Question: What is an evil state, i.e., evil itself? I feel like I am in a soap bubble in this state, and I am looking for a way to get out of it. Where does it come from and how is it connected to the global system?

Answer: This is a state where my egoism rules over me and I cannot do anything about it. I tremble all over, and I do not know how to tear it apart, burn it, or do anything to it. I can’t do anything; it is still dominates me.

This state of hatred toward it and at the same time its power over me is wonderful. It is the recognition of evil.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/28/20, Questions of the World Kli

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Question: We cannot rely on knowledge since they are receiving Kelim. The same applies to feelings since they are false and cannot be trusted.

What can we rely on if above the knowledge there are Kelim of bestowal, which we do not have yet? It turns out that we are hanging in the air.

Answer: When you are hanging in the air, try to hold on to each other. And then you will understand that your common desire is beneath you as a solid stable platform on which you can lean, stand, and not be afraid to fall.

Question: What is the main work of the ten at this intermediate point when we do not have support yet?

Answer: Only to hold on to each other!

Question: Will our path be suspended all the time, or will some solid ground appear on the way?

Answer: It will definitely appear when you reach it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/28/24, Writings of Rabash, “Noah Was a Righteous Man”

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Question: There is a joke about a man asking God: “Lord, what is the best way to make You laugh?” God answers: “Tell me about your plans.”

Why do our plans make the Creator laugh?

Answer: Because when a person makes plans, he considers himself above what is happening, as if he can plan the future. This is not justified at all. Therefore, of course, it makes Him laugh.

Question: Let’s be realistic. A person makes plans for the summer, for a vacation. I write down a plan for the day, what I have to do today, and so on. Is this called making plans?

Answer: Remember what Woland said? That a person cannot program himself for the future. To do this, he must know what will happen at least 1,000 years in advance.

I would not say that we can program anything.

Question: Is it possible to live without plans?

Answer: It is possible to live without plans if you put your plans aside and accept the plans of the next, higher level.

Question: What kind of plans are these? By what plan do I live then?

Answer: You live by the plan of the upper nature, the Creator.

Question: And what kind of plan is this?

Answer: This means that all you can imagine is that you only want one thing: to be in close contact with Him.

Question: And this no longer makes Him laugh?

Answer: This does not make Him laugh. You only want to achieve this, and what will happen is unimportant for you. The main thing is that you want only these plans to be realized in you.

Question: Are you not even interested in knowing what the Creator’s plans are? Do you just completely devote yourself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can a person live like that?

Answer: Are you truly going to check His plans?

Question: I really cannot. But still, it may be scary for someone to even pronounce it. What if He has such plans that…

Answer: Whatever they are, these are already the upper plans.

Question: So it is about my complete annulment before the upper one?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does this make the Creator laugh?

Answer: The Creator rejoices.

Question: Can you tell why He “bends” me like that?

Answer: So that you would want consciously to change your plans.

Question: So, I take my soul and stifle it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can I say that this is all my pride, that we are now talking about pride by and large?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: And the Creator wants him to…

My Response: Remove it by himself.

Comment: The operation that He performs on us is practically without anesthesia.

My Response: A person must realize that this is what is bad in him and interferes with him.

Question: And there are no painkillers here? Is it necessary to go through the pain?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is more important: the result itself or the planning process?

Answer: I would say both, of course. But the main thing is still the result.

Question: And when the plans fall apart, for example. Many people’s plans fall apart, and today many of those have fallen apart. Can a person react to this differently than he reacts? In a calmer way somehow.

Answer: It depends on his preparation. If he is already prepared in advance for the fact that all his plans will not come true and he will have to change them to the plans of the Creator, then he will survive this calmly.

Question: That is, I plan, but what will happen is what the Creator wants?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this the correct beginning of the phrase: “I plan”?

Answer: It is necessary that a person plans. But he must convince himself that what will come true anyway are the plans of the Creator—not his.

Question: So I do what I want, and it will be as the Creator decides?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this how we should live? Is this the right message?

Answer: Yes. You always add: “If the Creator wills.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 4

Why Is an Attitude to the Creator Called Prayer?

All feelings that we feel in our heart originate from the Creator, and thus the feeling in the heart is not called “prayer.” Prayer is our appeal to the Creator. The Hebrew word for “prayer” (“Lehitpalel“) comes from the word, “to judge” (“Lehaflil“), i.e., it is self-judgment, an evaluation of the connection that we have with the source of our feelings—the Creator.

