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The Power of Unity and the Powerlessness of Separation

264.01All our work consists in correcting the spiritual vessel, which is called the soul of the first man Adam HaRishon. The Creator created this common desire, and then shattered it into many pieces. And now in each of us there is a tiny particle of that common soul.

We are called human, that is, “sons of Adam,” because we come out of the desire, which is called Adam HaRishon. Our task is to unite our disconnected, distant, separated desires back into one desire through our efforts.

Of course a lot of work is required here because all these particles have separated and moved away from each other due to the differences in their forms. And how is it possible to glue together completely different desires? We begin to examine according to what qualities it is possible to combine one desire with another until we get a single whole in which everything is connected together.

And the more desires this common desire absorbs, the more it feels and reveals the upper force that created it.

Therefore all our actions should be aimed at connection. This determines the whole attitude to life, to the Creator, to the friends, and to oneself and one’s state. With each of my actions, thoughts, and desires, I strive to push the connection forward in order to further bring together and unite different desires and turn them into one single common desire for mutual bestowal.

All private desires are broken and do not want to connect. The Creator did this on purpose to give us the opportunity to feel the difference between a broken desire and a whole one. And due to this we begin to attain the Creator as the advantage of light from darkness.

The Creator divided the common desire into billions of opposite parts, and then He helps us, at our request, put them together and make up for each other. When we combine all the pros and cons together, we feel how powerful a united desire is compared to the weakness and insignificance of a shattered one.

On this difference of potentials—between plus and minus, between connection and division—we will feel the full power and depth of creation, we will attain the intention and work of the Creator, and ourselves.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/14/22, “Each Day They Will Be As New in Your Eyes”

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Learning to Exist According to the Laws of Connection

935Humanity is in such period in history when we are revealing even more clearly that our development was wrong. After all, it was dictated by evil egoistic forces, and therefore was constantly accompanied by wars, conflicts, problems, and fears. Eventually we need to join the force of good.

We have no idea how different such a life is from our current existence. This is the entire essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah; it speaks about the collection of forces available in nature, how we can reveal them, bring them closer to us, come closer to each other through them, and begin to assemble the system as it existed before the shattering of the system of the common soul Adam HaRishon.

In this system, everyone was connected together and understood each other as if they belonged to one body, one mind, and with common desire and intention as one single whole. This is the way the organs in a healthy body exist,  each organ knows what it must do to maintain the life of all other organs.

Therefore, Kabbalists advise us to work in a group in order to gradually feel how mutual support helps us uncover a system called Adam, that is, similar (Domeh) to the Creator, the force of bestowal. We will really feel together as one force with one mind and one feeling in love and unity.

For this purpose we organize Kabbalistic groups through which we try to learn how to exist according to the laws of connection and climb to the second floor of reality.

Then we will reveal the universe in its true form and find out that the universe is much broader and more interconnected than we thought. We get to know the forces of nature by seeing how they permeate this world from end to end. It means, to attain the Creator, the upper force, by rising to His level.
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From the Convention in Turkey 2022, “A Prayer Lishma,” Lesson 3

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Final Development on the Ground Floor

214There are two opposite forces in nature and everything depends on how we use them. There is the good force and evil, the force of connection and the force of rejection.

These forces are present at all degrees of nature: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human. We need to learn how to control these forces instead of letting them control us.

Kabbalists tell us about this, and they are the ones who have already revealed the upper degree of reality, the second floor of our existence. Humanity is already completing the first stage of its development under the control of an evil egoistic force. And then, according to the historical process and the forces controlling us, we have to go up to the second floor.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how to climb from the first floor to the second. Kabbalists performed this ascent hundreds of years ago. But then there were only a few of them in each generation, such people who took on themselves the work of changing the relationship between people. Thus they revealed the second force of nature, the force of unity, and wrote us books about it.

We are obliged to move to existence on the second floor, to the realization of the good force between us in the global connection of everyone together. In this way we return to the state that was before the shattering of the system of Adam HaRishon, the first man that was shattered into many parts. There is a part of this Adam in each of us, and we need to connect all these parts back together, which is called becoming like one man with one heart.

It means to return to the existence of the system as Adam, like (Domeh) the Creator. And then we will continue to exist on the second floor of reality, on the degree of connection.

This transition can be made in a good way through the power of unity by awakening it between us. Or we will have to move forward under the influence of an evil force if we do not realize our connection in time with the help of correct, progressive development, from a smaller connection to an increasingly stronger one.

If we do not awaken the good forces of nature for our connection, then they immediately begin to act in an inverse, negative form. And then evil forces are revealed between us, which generates conflicts, wars, as well as internal and external problems in the relationship between us and for everyone individually.

Therefore, a hundred years ago, the wisdom of Kabbalah began to open up to everyone. Kabbalists explain what needs to be done to reveal our next degree, the second floor, in the fastest and best way. Baal HaSulam was the first Kabbalist who widely revealed this technique to everyone; he wrote many books about it, according to which we study.
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From the Convention in Turkey 2022, “The Conditions for Connection in the Group,” Lesson 1

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A Single Universal Mind

294.3Question: Are all eight billion inhabitants of our planet part of a single mind? What will they be next?

Answer: They will represent a single mind then. But now, when they are broken, there is not any mind.

As they unite, a common collective mind will arise that is based on connection, on mutual leveling before each other, on mutual union, where each one lowers himself in order to unite with the other and is included in the other and the others are included in him. As a result of such mutual inclusion, this mind will appear among people.

