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It Is In Our Power To Awaken The Dawn

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: The connection between the women in the convention allowed us to see how great our men are and that they are ready to receive the Light in the desert. How can we hold on to this image inside us?

Answer: It is a wonder, but thanks to the fact that the women connected, they felt how special the work that the men do is. Before they didn’t feel that, this is called “From Your actions we shall know You,” by performing the same action, the women understand the men’s state. Now the women understand how the men connect, hug one another, and how they attain connection by collective actions.

Before the women didn’t feel that, since they were not together, they were not one vessel, one desire; they didn’t feel any advantage in that or any attraction or inclination to connect. But now they begin to feel this state. It is an example for all of us that we need “to do and to hear”; that’s how it works.

Thus the women could see how great the men are. Even if this image disappears right away, we shouldn’t be afraid of a descent, but rather accept it as an ascent. When the “hardening of the heart” comes, we will overcome it as fast as we can. The more ascents and descents there are, the more stubbornly we will hold on to one another, thanks to the mutual support.

We shouldn’t be scared; on the contrary, we should be happy: Let the descents come; we will accept them as ascents! We should only hold on to one another and reach the finish line quickly. However, those who stop and don’t want to descend get stuck in one place. We shouldn’t be afraid of the unpleasant feelings, but rather rise above these feelings.

Are we that dependent on our feelings? If the next day everything that happened during the convention disappears, this is the place to work, to try and keep yourself in this state, as if we haven’t left the convention hall.

The “hardening of the heart” that we feel now is given to us so that we will evoke this importance of the goal inside us by ourselves. But can I do that, of course not! This is why we were given a group, an environment that we have already built. According to the power of the environment that has already been built, I am now given a descent. A descent is a sign that I have to connect to the group even more strongly.

How can I connect if the connection has ended and this special opportunity is over? We have to try to keep the connection as hard as we can, even together with some other people, two or three other women by whom I can be impressed is enough. Indeed, if a person connects with someone outside himself, it doesn’t matter how many people there are: a million, a billion or just one. The main thing is that it is someone else, someone on the outside. So the main thing for me is to find a connection as quickly as possible and not to lose it.

A descent is a state in which I am detached from the environment; otherwise, it isn’t a descent, but simply an egoistic bad mood that has nothing to do with spirituality. A spiritual descent is only when one is detached and drawn away from the right environment.

If we understand that, we begin to see that all the ascents and descents are only with regard to the environment. A descent is when I am being drawn away from the environment, and the ego comes between the environment and me. I, on the other hand, have to overcome this ego and despite the ego, return in order to adhere to the environment again.

Then the ego is inserted between us again, and I am drawn further from the environment and constantly overcome this resistance and return, like a piston in an engine. I constantly return to adhesion above the new ego that is evoked each time, and so I end my work quickly, fill the measure of my exertion, the exertion needed to keep myself in adhesion with the group.

If a person completes this work by staying in adhesion, the adhesion with the Creator is revealed to him, the first spiritual level. So we shouldn’t be afraid of the descents, but we should be prepared for them, and on the contrary, we “should awaken the dawn” by ourselves and not wait for the dawn to awaken me.

Different states will come along: “Let there be evening and let there be morning.” The evening has already arrived while we can awaken the dawn by ourselves!
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/15/13, Writings of Rabash

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Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Why do we connect during the convention? Is it in order to prepare a vessel for the revelation of the attribute of bestowal or only in order to support the men?

Answer: First, there is no separate male vessel and female vessel. Malchut of the world of Atzilut includes all the souls in it and if the men and women don’t connect in it, we don’t evoke Zeir Anpin and Malchut to connect in order to draw the Light from Above to correct us.

Today, we, the men and the women, which means the shattered souls, have to raise MAN (a request for correction) to Malchut of the world of Atzilut. It should be incorporated of the collective desire of the men and the women and in contact with its upper, Zeir Anpin (ZA). Then they activate an even upper couple called “father and mother.”

Thus, there are three couples operating here, which are similar stages of development or regression. By our “initiative” we evoke the second couple, and it evokes the third couple, and the fourth couple already belongs to Arich Anpin, to Ein Sof (Infinity).

This means that we have to stabilize ourselves correctly with regard to the spiritual levels Kabbalists tell us about. There are two “halves” here, male and female that perform a spiritual action, totally complementing one another in order to bestow. If we operate in the exact same way, we will be adapted to the upper and then we will discover ourselves in ascent towards Him.
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/13, Shamati #7

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“It Is Not Good For A Man To Be Alone”

Dr. Michael LaitmanA woman can connect with another woman to one whole (1) only if they both rise above themselves, above the points in the heart (•). On the current corporeal level, a connection with a friend is impossible. This means that if a woman connects with another woman, it is clear to her that this state is already very close to a spiritual connection. In other words the goal obligates the women.

On the other hand, men connect more easily between them, since they see a reward in our world. They can come together on the basis of business, sports, or sitting in a pub.

But we must remember that behind the men who connect there are women who thanks to this connection are also ready to connect somehow.

This is the nature of things, and it cannot be condemned or praised. We can, however, use it, since for many women it is easier to organize a spiritual vessel and if the men support them, it will be the right direction to spirituality for all of us.

This is the meaning of the expression “help against him” that we still have to understand to its full depth. A man was given help and if he uses it correctly, he will reach the goal. Therefore the Creator said, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis, 2:18), or in other words, it isn’t good to live without the Creator. “I shall make him a help against him” so that he shall reach Me (the Creator).
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From the 2nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/13, Shamati #7

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Women’s Convention – 01.13.13

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The Women’s Convention: Everybody Is Invited

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Can I invite women to the convention who are new to the science of Kabbalah, who are not familiar, but are interested?

Answer: I think that there is a place for everyone at this convention. After all, there are no coincidences, and if a woman suddenly decides to attend our convention, then firstly, she has been sent from Above, and secondly, there is some precondition that namely she was brought to us. That’s why we don’t make any restrictions; anyone should be allowed to attend.
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From the Virtual Lesson 1/6/13

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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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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: 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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One Global Woman And One Global Man

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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