Since the source of our feelings is good and benevolent, our prayer expresses the difference between our feelings and such goodness and benevolence. We discover the extent of the flaw in our heart. Prayer is the feeling of the difference between a person and the Creator.

In other words, if we were to measure the difference between what the Creator fills our heart with and what our heart feels and how we respond, we would see the extent of our flaw. Likewise, if we were fully corrected, we would feel fully good and benevolent. The more opposite our sensation, the greater the indication of our flaw.

Not only does it indicate the level of our flaw, but also our spiritual location. Since the Creator gives a force of goodness and benevolence through all 620 channels, we can know the channels we feel more or less, where we feel good or bad.

If we have a complete picture of the soul, we perceive and sense everything, we know where we are at every level, and we possess a clear picture of our corrected state compared to our current state. All aspects by which we evaluate our attitude to the Creator are collectively called “prayer.”

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Question: How is the Creator revealed in a group when its members annul themselves before each other?

Answer: The Creator is revealed gradually according to our ability to rise above our egoism and connect with our friends solely through bestowal and love. It is within this collective desire that He is attained.

Question: Can we still build the Creator if not all the friends are working toward bestowal?

Answer: Yes, you can. Even if only half the group is working toward bestowal, you can still build an image of the Creator to depict Him before you and yourselves before Him correctly. Then, everything will be in order.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK (the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian), “We have gathered here”

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Question: Why does Rabash consider a group essential for spiritual growth?

Answer: This is not only Rabash’s view but the view of all Kabbalists since the first revelation of the Creator in our world.

As soon as people in our world began to attain Him, the wisdom of Kabbalah emerged among them, and they established the principle that the most important thing for those studying Kabbalah is to strive toward the Creator.

Question: Kabbalists say that all of humanity must come to correction. However, people, in general, are far from spirituality. Can we expect a radical correction of humanity through the methodology of Kabbalah in the foreseeable future? Or is the main focus our individual path?

Answer: We need to study the wisdom of Kabbalah with the aim of connecting with each other in our tens, within which we can reveal the Creator. From there, we will feel how tens can come together to form a larger group. That is our path.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK (the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian), “We have gathered here”

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Question: How is it that we as a ten come to a single opinion and all our spiritual accumulations become one accumulation?

Answer: Although our efforts in the ten are felt and appear differently, they all ultimately unite into one effort: attainment of the Creator.

Question: What does it mean “to be ready to die for the ten” in a spiritual sense?

Answer: “To die for the ten” means to completely renounce one’s egoistic goals for the sake of the ten.

Question: In what way should the feeling of the greatness of the Creator expressed so we can carry out the principles of bestowal?

Answer: All of this is expressed within a person. A person should feel how the Creator has revealed Himself to him and wishes to assist in his spiritual advancement.

Question: How does one attain the force of the Creator to work for the sake of bestowal within the ten?

Answer: You must show each other that you are working in this way, and then you will inspire in each other the same desire.

Question: What is the temple of the human soul and where is it located? Why do we not have a connection to it?

Answer: The temple of the human soul is in the Creator. When we strive toward the Creator, we simultaneously reach toward this temple.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash, Assorted Notes 344, “Go Forth”

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Question: Everything comes from the Creator. The points in the heart, our thoughts, everything that happens all originate from Him. Does anything depend on me? What is my role, my responsibility?

Answer: Your role and responsibility are revealed specifically within the collective group where you are to bring all the friends, including yourself, to the united state in which you are all completely similar to the Creator.

Our goal is to achieve elevation to the highest level of creation. No one will leave you halfway uncertain about where to go next. Therefore, we must unite to the point of fully attaining the Creator and the entire system of creation. So be prepared for this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK – the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian, “We have gathered here”

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By studying the upper world, we gradually begin to realize that it is based on bestowal and not on reception like in our world. That is why we learn to bestow.

Although our wisdom is called the wisdom of receiving (Hochmat haKabbalah), in its essence, it is built only on bestowal. So we will learn to bestow.

Question: How can I check the sincerity of my intention to bestow? After all, I can quite easily convince myself that my intentions are not at all egoistic and are aimed at the group, but deep down, I am deceived.

Answer: It will always seem to you that you are already in the quality of bestowal and love for the friends.

But then it will gradually be revealed that this is not so. It’s okay, this is the system of revealing egoism.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, for Graduates of MAK – the International Academy of Kabbalah in Russian, “We have gathered here”

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