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We Won’t Need Many Words

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: The convention “A Flame in the Desert” seems to be closing the circle that the first convention in the desert started about a year ago. We feel that the previous phase is ending and there are new opportunities before us for the emotional connection among us. What will our global group look like after its spiritual birth when we succeed in attaining connection?

Answer: I don’t think that our external form will change that much, and the inner connection cannot be described in words. There will be such a connection among us that you will constantly feel as if your child is away from you, the physical distance separates you, but you know and feel him so well that his image has become a part of you and is living in you; this is how we will all feel one another.

We won’t need to talk much since we will understand each other’s feelings internally by adhesion. There will be few words and the clarifications will be short and simpler. It is as if we are eating one salad, and I say that there isn’t enough salt and you already understand that when I say half of a word. After all, you are tasting the same dish, and feel the same reality.

We won’t need endless words and powerful media in order to create the connection between us like we do today when we don’t feel connected. We will correspond, but in a very short and to the point manner since we will understand what each one feels anyway. We will become “one man in one heart.”
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/13, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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The Ideal Women’s Unity

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What is women’s unity? What is its ideal form?

Answer: The ideal form of women’s unity is that you will feel not yourself but everyone as one unified woman, a single image, a single desire. This desire will be above your body and your individual calculations, above various misunderstandings and mutual rejection.

When for the sake of the goal you are able to rise above yourself and create the image of a unified woman, it will be ideal because it will be based on disregard for egoism.

Begin to rise a bit above your current egoism, above all sorts of minor problems, petty earthly nonsense, and even if it’s not yet an ideal woman, you will get an ideal little girl.

Then, egoism will grow, women’s troublesome problems will emerge, and you will rise above them, becoming aware that all this is given to you on purpose to create the image of a more mature ideal woman. Do not think that it will be easy. The entire work is based on this: to unite above all possible rejections.
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From the Virtual Lesson 1/6/13

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The Women’s Convention: Waiting For Spiritual Breakthrough

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What role do we play at the women’s convention: Bina or Malchut, preparing a place where the men can bring their unity or requiring from them the “catch” for realization?

Answer: Through your unity at this convention you prepare a very serious desire, which you should then give to the men in the few days left before their convention.

We are waiting three days before the men’s convention, so you could transfer the men your charge, your spirit, so that they come to the congress in a way I have never seen them before.

They should be full of responsibility, intensity, and determination to do everything so that, having taken your desires, your intentions, and your strength, they are able to unite with each other.

A woman pushes a man on explorations and to achievements. Make it so that I feel in the men who come to our convention and who are around the world that they have received this charge from you, and that you push them, lead them forward, and support them; You stand behind them, guide them, and do not let go. They must feel that!

You need to accumulate so much power in yourself that it would make men rise above themselves and connect with your desire, general Hissaron. And then at the men’s convention, not the next one, but at this men’s convention, the unification of the united women’s desire takes place with the help of men’s unity.

Question: How will the men understand and feel this, by our burning eyes …?

Answer: You have to tell them about this, guide them in every way, just as you do at home. Sometimes you can do it even without words, which works even more because a woman’s silence is perceived by men much more effectively. So, try it. Perhaps, a couple words could be enough, but the man should feel that you really expect spiritual breakthrough from him.
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From the Virtual Lesson 1/6/13

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The Divided Reflection Of Unity

Dr. Michael LaitmanBaal HaSulam, “600,000 Souls”: It is said that there are 600,000 souls, and each soul divides into several sparks. We must understand how it is possible for the spiritual to divide, since initially, only one soul was created, the soul of Adam HaRishon.

The spiritual world is like a holographic picture in which each part includes the whole picture, but in a minimized form. It is like looking at someone from a distance or close up—this is the difference between the part and the whole.

This means that although the general soul seems to be divided into many souls, into many people, it is one and exists in everyone but in different “dimensions.”

The question is why do the different dimensions create such different perceptions for different people.

In fact you and I are one and the same. We are simply looking at one soul from different distances. The spiritual picture is not really divided; it only seems closer or further away to us.

If, for example, I see the world of Assiya, I actually see the world of Ein Sof (Infinity), but in the dimensions of the world of Assiya. The difference is only to what extent I can discern the world of Ein Sof in my vessels, in my current desires.

Accordingly, if there are only seven billion people living in the world, it is because this is how the general soul is divided in our eyes today. In each of them there is a spark of that soul, but in itself it is one. The sparks are hidden until the time comes. They are immersed in our ego and are more like black points. They are the posterior of the soul, its embryo that is “dressed” in the desire to receive that wakes up one day.

