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A Married Woman

laitman_627_2Torah, Deuteronomy 22:22: If a man is found lying with a married woman, even both of them shall die the man lying with the woman and the woman. So shall you clear away the evil from Israel.

The man symbolizes intention and the woman—the desire. A person begins to work with a desire that he cannot correct. Therefore, the entire process is dead and doesn’t have any continuation in the future.

Question: Yet, she is a married woman, does it mean that she is someone’s desire?

Answer: But a person hasn’t yet clarified whether this desire applies to him. After all, the whole analysis happens gradually, and whatever is bad on one degree, can be good on another degree. There the opportunity is already given to fulfill, investigate, and correct everything.

A married woman that is unfaithful to her husband is a desire that can’t be corrected with the help of the intention, with which a person is now working.

Let’s say I have a certain desire and the intention doesn’t match it. It is either less, more, or totally different in character, while between them there must be a clear match, which is determined by the upper Light at the degree above these men and women. Such a state must be preceded by a so-called spiritual marriage contract.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/5/16

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“And They Shall Fine Him One Hundred Shekels of Silver”

laitman_592_01Torah, Deuteronomy 22:19: And they shall fine him one hundred [shekels of] silver because he defamed a virgin of Israel, and he give it to the girl’s father. And she shall be his wife; he shall not send her away all the days of his life.

A person wants “to marry,” wants to develop his desire, to see its offspring, all kinds of various fulfillments and pleasures. And suddenly he understands that he cannot do anything. He can’t follow this path and overcome this desire. It is not his and it is completely alien to him.

He wants to enjoy life, and this desire calls him to something else, indicates that he must move toward the Creator, renounce his pleasures and plans. He doesn’t want such a desire, such a wife. Yet, he must correct exactly this desire that manifested in him in such an egoistic way. Later he’ll have to return to it and correct it.

However, now he ascends and enters into contact with the next level, although he paid a hundred silver shekels for it, meaning, he received a decent punishment in front of everyone, such as shame, various fears, and hatred.

Thus, he connected to the next higher level, and without this renunciation, he wouldn’t be able to just take his desire and start correcting it. It is the escape from correction that is a necessary condition before he can take care of it and correct it.

There is nowhere to run! Therefore, we see how humanity is slowly being pushed into difficult conditions, and we from our side develop our method more and more, make it closer to humanity, disseminate, and will certainly meet with them somewhere. This is the law of our development.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/5/16

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Uniting Desires

laitman_934Question: Suppose that my friend and I are hungry and are preparing to eat lunch together. Does this mean that we have united our desires? What does it mean to unite desires?

Answer: You could unite like that all you want, but your desires will not be connected. They only unite if you yearn for a single goal, a higher goal above your ego, according to the principle, “When in Him will my soul rejoice.”

To rise to the upper world, two people must unite and create a common desire like that of the Creator.

This desire is built upon mutual integration between them where they are ready to help each other have a positive influence on the Creator. Nonetheless, a person begins to influence the Creator to the same degree that the Creator influences the person.

Question: What are the tools that the wisdom of Kabbalah offers to a person who wants to begin to manage his reality?

Answer: This instrument is the characteristic of bestowal that we acquire when we connect together.

It means that a third characteristic is built between two egoists (ego 1 and ego 2), the characteristic of bestowal (bestowal 1+2). To the degree that they bestow to each other mutually, they begin to direct and turn it toward the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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The Evidence Of Virginity

laitman_549_02Torah, Deuteronomy 22:16 – 22:17: And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he despised her; and behold, he made libelous charges, saying, ‘I did not find evidence of your daughter’s virginity.’ But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!’

The “evidence of virginity” are personal desires of a person. He wants to abandon them, doesn’t want to correct anything, and says that they are not his.

He isn’t going to live with this woman and to give birth to her offspring; in other words, he doesn’t accept either her or the fact that he can create something together with her. This is because it is impossible to correct such egoism.

We see this on clear examples from our practice. The Torah describes states that everyone undergoes on his individual path. A person sometimes reveals such egoistic lowland in him that he can do nothing with.

Many of us keep going, yet many will “fall” and leave. Others will come instead of them, and this way the caravan is gradually moving forward.

Torah, Deuteronomy 22:17 – 22:18: And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. Then, the elders of that city shall take the man and chasten him.

A person should feel suffering from the fact that he wants to give up the curing of his egoism. Without it, he won’t want to rise because suffering helps him agree to the correction. And in this way he is driven to happiness by the “stick.”
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Unchanging Hierarchy

laitman_243_03Torah, Deuteronomy 23:1: A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor shall he uncover the corner of his father’s [cloak].

The “father’s wife” is a huge desire, for which a son can’t build a Masach (screen), because he has to be on the level of his father for that. However, he cannot rise to this level; he always will be lower. This hierarchy never changes.

