Question: Does a Kabbalist see the world in the same way as an ordinary person does, or as a more corrected place?

Answer: On one hand, a Kabbalist sees the world as a more corrected place to the extent that he discovers that the Creator is already dressed in the world, and then he has no claims or complaints. But he also notices places in which the world needs the action of the Creator where the Creator cannot be dressed there since there is no deficiency.

Still, I must say that even a big or a small Kabbalist and even one who has not entered the spiritual world yet and has not revealed the Creator depends on what he is shown. Here a great man doesn’t differ from a small one; the upper force, the force of concealment or revelation, fully dominates everyone.

A great Kabbalist may be given such a concealment that he will fall. Anything can be done with him from Above. The more a person advances, the more he realizes that there is nothing inside him that he can manage by himself and that he can control.

The Creator first gradually reveals his domination of a person this way, so that a person will finally recognize the Creator by feeling that He dresses in him. “Dresses in him” means that He fully controls him.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/14, The Zohar 

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Question: How can we keep people in a group?

Answer: I understand that we are going through situations that are difficult, but it is always necessary to burn with the importance of the goal in the group.

This is because we don’t have anything except for the importance of the goal that takes a person out of this world, gives him a feeling of eternity and infinity, helps him to overcome the limitations of death and to truly discover all of nature and the entire system of creation. Without a doubt this takes years, but it is necessary to give a person the importance of what he is involved with and what he should be involved with.

Certainly he will do everything through the egoistic force because connection with others is against his nature. This condition is placed before him and it must be overcome because the importance of the goal must be above all these problems.

For example, we live in this world against our will and we don’t have another way out, even though we often are not happy. But even if troubles are ahead and the world doesn’t serve anything good for us, in any case, on the beastly level an instinctive attraction to existence works in us and protects us.

And within, we need to struggle in order to add a qualitative existence to this beastly existence, meaning a connection with a higher perfect and eternal level, which is the upper world. But we need to develop this within by ourselves, because this is not instinctively implanted in us.

Indeed we struggle with existence on a physical level in our world also, even though if we look objectively, there is no meaning to it. A person is born and over some time, after much effort, suffering, problems, troubles, and illnesses, he dies.

What is he living for? It follows that it is in order to suffer. How many happy moments does he have in life that he can say it was worthwhile living for? Instinct forces him to live a miserable life, while in spiritual work, there is no place for instincts. Therefore, we need to struggle to add an additional part to physical life that will make it truly worthwhile to live.

It is necessary to earn this, for we live in order to add an absolute, perfect, and eternal existence to our beastly existence. But it is necessary to invest in this! And then our physical life will also be justified.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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Question: How can we turn envy into a force that helps us advance and not a force that hinders us?

Answer: It is better to feel envy towards the group than towards an individual. I don’t need to envy someone personally because he advances successfully and because I feel that I lag behind compared to him.

Envy should be with regard to the group, with regard to how united they are, how strongly connected they are, while I am not. I have to constantly evoke this feeling in me. This is very good envy.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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Question: Hatred is our natural state we are accustomed to living with. If I have an aversion to someone, I always can justify myself, and the thought that I need to love him awakens resistance in me. How can one leave hatred and rise above the ego?

Answer: To the degree that I hate a friend, I hate the Creator. That the Creator formed us and awakened mutual hatred in us is His exact intention.

It could be that this is the only stumbling block that disturbs our connection. One must not remain with this.

The entire group should connect with a prayer about how to ask the Creator to grant you love for a friend. Maybe, in the meantime, this is not love, but you look at him as someone who is close to you because you have revealed the connection between you and the Creator. Ask the Creator not to remain blind to this, and begin to feel that, specifically here, between the friend and you, the revelation of the Creator will be discovered.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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Question: If everyone in our world were already disengaged from the ego and already were in bestowal for the sake of bestowal, then how would our prayer, MAN, influence what is happening in this external reality?

Answer: Through the work that we are doing today, we are entering into the final stage of correction which is called the complete redemption. This means that the whole world, all the souls, must gather together into a single structure of Adam HaRishon (The First Man).

And so everything we do must come down into this world. We have reached such a condition where all of the activities that are carried out by us in the spiritual world will also be precisely realized in the physical world.

The difference between the physical world and the spiritual world will be erased to such a degree that in the physical world if you are not ready to accept these corrections, then the spiritual world will also not appear.

