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The Formula Of Life

laitman_214Question: What should I study the wisdom of Kabbalah for? What will this give me?

Answer: Studying the Kabbalah helps us to understand where we are. We exist within a particular program of nature, like in a matrix, that manages us. And through a reciprocal connection, we can also manage it.

But this is only in the case where we understand how to influence it and not just to improve our physical destiny, but to discover the meaning of life. A precise and permanent existential program was inserted in each one of us and in all of us together from the start. If we look at the history of humanity, we see that everything has developed according to a particular program, which none of us planned from the start. Our destiny was inscribed from the start, but a person doesn’t know what will happen tomorrow.

Question: Is there a way to know this?

Answer: There is. The wisdom of Kabbalah was specifically given to us to discover our destiny. People reach the wisdom of Kabbalah not just to discover their fate, but also to correct it. The wisdom of Kabbalah is wisdom about life, it has been prepared for everyone, and there is a personal way within it for each individual.

Question: In other words, the wisdom of Kabbalah is a formula with which to calculate the fate of each person?

Answer: Certainly, I and my students study it. It is more or less universal for everyone, but it seems different to everyone when applying it.
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From the Webinar on zahav.ru 2/10/16

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Answers To Your Questions, Part 127

laitman_281_02Question: How should I think correctly? What should I do with unwanted thoughts and desires when, on the one hand, there is the temptation and, on the other hand, there is an internal protest?

Answer: I recommend reading the Book of Psalms or Shamati.

Question: How can I participate in your Kabbalah lessons without getting up early in the morning and without interrupting the routine of my family life or at work?

Answer: You can watch or listen to the lessons during the day as my students all over the world do in countries where they cannot participate in the lesson live online.
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Be Thankful For Suffering?

laitman_236_01Question: I suffer and thank the Creator for my pain and suffering. Is this the right approach?

Answer: If a person truly can thank the Creator, this is the right approach because if he thanks the Creator for awakening the suffering in him that directs him toward the goal correctly, he must feel sweetness in this suffering. According to studies by doctors and biologists, the feeling of suffering or pleasure basically gives the same result because the same process occurs in the brain.

Question: I don’t understand. How is it possible to be thankful for suffering? After all, this is masochism.

Answer: The difference is that I separate the thought and purpose of the suffering from how I am feeling it. It is just as I agree to a painful operation and simultaneously thank the doctors for freeing me from the disease. We see that in our world it is necessary to settle accounts and pay for everything through effort, energy, and suffering.

However, a Kabbalist sees the goal, why he is suffering. So, he no longer considers it to be suffering. He understands that suffering helps him become free of his egoistic nature, but as long as he is on the way toward leaving it, he suffers.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/3/16

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Who Is The “Other?”

laitman_622_01Question: What do the Kabbalists mean by the concept of “other?” Is this every person or a particular group of people? You say that love is fulfillment of the desires of others, but after all, aren’t there different desires?

Answer: When a person begins to feel the higher system, he begins to understand how it is up to him to relate to people correctly. If I were to say to you that the other is everyone, then you would ask, does this mean that I must embrace the enemy, the one who hates me? It is very difficult to explain this according to the usual perception.

The wisdom of Kabbalah, first and foremost, brings the person to the study, a discovery of the higher system. From this, it will become clear to him who the other is, who is near, who is distant, what love is, and what hatred is. Otherwise, he would not understand anything.

So, all of my explanations are directed only toward making it possible for a person to relate to the wisdom of Kabbalah correctly and to begin to learn methodically in the right group. In this way, he invites upon himself and stimulates the Upper Light that will correct him, open his eyes, and he will become a Kabbalist.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/27/15

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An Ideal Family

laitman_743Question: Can a man and a woman be friends?

Answer: No, only people of the same sex can be friends because the strongest attraction is sexual attraction, which means that it is above friendship.

Question: So, what is meant by the expression, “When husband and wife are worthy, the Shechina is between them?”

Answer: If a husband and a wife connect spiritually, they can reveal the Creator in this connection.

Question: What is an ideal family for you?

Answer: An ideal family is when a husband and wife develop together in spirituality and in their corporeal life, trying to establish a mutual connection between them so that one unique whole will indeed appear between them in which they discover the Creator.

Theoretically, this is possible, but I have not encountered such examples in corporeal life, which is natural for the state our world is in for the time being, the state of shattering. We may reach this state in practice, and in fact, we must reach that since in the future this will be the foundation of the family.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/6/15

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The Higher Intelligence Of The Group

laitman_947Question: What is group intelligence?

Answer: In an organized collective, there is an eclipse of reason, a relinquishing of thought and criticism, an intoxication in the collective setting, a pleasure derived from the numbing of the senses and the herd instinct of the masses. We lose independent judgment and become stupid.

