Question: There is a commandment that says make a choice. On the other hand the Creator is always the first. So what is our choice?

Answer: Our choice is to place faith above reason, above knowledge, and to continue moving forward in this way.

Question: How can we carve the quality of faith in our hearts?

Answer: It only depends on how much we will ask for this to actually happen. Gradually human beings will come to the complete knowledge of the Creator.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/2/24 , “Rosh HaShana”

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Question: Andrey asks: “I read it somewhere, but recently I became convinced that the Creator is jealous. You have said it more than once. But I had no idea He was so jealous. He allows you to follow the path you choose, but it is clearly against His will. But He lets you. He even seems to bless it. And then He sends such falls that you do not know how to pull yourself out of them. Why is He doing this? He could have prevented me from going down the wrong path. What does He give it for?”

Answer: What would you learn in that case?

Comment: That He is good that does good.

My Response: Then you would remain in kindergarten.

Question: Am I being educated the whole time?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Educated with the wrong paths?

Answer: With their help. How else?

Question: Andrey says He is the one pushing you there on this wrong path. Is all this to teach you?

Answer: Sure.

Question: What does He want to bring up in me?

Answer: Understanding life, understanding yourself, understanding the world, and understanding your correct attitude to the world.

Question: Andrey felt he was even being blessed on this path: “Go on!” Even when you are going down the wrong path?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So he asks: “Why does the Creator bless man to take this path?”

Answer: Because in this way He teaches a person; otherwise, one cannot be taught.

Question: When does a person realize he is on the wrong path? The Creator Himself begins to create further obstacles for him. Right?

Answer: Yes. After a while a person begins to feel he is on the wrong path. But he cannot turn away and continues on it, receives all sorts of suffering until they accumulate to the point he is forced to run away from them.

Question: Tell me, is there some road sign from which suffering begins? And until then, you walk easily, freely, and happily.

Answer: Yes, it depends on the growth of egoism in a person. Because then he begins to understand this is a wrong path that is to his detriment. And he wonders: what should he do? From this moment on, suffering begins, and his demand to the Creator begins.

Question: So while he was walking along the egoistic path without thinking about it, was everything all right for him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But at some point, he is pushed to the idea that he is an egoist, which is bad. And the suffering begins. What for? What should he do with this ego?

Answer: He should realize all this comes from his ego and consciously turn to the Creator for correction.

Question: So one way or another, everything is a path of correction. Absolutely everything.

Then the question is: “How can you prepare, is it even possible for such falls and to make the most of them?”

Answer: You can prepare for falls if a person initially understands what he chooses may be wrong and there is no escape from mistakes. He will receive all sorts of negative feedback from time to time, consequences of his actions. But on the other hand, it will teach him the right path in the end.

Question: What is the maximum benefit from this?

Answer: That he will take the right path. Although he will make mistakes every time, correct himself, and take the right step.

Question: Is it possible not to reach suffering but to calculate correctly in advance?

Answer: How can he do it in advance?

Question: Is it not possible?

Answer: No.

Question: So, you have to go through it one way or another?

Answer: Absolutely.

Question: Andrey’s next question: “What do you personally understand by the jealousy of the Creator?”

Answer: By the jealousy of the Creator I understand such states when a person wants to avoid mistakes with the help of some particular method and as if circumvent the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/12/24

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Each and every individual in society is like a wheel that is linked to several other wheels placed in a machine. This single wheel has no freedom of movement in and of itself but continues with the motion of the rest of the wheels in a certain direction to qualify the machine to perform its general function (Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World“).

Our main work is to reveal how interconnected we are and how we must tune ourselves together to be included in the work of this machine, not simply to be driven by it, but to begin to understand how we can activate it. That is our task.

Question: Should we just wait patiently?

Answer: No, absolutely not. Waiting patiently will not help. We must begin to activate ourselves along with the mechanism of the machine, and gradually we will become involved in its collective forward motion. We need to start right now, and the activation comes when we begin to sense its movement and integrate ourselves into it.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/13/24, “Discovering the Power of Connection”, Lesson 4

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Question: It is written, “As their faces are not similar to one another, their views are not similar to one another.” How can we come to one desire so that it aligns with the Creator’s desire?

Answer: Under the influence of the actions the Creator sets before us, we try to be in one desire, like one person, and thus we become a single body.

And when this body consists, for example, of ten people, it has ten times more strength than if a person were alone.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/12/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten”, Lesson 2

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Question: How do we reveal the need to fulfill the desires of others?

Answer: By being connected with others, helping them, and feeling what influences them and how they advance under the influence of that force.

Question: How can we in the ten influence each other to develop a desire to bestow?

Answer: Through our example.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” Lesson 2, /12/24, “Growing Stronger in the Ten” 

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Question: You said that a person who studies Kabbalah grows internally and one’s perception of the group changes accordingly. Every year I check this state and indeed the friends and feelings are different and we all go through various states. What is happening qualitatively within each of us?

