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Love From Kabbalah Point Of View

laitman_594Question: Are there any signs of qualitative spiritual work?

Answer: The quality of work depends on what kind of Light I receive from my equivalence to the Creator: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, or Yechida.

We must go through 125 spiritual degrees to complete similarity with the Creator. The similarity lies in my love for others. It turns out that I must achieve precisely the exit from myself in the unanswered, unselfish, and absolutely unearthly love of others, meaning in caring for others.

Love in Kabbalah is a state where I feel the desires of another person and want to fulfill them completely, as if they are my biggest and most important desires.

All my nature, my whole essence, and all my inner self I dedicate to the service of other people’s desires. Therefore, this condition is called spiritual slavery.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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What Is Work In Egyptian Slavery?

Laitman_002Question: What is the slavery in Egypt? How is it different from the work during the spiritual exodus from Egypt?

Answer: The slavery in Egypt is a state of consciousness of being totally subordinate to our egoistic desires. Who created them? Who is inside egoism? The Creator Himself.

Then our spiritual work in Egypt begins. We want to detach ourselves from egoism and not to be subordinate to it. This is called the seven years of hunger in Egypt.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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Bestowal Is Life, Reception Is Death

laitman_207Torah, Deuteronomy, “Ki Titze,” 23:04: An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even the tenth generation shall never enter the assembly of the Lord.

The desires called Ammonites or Moabites cannot be corrected in the form that they exist. They can be corrected only through death. It means that a person completely annuls his egoism.

In other words, all ten Sefirot are in the impure area, in receiving for one’s own sake, and in such a form that they can’t be corrected; hence, they must go through the complete annulment of intention. This is death. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, all that goes to bestowal is called life, and to reception, death.

Therefore, all the desires that are called seven nations of the world cannot be corrected. We only can kill them within ourselves, and only once their egoistic use completely ceases can we begin converting them to altruistic use.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/19/16

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According To The Laws Of Our World

laitman_566_02Question: How should a manager of a business relate to the laborers who work under him? Are they really like his children or his brothers, or are they like parts of his soul?

Answer: I don’t have a code of conduct that would determine how a manager should relate to his employees. He must act according to the laws of the world, according to what his superiors demand of him; otherwise, he will not be the manager; he would get fired.

On the one hand, a manager must look at the laborers and workers as his subordinates or they will not carry out the tasks that have been placed before them. On the other hand, if he has the power and the authority, he must take care of them as much as possible. But this has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: Do people who have been studying Kabbalah for a long time want to know how to relate to subordinates? Do they need to relate to them internally with love and concern, but in an exacting manner externally?

Answer: What we learn in Kabbalah is relevant only to a group of Kabbalists who want to realize the advice of the wisdom of Kabbalah. The members of a group can adapt this advice only with the members of the group and perhaps also in the family to the extent that the family fully agrees to this and goes along with the person in this way.

I would recommend not trying to apply the wisdom of Kabbalah at work, with family and relatives, in fitness clubs, or in other places that a person visits. In addition, it is not worthwhile to try to convince anyone to act according to the laws of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: I have been managing a business for 15 years. I explore and study the motivation and psychology of employees. The employees of students of Kabbalah understand that we are different from other managers, and the attitude of the staff is very confident, but spiritual questions don’t interest them at all.

Answer: They don’t need to be interested in spiritual questions. It is possible to soften the atmosphere a bit among the staff through friendship, but no more than this.

In no way should we overemphasize involvement with the wisdom of Kabbalah at work.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1218/16

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Kabbalistic Friendship

Walking through the WallQuestion: Can ordinary friendship interfere with Kabbalistic friendship?

Answer: Ordinary friendship doesn’t interfere with Kabbalistic friendship, but it undergoes very serious changes since the mutual goal, means, and attitudes are completely changed.

Two people who were previously friends in a normal physical friendship become completely different friends in spiritual life.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/12/16

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What is Working In Three Lines?

laitman_600_02Question: What is working in three lines?

Answer: Working in three lines is the complete mutual connection between your inclinations.

The left line is the egoistic desire to receive, to enjoy. By ascending above it, a person restricts its use.

Working in the right line means receiving the upper Light and using it inside yourself as the attribute of bestowal.

