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How Do You Develop A Point In The Heart?

laitman_929Question: I heard that we are all parts of the one soul of Adam and within each of us there is a spark from it called a point in the heart. What is a point in the heart and how can it be developed?

Answer: We all belong to one desire. This huge desire was divided into many parts, each of which fell into your, my, or his body. Our bodies separate these parts of desire from each other. I want one thing, you want another one, and he wants something else because our bodies rule and order the desire that it should want.

The wisdom of Kabbalah says that if while living in this world in our bodies we connect together the parts of the desire that exist within each of us, then in the created common desire we will begin experiencing the out-of-body phenomena, that is, a different reality—the spiritual world.

After all, each one feels this world within his personal, individual, isolated desire. And if we unite our desires, then they acquire a new quality precisely due to the unification. This common desire becomes integral and joint, and within it we feel the reality that exists outside of you, me, or him: the upper world.

It is not so difficult to achieve this; the main thing is to understand how important it is for us to see the upper degree, a state higher and more external than this world, that is, the future world. As it is written, “You will see your world in your life.” If we cancel the limitations of the body and unite into one man with one heart, we will feel the upper world.
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From  “Answers to Beginners’ Questions” 7/24/2017

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The Torah Reveals Eternity

935Torah, Deuteronomy 29:08: And you shall observe the words of this covenant and fulfill them, in order that you will succeed in all that you do.

The Torah presents very complex and serious conditions for correcting egoism. But we must do everything in order to fulfill them. Their realization occurs within a person through the correction of his egoistic nature so that he could come to connection with others and show the entire world the possibility of unity, which humanity needs so much today.

Then we will indeed bring the upper Light into our world. While still existing in the corporeal world, we will rise and reveal the next world, as it is written: “Reveal your world while you are still in this life,” and we will begin our existence in it.

Once this happens, the psychological concept of life and death will disappear. Everything will become one eternal existence beyond time, space, and motion. We must come to this. The Torah reveals eternity for us.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/28/16

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So The Lord Will Delight

119Torah, Deuteronomy 28:63: And it will be, just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do good for you and to increase you, so will the Lord cause to rejoice over you to annihilate you and to destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land which you enter therein, to possess it.

On one hand, the Creator destroys your egoistic desires that prevent you from fulfilling the laws of bestowal and love, but He does it in an evil rather than a kind way. On the other hand, He rejoices because in any case the correction is taking place.

In our world we are unable to appreciate it, in the same way as we are unable to approve of or justify the sufferings that occurred during the inquisition or the Holocaust.

In fact, these are enormous corrections because we could not do them ourselves.

The Creator is the property of the highest degree, which exists in the corrected state, and therefore it is said that He is delighted. After all, this action draws a big Light in the worlds. It causes great darkness within us because we exist in properties opposite to His.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/08/16

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At The Entrance To The Land Of Israel

laitman_749.01In the chapter “Tavo” (“When you come”), Moses explains to the people what they must do at the entrance to the Land of Israel, which is when they rise to a new spiritual degree.

Land (Eretz) is from the word “Ratzon” (desire), and “Israel” (Isra-El) means straight to the Creator. The ascent to the degree where all a person’s aspiration is directed only to the Creator is called entrance to the land of Israel. There is not any geography or history here!

It is written in the Torah that the sons of Israel will both curse and bless, meaning they will have the right and left line and they will fight their problems in order to unite even more. At that, the steps of elevation in the land of Israel are very difficult, not simple, and are revealed gradually.

Conquering this land in this way, these desires and intentions, the sons of Israel gradually reveal the Creator within themselves. In other words, this desire called the land of Israel manifests between them, in which they attain Him more and more.

Everything that happened before, during the correction in the desert, was aimed at not harming each other. Now their desires connect with each other above hatred and all the problems. By covering hatred with love, they reveal the Creator.

This is no longer a desert but internal wars. They know that they are facing a huge terrible war, each one within himself and with each other.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/5/16

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How To Reach Abundance?

