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My Thoughts On Twitter 12/23/18

Dr Michael Laitman Twitter

Kabbalah is a practical method of revealing the Creator in the unity of people, despite egoism dominating them. There is no Creator outside of us—the Creator is revealed precisely in the connection between us. It doesn’t exist in nature—we create it from the egoism dividing us.

Only in the degree of the Creator’s concealment can be a degree of His revelation, for concealment is a call for a revelation. A Kabbalist knows what revelation to expect by degree of its concealment; it occurs in the same desires reformed from “for myself” to “for the Creator.”

It is because of the feeling of descent and concealment, which he also accepts as coming from the Creator, that a Kabbalist gains faith in the Creator’s taking care of him—thereby gaining strength and importance to delight the Creator.

At the beginning of each degree, it reveals its void that must be filled with faith, the Creator’s power. So, anticipating descent, one must first prepare to fill it with the Creator’s greatness. It turns out that there are no breaks in spiritual work, but constant advancement.

As in descents so in ascents we should rejoice that the Creator remembers you and gives both ascents and descents. So try to hasten the ascent to the Creator yourself, as proof of your aspiration for Him. And thank for the descent, as for the opportunity to run to the Creator.

By causing descent, the Creator tears one off from egoism, forcing him to walk by faith. The Creator takes away ego—pleasure. Otherwise, a person won’t detach himself from self-love. If he agrees to work without reward, he cancels the fall and rises to the extent of acquired faith.

A person is obliged to accept the Creator’s governance at the bottom of his descent, above his reasoning and feelings, trusting that it comes from the Creator, submitting to Him unconditionally, without revealing the Creator’s greatness.

If one puts forth enough effort, but doesn’t yet see the result, he falls and rises again—gradually obtaining the need for adhesion with the Creator and a true desire, one concern—to only delight the Creator.

The feeling of emptiness is given to fill it with the greatness of the Creator. If this desire arises, a person needs the Creator’s help, to gain faith above reason. This desire arises with trepidation for the Creator, in place of all other calculations.

Under no circumstances doubt that they come from the Creator, and that the Creator makes it so that a person develops the need for Him, gives him the property of bestowal, brings him out of exile in #egoism.

He who understands, from despair, that he has nowhere to run from spiritual work, that he doesn’t need anything for himself, who no longer despairs of descents, who cries only because he cannot delight the Creator—he exits Egypt and enters the work of bestowal.

It’s vital in spiritual work to strive for the Creator and persevere against the Creator’s pushing you away. Thus one accumulates the strength to break through the border/Machsom with the upper world. Prior to that you have to walk on a narrow bridge. Remember to fear nothing!

Everything in the world pushes to the revelation of the Creator’s oneness, so when an egoist goes through the horrors of discovering his pride, a drop of unity emerges in his heart. He discovers that through fears he came to understanding of the Absolute and a drop of adhesion with Him.

He who wants to work for the Creator, merge with Him by similarity of qualities, is tested whether there are other desires in him, creating obstacles (thoughts and actions) to stop him, throw him off the path towards the Creator and make him walk in life like everyone else. (Shamati 70)

The power over the spiritual state is in the power over egoism since it separates us from the spiritual state. To the extent that, with Ohr Makif, we dissolve in the group—we’ll correspond to Ohr Yashar, Upper Light, the Creator’s property. So gradually we’ll come closer to Him.

We must understand that descent comes as a result of the work done correctly. Therefore, it is not a fall, but an ascent, only in the left line, the revelation of a spiritual area that I am not yet able to purify and sanctify. Therefore, it feels empty, contrary to my expectations.

When a spiritual desire for bestowal reveals in me from Above, I experience it as a descent, darkness, because it is not egoistic! But if I, by effort, accept it with the faith above reason, voluntarily—it manifests to me as a spiritual desire to bestow upon the Creator.
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Since the adoption of European Convention on Human Rights in 1950 it became clear that the migration issue is religious-economic-political. Europe got wiser and today wants to withdraw from the global #migration pact. It is egoism explaining to us that it won’t allow us to live together!

Everything that happens, even descents and exits from spirituality, come from the Creator. Once a person acquires the quality of bestowal, he will see that absolutely everything comes only from the Creator. It is therefore necessary to strengthen yourself in patience and lowliness. When one accepts this, spirituality is revealed to him.

