Question: In a prayer is it possible to ask for us to be able to unite with each other and pass the full measure of light that the Creator wants to transmit through us to the peoples of the world?

Answer: Yes, it is possible.

Comment: What is the relationship between the quality of a collective prayer and the readiness of each ten? And vice versa, how does each ten depend on the collective prayer for its advancement?

My Response: It is a very close relationship. Therefore, we need to take care of one another and be critical of how each ten reveals itself in relation to others in order to provide the correct understanding of moving forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/18/24, Writings of Rabash “Run My Beloved”

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Question: What is the light of Ruach? Is it when, under pressure, we switch and begin to act from all states simultaneously?

Answer: Ruach is when you combine all the influences on you into a single impact. And Neshama is the relationship of your collective desires, their joint striving toward the goal.

When you achieve this, you will understand everything. But if you have not yet reached an understanding, you do not even have the right to speak about it.

A person cannot speak about what he has not attained. That has always been a rule for a Kabbalist. But your questions seem like you have broken down The Study of the Ten Sefirot into parts, divided it into pieces, and started to analyze and synthesize based on your own conclusions. That is completely unacceptable.

Only to the extent of acquiring the power of faith can a person attain the Torah. And if there is no faith, no bestowal, if he is not aiming toward this, everything turns into Klipa.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam Letter No. 54

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Question: What is the difference between religious people’s fear of the Creator and the Kabbalists’ fear of Him ?

Answer: The fear that religious people experience stems from the fear of punishment. On the other hand, Kabbalists do not have this type of fear. Instead, their fear is focused on the concern that they might not fulfill the will of the Creator.

A serious prayer is required to transition from the one type of fear to the other.

Question: From time to time, we feel fear of the Creator. How can we maintain this state consistently?

Answer: It depends on your environment, on your friends. If you all think about this together, it is as if you are keeping a ball in the air. Just as a team can keep a ball in the air when playing together, it is the same here.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/14/24, Writings of Rabash “Anyone in Whom There Is Fear of Heaven – 1”

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Julia asks:

The Creator is a good screenwriter, in the drama genre. Can we know the ending of the story in advance and influence the course of events?

Answer: We know the ending of the story. It is the complete correction of human nature.

Question: Can we influence the course of these events?

Answer: No, we do not know how we should change or in what order we should correct ourselves. But in general, the path is clear.

Question: Then why is this being done? For example, the way is clear to us—rise above egoism, above our nature, but how to do this is not very clear. Why is all this being done? Point the way, tell us how to get there, and humanity will go accordingly.

Answer: The way is very simple: love your neighbor as yourself and be like the Creator, and so advance.

Question: But this is very difficult. Is it possible? Is a person capable of doing this?

Answer: Yes, we have the strength to ask for it.

Question: So it is on me to exert effort and raise a request, an effort and a request? Only this way?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do all spiritual practices and all religions come from this phrase? Can I say this or not?

Answer: A person does whatever comes to his mind. But in the end, rising above our ego to love everyone is what is required of us.

Comment: There is this call, by and large, which resonates all the time. And a person, passing it through himself, makes all sorts of angles, spiritual practices, and religions and builds everything.

My Response: He dodges it.

Question: Can I tackle it directly? Is there a straight path to loving your neighbor as yourself?

Answer: No. One would not agree to accept such a commitment directly. A person cannot exist in this. But little by little, I think we will come to this.

Question: Come to live this way?

Answer: Yes.

Question: “Us and the Creator”—such a direct connection?

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

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Question: Our goal is to reach the state of the Creator. The Creator is love. But what happens to hatred?

Answer: Hatred is necessary to create love above it. We cannot come to the feeling of love if hatred does not lie at its foundation. In nature, there are only two mutual feelings. You cannot say there is light without darkness or a positive without a negative.

We are accustomed to the idea that the opposite exists automatically in our world. But in the spiritual world, it is not automatic. Even in our world, take any system that we build, can you perform an action without a counteraction? You cannot, whether in mechanics, electronics, or anything else. The same applies to spirituality. There, these are fundamental laws: the positive force is the Creator, and the negative force, what He created, is the creation. And that is all there is.

Therefore, when you say, “The Creator’s attribute is to give,” I do not know what “giving” is by itself. It is the Creator; I do not feel Him. I can only know Him if this attribute is clothed within me. And since I am the property of receiving, how can I reveal the Creator in the attribute of receiving?

That is what the science of Kabbalah deals with, the science of revealing the Creator. It teaches that you must take control of your property of receiving, make a restriction, not consider it as the force with which you work, but only as the force over which you work, and start creating the attribute of giving above the attribute of receiving.

Otherwise, you will not be able to do anything because the attribute of giving is created in you as a reflection, the opposite of your attribute of receiving. Therefore, we build the Creator within ourselves, create a likeness of Him. Out of what? Out of our egoism when we make on it a restriction (Tzimtzum), screen (Masach), and reflected light (Ohr Hozer), and thus create a reflection of the Creator, like in a mirror that is the reflected light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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Question: We evaluate everyone solely by whether they strive for unity. If not, then this methodology is not suitable for us.

But who said that unification is important and the goal of the entire universe? Why not some kind of abstraction, like an out-of-body experience? This is more important for  another person.

Answer: I am not interested in what is more important for the other person. Everyone can make up whatever they want.

