Prophets, Book of Joshua, 24:11: And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the inhabitants of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.

The seven nations, enumerated by the Creator, symbolize seven properties in man, where the clarification between egoism and altruism takes place. These are the so-called seven Sefirot of Zeir Anpin, which must be purified to begin receiving for the sake of bestowal, and by this move forward.

Bestowal for the sake of bestowal is a property of Bina. Receiving for the sake of bestowal is the property of Keter (crown).

It is necessary to pass through these seven nations, that is, the seven Sefirot of Zeir Anpin, in order to ascend to Bina. This is what they are correcting.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/6/21

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On the spiritual path, we always strive to come close to a state we do not know and we do not yet feel. We have no data for it, no Reshimot.

When the worlds descended from top to bottom, they had Reshimot, and all Partzufim and degrees descended in sequence, according to these data. But when we go from bottom-up, we do not know where we are going.

Therefore, we need to annul and connect with our friends in order to raise a prayer and attract the reflected light, which will bring us to a new state. We do not build the steps ourselves. We only need to know how to annul ourselves with respect to the next step, and then it will clothe on us.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #54 “The Purpose of the Work-1”

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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford)

All our movement is always against the wind, not by going along with the wind because by this you do not do anything, you do not exist, you are just carried along. Whereas, going against it, in a reasonable and rational way, as far as possible but against it helps you to rise.

Question: Is it when you feel you have resistance, that you have an inner challenge, that you have to go there, or are you still looking for a way around it?

Answer: No, I am not looking for a way around. And I am not looking for an opportunity to fight windmills either.

Question: What do you do? Are you analyzing why or how it came?

Answer: I analyze myself according to the program and purpose of creation. If necessary, I take only it into account, the purpose of creation, and try to take another step toward it every time.

Question: So, are you always starting from the end point?

Answer: Always!

Question: What is that for you, the end point?

Answer: It is the point where everyone will have to correct themselves, unite, and see the entire world from end to end.

Question: Is an absolutely united humanity the end point?

Answer: Yes. Inside one single nature.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/4/21

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At each step, before each correction, we must first of all feel our deficiency. We all emanate from the sin of Adam HaRishon, from the shattering. As if we were driving a car and it suddenly fell to pieces; the wheels and steering wheel fall off, the engine breaks down. Not only do they break down, it fell apart into pieces. Instead of a car, you end up with a heap of rubble.

And now we need to check every piece and find out how to assemble them back together. So, we check every part with the intention to bestow, that is, whether it is ready to connect with other parts to become an operating car again. From the parts that are ready for it, we begin to assemble the car, checking what fits and what does not, and how it can all be assembled. This is our practical work.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #54 “The Purpose of the Work-1”

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Comment: It is said in the book Prophets that Joshua, completing his mission, bequeaths to the people not to miss a single word of all the good words of the Creator and not to break the covenant to serve Him, otherwise they will disappear from this land that God gave them.

These instructions and threats are repeated there all the time.

My Response: These are not threats, but a condition, the disclosure of the formula, that if you do this, you will come to a good state, and if not, then to the opposite. This is a law of nature, and this is how it works at every level, one against the other.

Question: There is always an element of suffering in your explanations. And if we don’t begin to correct ourselves, then one way or another they will intensify?

Answer: It is required. We need to talk about this. By making corrections at the spiritual level, we will stop feeling suffering at the animal level.

Question: Do you think that a person should be constantly frightened?

Answer: You don’t need to scare them! You just need to reveal it! Since he is no longer a child, but an adult, he needs to be shown the correct picture of nature and society.

Question: Can he move if pushed from behind by a stimulus and to pull forward with a small illumination?

Answer: Yes, both at the same time. Only by two forces.

This movement is very simple. The only problem is its implementation. We will move and hope that we will implement it. In our time, the science of Kabbalah itself is revealed by us and in us. And then whoever wants to do it correctly, everything will be fine with him.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/30/21

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If I wake up in the morning confused, remembering nothing, then this is a good sign. It means that I went through some kind of state. When one state replaces another, there is necessarily a gap, darkness, and disconnection between them. Therefore one should not be afraid of states of complete misunderstanding. Indeed, in any case I am under the control of the upper force, within the power of the Creator.

You have to get used to this process and appreciate such dark states. If I have nothing in my sensations or in my mind, then I seem to be reborn, and I am now in the hands of the Creator, like a baby in the arms of a mother. The only thing I need to do is help the upper force start caring for me. And the more I transfer myself to the Creator, the more I draw closer to Him and begin to master a new level.

Therefore there is no need to be afraid of forgetting what you studied. We will of course forget it. The Baal Shem Tov passed through such states in which he did not even remember letters. And then this knowledge will return, but at a higher level. We must take this as an obligatory process, and you will see what wonderful new discoveries it brings.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #54 “The Purpose of the Work-1”

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The feeling of confusion and chaos is a very good state. It is only necessary to clear the head and heart of all this confusion so that there is a pure Kli to get rid of all the old baggage. And this is a good sign that marks the transition to a new state, to a new degree.

