Question: How must I look at the group if I imagine that everything in the world is a desire to receive?

Answer: The group are the desires that belong to you that you can use to be strengthened through the help of their power. It is necessary to relate to these foreign desires as your desires as if they were corrected and connected to you.

You must relate to the group as a tool that is in final correction with love, commonality, joy, and great appreciation—that you have received a tremendous auxiliary power. Within your general desire, they gave you one corrected part. The entire world is a gigantic system in which everything has been “sold out.” Everything is false, and suddenly, within the damaged system, you find one corrected and whole part that is in adhesion with the Creator. It functions ideally, and with its help you can correct all the rest of the parts like in a machine.

Other than this, you discover that this part is the main one within the system. This is the engine, and, after this part, you discover additional corrected parts, Kabbalists from the past who already were corrected within your spiritual system. In other words, you have an anchor.

If you enter into the corrected system called a “group” and are included in it, then you correct and calibrate yourself relative to all the rest of the parts within the system. With its help, you build yourself. The group becomes a home for you in which you escape from the entire world. You get power from there, and then you go out to correct the entire world. This is a lifesaver you cannot do without. It makes it possible for you to check if you are advancing toward correction or toward destruction. Otherwise you don’t know. Is it possible to check this with your intellect?

You cannot do anything alone. However, within the group, you calibrate yourself. If you didn’t do this in a group, you would have no chance of doing something right or even knowing that you did something incorrectly, in what form, and what you must correct. You understand nothing.

The group that is given to you is a relatively correct system to the degree that you nullify yourself in regard to it. You get a ready-made tool that is ready for correction on condition that you are also ready for correction. The more you invest in the group, the more you get correct settings to correct the rest of the shattered desires. The group is the corrected area within your desire, and then you will begin to feel that the entire world is corrected, except for you.

Question: What is my work regarding the corrected area?

Answer: If you nullify your ego toward the friends, then you calibrate yourself “for the sake of bestowal.” With the powers, the perception, the changes that have begun in you, you go out and implement actions “in order to bestow.” Without the group, you will not be able to even move from your place. It is impossible, and with the group you are connected all day, and you calibrate yourself toward a correct perception of the world, to the right attitude in regard to all of its parts and yourself, so the day isn’t wasted.

If you come to a group once or twice a week, then, accordingly you will get an opportunity to correct yourself. Every day must begin by looking at the entire world through the group. Otherwise, you never will be able to look at reality correctly. You will not know what else to add, what to yearn for, and what to change.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/14, The Zohar

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Question: If I must see the entire world in the form of desires, how should I relate to people we meet when we disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: All of these people are your desires. If you relate to a person that way, he will begin to feel that you are his relative, that you are connected to him. This leads to a connection between you that ties him to your system in a way that he doesn’t understand. Try to treat a person that way and you will see how you neutralize all the actions, thoughts, and plans that he may have against you.

Question: What does it mean to relate to others as to my own desires?

Answer: It is just as you relate to your own desires, which may be very unpleasant, cause you suffering, and you don’t like them, but you are forced to live with them. This is exactly how you should relate to other people. You perceive them as strangers in order to overcome this perception to connect with them as one man in one heart so that the physical body will not be a barrier between you.

This means that your approach should be that you want to feel others as part of you. This is exactly how we should see the world. The more you yearn for connection, the more you begin to feel help from inside you as if something changes. This is the action of the Light. You don’t feel the ray of Light, but you feel the changes. As it is written, “By Your actions we know You.” You must pray and demand that your desires should connect into one desire even though your desires are basically different.

Every part in Malchut is different from the other parts, and the shattering emphasizes this. Therefore, when the shattered parts that are detached from one another connect, they reach an intensity that is 620 times stronger. The detachment that they felt before intensifies the desire now, and so we return to the state of one man in one heart, and the intensity of the hatred between us strengthens the connection between us.

Suppose you live in New York and I live in Israel. Everything would be fine, and we would be good friends until we got closer and began to live together in one room. How difficult would it be to remain good friends now when we live together and feel the constant frictions between us?

The distance that concealed the differences between us before must become the connection between us now. This is our work. The hatred—Mt. Sinai, Pharaoh—is between us, and we turn them into a connection that is 620 times stronger than the connection we felt before.

It isn’t about the connection itself, but about knowing the Creator. The Light that penetrated the desires, like sea water that filled the valleys between mountains and created fiords, caused the detachment and the hatred. The Light has come, but we received it in order to receive and so it increased our vessels by 620 times and brought hatred and detachment with it, filling all the gaps between the desires that weren’t felt before.