This is because we are in a state where all of the Sefirot, including this world, are becoming a single structure. So we can see how according to the ability to carry out spiritual corrections, physical changes will take place. And the physical changes that are made by us through dissemination of the method of unification will immediately change the higher system and connect us more strongly with the lower system.

When we attain corrections and approach carrying out actions of bestowal for the sake of bestowal, we will see how all of the Light and Shefa (abundance) will begin to stream through us and be clothed in this world.

Everyone will begin to receive illumination. This is like the advantage that infants who are born today have in comparison to those who were born a thousand or two thousand years ago. There is a big difference, even though seemingly a similar infant is born. There are completely different conditions for both birth and growth that are in place for him. So we see very great changes throughout the world, even among people who are minimally connected with us.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/14, The Book of Zohar

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Question: How is the work at the time of reception for the sake of bestowal differentiated from bestowal for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: If we receive for the sake of bestowal, we receive Ohr Hochma (Light of Wisdom) within Ohr Hassadim (Light of Mercy). So from this, Ohr Hassadim becomes a different Hassadim; it is no longer just “faith,” but “complete faith.”

Previously Ohr Hassadim was Ohr Ruach (Light of Spirit) and now Ohr Hassadim testifies that it has grown and can now fill Ohr Hochma! It doesn’t just fill itself, but allows the Ohr Hochma to be revealed. It gives a place for the Creator, since the Creator is Ohr Hochma. In this manner the Ohr Hassadim shows how it is the most important thing in all of creation.

This is called the praiseworthy Hassadim, elevating it even more. These are no longer just empty Hassadim, rather they fill with Ohr Hochma and in this way, they become very important.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/18/14, The Book of Zohar

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Question: They spoke about altruism on the news and about social organizations that organize mutual help among people: exchanging things that people don’t need, holiday apartments, etc. Are they already implementing what we speak about?

Answer: That is too bad because Pharaoh is playing with them saying: “I have everything that you need! Why should you escape from me to the desert? Worship the Lord here in Egypt!”

We shouldn’t incorporate into such societies, but rather follow our own way. Surely nothing good will ever come of this. We can make our lives a bit more comfortable this way and paint them in brighter colors, but this isn’t the goal of our world. Therefore, such initiatives will not last long, but will collapse like all the other nice ideas humanity has tried to implement.

Why do organizations like Greenpeace fail? Because it is impossible to correct the ego this way. A person doesn’t change, but only does everything from the perspective of his ego. Even worse, it is like Bina that enters Malchut, the seven years of satiety, when they want to enjoy all the attributes of bestowal, Bina.

These are the children of Israel who enter Egypt and bring about its development, guard it, and make sure that all its granaries are full. All this is thanks to the attribute of Bina, which means Israel enters the shattered attribute of Malchut, Egypt.

First it brings the seven years of satiety, when we give. I give to you and you give to me and life is beautiful and good! Then this euphoria ends with a terrible blow, the seven years of want. These are not the years that lead to the exodus from Egypt, but the years that lead to the real shattering.

Question: But when we go out to the public, we offer them the same thing.

Answer: But we are the ones who offer that, by serving as a mediator between the Light that Reforms and the people. We bring them the remedy; we bring them the tubing  through which the intravenous fluid will flow and heal them.

We are not the actual intravenous fluid, but the tubing delivering this remedy. The altruistic organizations that you hear about on the news simply operate within the boundaries of this world, “Let’s behave nicely! See how much our Pharaoh enjoys! How good he is for your ego and my ego!” This doesn’t go along with the goal of creation, and so there is no way it can be fulfilled or carried out.
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From the  1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/27/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Widespread dissemination is work on our new desires because there is nothing except for the one collective soul, Malchut of the world of Infinity.

Spiritual work is designed to reveal that to us and this will be my completion of correction. So there is nothing more important than dissemination. The group becomes only an intermediary, a source for the power to disseminate.

It seems to us that the main thing is the group. No, the main thing is those who are found outside. For their sake we exist as a group, as a people yearning for the Creator, Israel. Everything that we do is only to go out to them and to begin the work of connection, unification, and education among them.

The world is the most important of all, and not the group. In the group I find the Creator, connect with Him, and by way of the group, I receive power from Him. The connection is like the Creator in its characteristics, and according to the law of equivalence of form, I feel this power. But I receive it only in order to go forward and combine a wider circle to myself.

