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Adapt To the Spiritual System

938.03Question: What does a person who does not perceive the spiritual system do?

Answer: For this, we have courses where methods of incorporation into this system are studied. They give a person the opportunity to see the integral interconnection between all people. It is gradually approaching us, and we cannot escape from it. We have to get to know it, adapt it to ourselves or ourselves to it, otherwise it will be bad.

This system manages us and governs the whole world, the fate of humanity. If we get acquainted with it and are able to interact with it as correctly as possible, a person will bring himself and the whole world to a perfect state.

Everyone has the opportunity to imagine this picture in some, not yet sensory, but purely contemplative way. All kinds of clips, drawings, films, and articles have been created on this topic, all kinds of forums and practical classes are held so that a person gets an idea about this system, and then his integration into mutual connection with others occurs.

He will feel how it breathes, how it works, how the entire surrounding world is within this system.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Negative Properties” 1/5/12

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The Creator Is Always at the Center of My Picture

276.02First I have to imagine the Creator in the center of my picture. Some forces are acting on me, at the center of which is the Creator, and I direct all my actions, with which I want to respond to Him, at Him.

The first condition is that “There is none else besides Him,” without which nothing will work, and He sends me all the states, no matter what I do. And that is why I have to answer Him. In every action, I count on the Creator: only from the Creator do I receive awakening, what to do and in what form, and only to Him do I turn with a response, that is, what impression I want to evoke in the Creator by my action.

And if I act all the time in this way: “I am to my Beloved, and my Beloved is to me,” then I will succeed very quickly.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/24, Writings of Rabash “What Is the Work of Man, in the Work that Is Attributed to the Creator?”

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Getting Out of the Emptiness

263Question: What is the difference between the fact that a person feels dead in spirituality and that he wants nothing but spirituality?

Answer: The difference is vast. In one state, you get everything; in the other, you get emptiness. What could be more vivid about a person’s desires?

Question: There is a void in both places. Does spirituality also unfold from the void?

Answer: Spirituality is revealed not from emptiness, but from the fact that you are empty.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”

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An Attack on the Creator

935Question: What is an attack on the Creator?

Answer: This means that with the help of the actions that the Creator performs in the world on each of you and all of you, you want to influence Him so that He changes His attitude toward you, helps, and lifts you up.

Question: Is the attack a prayer?

Answer: Prayer, action, it does not matter.

Question: How do I verify that we have made an attack? In a conventional war, this is understandable because the result is immediately visible. How do we see that we influenced Him when He starts helping us? Is this even possible?

Answer: Yes, it is possible. Moreover, you will enter into an action together with the Creator.

Question: How can we organize an attack in the ten?

Answer: Come to an agreement with each other, try it, and see where it leads you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/24, Writings of Rabash “A Near Way and a Far Way”

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Eyes of Holiness

961.2This is the meaning of “your eyes are as doves.” Eynaim [eyes] of Kedusha [holiness], called Eynaim of the Shechina [Divinity], are Yonim [doves]. They deceive us and we think that she has no Eynaim, as it is written in The Zohar, “A fair maiden who has no eyes” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 28, “I Shall Not Die but Live”).

The eyes of holiness are the precise, pure attitude of the Creator toward creation. Next to it, there are other degrees. Based on the degrees one merits to reach, he looks at what is happening to him, to the world, and the Creator.

Question: Why does it say the eyes of the Holy Shechina deceive us?

Answer: Because we do not actually see them. Shechina without eyes is faith above reason.

Question: It follows that until we come to bestowal or reveal the Shechina, we are blind and do not see the truth. How can we find the way? How will it be shown to us?

Answer: Only through the connection between you. If you want to unite and reveal the Creator in your unity, you will succeed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writngs of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”

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When the Greatness of the Upper World Does Not Let Go

231.01Question: You patiently explain the same things year after year. Where do you get such patience from?

Answer: You know me. I am impatient! But I have no choice. That is an example of the greatness of the goal, the vision of the upper picture of the universe prevailing over all my animal qualities.

I am terribly impatient and harsh. I cannot stand people. I am an introvert. I have so many negative qualities I am shocked at myself.

But when I see a spiritual system, get involved in it, and work for it, then all these qualities work the other way around, oppositely. I become patient and explain the same thing twenty times. For many years now,   I start every morning and end every day like this. But it could never have happened before!

I made many revolutions in life until I came to the science of Kabbalah. I am not even talking about myself, but about the fact that this system, once revealed to you, conquers you, seemingly enslaving you. You cannot stop working for it because its greatness, harmony, and perfection will not let you go.