Laitman_032.01Torah, Deuteronomy 28:21: The Lord will make pestilence cleave to you, until it has exterminated you from upon the land, to which you are coming, to possess it.

If the Creator evokes desires in you that you can correct, but you don’t do it, then these desires become as if destroyed—they go down again.

They are taken away from you but taken in such a way that you will still correct them, but already forcibly: either through hunger, or death, or wars, or through some other problems.

It is written about this: “The Lord will make pestilence cleave to you.” After all, if you corrected them, there would be abundance.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/5/16

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Everything Depends On The Spiritual Masach

laitman_537.jpgQuestion: What benefits can come from the spiritual terms of space and time? What can I take for myself?

Answer: You can implement time, space, distance, the transition from one place to another, the acceleration, and the deceleration.

You can attain eternity, wholeness and in all coordinates play with all the parameters as you wish. Only this all depends on the degree to which you control your desires.

In other worlds, it all depends on the spiritual Masach.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/19/17

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“Then All The Peoples Of The Earth Will See”

Laitman_049.04Torah, Deuteronomy 28:10: Then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they will fear you.

“Then all the peoples of the earth will see” means that all your inner qualities, all the elements of your soul, all your desires and intentions, will feel the influence of the upper Light on them, will be corrected, and will join your initial intention in the action of bestowal and love for all creatures.

In this you will reach similarity to the Creator. To the extent that you begin to treat everyone with bestowal and love, you will reveal that the Creator treats all the creatures exactly this way. There you will meet with each other.

Question: Why is it written, “And they will fear you”?

Answer: All of your qualities that have not yet been corrected will fear you. They will tremble because they are opposite to you. You will feel it yourself.

In addition, those qualities that will be corrected also will be in trepidation, but of a different kind: whether I will be able to withstand, to rise, to ascend even more in my aspiration to bestowal and love.

In other words, the trepidation comes from both negative and positive feelings.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/5/16

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Spirituality Is Not Divided Into Parts

Laitman_001.01Question: Baal HaSulam writes that in spirituality nothing is divided into parts. So, where does the concept of division into ten Sefirot come from?

Answer: The concept that spirituality is not divided into parts means that you cannot take a part from a given Partzuf (a spiritual system) and do whatever you want with it.

As soon as you take a part out of it, its structure immediately becomes complex and includes ten Sefirot. In other words, every grain of sand, or whatever it may be, is composed of ten Sefirot: this is true for both the whole and the part, every part of a part, and every part of the whole.

It is impossible to disconnect and separate the ten Sefirot; there cannot be less. If there seem to be more than ten, these ten Sefirot have been magnified. In any case, their number will be ten, no less and no more. In other words, they can be more qualitatively, but not quantitatively.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/5/17

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Should I Get Acquainted With The People At The Congress?

laitman_938.07Question: There is not enough time at a big congress to get acquainted with everyone. How important is communication for spiritual success and what form do you recommend?

Answer: There is no need to communicate. You don’t have to get personally acquainted with everyone personally enter everyone’s soul. Just be with everybody. If they are dancing, dance with them. If they are talking, you can either talk, be silent, learn, or discuss all the problems. It is a constant work during many hours.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/19/17

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Locusts Will Exterminate Everything

laitman_740.01Torah, Deuteronomy 28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.

This means that your desires that you want to restore from egoism in order to raise them to the spiritual level will fall again into egoism.

In this case it is better not to give birth to them because being born on the spiritual level, they cannot remain on it and will fall to the lower level at which they were before birth, meaning that “they shall go into captivity”.

Torah, Deuteronomy 28:42: All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.

Nothing will remain from the plants that you planted, the animals that you raised, and the house that you built—absolutely everything will rot in the egoistic swamp.

“All thy trees and the fruit of thy land” are desires of the vegetative level. They also fall on the lower egoistic level, the symbol of which is the locust.

Locust are often mentioned in the Torah because it represents the egoistic level of a person that can be corrected.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/19/16

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