Entries in the 'Spiritual Work' Category

Can Knowledge Of Previous Reincarnations Be Restored?

laitman_202.0Question: We learned something during previous reincarnations and now we come here again in order to learn something new. But everything we knew and understood was taken away. Do we have the right to restore this knowledge?

Answer: If you study Kabbalah, your previous knowledge will quickly return to you. You will start sensing them and perceiving them as truths you understand.

It is like in our generation how quickly modern kids internalize and grasp all kinds of technologies and knowledge in comparison to the children discovering the world ten to twenty centuries ago.

Do not worry, everything will return. This is done on purpose so that each time you perceive your soul anew.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/26/20

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Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips – 12/22/19

laitman_962.6Question: What does sight symbolize in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Sight in Kabbalah is the level of attainment when you clearly see your actions from the beginning to the end through all stages. This level is called Hochma (“Hok-Ma“) when you understand all the actions and all the metamorphoses of light in your desire, that is, everything it goes through and everything it does.

Question: What can I do when I feel the pain of the whole world? How can I help myself and others?

Answer: Just disseminate the condition of bestowal, which can attract the upper light upon our world and fill it a little. The world will then stop suffering.

Question: How can we determine that the group and its members are really a Kabbalistic group and not impostors?

Answer: You by yourself should make efforts to connect and then you will see the consequences in our world. To the extent that you connect, the world will be better, and if you disconnect, it will be worse.

Maybe the world will not feel it that way because it is not focused on this, but you will certainly see the results of your efforts. This is what we need to reach. This is practical Kabbalah.

Question: What can one do when constant yearning for the Creator fatigues you and it becomes dull?

Answer: You need to be clearly connected with the friends and then there will be no dullness. Communication with friends can always give a person new feelings, new opportunities.

Question: Is final correction when all of my thoughts are only about the Creator?

Answer: The final correction is when all of your thoughts will only be about bringing contentment solely to the Creator and only by doing good for others.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/22/19

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Realizing The Reason For Suffering

laitman_294.4Question: How does Kabbalah make a person change? How does it happen?

Answer: Kabbalah is a wisdom that explains how the altruistic or spiritual forces descend into this world. These properties of bestowal and love are completely opposite to the earthly ones. They gradually come closer to humanity, and that is why we suffer.

One can say that we suffer because the Creator is approaching us. We feel how opposite we are from Him and that is why we feel bad. The properties of bestowal, love, and unification become closer to us while we, in accordance with our nature, do not want it. This is the problem we encounter our entire life.

Because we do not recognize it, whatever happens to us on Earth is not felt like an awakening to spiritual ascent, but like events that repel and humiliate us.

If we realized the origin of our suffering, the fact that we suffer because spiritual forces become closer to us, and accordingly, if we become more and more like these spiritual forces, the qualities of bestowal, love, and unification, we would then perceive them correctly, we would be in contact with them and feel how they help us ascend to a completely different height of qualities, the spiritual degrees.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/26/20

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Purpose Of Disturbances

laitman_600.02Question: There are different types of interference at different levels according to the four stages of the development of nature.

The first type is an inanimate level disturbance: earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. Plant and animal level interference include various diseases and viruses. Human level interference include some kinds of psychological deviations. Is it possible to calibrate these types of interference?

Answer: It is possible.

Question: Depending on the structure of each person, does nature, the Creator, know how to apply pressure on everyone?

Answer: Of course. This happens in accordance with the structure of the soul, that is, our inner desire that we must balance and adhesion with the Creator.

Comment: Suppose, a rejection arises from unification within a Kabbalistic group. I understand that this obstacle is against my egoism and is given to me so that I can acquire the Creator’s altruistic ability not to think about myself.

My Response: This is regarding your action. And regarding the state in which you must determine, that there is none else besides the Creator and only He influences you, what should you do here? How can He influence you, give you some tasks, obstacles, so that you can still train knowing that this is all from the Creator and not from anything else?

When, for example, they write unflattering things about you everywhere, blaspheme you, or you have a fight with your family, or when you see that you are doing wrong, acting egoistically and you condemn yourself, how can it be that you do it yourself if there is only one force that makes all this happen?

