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See Your Soul Through The Friends

Laitman_524.01Question: It is written (Psalms 1): “…nor sit in the company of scorners.” A person who knows that “scorners” are his internal states now suddenly sees “scorners” in the ten. How should he work with this?

Answer: He should change himself through the group until they look perfect in his eyes. This is his work. Through the friends, he should see his soul, that is, all ten Sefirot.

Comment: You said that in more advanced states, we must sometimes on purpose awaken these “scornful” in ourselves.

My Comment: Not right away. First of all, we need to build the correct system, methodology, and then look within for reserves for fast passage. Then, we will need the negative force too.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 4/18/18

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Everybody Has A Chance

laitman_236.01Question: If all the events in a person’s life are not accidental, does every corporeal event have an upper cause, an upper root?

Answer: Every person has his own “angel,” i.e., the upper force that rules him in particular. In other words, each of us, via his point in the heart, the root of his soul, is placed inside the spiritual system.

In reality, there are no distances, there are no upper and lower worlds—they are one and the same system, only everything depends on how deeply we go into its sensation or are beyond its sensation.

If we delve into the feeling of this system called “soul” or “upper world,” then we actively penetrate it with our corrected desires and work in it.

If, by virtue of our uncorrected egoistic desires, we cannot work in this system, then we feel our world and, naturally, we have only the initial connection with the upper world, that is, the embryo of the future.

Only when we start correcting ourselves can we gradually be included in this system. In principle, however, we are all in a state where every person has the opportunity to start feeling themselves in the upper system.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/1/18

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 5/13/18, Part 2

laitman_540Question: What is the order of actions that I must carry out to bring about the positive bestowal of the upper Light on me? Can this be done, for example, in a dream or when working or is it only during the time of study?

Answer: It is best during the study, but it is also possible at the time of carrying out other activities. This must be learned. The most certain correction is realized at the time of the study in a group.

Question: If I begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, will I be able to manage and determine the desires that will appear within me and those that will be shut down?

Answer: No. It depends on the root of your soul, and therefore, you cannot command it. And why would you? On the contrary, you will develop according to the appearance of the Light from above on your soul, on the sum of your desires.

Question: As a Kabbalist, do you manage yourself and summon the Ohr Makif (surrounding Light)? How do thoughts, desires, or people come to you?

Answer: I only express my readiness to advance and the Light does everything else.

Question: If the entire world is within me, who am I?

Answer: You are the repository of the entire world as you imagine it. After all, the created being is the entire world.

Question: If a person is approaching correction, is his general state positive, content, serene,  even elated?

Answer: Or the opposite. We are constantly moving in a start-stop motion, in very serious peaks: up and down, up and down. But in general, I am sure that we are all on the right track. You will soon discover this in practice. Everything will be okay.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/13/18

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Don’t Cut Yourself Off From The Creator

laitman_571.06Question: What does it mean to relate a thought or situation to the Creator? Is it possible to give an example of how to make this internal action?

Answer: To begin with, at least think that everything that happens to you at each moment in the head and in the heart, in the mind and desire, comes from the Creator. You just feel His thoughts, His desires.

Do not attribute all your thoughts and desires, whatever they may be, to yourself,  but only to Him. You will then see how much your attitude to these desires and thoughts changes, how they change by themselves and how the world changes through them. This is very interesting.

Naturally, you will constantly forget about Him, you will cut yourself off from the Creator. You cannot feel completely controlled by Him. Only when you connect everything to the Creator and acknowledge that all your thoughts and desires come from Him are you considered as a created being. Otherwise you do not exist!

Question: Does it mean that when I reach the state that I am completely not free I am considered as a created being?

Answer: Yes. There is no other state. This complete flow in the thoughts and desires from the Creator erases a person from the system.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/17/18

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 5/13/18, Part 1

laitman_963.4Question: Is the appearance of a desire for spirituality in a person a matter of luck? Does the Creator decide when the person will awaken?

Answer: Yes, it depends on the Creator. Certainly, for a person, it is a matter of luck, a lottery. The upper Light that influences a person is what determines within him the appearance of this desire.

Question: If my desires are on a higher level, on the level of the speaking, will I begin to see spiritual phenomena in the world?

Answer: You will not only see spiritual phenomena, you will also feel the system, the network of forces that influence you and our world. You will begin to see the results of the influence of the network; and when you are in mutual contact with this network of forces, you will be able to determine the future.

Question: Do you suppose that every person who begins to learn the wisdom of Kabbalah must prepare himself to become a teacher?

Answer: If the Creator begins to develop the person, this is inevitable. As said in the article “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”: “The Creator puts one’s hand on the good fate,” meaning that he brings him to a society where that person can develop, and says to him: “This take for you.”

Question: Is approaching the Creator pleasant, or dangerous, or both?

Answer: Approaching the Creator cannot be dangerous because there are very precise laws. You approach the Creator only according to the degree of your correction. Your personal correction determines the approach to Him.

Question: What is reality called in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: In the wisdom of Kabbalah, reality is called the desire that is presently working within me, and the Light which determines it. There are only these two elements in a creature and we can adjust the quality and intensity of the connection between them.

