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Through Disappointment To The Creator

Laitman_002Question: Does the revelation of the Creator always take place through disappointment and despair of my own powers?

Answer: Yes. Revelation is always connected with searching, disappointments, yearning with force, ascents and descents. This is the only way, because otherwise you will not be able to discern, reveal, or know anything.

In our world we also feel disappointment, we fall, we find, etc. The search always consists of identifying between two opposites.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/24/19

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To Feel The Plus You Have To Feel The Minus

laitman_546.02Question: If everything becomes absolutely magnificent how does a person move, to where or what can someone develop? It would be boring.

Answer: I understand that when everything is beautiful, clean, and good it is very boring. There is no dirt, swearing, nothing like this is felt, no nobility stands out against the background of something nasty.

But don’t worry. I can’t explain it now, but you will always have a possibility to build good above evil. And when evil exhausts itself, everything will be filled with such good; infinity and eternity will be revealed to you.

When we study this, you will feel it. You are right about one thing: to be able to feel plus, you have to feel minus. These two states must necessarily support each other in their mutual realization.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/10/20

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How Long Will The Creator Test Me?

laitman_622.01Question: Will the Creator continue to play with me and test me until the end of my life?

Answer: Until the end of this life and also in the next lives, until you fully reveal that He is the only one who exists.

Question: How long should I wait for this?

Answer: Until you determine in all the parts of your soul, in every cell of your soul, that everything stems from the Creator and that He is the only one who manages creation. This is how the whole correction of the soul is expressed.

Question: If I manage to reach the Creator’s level, will I see that all the other people are good?

Answer: Not yet. You will feel that only in a state of absolute correction when not only you, but also all the others, which you feel as existing outside of yourself, attain the Creator as “there is none else besides Him.”
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/24/19

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How Not To Lose Our Way?

laitman_760.1Question: During this pandemic period, what do we need to concentrate on? What specific information is most important?

Answer: The common, integral, upper power wants to lead humanity to its similarity for it also to become integral, interconnected, and interdependent. This condition can be achieved in a good way or by force.

Let’s hope that we will go forward in a good way even though until now we have not been successful. Our egoism blocks us from uniting into a common integral dependence. This is why we suffer: various viruses and all kinds of problems appear. If we do not strive for integration, we will have a lot of different sequential problems.

Question: What can we do if we are managed, and how can we hear ourselves? How can we not lose our personal way?

Answer: For this, one must study both himself and the science of Kabbalah.

By studying yourself, you study the forces that affect you and you begin to understand how you need to be in the right combination between yourself and the external force.

There are two forces in the universe: yours, which is egoistic and the external, which is altruistic. And all of humanity is between you and the altruistic force. You are learning how to juxtapose yourself with humanity in order to be as close as possible to the upper power and become similar to it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/24/20

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Why Overcome The Resistance?

Laitman_041.01Question: Why is it necessary to overcome resistance in order to ascend and rise?

Answer: What would you rise above? What would be the stepping stone of your ascent? It is the ego that exists in you, unlike animals. Above it, you will ascend through spiritual stages, i.e., change the perception of our world to the perception of the highest. This is called “ascending the ladder.”

The fact is that at this stage you think you own the world, control it. And at the next step, which you want to rise to, you must accept that there is only one single force in the universe, call it Creator, nature, whatever you like, and only it controls the world.

And you have absolutely no control over anything, you only want to join, cling to this higher power.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/17/20

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Attaining The Upper Force

Laitman_421.01Question: Is the question of the meaning of life individual or common to all?

Answer: Understanding the root of life is common to all. But you know it individually.

You begin to see that the real universe is eternal, infinite, and you also exist in this eternal, infinite movement. There is no death besides the one that seems to us because it falls only on our animal state. The higher state is not affected by the death of the animal body.

You see that the knowledge of life is the attainment of the force that governs all of nature. We call it “Creator” because it created us. But this is not what is implied in religions. This force is attained in the properties that we acquire, absolutely clearly, experimentally. You begin to feel how everything exists around you, and at the same time, you rise to this level.

It becomes clear to you what a human means, how he is different from the inanimate, vegetative, and animate world. After all, they all exist within the framework of a small Earthly egoism, including us.

And if you rise above your animal egoism, then you begin to attain the eternal, perfect state in this world, in this life. And our material existence in no way limits us.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/24/20

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Knowing The Creator

laitman_222Question: Listening to your lectures on the Internet, I noticed the phrase “to know the Creator by the creature.” In essence, the very process of learning requires a large amount of time daily, attention, and incorporation from us.

On one hand, as I understand it, we come to know the Creator through the creature, i.e., through active actions within our lives, and on the other hand, we have to disconnect from this life. How to untie this knot?

