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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 5/10/20, Part 1

laitman_281.02Question: Why does a person not understand how short his time is?

Answer: This is done specifically so that we can still exist properly and normally without being depressed all the time. If we were constantly thinking about death, it would be better to die than to live like this.

Question: Why are we prisoners of our inner emotions? How can we free ourselves and put them into practice for the common good?

Answer: This holds primal importance. I would even say the first task that we face when we study Kabbalah and want to implement it. How we raise our emotions, study them, express them, and then make sure that they are properly used by us, this is what we study in Kabbalah.

Question: If I don’t know my boundaries, how can I advance and correct myself?

Answer: To do this, you must be in touch with like-minded people. And then you will set boundaries between yourself in which you will do good to each other and try to extinguish the inner evil in yourself.

Question: How can we increase our egoism so that we feel rewarded?

Answer: Don’t worry, it will come to you. Everything will be revealed. Just move with us and we will study everything together.

Question: Where can I find a group of egoists who want to advance to the purpose of creation?

Answer: Look at everyone you see on the screen right now. They’re inveterate egoists. And most of them agree to correct themselves. Look at how many of them there are. They even smile. But they are egoists. You must love them.

Question: Is suicide selfishness or a protest to the Creator?

Answer: Suicide is an escape from responsibility for others.

Question: What signs will make me understand if I’m growing?

Answer: By how close you are to others.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/10/20

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Tame Egoism

Laitman_514.02Question: The evolution of our soul goes through the comprehension of egoism. So only when our ego is at the point of self-destruction can we fully become self-aware and switch to the side of light?

Answer: No. We do this long before that. It is a gradual, step-by-step development of a person, when he realizes his egoism and understands that by applying it, he comes to nothing. However, he should not get rid of it. Egoism cannot be destroyed; it is a force of nature. We only need to change the purpose of its application.

Question: You said that Kabbalah teaches a person to rise above egoism. The bigger the ego, the higher he rises above it. So this is his evolutionary growth.

Is the correct cognition of egoism one of the elements of our development when you increase it, artificially or under control, and you give it an altruistic inclination?

Answer: Yes. You tame it like a wild animal and it becomes more or less tame.

Question: It turns out that you do not need to fight it, but you need to understand it?

Answer: That’s right! Manage it correctly. Then it will be your assistant.

Question: So it is not a struggle, but rather an immersion, knowledge, and use of this inner power where you begin to realize an altruistic impulse through your sense of happiness, and transmit this state to the world?

Answer: Yes. For you, altruistic impulses are actually the best. In principle, in our world, altruism is understood as giving something to someone for free. No! You just see that by this you are beginning to interact with the greatest forces of nature. This is good.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/24/20

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How Many Years Does It Take Before We Enter Spirituality?

Laitman_514.02Question: You said that the journey to the first spiritual level takes about 25-30 years. How did you manage to attain spirituality with Rabash after only 11 years?

Answer: It takes at least 10 years to attain the first spiritual level. If a person studies seriously, it can take about seven, eight, up to 10 years.

But today, those who enter our group where people have been studying for 10-20 years, they can catch up with them in 5 years. If a person integrates with the friends and does everything together with them, he will enter their vessel, and they will engage in spiritual correction together.
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Restriction Is A Condition For Attaining The Creator

226The feeling of the Creator regarding souls is perceived as infinity. This is a connection between worlds, souls. But infinity is the highest level and it remains so.

We try all the time to graduate our relationships so that we perceive them in certain doses, and in accordance with them we will call our states steps.

We will already be able to somehow communicate with the Creator, that is, give Him names along these degrees, along these boundaries, because we limit His image toward us.

If I say “father,” “mother,” “high,” “low,” “kind,” “evil,” and so on, I limit my perception, somehow define it, and thus I can talk about something. Otherwise, I have no other states, except for some unclear admiration, which also disappears. We cannot imagine the state of unlimited filling.

Although the Creator has a great desire to delight the created being, and we relate to Him as a source of infinite fulfillment, knowledge, and sensation, we must limit ourselves toward Him, make a restriction on ourselves and go further, putting forward certain conditions in order to define Him within some boundaries, limits.

We exist in the Creator even now. But where is He? We do not feel Him. We can begin to feel Him only if we limit our perception. We have a restriction, then a screen, then striking, a certain amount of light.

Only to the extent that we can give to the Creator can we receive from Him. This is the only way!

Otherwise, all sensations disappear. They can only be in a limited amount, which can increase more and more.

We can achieve an infinite sensation, but it will be in an infinite sensation.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 8/12/20

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Communication Through The Creator

935Comment: You write: “People are looking for connections incorrectly. The connection between us is possible, but through the Creator.”

My Response: Yes. The Creator is nature around us. Only through this connection with nature, the Creator, can we truly reach the next level of existence, begin to feel eternally alive, connect to the eternal source, and become like It.

We will feel ourselves existing not in this mortal temporary body, but in the soul, that is, in the spirit between us. And all this is possible. I hope we get there pretty quickly.
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What Is The Wisdom Of Life?

laitman_232.06Question: How do you deal with egoism if it suddenly pops up in your life?

