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Side By Side At Opposite Ends Of The Universe

583.02To achieve a connection, it does not matter whether we are physically in the same room or at a great distance from each other. In spirituality it is not the physical distance that is considered but the desire. If the desires are directed to the same goal, it means that we are together, next to each other.

We may be at opposite ends of the universe, but this entire material universe with all its stars and galaxies is just one tiny point inside the infinite spiritual world.

After all, infinity does not mean the absence of an end, but that the end is exactly where the desire is fully realized.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/25/21, “Entering Impregnation – Revealing a New World”, Lesson 1

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Come And See Our Creator

963.8We try to connect in such a way as to break down all the walls between us. It does not matter that we all differ in our thoughts, desires, and characters, only one thing is important—to unite around one goal. This is what connects us.

Therefore, there is no need to change anyone’s natural qualities, on the contrary, the more differences there are between us, the better. But at the same time, we set one goal for ourselves and we all want to be aimed to connect in it. This will be the Creator that we want to reveal because the Creator is the result of our connection.

The Creator is called come and see (Bo-re), i.e., we will come and see that He is one. Until we reveal Him between us as one whole, in common agreement, common understanding and feeling, and in one point of our connection, we will not reveal the Creator.

That is why He is called come and see because we build the condition of His existence by our connection. There is no Creator without a creation. He does not exist until we create this concept of Creator and He begins to exist only relative to us as our Creator. Besides this, there is only an abstract upper force that we do not attain.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/25/21, “Entering Impregnation – Revealing a New World”, Lesson 1

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What Does It Mean To Serve The Creator?

527.03To serve the Creator means to go along with Him in the process by which He leads me, to accept His plan, His goal for which He created creations, and to be ready to work for the realization of His program.

I agree in advance that this program is the most correct and the best for me, even though it is contrary to my nature. But I want to follow it and fulfill it.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 9/25/21, “Entering Impregnation – Revealing a New World”, Lesson 1

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Guarantee—Nullification Of Selfishness

942Question: Is the concept of guarantee something through which we can gain resistance to selfishness?

Answer: Of course. One nullifies oneself in relation to others in order to create a joint common desire.

When a person annuls one’s animal component (receiving for oneself) and wants to include only one’s human component (transmission to others), a single common desire arises in which the Creator is revealed.

Question: Suppose seven or eight thousand people gather, as is usually the case at congresses, and they try to enter the state of Arvut (mutual guarantee). It will work, it will not work, we do not know, but we really want it. Will so many people help you achieve the result?

Answer: Of course, both quantity and quality. The quantity is irreplaceable, it is necessary. But even more important is the quality, the tension of the bond between us. Everyone’s egoism tries to tear him away from others. Therefore everything depends on the strength with which we connect with each other.

The meaning of spiritual work is to find in our common connection that property of bestowal and love that is higher than our nature.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #20

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“A Weekend Of Profound Unity”

 

Dr. Michael LaitmanFrom My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 27/9/21

Over the past weekend, my students from around the world gathered for an event of profound unity. Using a unique virtual platform, built by the students themselves, nearly 6,000 friends got together online for what was probably the largest interactive convention ever held.

For forty-eight hours of joy, we had lessons, workshops, watched movies and clips. We ate and drank, sang in multiple languages, at every hour of the day, and at every time-zone in the globe.

Every event was simultaneously interpreted over the internet into dozens of languages by the friends themselves, which fastened and strengthened their bonds. They divided into groups, then mingled the groups, divided into languages, then mingled the languages, and all with one aim in mind: to generate worldwide unity.

This weekend, Chinese bonded with North and South Americans, who bonded with Iranians, who bonded with Israelis, who bonded with Russians, who bonded with Europeans, who bonded with Africans, who bonded with Australians, who bonded with Chinese, until the circle was complete. Indeed, we all became one sphere, held together by invisible threads that stretched from heart to heart to heart. Veteran students, complete beginners, and everyone in between felt very much at home in this gathering, and everyone wishes to continue fostering our unity.

In this troubled time of deepening chasms among and within nations, when hatred and violence seem to have the upper hand, my students proved that if we truly want to unite and nurture love among all people, no rift will divide us. On the contrary: The deeper the rift, the tighter the bond.

I am confident that such events have an enormous positive impact on the world. Hopefully, with persistent work on unity, we will be able to spread the love that we nurtured this weekend to the entire world, so that all of humanity may taste the taste of oneness and choose to beat swords into plowshares.

Together We Will Open The Heavens

936The Congress is a special opportunity for connection. The Creator forces us to connect virtually, but this connection is even more powerful than at physical congresses we held in the past.

The virtual congress is stronger than the physical one and is more spiritually oriented. After all, we went to physical congresses to sing, dance, jump together, talk with friends, and feel ourselves in a huge hall surrounded by several thousand people.

