Question: Between the world of Assiya and the worlds of BYA there is some kind of limiting line called Parsa. Is that where the second restriction took place?

Answer: Yes, the Parsa is a certain border below which the upper light cannot descend. Therefore we can divide all worlds, all spiritual space, from the world of infinity to Parsa and from Parsa down to the basis.

Our work is to raise our broken, egoistic desires, from below upward, and there, above the Parsa, connect them and fill them with the upper light, the presence of the Creator. All the egoistic desires that we cannot yet raise remain empty and dark below the Parsa.

In other words, there are a great number of desires. Before the Parsa, these desires are lighter and only the first restriction applies to them (the prohibition of receiving for one’s own sake). But if not for one’s own sake, then you can use them.

The Parsa is the border beyond which our dark desires exist, and we cannot use them even for the sake of the Creator because there cannot be such intentions there.

Thus, the entire path of correction that Kabbalah talks about is the correction of egoistic desires, both light and coarse. The coarse ones are corrected by rising above Parsa. And all these desires are only in relation to the Creator. How can we use the connection with the Creator?—For the Creator’s sake or for your own sake. For one’s own sake is below the Parsa, and for the Creator’s sake is above the Parsa.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: Does every spiritual law have an effect in our world?

Answer: No, not everyone. In our world the spiritual laws do not manifest at all with the exception of the most primitive ones—“give and take.”

Nevertheless, there is a tendency to unite in the world. For example, molecules unite into more complex substances and so forth. We see that this force exists. Gradually our world is moving toward unity in any case.

Question: If the spiritual laws do not manifest in our world, does it mean that the first and the second laws of restriction do not exist at the inanimate, vegetative, and animal level? Are they only at the human level?

Answer: Practically yes. The first law is a ban to receive for the sake of oneself. We cannot cancel or change it. It does not exist in our world. We do not see its application.

Whereas the second restriction, i.e., the second law, speaks that at some stage Kabbalists reveal the presence of egoistic desires that for now we cannot use even for the sake of the Creator since we do not have the screen. However, when we correct them, we will be able to receive into them.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: How do we pray for what we lack?

Answer: In your own words. Tell me in your own words what you think you lack in order to be fully connected with your friends and with the Creator.

On the other hand, what in your egoism would you like to get rid of in order to adhere to your friends and to the Creator?

Comment: I literally hate my egoism.

My Response: Great! So you have something to ask for.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?“

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Question: What is essentially called the sin of the people of Israel, and what is the sin of the nations of the world?

Answer: They are both egoism. But the egoism of the people of Israel is central and fundamental, and the egoism of the nations of the world is much smaller and not so dependent on each other.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?“

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Question: What is the tree of life?

Answer: The tree of life is our path, which we walk not opposite to the Torah but clearly according to the Torah. Everyone connects with others by ties of kindness, love, and mutual assistance, closer and closer, from person to person. Then it is believed that people are going according to the tree of life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/3/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Concerning the Giving of the Torah – 2“

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This is the meaning of our sages’ words (Beresheet Rabbah, end of Portion 12): “In the beginning, He contemplated creating the world with the quality of judgment [Din]. He saw that the world could not exist and brought forward the quality of mercy [Rachamim] and associated it with the quality of judgment” (Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” Item 58).

We want to receive pleasure; it is our nature. The first restriction says that it is forbidden to receive from the Creator for our own sake; we will not receive anything and will remain in the emptiness.

The Creator, as if, raised the quality of Malchut into Bina, meaning mixed the quality of judgment with the quality of mercy. After all, the world cannot exist, but only by restrictions. Therefore, even in our world, we can not only receive, but also give something, albeit purely egoistically.

The second restriction is the prohibition of using egoistic Kelim even for the sake of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 9/26/23

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Question: In Baal HaSulam’s “You Who Love the Lord, Hate Evil,” it is written that through the hatred for the will to receive one corrects it and surrenders under the Kedusha [holiness]. What does it mean?

