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Life Devoted To Attaining The Creator

226Question: It seems that everyone wants to learn to read the thoughts of the Creator, and everyone would use it for their own benefit. How can you really become like Him, caring and loving toward others? I think it will take a lifetime.

Answer: It may take all your life, but the fact is that you can’t attain anything if you don’t attain the Creator.

Only to the extent that you reveal the quality of the Creator, do you begin to comprehend the qualities of the world around you, and thus, you come to the state of understanding, awareness, and the revelation of everything.

When you begin to reveal the Creator, your perceptions change from egoistic to altruistic, and then you really become free.
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From KabTV’s “Ask a Kabbalist” 3/20/19

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How To Overcome Pride?

253Question: How can someone overcome pride? Is there a method?

Answer: Only in the group when you annul yourself with respect to it. You are zero compared to your friends. This is the most correct thing. We cannot annul ourselves before the Creator because we do not see Him and do not feel Him. The easiest way is to do this before the group.

Question: Can pride be manifested in the fact that I think that someone else should change but not me? But in fact, I should change myself, and not, as is customary, change others.

Answer: Yes. But this already is a different level.

The thing is that I feel the world the way I feel it. Therefore, if I am proud of something, it means that I do not look at the world correctly. The correct vision of the world is when I am the lowest, zero, and I have a right to exist only if I aim myself to the upper, to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/22/19

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Equality In Opportunities

600.02Question: Throughout history, Kabbalists have evolved and understood the highest law: The is Creator in a group where everyone is equal. Is equality considered a fundamental principle of such a group?

Answer: Of course. We create the same conditions for everyone, give them the same knowledge leading to the same force. At the same time, everyone connects with each other to absorb from it properties and strength for their development. And then each develops within himself according to the original data—the spiritual genes that exist in each of them.

Question: So equality does not mean 50 – 50: where you give 50 percent of the  effort and I give the same? Equality is that I give the maximum and so do you?

Answer: Equality means equal opportunity. Everyone takes in as much as they can and in the manner they need. Just like in our world one is an artist, another a poet, a third a builder, a fourth a metal worker, and everyone takes from life what is closer to him, and everyone should give to the world to the best of their ability.

Question: That is, we are equal in our efforts to get closer to the upper force?

Answer: We are equal in our efforts to strive for the upper force in order to unite in it in our specific, equal efforts.
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From Kab’s TV “Spiritual State” 4/29/19

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Who Can Be Called A Hero?

566.01Question: Who can be called a hero?

Answer: The Creator.

Remark: But in Kabbalistic sources it is written that a hero is one with a broken heart.

Answer: This is a different type of hero: the one who, despite all the obstacles, overcomes all the difficulties and is able to achieve likeness of the Creator. His heroism is measured by the fact that he was able to overcome all the obstacles in his path.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/22/19

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The Main Risks Of 2021

293Question: Many major risks of 2021 have been named. And it is not the coronavirus. The main risk of 2021 has been declared to be the division of America; half of the US population considers any new leader of the country illegitimate.

What do you think the main risk of 2021 is?

Answer: It is demonstrating for the whole world, for the entire human community, that we do not consider anything that does not agree with our views, thoughts, attitudes, and understanding. We do not discern anything else.

We began to realize that we cannot tolerate anything foreign at all—not at all and not in any way! And that is what America is showing us. The Americans have come through a very serious path. This is a very big progress.

What is America in itself? It was a highly developed egoistic society where one thinks only of himself and absolutely does not care about anything. All others exist only to make money from them.

They were developing until they reached the point when the society got divided into two practically equal parts. America shows us that if the whole world had gone the way they did, it would have come to the same result. And what would have happened next?

That is, it is clear that it is no longer possible to advance egoistically.

And therefore, a very interesting exercise comes from the side of nature. It is like in school when one is asked to do an exercise in class so that later, perhaps one will not make the same mistakes in life.

So, here we need to solve the problem. How can we create an integral society? Like in America, which was built from practically all nations and ethnic groups, how can we build such a society that everyone understands that this is the best state for them? Not only the best possible, but generally the best.

Question: Is the task even more global? How can we make something more or less unified out of this society, such a single nation?

Answer: Yes, naturally. This is what America is showing us. We will learn from it.

Comment: Second on the list of the risks of 2021 is a protracted pandemic. It is believed that on the background of vaccination, there will be an even greater division of society into rich and poor, job cuts, loss of confidence in the authorities, and so on.

My Response: I believe that this heals our society and reveals all its miasmas. This pandemic will eventually purify us.

There is hell, purgatory, and heaven. We need to go through it all.

It is our existence in this world that we will consider like hell, which we do not yet realize, and we want to be in it and warm ourselves from this fire.

Purgatory is when we will try to cleanse ourselves of our egoism, which kindles this terrible fire of hatred, opposition, and so on. And then, when we turn all this for the good for all of us, we will reach paradise.

Question: In principle, is all this a definition of a sore spot? “This is a sore spot. I, the virus, have come to show you this and will not let you go.” Yes?

Answer: Yes. And therefore, we must look positively at all the moments of the development that we are going through, and only learn how we must behave after all, not only in order to smooth them out, that is, to escape from some danger or some blow, but so that we can become aware of their need to such extent that we kiss the stick that beats us. When we begin to approach this, then we will already become truly conscious elements of our development.

Question: That is, if I realize that what has come is good, and the fight against it will not be with the help of a vaccine but in some other way? Which one?