Today about a million people in the world are connected to this awakening in one way or another. In the previous generations sometimes just a few came together. This is the structure of reality and that’s the way it should be. Everyone returns to the general circle according to the root of his individual soul until we unite and erase all the differences between us.

After all, in a whole body all the cells are equally important—just like an indivisible holographic structure. Every part is equal to the whole, since without it the whole will disappear.

But on the way to the end of correction everything is built in the form of a pyramid; everyone follows the “shepherd”; this is the order of the correction of the souls. That’s also the way it was with the Jewish people when they were on the spiritual levels: There was a king, there was the great priest, there was the Sanhedrin…

Today it is a bit different: Our bestowal flows into the general network of connections that is spread in one soul and hastens the development of the world, without its knowing for the time being. Later, as new troubles and problems come along, when the confusion grows, people will look for and understand that it isn’t in the power of religion nor in the power of politics to help them.

Humanity will face the threat of a general global annihilation and will cry out for help. Then people will hear the message of Kabbalists. But these will be very difficult situations and we have to be ready for them. After all, we can soften these moments, so that they will appear for only a moment, like the parting of the Red Sea, and will be solved immediately.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/13, “600,000 Souls”

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Break The Shell Of Separation

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Do women have to meet physically during their preparation for the Congress?

Answer: I don’t think it is so significant, although, women should stay in touch with each other.

I strongly advise them to hold workshops about the unity among women. Have them sit in a circle of 5-10 people (as we usually do) and let them discuss questions like, “How can we unite? What do we do for that? What are the ways of rising above our egoism and our usual calculations? Can we fight our desire to be distanced from others and just be within ourselves, and so on?” Can we in fact break the shell that exists in each of us, and unite with each other?

It is an extremely complicated psychological problem. In fact, it is a spiritual dilemma.

Men also face the same problem; however, in their case it is a little simpler, since men are able to hug each other with less effort and for them it is much easier to unite. Even in this material world men have lots of activities that bring them closer together, like going to restaurants, etc. They don’t mind spending time together at all. For women, it is considerably harder. We have to think about this before the congress.
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From the Virtual Lesson 1/6/13

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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: How can we connect what we study in TES about Malchut that raises MAN to Zeir Anpin, the prayer from which the spiritual birth begins, to the women’s convention?

Answer: True, it all begins from the female deficiency; this is the real deficiency, the deficiency of Malchut. Zeir Anpin symbolizes the male and Malchut, Nukva, symbolizes the woman.

We are expecting a strong general desire to be accumulated and gathered in the women in this connection above all the differences and the individualism. We hope that the women will help one another to connect and will be able to raise their general deficiency so high that it will be felt in the spiritual system.

If it is felt and revealed in the general system, then we men will also feel it. I asked the women to write a letter with a request, with a demand, with an appeal from the women’s convention to the men’s convention but, in fact, in the spiritual world; it doesn’t really matter whether this request is expressed in writing; the main thing is that it will be incorporated in the system of the general desire of creation, of the general reality.

A letter, however, can hasten this bestowal and bring it together, since it does obligate us to respond; let’s hope that we will receive a very strong push from the women’s convention, a stimulation, a demand to draw the Light that Reforms.

If we try to attain the Light according to the women’s request, we will have a form that is closer to bestowal compared to the form we could create on our own. Women can even ask egoistically for themselves for help for them to connect and attain spirituality. But when this desire is aimed at bestowal and connection, at least a little, it is connected to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and incorporated in a man; he already accepts it as a spiritual desire, since it is already a foreign demand. So by fulfilling this demand we create a much stronger spiritual act than if we tried to create it by ourselves, for ourselves.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/9/13, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Actions On The Homefront Prepare The Weapon For The Attack In The Desert

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: The Creator is providing the perfect conditions lately for us to express our good attitude towards Him in the two coming conventions: the women’s convention One Global Woman and the men’s convention A Flame in the Desert. How should we prepare in order to fulfill the opportunity we were given successfully?

Answer: It is very important to respect the women’s convention and not look down at it, arrogantly. This is because it is a spiritual action and not a corporeal one. It is a very meaningful action in spirituality, which is no less important than the men’s convention. I see them as totally equal and I really hope that the general deficiency that the women will attain and stabilize in this convention will influence us and strongly operate on us, the men. We will reach the convention in the desert ready and equipped with this great, good, and correct deficiency with yearning for connection, and we will be able to reveal and put together the first part of the corrected soul from all these parts.

