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The Destiny Of The Daughters Of Zelophehad

laitman_746_03Torah, “Numbers,” 36:01 – 36.03: The paternal heads of the family of the sons of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of the sons of Joseph approached and spoke before Moses and before the Chieftains, the paternal heads of the children of Israel. They said, “The Lord commanded my master to give the Land as an inheritance through lot to the children of Israel, and our master was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

Now, if they marry a member of another tribe of the children of Israel, their inheritance will be diminished from the inheritance of our father, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and thus, it will be diminished from the lot of our inheritance.

Girls were forbidden to marry outside of their tribe. However, if any of them was unable to create a family within her tribe, she was allowed to become a wife of a man from another tribe, but only for specific reasons and within some boundaries. Then her tribe’s part of their inheritance, the dowry, was transferred to the other tribe along with her.

And it was gone forever and was never returned because she had a family, children, and a household there. In other words, it was so much diminished from one tribe and transferred to another that neither the death of the high priest or the fiftieth year was not allowed to return anything back.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/12/15

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Dr. Michael LaitmanTorah, “Numbers,” 35:33: And you shall not corrupt the land in which you live, for the blood corrupts the land, and the blood which is shed in the land cannot be atoned for except through the blood of the one who shed it.

The land is the connection between us through which water flows, the Light of Hassadim. We necessarily have to interact so that between us only good attitudes to each other will flow.

Torah, “Numbers,” 35:34: And you shall not defile the land where you reside, in which I dwell, for I am the Lord Who dwells among the children of Israel.

In the network of connections between souls is the Creator. We need to build the network of such a power that we begin to feel Him. The power with which we begin to feel the Creator is called a spiritual degree. In total there are 125 degrees in the increasing formation of the connection between us, and in this the feeling of the Creator increases.

It turns out that we are called the children of Israel only if we build this network. Otherwise, we are nobody. For if we exist separately, we are animals and even worse because animals instinctively are correctly connected with each other and we are not.
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laitman_264_01Torah, “Numbers,” 35:33 – 35:34: And you shall not corrupt the land in which you live, for the blood corrupts the land, and the blood which is shed in the land cannot be atoned for except through the blood of the one who shed it. And you shall not defile the land where you reside, in which I dwell, for I am the Lord Who dwells among the children of Israel.

Blood is the Light of Hochma. Water is the Light of Hassadim. It is impossible to reach the harmonious society and the state of connection between parts of the common soul if we do not interact with each other correctly egoistically. Our egoistic parts have to be appropriately connected to each other.

It turns out that while remaining an egoist, each one establishes altruistic connections with others, like extending wires of altruism between themselves. I, from my egoism, head altruistically to you, and you, from your egoism, in the same way to me, but inside, each of us remains in his desire! We override this desire and work only above it, building bridges above egoism.

The most important thing is to make a restriction on myself and a screen and the correct attitude to others. Then we, in practice, place at the head of our actions all the connections crisscrossing between us, not ourselves.

This huge, multi-layer, multi-vector web of connections is called the “common soul”—one for all! Each one of us individually is nothing, but by participating in the operation of the universal “web,” it is its creator.
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Turn And Journey And Come To The Mountain Of The Amorites

Turn And Journey The Torah, “Devarim,” 1:06-1:07: The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and journey, and come to the mountain of the Amorites…

Turn and journey—go and correct yourself internally.

Come to the mountain of the Amorites—to a desert place that doesn’t have water and food, where you will exhaust yourself spiritually, and only unity will give you the ability to feed on the upper force, called MAN.

You have dwelt long enough at this mountain—your egoism is already realized in receiving Torah, the upper energy. And now start to apply the Light that is in you, and with its help correct your egoism.

Mountain—from the word Irurim (doubts, disturbances). Every next mountain or desert in which you wander for 40 years is the period when you gradually reveal within yourself new egoistic voids, contradictions, and doubts and correct them.
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At The Level Of Thought

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Torah, “Devarim,” 1:03: It came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had commanded him regarding them.

Question: How can the entire Israel hear Moses?

Answer: If billions of people unite between themselves and a shared property of mutuality emerges within them, they feel each other as if they are in one physical location, that is, they are so merged that there is no distance, no transitions between them. In this case it is possible to address all seven billion people of the world population.

What does it meant “to address”? You merge with them and all that is in you is transfused into them at the level of thought.

Question: Even without words?