The end of the world isn’t at the year 6000. Spirituality has no time flowing freely as in our world as we think. 6,000 years is 6,000 steps of ascent over egoism to the property of connection/bestowal/love. Till we conquer them, our sensation will remain egoistic—feeling only this world.

At the start of the path pleasures given for the ego to want to work. Then comes a taste of the property over egoism—bestowal. But despite being raised to the spiritual quality of bestowal, it feels as a fall, exile. Then request to be pulled out of the ego’s power—to bestow to the Creator
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Jews, Israel are responsible for the correction of the world, any damage to it, any state it is in. It isn’t by chance that the nations innately blame the people of Israel for all problems. We’re to discover that drawing on our egoism after World War II brought us to global crisis.

One can’t reveal the Creator before experiencing His concealment and its importance as revelation. It’s possible in the intention for the Creator, for He delights in one’s joy in concealment more.
Agreeing to be in darkness/Malchut of the upper, in joy, one becomes Keter of the lower.

Now it turns out that social, economic, and technological development has been detrimental to us, since it was based on our self-love, on the desire for pleasure. Therefore, it did not bring any relief to our life; it made life more complicated, turning it into an ongoing struggle.

Kabbalists, who are called “Israel,” build a spiritual union where the Creator is revealed, while the “Nations of the World” will unite in order to receive material fulfillment. But since they will receive it from us, it will reform their egoistic union into the altruistic one.

Obstacles in the revelation of the Creator are but the signs of our approaching Him. There’s no other way, since we’re His opposites. Each overcoming shortens the path. When the sensation of distance no longer impacts the movement, it enters bestowal, and the Creator is revealed.

The law of the soul is the unity of its parts connected in such a way that it is attained only from its breaking.

One seeking the Creator, bestowal, is lowered-to understand what to wish from Him, think of the goal. In ascent there’s no concern for spirituality, but a fall is a benefit. The Creator’s caring is in showing one that he has no strength and only He can help. The fall becomes a rise!

Always remember the goal of creation—to delight the created beings; if an evil inclination asks questions, work with them towards bestowal. Questions opposing the path arise not to lower it but to give room to effort to rise to the Creator. It means you are being brought closer!

When one feels exile in spiritual work, wants to escape, he must trust that the Creator is with him and gives a taste of exile so one rises to Him; hence He shows distance. With faith, one gains strengths not to run but accept the work in ascent and descent as movement to the Creator.

Experiencing a low state that you could not even imagine—understand that the Creator is now engaged in you, causing the longing, showing a spiritual form that has no taste for egoism, in order to push you to the adhesion with the Creator, so that you cannot remain in a low state.

He who makes effort feels the power of darkness; can’t overcome the ego. So the desire for help is born. Hence, seeing no progress, one must not abandon the work. The goal is to realize that you must reach the darkness, desire to bestow, and not the light that will come by itself!

Understand that one is in a low state not because he became worse, but to want to achieve bestowal; one reveals his true state, inherent, but hidden. With mercy, the Creator reveals one’s evil, so that he found the prayer, and this mercy of the Creator is in the revelation of evil!

#USA withdraws troops from #Syria. It weakens #Israel. But such will be the tendency: Israel will be weakened and increasingly pressured and isolated—until it realizes its obligation to create an internal unity of the people, in order to influence unification of all nations!

Personal egoism evolved and developed humanity. But it matured to build a single system out of itself. Yet, it has no glue to do so. Contrary to reason, it fights rather than unite to balance the world. While we direct our forces not to correct egoism, nature will show our failures.

Egoism will finish the world: contrary to reason, it makes us fight not unite—not against someone but to bring the world in balance. US economy and living standards are growing, 0% inflation, the world is crumbling around, Paris is burning, China is falling, but the Feds are fighting Trump.

Do not complain about the growing egoism that prevents you from entering the upper world, but trust that by engaging it, the Creator urges you to have a relationship with Him. The Creator delights when you ask to come closer to Him, to be similar to Him.

The Creator evokes thoughts and actions opposite to His loving governance—to draw the light on them if one wants to enter the upper world. Can’t overcome contradictions by the Creator’s greatness. He sends them so one brings upper light on them. There is no other way to reveal the Creator.
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Since the adoption of European Convention on Human Rights, it became clear that the migration issue is a religious, economic, and political issue. Europe has become wiser and today wants to withdraw from the global migration pact. Egoism explains to us that it won’t let us live together!

