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The Internal And External Side Of Dissemination

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Have I understood correctly that there is an external side of our dissemination and explanation which may seem purely materialistic. But inside it, it is necessary to pass a pipe through which the Upper Light streams and gives the feeling that within it there is some kind of unique force?

Answer: This is correct, and it is not even necessary to be ashamed and hide this! We do not come to educate people and play social games with them. It is known to us how to arrange our lives and this ability is derived from understanding nature. We have learned how to utilize the constructive power that is discovered within the connection between people.

We know how to build this link between people so that within it the constructive power will correct and change everything. And these are not just words, rather it is up to you to radiate Light from yourself, like Moses who came down from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the covenant in his hands, a power that is ready to change and correct everything. People must feel this in you.

Others may utter similar words, yet within their words there won’t be any inner, emotional filling that determines everything. And these are not just emotions; rather this is Light that must act. The Light influences people during your explanations and it will also correct them and connect them to it so that at the time of your work with their deficiencies you will find the Creator, the Light, within the group, really this entire chain.

Therefore when you go out to disseminate, on the one hand you must explain with words, which is to say, to act on a material, earthly level, but first of all it is up to you to be entirely centered on the inner content to convey the Light to people and to awaken the emotion in them. If this is not found, then there is no reason to go out.

Otherwise you only destroy. The Light that had to come together with your explanations and didn’t come because of your lack of inner effort will be revealed from its “back side” and will awaken contempt and shattering in regard to you. For through the recognition of evil, by way of long suffering, at some stage, not soon, you will ultimately reach the right realization.

The inner efforts that attract the Light are the Arvut (mutual guarantee). So that the Torah will be revealed among us, there must be Arvut between us, mutual concern, mutual connection, general equality, in which all the friends are like one person with one body. This is first of all! The moment that this happens, we go out to disseminate and then we can expect success.

You must act only to the degree of your preparation. And then you will turn to the public together with the Light that you hold within your proper Kli. In your correct connection with the group, the spiritual Light is discovered, not yet discovered completely, but like Ohr Makif that is already found in you.

Together with it you can already turn to people, so that this will be the action of the Light and not just words with the help of which you cannot convince anyone today. The words are not really important; the main thing is that you radiate the Light. It is known that Moses was “tongue-tied” and this did not hinder him from being the leader of the people. Rather people must feel that there is some kind of Light in you and it is up to them to want it also.

This is possible only on condition that you are connected with all of the friends and you live a life of Arvut, or at least with a yearning for Arvut, which is the most important thing for you. First of all you examine and construct this condition and essentially, this is specifically what you are going out to disseminate. No matter how you say it, the external form depends upon the person to whom you are turning. But the main thing is the Upper Light which acts and burns within you and people feel this. For within them there exists a deficiency, are desperate for fulfillment and specifically wants this Light.

We are not linked to each other with words, but only with the help of the Light that exists in each one of us for the sake of all. Thanks to this our desires are linked. And if there is Light in you that someone else requires, then he will adhere to you. He will only be waiting for when you will communicate with him again.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/1/13, Shamati #38 “The Fear of God Is His Treasure”

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The World Is Making A Transition From Reception To Bestowal

Dr. Michael LaitmanOur world is becoming more and more “round”; this means that the collective mutual link between everyone is being discovered; everyone influences everyone.

Ten thousand years ago you would have attacked your neighbor, you would have killed and eaten him. Five thousand years later you would have already stopped killing the neighbors, rather you would have understood that it was better to enslave them.

Another few thousand years passed and you would have attacked your neighbor and made him a worker since a slave was no longer worthwhile. Everything is established according to what is useful to the desire to receive. But today things are no longer the way they used to be. If you were to attack someone and conquer him today, you would begin to feed him and be concerned for him. Therefore, in our times wars are not worthwhile.

We see how the world, without understanding on its own, is gradually transitioning entirely from reception to bestowal! All of our systems (economics, health, and so forth) must transform to be more “round”; we have no other choice. Governments are compelled to distribute money to their people so that everyone will have something to eat. Nations have now transformed into social security institutions and welfare bureaus. Whether it wants to or not, every nation must transform into a system that is primarily concerned about its ordinary citizens.

All this is a result that we are approaching “circles,” spherical vessels. Otherwise we cannot exist in conditions like these. But in this kind of form we will not be released from problems because these changes are made from above, from the government, by the circles. We must do this from below, through correction by the person, through the “straight line.”

The way of correction from above is a long way of “recognition of evil.” As much as this seems nice to us today, that a nation is concerned for its citizens so that everyone will get all that they require, in the end, this will bring immense destruction. Ultimately, we must discover that we must begin correction from below. There must be bestowal from the side of the person below, therefore, we must turn to the most failed strata, take care of them, and bring to them the method of correction.