Thus, you must change your attitude toward yourself, to others, and to the whole world, for only one single reason: “There is none else besides Him.”
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/25/19

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What Is The Difference In Connection Between Men And Between Women?

Laitman_632.3Question: What does connection mean? What is the difference in connection between men and between women? Indeed, over the past few decades, many women have begun engaging in Kabbalah, which was not the case in previous generations.

Answer: Indeed, women began to strive for Kabbalah, and this is correct, this is the call of the time. We welcome this. However, there is a difference between female aspiration and male aspiration.

On one hand, we know in past centuries there were great Kabbalists at very serious levels of spiritual understanding of the Creator. It is said: “And everyone will come to Me from small to great, and My House will be called the House for all the peoples of the world.” That is, to reach the Creator and connect with Him is not only a male duty, but also a female one.

But for women there is a slightly different platform for this since the female egoistic desire is more focused on procreation, on the family, and therefore it is more fixated, clamped, and constrained inside. As a result, it is much more difficult for women to unite in tens. Therefore, we do not insist on this.

In addition, frankly, we still do not know how to work with women’s connection because we are just starting to enter this system. With men, it is more or less clear. Over the several years during which we have been conducting an “operation” to unite men’s tens, we have gained some experience and we already have quite serious achievements.

But with women, we do not yet know what to do. The main problem is that a woman learns from men because we only teach men internally and women perceive it all through the virtual channel of our connections. So what they do, how they unite, is a question.

For men, direct connection between friends is necessary when they work together in the ten, and study and disseminate together, etc.

For women, I believe that only education and dissemination is more acceptable. A group association so far does not play any role for them, and, conversely, it can interfere with them.

Question: Are workshops suitable for women as a means of connection?

Answer: Anything but a ten. We see that there are such negative forces that a woman in our world cannot yet overcome. It is quite possible that over time she will succeed because our world is moving toward greater disintegration, destruction, and the emergence of negative properties. And this will have to be somehow restored.

Question: Is it more difficult for a woman to unite because her egoism is greater?

Answer: She has a different form of egoism. It is aimed at oneself, family, children, and so on. Therefore, it is very difficult for her to feel another woman as close to herself. Between women are such partitions that they cannot destroy. And for men, this is practically nonexistent.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/11/19

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Study In Kabbalah

Laitman_524.01Question: A ten is a mini-model of society. Instead of working with all of humanity, which, in principle, is not yet possible, did the Kabbalists take, like a hologram, the most minimal cell in which it is possible to implement the method?

Answer: That is absolutely right.

Comment: Kabbalists say that two people are also minimal for a society.

My Response: In principle, for lack of anything else, there can be two. After all, then a person begins to feel the difference between himself and the other: Who is “I” and who is “he?” But in fact, you can only achieve the altruistic quality of bestowal quickly and correctly if you are in the ten.

Question: There are many things written about the ten in the Kabbalistic sources. Kabbalists have always been studying in such a way. Was there no learning for two people?

Answer: This was at the beginning of the foundation and development of Kabbalah. However, in those days there were special souls and special conditions.

Question: Is it possible today for a Kabbalist teacher to teach just one person? Do we teach privately?

Answer: There can be private teachers. When my friend and I came to Rabash he gave us his disciple as a teacher, a man of advanced years, and the two of us studied with him for six months.

Question: There were no people who wanted to study Kabbalah back then? Is this possible today?

Answer: No. I do not think that this is even useful. The group is best of all. In Kabbalah, everything is so tied to the connection between friends that other ways of studying are not effective.

Question: What about the initial stage, at least to understand what this is about?

Answer: It is possible. There may be private lessons at that stage. However, that is not movement toward the goal but filling with knowledge.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/20/19

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If I Do Not Want To Advance…

laitman_629.3Question: Is one lifetime enough to climb the degrees of the spiritual worlds?

Answer: Do not worry, this is not your task. You must rise either by a good or not-so-good path. The choice of the path depends on you.