So as not to become thrown into the will of the masses, of society, a small group must have a goal and a sincere desire to achieve it.

In our group, which consists of those who are studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, each person’s energy is directed toward complementing the others with Arvut (Mutual Guarantee). When we realize our aspirations in the framework of the group, the group of ten, no one’s voice is silenced. Instead, it becomes an addition to the group. Then, what appears is not just a collective animal intelligence, but the higher intelligence of the group.
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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 12/13/15

laitman_281_02Question: When the Machsom (Barrier) is crossed, what will happen to my soul after the physical body dies? Will it be reincarnated?

Answer: Certainly, the soul reincarnates until it moves through all 125 levels of development and reaches its source.

Question: If the wisdom of Kabbalah is not a religion, why does it talk about keeping the Mitzvot (Commandments)?

Answer: The 613 Mitzvot are 613 egoistic desires that exist in us that we must correct by making them altruistic. The correction of these desires is referred to as keeping the Mitzvot.

Question: Is it possible to see the upper force and compare it with other forces?

Answer: It is impossible to see the upper force, but you can feel it inside of you only when you carry out all of the conditions for spiritual ascent. You activate them, and you act according to their help.

Question: What do you mean by egoism?

Answer: Egoism is resistance to unity.

Question: Is it possible to use this world during spiritual work?

Answer: Absolutely, by working and living within this world and simultaneously ascending through the spiritual levels, we use it correctly.

Question: I have no way of being in a physical group or virtual group. Is it possible to advance as an individual?

Answer: No, you must at least find virtual partners for yourself.

Question: You have said many times that humanity still has not achieved maximal development of the ego and its ultimate spiritual fall. How much worse can the situation get?

Answer: Does all of humanity feel itself in a spiritual fall? Most people will tell you that nothing is happening and that everything is normal, but those people who are beginning to wake up and ascend spiritually must want this in order to ascend, and in this way, they will pull the entire world along with them.

Question: Can the limited quantity of people who are beginning to be awakened spiritually change anything in the world?

Answer: Yes, because, in the spiritual world, quality has a higher value than quantity. If the limited quantity of people become qualitatively unified, they will be able to influence the entire world.

Question: Why do I receive blows all of the time?

Answer: It is for you to rise above them. You get them, and thanks to this, you rise to a higher level of development.

Question: In order to get the power of bestowal, can I try to unite with trees, for example, instead of people?

Answer: No, it is impossible. You need to connect with those creatures who are on your level of your development—those who are like you, coarse people, egoists, those who are blocked and don’t really want to develop—and specifically by pushing and raising every one of you together, you will succeed in ascending to spirituality.

Question: How is it possible to know if I am ready to study the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: It is only according to your desire. If you continue to yearn for a goal, even though all kinds of problems sprout up at the time, you approach the wisdom of Kabbalah; these problems have been given to you intentionally as guidance from above, and nothing will stop you. This means that you truly are ready to be involved with the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/13/15

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Does A Woman Need A Group?

laitman_599_02Question: You have said that naturally there cannot be true friendship between women, why?

Answer: True friendship cannot be between men either. Their friendship is no different from childish friendship. Women don’t know how to be friends because they are individualistic; we see that in everyday life.

In the spiritual world, both men and women encounter the same problems and it makes no difference that women are more distant from a mutual connection between them than men who seem to find it easier to connect to one another, but it only seems so at first. But when women begin to build internal connections between them, they see that it isn’t that easy and so do the men. Therefore my advice is not to think that it is easier for men to perform spiritual corrections.

Question: Do women need a group?

Answer: Women need a group just like men do. In spirituality, women have to perform all the actions that a man performs: the same closeness, the same mutual guarantee between them. In the spiritual world it makes absolutely no difference which body you are in; think that you have no body.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/6/15

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Spiritual World – One For All

laitman_938_02Question: Is the spiritual world we attain the same for all or does each one have his own spiritual world?

Answer: The spiritual world we attain is the same for everyone, but each one attains it from some different perspective, in his own properties, just like our world.

In our world we are also supposed to exist in the same volume, but we still attain it in a different way. This happens because each of us has a different set of basic properties, the criteria through which we attain the world.
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From Lesson in Russian 12/27/15

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Answers To Your Questions, Part 124

Laitman_041_01Question: What exactly can a person in one of your Kabbalistic groups be happy about?

Answer: It is an absolute filling of happiness, knowledge, and the attainment of eternity and wholeness.

Question: What should I expect if I have been through the six worlds and have felt the first and second restrictions? Will this process repeat itself? After all, it says that it is five against five, an abyss of evil and an abyss of goodness, an abyss of lowliness and an abyss of exaltedness.

Answer: You ascend the levels of both worlds. The left line is five egoistic worlds, and the right line is five altruistic worlds.
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