Comment: The nightingale sang to a rose every night. One day, the rose asked: “Why are you singing to me?” The nightingale replied: “Because you are beautiful.” The rose thought about it and said: “But I am poking you with my thorns, with my spikes.” “Such is your beauty,” said the nightingale, “Without thorns you would not be so lovely.”

My Response: Clearly, the nightingale…

Question: Is in love?

Answer: Yes, he can sing and whistle.

Question: Please tell me, why do thorns add beauty? Why do they enhance beauty for the nightingale?

Answer: Because he loves.

Question: Does he love being pricked?

Answer: He loves and therefore loves even the thorns.

Question: So love is blind?

Answer: It is not blind, it evens everything out.

Question: Do you think marriage without thorns, in constant love and friendship, is possible?

Answer: If two idiots come together and somehow decide between themselves how to live, then, of course, they can fantasize.

Question: But will life proceed with thorns?

Answer: Yes, absolutely.

Comment: So you think it is impossible to live like…

My Response: No, of course not. What do we live for? We live to learn how to live with thorns. If everyone is an egoist, then what can there be? They should have a special wisdom to understand that it is better to force themselves to live peacefully and wisely.

Question: Above the thorns?

Answer: Above the thorns.

Question: But must there be thorns?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Please tell me how to love a wife with thorns? She has spikes, she humiliates you. That is how it is for you. She brings you down, and makes fun of you. How can this work? But you say it is still possible.

Answer: You must understand her. She had a certain childhood, a certain upbringing and qualities of character. I think you should not concentrate on being pricked like that.

Question: What will this understanding of the reasons give me? I am in pain.

Answer: No, you will begin to understand these are all her natural reactions that she has no control over.

Question: Can I cover it all with love? Is this what they call “covering with love?”

Answer: Yes, love covers all flaws.

Question: Tell us please, can we artificially create “spikes?” Take a couple, that is, as you say, “thornless.” Can I act out “spikes”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In order to increase love?

Answer: For this you have to be wise.

Question: Do you call this wisdom?

Answer: If one uses the weakness of another in order for these weaknesses to lead to even greater contact between them, then this is wisdom.

Question: So if I want to introduce some kind of “thorns” in order for us to have more contact, so love would somehow increase between us—is all this necessary?

Answer: Sure.

Question: I will ask a general question. We usually reveal everything up to the global level. I wonder if a person lives in some country. This country is pricking people all the time with taxes, wars, poverty, all kinds of humiliation. But one continues to live there and says it is beautiful, and he loves it, and this is his homeland. What is it?

Answer: So he loves it. That is, even if it is all seemingly so, he feels this way.

Question: Does he feel it?

Answer: Yes, he feels it is all bad, disgusting, cruel, and so on; all the same, deep down he is attached to it and loves it.

Question: Then can you reveal the concept of love again? Now you said “he loves.” What does it mean?

Answer: Love is when, despite everything, in all the relationships between one and the other—it does not matter if it is a man, a country, a woman, a family, no matter what—love is when you value another person’s modulus. It is like in mathematics when you do not take into account whether it is a plus or a minus.

Question: Is it possible to live like this?

Answer: I see it is possible sometimes. And this is called love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/12/24

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Question: Is there any way to measure development in the ten? For example, such and such a relationship in the ten is the first grade of education. The manifestation of other relationships is the second grade of study, etc. Do I know that for the first ten years of working in the ten, I spent in the first grade, the second ten years in the second grade?

Answer: You have to feel it for yourself. I cannot tell you anything because it cannot be expressed in words. That is, when you start to see, not just feel, but compare your possible states, then you can talk more specifically about your feelings.

And so there is nothing to talk about, like with a baby with whom they are cooing and that is it. So let us hope that soon you will start babbling.

Question: Is there any sensory parameter that you can rely on? Let us say I cannot get up for class, which means I am in second grade; I cannot talk to my friends, which is a plus for me, third grade.

Answer: There is no such thing. At each stage, in each state, negative and positive forces manifest themselves, and in this way you adapt them to yourself, and learn from your own experience. And to tell you in advance which classes you are taking will not help anyway. I can, for example, name all 125 steps that we should climb, but they will not tell you anything.