We see many examples of this in our life. I cannot write on paper that has already been written on, I need a blank sheet. And I cannot pour a drink into a dirty glass I do not know what was in previously. It will spoil the whole taste of the drink that I want to try now. We need clean vessels.

Therefore, it is necessary to train yourself to purify your Kli every morning before the lesson without waiting for it to purify itself. And then, in a pure Kli I will be able to check what I receive into it and what I fill it with.

One must be sensitive to checking one’s spiritual Kli and its filling. And therefore. it is written: ” Each day, they will be as new in your eyes.” That is, every day I have to feel completely renewed.

Perhaps yesterday I even had some revelations and I understood a lot of things that were not clear before. It does not matter because it is already in the past. And if I am working with something that has happened in the past, then it is a Klipa. I must try to get out of yesterday’s state even if it brought me revelations and sensations, a pleasant filling, in my mind and heart. But I want it all to be empty, and every day is like a new one for me to start all over again.

Therefore, if we come to the lesson not empty but with the same baggage, then this is not good. It does not matter what it was like—good or bad—we need to start the day with a clean slate.

And even if I am standing in the middle of the desert not knowing where to turn and what to do, not understanding why I came to class, it is good that I am starting from scratch. This means that I am starting to work properly, anew.

And so it is necessary to start studying articles of Shamati realizing that it is impossible to start working cleanly and correctly if you pull behind you a cart from the past. Start from scratch, like a newborn baby!
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/9/21, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #54 “The Purpose of the Work-1”

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Question: How can we boost our spiritual work to increase positive outcomes?

Answer: We have no other option but to unite even more, up to the point that the light will connect all internal distances, which we want to cancel between us. It will come and do it, and we must ask: “Let me be absolutely internally united with my friends.”

In this case, if distances between us close, we form one common body, one common desire, in which the Creator is revealed. And this is achievable because it is not us doing it. We must only pray that the light unite us in our common aspirations for this state.

So, let us convince, support, and inspire each other that this is possible.

This is the transition from one world to another. Being in our world, we naturally cannot imagine how to connect everything into one single whole. This is unattainable in the corporeal world.

But when we ask from our world, the light takes into account our states and raises us to the next level where the property of bestowal, love, and connection between the broken parts of one soul (which is us) really exists. We can do this.

Let’s try together. We still have time to realize these opportunities and implement them. And we will do it!
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From KabTV’s “Videoconference”

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Question: Are causal relationships in the spiritual world the manifestation of hierarchical governance in our world?

Answer: Are you kidding? Our world rules the spiritual world?

Comment: The causal relationships in the spiritual world are reflected here as hierarchical management.

My Response: That is right, but what does our world have to do with it?

You can manage the spiritual world only to the extent that you can influence it. To do that I need to have a spiritual force, the force of bestowal, the force of love, the force of connection with others, a positive force. Our world is negative, it is opposite from the spiritual world, it is egoistic.

If you want to influence the upper world, go ahead. You can do it to the extent that you begin to bestow, to infuse positive energy, the attribute of love and bestowal from yourself unto others.

By doing so you will begin to truly influence the upper world from the bottom up. The hierarchy will be the opposite. It is possible. But this is the only way.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 10/6/19

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Question: What is the meaning of the connection between cause and effect? Is it the same as the struggle with a disease but not the correction of the disease itself?

Answer: No. We correct the disease itself. When we correct our ego, we turn it into a totally different system, a system of bestowal instead of a system of receiving.

Each one restricts their ego, and then there is a Masach (screen) and the reflecting light, which means that one doesn’t want to receive all the good that one can seemingly receive for oneself. A person receives it only in order to sustain oneself and gives everything else to others.

This state is called bestowal. To the extent that we can connect in one common general system, we will feel the attribute of bestowal inside it, which flows between us and is revealed inside us as the Creator.

By resembling the upper force through the mutual relations between us, we enable it to be revealed somehow in others. It does not exist externally to us, but if we want to feel it, there is no other way but to connect between us through attributes, desires, and actions of bestowal unto each other. Moreover, it is not the same bestowal that we picture now.

It is a very complicated action in which you ascend above yourself, against yourself. By doing so you resemble the Creator to some degree.

Of course in the Creator there are no such efforts of Tzimtzum, tension, and all that since He is the force itself. But in order to feel Him inside you, you make efforts, which means that you keep the condition of resemblance to the Creator and then He is revealed in you this way. This is the reason that a person is called “Adam,” which stems from the Hebrew root “to resemble the Creator.”

He exists by Himself and we don’t know how, but He is revealed inside us as the force of bestowal, love, connection, and mutual actions between us. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah is all about. We resemble the Creator and He is revealed in us. This is the condition of equivalence of form that is the means for the revelation of the Creator to a person.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 9/15/19

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