire populations succumb to their control. They work together with various specialists who understand egoistic human nature quite well, knowing how to steer it in directions that they wish.

The question is whether there is a solution to this situation. It can only be if we truly understand our nature, how its reins are pushed and pulled in various directions, and then be able to see how these politicians and manipulation specialists operate on us, and not be on board with them.

Ultimately, however, we simply need to understand that a positive unified atmosphere and good human connections are above all other benefits they try to bribe us with. If we cherish positive human relations, then they will be unable to make us deviate into all kinds of directions.

The aspiration to positively connect should bring us to the realization that it is best to live peacefully with our neighbors, which means anyone in our vicinity through to those in other countries.

On one hand, it is no secret and people generally understand that it is good to be at peace with neighboring people and countries. But these are just words. When it comes down to the crunch, there are several ways of pitting one country against another, and it becomes very hard to stop those avalanches after they start rolling.

We should nonetheless try to imprint on ourselves the primacy of living peacefully. Indeed, we have the ability to embed this principle into society so that if certain people want to lure one society into war against others, they will fail. We can achieve this heightened level of awareness throughout society; it should be our most important aspiration.
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Raise the Greatness of the Friends

283.02Question: There are, as it were, two desires in a person concerning his friends. In his egoistic desire, he sees the flaws of a friend. With the altruistic desire, called the sixth sense or the screen of spiritual attainment, he sees his friend’s greatness. What should one do when he is only in his egoistic desire?

Answer: Then he must work so that his altruistic desire will appear. Until it is present, a person cannot see any positive qualities in a friend. He is building it, but it is yet to form in him.

Question: Rabash, however, writes in his articles that a person should try to see, within his egoistic desire, the importance and greatness of the friends. Is it possible?

Answer: Yes, we should try. Try to understand, even purely egoistically, that you need it. Therefore, you need to make efforts to implement it.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/16/24

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