Instead of solving society’s and the world’s problems, we multiply them, since we don’t see the source.
Yet, it’s programmed in the development of our egoism—to force us to correct it, not its outcomes, which we are constantly engaged in.
Naturally, we can’t rid of them fast enough.

Turning global, the world turns to Jews with a claim—the Jews must assume their role in the development of the world that needs to know how to unite. This method is in the Jews’ hands and only in Kabbalah.
If it’s not learned, the world will face global wars and Jews will be exterminated!

Henry Ford: International Jewry is the main problem of the world.
Jews kept to themselves thanks to the fact that they obeyed the laws of nature, and violation of such led to disintegration of many nations.
This people is a symbol of ancient wisdom, the source of our spiritual wealth.
#jewish #jews

The growth rate of egoism and, accordingly, the emergence of problems is increasing. There’s no solution but to recognize that we must turn to the root of the problems —the egoism growing in man and in society. And we can work with it only by using the method proposed by Kabbalah.

We must realize that Kabbalah doesn’t expect us to know things or even understand the Creator, but to spread the goal of creation and its program—among the Jews, then among the nations of the world and do this not to reduce suffering in the world, but to fulfill the Creator’s desire

I must constantly awaken the friends’ hearts, and by doing so I engage the Creator to fill everyone with love. If I inspire the friends towards love for the Creator, He can fill their hearts with love. This is my duty to help the friends turn to the Creator and receive His love.

In the formation of my soul I must imagine that I am alone in the world and all I see is a reflection of my consciousness. Including my ten. I am surrounded by my qualities. When I reform them into bestowal and love, the whole world will become only a ten, Malchut of Infinity, HaVaYaH.

In our aspirations for the Creator we must always imagine the system HaVaYaH, nothing more. After all, only 4 stages of direct light emanate from the Creator—to the Malchut of Infinity, followed by TZA (Tzimtzum Aleph – the first restriction) of Malchut, and all other actions emanate from this Malchut, the creatures.

To love is to know how to provide another with what he is lacking, while he can fill my lack. This is an integral mechanism of all mankind.

Europeans are developing a critical attitude toward Israel as a state of the white power over religious and ethnic minorities, with the use of force to resolve a conflict. The media forms a negative attitude towards Jews, and the population shifts the acts of Israel to local Jews.

What’s left for the EU to do is to start common Brexit of the entire EU. Or, they will soon face war and discord. There’s another solution: to educate Europeans in the spirit of mutual tolerance and communication. But the EU government is incapable of making such a decision due to its narrow egoism.

December 15-16, 2018 we held the second International Virtual Kabbalah Conference.
Over 3,500 students at 180 Kabbalah study centers and thousands of men and women who connected individually, gathered around the world to unlock the power of unity at a new level.

“Israel became the guarantor of the correction of the whole world by the power of the Torah. Everything depends on the people of Israel: when they correct themselves, all creatures follow them.” (Book Sefat Emet (Language of Truth), Shemot, Yithro)

“In this generation nations desire #Israel’s destruction. As per Talmud “All sufferings come into the world only for Israel” & Tikkunei HaZohar. ” After all, their actions cause poverty, humiliation, murder, and robbery all over the world.”
(Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Book of Zohar)
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Israelis and Israel are no longer seen as victims of the past—the pogroms, the Holocaust. It is distant history. Instead of the Jewish victim—the image of an Israeli soldier with a machine gun. Natural hate doesn’t require justification. It can be corrected only thru Jewish unity.

Thru pain the world will understand that the correction method must be as described and implemented according to the teaching of Kabbalah. The world knows its salvation is unification. It’s implemented in a ten and develops in practice according to the works and advice of Kabbalists.

There’s no time in spirituality, but change of states. So, “Israel” is one who aspires for similarity to the Creator. One may be in a state of “Israel” and in a state of “Nations of the World,” according to one’s yearning, if one’s life is arranged towards the Creator.
Otherwise his state is an animal.

The EU no longer has a leader to lead it, which gives place to populist crises. It’s the end of #EU I have been describing for 20 years. But it’s not late to introduce explanatory and educational work among the EU population. This will make a soft landing and radically change the EU’s course.

Although all 27 #EU states voted against the UK’s exit, this only speaks of their hatred towards the one who demonstrates their loss. The EU has not worked on unity. The result is a collective #Brexit . Uprisings and crises will reveal the absence of a united #Europe.

