Question: How can you completely hate your foundation—the desire to receive?

Answer: If you feel that it is the desire to receive that separates you from the Creator, then, thinking about this, you begin to hate your egoism and gradually move away from it toward the quality of bestowal.

As you reject egoism, you begin to respect the power of the Creator, love Him, and try to get closer to the quality of bestowal.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “You Who Love the Lord, Hate Evil“

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Question: Why is it so difficult to work for bestowal, and how can this action be made easier in spiritual work?

Answer: To work for bestowal is not only difficult, it is impossible. This property does not exist in us at all; so talking about it is like saying, “Fly like a bird.” What can we do? Still work for bestowal.

Despite the fact that we do not have such a property, which we could turn on in order to work for bestowal, it is formed under the influence of the upper light, and we must come to this through the group.

Question: Does our methodology make this work easier?

Answer: It not only makes it easier, but directs, explains, and strengthens us. The methodology is everything.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Peace in the Work?“

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Question: Do we fulfill the Torah out of darkness or out of a desire for light? What is the difference?

Answer: Try to create connections between all the elements of creation, and you will see how close you are to fulfilling them. That is when you will feel if you are in the light or the dark.

Question: How do we resolve the eternal conflict between the evil inclination and the need to work for the sake of the heavens?

Answer: To do this, we are given a ten, a group, in which we are and with which we can get out of our own egoism. Get more involved in each other and see how much strength you have to move forward.

Question: How can we come to the feeling of darkness if we lack Kelim of bestowal?

Answer: You should feel from your efforts what you lack and pray that you will have Kelim of bestowal.

Question: How can we receive strength and mind from the Creator only for the formation of the soul and not ask egoistically for ourselves?

Answer: Only by doing good for the group to unite them even more.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/13/23, Writings of Rabash “What Does It Mean that the Torah Was Given Out of the Darkness in the Work?“

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Question: On one hand a person must become included in the common Kli so that the Creator can fill it, but on the other hand, the point of a person strives to unite with the thought of the Creator. It turns out that he is neither here nor there. Where is a person’s place?

Answer: A person should yearn for the Creator; he exited from there and must return there. Only his exit occurred under the influence of egoism, and therefore it is possible to return to the Creator only if he transforms his ego into a force of connection with the Creator.

Thus, his connection with Him will be absolute and complete, as they say, with his whole body and soul. This is what we have to come to.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Peace in the Work?“

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Question: Benjamin writes:

As long as I can remember I have been in pain! Pain when I was beaten in the courtyard. Pain for the dog that was poisoned by neighbors. Pain that I cannot take revenge. Pain from divorce. Pain, pain… All of life is pain! Is it really impossible to live without pain? Is it possible not to feel pain?

Answer: No, it is not possible to be without it. Each of us feels pain, and everyone has their own reasons for it and their own memories. We cannot do anything about it until the full correction of the world.

Question: And why is such pain given to a person—until he screams?

Answer: It is so that a person realizes that he must break away from it. Pain helps us. Just like pain during illness. It indicates that something is wrong with you, and that is why you rush to the healers. Otherwise, you would put your hand in the fire and sit calmly while it burns.

Question: In other words, our destiny is to be in pain?

Answer: Yes. Pain is a very good quality, a sense of malfunction in a person.

Question: Are you even suggesting now that it is possible to try to love pain?

Answer: To love, I do not know to what extent to love, but to love the manifestation of pain that pushes you toward healing.

Question: And how can I come to conclusion during the pain that it is a correction, that it is pushing me? Here he talks about inner pain, and about soul pain, and about such pain… He combined everything.

Answer: Any kind of pain.

Question: Are you also combining everything into one pain?

Answer: Absolutely, it does not matter whatsoever. And then you start to feel that this pain is for your own sake.

Question: How can you draw the right conclusions during pain? When you are in pain, you only feel pain.

Answer: All you feel is pain, but you begin to understand that it is meant to remind you that you are not okay, that you have to do something to get rid of it. In other words, pain is designed to get rid of pain. And this is your salvation.

Question: Then the question is: how to actually get rid of it?

Answer: Discover the cause of the pain and distance from it first of all. And then explore and understand that maybe the very cause of pain is for you, for your benefit, and you should be content that it exists.

Question: Can you name the main cause of pain?

Answer: The main cause of pain is that a person does not want to feel pain. If he was to tell himself that I am ready to feel pain, then by moving in that direction, he would cease to feel it. It is not easy, but it is possible.

Question: It means that if you as if approach it and accept it, then it begins to subside?

Answer: Yes. Then you start to feel its opposite side.

Question: This is his second question: “Is it possible not to feel pain or to rise above it?”

Answer: It is possible to rise and it is possible not feel pain if a person wants it. Everything depends on the awareness of evil. If a person senses evil, then he is ready to endure any pain in order to get rid of this evil to the extent of the awareness of it.