“Circles” is the discovery of the higher power, the Upper Light, the upper Kli. And these become a great threat over us. All the forces of nature are revealed in the form of a circular shape. A person must work in the form of a straight line.

A tsunami wave that comes doesn’t take into account if you are a good or a bad person, rich or poor, instead it wipes out everything in its path. That is how the circles work. And we must become a straight line. Though the straight line is opposite the circle, when it becomes the bestower, it actually fills the circles. With this we transform ourselves into a force that fills the Creator. The guest must fill the host, just as the host wants to fill the guest. This is what is called reaching adherence through equivalence of form and equivalence of deeds.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/13, Talmud Eser Sefirot

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A Perfect Adapter

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: In the modern era we must put ourselves in line with the wishes of the wide audience, whereas before, students had to become similar in qualities with their teacher. How is this combined?

Answer: We reveal the Creator in the center of the group. In our relations, we are the upper, and He is the upper above the upper. And besides that, outside of us, there is a wide audience—the lower, the people or humanity.

Accordingly, we (Bnei Baruch – BB) must apply joint efforts together in work between ourselves, as well as to address the outer circles, adapting ourselves according to them.

To do this, we split into two parts: the seven lower Sefirot (ZAT) and the three higher (GAR), and we represent Bina and take the appropriate form at the top and at the bottom.

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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/25/13, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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What Is The Center Of The Group?

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is the meaning of the center of the group? Is it an internal component a person has, including our impressions from our collective actions and from the workshops?

Answer: The center of the group is what we constantly analyze and clarify, exploring it in our attributes, in our view: Where is it, how is it characterized, what should I yearn for? I have to feel what the center of the group is internally.

It is very blurry, like looking at a target that is constantly moving and which I cannot focus on through a site. However, if I determine it clearly, it means that I have come in contact with the attribute of love and bestowal.

Question: Through which concrete actions do I find the connection with the center of the group?

Answer: Such a connection is determined by a person’s need for it in order to connect to the Creator and to bring His revelation to the world. In the article “The Messiah’s Shofar” and in other articles too, it says that Israel, those who yearn straight to the Creator, will not leave the exile and will not attain a connection with the Creator unless they bring the whole world to it.

Now, the time has finally come for us to incorporate the external ego of the masses, and we must demand the Creator to fill it. At the same time we can only be the conductors, the point of adhesion between the Creator and the rest of the world; the revelation of the Creator in the world is our mission.

Question: How can I determine whether I disseminate from the center of the group or not?

Answer: You should feel that yourself. If you disseminate and at the same time constantly fear not leaving the center of the group, then everything is fine.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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To Feel The Upper Light

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is practical Kabbalah?

Answer: Practical Kabbalah means that you begin to sense the Upper Light which comes through you to others.

When you attempt to connect with your friends, you feel how an egoistic field appears between you where the Light begins to act, how it enters, exits, and interacts with this field, it begins to transform and perform a restriction over it.

After that the Reflecting Light begins to work. You feel how it enters and exits you and what happens as a result. You feel it within yourself, inside yourself.

After all, there is nothing outside! Everything you see you feel within yourself. In spirituality nothing exists outside.
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From the Talk About Group and Dissemination 10/21/13

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For the Next Generation

Dr. Michael LaitmanEvery day for the past 20 years I have given classes. Every week, I speak a minimum of ten hours recording television programs, giving short talks during meals, and managing a blog.

All of this is very dear to me because, with these materials, the revelation of the method that has come from Adam, Abraham, Moses, Rabbi Shimon, the Ari, Baal HaSulam, and Rabash continues. I am trying to explain and formulate it so that we can adapt it to this world and apply it properly to solve global problems.

In this matter, my students help me very much. They annoy me from two sides (both from the right line and from the left line) without letting me fly upward, and they constantly demand, “Feed us porridge; we don’t want anything more.” In other words, you oblige me to be involved quite seriously with revealing this method on a basic level. I want to take off, while you grab me by the legs like chicks that hold onto their mother and don’t let her fly, and this is good because we are processing and chewing that part of the wisdom of Kabbalah that talks about our world and about its departure to the first level.

I will not be able to explain the first spiritual level if we don’t go out to it with a particular mass. Only then will it be possible to explain it in a much more expanded and practical form than what the previous Kabbalists expressed in their writings because they didn’t have the possibility to descend as low as we have. They didn’t begin from this level. Rather, they ascended upward immediately like a rocket, whereas we are like a crop-duster, ascending with difficulty, descending and rising, descending and rising, all the time, until we finally take off.