The #EU idea was good, but it turned out not one of the leaders of selfish states has any idea how to continue to lead the community. After all, unification can be egoistic—against external egoism, an enemy, or altruistic—against the ego. But how does one go against oneself?

Israel can’t take a step towards the Creator without pulling others along. First attract and attach others and ask the Creator to advance you together. Israel is the channel of the Creator’s force into this world. Alone it will achieve nothing, unless it pulls the whole world along.

Israel isn’t external attributes but the heart’s desire for the meaning of life.
Israel is who feels responsible for correcting the world, aware that he’s part of the common soul, and if the Creator gave him an awakening, he’s obliged to pull the rest of his soul w/him, all mankind.

It’s clear that English politicians degraded with the EU, that time equally works on everyone. #Egoism, as the basis of what is happening, leads everyone into #crisis. Information technology and the media have been hiding this, but isn’t it time #England took an example from Trump?

The West is degrading.
#Migration Agreement: Unlimited entry for everyone, with encouragement; criticism prohibited.
#Climate Agreement: The West will reduce #CO2 emissions and pay $100B/year to 3rd world countries.
#Egoism, seeing no further paths of development, consumes itself.

After a job done well, new ego-layer emerges. We should take it with joy and gratitude, and try to overcome. The unity achieved during the congress allows us to reveal a new layer of egoism in order to rise above it and advance towards the goal. This is the dynamics of the recovery!

There’s always a fall, rollback after unification. But there’s no return! It’s an emergence of a new egoistic will: “There’s no descent but only ascent in holiness.” We’re always progressing in the left and right lines, by turns. We must tie them together—remember the new attack.

Instead of falling into despair, losing strength and hope, you need to use reasoning to understand that this is the Creator playing with us, in order to advance us to truly spiritual work. So, instead of losing heart, we should rejoice that we are being raised to a new level!

Self-love is constantly evolving. Hence, there is no fall but a rise in the left line. Ego is growing, so we feel dissatisfied, confused, tired. But that’s because you’ve done work in unification, which resulted in another layer of the collective, broken egoism being exposed.

Responsibility for the world’s correction is on everyone yearning to merge with the Creator, and on the group. The Creator awakens a person to bring the whole world to Him. The correction begins when a group of “Israel” disseminates the method of collective correction in the world.

Created desire—“Nations of the World,” Malchut of the world of infinity. It feels being opposite to the Creator as shame, makes restriction and gets intention to bestow/the screen and Ohr Hozer. Result—decision to receive in order to bestow—the head/Isra-el-plan to reach the Creator.

#UN World Pact for #Migration undermines sovereignty of EU states. Without prior education how to unite, nations will destroy each other. #EU doesn’t need migrants; there are 17M unemployed in the EU. Reduce production to reasonable levels—and even Europeans will be too many.
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Spiritual work Avodat Hashem has no analogues in our world = the Work of the Creator, since it is performed by Him, but only at our request, in readiness to change our nature from selfishness to love of others. The path to “Love others” lies through the disclosure of hatred, ego.

Building a good connection between people over the egoistic one is а person’s life task, whether it’s forced or voluntary, up to “Love others as yourself,” Nature’s basic law. The revelation of love over hate is called the revelation of the Creator: BORE = BO/come and RE/reveal.

Nothing in the world is by chance; it’s all so that Kabbalists expose the method of the world’s correction. It’s done by way of pressure on the world, which pressures the Jews and Israel. But it must be deliberate, to force the Jews to realize their obligation to correct the world.

The Creator is an integral system in which the main law is in effect—love your neighbor as yourself. So, prayer should be for Him to teach us, help us all to acquire the quality of bestowal and love, to master the law of love for one’s neighbor as for oneself.

The creator is a system. To enter it, you need a key. The key is a prayer. The prayer must be correct for the key to go to the lock and open the door.
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I check myself—is my prayer complete? I must try to do my best in helping the group to achieve the goal. And when I feel this burden slipping off me, that I am no longer able to keep carrying it, I cry out to the Creator for help—and He helps me, grants the property of bestowal.