Every person has his weak and strong points. But spirituality is a perfect system, and so everyone making a revelation fills all the others. We fill one another mutually. I hope that this will really be realized. If we take serious steps towards connection, we will succeed.

The first part of the corrected soul is the goal of the two coming conventions in order to reach the revelation of the Creator to the created being, in order to bring Him contentment, to reveal the first level of the 125 spiritual levels.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/13, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Dr. Michael LaitmanI see the coming conventions: “One Global Woman” and “A Flame in the Desert” as one convention and I do not differentiate between them. After all, the women’s convention is the preparation without which the men’s convention cannot succeed.

I am coming there in order to organize the desire, the mutual yearning, the female pressure. One woman should help the other to build this enormous desire for the spiritual birth and pass it on to the men for the convention in the desert. Every man should relate to the woman’s convention as essential women’s work thanks to which our home and our family life exist.

We have to help in every way we can to create the conditions for the women’s convention to succeed and turn into a real blow and breakthrough to unity. I warn the global men’s group that if anyone treats this obligation disrespectfully, it will cause great harm.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/13, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot

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Conventions: A New Degree

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: At what new degree should we aim before the conventions?

Answer: Our goal is to exit from ourselves, above ourselves.

By getting closer together, we begin to feel how much this pushes us away, how we withdraw into ourselves and cannot let ourselves be close to make a step forward. The state of revealed rejection, the inability to come closer is the real egoism.

Egoism is not the feeling that we experience in daily life: at home, at work, in communication with people. That is small animal egoism unrelated to the ego we must correct.

We need to correct precisely that egoism that appears during our attempts to become close to each other. Our job is to act against it.

Moreover, in each successive action, egoism pushes us away more and more, and this certain amount of pressure on it and the rejection lead a person to a state of despair. And if a person does not abandon the attempts to continue to act against it, taking part in all the events, he starts to realize that help can come only from Above, only if a special force comes because he is not able to do this himself.

Of course, it is impossible to say in advance, “I am not able to do anything, let someone help me.” To do this, in fact, you need to reach a state of despair. But this only happens when you have put every effort, filled the so-called measure seah (“seah” is an ancient unit of measure) and still have reached nothing. Suppose, you have filled the entire “bag” or “glass” with your efforts, and then at the very top, at the last step you feel: “That’s all! Only from Above can I get help, only that will help me.” It is the moment when a person has an opportunity to ask, and he gets help.

Can you imagine how much effort we need to make? But if we do this together, in mutual aspiration, everything happens very quickly, and if done separately, then it can take not only years but incarnations.

That is why, using our events to unite, we still need to strive and prepare ourselves to break the shell of egoism, to go beyond it, and to connect with the points in the heart. Then we will achieve the same thing that I hope the men reach at their convention. And then we will be uniting.
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From the Virtual Lesson 1/6/13

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The Women’s Convention: Rising Above The Imaginary Show

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: What should be the intention of the women during the convention?

Answer: First of all, during the time of the convention, we will direct our thoughts. For this we must hold the correct preparation workshops and discussions, which are devoted to our connection and unity.

All of the convention is directed towards this, in order to be a general, complete “one,” leaving below all the desires and thoughts, our daily egoistic intentions, everything that concerns this world. Each one needs to take from within her heart her point and connect it with the others. Imagine that in front of you there is a basket or plate, and we throw all of our points in the heart there and connect them. Then within them, in their connection, we will feel the upper world.

This needs to be the intention, to rise above ourselves, to forget everything that is happening at home, all the problems, all the daily circumstances of this world, to understand that it happens in order for us to rise above all of it.

The entire world exists so that we will understand that we need to transfer ourselves to the side of the Creator. Outside of ourselves, we discover the real world. Then it will be clear that this world was made like an intention aimed at me, like a special theatrical performance where I need to be until I understand that all of this is only a show, that it is like a dream from which I need to awaken and begin to develop outside of. There I will find my real self, in a completely different state, in an eternal and complete state. It is to this state that we must enter.

And our world doesn’t get lost; it will always continue with its theatrical show, but I will already understand the reason why each time I am given a new action. And each time I will rise above this action, higher and higher, in a denser and denser manner with the other things, until I finish all the work in this world, until the general unity above it is in complete connection. And that will be our Gmar Tikkun (the final correction)—one, united spiritual woman.
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From the Virtual Lesson 1/6/13

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