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Devotion To The Creator

laitman_232.06Question: What does it mean to be devoted to the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is the general system of an integral, closed nature that is in constant dynamic equilibrium.

To be faithful to the Creator means to maintain the balance of nature, its homeostasis. In this case, the right and left lines, i.e., egoism and altruism, good and bad qualities, must be balanced in such a way that all of nature can exist harmoniously and develop so that all parts complement each other.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/10/20

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 4/26/20, Part 2

laitman_281.02Question: How can I demand anything from the Creator? Doesn’t He have a plan that we will all reveal Him?

Answer: The Creator has a precise plan for each of us, but the fact is that He is revealed only according to our requests.

Question: Is there a limit to the evil that we reveal?

Answer: There is no evil. It exists only as the reverse side of goodness. In other words, the reverse side of the Creator is felt as evil in order to force us to turn to His face.

Question: Why are there more doubts during this pandemic?

Answer: With the coronavirus, there are as many doubts as at the time of any other suffering because they make us feel to what extent we are dependent on each other, unable to control ourselves, miserable, unsure of anything, etc. Therefore, all kinds of complexes appear, confusion, and so on.

Question: Who am I?

Answer: You are the one who feels his little egoism.

Question: What is more effective than persistence in communicating with others in order to help them?

Answer: Love.

Question: Is pride and admiration for Kabbalistic truth related to bestowal?

Answer: No.

Question: How can you reach out to friends, to the environment, when they cease to understand you? It seems to me that by studying Kabbalah I understand people less, but shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Answer: No, it should not be the other way around. You should strive to understand the Creator and try to approach Him through your friends.

Question: How can I increase my egoism?

Answer: You should not increase or decrease your egoism. You should only direct yourself to the correct goal. And what kind of egoism it should be: bigger or smaller, its volume, its form, that is not up to you. You just need to work with what arises in you.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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I Don’t Scare Anyone

Laitman_002Question: If humanity is a single organism, why does the stick from nature get 98% of the body, and the brain, which is only 2%, should understand, realize and change?

Answer: You ask me all sorts of tricky questions in order to avoid spiritual work and do nothing. And I don’t really control the process. I don’t come to you as an advertising agent or salesman and offer my product. I don’t knock on your door and say, “Buy it.” If you want, buy, if not, then don’t.

I’m just telling you that the next blow will be worse and will be very soon. And you practically agree with this.

How do I make it so that it doesn’t happen? And then you say: “Why should we pay such a price for it and start doing something? If there is a problem, we will solve it.”

But why is it necessary to bring it to the point where there is a problem? That’s all I’m talking about. I’m just like you, just seeing what’s going to be bad, not scaring you.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/3/20

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 4/26/20, Part 1

laitman_564Question: We are all connected by invisible ties. Can I feel the fears of others?

Answer: There is nothing alien. Whatever you feel in this world, you feel what belongs to you.

Question: What can I do about bad habits such as smoking? How can I fight them if I know they can kill me? Will I be able to reach any spiritual level with them?

Answer: I don’t know to what extent these habits kill you. If they bother you, then fight them. If they don’t, you can keep them. They have nothing to do with Kabbalah.

Question: Is all the evil of the world an instrument of the Creator to attain Him?

Answer: Of course. All evil that exists in the world is egoism, and egoism was created precisely by the Creator.

Question: What is the difference between responsibility and fear? After all, by and large, it is one and the same.

Answer: No, these are two different things. Ask psychologists and they will explain how different these definitions are.

Question: Has the perception of your senses changed at higher levels of spiritual development? If so, then how? Can you describe your senses, including visual, audile, and others?

Answer: When you rise to these levels, then we will talk about it in order to better guide you.

Question: If I think for a long time that the Creator draws a picture of the world for me and He rules everything, a feeling of the illusory nature of the world arises in me, and my fear weakens. Is it a Kabbalistic device or psychology?

Answer: What is the difference? This is all one and the same sensation, the same science. We should not divide all sciences into conditionally different ones. This is all general science about the universe, about its perception, and about how we can find its only common root.

Question: Does punishment really exist? Is it present in the Creator?

Answer: There is no punishment, there are simply such conditions in which a person is not very well oriented. And therefore, it seems to you that you are being punished. But in fact you are being directed.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Woven From Ascents And Descents

laitman_232.05Question: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, profit and loss are assessed according to the pleasure or suffering that a person feels. What does a person draw away from and what does he hate?

Answer: If a person draws away from something, then he has the opportunity to value the closeness, but if he simply gets close to something, he doesn’t feel it as something special, as something that he receives from above. Therefore, all our motions, our attainments, the spiritual essence that develops in us, are made of ascents and descents. We need to understand very clearly that there are no ascents without descents. We are like a pendulum moving in amplitude from side to side.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/22/19

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935We need to try to build the concept of a center in every ten. Before the coronavirus, our centers were physical.