Mass riots will move from France thru the EU because egoists can’t be close in such tight dependency. First, they need to be taught how to be close to each other and then brought together to that extent. They should accept the migrants only in the degree of readiness to live together

The Creator created a desire/Soul and planted egoism in it. Egoism split the Soul into repelling parts that must be united by love over hatred. Rejection increases love in the degree of difference between man and the Creator. In this difference of love over hate man finds the Creator
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The Torah says, “The nation of Israel went into exile to unite the souls of the nations of the world.” In our time, with the revelation of Kabbalah, the method of correction, we have been given an opportunity to accelerate and soften the world’s movement toward the goal of creation… #unity

None of the #alliances between countries can be realized, and the nations will blame #Israel for that. Until the Jews unite into a nation, the nations won’t be able to unite. The method of the Jews’ unity lies in Kabbalah.
From them, the force of #unity (the Creator) will be revealed in the nations (light onto the nations). #international #trade

The group that Abraham united from the nations of Babylon by the method of unity, #Kabbalah, must unite and teach all the nations of the world to do the same. The purpose of human #evolution is to reveal unity—Creator.
The nation of #Israel—Isra-El, from Yashar-El, one aiming at the Upper One, unity.

For now the Jews aren’t a nation, but a group of different nations of the world.
If it attains unity, it will become an example of unity for all the nations of the world. The force of their unity will compel the nations of the world to unite.
Otherwise the world will not attain #peace. Therein lies the hidden meaning of #Antisemitism.

The nation of Israel must show the nations of the world an example of unity and by that bring the world to correction. Until it implements unity within itself, the nations of the world will compel it to unite by hatred. #Antisemitism will rise or fall depending on Israel’s unity.
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When the Jewish nation converges and unites, the world converges and unites around them toward goodness. When the Jewish nation hates itself, others hate it as well.

I wish American Jews quick awakening, awareness of their mission, the opportunity to correct themselves …
…. and through them—the whole world. #antisemitism #tikkun

The French people hate #Macron?
No! They hate their situation:
9.1% unemployment rate, 14.2% below the poverty threshold, violent attacks and drug-trafficking in the open. But nothing will change this trend.
The solution: institute across-the-board, mandatory education with wages
just as for employment. #ParisRiots

#Hanukkah isn’t construction, gathering sparks from the ruins of broken desires.
We gathered the sparks—desires to bestow, Bina, faith.
Then we start building the Temple in desires to receive—until Purim. The Temple was built out of the matter of creation …
… every person’s egoism, connected to others by love, light.

Pharaoh is inside every person and he proclaims, “I won’t let you unite with others.” This war over ascent above the egoism that divides us is the War of the Maccabees. It takes place on every degree of egoism in a person. #Hanukkah2018

We are able to make out, find out and reveal qualities of the Creator’s light only inasmuch as we attain opposite qualities of darkness.
This is why we must go through all the states of darkness, opposite to the light. Experience enables us, while going through darkness …
… to anticipate the forthcoming revelation of light. #spirituality

All the “bad” states throughout the day come to us only to give us the chance to see the light on their background. Light is the quality of bestowal, a good attitude to the friend for the sake of the common goal and not for my own benefit.

Darkness to me is the background that offsets the light, unity, the Creator.

A stop is necessary since it’s impossible to smoothly go from one war to another. At first the war was about not receiving. Once we attained rejection of reception on all degrees of desire, Malchut, meaning the degree of Bina, we have to stop before starting the new work.

#Hanukkah (“they stopped here” – “Hanu-Koh”) is a break between two wars. Hanukkah is preceded by the first war for bestowing desires, GE, while the second war after Hanukkah, the break—is for receiving desires, AHP.
These are different wars, so there has to be a break in-between.

The force of unity must rule over the forces of division.
It is thanks to the division that we increase the force of unity, overcoming the forces of rejection and raising unity above them.
Good grows only out of evil. Hence the Creator created evil and gave light for its correction.

If I annul myself to the group, I reveal that they aren’t friends, but spiritual qualities that only seemed to me as people having various problems and flaws. In reality, they are nine angels sent to help me, lifting me up on their wings.

The Creator brought me to the group and said: “Choose it, this is your good fate.” And I must annul to them—then I’ll be able to rise up with them. It’s the same at every level, degree—I must annul to the ten, which I see as being worse and worse…

A Kabbalistic group, the ten, works like an elevator.
If one invests in it as much as he can, the elevator starts lifting him to the next floor or spiritual degree. Thus, each time, a person rises via the group by drawing the upper light. Me—the group—light (the Creator).
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We are in the midst of the holiday of #Hanukkah
Hanukkah (Hanu-Koh) is a stop on the path.
We need to stop and think about where we are going…

It is my wish for you to stop for this break and think: What train would I like to get on, where, to what goal, will it take me as it toots…?
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