Question: How can the desire to bestow exist within the desire to receive?

Answer: There is no such thing. The desire to receive appears as something from nothing. This is the only thing that was created. Everything else is derived from it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/13/18

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Don’t Sit In The Seat Of The Scornful

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The verse says (Psalms 1), “nor sat in the seat of the scornful.” We must understand the prohibition on “seat of the scornful.” Is it due to slander or idle words? So the prohibition is not because of a “seat of scornful.” What then does the “seat of scornful” add to us? (Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”)

Apparently, this prohibition is somehow different from the first two.

The prohibition to be in the seat of the scornful is a completely different direction of development of a person, the whole society, the whole world, and the whole universe. It all starts with a small intention that underlies the search: why and for what purpose does this society arise. This intention has to be radically opposite to all the others.

Therefore, it is necessary to find the initial and the final point of development, to manifest them, and on this basis understand how it is possible to get from the first to the last. This is a problem.

In order to advance spiritually, it is necessary to know what we are moving away from.

The scornful and the enemies are our inner qualities. It is therefore necessary to identify those qualities that we have to suppress, must distance from, and somehow protect ourselves from.

Or maybe, sometimes to awaken them in order to understand, on the basis of which definitions we can figure out the direction in contrast to these qualities: the pros and cons of our goals. We thus move forward.

Question: Not sitting in the seat of the scornful means thinking about the Creator all the time?

Answer: Not just thinking, but combining all your actions, thoughts, and feelings with the concept called the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 4/18/18

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What Determines The Speed Of Advancement

laitman_626Question: If a person who has been studying for many years keeps asking the same question all these years: What is connection? What is annulment? How can one annul oneself?, is this natural?

Answer: Yes. We do not know exactly how all this should be happening in our time because our time is special. Yet, regarding the number and quality of the people who join us, I think that the process cannot go much faster.

Unfortunately, we want to accelerate time without making appropriate efforts. Everyone’s initiative is required. It is not enough yet.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 4/12/2018

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Answers To Your Questions, Part 227

laitman_565.02Question: I study the wisdom of Kabbalah and its implementation in life with the help of your video lessons. In the lessons, you pay a lot of attention to the group, its importance for a person and for one’s spiritual progress.

Explaining the fundamentals of the wisdom of Kabbalah, you draw attention to the clear interrelation between the physical and spiritual worlds according to the principle of roots and branches.

This means that the processes in the physical world are reflected in the spiritual world, and vice versa. Such an approach to things during the process of learning stimulates the search for analogies and comparisons.

Based on all of this, I have a question: Is it worthwhile for me to pay attention to this when trying to form an effective group?

Answer: We do not create a group, but how it gathers. We accept it as it is and achieve unity, discovering the Creator within it.
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Final Correction

935Question from My Blog: You once said in one of the videos that we have to complete our mission, that is, to come to final correction, and that this can be done regardless of time and space. What do you need to do for this?

Answer: Exit the framework of space and time, as you correctly noted. That is, we should not limit ourselves to any time frame, any place on earth.

We just need to get closer to each other as much as possible. In other words, rise above our egoism because our nature is absolute egoism and we already agree with it, understand it, and have researched it well.

The science of Kabbalah reveals the method of rising above our egoism where we can rise above ourselves and connect with others. In connection with each other above our animal egoism, above our original nature, we create a system called Adam, from the word “Domeh”—similar to the Creator, that is, a unified upper force.

We also make ourselves a unified system. Then the upper force fills it, and we feel ourselves existing in the property of bestowal, love, eternity, and infinity.

That is our final correction—filling ourselves completely with the upper Light.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 9/5/18

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At The Beginning Of The Spiritual Experiment

laitman_938.05Question: Kabbalah is a science. Can we take a certain segment of people and show that they can be corrected by this method?

Answer: Science is what you hypothesize and then confirm in practice. Once you have clear results, the hypothesis becomes a science.

Currently, we do not have this data. We have just come to the beginning of the experiment. If this experiment works successfully, then we will be able to say that the science of Kabbalah was proven in our time.

Kabbalah is a practical experimental science, and this is the way we work.

Question: So you aren’t saying that Kabbalah is a method of correction? Do we just make attempts at it?

Answer: Even if I did affirm this, I would be ridiculed: “Where did you get that Kabbalah is a method of correction?”

That is, I see how it works on myself and I can see some others. But how does it work on the world scale?

We are in a state when we are just starting its implementation. The fact that the world is on the decline is clear to us. The fact that the world has no method of correction is clear. The world has no power to fix itself, it has no understanding of how it works—this is clear too.

The only way I can prove experimentally that I possess the method that actually works is to demonstrate it on myself and others.

I am sure of the scientific nature of the method Kabbalah because I have experienced it firsthand and have seen it actualized on my teachers. I see how gradually it is been introduced over decades. I have been involved in it for over forty years, but I cannot show this method to anyone else.

Logically, all this is true, but until proven in practice, no one will listen to us. If you take a certain society and teach this method to it, if it masters it on itself and can demonstrate it to the rest of the world, then everything will work out.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/24/18

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