Question: What does it mean that a person corrects the inner body and reveals the NRN of Nefesh of the world of Assiya? Are these some degrees of connection?

Answer: A person corrects his or her desires, which first rise to the level of the world of Assiya, then to the level of the world of Yetzira, then to the level of the world of Beriya, and the world of Atzilut. There are four degrees before us that we must climb.

This correction occurs in connection in the ten, when you discover the Creator, the light, inside your unity with the friends.

Question: How does a person understand that now he or she has risen to the degree of the world of Assiya and not just experiencing a feeling of connection with one’s friends?

Answer: At the level of the world of Assiya, a person still does not understand this. One must ascend to Yetzira and Beriya. At the level of the world of Beriya, a person comes to understand where one is and what is happening to him or her. Then comes the world of Atzilut.

Question: Do these degrees have anything to do with the connection between friends? What is added in these details: Assiya, Yetzira, Beriya? Is this some kind of connection density?

Answer: Yes, it adds a feeling of unity with friends and the ability to hold the light in their connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/31/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Man’s Connection to the Sefirot”

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Question: What should our thoughts be focused on to come to study the Torah, as it is said, day and night?

Answer: To do this you need to understand that everything that happens in us that arises in our thoughts and desires comes from the Creator, and we must only react correctly to this.

Question: If all thoughts and intentions are from the Creator, then the prayer given to me is also from Him. At all points I connect myself with Him. How can I outsmart and persuade Him to reveal Himself?

Answer: Beg, do not persuade or somehow deceive. Just ask, that is precisely where your freewill lies.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Thought Is a Result of the Desires”

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Although it seems as though he is a great person, he should nonetheless look into his actions and think, “What makes me great?” (Maor VaShemesh, Ekev).

Question: It says a person should find what he is respected for. Does it mean that I go to the group for the sake of respect?

Answer: You come to the group not for respect, but to put yourself next to your friends so that you are the smallest of them, and they are the great in everything. And when you have such an inner attitude toward them, you will be able to start receiving a certain amount of spiritual energy from the Creator.

Question: But if I cannot do it and I have to consider myself the smallest, how do I get rid of the resentment against my friends?

Answer: You should, on the contrary, thank them not verbally, but internally for giving you such conditions, and you can put yourself even lower. And then a carpeted path awaits you.

You are all valuable elements that the Creator has created in humanity because you are the closest to the Creator and bring the upper light from Him to all humanity. Therefore, you must respect your friends as the greatest and most important.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/26/24, ”Preparation to ‘Life in the Ten’ Convention”

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Question: How can one dissolve into the world Kli to affect the world to come toward peace?

Answer: It depends on your prayers, words, and thoughts. If you want peace in the world and all your friends to come together in one heart, that is how it will be.

Question: How do I let go of the control over all my states and go by faith above reason?

Answer: Let them go. What the Creator will do to you will happen.

Question: It says: “One should only take care not to harm the society.” How can we harm society?

Answer: By the fact that we would rise above zero in our pride.

Question: Should the connection of the ten and all of Bnei Baruch take place simultaneously?

Answer: No, by no means. It may happen that today you will have a spiritual ascent and the rest of the ten in a month or two.

Question: What kind of intention should the ten build to raise the proper prayer?

Answer: So that we can all be united. So that everyone aspires to be the last, but he will be the first.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah 1/26/24, ”Preparation to “Life in the Ten” Convention”

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Question: I want all of us to connect in one heart, bring contentment to the Creator, and reveal Him. How do you feel about it?

Answer: Everyone should imagine themselves being the last of our entire group. Everyone should help others and see others above themselves. Everyone should be sure they are moving forward on the path to the Creator.

As a result, we should feel like a single body during the convention. Then we will be successful.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah 1/26/24, ”Preparation to “Life in the Ten” Convention”

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Michael Laitman on the Times of Israel: “Can everyone heal others?”

There is a phenomenon that when we are close to someone we care about, our breathing and heartbeat can synchronize. For instance, when someone we care about is feeling unwell, we can hold their hand and it will alleviate their suffering. In such situations, the inner energies of one flow into the other through tactile contact, regulating their energies.

One of the important points here is that specifically a loved one can affect such a state. “A loved one” can mean in spirit, temperament or inner connection. If the two people are not close, then it is unlikely that they can operate in such a way.

Therefore, if we want to help people who are ill, we need to first attune ourselves to viewing them as close. We have it in our powers to do just that. Doing so requires feeling their inner world, the places where they are imbalanced, and trying to influence their return to a balanced state.

The healthy person in such a relationship is the one who is responsible for the one needing help. All the latter one can do is comply – an action that is also not so simple. The rest of the relationship, however, depends on the healthy person. In short, there is one whose job is to ask for help, and then the one who can help should do everything in their power to help.

One of my students asked me whether we could expand this concept to humanity, whether we could somehow help humanity through the tough times it is experiencing. It is indeed a problem. To start with, how do we know if pulling humanity out of its current state is for its best? If humanity has entered difficult states, it is for a reason. We should think about how humanity can be guided to a much better state, but exiting the descent it is in might not be the best course of action.