The middle line is the combination of the right and left lines inside you. In the right combination, you can use your egoism only to the extent that it is aimed at bestowal.

Question: What does it mean to acquire the letters of the spiritual work?

Answer: It means to acquire a collection of correct relationships between the friends in the group.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/18/16

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Two Stages Of Spiritual Work

laitman_939_02Question: What is the work of the Creator? Does the Creator work instead of me?

Answer: Yes, the Light of the Creator is working on us; it changes our nature. We only ask Him to do it.

Our work consists of two parts. The first one is physical when we try to connect into a ten and organize ourselves into the correct structure of connections between us in order to create a field that is ready for the Creator to work in.

The second part is our plea to Him: “Come and create the correct connection between us. We did all we could between us.” Our work is in these two stages.
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From the lesson in Russian 12/28/16

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Who Can Consider Himself A Kabbalist?

laitman_243_01Question: I have undergone a transformation and I consider myself a Kabbalist. Is that possible?

Answer: First, one must determine and define who is a Kabbalist.

A Kabbalist is a person who is connected to a group of Kabbalists and who in the connection with his friends, discovers the Creator. The mutual attainment of the Creator in the group enables him to be a Kabbalist who receives the revelation of the upper force.

If you have undergone a certain personal experience, I must tell you that unfortunately it is only an illusion and a misconception.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Violence In Spirituality

laitman_622_01Torah, Deuteronomy 22:25: But if a man finds the betrothed girl in the field, and the man overpowers her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

Question: What does violence mean in spirituality?

Answer: Violence is the disparity of a desire and a Masach (screen). This shouldn’t be done. However, on the other hand, there are such desires that can’t be corrected any other way. We see such examples even in our world among animals and humans. This is a consequence of spiritual behavior.

This is a very complex system of behavior in our world between a man and a woman that obviously originates from the spiritual states of the Masach and desire.

On one hand, a woman consciously or subconsciously provokes a man, meaning she attracts him, even to the point that he could rape her. In our world, she can be, in part, psychologically unaware of it, but in the spiritual world, this is so. Therefore, we must understand that all of this is a very complicated system.

When we begin to unveil our desires and think about how to correct them, we are amazed that it is precisely due to the fact that we live in our illusory world that we receive through it the ability to describe spiritual states. After all, there is no language in the spiritual world and there are no separate objects such as man, woman, field, city, and so on.

It would be very difficult to describe all of this if the Kabbalists didn’t use the language of branches. Therefore, in our world, it is possible to depict everything so beautifully and in such detail that there are words for everything, for example: “A man finds the betrothed girl in the field and the man overpowers her.”

It means that the Torah uses thousands of didffernt words that describe such a state in detail, and if we describe this in a Kabbalistic language, then it speaks about the way the Masach interacts with desire, how they approach each other, meet in the field, that is, outside of the influence of all of the others, since no one has the opportunity to influence and limit them.

The Masach tries by all means to perform a correction, even over a desire that is unsuitable for it. In principle, this is an incorrect action, but the desire can be corrected this way.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/10/16

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“You Shall Make A Guard Rail For Your Roof”

laitman_232_06Torah, Deuteronomy 22:08: When you build a new house, you shall make a guard rail for your roof, so that you shall not cause blood [to be spilled] in your house, that the one who falls should fall from it [the roof].

The roof of the house is a screen through which we come in contact with the Creator. Therefore, it is necessary to make sure that no one can use it to harm himself.

This rule also comes from the fact that, firstly, the roof was once considered the safest place where one could hide from wild animals. Therefore, it served as a refuge for sleep.

Secondly, in the Mediterranean climate, the houses were very hot and people slept on the roofs in the cool. The law to create a fence (Maake) on the roofs comes precisely from this fact, and this direction must be strictly enforced.

Therefore, in Israel the roof of each house is fenced.

The inner meaning of this commandment is that in this way you must build your screen, like in a Sukkah (in a hut). Through it, the upper Light comes to you from above and your desires ascend.

Therefore, there should be a restriction on all impure desires in the screen so that no one can use it to harm. After all, if you use the screen for your own sake, it collapses and this is considered a descent.
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