Question: Why should receiving the Torah happen at the top of the mountain?

Answer: “Mountain” (Har) comes from the word “Hirhurim” –  doubts. Doubts constantly fill a person on the spiritual path, but despite them, he still goes forward and climbs the mountain, although it is not easy.

Question: What happens to a person when he receives the Torah?

Answer: He reveals the Creator, is filled with the upper light, and feels himself in the upper world. At the same time, our world does not disappear anywhere. It is just that a person feels like he exists in both worlds.

Question: What should we do when hatred appears between friends?

Answer: We all must attack this hatred together and try to remove it by any means: tear it up, trample it down, burn it.

Question: If a person studies the Torah with an open heart but without a calculation of intention, does he receive its light?

Answer: He receives it. In any case, the study of the Torah attracts the upper light to us: small or big, leading him forward or not, it gives some light.

Question: What is our mistake on the path when we walk, make efforts, and the Torah suddenly becomes the potion of death instead of the elixir of life?

Answer: This happens because you are striving for egoistic fulfillment. But you still keep making efforts, and eventually, the light of the Torah will be replaced by the light of purification, and you will know everything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1”

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Question: It is said that our effort is the work of the Torah. What does this mean? Is this internal work or physical work?

Answer: You will not help yourself or others with your physical work, only with your heart.

To the extent that you want to connect with your friends in your heart, you prepare your heart for feeling the Creator and revealing His light in the common Kli, in the common desire—yours and your friends.

Question: Why is it that only a small number of people are awarded with revealing a point in the heart?

Answer: There is probably no need for more.

When we connect with each other, we will be able to influence the whole world, and the world will feel how much it needs this knowledge and will begin to move toward everyone. Then, the light will fill us to the extent of our collective desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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Question: You said that we should organize ourselves so that our connection defines the new world order. How do you see this, and how should we organize ourselves so that our connection defines it?

Answer: Every day every person on Earth should feel that he is entering into a new relationship with everyone, and that through this new relationship, he treats the Creator differently. In this way, he ascends the degrees of spiritual elevation.

Question: What is the Creator for all the people on Earth?

Answer: The upper force.

Question: What kind of relationship should every person on Earth enter into with everyone daily?

Answer: Coming closer to each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “The Children of Esau and Ishmael Did Not Want to Receive the Torah,” in the Work?”

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Michael Laitman on the Times of Israel: “Want to Express Your Divisive Attitude? Shut Your Mouth!”

IDF soldiers launched a “Shut Your Mouth!” campaign in Hebrew through which they aimed to leverage social influence in order to communicate the message to their fellow Israelis that if unity is lacking in their speech, then it is better to shut their mouths.

This campaign comes at a time when the soldiers seek as much support and strength as possible, and divisive discourse that had been thriving in Israel leading up to the tragic events of October 7, 2023, has proven itself to both weaken Israeli society, and boost the confidence of the terrorists who wish to attack Israel.

It is indeed commendable to create an atmosphere of disrespect for divisive discourse and appreciation of a unified one. Therefore, if this social pressure gains traction, it can help make anyone—including politicians and media figures—think twice before propagating divisive words, and help promote a more unifying discourse.

Through the campaign, the IDF’s soldiers served to raise the awareness that reckless tongues from their fellow Israelis and Jews harms them, that they feel how divisive attitudes among the nation negatively influences their solidarity even on the frontlines.

The wisdom of Kabbalah supports such sentiment. Verbal malice knows no bounds. Once spoken, cutting words roam freely, causing a breakdown of relations that destructively influences society.

The book Orchot Tzadikim underscores the power of speech, stating that speech can cause more harm than a sword.

“A man can do more harm with his tongue than he can with a sword. For a man can stand here and yet betray his companion, who is a long distance from him, and cause his death (by his word), while the sword can only slay someone who is near it. Therefore, man was created with two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and one mouth to say to him that he ought to speak less. Silence is fitting for the wise, and thus all the more so for fools.” – Orchot Tzadikim, 21:7.

Also, the Talmud recounts a time during the First Temple when division between the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah led leaders to “eat and drink with each other, and stab each other with verbal barbs” (Yoma, 9b). Enemies took advantage of this weakness, which resulted in the Temple’s ruin on both physical and spiritual scales.

Emphasizing the need for the people of Israel to summon the strength to come together in the face of myriad divisive drives, Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) wrote in his paper, The Nation: “The enormous effort that the rugged road ahead requires of us mandates unity that is as solid and as hard as steel, from all parts of the nation, without exception.” I strongly recommend that the future campaigns we organize will take on this unifying direction.
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Question: How can we keep connection in the ten constantly? Sometimes, it lasts for an hour, and sometimes, it disappears somewhere in a second. What can we do?

Answer: If the connection disappears in a second, you must immediately restore it. All the time, constantly thinking about it, like a young mother who leaves her child at home, and all her thoughts are only about what is going on with him and how he is doing.

That is how we should think about the ten. Keep it together all the time with your thoughts, your desires, and your embrace.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1”

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Question: What does spiritual freedom mean in the ten?

Answer: This is a state where you feel connected to each other and the Creator. At the same time, you begin to rise above all material problems and do not feel that they are pulling you down.

Question: How can material pleasures be transformed into spiritual ones?

Answer: There is no difference in pleasures. If they are for the Creator’s sake, then they are spiritual, and if, for your own sake, they are material.

Question: Are the feeling of being as one and the feeling of “I” close to each other or opposite?

Answer: They are opposite. Your feeling of “I” should disappear. Instead, there will be a feeling of “we.”

Question: What does freedom from the angel of death mean?

Answer: Complete liberation from egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Every Act Leaves an Imprint”

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Question: How can we learn to love something that is initially against our nature or higher than nature and act out of love and not out of envy or pride?

Answer: We can force ourselves, persuade ourselves, and push ourselves toward a connection with the friends because within this connection we acquire contact with the Creator.

And although this is entirely against our nature, and we do not want it, to find contact with the Creator, we approach friends and are ready to be with them together, in an embrace, in one single desire.

Question: How can we understand that one should desire wisdom?

Answer: We want a connection with the Creator, so we want to acquire wisdom. Wisdom is the thoughts and the desires of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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Question: If there is a great desire and striving for the Creator, how can we check whether it is directed for the sake of the Creator or for our own sake?

Answer: It depends on how a person works in a group, whether he cares about his friends, and whether he wants to bring contentment to the Creator through communication and mutual assistance to his friends.

Then it can be said that a person is approaching the quality of bestowal.

The true depth of wisdom lies in the common bond of the friends and their connection with the Creator when He reveals Himself in the center of the group.

That is the wisdom of the ten, seen in the friends’ agreement with what the Creator is doing to them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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Question: How can we achieve a unified effort in attaining the Creator and overcoming differences in the perception of the vision of the world?

Answer: Only with the help of love and mutual attraction. Start showing each other how you want to embrace all the friends in the ten and ascend with them.

Let everyone try to do it, and you will see how it suddenly elevates you all. You will begin to uncover the source of your ascent.

Remember that our task is to get closer. We must return to the common communication system between ourselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/25/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 187 “Choosing Labor”

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Question: Each time I want to feel the ten inside me, I find that I can only do this through external actions toward connection.

What am I missing to feel the ten internally?

Answer: There is not enough desire to connect with the ten with all my soul and heart.

Question: First, one needs to do this through external actions without stopping, right?

Answer: You do not even need any external actions. Just think all the time that you want to be with the others with the same feelings and thoughts. And then the desire will appear.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/26/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Matter of Spiritual Attainment”

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