The beginning of the year (Rosh HaShanah) is called terrible days because we go through very drastic changes. We are working against the great, terrible, genuine egoistic desire with the help of the great and terrible force of the Creator.

This is the beginning of correction at its initial point where the will to receive and the will to bestow meet, and these two opposite poles begin to unite in their oppositeness.

During Rosh HaShanah, a person examines himself and sees that he is full of sins, and he has to correct himself in order to come closer to the Creator. Therefore, he decides that he must take steps toward the Creator. But he understands that he can come closer to the Creator only when he corrects his heart and builds the structure of Malchut in it, which will be similar to the quality of the Creator, Keter, bestowal, and love.

He can do that only through connection with friends; otherwise, he will not be able to change his heart. He has to connect his heart to his friends and move with their hearts to such an extent that they all become one heart. Then in this one heart, he will be able to feel the Creator’s attitude toward them.

It is preferable that there should be ten people, no more and no less, in accordance with the general structure originally created by the Creator. After all, the forms of relations between the Creator and the created beings undergo ten metamorphoses until they reach the quality of the created being from the quality of the Creator.

The stronger we connect our hearts into one heart, the more we give the Creator a place to rule. We ask the Creator to be King over us in this holy house we have built for Him, in the temple of His greatness. We want it to become a place of bestowal, where the Creator will dwell and fill the connections between us with Himself. We will try to improve and increase this connection all the time so that the Creator is revealed more and more within us.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/21/22,“Rosh HaShanah“

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The most important commandment of Kabbalah is “love your neighbor as yourself.” If we get closer to this, then along the way we will begin to feel more and more similar to the upper force, the Creator, and He will begin to reveal Himself in us as one single great force.

We will begin to feel that the importance of this world is practically decreasing for us and that the world of complete connection is rising more and more; we will feel this when the feeling of the universe passes through the friends. In this way we will feel the upper world.

Kabbalah teaches this. It leads to this. I am sure that each of us can attain this, both men and women. There are no barriers for anyone. We are all children of Adam and must return to his full structure, to unity.
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From Dr. Laitman’s Conversation with the Georgian Group 9/15/22

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When reading The Zohar, it is essential by all possible means and most importantly in your thoughts, to clarify for yourself that now you are entering the office where you will ask and you will receive, but on condition that your request is correct.

It is desirable for a person to perceive that he is given the opportunity to enter and say only one phrase. And if with this phrase you fail to awaken the one in this office, on whom your whole fate depends, then you lose this opportunity and you will not get another one.

If a person stays in such a sensation, even if he gets opportunities again and again, it can somehow help him.

That is why, it is necessary to know:

1. All the changes that we should first of all desire are the changes in the direction of bestowal and love for your neighbor and from them to love for the Creator.
2. These changes are realized in us only by an upper force that can influence us and make them; only on condition that we desire them, as much as we can desire, from the lowest level toward the highest. After all, we do not yet understand these changes and do not want them one hundred percent because these changes are toward bestowal and love for your neighbor. But as much as I am given and with all my might I strive. I must believe that if my request will be correct, immediately these changes will come true and will be realized in me.

Therefore, we must form such a picture for ourselves in which we are constantly present, and while reading The Book of Zohar we should stay on the edge of the request, prayer, worship, or plea so that even if we do not reach the true request, then due to this plea, as in the prayer before the prayer, we hope that our request will take the right form; meaning, I do not know how to ask Him, so I ask Him to help me to know how to ask.

I can’t tell Him, “I am asking, but I don’t know how and You do it!” No, it will not work that way. He cannot do this, my request must be correct in any case, because otherwise I have nowhere to receive a correction.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/4/12, The Book of Zohar “Bereshit”

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Comment: Revenge is a thing a person is ready to devote his whole life to.

My Response: Revenge is the biggest treat for egoism.

There is no greater pleasure for egoism than the triumph over another egoism that humiliated it that now it pays back a hundredfold, and thereby proves its victory, its superiority, and its triumph.

This is the most pleasant thing for our ego and, I would say, the most opposite of the spiritual. It is very difficult to do anything against this. The feeling of revenge subconsciously sits in us.

From above, someone will be specially chosen for you who will annoy you and prick your ego. All the time, you will inevitably come back to imagining all kinds of scenes of this person’s humiliation and your triumph over him where he will come and admit his insignificance, his mistake, in front of you.

And only serious work on oneself can partially correct this and somehow, soften it.

Comment: But any hero in a story must ultimately win, gain the upper hand, prove his case, and take revenge, etc.

My Response: This is the American “happy ending.”

Question: How should this be in our spiritual development?

Answer: We must accept it all as coming from the Creator and not from some person. It is the Creator who sets us up; it is He who teaches us such a lesson through someone and we must love this someone, this subject, and get along with him. When evil manifests, deal with the Creator.

But it’s not easy! This is actually a very serious problem.

Question: So it manifests itself when a person sees some kind of malice, a flaw in a friend?

Answer: Yes, the Creator does this on purpose in this vast theater of life, and we each must understand that all of humanity are parts of our soul and the fact that I see them opposite to myself is only because I do not want to connect with them; I do not yet understand that these are my integral parts. That is, the problem is with me.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Take Revenge on the Enemy” 5/24/13

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Question: How can one determine if he is making correct efforts?

Answer: Do what is good for the group. This is the only correct way to check. However, there is no indication inside of you. It is only for the benefit of the group. Then you are able to know clearly (if you are capable to determine at all) that you are performing a deed of bestowal. There is nothing else. Your personal feelings don’t matter.