Answer: Of course! We are talking about internal spiritual work and not about physical actions or attributes of our world.
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The Rigid Structure Of The Twelve Tribes

Dr. Michael LaitmanThe Torah, “Numbers,” 36:5 – 36:7: Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, “The tribe of Joseph’s descendants speak justly. This is the word that the Lord has commanded regarding Zelophehad’s daughters. Let them marry whomever they please, but they shall marry only to the family of their father’s tribe. Thus, the inheritance of the children of Israel will not be transferred from tribe to tribe, for each person from the children of Israel will remain attached to the inheritance of his father’s tribe.”

Each tribe symbolizes twelve main organs of a single organism. Is it possible to tear off a part of the liver and attach it to the spleen, or a part of the spleen and attach it to the lungs? Therefore intermixing between the tribes was practically forbidden.

This is a rigid system, where everyone has his own particular soul and he needs to exist exactly inside this organ. Neither a woman nor a man could join another tribe. However, after the destruction of the Temple, when the people of Israel fell off the spiritual degree, restrictions on the marriages between tribes were cancelled.

The Torah, “Numbers,” 36:8 – 36:9: Every daughter from the tribes of the children of Israel who inherits property, shall marry a member of her father’s tribe, so each one of the children of Israel shall inherit the property of his forefathers. And no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for each person of the tribes of the children of Israel shall remain attached to his own inheritance.”

Amongst religious people to this day exists a very clear definition of who belongs to which tribe. Therefore they try to marry within their tribes.

Before, if a woman from one tribe married a man from another tribe, the land inherited by her was transferred there.

“Woman” symbolizes egoism that moves from one to another, meaning that her “inheritance,” an egoistic desire, is transferred together with her.
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Commutation Between Parts Of The Common Soul

Laitman_151The Torah, “Numbers,” 36:10 – 36:13: As the Lord had commanded Moses, so did Zelophehad’s daughters do. Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah married their cousins. They married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained with the tribe of their father’s family. These are the commandments and the ordinances that the Lord commanded the children of Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan at Jericho.

The law that forbids blending is related to the time, place, and tribe. It conveys multilayered combination of all levels of nature: still, vegetative, animate, and human. All of them need to connect together correctly.

Mutual support existed between the tribes but there was no intrudion of one tribe to another. Same as one organ can’t invade another in the human body.

Twelve tribes is an integral scheme. The world is also divided into the same twelve tribes, twelve organs. We can add to it another eight billion people and all of them will fit into this scheme.

Question: Will the tribes be abolished when the world becomes unified?

Answer: I don’t think they will be abolished. Perfection is achieved only due the fact that there is separation and combination. When it becomes completely harmonious, the world will be completely corrected. A plus and a minus will remain in it, opposite properties, but they will complement and always highlight and distinguish each other.

In the Torah there is a very clearly description of all possible laws of commutation between parts of the common soul that is built through the process of ascending forty degrees of so-called forty year journey in the desert, when the degree of Bina, joint correct interaction, is reached, but so far only toward the property of bestowal.

It means that I don’t harm you and you don’t harm me. We restrict our egoism and learn to rise above it, to coexist without touching each other: yours is yours, and mine is mine. And the next degree is really correct connection of all the parts of the soul, when they collide by their inner egoistic desires that grow and create between them some kind of formations above egoism.

And then, before entering the land of Israel, they reach absolutely complete state of Bina and can start an ascent to the level of Hochma. This is a very high degree.
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One’s Own Trial

Laitman_514_02Torah “Numbers,” 30:35: Whoever [namely the blood avenger] kills a person, based on the testimony of witnesses, he shall slay the murderer. A single witness may not testify against a person so that he should die.

The Torah is the basis even for the present laws. The first purchase and sale contracts come from Abraham, who purchased the land for the Mearat a-Machpelah cave for his tomb. Under the contract with Hebron, he paid 400 shekels of silver for it.

Question: What does it mean, “based on the testimony of witnesses, he shall slay the murderer”?

Answer: Evidence in court can be based on the statements from at least two witnesses, unrelated to the suspect.

Therefore, each one of them was interrogated separately, confused on purpose, and their statements were compared in order to precisely determine that both witnesses were not connected to each other in any way and that there was no relationship, mutual interest, or agreement between them. Only after this was it possible to accept their statements.

A witness is one who saw with his own eyes what happened, not just heard something.

In spirituality “to see the killer” means to reach the level of Hochma, that is the level of complete awareness of what is happening inside me.