You cannot turn to something different because it is like falling into manure. Will you stay there? No! You still have to get up and dust it off.

While here is the Garden of Eden! True, it hurts to see it unfinished like this, but the system itself is shining on you. So you have to take an active part in reviving it completely.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Negative Properties” 1/5/12

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Feedback

608.02Question: What does it mean to make the right decision that immediately leads to correction?

Answer: Making the right decision that immediately leads to correction is difficult. But gradually, we are getting to it.

When we begin to understand the negative and positive influences of the Creator, we influence Him ourselves, i.e., we establish feedback and reflected light (Ohr Hozer). Thus, we gradually choose which of our qualities can differ from the Creator’s and benefit us.

Question: In feedback, is the main thing that we want to reflect the pleasure that the Creator wishes to give us or that we want to return this pleasure to Him?

Answer: The main thing is that we want to return the pleasure.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “I Shall Not Die but Live”

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A Life Blessed by the Lord

737.01It is written: “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed.” Our whole life is like a field along which a man walks and collects everything from it that seems useful for his life. But if he wants his state to be like a field that is blessed by the Creator, then he must treat his life as a gift given to him from above.

The Creator is inside this field of life and allows a man to receive from it everything necessary in order to grow a harvest in this field and enjoy the fruit grown with the blessing of the Creator. And then it turns out that his field is truly a field blessed by the Creator.

The field is the upper power of the Creator clothed in the world. And in this field good fruit can grow, and harmful weeds can grow too. It all depends on the man and on how he accepts all this, that is, on what he wants to grow in this field.

The Creator has prepared a field, land, and seeds for a man; the only thing missing is man’s work. And it depends on a man’s attitude to this field of his life: whether he wants good, correct fruit to grow in this field or whether he is indifferent and does not think about it at all.

Therefore, if a person treats his life as a field blessed by the Creator, then he must connect with the Creator and make every effort so that everything that is needed grows in this field.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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The Names of the Creator—Attainment of His Properties

610.2He is called El, Elokim, Shadai, Tzvaot, EKYEH, so they would know Him in each and every attribute (Baal HaSulam, Foreword to The Book of Zohar, #40).

Question: The names of the Creator correspond to the ten Sefirot. Is it their filling or their naming?

Answer: These are ten Sefirot with light in them.

The name of the Creator consists of the Kli and the light that fills it. Kabbalists express their achievements in almost identical names. These names make it easier to indicate what you are suggesting. Just like in our world, if you talk about someone or something, you express some particular perception of this object, nothing more.

Question: What does it mean that the Kli of the ten takes such a form that it can accept the light or the name of the Creator, for example, El, Adni, or Eki?

Answer: It all depends on the level at which a person unites all the concepts of his relationship with the Creator. In what he is similar to the Creator, he senses this measure of similarity in himself, measures it, and thus names the Creator.

Just like in our world, you say some person is smart and has some kind of feature. That is, you call it that through your perception of its properties.

Question: Concerning the Creator, can I measure and verify this?

Answer: By comprehending the Creator, you measure your likeness to Him. And everyone who reveals Him on the same level calls Him the same way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/21/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Foreword to The Book of Zohar”

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Let’s Turn Our Life into a Spiritual Ascent

933Our life is a field blessed by the Creator, on which we must grow our spiritual future. And it depends only on us what kind of harvest we will gather from this field.

Everything depends on how we treat this soil from which it should grow, our attitude to working together in the field of all of us, and our attitude to the Creator. After all, the Creator gives this earth the strength to grow crops according to our desire.

Therefore, everything depends on the work between us and our appeal to the Creator. The field is the connection between us in the group and the Creator. And we need to ask the Creator to unite us more so that our common prayer reaches Him and so He gives strength to the earth to grow fruits on it.

This prayer depends only on our desire to achieve a result together and our willingness to put all our strength and hopes into this achievement, then a genuine prayer will be born from us turning to the Creator, which will awaken and oblige Him to give a harvest to our field, as it says: “My sons defeated me.”

That is how we will feel, attain, and discover the whole world, called the field. The world will open up before us like a book, and we will move forward together as one soul, one force, where everyone depends on each other and is connected to each other. That is when we will reveal that we really have a field of life blessed by the Creator in front of us.

We want to receive the strength and knowledge from the Creator of how we can work with our lives to turn them into an uplift and raise them to the degree of the spiritual world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/17/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Field that the Lord Has Blessed”

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