Question: When you say “awareness of evil,” it is awareness of what—my nature or…?

Answer: My nature or the pain it evokes in me. I am ready to endure. And so much so that I do not feel pain.

Question: So it is like surgery, where this evil is cut out from me?

Answer: Yes, and it needs to be cut out, I am ready for it! I cannot live with it.

Question: How can one come to this sensation of evil?

Answer: It is coming. When it is necessary, it will come.

Question: But are we being guided to this?

Answer: We are being guided to a realization that pain is salvation. It indicates what is bad in us. And we must agree to the removal of the cause of pain in order to achieve good.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/19/23

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Question: How to read The Book of Zohar correctly?

Answer: To begin with, just read in a language that you understand. Maybe at first this book will be perceived by you as some kind of legend or something like that, but it will still influence you, and you will change. So I advise everyone to read it.

Question: Do I need any preliminary preparation before reading? Is it better to read alone or in a group?

Answer: No, it is very difficult to read it in a group. It is enough to read alone for now. Everyone can start reading The Book of Zohar, and immerse themselves in it. Don’t read all kinds of introductions, but The Book of Zohar itself, the articles “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba,” “The Vision of Rabbi Hiya,” and others.
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From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Shofar of the Messiah“

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Question: What does the correct perception of the outside world mean?

Answer: By the outside world, in this case, we mean the ten. To be connected with the outside world means to gather with all the friends of the ten in a circle and from within this circle, that is, in the connection between us, to appeal to the Creator.

Question: Is all that we feel as bitterness an action of bestowal, and all that we feel as sweetness reception?

Answer: Yes, in our uncorrected feelings it is so, for now.

Question: How do we come to the perfect prayer so that the Creator hears us as one person with one heart?

Answer: The Creator perfectly feels your states, your degrees, and your capabilities. Therefore, there is nothing to complain about Him, but only about yourself.

Question: As a rule, we turn to the Creator out of a state of despair. And if I am calm and reasonable, do I have a chance to be heard?

Answer: It does not depend on what state you are in, but on how much you need to turn to the Creator and what you turn to Him with. If you have such a need, then you will have a connection with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Life of Sarah“

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Regarding the war, the world has split sharply in two: for or against Israel. This confrontation manifests itself in every society and every corner of the world. What role does it play in the process of correction, and why is it happening this way?

I see this confrontation as a force that will oblige the people of Israel to unite. This pressure has no other purpose than to act on us so that we unite with each other.

The world is boiling, and everyone is looking at Israel as if it is an open wound on the body of the world. Why is such attention drawn to it? After all, if you look at the geographical map of the world, Israel is a very tiny country. However, this material map does not show the spiritual connection of Israel with the entire world.

It is not clear how it is possible that the whole world, billions of people with all their weapons, cannot cope with a tiny country that is almost invisible on the map. Here, the connection between the corporeal and spiritual world is clearly manifested, and we are at the most decisive point.

Despite the smallness of the State of Israel, the world feels particular importance in what is happening there. If you look at the size of this country on the map, it seems there is nothing to talk about. And yet they cannot do anything to us.

It is written in the prophets that at the end of correction, every person from the nations of the world will cling to a Jew to lead them to the holy land. It turns out that it is not enough for us to go out into the spiritual world, but we must bring everyone along with us, and the nations of the world will push us to rise to additional, still higher levels.
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From the 3^rd the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Shofar of the Messiah“

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Everything in reality, good or bad, and even the most harmful in the world, has a right to exist and must not be destroyed and eradicated from the world. We must only mend and reform it (Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World“).

Negative phenomena is our egoism when a man wants to act in the name of good only for himself.

Question: Negative phenomena manifest themselves very clearly during war. Is there any way to correct them?

Answer: No, there is not. Baal HaSulam means that we can gradually bring ourselves to the feeling that all manifestations of egoism are evil and all anti-egoism are good.

Question: On one hand, he says that not a single phenomenon should be destroyed but only be corrected. On the other hand, there is a clear principle in the Torah: If they come to destroy you, you must stand up first and kill them, that is, destroy them, not correct them. How do these two principles interact?

Answer: If they come at you with weapons, you must defend yourself and do what they wanted to do to you. That will be your correction.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/29/23

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Question: When a Kabbalist comes out from under the influence of the whole world and merges with the Creator, what happens to him?

Answer: He begins to feel the governance of the Creator.

He ceases to perceive his own thoughts and feelings, begins to feel the thoughts and feelings of the ten, and to this extent comes closer to the Creator.

To feel the Creator’s thoughts in the ten means the revelation of His plan—what He really wants from us.

Question: In what form does He convey this to us? In the form of some kind of feeling or state?

Answer: In the form of our thoughts. And we feel that they come from Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two States“

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