When everyone wants to unite with each other, suddenly a light emerges among them, and the upper force appears, a state called “adhesion with the Creator.” Thus, He appears among them.

Question: What is the difference between small personal minds of people and this single mind?

Answer: Personal minds are egoistic, and they serve only themselves. It is a mind of a small animal body that takes care of itself and tries to ultimately extract from the surrounding world everything it can in order to grab and energetically and corporeally fill itself.

The universal mind is when you connect to the entire universe, when you are part of it, part of the common brain, and you participate in everything together with it. Our current mind is not a mind because it exists in a small cell only to maintain its existence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Collective Mind” 9/7/13

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Unconscious Correction

962.3Question: If we look from the point of view of Kabbalah, why should there be the division into a huge number of people?

Answer: Because it helps the correction. The fact that everyone makes a small unconscious correction means a lot. Today, with the help of the tools that he invented thanks to his knowledge, one person can do work that was previously done by, say, a million people.

Give me an excavator and I will do work equivalent to, say, a thousand diggers, no problem! One dig and that is it. And that is how I can dig up as much in a day as a thousand people can dig up in a day. But I need a mind for that.

And if I cannot act intelligently, if I cannot use the forces of nature, then I need thousands of people who will do it unknowingly who are poking around like bugs, and that is the problem.

Therefore, in principle, there should be one Adam. Adam and no one else! But since he could not fulfill his task (purely allegorically), it turns out that eight billion are needed, eight billion who will pick and gnaw something.

As a result, something will turn out in a bad, problematic way, but people will come to understand and solve the riddle of what Adam did wrong, and how they would correct his mistake.

That is it, back to square one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Collective Mind” 9/7/13

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Adam’s Mistake

962.2Question: Did Adam make any real mistake?

Answer: Allegedly, a real mistake. Adam failed to reveal the universe correctly, which is represented by eating from the tree of knowledge. He ate it egoistically, and therefore he must come to the realization of the unfaithfulness of the egoistic path of development, the egoistic attitude to himself, to the environment, and change his attitude with his whole history.

This, in principle, is his sin; he tried to do the opposite but could not.

Question: Why was Adam shattered into small parts?

Answer: In order for everyone to solve their own little problem. And what do you do in our world when you face a big task? You break it into pieces, and into more pieces, and more, and give everyone a task, adjustments, and an implementation plan.

All of us in the world unconsciously solve this problem. We do not understand what we are doing, but in theory we are solving a very simple task: a person’s attitudes to the environment, to nature, and the universe, and understand what the Creator is, what the universe is.

In principle, the problem has been solved, the algorithm has been found, but it has not become the asset of all eight billion people so they are still unconsciously poking around and solving this problem through suffering.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Collective mind” 9/7/13

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Reincarnations—Attaining Your Soul

629.4Question: Does a person have the opportunity to learn about his past reincarnations? There is a lot of speculation on this topic and quite serious evidence that people seem to remember who they were in other incarnations. Is it possible?

Answer: No. As a rule, these are all far-fetched thoughts. But if a person really reveals the upper world, he absolutely clearly attains his soul, his cycle, where he is, what is happening to him.

Question: It is written in the book of the Prophets that at the end of days all bodies will rise. Is there such a thing as the “resurrection of the dead”? What is this about?

Answer: That in the end all souls will attain themselves and will be able to unite together into the one soul of Adam.

Question: Does it matter what actions a person performed in his past life and does it connect with his future cycle?

Answer: Of course there are certain connections and dependencies. But, in general, we cannot figure it out.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Reincarnations—Where Does the Previous Soul Go?

622.01Question: If the soul of a person is exchanged, if he is given another one, where does the previous one go?

Answer: It does not go anywhere. There are reincarnations of souls all the time; they move from one state to another.

In general, there is only one soul in the world, and all that happens to it is the development of its constituent parts.

We see the world as differentiated, divided into different souls that are clothed in different bodies. But if you look with different eyes, it is one soul.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Reincarnations—The Benefit of Life Cycles

600.02Question: On one hand, according to Kabbalah there is only one soul. On the other hand, they speak of “the reincarnation of souls”; that is, there are many of them. How should one understand this?

Answer: The common soul was divided into parts. It is called Adam because in total it should be similar to the Creator, from the Hebrew word “Domeh” -similar. And then it must undergo all kinds of transformations and at the same time constantly draw closer to similarity of form to the Creator.

Question: Let’s say a person lives. He must die and be reborn, and again go through dozens or hundreds of lives. What is the benefit of this?

Answer: The fact is that these parts, which feel like people, eventually unite, achieve some kind of mutual merger of intentions and desires, and become like the Creator.

Question: There is such a thing as a male and female soul. What is the difference? What is this talking about here?

Answer: It does not depend on gender, but only on the qualities of the soul at the moment.

The soul is a desire with an intention. This is the construction of the soul. For every form of desire to receive, there is an intention for what.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Returning to the Structure of Adam

275The most important commandment of Kabbalah is “love your neighbor as yourself.” If we get closer to this, then along the way we will begin to feel more and more similar to the upper force, the Creator, and He will begin to reveal Himself in us as one single great force.

We will begin to feel that the importance of this world is practically decreasing for us and that the world of complete connection is rising more and more; we will feel this when the feeling of the universe passes through the friends. In this way we will feel the upper world.

Kabbalah teaches this. It leads to this. I am sure that each of us can attain this, both men and women. There are no barriers for anyone. We are all children of Adam and must return to his full structure, to unity.
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From Dr. Laitman’s Conversation with the Georgian Group 9/15/22

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