Answer: I will only struggle with myself in order to be a correct member of society. If we remove the human, universal viruses of hatred for each other, then all the rest of them will simply disappear.

Comment: The third risk of 2021 is the fight against climate change, which will lead to international competition.

My Response: Climate change depends on us, on our attitude toward nature, toward ourselves, and toward human society. It is because human society, unfortunately, is at the highest level in the hierarchy: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and then human nature.

Therefore, if we discover the right interactions between ourselves, which, in principle, the entire science of Kabbalah addresses how a man should relate to man, then we will correct all this. There is nothing complicated in this, everything depends on us. Everything depends on the state of the relationship between us.

Everything is decided only at the level of relations between people.

Question: Indeed, what if you found this “golden key”? Would we solve all these risks in one swoop?

Answer: It depends on the people.

Question: Why is a man deaf and cannot hear it? Not scientists, nor politicians, no one.

Answer: Because this is an appeal from egoism against egoism.

Comment: And he closes his ears, closes everything.

My Response: This requires a lot of suffering and problems, when a person thinks that that is it, there is nothing else I can do, then I am ready to listen.

I hope we will stop fighting the virus and will start fighting the harmful relationships between us, which bring about the states in which the virus can multiply and infect us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/7/21

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Aza And Azael—Тwo Forces In Creation

546.02The Book of Zohar, Chayei Sarah (The Life of Sarah), Item 81: Balaam learned all those charms that he did from his father. But he learned all the charms and all the spells mainly in the mountains of the east, which are the eastern land. This is so because the kings Aza and Azael—which the Creator dropped from the sky because they complained against man’s creation—dwell in those mountains. They are tied there in iron chains and alert charms to people. And it is from there that Balaam knew, as it is written, “From Aram Balak brings me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East,” the place of Aza and Azael.

Aza and Azael are two forces in creation that channel light on our egoistic desires and strengthen them. Therefore, it is very difficult for a person to get out of egoism; he sees reinforcement in his egoistic desires. That is, I can use my egoism and feel some fulfillments in it that constantly hold me as if I were bound by them. As it is written: ”They are tied there in iron chains and alert charms to people.”

“Mountain—Har” is from the word “Irurim—doubts.” They arise due to the fact that egoism seems to give me some kind of fulfillment. Although every time I feel that I am not filled, I do not achieve a certain state of balance, comfort, or something good in my life, the ego pulls me, attracts me, with certain light.

This property is transmitted to us through the two forces called Aza and Azael. They were once good properties. Before they sinned, they were in bestowal, love for their neighbor, in connection with people.

As it was said, before sinning, all people were like one single nation and they felt themselves as one common whole, as the organs of one body feel complete interconnection with each other and understand that they cannot live without each other. And this existence was natural for them. As a mother loves a child, so people used to love each other. These are just amazing, seemingly completely unnatural forms of life.

But they originally existed on the spiritual level. And then when this level fell into the abyss of egoism, the forces that supported us in spirituality turned into impure egoistic angels Aza and Azael.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #4

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 3/20/19

281.02Question: Why does the absolute need our correction? If the absolute is complete and unchanging, why does He need us or our correction?

Answer: Humanity may not understand this, but the absolute one, that is, the supreme, the force of pure good, does not care at all about what we think of Him. The point of creating all kinds of creations is to gradually raise them to the level of this absolute so that they also become absolute.

Question: We often talk about the neighbor. Who exactly is our neighbor?

Answer: In Kabbalah, the neighbor is determined by the goal, by the spirit, by their advancement. It may be someone who lives in Africa but who is closer to me than my family members.

Question: Is Kabbalah forbidden for women to study?

Answer: In our time, we have come to a state where everyone is controlled by a common egoism; therefore, today both men and women, regardless of age, can study Kabbalah and achieve revelation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Ask a Kabbalist” 3/20/19

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The Only Truth

294.4Question: What is truth?

Answer: Truth is when I understand that everything in me is relative: tastes—bad – good, sweet – bitter, and reason—true – false, true – false.

There is nothing absolute, except one thing. The Creator is our root, the property of total bestowal, and we, the creatures, are His consequence, the opposite property of receiving.

Only these two substances, the desire to bestow and the desire to receive, exist in an absolute form. Everything else is absolutely relative.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/22/19

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Force The Creator To Balance Two Forces

562.02Question: How can forces that want to destroy and eliminate each other attain mutual complementation since they are totally opposite from each other?

Answer: This is the reason the middle line is in the middle. It exists above this mutual contradiction.

Comment: But it is not in a person’s power to balance this contrast.

Answer: Of course! The Creator does this! But we ask Him to do so. We need to force, obligate, and compel Him to balance the two opposite forces.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/16/18

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In Kabbalah There Is No Place For The Individual

547.05Question: On one hand, it is said that everything is within a person, but on the other hand, you say that I need to start working with other people. Is it not enough for me to study, meditate, and pray? Do I still have to get in touch with others?

Answer: It is impossible for a person to achieve the revelation of the Creator alone. He must understand that this is achieved only in a group, and there is no other way. The individual, the hermit, has no place in Kabbalah.

By trying to somehow unite with other people, you begin to “enter Egypt” (egoism). Together you cultivate the ten, which in connection with each other is trying to gather in such properties that will be similar to the Creator.

According to the law of similarity, what exists between you and the properties of the Creator, the properties of mutual bestowal, love, connection, unity, you will begin to feel the Creator inside yourself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/15/19

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