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Exercises For The Revelation Of The Creator

laitman_281_01Question: What intention should a person have who lives in this world and studies Kabbalah when he sees material objects?

Answer: A person must live according to the simple principle: “There is none else besides Him,” a single force, i.e., the Creator.

I look at all external objects and occurrences and even at everything that is inside me that has no an external image, and imagine that all this comes from the Creator, that this is exactly what He wants to arouse in me, and this is exactly what He wants me to feel! And now everything depends on the way I treat this. Therefore, all material objects and this entire world are very important to me.

Question: Can I break through everything that confuses me by doing such purely psychological exercises?

Answer: Yes. When I attribute it all to one single force, I break through to the Creator. Through all my efforts to identify Him behind the various influences on me, behind the multitude of objects, forces, opinions, desires, and thoughts, I begin to see and feel Him. I desire something, so why does He want me to desire it? I think about something, why does He wants me to think this way? I am nobody. I am like a mechanism, just a metal box in which there are some thoughts and feelings, i.e., a heart and a mind, and only I can inspect myself: “Why did this appear in me? What does the single, uniform, and absolute force that controls me want from me? Why does this force want me to feel my state this way every moment?”

On this basis, I enter in complete contact with the Creator according to my small level. And if I continue to move forward this way through “there is none else besides Him,” then I will define more and more what the Creator wants from me, what He’s up to, and what reaction He expects from me.

And so I will begin to approach Him gradually, as it is said in Kabbalah, “There is nothing in nature that a person can’t achieve through a constant effort.” Therefore, I can reach a state where I will start to feel, see, and understand the Creator and communicate with Him as with a close friend. And all this is only thanks to the tip that there is no one else besides Him behind everything that surrounds me.

The various concealments of the Creator are exercises through which He gives me an opportunity to recognize Him behind all the disturbances. My task is to never part with this thought and not to forget that everything comes from Him under any circumstances.

This isn’t simple. And here I can get help only from the society of people who think the same way I do, and our joint effort is out in the open so we influence each other.

If we create such a group from millions of people who are tuned this way and are willing to reveal the Creator, we will “wash” the entire world by this and everything will become plain and clear.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/9/16

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Questions About Work In The Group – 1

laitman_934Question: What is the difference between connection among the friends and unity? What should we yearn for when we are in the group of ten?

Answer: We reach actual unity by yearning for connection.

Question: I am in a group of several men. Three to four of them participate in all the activities, while three to four other men don’t come to the group activities regularly. Such a group doesn’t bestow unto me, but I don’t want to “pull the train” by myself. The way I see it a group should operate in synergy.

Is it possible to enter the spiritual world without a group or should I teach others and thus create my own group?

Answer: Try to do it while being a member in your group.
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To See A Single Force Of Nature

Laitman_712_03Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 5:08: You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above, which is on the earth below, or which is in the water beneath the earth.

Everything we can imagine is a quality of nature that comes from the Creator and manifests itself with respect to us in the still, vegetative, animate, or human form. In nature there is nothing that in itself has a value, force, will, and origin. Everything is controlled by the single force called the Creator.

The material reality manifests itself in relation to each of us purely subjectively and it is changing to the extent that we change our nature from egoistic to altruistic.

While correcting ourselves, we will be looking through our world and seeing quite the opposite of what the ordinary people see, i.e. the forces that control the objects surrounding us.

Through them we will recognize one single force, one single will, to which we must connect. Our entire life on Earth is required only in order to unite through it with this single upper force.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/9/16

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Touching Hearts

laitman_943Question: What do we lack in order to form the correct prayer?

Answer: Our hearts still do not feel that they can touch one another. They are enclosed in the egoistic layer called our body.

In this case, our body is not the physical flesh but rather egoism, which does not allow us to touch hearts. As a result we cannot form a prayer.
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From Convention In Moscow, Day One, Lesson 3, 5/2/16

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Covenant With Every Generation

laitman_740_03Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 5:01- 5:03: And Moses called all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, and learn them, and observe [them] to do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our forefathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, we, all of whom are here alive today.

The covenant is made with every generation. This is the program of creation that permeates all generations and which we must fulfill until the end of our life on Earth.

We must bring our world, balance, knowledge of the Creator, and raise humanity to the next degree, where they will fully reveal the upper force and begin to exist in two worlds simultaneously: in our world and in the upper world.

Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 05:04 – 05:07: Face to face, the Lord spoke with you at the mountain out of the midst of the fire: (and I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to tell you the word of the Lord, for you were afraid of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain) saying, “I am the Lord your God, Who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall not have the gods of others in My presence.”

There is only one upper force that controls everything with absolute good.

To the extent that a person is equivalent to it, he feels this good and exists in it. And to the extent that he is opposite to the upper force, he feels lack of good, a so-called “eclipse” of benevolence relative to himself, and he must understand that he obscures himself from the Creator.

Therefore, we need to neutralize the darkness through our internal correction and change our egoistic perception of reality to an altruistic one.

It is written, “You shall not have the gods of others in My presence”; that is, above all value the quality of bestowal and love.

Question: It is said here that Moses stood between the Lord and the people. What do I, as a person, place between the Creator and myself?

Answer: The quality called Moses is a quality of absolute bestowal and love through which, like through a collecting lens, the governance of the Creator passes to us.

Moses is an example for everybody. Therefore he gives instructions to the children of Israel for every action. And those who fulfill these instructions are in complete agreement with the Creator.

Comment: The Torah specifies the reason why people should look at everything through the quality of Moses: “For you were afraid of the fire, and you did not go up on the mountain.”

Answer: The children of Israel didn’t want to go up on the mountain. They had neither the right nor the ability to do so because they were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to withstand the conditions they were given.

And only the nation’s quality called Moses, like pure Bina, is able to climb the mountain, be in the covenant, in the agreement, and in connection with the Creator. Therefore, the entire Light and the entire Torah come through the spiritual quality called Moses.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/9/16

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Year 6000 Is The End Of History

laitman_214When we study Kabbalah we begin to understand that there is no time in the spiritual world. But there is a state called “6000 degrees” that we must go through and join 6,000 souls into one soul.

All this exists in the world of Atzilut inside Partzuf Zeir Anpin (the Creator). Therefore, when it comes to the spiritual states, they are unchanged.

If we say “6,000 years” it means 6,000 degrees; if we say “600,000 souls,” it means 600,000 so-called Reshimot (information records) that we need to realize between ourselves. In the spiritual world, everything is very clearly distributed and defined by formulas and graphs.

And all that concerns physical years and the reflection of the spiritual states on our life happens somewhat differently. After all, on the material level we can reduce years, and if, lets’ say, in the current year 5777 we make a complete correction, then our current year will be called 6,000 years. We will make a jump in time, i.e., will bring the Light of correction so much closer to us that we will jump through years with its speed.

It is quite difficult to explain exactly the match between the spiritual structures and physical, geographical, historical, and other ones because these temporal and spatial axes don’t fit in an ordinary person.

This is the problem that even Einstein, Hugh Everett, and other well-known scientists have found difficult to explain. Therefore, nobody in the world understands it, but they just agree, because in our usual animate (material) state we have no ability to perceive and feel the acceleration of time.

I hope we will live to see the time when we will participate together in the final correction and be honored to attend the “banquet” in honor of the end of correction to which the Creator, as the groom, will invite the whole creation, as a bride.

The bride needs to correct herself, to dress in the white robes, and to be beautiful to match the groom. Beautiful means the quality of bestowal.

This is a very serious event that will be felt as something really great: year 6000 is the end of history.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/3/16

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No Desire, No Prayer

laitman_600_04Question: Is it possible to raise a prayer and attract the Light if I do not feel any desperation or suffering?

Answer: How is it possible to pray if you do not feel any suffering? How can you ask if you do not have any need? A prayer is a revelation of desire. If I have no desire, then there is no prayer either.

Question: I can pray only from my own desire (Hissaron). How can I pray from my ten?

Answer: There is no way. Of course, you can mumble something, but it does not influence anything. If you do not exist in a ten, you cannot nullify yourself. You cannot make yourself similar to the Creator in any way.

You cannot pray from a ten without a common desire. Only together with friends when you unite into a one whole can you form a common intention, which is called a prayer.
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Moscow Congress, Lesson 3, 5/2/16

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The End Of Days Correction

Laitman_109Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 4:29 – 4:30: And from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are distressed, and all these things happen upon you in the end of days, then you will return to the Lord your God and obey Him.

Today we  are just beginning the path to the Creator. Ahead of us are many corrections.

Question: What does it mean “with all your heart and with all your soul”?

Answer: “With all your heart” means with all your uncorrected desires. Once you correct them along with the thoughts and intentions, they will be called “all your soul.” The soul is the completely corrected desire of a person where he reveals the perception of the Creator.

