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Without Earthly Calculations

laitman_543_02The Torah, “Numbers,” 35:31: You shall not accept ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, for he shall be put to death.

If the quality “killer” clearly affects the human in me, then it needs to be eradicated. It is impossible to mitigate or justify it even if I receive benefit from it because this benefit can be only egoistic. Therefore, in no case can we mitigate the court!

The Torah, “Numbers,” 35:32: You shall not accept ransom for one who has fled to his city of refuge, to allow him to return to live in the Land, before the Cohen has died.

Let’s say one person accidentally killed another and fled to the city of refuge. One of his relatives comes to the authorities and says: “We will pay you anything you want, cattle, money, we will do everything, just please, allow him to return to his wife and kids.” But no one is allowed to accept a ransom for one who has fled.

Question: Does it mean that the person has to undergo final correction?

Answer: This is not the only thing, here we are faced with another condition. The Creator arranged it so that he killed another person because nothing is done without the upper intention, and therefore we can’t use our earthy calculations here.

It is said that the killer is allowed to return back only when the high priest dies, because then the whole system of control will be replaced from above.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/16/15

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Hero Among Heroes

laitman_221The Torah, “Numbers,” 35:30: Whoever kills a person, based on the testimony of witnesses, he shall slay the murderer.

This refers to anyone who killed a person in himself. For example, I am an animal, but through spiritual work, a human appears in me. However, I have such negative properties that kill this human in me, and I constantly need to be a self-righteous judge, clearly defining: this is the human growing in me and this is the property contrary to it that wishes to destroy it, to kill off . So I have to protect him.

Thus an inner drama is constantly played out in a person, and it is very interesting to participate in it. But it can be done only with support of the surrounding society.

Question: How do I catch my internal killer?

Answer: Only if you arrange a society around yourself that is also engaged in spiritual work and constantly maintains the appropriate atmosphere that constantly impacts you.

And then it will not be hard for you; you will live it, selecting, analyzing, and playing all these states inside yourself! Constant identification of the correct (positive) and negative qualities will become a great pleasure, as if a tree of life is growing inside you and all negative qualities become positive in it and give it vital juices.

In the beginning “killers” appear as willing to do harm, but the correct attitude toward them creates qualities from them that protect the tree of life and give it nourishment.

Then the person is called a “hero among heroes,” converting all negative qualities into positive.

After all, negative qualities don’t exist; we ourselves must make them positive.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/16/15

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Come And Possess The Land

laitman_747_03Torah, “Deuteronomy,” 1:7 – 1:8: Turn and journey, and come to the mountain of the Amorites and to all its neighboring places, in the plain, on the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and the Lebanon, until the great river, the Euphrates River.

See, I have set the land before you; come and possess the land which the Lord swore to your forefathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them and their descendants after them.

The degree of Moses that is preparing a person for entrance into the upper world has exhausted itself, therefore the Creator is saying, “Now in front of you is a desire that you need to sanctify, to raise to the love and mutual connection between everyone.” It includes the land of Israel itself, the land behind Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, up to Babylon, and to the Euphrates River.

These so-called “lands” are not related to our world. In the spiritual world, they mean desires that are necessary to correct and raise to the level of absolute unity. This is why they all belong to the land of Israel, meaning that they are directed straight to the Creator.

It doesn’t apply to the rest of the lands of the world, therefore all other human desires are not going toward correction yet.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/30/15

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The Destiny Of The Daughters Of Zelophehad

laitman_746_03Torah, “Numbers,” 36:01 – 36.03: The paternal heads of the family of the sons of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of the sons of Joseph approached and spoke before Moses and before the Chieftains, the paternal heads of the children of Israel. They said, “The Lord commanded my master to give the Land as an inheritance through lot to the children of Israel, and our master was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

Now, if they marry a member of another tribe of the children of Israel, their inheritance will be diminished from the inheritance of our father, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and thus, it will be diminished from the lot of our inheritance.

Girls were forbidden to marry outside of their tribe. However, if any of them was unable to create a family within her tribe, she was allowed to become a wife of a man from another tribe, but only for specific reasons and within some boundaries. Then her tribe’s part of their inheritance, the dowry, was transferred to the other tribe along with her.

And it was gone forever and was never returned because she had a family, children, and a household there. In other words, it was so much diminished from one tribe and transferred to another that neither the death of the high priest or the fiftieth year was not allowed to return anything back.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/12/15

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Dr. Michael LaitmanTorah, “Numbers,” 35:33: And you shall not corrupt the land in which you live, for the blood corrupts the land, and the blood which is shed in the land cannot be atoned for except through the blood of the one who shed it.