Answer: It does so constantly, at every second. Egoism overcomes me at every minute and throws me into various thoughts. But this does not mean that I want to steal, deceive, or do something harmful to others.

Egoism is what commands us at every moment in the smallest of actions, for instance, in the way we sit, get up, and walk. It manifests itself in everything: in thoughts, feelings, intentions, words, and actions.

The choice of one or the other, the way we speak, and our behavior is explored by egoism from within, and we must study it all and gradually correct ourselves. However, it is an interesting task.

Question: Do I need to ask myself every time, “Why am I doing this?”

Answer: No. If you study Kabbalah, you will not ask yourself questions because you will be affected by the upper light, another energy that is not egoistic, but altruistic.

Both lights influence you. They will guide you and lead you forward like how a rider controls a horse with two reins. Also, you will feel which of the forces currently leads you, with which and how you should progress, and how to balance them with each other. In principle, the whole wisdom of life is to balance both forces correctly.
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Between Egoism And Creator

laitman_608.01Question: When a person rises above egoism, does he see that there is no egoism?

Answer: On the contrary, he sees egoism and how he rises above it.

It is impossible without the ego, which does not disappear. We simply balance it with the good force of nature, the Creator.

The Creator created the opposite force, egoism. In order to balance the ego, we need to reveal the Creator and attract Him.

We will then exist between egoism and the Creator. We will begin to see from one end of the world to the other; everything will become absolutely clear to us. And everything will be fine, balanced, and perfect.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/10/20

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What Should We Do When We Feel Indifference To Everything?

Laitman_138Question: I constantly feel that everything stems from the Creator, and I look at everything in a positive way. But sometimes, I am filled with a kind of emptiness and indifference to everything. What should I do in this state?

Answer: In such states, it is best to be among friends who are also searching and progressing. By being next to them, you try to be influenced by their yearning for the goal. In principle, the group must make sure that it is moving forward all the time and thus enable each of the friends to fall into the hands of the group and immediately begin to ascend.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/24/19

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Purify Yourself With Light

laitman_591Question: How do we silence our “self”? It is necessary, but how is it done?

Answer: You don’t need to silence anything. You simply need to study, read a lot, and be with us regularly in the lessons, be included in us.

You and your small groups are far from us. So do everything you can to be close to us and to what is happening here, cling to us.

In February there will be a big convention in Israel and you may be able to come here. But the most important thing is to participate in the daily lessons. A person needs to purify himself by the light that impacts him during the study and expect the effect. There will certainly be an effect, yet not immediately, but month after month.
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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 4/19/20

laitman_961.2Question: If every country cares only about itself these days, is this an indication that we have not internalized nature’s lesson?

Answer: Of course. When have we internalized it? Never.

Question: I have reached the recognition of my evil inclination more and more, to such an extent that I don’t see its end. Will it ever come to an end? Where can I recruit the great power in order to reveal evil inside me all the time?

Answer: You need to try to learn how to turn evil into good. Then each revelation of evil will bring you joy because you will build the good above it. Thus you will connect yourself with the whole cosmos to the whole world, and to the whole general soul, and you will feel yourself entering a state of wholeness, and most importantly, a state of eternity.

Question: Why do the stinginess and egoism of one individual inflict pain unto other people?

Answer: It is because we are in one single system and we impact each other. It is like in a corporeal body, if there is a wound in the foot, the whole body suffers.

Question: Can bestowal be measured?

Answer: Yes, both bestowal and receiving are forces that are measured by certain units, by the units of our egoism, called Aviut, which means the thickness of the desire. Our egoism is divided into 125 egoistic levels, and it is according to these units that we measure the force of receiving and accordingly also the force of bestowal.

Question: Is it right to use shame in order to ascend above the ego?

Answer: It is a good thing. There are many different levels of shame; therefore, the shame should be because of insufficient self-realization.

Question: In the corporeal world I cover my desires with money. Is each one’s Masach individual in the spiritual world, or should there be a common Masach for the ten?

Answer: In the spiritual world you cover your desires by bestowal, whereas in our world you cover your desires by receiving. This is the difference between our world and the spiritual world.

Question: Can the beginning of the spiritual receiving of everything that happens with me be a good thing?

Answer: Yes, but only if you really know how to receive everything. In order to do so, you have to be connected to the group and to the Creator who is revealed in the group. Then you will be able to perceive everything that happens as the absolute good.

Question: How should I respond to all the negativity that grows in me toward people, like toward those who do not keep social distance, for example, or do not wear masks?

Answer: You have to work on yourself. You can act, but so that they will understand that they don’t take you seriously, and that it hurts you not because they can harm you that way, but because they relate to others this way.

Question: Is what is happening because of the virus an indication that we are nearing the end of the world?

Answer: Don’t worry. There will not be an end to the world. Nothing is limited by our world and our life. We simply need to act so that this life will be very meaningful and that it will have positive implications in the future.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 4/19/20

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