Answer: It means that the will to receive will no longer want to manifest itself because it understands that in this way a person leads everyone to destruction.

Conversely, if a person hates the will to receive, then by this he surrenders to holiness.
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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: We all are trying to unite above our differences. Our goal for the connections between us is to reveal the force of the Creator, love, and eternity. How can we convey all this to the whole world, to the people of Israel?

Answer: You must try to connect through your hearts, and then what is in your heart will flow into the others’ hearts. You will feel it. Just work on it as a group.

Question: What determines the volume of our internal space where everyone can be placed for internal unification?

Answer: It is the size of the heart. And to work effectively with this thought, you need to open your heart to everyone.

Let us all embrace together and ask the Creator to bring us closer in a tighter embrace. That is how we arrive at a quick final correction. Baal HaSulam writes that we are already in the last generation, the generation of Moshiach (Messiah). What should we do? Just wish in your heart for this to come true for everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “First Will Be the Correction of the World“

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The Zohar says that the Creator hates bodies. It refers specifically to the bodies of the Creator’s workers because they want to be eternal recipients, since they also desire the wealth of the future world (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 108 “If You Leave Me for a Day, I will Leave You for Two Days”).

Question: If the Creator hates the bodies, then what was the need to create them?

Answer: The material body is the desire to receive. If the Creator had not created the body, we would not have anything to work on and be rewarded.

We are talking about desires for one’s own sake that arise in a person who seeks spiritual elevation. But nothing can be revealed in the desire to receive, only in the desire to give, which is called the spiritual body or soul.

Question: If the Creator gives us a reward in advance, will we pay for it later much more?

Answer: No, do not take that into account. You must do what is required of you.

Question: It seems like this article describes a conversation with the body. Is it important to keep track of what my body, i.e., my desire is telling me at every moment?

Answer: Of course, it is important. If you do not hear your body and do not listen to it, but just hear it, you will not be able to advance.

Correct hearing means holding on to the group, to the Creator, and listening to what your body wants to tell you. Then you will gain the strength to move forward independently of it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/7/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “If You Leave Me One Day, I Will Leave You Two“

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Dear Michael Laitman,
Trouble has brought us together again. We are again confident that the people are united, we will defeat any enemies, we can, we are strong, and we defend our home. I agree with all this, but where is the Creator now, the one you keep talking about? Or is it implied that He is inside this unity of ours?
Ilya

My Response: We can say that we are close to misfortune. It is our enemies who have silenced us relative to each other.

Question: Do you mean that there is still a lot of work to be done?

Answer: Not only that still needs to be done, but we need to do the work! We were forced to forget about some internal quarrels. But we must understand that we must do serious work on a mistake. The mistake is mutual hatred, revealed in us by the Creator who specifically awakens it so that we ask Him to make peace and love between us.

Question: Do we still have to come to this?

Answer: Of course! And come in what way? We have to recognize and feel that there is mutual rejection and hatred between us. We have to rise above it.

This work is constant! It is not something that will pass in a couple of weeks, and that is it. This hatred will not go away. We have reached a level of connection between us, which is called mutual hatred. We have to suppress it from above with our love for each other. It is through hatred that we can reach love.

Question: You just said a very interesting thing. Is this a level of hatred? This level is already very high. Should love have the same level?

Answer: It should be even more, above the hatred.

This love is not ready, and it is not there so that you can take and replace one with another. It must be born out of ourselves! Precisely, in such serious labor pains. I think it is not easy, this work is for many years to come.

Question: Now everyone is thinking and talking, of course, about victory. Tell me, please, what do you call victory?

Answer: By victory, I mean the victory of a person over oneself. When one realizes that to win, he must defeat himself because besides him there is only the Creator. Here, nothing can be otherwise.

The only thing we need is to truly understand that we have always behaved incorrectly. Now is the time to understand, realize, and admit who is to blame.

It is us. By hating each other, we have led ourselves and the country to the fact that it cannot exist in this way. We must give a clear answer to this and proceed with what we must do to make this country Jewish and viable.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/12/23

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