If I combine it with me, then the Upper Light begins to be extended in it as a very small illumination (Nefesh de Nefesh). But this is enough for an enormous Light to be revealed in the higher spheres of the world of Infinity. With this I give contentment to the Creator, shortening the distance between the two extremes: external circles which are not at all adapted to it, and Himself.

Giving contentment to the Creator is possible only by means of the combination of the external circles with Him through me. He enjoys connection with them, so they are very important in His eyes! Whereas, I am only a conduit.

Furthermore, I work on the connection between the Creator and the external desires. But everything that I do is not done for my sake. I carry out the work like a machine, like a precise mechanism, because the Creator gave me the possibility of organizing this relationship with Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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Question: What does it mean to be in the center of the group?

Answer: To be in the center of the group means to relate to everyone in an identical way. You shouldn’t divide them into respectable or not, old or new, smart or dumb.

Like a family in which you relate to everyone with the same love, even though it is expressed differently to each one , but everyone is important and necessary. It is especially this sensation that gives the feeling of the center when there is no difference between people.

In my daily work, I can, of course, prefer a specific person from among the people I lean on according to the hierarchy of the factory. But when I think of the group, that is already a completely different picture. Before me there appears a mass, forces that are equal towards everyone and forces that are equal for all.

The group is the equality of everyone for everyone in all categories. There are no differences between others according to any standards. After all, in a family I relate towards everyone according to their needs and don’t ignore anyone: the baby needs this and the grandmother needs that, the wife needs this and that, etc. Each one has his needs and to each one I give the attention that is needed.

Question: Both during the lesson and the meal, we need to constantly look for the center of the group. What do I need to search for within myself?

Answer: One needs to be very careful, so that the center of the group doesn’t bring you to the state of apathy and indifference towards everything that happens, and that you would think that this is the center of the group.

The center of the group is equal relations, goodness, and warmth towards everyone without any differences. It is my family. Bring the group closer to you and you will feel that you are with them and will feel their warmth.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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Question: New people who strive to actively participate in the life of the group should receive a set of rules that state how they should behave during the meals: staying silent, listening, singing together with others, etc. Although, if a person doesn’t have the right desire, he won’t understand that these rules are not invented by us; rather, they have a spiritual root.

Is it worth holding a series of meetings at which major moments in the life of the group are analyzed in the form of seminars?  Shall we choose “rules at joint meals” as the first topic?

Answer: Today, in the state we are currently in, when all of us are members of a big community and we have no time left to communicate with each other, we hold the meals together with women and children. Therefore, it’s quite different from how Kabbalists did it.

I still hope that we will be able to rise above this situation and will behave correctly even though it is a very hard task to achieve. Our meals are accompanied by music, songs, speeches, questions and answers. They include everything except one thing: silence!

I am afraid that if we start holding real Kabbalistic meals, after one or two events people will stop attending them since it is very hard to keep complete silence throughout the meal. We cannot push people so hard although my teacher Rabash, was very strict about this requirement and imposed this kind of behavior on us.

I understand that we have to raise the importance of Kabbalistic meals and eventually we will do them. Through the ritual of sharing food—a purely animalistic activity—people will aspire to elevate this action to its spiritual roots. We know what receiving for the sake of bestowal inside the Kli (vessel) means: It is a Tzimtzum (restriction), reflected Light, etc. When we really necessitate actions that bring us closer to spirituality, we eventually begin acting so.

At Rabash’s meals we sat silently for 45 minutes to an hour. Nobody slept. The tension was very tangible. However, I don’t think it’s feasible to behave like this in our groups.

For that, we have to go through serious internal clarifications. Possibly, a person in his or her everyday routine doesn’t have time for self-exploration, choosing, analyzing, systematizing questions, finding answers, having arguments, setting up intentions, etc. One just cannot scan or scrutinize oneself, nor can one put things on the right shelves and clean up one’s internal house.

I don’t know if people can agree to act this way or if they are capable of doing these things at all. It was much easier for Rabash, since he had 20-30 students; whereas, there are more than 300 people who come here and thousands of others who are present at our events throughout the world. In essence, during Kabbalistic meals we start internal self-clarifications that are similar to the ones we go through during our lessons. It is good work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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