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Posted on October 20th, 2023 at 2:00 pm
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The most important thing that everyone needs to know today is that the connection between us, even across distances and borders, must save the world from evil.
If with every falling rocket, hatred and grievances toward friends and the Creator grow within you, you must remember that everything comes from the Creator: all your desires and feelings. Therefore, you need to turn to Him and ask for correction in order to feel love instead of hatred, closeness instead of distance. And thus it will happen to all of us.
We ask the Creator to truly make us feel that there is none else besides Him and that He surrounds us from all sides, supports us, and brings us closer to the end of correction.
To win in the war means, despite all obstacles, to hold on to friends and together to hold on to the Creator.
We need to ask the Creator to give the right thoughts and feelings in the heart of every person in the world, to men and women, so that everyone can calm down, and everyone understands how to unite and allow the Creator to reveal Himself in all of us.
It doesn’t matter when the congress ended and where and when the next one will be; we need to feel in a state of spiritual ascent all the time. And then everything will work out for us. The main thing is not to forget about each other, about the Creator, or about our connection, and through it to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/9/23, “Reinforcing Ourselves with There Is None Else Besides Him”
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Question: Let’s say the Creator gives me another revelation of egoism. I ask the Creator to correct it, and my state somehow changes. Does such individual spiritual work influence the entire ten?
Answer: Of course it does because you are part of this group. Therefore, when you ask and the group asks, you influence each other, and the Creator works between you. The most important thing is not to let go of mutual care for each other.
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From the 1st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 10/01/23, Lesson 3 “Overcoming the Burdening of the Heart”
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Question: After we open our hearts, we need to grab the Creator for Him to fill our common heart. How can we do this in practice?
Answer: When you try to catch an object, do you imagine what you are catching?
This is the kind of movement you should make toward the Creator, and not once, but many times, twenty times every day. And then you will begin to get this aspiration for the Creator. It is exercises like this that will lead you to internal and external movements. Good luck.
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From the 2nd part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 2 “Connecting As One Man with One Heart”
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We need to build such a network of connections so that the threads of love stretch between us, and then we need to jump into this sea of love. And we can already talk about it right now and try to do it, but in fact, it will become clear only after a strong connection in the ten.
This can only be realized when I feel myself inside the ten, and together with the entire ten we will take a step toward an even broader unification. Then we will experience indescribable sensations, unlike anything that exists in our world.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, Writings of Rabash “Concerning the Importance of Friends”
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Question: Our convention is called “Opening the Heart” and all its lessons are about how we can connect into one heart, how to overcome the burdening of the heart, and how to extract prayer from the depths of the heart.
Please give us direction so that in the remaining time we can fill ourselves with this convention.
Answer: If everyone prays for a friend, then you will succeed. If everyone in the depths of their hearts worries about themselves, then there will be no connection in which we would reveal the Creator and our next spiritual degree.
So let us pray for our friends. I do not care about myself, I care about my friends because I completely depend on them. It is not just “I care about them.” I care about them because this is also care for myself and for bringing contentment to the Creator. My action is not completely altruistic.
Let us think about mutual guarantee (Arvut) when each of us understands that without me supporting my friends, and my friends supporting me, none of us will achieve anything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”
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Question: In one of his articles, Rabash writes that the Creator demands all hearts. What does it mean?
Answer: The Creator demands that all souls unite into one single soul, which is called Adam—from the word “Domeh,” similar to the Creator.
This is the state we must all achieve together. This is the meaning, purpose, and principle of our existence on Earth.
Try to direct your states toward the Creator, connect them with the Creator, and feel the Creator inside you, inside your connection with each other.
And the most important thing is to correct the heart, to open it wider and wider in front of all friends. Let everyone enter my heart, everyone can fit in it: all the worlds, all of creation, including the Creator. We must understand this, imagine it, attract to ourselves, and reveal ourselves, and then we will succeed.
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From the 1st part of the Lesson of the International Kabbalistic Convention “Opening Hearts” 9/30/23, Lesson 1 “The Work Is Mainly in the Heart”
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why did Hamas kill so many innocent Israeli civilians?“
In Hamas’ terror attack on October 7, 2023, the group did not just kill innocent Israeli civilians, they also made videos of their murders showing pride in their actions.
One of my students asked me about this: How could people reach a state where they kill innocent people, including women and children, and be proud of it?
The problem is that it does not influence us, the people of Israel. It is not the first time in history that such atrocities have taken place toward the Jewish people, and again, the problem is that we fail to draw the right conclusions from these treacherous incidents.
That people resort to actions toward each other that are worse than animals’ treatment of one another is because we are egoistic beings who enjoy in the suffering of others. Only people enjoy in the suffering of others as a means of raising their own status.
If we thought that today, in the 21st century, we as a human race have developed in our knowledge to a point where we are beyond wars and conflicts, it is far from the case. Where do we see that people today are more enlightened than people of the past? What do we see that people wish for other people in the world in today’s culture and education? We see example after example of people wanting to enjoy at the expense of other people and the world.
In the mid-2010s, ISIS made similar public displays as Hamas’ October 7 attacks, taking pride in torturing and executing swathes of innocent people who they deemed as their enemies. People might pin this kind of behavior to Islamist extremists, but it is a narrow view. For instance, only 80 years ago, we saw such behavior in Germany, a country that was renowned for its high cultural impact on the world.
The murderous inclination exists in the egoistic human nature that prioritizes self-benefit over anything else, but such an inclination is especially active toward the Jewish people. Why? It is because we Jews need to serve as a positive unifying example to the world.
Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) writes about this in his article, “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”: “The Israeli nation had been constructed as a sort of gateway by which the sparks of purity would shine upon the whole of the human race the world over.”
If we do not become a positive unifying example to the world, then the world treats us worse than anybody else.
The ability to unite above egoistic and divisive drives is what made us the people of Israel to begin with. And as it was then so it is today: We need to fix our connections to each other so that we reach a state of “love your neighbor as yourself” and that “each shall help his friend,” i.e., that we build a close, loving and supportive connection to each other above our divisions.
After the tragic events of October 7, there has been an awakening of a supportive atmosphere among and toward the people of Israel. Among the people of Israel, it is due to the fear that a similar incident will occur tomorrow. However, when this fear fades away, the people of Israel will once again become divided.
This is why I and my organization invest a lot of effort in regularly disseminating educational content on the need for unity, with an additional emphasis on the unity of the Jewish people. If we can awaken ourselves to unite above division through education in more peaceful times, then we would see how the world’s attitude toward us would shift from negative to positive, and our unity would protect us from horrors such as those that again arose against us on October 7.
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Based on “An Inside Look” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi on October 15, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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