Therefore, those materials that we are accumulating are very important. It is necessary to clean them up, correct and disseminate them, and people will use them, even though it is difficult to believe this in the meantime. However, a path that is difficult still awaits humanity. In what will it be involved in a few more years? In nothing! People will simply sit half asleep and look at a screen. It is not important if they will look at us with one eye open or listen with half an ear. This still will work on them. This will penetrate into them, and so gradually all that we have accumulated will enter into humanity.

Certainly, after us, there will be others who can explain our method better and inspire people. However, in any case, we must prepare it. Therefore, the processing of the material and its presentation in our archives and the proper archiving is very important work!
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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When Will Humanity Finally Listen To Us?

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: It is obvious that without the support of government authorities for the method of integral education and information it will be difficult to implement the program of human development effectively.

Answer: We must develop the method itself and not think about how to find support from the government. It is possible to disseminate and publicize our ideas among scientists, politicians, and the like, but in any case, nobody will listen to you. Don’t look for support from anyone!

Only when the integral method will be internally understood by you and will be expressed and formulated correctly, that is, when you become real experts, then the world will be ready to comprehend it. Then you will see with whom you must unite for dissemination and if you require government support or not. And it could be that you will need the masses and nobody will oppose this because it speaks about connection and unity.

But first and foremost, we must work upon ourselves, on our mistakes, and not burst forth as if we already have in our hands a ready method and we know how to correct the world and solve all the problems. This is not right. Now we need to develop ourselves and the method such that both we and the method will become a single whole. And then we will see that the world will be ready to accept it.

As long as we have not achieved unity among the main and strongest groups, as long as we have not developed a precise and clear method that includes elements from the wisdom of Kabbalah expressed in an appropriate human language, as long as we have not educated qualified and organized faculty for workshops and processed and practiced our method in all kinds of events with the general public, we won’t have something to present to a patron or to relate to some movement.

When we will be ready for this, then you will see how many different international organizations will turn to us. I think that for this we require a minimum of one more year of serious work with the general public and simultaneously processing our method. We must formulate it in the right way. But as long as we are not ready, nobody will listen to us; the Creator will not make this possible.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/21/13

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A Responsibility That Should Not Be Taken Lightly

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Suppose that a particular project begins, everyone is included in it, and suddenly a split happens in a group. But an agreement with an external organization has already been signed and we must cancel it. What do we do?

Answer: If you have signed an agreement to give a course in integral education to some external organization and then you violate this agreement, then you are inserting an immense disturbance into our common collective enterprise! You cannot imagine how much you have introduced separation between you through this; you have not only shattered your own group, but also the world group!

You must be more responsible! You should know that you are not just rejecting something small, but you are disturbing the activities of a very large body of which you have become a part! And if you don’t function as an organ within this body, you cause damage to the entire body that is waiting for its recovery and healing. Therefore in particular this is not only saying something about you but about the collective world group; you are causing it to fail!

Therefore if you have signed some agreement, you must maintain it at all costs.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Are We Disseminating Correctly?

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How is it possible to check that I am working specifically on spiritual adherence with the group and not on a materialistic psychological approach?

Answer: You must feel this in yourself according to getting closer to the group.

The yearning of the person for the center of the group in order to grasp the source of life within it signifies that he is correctly involved with external dissemination.

You often ask me: “How is it possible to check if we are disseminating correctly?” When you begin to yearn for the center of the group, this indicates that you are disseminating correctly on the outside.

Question: What does dissemination signify in spirituality?

Answer: Dissemination that is not egoistic is going out to the general public with the goal of connecting and uniting them, attracting them to the Creator, making for them that support, that base upon which the Creator is revealed.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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Childhood Diseases

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Your recommendations regarding integral education projects are expressed very clearly in writing, but what should we do if in practice they are not fulfilled in the same manner and not according to your recommendations?

Answer: The point is that as we grow the group goes through different states. This is what we often call childhood diseases. When a child develops he has to catch the childhood diseases because otherwise his body will not build up the special protective properties and will not be able to mobilize the inner system to resist the external environment.

We are under the harmful influence of the external environment all the time and our inner systems continuously work on that so as not to be influenced by its negative effect or to neutralize it somehow. This is how every living organism works.

For example, how much can a stone perceive from the outside? Very little, and therefore it retains the same form all the time. A plant gives and takes more, and an animal even more. A person perceives a great amount of information, a lot of psychological influences, and we have to respond to all that; otherwise, our body will not be able to hold on! This is how we stabilize ourselves.

So we go through childhood diseases: We do something right and something wrong, we express our opinion, we keep quiet, we shout, and we curse. Let people experience all that! We have to go through such states. As a result many people will leave and so gradually what has to be will be stabilized.
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From the Talk about Group and Dissemination 10/22/13

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