Question: What is the difference between the light of the Creator and the greatness of the Creator? How do they relate?

Answer: It is practically the same thing and is only determined relative to a person. It depends on how much one truly wants to feel the greatness of the Creator and to sense that the Creator fills the entire world.

Comment: But the light is what is under the control of the Creator and the Kli (desire) is under the control of a person.

My Response: This needs to be sorted out. When a person experiences this feeling, he begins to understand the difference. But for now, one should only strive to imagine how the Creator fills the entire world.

Question: When after great suffering I come to the sensation of the Creator, and the Creator heals me, becomes my salvation, comfort, and rapidly fills my entire world, how can I transition from this state of escaping from suffering to revealing the Creator for the purpose of serving Him?

Answer: You must come to a state where you are ready to completely nullify yourself in order to feel the Creator. To feel how the Creator fills the entire world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 10/25/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Reason for the Heaviness One Feels when Annulling before the Creator in the Work?“

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Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Is the Meaning of ‘Reply unto Your Heart?’”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 1, “Table of Answers for the Meaning of the Words,” Item 1

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Shofar of the Messiah “

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If we start to investigate, we will quickly understand that we, the people of Israel, are to blame for what is happening. We have not followed the straight and right path, which is called the path of the Torah. Therefore, we must now correct our path.

And in this, we need to support and strengthen each other so that instead of lamenting and regretting, we can look truth in the eye and figure out how to move forward on the path to unity, peace, and common harmony and how we can also explain to our enemies that the way to universal harmony lies only in unity among all, so we would stop fighting and proving one’s righteousness, as such a path does not lead to a solution.

The strength of our people lies only in unity. And if we direct our unity toward the Creator, we will find ourselves at the center of creation. From this point, we can achieve success, not just by defeating someone by force, but by proving to everyone that global unity is possible above all enmity and will be the solution for everyone.

We should not consider ourselves righteous, acting at the pinnacle of justice. If that were the case, we would not be in the situation we are in today.

In reality, our condition is no better than that of any other nation or group. Everyone is in complete confusion and global shattering. Therefore, we must know that there is no truth behind anyone. The truth lies only in turning to the Creator and wanting to draw closer to Him so He will care for us.

The only way to escape the trap in which humanity finds itself is if everyone wants to join the central point that gathers all the humanity together and leaves no one outside that center. There will be no good or bad, no disputes between nations and religions; everyone will be obligated to accept all others as members of one community because all people are brothers.

The Creator gave us all an egoistic, evil nature only so that we could rise above our egoism and acquire a good nature against it.

We must understand that humanity has fallen into such darkness that no one comprehends where the truth is, where justice is, and how it is possible to live in peace. If there is no external war somewhere, there is an internal war. Therefore, to bring about the right balance, we must change ourselves.

I wish for people to discover the upper force that can unite all people into one group, into one people of the Creator. Then, we will be in the right state.

May the Creator gather us together into one people and teach us how to relate to each other, what to feel and think about each other. Otherwise, these wars will not end today or tomorrow, but will continue for many, many years.

Therefore, we must demand the Creator to show us the right direction in our development and the right attitude among all nations and all the people.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/30/23, Writings of Rabash “It Is Forbidden to Hear a Good Thing from a Bad Person“

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Question: Is it possible to live without suffering? Sometimes you say, “It is possible without suffering,” and other times you say, “It is impossible.” Yes, or no?”

My Response: It is possible to live without suffering if we will imagine how we grow thanks to suffering. And then, we will perceive suffering as an incentive to growth.

Question: So, when sufferings come, what should be my response to it?

Answer: That I investigate, analyze, and rise above them.

Question: Analyzing them means: Where did they come from, why? Is that analysis?

Answer: And that is too, of course.

Question: Does that mean that I have to respond to every suffering with analysis?

Answer: Certainly yes. Otherwise, it will pass without a trace. We’ve had this before. We have already been to Gaza and have already expelled terrorists from there. So what? It just gets worse from time to time.