We believe Kabbalists, and this faith is confirmed by our knowledge when we follow their path and reveal the upper world.

They tell us that once we were one single whole and then scattered into pieces, meaning egoism tore us apart, separated us from each other, and acts between us as a repelling force.

But we have to cancel this force and reconnect. The moment we do this, we will immediately perceive the next level of the universe, the next world, called the upper, the divine, because it is above egoism.

Then we will already identify ourselves, not with our body, but with our common unified desire, which we have assembled from all the pieces. This common desire is called the soul.

Kabbalists explain to us how to do this and what we feel in the process. As for what comes to different people’s minds, so what can be done? This is where the disunity of humanity once began.

As Maimonides, the great philosopher of the XII century, writes, initially people felt that there is one single force. Initially, this was known to everyone. And then they saw that this force manifests itself through various actions in nature: wind, sun, and so on at the inanimate, animate and vegetative levels.

And people began to come into contact with these forces because they are closer to them than some abstract force called the Creator.

They began to worship the possible signs of nature, even to the point where they began creating idols, building temples, and making offerings. This is how religions and beliefs began to develop.

Thus, people broke away from the feeling of the one Creator, the single force of nature, and unification with Him and fell into the feeling of ordinary animate nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unification in Doubt” 4/10/10

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To rise from our animalistic, egoistic level, we need to strive for the next level—the altruistic human being.

We can achieve this either through immense suffering that forces us to reach the goal or through our own efforts when we know what lies ahead and understand the forces of nature at our disposal. Then we can help ourselves and bring ourselves to absolute coexistence.

Question: Should the aspiration to the higher degree, to the Creator, be like fuel throughout this stage? Otherwise why would 90% of egoists suddenly want to change their nature and care for society more than for themselves? They need some motivation. Can the upper force be this motivation?

Answer: Of course.

Question: But how can this happen if it has not been manifested until now? Even religions have not helped although they claim that the Creator is goodness and love.

Answer: Religions operate on a very low level. Moreover, they have already disqualified themselves if I may say so.

Comment: But in the early stages, they really did help humanity; otherwise, we would be like animals.

My Response: Yes, without religion we could not have existed; that is clear. Then began the thousand-year long process separation of religion from progress, from the changes in mankind, up to the creation of educational institutions where natural sciences and Kabbalah are studied.

Today, we have reached a state where we can calmly explain to all people on Earth, without any prohibitive restrictions, what Kabbalah is, why it is needed, how to master it, and what can be achieved with its help.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24

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Question: The Russian-speaking KabU (MAK Kabbalah Academy) community in Israel is united by linguistic and regional characteristics. On one hand we live in Israel; some have been in the country for decades while others have recently moved. On the other hand, while living in Israel, we study in Russian and came to Kabbalah thanks to MAK.

Should we strengthen our Hebrew and get closer to Hebrew-speaking groups in the country?

Answer: Undoubtedly, because all Kabbalistic literature written several centuries ago and several decades ago is all in Hebrew.

Occasionally, sources are found in Arabic, sometimes in Russian, but they are few, and no one seriously engages with them. By the way, they are also translated into Hebrew.

Our academy exists in many countries. We teach in more than 30 languages. But one must know Hebrew.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/19/20, “Connecting into One Soul”

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Question: You say that when reading The Book of Zohar, we do not feel how spiritual forces influence us or how many corrections occur during its study. If a person does not feel anything, does it mean that nothing is happening?

Answer: Certainly! Do we feel what is happening in our bodies? We feel only a millionth part of what is happening, and everything else passes by our senses and thoughts. We do not catch anything, and we do not have time to process anything.

Question: I can usually judge something when I feel something. You say if I do not feel, then is nothing happening. So does studying The Book of Zohar influence people?

Answer: The fact is that, on one hand, the integral world in which I actually find myself is vital to me and not the one that seems to me. I want to know the complete picture of the world and how it affects me. And what I do not feel today, I can feel tomorrow. Therefore, first of all, I need to experience this world. Second, I work in the part of the world that I feel.

There are two worlds: revealed and hidden. I must uncover everything around me and connect with the universe entirely.

This is what Kabbalah is for. That is why it is called the science of receiving. Receiving, that is, the disclosure of the universal complete universe, so I feel myself not within the framework of our world, not within the framework of my body, but in perfection, in eternity, in complete harmony with all of nature, I feel as an integral part of it, as eternal as it is.

Question: Let’s say an ordinary person begins to study The Book of Zohar. Does even just reading a passage affect him?

Answer: It does even if he just hears and does not understand. All the same, he is in contact because everything that happens in our world is some kind of contact through the matter of our world, which is desire.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Hidden Influence of The Book of Zohar” 3/7/10

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Question: Should we adopt a law so that we no longer take offense at a friend, no longer are angry with a friend, but see in him or her as a manifestation of the Creator?

Answer: If this applies to friends and not to dissemination, to the work of the organization itself, then it is worth it.

Question: Maybe we should formulate ten laws based on the articles of Rabash?

Answer: Do this, please. Do you know how many notebooks I have in which I wrote, drew, and took notes all the time? Work with this.

But most importantly, after the lesson, read the articles and choose the most significant sentences from there. It is very important. Choose from the lesson materials and maybe from what I said.

In principle, if I speak, I already focus my attention on this. So this is already clearer.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/23/20, “Preparation for the Convention”

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