In the meantime, we continue studying, teaching and sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah. It offers a way out of suffering by providing the possibility to ascend through reaching out to and supporting each other. We need nothing else. If we mutually support and encourage each other, we can rise up to a new life together.

Kabbalah’s core principle is “love your neighbor as yourself,” which is also its toughest point. It means that we should increase our connection to others voluntarily, as if in the dark, i.e., when our self-serving natures feel no need to make us want to connect with other people. However, if we fail to actively seek positive human connection above our divisive drives, we are doomed.

The very moment we restrict every resistance we have to positively connecting with others is the same moment we rise above suffering. If we lag in our voluntary efforts to urge our connection above differences, then suffering will force us. The latter is like a person getting hit by a stick over and over again until he eventually lands on a path to happiness.

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains the integral laws of nature and the human being’s role in it. By learning the wisdom of Kabbalah, we can draw nature’s forces of connection that help us rise in connection above our differences. Doing so advances human consciousness ahead of the so-called “steamroller of evolution” – the natural evolutionary trajectory that leads to more and more suffering.
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Comment: There is a quote: “If all efforts do not lead to anything and people still destroy each other, then the Universe will not shed a single tear over them.”

Please explain this ruthless quote that the universe does not care.

My Response: No, not that it doesn’t care, it’s just a law that exists in the universe. If people cannot use it correctly, they will destroy each other, and the universe has nothing to regret.

Question: What is this universe that does not regret that we will destroy each other?

Answer: Why should anyone be sorry?

Question: But is there any law of mercy?

Answer: No. Where does it come from?

Comment: I thought the law of mercy came from above. I thought everything was based on this law. I thought that this was the main law of life in general.

My Response: Why would it be?! I look at the inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature and do not see any observance of such laws in them. I think that the worst trait of man is that he invents for himself the future or the existence around him that he desires.

Question: So this is violence? Is man doing violence to nature?

Answer: Yes. And then he demands from nature: “Give it to me!”

Comment: That is, you are merciful, and I want everyone around to be merciful.

My Response: The answer is yes. If we were to reason soberly about nature, we would not demand from nature, but would demand from ourselves, we would demand our correct attitude to ourselves, to others, to nature—to everything. And then we might have a guess about how the universe exists, and how we can rise above it.

Comment: So, I don’t demand from the universe, “Be merciful to me,” but I demand from myself, “Be merciful to others”?

My Response: Yes.

Question: Why should I be merciful to others?

Answer: I have to do for others all the good and kind things that I would like to wish for myself. And in no case should I think that I will receive some kind of reward for this. No way!

Comment: This second part is very difficult, to receive nothing in return.

My Response: That’s the whole point of the first part.

Question: Does this bring me into balance with the universe if I start moving like that, as you say?

Answer: If so, then yes. And then there will be no destruction, no self-destruction.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/27/23

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Question: Alexander the Great, the great commander, marched on Jerusalem. He was already great then, he had conquered half the world. And it is written in the Talmud that the high priest Shimon HaTzadik came out to meet him, and with him the elders.

It is written as follows: “They moved all night by torchlight, and at dawn they met with the advance detachments of the Macedonian. We stood in their way. The squad stopped. Alexander the Great descended from the chariot and knelt before the high priest. The assault on Jerusalem has been canceled.”

From that moment on, the name Alexander was included in the list of Jewish names.

The question is very important for today, what does force gives in to? You are equipped, you have got half the world behind you, you have conquered half the world, and you give up!

Answer: There is a higher power, and Alexander felt it. After he conquered the whole world, he was not blinded by it. He felt the power in this elder and therefore got off the chariot and bowed before the great wisdom that he felt in this man.

Question: Still, how to emanate it? I understand, this is a great High Priest, this is a connection with a upper force. But still, now, today, when all this is happening, is it possible to stand up against weapons like this and win? Is it possible or not?

Answer: It depends on who you are going to talk to.

Comment: After all, you see nobility behind Alexander the Great.

My Response: Not only that. He is a smart man, he is a great man who did not just go out to conquer the world. He came out to fill this world with science and enlightenment. And first of all, he wanted to leave it in those cities through which his troops passed.

He wanted to make this world, of course, Hellenic, but it was enlightened. That is, to raise this pagan world to the level of enlightenment.

Question: What is the spirit that a person radiates that conquers everything? I am asking about the high priest now.

Answer: The high priest is obligated to stay in Jerusalem; he has nowhere to go. He has a completely different mission. He must fill the earth with spirit.

Question: And if he came out now and met the Macedonian, what does that mean?

Answer: It means that two great men, strength and intelligence, came together, each understanding the other, respecting each other, and decided to save Jerusalem based on this.

Question: Was the high priest’s idea to save Jerusalem?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When you say “spirit,” do you necessarily mean an upper force in this concept? Is there no spirit without a higher power?

Answer: No, it does not exist. The spirit is the upper force, which, by the way, exists generally in any person. It only depends on how much a person wants to elevate this spirit above him. Let’s say Hitler could not do it, but Alexander the Great could. Therefore, to this day, Jews often call their children Alexander in honor of Alexander the Great.

Comment: There is no other case like this in history.

Answer: There is no such thing, in any way.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/25/23

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