Answer: A more corrected desire that is more suitable for common connection is gradually revealed in you. I think you have gone through good states lately and are ready for the Creator to be revealed to you. That cannot be expected—you must act.

To act means to create such connections between yourselves that will be suitable for our connection with the Creator. That is what we need.
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From the World Kabbalah Convention “Strengthening the Ten” 9/12/24, “Devotion to the Spiritual Goal”, Lesson 1

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Everything is ruled by chance. If only we knew who rules chance (Jerzy Stanislav Lec).

My Response: Actually, it is incorrect that chance is above all.

Comment: But he says: “If only we knew who rules chance.”

My Response: Chance is ruled by idea of the Creator, the path of the Creator. And what else do you need to know about this?

Question: So you need to know that there are no accidents in life?

Answer: Of course.

Question: There are no accidents in life?

Answer: None.

Comment: Everything that happens to me, all encounters, marriages, divorces, everything.

My Response: Everything, everything, absolutely everything! Everything you want is not accidental.

Question: And all these paths–where do they lead to?

Answer: To the realization that a person is under the Creator.

Question: And what does this realization give me? Here I am under the Creator. Let’s say I even felt it in my heart and with all my fibers. What does this give me?

Answer: Cling to Him and do not let go like a little child.

Question: That’s it, just like a child clings to mom!  The child wraps his arms and legs around mom and holds on like that. And what will happen if I can suddenly do this?

Answer: You can be sure that nothing will happen to you.

Question: This is my complete safety?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24

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The one who learns to tread the spiritual path must become as an empty cup in order that the wine of music and harmony may be poured down into his heart (Hazrat Inayat Khan).

My Response: Yes, he expresses it well. That is true. If a person’s heart, meaning his main egoistic vessel, is empty and can be filled with the world’s harmony, then it is good.

Question: Does one need to empty one’s heart?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But it is full right now. What is it full of, and how can it be emptied?

Answer: If it is, it is full of selfish desires. We can empty it only if we accept all our desires as empty and unable to fulfill us and lead us on the right path.

Question: Can I do this psychologically, or is it more about education?

Answer: It is much more complex. But people will come to this eventually because there is no other way.

Question: So is this the will from above one way or another?

Answer: Yes, the Creator holds us in a way so we gradually understand who we are, in what world we exist, and how we can bring ourselves to the proper state.

Question: Does the Creator have a concept of time: “I will hold them a little longer”?

Answer: Absolutely not.

Question: But what about the fact that we have been held for so long, gone through so many years, suffered so much?

Answer: If we did not feel we were dying, we would be different. The fact that we die drives us into various thoughts, into a dead end, and so on. But, in principle, we are moving toward understanding that there is no death.

Question: And then what?

Answer: Then we will start relating to ourselves, the world, and the Creator differently. It will all be different.

Question: How?

Answer: I do not know if I can express it. It will be all free and simple.

Comment: Let it be so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/13/24

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Question: Can we say that at some point in history humanity took the wrong path?

Answer: Of course! Since the time of Aristotle and Plato.

At one point they shouted: “Under no circumstances give science away to the ignorant! They will misuse it, they will sell it to the rich, they will put it at the service of progress!

But we need spiritual progress, not technological progress! We cannot open universities to everyone!

Science should be pursued only by people who with its help want to understand the meaning of life, the lofty matters that lie beyond the boundaries of our world!”

Science should develop only in the form in which it raises a person above our world! Anyone who might use it for evil purposes has no right to engage in it!

Even the invention of, say, a special meat grinder is also evil. You do not need it, and you can live without it! After all, in the end, it is by adapting science to our world that you begin its development.

There is no other way, either external development or internal. The world followed the external path of development. Historically, this happened 3,000 years ago.

Question: But was there another option for development? Or did we still have to go through this stage?

Answer: It is hard to say because in order to understand the answer to this question, you need to be in two worlds, in the duality that we are talking about.

Everything comes from the Creator, and at the same time depends on our freewill, on our choice.

We are not able to compare these two free functions; our mind is not adapted to this. To understand this, you need to be in both worlds: the spiritual one and ours at the same time. Then you will not have contradictions; you can perceive absolutely opposite facts and information as complementary and not mutually exclusive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Dead-End Path of Human Development” 1/24/12

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When one dies, one does not take with him silver, gold, or jewels, but only Torah and good deeds. (Baal HaSulam, “The Freedom”).

Question: As a rule, it is unpleasant for a person to think about the day of his death. But this point gives the importance of choosing an environment and contributing to the group. How can you keep in focus the point that at the hour of death, nothing will help you but only the Torah and good deeds?

Answer: By death we do not mean the hour of death, but a new birth. That is how we need to understand death itself. Therefore, naturally, the Torah and good deeds are what accompany you and are what you enter a new life with.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Freedom”

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