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From The Pure Heart

laitman_527_02Torah, Deuteronomy 10:17: For the Lord, your God, is God of gods and the Lord of the lords, the great mighty and awesome God, Who will show no favor, nor will He take a bribe.

The Creator doesn’t take a bribe, unlike kings, leaders, and officials who can be bought.

You can deal with the Creator only from a pure heart, without any relation to yourself, when you can say that you definitely don’t offer any bribes and completely exclude yourself and everything that can be related to you from any consequences.

Then, you have no incentive to give or offer anything to anyone. You have absolutely pure desires and thoughts. This is when you can engage in the Torah, in other words, the real correction.

However, our world is built on a complete deception of ourselves and others, and therefore we don’t feel any spiritual phenomena in it. Everything is constantly bought, and we can’t act in any other way. If we could act directly and honestly at least in something, we immediately would find ourselves in the upper world.
[194031]
From KabTV program “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/1/16

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Should We Come Into Contact With Unpleasant People?

laitman_600_02Question: Suppose people I don’t want to be involved with try to come into contact with me, should I overcome my feelings and start building relationships with people I don’t feel comfortable with?

Answer: At the very least you should make sure you communicate with them in a proper way. You should not repel people. You should try to overcome yourself and try to be polite.

This doesn’t mean that you should love people on the level we are now, but you should aspire to have neutral feelings regarding every individual and then also try to befriend him. This will correct your soul! I am speaking from the perspective of the soul and not from the perspective of your good relations with others. This is how you correct your soul and advance toward the general correction of the world.
[193621]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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The Tribe Of Levi

laitman_933Torah, Deuteronomy 10:08-09: At that time, the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him, and to bless in His Name, to this day.

Therefore, Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord, your God spoke to him.

The tribe of Levi are special people who were engaged in education of the people and served in the Temple. They were on the corresponding upper degree of the spiritual level. Cohens, Levites, and Israel were three classes, three spiritual levels that should be clearly delineated.

Question: Is there a chain of records in a person that shows who he is: Cohen, Levite, or Israel?

Answer: Studies of the genetic codes say that there is such a chain. This is especially apparent in the Cohen because during thousands of years they didn’t mix with the other tribes and married only among themselves. It is harder with the Levites.

I don’t think we need this separation today. On the contrary, when mixing reaches its maximum, all the differences disappear and the spiritual separation of people begins, not by their past records, but by their spiritual attainment. As soon as we start to rise, each one will take his level according to his efforts and achievements.

Question: Do you think that the Cohen’s genetic code will stop working?

Answer: I don’t know whether it really exists and to what extent, but today it doesn’t have any power and has nothing to do with spiritual growth and spiritual work.

If we are talking about spiritual growth, it is said in the Torah that the tribe of Levi didn’t have any portion of inheritance, apart from serving the Creator. They fully depended on the people. They had nothing, even for personal needs, as, for example, Chinese doctors who had nothing and went from house to house and received money only from healthy people but not from the sick ones. This is how it should be.

It’s the same here. The Levites had to serve the people and receive only what the public brought them. Naturally, at the level of our world, they were happy to see good prayers, good rain, a good harvest, and everything else, but on the spiritual level everything is much stronger.
[193611]
From KabTV program “Secrets of the Eternal Book”, 5/16/16

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Straight To The Creator

laitman_740_03Torah, Deuteronomy 10:10 – 11: And I remained on the mountain like the first days forty days and forty nights, and the Lord hearkened to me also at that time; the Lord did not wish to destroy you. And the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to lead the travels before the people, so that they may come and possess the land I promised their forefathers to give them.”

Forty days and forty nights is a spiritual state, the level of Bina.

From this moment on, the people go forward through the entirety of their egoism to conquer the top of the world with the new instructions, “You will be able to correct egoism, change yourself, and become worthy of the state that is called the land of Israel.”

The land (Eretz from the word “Ratzon”) is desire that is directed straight to the Creator (Isra-El).

The Creator seems to say, “You will reach a state of complete adhesion with Me if you fulfill all the commandments throughout the path that I point out to you.”
[193673]
From KabTV program “Secrets of the eternal book” 5/16/16

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Everything Comes From The Creator

laitman_275Question: How is it possible to work with a blow to the ego that comes from an external source and to correctly rise above the subsequent state of hatred? Can I correct negative emotions in work that devours me as a result of conflict?

Answer: First of all, you need to carefully read the materials about the uniqueness of the Creator and the management of creation very carefully. You must understand how to relate correctly to these situations, analyzing all the articles and discussing them with each other.

They are very important for forming the right attitude toward the world we live in and to help us understand through this world how to begin to feel the managing system of upper forces and behind them the singular supreme will, how it projects its management over our world and through whom everything moves. Everything comes only from the Creator; you can call it, Allah, Elokim, or the Creator, it makes no difference. It is the singular upper force that manages the world.

