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Question: What helps one constantly reveal and develop the true, strong, pure desire to be like the Creator at each degree?
Answer: You should feel each degree from all sides and relate it to the Creator and understand that He is revealed in you through all kinds of properties.
The Creator Himself will help you clearly identify your states. The point is that the light He sends you breaks you into several parts. Therefore, one relative to the other gives you a sensation of certain properties and characteristics, and you thus move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”
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Question: How can a person be rewarded with the revelation of the truth, the revelation of the roots?
Answer: To do this, we just need to correct our qualities and connect with the Creator.
Then all our qualities will be against His qualities, and one by one we will receive His influence on us. It shapes us and gives us a clear understanding of our condition in relation to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”
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Question: How can we build an intention to be giving in relation to the environment?
Answer: Our intention is to receive for the sake of the Creator. And what does it mean for the sake of the Creator? When we connect with each other in a single ten, twenty, thirty – it doesn’t matter, then in this way we attract the upper light, and it corrects us.
Question: When the Creator gives a strong desire to unite, how can we not waste this light? Is it enough to hold everyone in your heart and lift them up to the Creator?
Answer: No, you won’t keep anything that way. You must immediately connect with your ten and rise together using this light, this excitement that you have felt in yourself.
Question: Some friends believe that we should create a “magnet” of unification, and then the Creator Himself will attract it.
Answer: Don’t expect anything from the Creator, act on your own, and if you can’t, then ask the Creator to help you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/15/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Raising Oneself”
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Question: By what signs can we understand that we are advancing?
Answer: As you are approaching the center of creation, you begin to understand more, to feel more, to reveal more of the entire universe. It becomes closer to you, and you have a greater understanding of spiritual forces, an understanding of the Creator.
You must search and try to find how you can come closer to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/19/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Completing the Labor”
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Question: In the Talmud, an ancient source of Jewish wisdom, it is written:
There was an incident involving King Ptolemy of Egypt, who assembled seventy-two Elders from the Sages of Israel, and put them into seventy-two separate rooms, and did not reveal to them for what purpose he assembled them, so that they would not coordinate their responses. He entered and approached each and every one, and said to each of them: Write for me a translation of the Torah of Moses your teacher. The Holy One, Blessed be He, placed wisdom in the heart of each and every one, and they all agreed to one common understanding. Not only did they all translate the text correctly, they all introduced the same changes into the translated text.”
This is how the Torah was translated into Greek.
My question is, can this source be trusted? Can we say that this happened exactly how it is written?
Answer: Where is it written?
Comment: In the Talmud.
My Response: So, why are you asking?
Question: What is considered a miracle: the fact that the 72 elders translated the Torah as if done by one translator, or that God placed in them a single wisdom, one intention? What is the miracle here?
Answer: The miracle is most likely that they all translated it as one person. The root of this was, as it is written, that God placed in them a single wisdom and one thought.
Question: How does this happen? 72 different people write the exact same text without the slightest error. How does it happen that God places this in each of them?
Answer: Because it is God. And because these are 72 special sages at the highest level of knowledge (therefore 72). The number itself is the level of the highest knowledge. That is why they were able to do it.
Question: Can we say that if God instills one intention and a single wisdom, then God wants this source, the Torah, to be spread in the world?
Answer: This has been said many times and also directly stated that these laws should be for the entire world.
Comment: It is said here that they were able to reach one common understanding.
My Response: Yes, that is the miracle.
Question: Reaching one common understanding is a miracle. If in the past, 72, 120 people, the Sanhedrin, made one decision, today two people cannot make one decision. Two! They must clash, each asserting their own opinion.
How can ordinary people, politicians, leaders, or just individuals and families come to one decision, to one opinion?
Answer: There is a lack of understanding that we are under the authority of the Almighty, and everything comes from Him. Therefore, by agreeing with others, you, in principle, come closer to the Creator.
Question: Do you mean to say that I am somehow agreeing with the Creator who is expressing Himself through another?
Answer: Yes.
Question: If I can go this far, suppress and nullify myself, can I also hear what is being said to me from above?
Answer: You will hear the Creator.
Question: Does this apply to both disputing parties, and families, and generally to any states?
Answer: It is not about hearing what the other person is saying. Through them, you will hear the Creator. This is important.
Question: Specifically through my nullification?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: You attribute such great importance to nullification.
My Response: A person nullifies their egoism, the most important thing within them, and desires only to work with receiving from outside. And “from outside” comes to them from the Creator.
Question: Are you saying that the miracle here is precisely this nullification?
Answer: Yes, that is the miracle. If we could nullify ourselves before each other, we would hear the Creator. But He is concealed behind what we say to each other without listening to others.
Question: Is he waiting for us to be able to do this, to nullify ourselves?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/28/23
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Exactly in the same way that the body is impressed, so should be the fear of heaven (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 138, “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”).
Question: What is “before heaven”? What is this place?
Answer: Before the Creator.
Question: But everyone has their own Creator. And how does this happen through working in the ten? After all, there is a fear of losing connection with your friends or not giving them enough.
Answer: Right! You should slowly remove these fears and instead try to feel love, affection, and a sense of intimacy.
Question: And if you feel that you have a fear of the Creator, but not for the ten and only for yourself so as not to receive blows, how can this fear be transferred into the fear for the sake of bestowal?
Answer: Just ask, and you will see how much you advance toward it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”
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Question: As is known in our world, fear is based on desire. That is, if I am afraid of something, it will happen. Is it possible to change fate if, with the help of prayer in the ten, all fears translate into trembling before the Creator? What kind of prayer should it be?
Answer: It should be an ordinary request that a person supports at the highest level he is able to.
Then, the Creator cancels the fear that He caused in a person and replaces it with another feeling, a more favorable one. After all, a person no longer needs to feel fear because he does everything to rise above the degree of fear to connect with his friends and the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”
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Comment: It says that if fear overcomes us, we must investigate and study that it is not by chance.
My Response: You must understand what you are asking for or you will receive a reverse reaction from the Creator and will not be able to identify that it comes to your appeals to Him.
Question: But, in essence, we have constant contact with the Creator through the ten. When I realize that I have become detached from it and connect this with the Creator, that He did it so that I think little about the ten, and through the ten about Him, how do I correctly engage in the work?
Answer: The Creator never creates such obstacles for us. He does not want to detach us from the ten or from the purpose of creation. It all depends only on us.
Disturbances are meant to make us even more attached to the Creator and to turn to Him with requests more often.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person”
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