Most of them belonged to physical groups that organized a home for themselves, the center; they rented a room where they could gather and study together. Everything was clear. It was a place where there were books, communications, and where it was possible to arrange meals, lessons.

But now the Creator wants to transfer us to a more spiritual center. We sit at home with our physical bodies and must connect with hearts, desires, and aspirations to the center.

The center is a spiritual concept. These are not concrete walls, but the walls of our hearts. We need to take care of this center and see if we are united by the hearts. After all, this is not concrete that will stand even if you forget about it, and not a material center that can be changed by moving to another building.

Now we are turning into a spiritual vessel (Kli), and the Creator purposely blesses us with a coronavirus in order to oblige us to build a spiritual center in our hearts. Where is this center located?

This is a tower floating in the air; it has no place. So, we need to move forward, every day preserving the spiritual center, strengthening the walls of our hearts, in order to draw closer together, to feel and understand more, to feel mutual concern about connecting with the hearts.

Then this center will come to life and begin to act. We will feel the mechanism of ten Sefirot and the Creator filling our center. From now on, our center turns into the Temple, into the place of the Creator, where we reveal Him. Each reveals the Creator a little in the small center of his ten, and then all tens join together and support one big center, which will be called the Third Temple.

Therefore, we now need to take care, in the tens, about how to build our center, put more effort into it, discuss what everyone should do, how to build a connection between us, and how to ask the Creator to connect us. After all, only the Creator can be the glue connecting heart with heart. Each heart is selfish and only a higher power can connect them. Otherwise, the hearts will never unite because the human heart is evil from birth.

We have a special, sublime work in this construction. I hope that you acknowledge your responsibility, feel the need, and we will do it.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/19/20, Baal HaSulam, Shamati 33 “The Lots on Yom Kippurim and with Haman“

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Before And After Coronavirus

Laitman_631.1Question: Do we bring correction to the world through our study and connection?

Answer: Yes. We bring a positive component to the world because we talk about its unification, about the fact that people should be connected through good connections.

Of course, this gives the world a certain positive direction, some kind of correction, but this is not enough. For the egoistic world, our relatively altruistic component is undoubtedly too small to correct the direction of the world’s movement.

Frankly speaking, I hope that now, when we are returning to our previous conditions and forms of governance, restore enterprises, and so on, we will still come across how limited we are and how we should behave differently.

Question: After coming out of self-isolation, will people understand that the world is different and accept it through their changes?

Answer: I think we will come to a certain inner state in which we will evaluate each state: pre- and post-coronavirus. We will compare them and think about how we could do things differently. Even if people have nothing to do with us but hear our calls, they will still perceive reality in this way.

Question: Where is this turning point of people? Do they need to accumulate suffering so that at some point there will be an inversion and the explosive growth of those who are ready to support us will begin?

Answer: Yes, on one hand, it will happen from the accumulation of suffering and dissatisfaction.

However, on the other hand, also from the fact that we will begin to understand that we need to go a different way to see a better state ahead than the previous one.

Therefore, there may be a relative absence of all kinds of blows, but instead there will be a clear vision of a good future. I think that now when we are returning to the past, we nevertheless will want to correct it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 5/3/20

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Advice Not Only For Beginners

laitman_571.03Question: What do you recommend new students do after the lesson? How do we try to act among ourselves?

Answer: I advise you to feel as if you are embracing one another, existing in good mutual relations. It is thanks to the fact that you relate to each other in this way, that you try to discover the quality of bestowal and love between you, that the Creator will be revealed.

The Creator reveals Himself to the extent that we achieve equality, similarity, equivalence of form with Him. So try to create these conditions between yourselves, and you will begin to feel that He is somewhere in you, between you.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Under The Rule Of The Creator

laitman_962.4Question: How do I know if I feel the right joy that does not come from egoism?

Answer: This should be clarified gradually. It happens that a person stays in bad states for a day, or two, or three. And later it all passes and he realizes that all this time he was under the special ruling of the Creator, and sees how much this helped him.

The main thing is to bow your head and go through all these states. There is nothing more general that I could advise in any state. All the time feel that it comes from the Creator, and you bow your head and go forward.

Question: How to determine that you are in spiritual joy? How can you check yourself?

Answer: If the joy is from good deeds, meaning when you draw closer to the Creator through people, then this is spiritual joy.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/26/20

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Love Of Others —Protection From Misfortunes

laitman_527.03Question: Does love of others grow to the extent of one loving himself or vice versa?

Answer: Love of others grows as you strive for it. And in order to realize it, egoism is added, meaning self-love. When you rise above your ego, above self-love, you build love for others.

At the same time, there is always a balance of two opposite forces in you. And so you are always in an internal, dynamic balance.

Question: If I love others, they won’t harm me?

Answer: Naturally. To the extent that you love people, you will be protected from them. But this is not the goal you should pursue, you should strive to help them.

“Love your neighbor as yourself” is the global, most important, external law of the entire universe, the entire creation, of both worlds: this world and the other world.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 4/19/20

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