If you consider all of humanity, you will see that there are people in our world who manage and there are those who obey according to a hierarchy that is managed entirely by the Creator. We need to see how to cooperate with the environment to be directed toward the Creator through everything that is happening in the world.

Question: In principle I have to be grateful to the Creator for indicating the location of the “illness” to me?

Answer: In this way the Creator makes it possible for you to be constantly corrected. Ultimately you will reach being similar to Him, eternal and whole, and all of creation will be in front of you.
[193560]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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If You Want To Partner With The Creator

laitman_527_03Torah, Deuteronomy 10:18: He executes the judgment of the orphan and widow, and He loves the stranger, to give him bread and clothing.

Orphan, widow, and stranger are exactly the desires that seem to us unworthy of attention, something extraneous, absolutely not conspicuous, unnecessary, and unimportant.

Whatever seems important to your egoism is not important to the Creator. On the contrary, what doesn’t matter at all to your egoism, is even despised and rejected by it, are these qualities with which you can be connected to the Creator.

If you want to partner with the Creator, you must pay attention exactly to such qualities and correct them. There you certainly will see your work with the Creator.

The Creator is in everything that lies beyond your field of interest. Will you find your desires there? They aren’t there! Hence, we don’t feel the upper world, since it is in those desires that can appear within us, but they won’t be directed toward us, but from us outward.
[194034]
From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 6/1/16

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From Father To Son

laitman_740_01Torah, Deuteronomy, 10:06 – 10:07: The children of Israel journeyed from the wells of B’nei Ya’akan to Moserah; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son served as Kohen in his stead. From there, they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Yotvath, a land with streams of water.

Death in the spiritual world isn’t a punishment or something terrible. When the son comes to replace the father it means the rise, for example of Aaron, to the next level.

It means he dies in his last guise, in his past performance of some actions, because he can’t rise to the next level without leaving his previous form. Then he obtains a new form that is called his son. But in principle, all souls are immortal.

They don’t lose anything; they only gain all the time. In other words, it is about a desire that transforms under different names until it comes to its final corrected state.
[193554]
From KabTV program “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 5/16/16

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“You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor’s Wife”

laitman_622_01Question: In one of the “Secrets of the Eternal Book” programs, you said that the meaning of the commandment “you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” refers to not wanting the desire of another and not using it for your own sake. Did I understand it correctly?

Answer: You should always understand what your personal desire is, that it, like you, is ready so together with it you can create the correct new Partzuf, a spiritual body.

Question: Does this means that there are others who have their own desire to receive (their wife), and that I am forbidden to use another’s desire for my own sake?

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah the word “forbidden” means impossible.
[193423]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/24/16

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Who Leads The Hand Of Man?

Laitman_509Torah, Deuteronomy 10:02: And I shall inscribe on the tablets the words that were upon the first tablets which you shattered and you shall place them into the ark.

What does it mean that Moses writes on the tablets? In fact, the Upper Light, i.e., the Creator does it, but a person’s hand executes it.

A person who is in complete agreement and complete adhesion with the Creator must perform such an action when he writes the Torah on his heart or gives this opportunity to the Creator. This can be interpreted in different ways.

However, even we assume that a person does it himself, the Creator leads his hand.
[193420]
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The Roots Of Fear

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Question: What is the root of human fear?

Answer: Fear is the main egoistic property that comes from a desire for pleasure that is terrified of remaining empty; this is the basis of all fears.

Question: In our world, there are hundreds of kinds of fears. It appears in my egoism, which responds to any external influences. What is man afraid of, what does he fear?

Answer: A person is afraid of the defeat of his “self,” and of suffering.

Question: How does fear influence a person?

Answer: Fear influences the desire for pleasure and depresses him so much that it awakens a sensation of fear, anxiety, and thoughts like, “I will not be able to enjoy anything, but will just suffer all the time. I will only feel the emptiness, darkness.”

At the root of fear there is the lack of feeling the Creator, feeling the Light that would fill my desire, but for some reason still has not been fulfilled. My empty desire feels fear. This means that fear is a feeling that I lack the fulfillment I deserve.

Question: Is a Kabbalist who discovers the Creator not afraid of anything?

Answer: Of course! On the contrary, he is absolutely confident in all being completely filled.

Question: Is fear synonymous with a sensation of awe?

Answer: Awe is something different. It is a state in which I want to attract the characteristic of fear to myself, and summon it by myself in order to rise to the next level.

Question: How can one struggle with fear? Suppose that the Creator sends me all kinds of fears, what must I do? Take an antidepressant?

Answer: An antidepressant is suppression. When fear takes over a person, first and foremost, one needs to imagine that “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35). There is an excellent article on this subject in the book Shamati ,#138, “About Fear that Sometimes Comes Upon a Person.” In the article, it is written that a person should imagine that there are no forces of Tuma’a (impurity) in our world and he must only demand that the Creator reveal this to him.

Question: Will this not lead him to inaction?

Answer: This is the action. We have no need for any other actions other than the action of discovering the Creator.
[193374]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/1/16

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