Entries in the 'Q&A' Category

Questions About Work In The Group – 2

laitman_938_07Question: How do I deal with my complaints about my friend? Should I sit down with him and discuss what I don’t like, or should I keep it to myself and try to convince myself mentally that he is better?

Answer: Discuss it in the group because the Creator is giving this to you for a greater connection for His revelation in the group.

Question: Does working on the connection mean to want to feel the desires of the friends as mine? If yes, then which desires of the friends are we are talking about: all of the desires of the friends or only the desires of the friends for the Creator?

Answer: It is only the desires of the friends for the Creator.

Question: Can we say that the indication of the appearance of ten Sefirot is happiness from the unity in the group?
Answer: This is one of the accompanying sensations.
[190493]

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Women’s Questions

laitman_606Question: Does a woman have to yearn for the attribute of bestowal if she was created as the part that receives?

Answer: The two sexes are equal in attaining the Creator, and each of them has both a male and a female part.

Question: How can I stop raising my voice to my husband and children?

Answer: Your husband and children exist inside you and only seem to exist on the outside, and so you have to first turn you the husband and children that are inside you and only then to the figures that are on the outside.
[191195]

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Why I Comment On The News

laitman_600_02Comment: Lately you sound like a political commentator and not a Kabbalist.

Answer: In our shared cultural development we have reached the end of the previous stage of human development, a stage in which humanity evolved according to natural law, through its continually growing egoism, like a little child or adolescent.

But just as the period of childhood ends, so also this period is ending, and today nature is forcing us to grow up and relate to life differently. For this, it is up to us to work against our egoistic desires and rise above them with faith above reason.

To realize this transition from childhood to adulthood, the wisdom of Kabbalah has been revealed and tells us where we are, what happened throughout history, and what will happen in the future. Beginning from this moment, we have before us two ways of development: the way of suffering or the way of Torah, the good way. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to walk in the good way, which means learning to resemble nature and unite like all of nature is united.

The integral feeling will unveil before us the true world in which we exist. But now it is hidden by our narrow egoistic feeling. By discovering the true world we will be “creators” of another eternal and perfect world.

Since this transition is imperative for everyone and must happen in our time, as is written in the wisdom of Kabbalah and according to everything that is happening in the world, it seems that we must teach the wisdom of Kabbalah with news events, and explain what the events are caused by and toward what they are leading us.

It is possible to see my commentaries from previous years and be convinced about how right they are. Even Baal HaSulam wrote about politics in the writings of “The Last Generation” and in the newspaper, The Nation.
[191318]

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The Creator And Me

laitman_744Question: If there is none else beside Him, who manages the dialogue within me? Is the Creator speaking with Himself when we ask Him for something, are angry at Him, and thank Him? Is He the one who feels what is happening with a person and turns toward Himself? And is the “self” that follows and watches everything also the Creator? So why is it not said that there is none else beside me?

Answer: You are right about that. There is none else beside you and only to the degree that the Creator is discovered by you will you discover that there is none else beside Him.

Question: Does the Creator push the person away? And if He does, why?

Answer: It is to teach the person to “walk,” just like we teach a little child.
[191190]

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How Do We Transcend The Machsom?

laitman_565_01Question: Does a person transcend the Machsom (barrier) due to drawing the necessary amount of Surrounding Light (Ohr Makif)? Does he transcend it after he has drawn a sufficient amount of the Surrounding Light or does he need something other than drawing the Surrounding Light in order to transcend the Machsom?

Answer: The Surrounding Light does everything.

Question: How can a person determine whether he has transcended the Machsom or not? Does something open before him in his feelings? Does a sixth sense develop in him by which he begins to feel the Creator’s presence?

Answer: Yes!
[191055]

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Man Or The Creator?

Laitman_109Question: If only the Creator exists, does that mean that man is part of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, but a person has to attain that by himself.

Question: If that’s so, does it mean that a person feels only the Creator or only himself? Is there only a Creator or only a person?

Answer: Only the Creator exists and we exist according to our egoism.

Question: What does the Creator enjoy? What does it mean that the force enjoys?

Answer: It is filled and fulfilled.
[191104]

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How Should One Read Books Of Kabbalah?

laitman_209Question: How do reading books like, The Book of Zohar and the Shamati articles influence a person and how can we read them correctly, with what intention? What must we want?

Answer: We must read with an intention to achieve the purpose of life, resemblance to the Creator, the characteristic of absolute love. That is what the first articles of Rabash talk about.

Question: When reading the Shamati articles, is it enough to want to feel the hidden meanings of the text so that the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light)  will influence the reader?

Answer: This is enough, but this is possible only on condition that the person participates in the practical realization of the text within a group.
[191169]

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How Can I Influence My Destiny?

Laitman_524_01Question: How is it possible to influence destiny and the higher management?

Answer: The only way a person can influence the higher management so that it will not lead him to the goal and to happiness through the “rod,” but through advancement along a comfortable, rapid, easy, and joyful way is only through a yearning for connection and union within a group of people who are studying with him.

So together you will attract the Upper Light to yourselves, which is a special power that exists in the world and can connect and unite us. This is the only way to achieve a better state.
[190596]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/17/16

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Answers To Your Questions, Part 135

Laitman_507_05Question: With the end of correction (Gmar Tikkun) will all of us remember our past lives, all of their details, and will we see the meaning of everything that has happened throughout all of our lifetimes in this world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If Light is all that we get in the worlds, does that mean that the Light even brings pleasure, suffering, and new thoughts?

Answer: Yes, but these will be pangs of love.

Question: From your lectures it has come up that we need to acquire a soul and merge with the Creator. Why and for what should I merge with the Creator? If I want to get something from His “box” now, then why would I want to be in this “box”?

Answer: Only when you are within it will you be able to receive attainment, feel, and change everything, exactly like Him.
[190617]

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How Does One Integrate Into The Pace Of Life?

Laitman_120Question: I don’t understand how to fit spirituality into the modern pace of life? I always feel that something isn’t on time, even though I know that haste is only harmful. It seems that I am missing the point. How can one not rush to keep pace with everyone? Can the wisdom of Kabbalah help here?

Answer: I would suggest that you attend our Kabbalah lessons at least one to two hours per day, as much as you can. You should try to listen and absorb everything into you, and if possible, pass it on to others also.

Question: Is there a general rule for beginners that would ensure that they become harmonized with reality?

Answer: The general rule is very simple. Listen to the lessons for beginners or the daily lessons and participate in unity with the friends.
[190593]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/17/16

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