The land is the connection between us through which water flows, the Light of Hassadim. We necessarily have to interact so that between us only good attitudes to each other will flow.

Torah, “Numbers,” 35:34: And you shall not defile the land where you reside, in which I dwell, for I am the Lord Who dwells among the children of Israel.

In the network of connections between souls is the Creator. We need to build the network of such a power that we begin to feel Him. The power with which we begin to feel the Creator is called a spiritual degree. In total there are 125 degrees in the increasing formation of the connection between us, and in this the feeling of the Creator increases.

It turns out that we are called the children of Israel only if we build this network. Otherwise, we are nobody. For if we exist separately, we are animals and even worse because animals instinctively are correctly connected with each other and we are not.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/16/15

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The Web Of Connections Of The Common Soul

laitman_264_01Torah, “Numbers,” 35:33 – 35:34: And you shall not corrupt the land in which you live, for the blood corrupts the land, and the blood which is shed in the land cannot be atoned for except through the blood of the one who shed it. And you shall not defile the land where you reside, in which I dwell, for I am the Lord Who dwells among the children of Israel.

Blood is the Light of Hochma. Water is the Light of Hassadim. It is impossible to reach the harmonious society and the state of connection between parts of the common soul if we do not interact with each other correctly egoistically. Our egoistic parts have to be appropriately connected to each other.

It turns out that while remaining an egoist, each one establishes altruistic connections with others, like extending wires of altruism between themselves. I, from my egoism, head altruistically to you, and you, from your egoism, in the same way to me, but inside, each of us remains in his desire! We override this desire and work only above it, building bridges above egoism.

The most important thing is to make a restriction on myself and a screen and the correct attitude to others. Then we, in practice, place at the head of our actions all the connections crisscrossing between us, not ourselves.

This huge, multi-layer, multi-vector web of connections is called the “common soul”—one for all! Each one of us individually is nothing, but by participating in the operation of the universal “web,” it is its creator.
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We Should Not Disregard Our State

laitman_423_02Question: When one enters the spiritual world is he indifferent to this world?

Answer: No, one is not indifferent. In fact, our world is very important. Because of it we rise to the upper world, beget our soul, begin to experience and sense everything, and grow there.

The more a person advances in spirituality, the more he needs our world, values it, and can use it in the correct way. Therefore, we do not neglect our current state in any way.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/21/16

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The Secret Of Spiritual Pleasure

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Why do you talk so little about pleasure from attaining the spiritual world?

Answer: I would talk about the pleasure, but unfortunately, it is not possible to convey it in words.

The Kabbalists write that if we add up all the pleasures of our world that humanity has ever experienced, is experiencing, or will experience at all times, it will be only a small spark in comparison to the billion times greater upper Light on the lowest spiritual level.

I didn’t believe them, but then I checked, became convinced, and I wish you the same.

Comment: One can only imagine how prepared a person should be to withstand the pleasures of the entire human history!

Answer: When a person works with the intention to bestow and not the intention to receive, he can pass all pleasures of the world through himself and not receive an “electric shock” because he becomes a conductor and not a receiver.

He is like a pipe that passes everything through itself to others, so he doesn’t enjoy the Light itself, but its derivative from filling others. This is the whole secret.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/28/16

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Turn And Journey And Come To The Mountain Of The Amorites

Turn And Journey The Torah, “Devarim,” 1:06-1:07: The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and journey, and come to the mountain of the Amorites…

Turn and journey—go and correct yourself internally.

Come to the mountain of the Amorites—to a desert place that doesn’t have water and food, where you will exhaust yourself spiritually, and only unity will give you the ability to feed on the upper force, called MAN.

You have dwelt long enough at this mountain—your egoism is already realized in receiving Torah, the upper energy. And now start to apply the Light that is in you, and with its help correct your egoism.

Mountain—from the word Irurim (doubts, disturbances). Every next mountain or desert in which you wander for 40 years is the period when you gradually reveal within yourself new egoistic voids, contradictions, and doubts and correct them.
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At The Level Of Thought

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Torah, “Devarim,” 1:03: It came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had commanded him regarding them.

Question: How can the entire Israel hear Moses?

Answer: If billions of people unite between themselves and a shared property of mutuality emerges within them, they feel each other as if they are in one physical location, that is, they are so merged that there is no distance, no transitions between them. In this case it is possible to address all seven billion people of the world population.

What does it meant “to address”? You merge with them and all that is in you is transfused into them at the level of thought.

Question: Even without words?

Answer: Of course! We are talking about internal spiritual work and not about physical actions or attributes of our world.
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