The Light gives us the feeling of detachment in all our desires. I don’t agree with you in any way, and my opinion is opposite from yours regarding any matter, and it is the same with everyone else. Now, we can correct this hate. Hatred is the posterior of the Light; it isn’t a vessel. If I work with this hate and turn it into love, I discover what the Light is, its property, and what it means. This is how I discover the Creator.

The desire to receive was created in a way that cannot be changed. All of our work is with the posterior of the Light with the shattering that it has caused. When I discover my egoism, the hatred, the rejections, that belong to spirituality; I discover the posterior of the Light, its oppositeness. Instead of the Light, I discover Orta (darkness, night).

This is how I acquire the attribute of the Light by myself and become a person of the Light. The Light penetrated the desire to receive during the shattering. The Light is the same, but we feel it as darkness, detachment, and hatred.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/31/14, The Zohar

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Question: How can Kabbalists who attain inner connection see a world that is shattered and divided?

Answer: It is the result of our mutual incorporation. I am in a corrected world, but at the same time I am connected to all the people in the world and I feel that it is corrupted. This is the difference between private Providence and general Providence: from my attainment to the attainment of everyone else. This state remains until the end of correction.

I saw my teacher, who was a great Kabbalist, on the highest spiritual levels in GAR of Atzilut and at the same time he was ill and needed basic necessities like everyone else. He behaved like any ordinary human being in his corporeal life. If it weren’t so, we wouldn’t be able to connect through our perception of the world.

A Kabbalist perceives the whole world as corrected, but since we are incorporated in it, he sees things that are corrupt. From his subjective perspective he should see all of us at the end of correction, but he sees and perceives us just the way we see ourselves, Baal HaSulam even asked to be lowered even more so he would be able to connect to people.

We cannot understand this split in the perception of reality. It is impossible for us. These are two different levels. The world will be seen through the individual shattered souls until every soul is incorporated in all the other souls. Until then the perspective of the world through the shattered souls will remain even though I may be perfectly corrected. I will still see the world the way my generation sees it by being incorporated in the other souls. At the same time I can be incorporated in all the other generations and see the world through their eyes.

A Kabbalist’s private correction all the way to the actual general end of correction doesn’t free him from being connected to the shattered souls. He also sees what they see and has two forms of reality, both on the level of Bina and on the level of Malchut.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/30/14, Writings of Baal HaSulam

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Question: What is the force of creation and the program is created to do what?  Are they preparing us for something hidden behind everything that happens?

Answer: Certainly! We are being prepared for the discovery of the Creator to the creature in this world. The wisdom of Kabbalah was designed for this because every person must discover the Creator. The Creator (Bore) means “Bo-Re” (Come and see). That is what we call it since the person comes and finds.

Question: What must one come to see?

Answer: To attainment, to feeling, to opening yourself with the help of two opposing forces, that between them you discover the higher system and the essence of its internal program. And this is called the Creator. This is the truest wisdom (science) and so that is why it is also called the wisdom of Kabbalah. You reach this discovery scientifically, as in every other science.

Question: What must the person do to penetrate into this system, into this “computer”?

Answer: Only realize the recommendations and advice of the Kabbalists: Come and learn, carry out activities that develop the sixth sense with whose help you discover the Creator, the upper world. Exactly as the person feels our world, he will discover an additional reality that manages us, accompanies us, and organizes everything for us.

Question: Can you give me “preferential treatment” to help penetrate into this “computer”?

Answer: This is precisely what we are doing. But you are required to invest a little energy in this: Come and learn, participate in all kinds of activities that open your senses. Then you will begin to feel the same system that activates you through this world. Everything is opened before you.

Question: When we study the wisdom of Kabbalah, do we learn about this system?

Answer: Yes! This is called “Revealing the Creator to His creatures in this world,” revealing the system of higher management to every person found in our world.

Question: Is the wisdom of Kabbalah some kind of philosophical learning?

Answer: No. Philosophy is thinking and reasoning without any real results in our lives. Instead, the wisdom of Kabbalah is a very practical science. It reveals the upper world to a person and teaches him how he can manage his life correctly.
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From Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 2/15/15

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The Torah, “Numbers” 1:1 – 1:3: “The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai Desert, in the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the second month, in the second year after the exodus from the land of Egypt, saying: “Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by families following their fathers’ houses; a head count of every male according to the number of their names. From twenty years old and upwards, all who are fit to go out to the army in Israel, you shall count them by their legions you and Aaron.”

“The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai Desert,” means that we are starting to look at everything that happens through the state of Moses in us.

Question: What is the meaning of: “Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by families following their fathers’ houses?”

Answer: It refers to the complete attainment of the structure of the soul on the current level. On the whole we are rebuilding the general soul that has been revealed to man and then was shattered. Its rebuilding has to be fulfilled according to certain phases. Every unit must have a concrete role and precise connections with the others.