At the end of days means at the end of the existence of egoism, when you fully rise to the top of the spiritual ladder through all 125 degrees, correcting the egoism and managing it correctly. Thus you merge with the Creator, attain all the worlds simultaneously, and begin to exist in perfection and eternity.

Today we are in the state that is called “at the end of days,” but it can last many more years. It is year 5777 now according to the Jewish calendar; 223 years remain until the end of 6,000 years.

However, we can accelerate our spiritual development if we actively attract the additional Upper Light. Starting from our generation onward it is possible and preferable for us and in the eyes of the Creator.

The upper system, called the Creator, is designed so that we can influence it and accelerate our development and correction. This is what Kabbalah was given to us for.

Everything the Kabbalists did throughout the history of humanity was only necessary to bring us to the realization of the spiritual method and to shorten the time of the spiritual development.

Therefore it is said, “Who is called Israel? Anyone who shortens the time of his spiritual development.”

Question: Is it possible to pass 223 years in one year?

Answer: And even in less time. It is written in The Book of Zohar and in other Kabbalistic sources that there are no restrictions on this. We can do it very rapidly. We were given everything: Kabbalah, the spiritual method, the system, and the instruction for its implementation. The rest is totally up to us.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 3/2/15

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 3/13/16

laitman_284_03Question: What is the “price” of the way to the Creator? Does this require time and aptitude, or personal characteristics?

Answer: The price for the way to the Creator is acquiring freedom from the ego.

Question: I have been thrown into a difficult situation. I cannot leave the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, yet it is also difficult for me to continue.

Answer: The difficulty in continuing comes from the lack of a correct environment. Once we acquire the correct environment and decide to implement the movement forward within it, the study becomes easy.

Question: If we can exit matter and manage it, can we then manage our desires, including physical desires?

Answer: We can absolutely manage everything, not only the desires on the levels of the inanimate, vegetative, and animate, but also the galaxies. We will control everything.

Question: Is there a limit to the desire to receive, or does it grow to the dimensions of the Creator?

Answer: The desire to receive must be constantly revealed until it achieves the volume of the Creator. That is the end of our development. The final state of humanity is adhesion with the Creator.

Question: Why were we created by the Creator, nature, so that we love “attractive” people only?

Answer: A person loves pleasure; he is drawn to what he enjoys.

Question: Why and for what does the Creator require a perfect companion if He is perfection?

Answer: In order to reveal His perfection, the Creator must create something perfect.

Question: What is the mechanism by which one can manage the universe on the physical, human level? What must I personally do in order to do this? Does it mean that it is not difficult to be God?

Answer: It is not difficult to be God. When we begin to acquire the characteristics of bestowal and love of the Creator for all kinds of creatures, for all levels of creation, everything else is not complicated. We become equivalent to the Creator, His partners.

Question: If the Creator is good, why do we suffer? Where is His goodness of heart?

Answer: Who said that the Creator is good?! The Creator is good only at the end of correction. Parents who oblige children to study seem bad and unjust in the children’s eyes. That is also how we perceive the Creator.

Question: Can there be a descent which it is not possible to rise from?

Answer: Sometimes there is a descent from which the person cannot rise by himself, but the Creator raises him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/13/16

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“And The Lord Will Scatter You Among The People”

laitman_750_01Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 4:27 – 4:28: And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations to where the Lord will lead you. And there you will worship gods, man’s handiwork, wood and stone, which neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

This is the current state of the people of Israel. The Babylonian exile, which lasted 70 years, followed the destruction of the First Temple. Four hundred years later the Second Temple was destroyed,  and the Roman exile of the people of Israel came next, which made them scatter among the nations of the world.

Geographically and historically, the last exile ended, but spiritually still continues. Although we are physically in the land of Israel, we don’t exist in it in our desires directed to the Creator. Our desires remain directed to the same egoistic goals that exist in all nations of the world. We didn’t rise to the level of spiritual aspiration, and therefore still didn’t come out of exile.

It is said, “And there you will worship gods, man’s handiwork, wood and stone, which neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.” These “gods” are culture, science, education, and training: everything that we adopted from other nations, and that to this day is our goal and is appreciated in our eyes.

Question: So, we are still scattered, despite the fact that we are assembled in one place?

Answer: We are assembled physically and scattered spiritually. Geography doesn’t mean anything. A person who lives abroad can be in a much more advanced spiritual state than the one who lives in Israel.
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