Comment: It is not easy all the time. If I feel pain, I feel it.

My Response: Everything I am going to say today is not easy. Because this is the situation!

Question: In other words, if I feel pain, I still have to, even go through the pain, come to an analysis, as you say, where did it come from and why did it come to me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then the pain goes away? Or is it changing? What happens if I actually analyze?

Answer: I thank this pain for what it does to me. Thanks to it I feel where I am ill, in what ways, and how can I get rid of my illness and come to a healthy life. And it is indeed the path to a healthy life.

Question: So, it turns out that it is possible without suffering, right?

Answer: Of course. It is possible without suffering if we correctly depict what suffering means. And sufferings are in mutual hatred. This is what real sufferings are! And I have to rise above them to mutual love, and then everything will work out.

Question: Meaning, that I have to suffer from the hatred for another that lives in me? Is that what you call real suffering?

Answer: Yes. Exactly to that extent I have to suffer.

Question: And what about that I am pushed with a stick to happiness and so on?

Answer: No, that is not it. This is a result of my behavior, a consequence of my hatred.

Question: So, you are going back to the root again? Everything is in the root.

Answer: And what can you do?

Question: Let’s imagine if I turn this hatred around, will be able to, then the stick will no longer push me?

Answer: Obviously who would it push? It only pushes us to bring us to a state of love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/12/23

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Question: How from individual work on exiting the will to receive do we connect together in the ten?

Answer: Each of you should be above the individual will to receive and yearn to connect only in the will to bestow. In this way, you perform the appropriate actions and the Creator influences them with His light, and you gradually enter into the will to bestow.

If you show your friends an example of a desire to connect with them, then the upper force passes through this example, which influences them as well.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/10/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘You Will See My Back, But My Face Shall Not Be Seen,’ in the Work?“

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Question: It is written: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” We are constantly revealing layer after layer of egoism in us to the point where we really begin to hate ourselves.

How then can I love my neighbor as myself if I hate myself?

Answer: You should try to love your neighbor. Today you are still in egoistic feelings, but you love yourself. In the same way, start loving others. This is “love your neighbor as yourself.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/9/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Who Love the Lord, Hate Evil“

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Question: Should the group develop anticipation of pleasure about future degrees and refresh memories of good states that were in the past?

Answer: Yes, absolutely. This supports a person on the spiritual path.

Question: What is the life force, and how do we receive it from time? After all, there is no time in spirituality.

Answer: To the extent that you want to rise above your nature of reception and yearn to be in nature of bestowal, you begin to come closer to spirituality, you receive new forces, and you discover the source of these forces—the Creator.

Question: What is the life-giving force of holiness? Does it exist within us now?

Answer: The life–giving force is the force that holds you and gives you the strength to learn, hear, come to lessons, interact with friends, and so on. Of course, you have it within you. If this force did not exist, you would be completely exhausted.

Question: How can you convince the body that it is obliged to receive life force from spirituality?

Answer: Constantly tell it about it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/08/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Vitality of Kedusha”

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Question: When a person comes into contact with Kabbalah a little and sees it as hard work, he begins to use it to justify himself, not the Creator, friends, or the whole world. Can we say this is how the world’s nations learn to serve their king and pray to idols?

Answer: No, this is incorrect. If the science of Kabbalah is hard for a person, this does not mean he can use it as it suits him.

Comment: Let us say I find out that everything is from the Creator and stop making efforts in something. In a way, I am relieving myself of responsibility by saying everything is from Him.

My Response: No. You are not finishing the second part of the sentence. Everything from the Creator is what is given into your hands to correct.

Comment: When the work feels difficult, they tend not to finish the second part of the sentence.

My Response: But what can you do? If you run away midway, you will not get to the end.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress“

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Question: How should each friend feel bestowal in the center of the ten?

Answer: Everyone should feel that they are connected with all the members of the group and want to rise together with them and cling to the Creator.

This is the right aspiration, the right action, and the right feeling.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is a Great or a Small Sin in the Work?”

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