Answer: In fact, we can do whatever we want in our lives unless we harm other people because this will definitely stop us from revealing the Creator. But if we live and work normally, have everything that a person usually has, but at the same time systematically devote time to study the attainment of the Creator, that is, devote, let’s say, two to three hours a day to this, this is enough to begin to feel the sphere that manages us, which is outside of our world, and to begin contact with, open, and enter into an internal two-way dialog with it. So, progress until you begin to feel these states as absolutely real.

This by no means is an escape into some kind of space, nor meditation, but simply a systematic training to expand your sensations, and increase the sensitivity of your internal sensor.

Question: Should I immediately apply my new sensations, new knowledge, and the new perception of the world in my life?

Answer: This does not obligate you to do anything. What will happen to you will be carried out only by your choice, at your will, gradually. You will be able to use this for attaining the true reality you exist in.

You will feel the forces that manage you, how they change your desires and move you from inside. You will become absolutely clearly aware of the “hand” that is inside of you, like in a puppet being led by a puppeteer. It moves and controls you, and in response to this sensation, you make a decision whether to obey it or not, to go with it in unison or not.

Here appears your freewill. In such a way you begin to work either with the upper force that governs you or against it. In general, here the combination between you and the Creator begins.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/24/20

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If The Ego Is Not Harmful…

Laitman_511.01Question: What does egoism mean?

Answer: Selfishness is self-love. It’s not such love as when I think about simply being, but when I love myself beyond what is necessary for existence.

Question: But if the Creator sends me all thoughts, then what is my egoism?

Answer: Naturally the Creator sends you selfish thoughts. He does not hide it. He says: “I created selfishness.” And then He adds: “And I gave a technique for correcting it.”

Question: Where does the root of the need for comfort come from?

Answer: From the same egoism. Selfishness does not want any difficulties. They are a waste of calories, mental and physical strength; it does not appeal to any living organism since any living creature seeks a state of rest. And mechanical objects gravitate to this.

Question: What will happen to places like Las Vegas that  are built only to receive worldly pleasures?

Answer: In principle, there is nothing wrong with that. If I do not harm others, and at the same time do not cause them hatred, then all these toys can be completely harmless.

As children constantly play games, so adults play the same games. Only adults are interested in playing with each other for money, so that there is some excitement.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/10/20

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 11/24/19

laitman_546.03Question: I have five brothers and five sisters. Now all the boys in my family are falling ill and one of them is in critical condition. I pray all the time of course, and I know this force. Will my prayers help or do my brothers need to do it on their own?

Answer: Both are necessary, both your prayers and their prayers.

Question: You say that I need to feel the world both inside me and on the outside, and that basically everything is inside me. What is the difference between inside of me and outside of me?

Answer: Of course we feel everything inside us, but this feeling is divided into an internal feeling and an external feeling. This is the reason that we feel we exist in space, in volume, we and this volume.

Question: Is atheism spiritual attainment or a distortion?

Answer: It has nothing to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah. The wisdom of Kabbalah has nothing to do with religion in any way.

Question: Are we required to perform certain actions once the desire to determine that everything stems from the Creator appears in us?

Answer: Yes, you need to perform certain actions. If we really try to determine that everything stems from the Creator, we need to gradually connect to the friends in the group and the whole world.

Question: Do I need to actively participate in the management of creation or is it enough for me to accept it and to be an observer and grateful for the Creator’s work?

Answer: You don’t have to be active and perform certain actions, but try to reveal that everything stems from the Creator in all your actions, thoughts, and feelings, and that He aims you to the connection with Him.

Question: How does the awareness that only the Creator rules help me attain the attribute of bestowal?

Answer: When you draw the Creator’s force unto you He bestows unto you and gives you that attribute of bestowal.

Question: When I look at other people and the importance and the yearning that they feel, do I need to want the same thing they consider to be important?

Answer: If you want to exit your state quickly, you need to prefer everything that is done by your friends and see it as the most important thing.

Question: What do we need to do in the women’s group so that everyone will discover that everything stems from the Creator and will forget about ourselves?

Answer: Read more articles in Shamati, be with us in the lessons, and care not only about the women, but also about the men in your group.

Question: What is the connection between a person, the Creator, and Satan?

Answer: Satan is the force that is in every person that does not want to reveal the Creator. There are no external images of Satan.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/24/19

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When Will I Feel The Creator?

laitman_963.8Question: I am a first year student in Kabbalah classes online. How soon can I feel the Creator in a group?

Answer: It does not depend on which course you are studying, but on how much you want to master this method. Try to get as close as possible to some group and together with your friends make such contact where you stop feeling the egoism separating you from them.

Or vice versa, you will feel it more and more, but at the same time overcome it. Thus, you will begin to move toward the revelation of the Creator.
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