Question: You often say, for example: “Try to feel The Book of Zohar.” You say: “Try to feel.” Here you are not talking about doing something good for the group, right?

Answer: You have to feel not yourself, but you have to feel within the group what The Book of Zohar is talking about, precisely in the group. A person cannot feel it by himself.

Question: Does the person have to associate himself with this group, to have some connection with it, some contact?

Answer: Obviously. I am speaking to the people who are members of the group. A person has to feel that he together with everyone is a single unified whole. All hearts, as if naked, connect in one big mega-heart. This is how one should imagine it. Then in this common heart, the Creator is sensed.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call,  Proper Application of Effort,“ 4/20/13

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After all the suffering that the Jewish people endured, including losing a third of its population in the Holocaust, we still continue to develop in our egoistic desire to enjoy and do not want to think about the causes of the destruction that occurred. The heart becomes harder and harder and it cannot be softened even by suffering.

Everyone dreams only of hiding in some safe, comfortable place where they can live well quietly and so that no one touches them. They cannot rise above this animal welfare to the human level and realize that it is necessary to come out of this shelter to connect with everyone, to build a new state in the world, a fresh atmosphere, and attract a new light into the world.

Humanity is obliged to be united and even if we only start to connect a little in the tens, the world will begin to change.

It is enough to see how the universe began, from the fact that after the Big Bang, individual particles of matter began to gather together and converge more and more until stars and planets were formed from them. We need to try to get together like this.

We are building such a connection in the international Bnei Baruch group so that everyone understands our connection can become the central point of the world around which a field of positive force of the whole reality will arise. In this way we will move toward the correction of the world.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/19/22, Writings of Baal HaSulam, The Nation Newspaper

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The light of Hochma is regarded as the emanated being’s self and vitality. The light of Hassadim is only regarded as light for corrections, for the completion of the emanated being (Baal Hasulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1, Chapter 1).

Question: How does a person experience these two lights?

Answer: Initially, a person does not feel the light of Hochma in any way. In our world, when one wants to enjoy something, a person feels only a micro dose of this light. One feels the light of Hassadim only to the extent that one has a will to bestow, to bring pleasure to others. Practically, both lights are initially concealed from us and we must develop ourselves in such a way that we begin to feel them.

Usually one becomes familiar with them through the help of the method of correcting a person, the method of Kabbalah. To the extent that we study in a group, want to come closer to our friends, want to bestow to them like the Creator, and practice the quality of bestowal as much as possible, we start to feel the light of the Creator’s bestowal entering into us.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 9/4/22

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The task of Kabbalists is to tell people, to educate them, that they can reach a state where they begin to feel the upper world, the upper force, the Creator, and themselves in this state. This is why we study.

But the problem is that learning takes place inside a person when he begins to feel that his connection with other people should be above his own destiny.

The most important thing is the connection between people where they connect into one single whole creation as it was before the shattering of Adam. Kabbalah is engaged in this.
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From Dr. Laitman’s Conversation with the Georgian Group 9/15/22

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Question: You said that not everyone has the left line. What is the advantage of having or not having it?

Answer: In principle, everyone has a soul consisting of two parts: the quality of bestowal (right line) and the quality of reception (left line). However, it can be that there is no third line in its explicit form. The third line aligns both lines, i.e., two opposite qualities in a person and gives the result. It builds out of it the image of “human” person.

There are souls in which this is clearly expressed and there are souls in which this is not. Just like the organs in our body there are more important ones and less important ones. There are some that develop in utero in a certain order faster than others, and there are those that even seem to appear like some kind of tail or other rudimentary organs. That is, a person in his intrauterine development simultaneously undergoes an internal development.

Thus, when organs develop in a person, each of them is important in itself. Although there are more important and less important ones, in the end they are one system.

There are no more important or less important things in the spiritual world because from the point of view of similarity to the Creator if you lack some cell in your body, it means that you are not similar to Him. According to this rule, there are no insignificant things in spirituality because spirituality is perfection. If a point is missing, then this is already imperfection.

Therefore, we must understand the importance of every person in the world. Each thing in the universe has its own clear purpose and it is forbidden to destroy it. Everything that is given by nature must exist.

Comment: You said that the Creator is the right line and that the middle line does not exist.

My Response: Yes, but when the quality of bestowal has to be adapted within us, it cannot be received only in the right line. Where is the quality of reception?

The right line is only the quality of bestowal, so the left line is necessary. The left one is only reception; it can only be the opposite of the Creator. Then the middle line arises, which—on the basis of this symbiosis, this connection, the mutual penetration of two lines into each other during shattering, during correction, and during mutual integration with each other—begins to work.

Question: Does it mean that striving is important, without leaving the left line one should strive toward the right one?

Answer: Yes. If you take the left line and go with it to the right one, you get the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, Left Line“ 4/25/13

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Kabbalah has been revealed in people since the time of Adam, the first man (Adam HaRishon). Adam attained the spiritual system and even described it in a thin book. The main thing is that he explained a very simple principle to his students: Humanity is divided into separate individuals, and if they unite against their egoism, which is not easy, then they begin to feel the inner force of nature called the “Creator.”

When they feel this force, they rise in their sensations above our world and feel themselves practically beyond egoism, i.e., their sensations become eternal and perfect. This is called that they adhere to the Creator and begin to feel Him.

Every person can reach such a state because we all come from one common root called “Adam,” from the word “Domeh“—similar to the Creator. That is, we must achieve this state, and we can if we unite again in one single desire.
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From Dr. Laitman’s Conversation with the Georgian Group 9/15/22

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