Question: You said that we should organize ourselves so that our connection defines the new world order. How do you see this, and how should we organize ourselves so that our connection defines it?

Answer: Every day every person on Earth should feel that he is entering into a new relationship with everyone, and that through this new relationship, he treats the Creator differently. In this way, he ascends the degrees of spiritual elevation.

Question: What is the Creator for all the people on Earth?

Answer: The upper force.

Question: What kind of relationship should every person on Earth enter into with everyone daily?

Answer: Coming closer to each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “The Children of Esau and Ishmael Did Not Want to Receive the Torah,” in the Work?”

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The ninth commandment is to pardon the poor and give them prey. It is written, “Let us ‎make man in our image, after our likeness.” (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, “The Commandments of the Torah”).

We must help all people who perhaps do not understand, are not aware, and are not able to fulfill the commandment of love for each other. We must attract them to us and perform spiritual actions together with them.

Question: What is the connection between the instruction to help the poor, and the phrase, “Let us create man in our image and likeness”?

Answer: By poor we mean a person who does not yet have the awareness and strength to influence everyone in a good way. We need to give an example and help such a person in spiritual work.

With the phrase, “let us create a man in our image and likeness,” the Creator tells us that in this way we should come into contact with Him and give birth to a new humanity that would be in harmony and love and exist in one single desire. After all, the Creator is the quality of bestowal and love.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23

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Question: Why is it written in the Torah “love your neighbor” and not everyone? It seems to me that the word “neighbor” confuses us because everyone decides for himself who a neighbor is.

Answer: The Torah refers to the love of everyone for everyone without exception. This means not only people, but any part of nature: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human. All of them fall into the category of neighbor.

Question: So a neighbor is not someone who is close to me in spirit, in ideas?

Answer: No, because then you start sorting it all and selecting what is closer and what is further.

And in principle, everything outside of you should be your neighbor, and you should treat them with love.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/19/23

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Question: Generally when people have some connection, as soon as monetary relations enter it something beyond our control happens; we begin to change and make various calculations.

Why does everyone revolve around money?

Answer: Money tells how much I buy (from) within you and you buy (from) within me. When I give you money, I buy a part of you. This is the equivalent of my investment in you, of my efforts.

Not only money but even gifts are the same way. I have big problems with this. If someone let’s say from South America brings me a special Tequila, I put it on the table for everyone. But what if it is a personal gift? Then it is a problem: should I take it or not? A person feels that he gave you something. It means you should give him something back.

However, is it good if he thinks this way? Then he will calm down and will not put efforts to attain the upper world, but rather, he will be waiting for a reciprocal gift from you. This will relax him. It is impossible to attain spirituality without your own efforts. It turns out that if I accept his gift, I can trip him into deceiving himself. Therefore, one should not do this.

It is allowed only in the measure I feel that by giving a gift to me, he understands that he is the one who is receiving a gift because I accept it from him. Only in this case!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It’s all about money” 12/4/11

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Question: How can we keep connection in the ten constantly? Sometimes, it lasts for an hour, and sometimes, it disappears somewhere in a second. What can we do?

Answer: If the connection disappears in a second, you must immediately restore it. All the time, constantly thinking about it, like a young mother who leaves her child at home, and all her thoughts are only about what is going on with him and how he is doing.

That is how we should think about the ten. Keep it together all the time with your thoughts, your desires, and your embrace.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 1”

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Question: What does spiritual freedom mean in the ten?

Answer: This is a state where you feel connected to each other and the Creator. At the same time, you begin to rise above all material problems and do not feel that they are pulling you down.

Question: How can material pleasures be transformed into spiritual ones?

Answer: There is no difference in pleasures. If they are for the Creator’s sake, then they are spiritual, and if, for your own sake, they are material.

Question: Are the feeling of being as one and the feeling of “I” close to each other or opposite?

Answer: They are opposite. Your feeling of “I” should disappear. Instead, there will be a feeling of “we.”

Question: What does freedom from the angel of death mean?

Answer: Complete liberation from egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Every Act Leaves an Imprint”

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Question: How can we learn to love something that is initially against our nature or higher than nature and act out of love and not out of envy or pride?

Answer: We can force ourselves, persuade ourselves, and push ourselves toward a connection with the friends because within this connection we acquire contact with the Creator.

And although this is entirely against our nature, and we do not want it, to find contact with the Creator, we approach friends and are ready to be with them together, in an embrace, in one single desire.

Question: How can we understand that one should desire wisdom?

Answer: We want a connection with the Creator, so we want to acquire wisdom. Wisdom is the thoughts and the desires of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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Question: It is said that there are many lights that a person receives while in adhesion with holiness. Therefore, when they entice a person to attract good into their qualities, they receive this light.

What does it mean that they tempt a person?

Answer: The fact is that the light descending on us from afar attracts us. And the desires that it shines into are egoistic, so they confuse a person and drag him to themselves. Thus, when we approach it, we lose all these lights.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/30/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Staff and the Serpent”

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Question: If there is a great desire and striving for the Creator, how can we check whether it is directed for the sake of the Creator or for our own sake?

Answer: It depends on how a person works in a group, whether he cares about his friends, and whether he wants to bring contentment to the Creator through communication and mutual assistance to his friends.

Then it can be said that a person is approaching the quality of bestowal.

The true depth of wisdom lies in the common bond of the friends and their connection with the Creator when He reveals Himself in the center of the group.

That is the wisdom of the ten, seen in the friends’ agreement with what the Creator is doing to them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/27/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is He Will Give Wisdom Specifically to the Wise”

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Question: Alexey asks: “Explain how I, such an imperfect, wicked person, can adhere with God? How?”

Answer: God is waiting for those who are imperfect and wicked, but still want to adhere to Him.

Question: Does it mean that Alexey has already made the first step?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do we need to feel that “I am imperfect and wicked”?

Answer: Yes, then you should aim to the Creator and see that He is waiting for you.

Question: What if I do not feel that I am imperfect and sinful? What if I do not feel it?

Answer: Then why do you need the Creator?
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/23/23

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