I should try not to feel the distance between me and my friends, and the more I eliminate this distance, the greater my chances of feeling the Creator. If my internal connection with the Creator and my friends is so strong that for me there is no difference between us, then I get the opportunity to reveal the Creator, to feel Him with all my desires, with all my organs.

It cannot be that the Creator is further away from me than a friend. On the contrary, when I feel my friends so close as if they touch my skin, my inner qualities, then I can reveal and feel the Creator.

It is necessary to eliminate the distance between me and my friends in everything: in my mind and in my heart, in all my hopes and desires, to feel them with all my heart and soul. And this means not just hugging but getting closer internally. It may not even manifest itself in external actions, but it must be a movement of the heart.

Of course, at first I feel the distance between me and my friend, the discrepancy between our qualities. But the more I think about how to get closer to him, to connect as one person with one heart, the more clearly I can imagine the Creator who is between us, as it is said: “You made Me.”

We get closer to our friends to such an extent that we unite all our desires, thoughts, dreams, and aspirations, and then we feel that the Creator is between us. It is by the fact that we try to feel us all as one person with one heart, one common thought, one desire, one aspiration, in one embrace—by this effort we build the Creator.

We merge our hearts so much that there is no other place left for the Creator but to fill our hearts. We define a place for the Creator as the place of our common heart. Our connection in which there are no other vacant places determines the place for the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/16/23, “Rosh HaShana“

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Question: What kind of renewal should we do at the beginning of the year in order to be worthy and to build a building suitable for the light of the Creator?

Answer: All we need to do is to achieve a connection between us, a connection of love or at least friendship and support. If we achieve this, we will move precisely to the Creator; we will reach and reveal Him in the center of the connection between us.

Where we connect together in one desire, there will be the center of the ten and the center of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/15/23, “Rosh HaShana“

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Question: It is said that according to the root, the whole order of life is built and continues. How can we build the root of love between us so that all subsequent branches this year will lead us to this wave of love?

Answer: It is very simple. We must constantly unite together and define a place for the Creator between us.

We connect our hearts so that He has no choice but to fill them. The place for the Creator is our common heart. The Creator Himself does not need a place. When there are no empty spaces left in our connection, this will be the place for the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 9/16/23, “Rosh HaShanah”

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What should I look for when I look at nature?“

You should look for how smart, perfect and eternal it is.

Nature is good. Where there are no people, there is goodness.

The human is the only creature that harms others and himself. Nature without the person does not do so.

Why does man possess this evil quality? It is in order to acknowledge that we are evil, that we must change in a direction toward goodness, and to bring ourselves to goodness through self-recognition.

If we will know how to correctly participate in nature, then indeed, by the laws of nature, and not by artificial laws of our own, we will be able to live harmonious and peaceful lives.

We need to learn from nature how to behave, how to cause no harm to anyone, how to support and help everyone, and to see everyone as beautiful, good and drawn to a perfectly-connected state of love.

Based on the video “This Is What to Look for in Nature” with Kabbalst Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/eited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: No matter how hard I try, I always have the feeling that the Creator does not seem to accept my efforts, as if He further inflames my desire to please Him.

Will I ever feel that I am bringing Him contentment? Or will the Creator let me feel that I am still doing something wrong?

Answer: It is wonderful that the Creator shows all the time that He is dissatisfied with you. This ignites you and gives you the opportunity to make an even greater effort, to strive even more toward Him. This is the best help that the Creator can give to a person.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/25/23, “To Criticize Oneself”

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Question: In Rosh HaShanah, you need to judge yourself. This is associated with self-criticism: how bad I am, how different I am from the Creator. How does this vigilante justice differ from the state when “The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh”?

Answer: You should not eat your own flesh, curse, and judge yourself. You should only direct yourself to love others. This is “judging yourself.”

Question: How can you not judge friends?

Answer: Love them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/16/23, “Rosh HaShanah“

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Question: When we are in the thought of building a common state, there is a feeling of unity as if the Creator lifts us in His arms.

But when we try to get closer to our friends in action, our heart turns to stone as if we were given the feeling of the true state. What should our request be here?

Answer: The request should be for the Creator to dissolve your heart so it will float in your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/24/23, “To Criticize Oneself”

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Question: What is this embrace, closeness, and warmth that we feel in connection with the Creator?

Answer: It is impossible to explain it in other words because the connection with Him really feels like an embrace, intimacy. I feel the Creator very close, I snuggle up to Him, I want to be near Him all the time, I warm up. This is what the Creator gives me. I feel that I am in contact with Him all the time and get this closeness, this warmth from Him.

Question: What can I give the Creator in return?

Answer: Recognition. Cling to the Creator like a child, and it will be enough.

Question: How can one not be dependent on the desire to be in connection with the Creator for my own sake, but dependent on the desire to bring Him contentment?

Answer: To do this, you must constantly think about it and ask for you to have such a relation toward the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/24/23, “To Criticize Oneself”

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