All pleasures have a specific image from which we receive pleasure. A person must understand precisely whether he is following them for the sake of connection with his friends and with the Creator or whether he is against these pleasures.

In order to properly receive them and thank the Creator for them without the shame of receiving them, we must try to clarify our relationship with the Creator so that all our desires, intentions, thoughts, and aspirations are directed to Him.

Question: At the moment of enjoyment, do you need to think that it gives pleasure to the Creator or should we rejoice and enjoy what He gives?

Answer: It depends on who the pleasures come from: from you to the Creator or from the Creator to you.

The task of enjoyment is that we correctly orient ourselves to the Creator; it is when you want to accept this pleasure only if you bring contentment to the Creator.

Question: And if I don’t need special pleasures, but the Creator gives them to me, what should I do?

Answer: You should receive them and be grateful; enjoy them with the Creator and with the ten. And if they distract you from connection with your friends, then you don’t use them. But in the end, absolutely all pleasures can be used for the sake of integration with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/11/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: How should I relate to the pleasure from meetings of the ten?

Answer: Enjoy; just make sure you understand that you receive pleasure from the connection with the friends.

Question: What should one choose: a meeting with the ten or watching a lesson alone?

Answer: Undoubtedly, a meeting with the ten. You can listen to the recorded lesson later.

Question: Is it true that suffering and pleasure are the carrot and the stick from the Creator?

Answer: Let it be so for now. Later, you will see that both are carrots.

Question: Is efficiency in spirituality the ability to quickly rise above states?

Answer: Yes, from a descent to an ascent.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/11/23, “Habit becomes A Second Nature”

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This is why the forces of separation are called “locks,” since they block the gates of approaching and drive us away from the Creator (“Two Points,” Introduction to The Book of Zohar).

Question: What are these properties that distance us from the Creator?

Answer: Everything that we do not yet attain as the sum of all our efforts and everything that we do not yet attain as unity is manifested within us in the form of all kinds of contradictory properties and mutual rejection from each other only in order for us to understand the law of manifestation of properties and come to a state when all these properties will complement each other and not contradict each other.

Then we will reveal unity, that is, the property of the Creator, which is manifested literally in the entire creation.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 8/6/23

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Question: On the corporeal level, the Creator gives us all kinds of pleasures from money, power, honor, and knowledge. What pleasures does He give us in spirituality?

Answer: Spiritual pleasures are absolute. They practically do not end and are not limited by anything. To the extent that you have a desire, you can absorb these pleasures and feel that you are being fulfilled.

If in our world the light enters the desire, gradually extinguishes it, and the desire disappears; in the spiritual world it depends only on the extent that your desires coincide with your capabilities. As much as you can be similar to the light, you will be able to receive it.

Question: In principle, is the wisdom of Kabbalah a kind of patent for ideal endless pleasure? Is the patent actually receiving pleasure for the sake of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, otherwise you will not be able to be fulfilled, because if the pleasure is for your own sake, then the light will immediately disappear.

This is the entire meaning of the wisdom of Kabbalah—to come to a feeling of infinite pleasure.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/30/23

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Question: The Creator brings us closer to Him very unexpectedly. But what should we do at a time when we are far from Him? Is patience necessary?

Answer: It depends on you. There is no queue to the Creator. Whoever wants to be closer to Him, adheres to Him and achieves it. So there is no one to complain about but yourself.

Question: Sufferings are an egoistic sensation in the material world. How can we raise them to the level of spiritual sufferings?

Answer: Start suffering from not loving others.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: According to the law of the first restriction, light is forbidden to enter the desire if it is not ready to receive it correctly. This is how it was originally intended, That is, the first restriction is the prohibition to receive pleasure for yourself.

Is it possible to see where this actually happens in our world? After all, people are receiving pleasure for their own sake.

Answer: Yes, but they receive pleasure only from microdoses of the upper light.

We were left with these microdoses so that we could exist by reaching for something, running for something, doing something, and passing it on to each other. But the law of the prohibition of reception, the law of the complete bestowal, does not apply to these microdoses. Therefore we need to understand where this law works and where it does not.

Question: In principle, the Creator is concealed from us, and we are given some small pleasures so that we have the energy to do at least some actions. What does concealment mean? What is forbidden to receive pleasure from? Is it the connection with the Creator himself?

Answer: It is forbidden to receive pleasure from the Creator himself, from the light for your own sake. Therefore, He cannot be clearly revealed within us.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/30/23

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Question: At some point, a person decides to stop receiving for his own sake. Whose decision is it: a person’s or the Creator’s?

Answer: A person’s.

Question: When a person understands the nature of his receiving, how can he find the lowest point from which he will push himself to the prayer and connection?

Answer: The lowest point is when a person feels that there is no one in this world lower and worse than him. It is from this point that he should begin the ascent.

Question: When the Creator reveals our illness or gives us some kind of shock, the first reaction is hatred and resentment against the Creator. Is it possible to change this so that there is only gratitude?

Answer: Thank and ask the Creator to change us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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What helps me feel the importance and greatness of a friend? The fact that I am getting closer to him and I want to be together with him, and thus there already are two of us, and then there will be three, four, and so on until there are countless people who will work together on the recognition of the greatness of the friends.

To understand that a friend is as important and great for me as the Creator, I have to think more that he is on the path with me, that he is important to me, that without him I cannot reach the goal, and that he cannot do it without me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/10/23, “Habit Becomes a Second Nature”

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Question: The chapter “Two Points” in The Book of Zohar starts with “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”

What does the beginning of wisdom mean? What kind of wisdom are we talking about? And why is fear considered wisdom?

Answer: The point is that when a person awakens some attitude toward the Creator based on awe of Him, it is the inception of human wisdom. From this point onward, a person can develop in this direction.

The Creator is an upper force that manifests itself in relation to people as a quality of love and bestowal. Therefore, in order to achieve a connection with the Creator, a person must acquire the same qualities of trepidation toward bestowal and connection. Then a person can advance.

Wisdom is the accurate perception of the Creator, the correct connection with Him, and the right understanding of His actions in relation to us humans. And the first step toward this wisdom, in order to establish proper contact with Him, should be awe of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 8/6/23

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New Life 486 – The Degree Of Righteous
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

What is the degree of righteous in spirituality? Why do we experience awakening during a pilgrimage to the tombs of the righteous? How can we relate to their Torah and their spiritual level?

There is nothing of holiness in the objects left behind by a righteous—not in his relatives nor in anything material. A righteous is a person who has developed forces of love and bestowal and has revealed the Creator in his inner vessels. A righteous person is one who repeatedly transcends the desire to receive in order to awaken in himself the desire to bestow. Any person who develops spiritually can reach the level of each one of the righteous.

We can make contact with the righteous through the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah in a correct group that connects with love above the ego. The power attained in the right connection can be called righteous, and within this power we attain the Creator. It takes at least a minyan, ten people who want to transcend spiritually with the help of wisdom of Kabbalah, which is the Torah of the truth.

We must distinguish between spiritual things and religious-psychological things. Religions teach heritage and customs, and increase one’s ego. The wisdom of Kabbalah, on the other hand, speaks of correcting the ego with the help of the light that reforms.

From KabTV’s “New Life 486 – The Degree Of Righteous,” 12/30/14
This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman

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