How do we do that? The general soul is made of five parts: Keter, and four other parts which we mark by the letters “Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey.” The zero part (Keter) cannot be divided. It is like a point that everything stems from. Each of the following parts is divided into three lines: the right line, the left line, and the middle line. The three lines are multiplied by four thus creating the twelve tribes.

This is how the calculation of each tribe is done: Have we all reached the state of wandering in the desert? This means that we have done everything in our power, that we have assembled everything above the attribute of absolute bestowal, and therefore we have nothing. Each of us is no one and nothing; we are in the desert. It is actually on top of this assembly that we can examine the building of the general soul, which means the intensity of each part of the twelve. This is called “take the sum of all the congregation” (the calculation) and this stems from the twelve sons of Jacob.

We examine the general structure of the whole soul and especially the general assembly of people (which are actually not people but their yearning to the Creator), and to what extent each of them annuls his self, to what extent he is connected to others and how together they all create one unique and unified system.

But what is the intensity of this system? To what extent are the parts of Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut properly connected and act in mutual harmony? This is how we examine the state of the general soul.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/17/14

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Each of the five parts of the Torah represents a totally new level in a person’s development or in the development of a group of people who want to fulfill the conditions of the Torah in order to rise to the level of the Creator.

The Torah is like a spiritual elevator that raises our properties to a new level. Those who enter it and shut the doors are ready to work on themselves against their ego. They go through five egoistic phases, which are increasingly greater in their intensity and Aviut (thickness) because egoism is crafty.

While studying each of the five parts of the Torah, the ego grows not only in quantity, but also in quality. This is a very difficult and complicated process. But at the same time, a person grows wiser and begins to understand his egoistic nature. Moreover, it penetrates the connections between all parts of nature, just as one enters a certain organization and discovers how people are connected to one another, the organization’s policies, and the ties of mutual connections between different departments etc.

In spiritual work, however, a person clarifies human nature and the nature of the soul. His advancement is on a higher level, gives greater penetration into the individual and the general connection of all the parts of the soul and all of the creation.

At the beginning, he perceives the general creation in a simple manner, like a small child. Then he is split, upgraded, and separated into parts so that by their connections and their division, a person penetrates more deeply into this system. He discovers new obstacles, new mutual connections, individual laws, etc., and so he studies and examines it from the beginning (Genesis) to the end.

He grows in the transition from one part of the Torah to another and can be told about the laws of creation and be held responsible for keeping them. There is an egoistic desire in a person to discover the Creator that occurs despite the unity with others. A certain formula has to work in it: I connect and unite with the others in order to discover the Creator in the connection between us because this is how I can fill Him with joy, just as He wants to fill me. It is in this state that I unite with Him.

When we begin to relate to our conditions correctly, different forces of help, support, and resistance appear in us. They are gradually revealed: first on the zero level of desire and then on levels one, two, three, and four, a total of five levels. There are the five books of the Torah. In these phases we move from the first word in Genesis “Bereshit” – “In the beginning” to the last word “Israel.”
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 12/17/14

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Question: In preparing for the Passover holiday, what does “go down to the Egypt within me” mean?

Answer: To go down to Egypt means to begin to work with my desire to receive, which is basically my only material that provides me with energy. Using it, I can advance toward exiting this world and rising above the physical world.

This is the only means I have; there is nothing more than this. We are born and develop as animals. However, at some point in our lives, with all of our friends, each one of us feels that something is nipping at his heart and pulling him somewhere out of this life. He wants to know the essence of life, the source of life, where this comes from, and what is happening here on Earth.

However, we have no other substance with which it would be possible to develop this tendency, this question, only with the ego, with our desire to receive.

If I have my egoism, my desire to receive, and the one point that attracts me somewhere upward, then I can take parts of my egoistic desire and associate them with that point: on levels 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. I associate my desire to receive to that point to the degree that I am ready, and then I can go forward with this point.

I advance through this, constantly using my ego with the help of the environment that always has an influence on me and tells me that it is worthwhile to push my point in the heart toward connection with others.

There are a number of stages in working with my ego. In the beginning, I work with the group, with the environment, the lessons, and even though I want to reach bestowal, my intention is to better myself. This stage is called Lo Lishma (Not for Her name).

After that, when I received sufficient influence from the Light that Reforms, I am released from the egoistic intention to use bestowal for my own benefit. Rather, I want to bestow without any consideration of myself. I want to be in pure bestowal and be free of my ego as if I were exiting the magnetic field of the Earth.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/3/14, Questions and Answers with Dr. Laitman

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Question: If all the changes depend only upon the environment that is built by man, what does Pharaoh control?

Answer: Pharaoh is my present heart and mind. I don’t feel that my heart and mind are free of him; it is a great achievement to discover that they are found under the control of Pharaoh.

