Preparation to the Lesson
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Lesson on the Topic, “Living Between Opposites”
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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Teaching of Kabbalah and Its Essence”
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Selected Highlights
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If I rise above the claims of egoism, which convince me that this work is meaningless and the spiritual path is not for me, then it means that I am going above reason. And so, “penny by penny joins in a great amount”; that is, all the overcoming accumulates to a certain measure necessary in order to become a vessel for receiving the upper light.
It is in this form that we advance and the degree of connection between the friends is very important here. After all, in states of weakness, a person will not find any strength, desire, or awakening that is capable of lifting or stimulating him at least a little. Additional strength can only come from connection with the friends.
We need to understand that we have to receive all the strength to advance from the group and from nowhere else. There are only two options: either from egoism or from connection in the group. These are the only levers available in our system. Therefore if we want to advance toward the final correction, we must try to connect more and more, as much as possible in the ten, and receive strength for awakening and unification from there.
And then again and again, extract everything from there. Even when it seems that there are no resources left, you still squeeze out strength from there as if you are scraping the last crumbs from the bottom of the pan. This is how you need to try to receive strength to unite from the group. After all, this is what the real work that moves us forward should be.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/8/22, “For Every Penny Joins Into a Great Amount”
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Question: Why is Hebrew written from right to left?
Answer: The right side is the side of perfection and the left side is imperfection.
Even in communication with each other, we always say: “You are right (right side).” And the left, on the contrary, is the flawed side. Therefore, in Hebrew, writing begins on the right side because everything comes from the Creator right to left.
This is all an expression of the relationship with the Creator since this is all that language conveys.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/26/22
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Question: What is the difference between a person who directly perceives the upper light and a person who is being influenced by the surrounding light?
Answer: The fact is that an ordinary person who receives various influences from the light that fills everything, feels himself in a certain world. Inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human images emerge in him, and he exists among these images.
A person who has raised himself to feeling the light itself and not its consequences feels, in addition to inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human nature, also the light, that is, the influence of a higher level on himself and on nature.
From the desire to attain the meaning of creation, the source of creation, the Creator, and himself relative to the Creator, he feels the cause of what is happening, not just consequences. This gives him the opportunity to attain the meaning of existence, the meaning of life, and to change this meaning.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/19/22
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Question: The year 2022 seems to be a year with the call to countries to take up arms.
The French president opened the door to increased military spending by re-evaluating the military planning law and his aim to put the country on a war-economy. Turkey’s President Erdogan and Greece are disputing Greece’s arming some Aegean islands. Germany approved 100 Billion Euro revamp of its army. Poland is rearming actively and quickly. Japan doubled its military budget. And I’m not even talking about South Korea, North Korea.
All the time you say: “Unite!” The world says: “We will arm ourselves!” Where are we going?
Answer: I believe that we are moving toward a normal world. The world is beginning to realize that it must look at itself soberly. Meaning to arm, defend, and soberly treat those who bully. And then there will be peace in the world.
I believe that everyone should be responsible for their own security, and everyone together should be responsible for the common security.
Question: What about all the calls for peace, then?
Answer: And then there will be calls for peace. Then they will actually work. How else? Our whole world is built on egoism; therefore, as long as there is no umbrella over egoism—in Kabbalah it is called a screen—nothing will happen.
Question: But this way we will get to the point where it will continue, modernize?
Answer: No, it will not continue. In fact, the aggressors are permanent. And they see what is against them, that they will not be allowed to play out, and therefore, they will shrink.
Question: Let’s say everyone sees that it is not worth bullying. And then what?
Answer: Then it will still be necessary to move toward the realization that the world should bring itself to life not from the threat of mutual destruction or such but from the fact that it needs to realize the movement toward peace, toward balance, tranquility.
Question: How does it realize this if it feels that the enemy is in front of it all the time and is rearming?
Answer: The enemy will also see that there is such a thing in front of him that is not reacting.
Question: When will we get to the point where they will say: “Stop! We have scared each other enough, now we need to slowly negotiate and turn around”?
Answer: Everyone will understand that the future of the world is in cooperation.
Question: After they become equal in strength?
Answer: No! Not equal in strength. The state of the people must change internally. They have to go through this transformation. And then they will stop scaring others and stop thinking they are exceptional.
Question: The moment will come when they will begin to disarm little by little?