Everything we receive from above, either from the wife of our father, meaning not from our own mother or father, must come to us through the filter that reduces the influence of the upper Light on us.

The ascent of the younger soul to the upper soul should happen only by permission, by the correct intention, and by the forces it receives from above. Therefore, there cannot be independent actions here, not with regard to the father, the mother, or the stepmother. After all, a person simply destroys himself, burns, if he receives more Light than he is capable of receiving.

“He shall not uncover the corner of his father’s cloak” in order to receive from him Direct Light. He can only receive the Light that the father (the Creator) directs to him.

A person should move consistently because he can’t jump over spiritual degrees. The Torah speaks only about the relationship between degrees. And although they change, the upper Light still remains the upper one.
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“A Bastard Shall Not Enter The Assembly Of The Lord”

003.jpgTorah, Deuteronomy 23:3: A bastard shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even the tenth generation shall not enter the assembly of the Lord.

A person will never be able to make such a correction that isn’t aimed at the integration of the common soul. As there used to be one common soul and one Masach for all desires and each desire had its own Masach, so again they must coincide and reconnect precisely to the same system.

If a bastard appears, that is a wrong Masach for the wrong desire, then there is discord in the entire system, and it leads to a cancerous disease, just like in our world because this must be corrected.

A “bastard” is the one who was born from the incorrect use of Malchut (desire) and the Masach because the intention—being in principle, directed toward bestowal – wasn’t precisely selected for his Malchut. In this case, it’s just a distorted detail of the common soul.

This phenomenon can be seen not only on the human level, but also on the animate and vegetative levels.
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Are You Happy In Your Life?

laitman_572_02Question: Are you happy in your life?

Answer: I am happy to the extent that my students allow me to be happy.

In principle, what is happiness? If the Creator gives me an opportunity and I realize it in my life, feeling that it comes from Him and that it returns correctly from me to Him, then this is indeed happiness.
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The Correct Interrelation Of Screen And Desire

laitman_232_06Torah, Deuteronomy 23:2: [A man] with injured testicles or whose member is cut, may not enter the assembly of the Lord.

A person can’t enter the assembly of the Lord if he doesn’t have such a correction as “Mila”—that is, when he had cut off three impure Klipot (desires). He can’t work with the remaining pure desires and get closer to the Creator.

The interaction of a man and a woman is the interaction of the Masach and desire. It is at the confluence of man and woman, between them, that the revelation of the Creator is present.

This is possible only when there is the right man, the right woman, and the right relationship between them. Therefore, there can be no strange women (desires). Then, the system is destroyed. Nor can there be a person who has some kind of damage in the Masach when the desire and intention occlude. The damage in the Masach is the “injured testicles” or “severed member.”

More details on this can be found in the six volumes of the Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot). It explains how the seed emerges, how its heating occurs, and so on. In general, it describes the work of a huge, complex system. Then, perhaps, it will become a little clearer why everything is born around this, both new life and the revelation of the Creator.
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“I Took This Woman”

laitman_622_01Torah, Deuteronomy 22:13 – 22:14: If a man takes a wife, is intimate with her and despises her, and he makes libelous charges against her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I took this woman, and when I came to her, I did not find any evidence of virginity for her.”

Among those who study Kabbalah, there are people who say, “Why did we come here? We have been studying for several years and where are the results?”

The desire with which a person came is the “woman” with whom he began to work. However, he leaves everything because he doesn’t see the results. Instead of connecting with his dream and moving on, he begins to hate her and runs away.

This means to “make libelous charges” that this method doesn’t work and to “give her a bad name.”

“I took this woman, and when I came to her, I did not find any evidence of virginity for her” means, that she isn’t mine. I can’t use her in order to create my future world, so-called offspring, together with her. This desire doesn’t relate to me and I can’t control it.

Torah, Deuteronomy 22:15: Then the girl’s father and her mother shall obtain evidence of the girl’s virginity, and take it out to the elders of the city, to the gate.

This is a revelation at the upper level, on the quality of Abba ve Ima. It refers to those people who begin to face clarifications and analysis on the spiritual path. They don’t run away from emerging problems, but such complexities do exist for them.

A “virgin girl” is a person’s personal egoistic desire, not one he received from someone. This is what we need to prove.

To “obtain evidence of the girl’s virginity, and take it out to the elders of the city, to the gate” means to raise the desire from Abba ve Ima to the next level.
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How Does The Spiritual Masach (Screen) Work?

laitman_232_06Question: How does the spiritual Masach (screen) work?

Answer: On one hand, the Masach doesn’t let the upper Light enter our ego and work with it. This means that it keeps and sustains the restriction of the desire.

On the other hand, it gradually adjusts the attribute of bestowal of the upper Light to our desires, and by detaching us from our previous desires, it enables us to acquire new desires for love and bestowal. A Masach is the most important part of the soul.
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