When I see how the egoism in me destroys the good inclination that would wish to lead me forward and doesn’t allow me to do a good action, then I assess it sanely. After all, only by rising to the level of Hochma can I turn against egoism.

If, except from the present state, I have one more state, one more witness (that is, I saw something, discovered something inside me) then, for the first time, it is not enough for me. If for the second time I will see the same phenomenon and will grasp it in my mind, that’s it, it is enough in order to eradicate it in me.

Therefore I have to see the killer at least twice, twice to rise to the level of Hochma.

Only then will I have strength and ability to conduct a fair trial, make the right conclusion and eradicate this phenomenon in me.

“To rise to the level of Hochma,” means to realize the source of what is happening and manage to rise above it, manage to eradicate this state in myself to such an extent that I already would not have to correct it on this degree.

I receive from the above such a serious force of judgment (judgment as well is the level of Hochma) that from this level, from this moment on, I am already above all the disturbances. Therefore it is considered that I kill them, eradicate them inside me, and correct them.

But in any case, everything dispenses without imprisonment and jails; flight is made to the city of refuge, or the correction happens on the spot.
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Dr. Michael LaitmanTorah, “Numbers,” 35:26 – 35:27: But if the murderer goes beyond the border of the city of refuge to which he had fled, and the blood avenger finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the blood avenger slays the murderer, he has no blood.

This tells us how a man can protect himself from his internal harmful forces. He has to hide in the correct relationships between people and not leave them in any case.

And if he drifts out of the social framework that supports him in the mutual guarantee, then he loses connection with it and goes beyond the border of so-called city.

Then he is in danger, his egoism starts killing him. And this is the blood avenger that constantly follows him. That is why he must not run away from the city where he can protect himself.

In other words, a man represents a whole universe. There are desires in him that he can correct and then he lives freely everywhere. But in addition, there are desires that he basically corrects, but not completely.

Parts of them are those that are not exactly prepared for correction and he allegedly accidentally kills them. In this case, man should protect himself. This is what type of connection with the environment exists that is called the “city of refuge.”

This is a very complicated system. In principle, the Torah speaks only about how we need to be interconnected with each other.

Consequently, the division of the people of Israel into 12 tribes, by tens, hundreds, and thousands in the assembly of troops, to the cities of refuge, the land of Israel itself divided into two parts, beyond Jordan and before Jordan, the Menashe tribe, half of which is beyond the Jordan and half inside the land of Israel. These are very interesting divisions.

Moreover, it is ordered in advance where each one will live.

Connection between tribes is forbidden. It seems that everything should be the other way around, everything together! No, you are in this tribe, so you can take a wife only from this tribe, live only in this area, you don’t have a right to go anywhere, or to build a house on the territory of another tribe.

On one hand, everything is enclosed by universal love, universal mutual connection, because at the entrance to the land of Israel the state of mutual love is achieved. Can’t we intermingle in this state?! No, each one has to keep his own lot and live under his own roof, under his own palm, etc.

After all, how does our body function? It exists precisely because it has completely different organs in it that work in absolutely different modes. The heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, everything works at different levels. Each of them has their own internal laws.

All the organs secrete various substances, partially incompatible with each other, and only their correct joint work is the key to a healthy living body. One doesn’t interfere in the vital activity of the other, but works strictly according to the certain pattern of connection with all the others.

And the Torah gives this rigid scheme according to which you have to, on one hand, be distanced from others and, on the other hand, be in connection with them. The correctly assembled system functions only on the confrontation between two opposite forces and on their connection above the opposition.
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laitman_207The Torah, “Numbers,” 35:28 – 35:29: For he shall remain in his city of refuge until the High Priest dies, and only after the High Priest has died, may the murderer return to the land which is his possession. These shall be for you a statute of justice for all your generations, in all your dwelling places.

The death of the High Priest is a change of the whole spiritual degree (Partzuf).

The High Priest symbolizes Keter—the head of the Partzuf. Therefore, when the head is changed, the control of everything changes: the people, the country, etc. Everything returns back to square one, a change of the degree eliminates the past and a new degree starts as if from zero.

Question: Will man have to run away to cities of refugees on the next degree again?

Answer: Of course, because this is necessary! What the Torah indicates certainly has to happen because it is included in the global system of egoism. It is impossible to correct our nature if there were no murderers, thieves, prostitution, quarrels, and other problems.

Egoism has to fully manifest itself! It is impossible without this. After all, the world begins from the night: “And there was evening, and there was morning, one day.”
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