AB, SAG, Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, ascents, and descents—you study all this, but you still do not have adequate sensations, and therefore you do not know where you are. When the appropriate sensations come, you will immediately begin to give them names from what you have studied.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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To reach the goal of creation, we need to unite among ourselves, become like one person with one desire, meaning with one heart, and think only about how to attain the goal.

This means revealing the Creator so that He manifests as the center of the spiritual system, and we realize what the purpose of creation is, what we live for, and what we exist for. This is the goal of our lessons.

Attainment of the Creator depends on our efforts, on the fact that we try not to miss lessons, that we are united with each other, that we write down the main points of the study, and that we ask questions on the topic. Thus, within a few months we will start feeling our connection, and the upper world at the center of this connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/3/24, “We have gathered here”

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To become a partner with the Creator in the desire to bestow to others means that a person wishes to reach a state where they do everything to help people attain the quality of bestowal, that is, to transform their inherent egoistic desires into altruistic ones.

Therefore, the correct daily implementation of the connection between the ten and the Creator involves our striving to help everyone in the world draw closer to the quality of bestowal, to connection with others, and to collective correction.

Question: What should the ten hear from the Creator once they are connected?

Answer: They should hear how exalted the Creator is in His thoughts, how all-powerful He is in His actions, and how His actions influence everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/24, Writings of Rabash, “Go Forth”

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Question: When we reach out through love of friends toward love of the Creator and it does not work, it is perceived as a failure, as a blow. How can this be justified and turned into a springboard for a new degree?

Answer: The entire ten should embrace and try to squeeze out all sorts of thoughts and feelings that prevent you from merging with each other.

Squeeze out all the bad, all negative emotions, like pus from a wound. It is purification when you fill the freed-up emptiness with a positive feeling.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/1/24, “Parashat Noah”

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 1

Chapter 1. Prayer from the Depth of the Heart

Since it is written “half,” we understand that more than half is not demanded of us; our half is called “prayer.” Prayer bursts forth from our heart as a result of our emotions. It must break through from the depth of the heart before we start critiquing the feeling in our heart with our intellect, before we start thinking about it or understanding it. The feeling hidden in the heart before we try to control it is called “prayer.”

If prayer precedes our control over it, why are we told that we must pray and reach a prayer, as if prayer depends on our efforts or free choice?

The answer is that we must reach the desire called “prayer” through various actions and means that help bring us to the correct desire. Prayer is a summary; it is the result of our preparations. Accordingly, each time we pray, we feel a certain kind of connection to the Creator in our heart and our prayer to the Creator is always new.

A person can open an ordinary prayer book, written two thousand years ago by the Men of the Great Assembly, and by saying the same words every day, feel something new each day. The interpretation changes so much that the words spoken yesterday no longer fit today. In such a prayer, we feel that we had never said the words that we spoke today.

What words should we aim for in our prayer? Primarily they should be words that speak of the Creator’s glory. Why? It is because in the Creator’s glory, we do not speak of His essence—who He is, or what He is—but we discuss His qualities of bestowal and how we appreciate such qualities. The extent to which we value the Creator’s qualities of bestowal is the extent to which we measure the strength of our connection, closeness, and alignment with the Creator.

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Question: We meet in the ten every day for half an hour. Some friends are often in such a state that they do not come to the meetings because they feel that they cannot give the others the importance of the goal or could even harm the ten.

What should you do: not come or come anyway?

Answer: There is nothing worse than absence. If a person could have come to a lesson or a meeting of the ten but decided not to attend, there is no excuse for this. After all, any participation of his somehow moves the ten forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: On one hand the light is constant; on the other the lights come on holidays and on Saturday (Shabbat). Does our perception change because of this?

Answer: The light changes only relative to people, but in reality it is unchanged. It is absolutely even and infinite, and fills everything, and all the usual sensations that unfold on the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh day (Shabbat) and further into holidays and special dates are special states of our soul.

They will exist until we completely correct it. As soon as we correct our common soul, everything will turn into one continuous light, into a single day.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/19, “Questions and Answers”

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