Answer: Of course! It will not make sense. Thus, the world will come to the need for cooperation. And then there will really be unity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/20/22
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Question: Were there any spiritual languages before the appearance of Hebrew?
Answer: No, there were not. How can there be any other language? After all, we are talking about a person’s feeling of the Creator’s impact on him.
The only thing that distinguishes a person from the Creator is an egoistic desire to receive. And if one wants to receive the impact of the Creator, one must become like the Creator and work on himself.
In this case, he can reveal the impact of the Creator on him and record it in a sensory form, that is, the influence from above to below, from right to left, from left to right, and so on. In this way, a person begins to record his relationships with the Creator.
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Question: If I feel some influence of the Creator on me, then in order to convey this feeling to someone else I can draw a letter or several letters and it will already be a word. What is the difference between a letter and a word?
Answer: A letter expresses only one quality and a word expresses a sequence of qualities that flow from one to another and therefore express relationships.
Question: And all this was invented by people?
Answer: Nobody invented anything. Kabbalists were feeling the influence of the Creator on themselves and were recording it in such a way.
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/12/22
When Operation Breaking Dawn broke out last Friday, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy harshly criticized Israel in an interview for the anti-Israel Al Jazeera network. Bella Hadid, an international model of Palestinian origin and a frequent basher of Israel, quickly seized the opportunity and shared the segment with her tens of millions of followers on social media. I cannot blame Israel haters for using Israelis who routinely demonize their own country, but we need to understand the origin of the self-loathing that they feel, why the fact that they are weaponizing our enemies does not deter them, and why it does not help them. Within every Israeli, there is hatred for one’s own people; it is hatred not for the people, but for the idea that Israel represents: love of others. When we resolve this hatred, we will resolve antisemitism.
On the face of it, Mr. Levy is a courageous man of integrity, justifying his enemy at his own risk. After all, he, too, could have been hurt by the more than 1,100 rockets that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired at Israel. Yet, Levy is not concerned about that. Being a hero in the eyes of the world is his goal, even if it is unclear where is the heroism in the act he took here with his anti-Israeli statement on an anti-Israeli network.
What is more important is that underneath the Israel bashing, there is profound hatred for Israel. Not only Israeli Israel-bashers have it, but every Israeli feels it, and in fact every Jew has that hatred. In some, it is latent, and in some, it is blatant, but no Jew escapes this inner schism.
Self-hate has been our bane throughout the history of our people, and for a good reason. Israel represents transcending the natural human disposition to care only for oneself. Being Israel means embracing mutual responsibility and solidarity with the goal of ultimately loving others as much as one loves oneself.
It is one thing to aspire for such a goal, but it is an entirely different thing to be obligated by the world to achieve it, to feel how formidable this task is, and then face the consequences of failing at it: the hatred of the world. Not surprisingly, the majority of Jews suppress the notion of mutual responsibility and love of others, or divert it toward loving their enemy and blaming their own people, hoping it will win them their enemies’ favor, which it will not.
That struggle exists in every Jew, whether one is aware of it or not. It determines one’s relation toward the State of Israel, toward the Jewish people, and toward Israel’s enemies. Israelis who hate Israel are actually sensitive to their obligation to the world but respond to it in a counterproductive manner: They want to cut their ties to the Israeli people and its obligations. However, no Israeli can be liberated from it. Therefore, they express their resentment through hatred for the State of Israel. I feel sorry for them; they are in great distress.
Such people cannot change. They feel entitled and just, superior and self-righteous. They do not feel that they are spewing hate; they believe that they are fighting against it.
You cannot reach such people’s hearts directly. The only way to influence them is by changing the entire society around them. If all of the Israeli society increases its appreciation of the Golden Rule—which is love of others—and its manifestations, it will percolate into everyone’s hearts, and people will begin to realize that being Israel, namely setting an example of unity and solidarity, is possible, and the world really does appreciate it. In such a state, it will be easier to very gradually change the hearts of Jewish Israel-bashers.
Therefore, our goal should not be to mitigate the hatred of those who demonize the State of Israel. Our goal should be to eulogize solidarity and unity to the point of loving others as much as we love ourselves. If we operate in this way, all haters of Israel will disappear, from within and from without, and we will realize that they were only here in order to galvanize us toward strengthening our unity and setting an example of love of others for the entire world.
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