If you exert, you will rise quickly and win every moment of your life for the sake of the ascent. And if you are lazy, of course, you will be urged forward, or even left alone, and then you will have to catch up with the others.

In general, there are different possibilities. In order not to confuse you, I will say only one thing: systematic classes, participation in a group, in our common events—this is the necessary minimum for a normal, smooth, safe ascent. If you want to move faster, there are additional classes, courses, and so on. If you want to move even faster, there are other options.

Question: What if I want to stop, and I say, “The first degree is enough for me, I feel good here. You can go forward and I will stand here.”

Answer: Each person will have to reach their spiritual root. It does not depend on him or her. No one asks you about it. You are given only a very narrow range in which you can decide how to rise: by your own efforts or by being pushed from behind.

There is a very interesting mechanism. It works on a simple principle, similar to dealing with slaves: If you work well, you do not get blows, but if you hesitate, they immediately begin to hit you.

Question: Does it mean that it is impossible to stop somewhere in the middle of the path?

Answer: You can stop, but you will receive blows. So, you cannot just wave it away. We are dealing with the law of nature. Therefore, no requests will help. If you are given certain conditions, you must meet them.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/5/20

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Add Two Kinds Of Control

laitman_243.05Question: Our goal is to achieve the property of bestowal, coping with interference. Let’s say a car was stolen from me. How can this obstacle be directed against my egoism while helping me tune in to the Creator, to His quality of bestowal?

Answer: You will not be able to understand this while at the current material level. Therefore, you must go to the police, do everything that is supposed to be done in this world. On the other hand, at the same time, you must understand that the Creator did this in order to somehow shake you up.

Question: I cannot connect it with His property thus far, but can I connect with Him?

Answer: You don’t see the connection between the two levels: what the Creator does and what happens to you.

Comment: So I still imagine in my mind that this is from the Creator just because it is written in a book.

My Response: This does not make it any easier on you.

Comment: Yes, it’s not easier. At least I know that it’s from Him.

My Response: If you always think that it is from the Creator, and at the same time do everything that is necessary in our world to fix this problem, then you make a combination within yourself between the highest and the corporeal management. Thus, the two types of management will gradually develop within you into one.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/25/19

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Unconscious Advancement

laitman_619Question: Feeling a descent as an ascent is a great thing. It turns out that there are no falls, is that right?

Answer: There are no descents. The Creator wants humanity to move forward with the realization of what is happening to it. Ascension is a rise to eternity, to perfection, and every moment a person gets a chance to get even closer to the spiritual, to perfection.

But does one feel it? This is all our job—to feel that we are really moving this way. This is a problem.

Question: Are the steps of spiritual exaltation lowered into our world or do they begin after the transition through the Machsom?

Answer: No. Even now we are climbing this ladder, only inside the part of it called “our world.” This is a preliminary, a long and problematic elevation.

Question: Why is the preparatory period so long?

Answer: It is because we are on a spiritually inanimate level. We ourselves can do nothing, we still have no properties of bestowal and unification. Therefore, our climb is very long. It happens in us unconsciously.

Of course, this is an undesirable condition and it must be passed as quickly as possible. But when you tell people that you need to quickly move forward, get closer to each other, climb up, you get a reaction from them: “We still have other problems and concerns. We still have to do something.” And this is where it all ends.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/12/20

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Love And Hatred—An Inseparable Duo

Laitman_630.2Question: If love and hatred are interdependent, how will we sense love without hatred in the final correction?

Answer: In the final correction, there are negative and positive forces that are absolutely opposite and therefore define the existence of each other. There cannot be light without darkness and love without hatred. If we ascend, both hatred and love necessarily increase within us. This must be studied.

Question: Is there such a notion as “absolute love”?

Answer: Absolute love exists above absolute hatred.

This is unlike in our world when you want to eliminate all negative qualities so that supposedly only the positive ones would remain. In this case, the positive qualities will disappear as well because one cannot exist without the other, like a plus without a minus or an electron without a positron. Simultaneously there must be either two dynamic systems or one in which there are opposite qualities or objects.
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