But would this illusion of connection brought by a physical connection be closer to spirituality than when we sit each behind our screen and are forced to build a connection from heart to heart? After all, we have no other choice. The material world is ending, we are leaving the corporeal world, and I do not know if we will ever return to physical meetings.

The Creator takes us further because we are a new generation, the last generation, the first spiritual one, and therefore, we must rise above corporeality whether we want it or not. You can see the exercises given to us from above.

Therefore, the congress should become an opportunity for us for spiritual and not material connection as it was in previous congresses.

We need to convince each other to unite even more in a spiritual form, in inner feelings and to send  a message from our heart to the heart of a friend about our desire to unite with him. Only by connecting hearts can we restore the structure of man, Adam, the one common soul within which the eternal light will be revealed. This state will be the end of the correction (Gmar Tikkun).

Therefore, for us to be at a virtual congress means to be at a spiritual congress, an internal one. The Creator took away the opportunity to hold such physical congresses like in previous years in order to advance us. I do not regret that today we do not have the possibility of gathering in the great hall and seeing each other face to face. Faces are not important to me—hearts and desires are important. Let’s move on to more spiritual actions.

We come to the virtual congress in order to make a special attack on connection and unite into one desire called Adam, which means like the Creator.

Every day a lesson can be like a mini-congress, but it is still different from such special events that happen every few months.

We need to understand that the conditions are given to us from above, and we are obliged to accept them above reason even if we do not understand them. It is in the conditions of a virtual congress that we must make every effort to connect, as Rabash writes: so that “the outstretched land for many miles will not stand between us.”

I warn you: it is very important not to miss this chance and make an effort together. Individual efforts are not enough; we need to bring ourselves all together to a global connection and from it to one common prayer to the Creator. And then the heavens will open.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/21, “Preparing to Attack at the Congress”

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International Kabbalah Convention “Entering Impregnation – Revealing A New World” – 9/26/21

International Kabbalah Convention, Preparation for Lesson 3

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International Kabbalah Convention, “Entry Into the Spiritual Degree,” Lesson 3

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Selected Highlights

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International Kabbalah Convention, Preparation for Lesson 4

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International Kabbalah Convention, “The Most Important Is the Prayer,” Lesson 4

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International Kabbalah Convention “Entering Impregnation – Revealing A New World” – 9/25/21

International Kabbalah Convention, Preparation for Lesson 1

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International Kabbalah Convention, “Entry Into the Spiritual Degree,” Lesson 1

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Selected Highlights

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International Kabbalah Convention, Preparation for Lesson 2

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International Kabbalah Convention, “Annulment as a Preparation for Ibur (Impregnation),” Lesson 2

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Time For Spiritual Advancement

631.5Question: How long can it take for a person today to acquire the power of the Masach?

Answer: We cannot say anything about acquisition of the Masach in our time, because this is a special time when people are not moving towards the spiritual alone, as it was in previous generations.

Now for the first time, literally billions of people in the world unconsciously aspire to the Creator. They do not understand it, but they strive for Him. Therefore we cannot say specifically how the correction will take place in our so-called last generation.

Question: Can several participants in this process have a Masach at the same time?

Answer: I think that the Masach should appear in parallel for many and they will be able to help each other.

Question: At the end of September we are planning a big virtual congress with thousands of participants. When so many people gather and study certain materials related to the construction of the Masach at the same time, can it cause them to acquire the Masach?

Answer: Yes. This can cause the Masach to appear in many people, and generally move all participants forward into spiritual space.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 8/20/21

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Open Yourself For The Upper World

939.02Question: Let’s say, we are around 7,000 people who get together and want to unite. Can such a large number of people positively effect the final result?

Answer: Undoubtedly! People want to unite. They understand what they gain with this. They can achieve such a degree of unity, where with the appropriate force of desire, the upper light will light up in the connection between them.

Comment: I remember my feeling when we were studying in a small group of 15 people. Then I felt that we were much closer to something than now, when 7,000 people gather, dance, sing, and have fun.

My Response: I understand you and agree that it is harder to achieve such a state of intimacy, warmth, connection, devotion, and love among 7,000 people than in a group of 15 people we started studying with 20 years ago.

But the fact is that we exist in a time when we need to unite not 7,000, but 7,000,000,000 (7 billion) people. And that’s why we can’t get away from this. We are obliged to fulfill our destiny and think about ourselves only last.

So we will try to unite between the 7,000, in order to gather all 7 billion next time. And then, for sure, we will deserve the revelation of the Creator, after everyone else.

Question: When 7 billion people unite, will it be the most real, intimate, spiritual feeling?

Answer: Of course. Today it is impossible to work in a small group. There aren’t the right conditions for it in the world or in the souls. Therefore, it is necessary to open the doors for everyone. And the number that will gather will be the optimal number of people with whom you will open yourself up to the upper world.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #21

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