Pharaoh controls my whole life, everything I had and everything that I have now. Within my body is some kind of evil spirit that fills me entirely, moves me, and determines all of my thoughts, desires, decisions, and deeds.

It is some kind of evil internal force that penetrates into me and has control over me from which I cannot escape. I am filled entirely with this alien, hostile force, and I cannot be released from it. How can I expel it, renounce it from me?

I feel that my entire life belongs to Pharaoh, and there is only one independent point within which I can determine that I am in slavery to Pharaoh, the evil inclination.

Question: I absolutely feel that I am under the control of my mind and emotions!

Answer: If you think that this is your mind and emotions, everything is okay. You are not in Egypt yet; rather, you are like everyone else in this world. You have not discovered yet that there is an alien control that does with you whatever it wants. It is as if they are doing experiments from another planet on all seven billion people and managing us. Yet, we don’t feel this and each one feels that he is free.

However, we are beginning to discover a bit that we are under an alien influence. In the meantime, you still haven’t discovered this. Yet, there are those who already have.

Question: How is Pharaoh’s control over me expressed?

Answer: This alien domination means that I don’t agree with the spirit that dominates me. I don’t agree with its existence in me and want another spirit, a spirit of bestowal, love, and giving. Thanks to my participation in studying and dissemination, a change is occurring in me, and I am beginning to appreciate another characteristic that doesn’t exist in me.

In the beginning, I want it because I feel better with it, more whole. Yet, after that, I simply begin to appreciate it. I specifically want to have the characteristic of bestowal that grants me a sensation of freedom, reducing the pressures and limitations of this world. The characteristic of bestowal is so amazing and wonderful!

Yet, gradually, I begin to perceive the characteristic of bestowal as a vision, as a burden on my soul that I dream about and I cannot explain why. This is called “sacred grace.” Apparently, how can one love it if it is completely against this world? Yet, I want to reach bestowal.

Moreover, I begin to look at the desire to receive as something very strange. How is it possible at all to receive for myself and enjoy this? I recognize this characteristic that is found in me and understand that this is simply a program that has been installed in me. I am given a sensation within my system so that I enjoy receiving. Yet, in fact, this is only a program, and it can be replaced so that reception will stop giving me pleasure.

I begin to have a relative attitude toward bestowal and reception when I understand that this is not really me but a program that can be replaced by another.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/1/14, Shamati #190

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We distinguish between two parts along our spiritual path: the part that advances toward the attribute of love and bestowal, toward the Creator, contact, connection, and adhesion with everyone, and the part that opposes that and constantly wants to take for itself.

When I am between these two states, I must constantly examine and check myself as to whether I am not stealing in corporeality or in spirituality, whether I am doing anything wrong in my mind or my feelings in order to benefit personally from that. This is where the problem is. First, I mustn’t receive any benefit, but even if I do have such benefits, everyone must agree that they are part of my job. Suppose I need a car in order to visit building sites or that I need helpers in my work and some people should be allocated for this job. In that case, everything must be open and clear to everyone, without question.

On the whole we are shown the corrected society that we must build. Every member in the society must receive only what he deserves and needs for his existence, and give everything else to the society. This is called the level of Moses who is an example for all the others.

There are always such problems in a person’s spiritual work, and we can see that throughout history even back in the days of the temple when the people lived on a spiritual level. There always have been serious problems, but they were on a spiritual level even though they are described in a corporeal language.

Question: So here we have to keep in mind that when we are building spirituality, we should not have “pockets.”

Answer: In those times, that was the case on the corporeal level. We usually understand that if someone wants to steal, no one can stop him. However, no one is foolish enough to put a piece of gold in his pocket.

A person should have no desires in order to receive, which means a place where he wants to receive for himself. A Masach (Screen) should be only in order to bestow. It is only about bestowal. This is the level of Moses.

It seems complicated when we read about it, but it is easy when we are in the right environment. Then there are no problems. The environment provides us with the right level and the support by which we float as if on air.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/16/13

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Question: All of the sciences are generally involved with the discovery of nature, meaning the Creator. So in what way is the wisdom of Kabbalah different from the rest of the sciences, even though it also calls itself a science?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah is a science for the discovery of the higher power, the only director, which is called the Creator. But unlike the rest of the methods that speak about what a person must do to bring the Creator closer to himself, the wisdom of Kabbalah explains that the discovery of the Creator happens to the degree that a person comes closer to the Creator.

The wisdom tells us that a person must discover the Creator to a greater and greater degree until His full disclosure. This means that the entire wisdom of Kabbalah is a method for changing and correcting a person from being opposite and against the Creator to being completely similar to the Creator.
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