Question: In our world, I am the desires of my body. If I remove these desires, is that self-annulment? How do I unite with my friends without seeing the desires of their bodies?

Answer: Try to rise above yourself, above your desires, and connect with each other solely with desires for bestowal and love. Ask the Creator to help you with this, and you will feel the response.

Question: So my individuality, my body, is egoism? Does this mean that without egoistic desires I can connect with everyone?

Answer: Absolutely right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”

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Question: If friends have a desire to work together, how can we help them reveal a deficiency (Hissaron) for spirituality?

Answer: Read about this in the ten before or after our lessons so they can hear and see where you are getting these articles from. Engage them.

Question: Group work is clear, but can individual work with the sources help? Is it necessary, and what is its importance?

Answer: Individual work with the sources is effective when you get explanations of what is written in them.

If you do not know and are just guessing, it will not help you much.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: Which questions to ourselves, to the soul, and to the group of ten prepare the Kli (vessel), the Hissaron (deficiency), above reason?

Answer: When you ask the Creator, each other, and the group of ten about things that are essentially within you, but you do not yet feel, you are practicing faith above reason.

This means you do not know, feel, or believe yet, but you want to reach a degree where your faith will give you that sensation. This is called faith above reason.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/24, Writings of Rabash “The Torah Is Acquired through Suffering”

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Question: Kabbalists have a great, strange power that cannot be described. You say that it is impossible for a person who is not in attainment to feel spirituality, it is impossible to feel bestowal. But a certain energy comes from a Kabbalist.

Is this the energy of bestowal?

Answer: No, this is not spiritual energy. It is not what comes from him, but what you feel.

Comment: But there is a huge number of people, and I do not feel such energy from them.

My Response: Just because you feel something does not mean it is spiritual. You only feel what you feel.

Question: But let’s say you can fulfill a person so much that he will not even ask questions. Does he feel it, perceive it?

Answer: Because next to me he feels confidence, security, perfection, and fulfillment, the question disappears. He can run to me from the other side of the world. He came running with a question. He sat down next to me, the question disappeared. I had the same thing.

It is completely natural. When you find yourself next to a large, relatively great person, you become integrated in him, stick to him, and that is it, you do not need anything, you are already filled.

Question: But is this spiritual fulfillment or not?

Answer: I would call it psychological.

Question: Does it mean that we do not feel spirituality at all?

Answer: Not yet. Where can we do that? Do you already have spiritual intentions above yourself? Not yet. Therefore, everything that is felt is felt as preliminary psychological states.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of the Kabbalist “ 2/6/10

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Comment: Stanisław Jerzy Lec escaped from a concentration camp twice. The first time he escaped, he was caught. The second time he escaped, he was caught again and was given a shovel and told, “Dig your own grave.” He used that shovel to kill the guard, dressed in his clothes, and escaped for good. The rest of his fate is known to us. He came to the Land of Israel, then went back to Poland where he experienced various sufferings, anti-Semitism, and so on. But at the same time, he wrote amazing things.

Please comment on his statement:

“People are lonely because instead of building bridges, they build walls.”

Question: It is so sad and accurate! Tell me, we are always looking for a cure for loneliness, ministers of loneliness, and so on. He writes: “We need to build bridges, and everything will be fine.” Why do we build walls?

Answer: We cannot tolerate each other.

Question: So it is better to build a wall?

Answer: Of course. And a wall is not just a limitation from me but for me as well.

Question: So when I am physically next to someone, I cannot adapt to them, it is hard for me to build bridges. But we should, right?

Answer: Yes. But how? I have not learned how to do this. I just see over the years that only life, as explained by the Torah, will probably lead to this.

Question: Only follow the Torah?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then can you say in one sentence what it means to follow the Torah?

Answer: Always, little by little, getting closer to everyone.

Question: To everyone? To enemies, to non-enemies?

Answer: Absolutely everyone.

Question: What happens to me then?

Answer: It changes you. It changes your DNA.

Question: Even my whole genetics?

Answer: Yes, all your genetics.

Question: So, just keep aiming in that direction?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24

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To rise from our animalistic, egoistic level, we need to strive for the next level—the altruistic human being.

We can achieve this either through immense suffering that forces us to reach the goal or through our own efforts when we know what lies ahead and understand the forces of nature at our disposal. Then we can help ourselves and bring ourselves to absolute coexistence.

Question: Should the aspiration to the higher degree, to the Creator, be like fuel throughout this stage? Otherwise why would 90% of egoists suddenly want to change their nature and care for society more than for themselves? They need some motivation. Can the upper force be this motivation?

Answer: Of course.

Question: But how can this happen if it has not been manifested until now? Even religions have not helped although they claim that the Creator is goodness and love.

Answer: Religions operate on a very low level. Moreover, they have already disqualified themselves if I may say so.

Comment: But in the early stages, they really did help humanity; otherwise, we would be like animals.

My Response: Yes, without religion we could not have existed; that is clear. Then began the thousand-year long process separation of religion from progress, from the changes in mankind, up to the creation of educational institutions where natural sciences and Kabbalah are studied.

Today, we have reached a state where we can calmly explain to all people on Earth, without any prohibitive restrictions, what Kabbalah is, why it is needed, how to master it, and what can be achieved with its help.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation” 7/11/24

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Question: Do you ever have moments when you are surprised that you give out certain information?

Answer: Yes, it happens that I can easily express some information. It is a muse; it is simply a human property.

There are Kabbalists who could do it amazingly. I envy them a lot. After all, if I weren’t a teacher, I would float at my level and would be trying to rise all the time. But since I have to simplify the information I receive to the level of my students, I envy those who have fluent language.

But I was specially given a very difficult and complex Hebrew. I generally do not have a good grasp of languages; I have an absolute inaptitude for them. It’s hard for me in this regard.

Therefore, if I succeed, it is like a birth, like labor pains, when you can finally give out some information. When you feel that it has entered a person, he understands it, and all the information has smoothly jumped out of you like an embryo jumps out along with waters during a successful childbirth, then it certainly gives a lot of pleasure. You are amazed about the extent of it that came from above.

I clearly understand that everything is given from above because with my qualities that I also received from above, I am not capable of expressing my thoughts easily. There are even more problems here. Even if I had this ability, Kabbalistic information is still clothed in more or less convenient forms depending on how much the student needs it.

After all, there are circumstances when there is a need to confuse a student a little, give him an opportunity to unravel the tangle by himself. Then he will start using his brain and will sense that he still lacks his own efforts. Therefore, I not only make my presentation dependent on the lack of an opportunity to present the material normally, but also on the fact that the student does not need a more explicit presentation, he must figure it out himself.

Let’s take The Book of Zohar. It is written in a very confusing language, although it in principle it is close to our style. This is amazing! The book was written 2,000 years ago, but it talks about things that are very easy for us to communicate today. It is interesting. Although it is incomprehensible, its style is close to us.

When I was working on it, adapting it to the modern reader, I practically did not have to do anything special. I translated it from Aramaic to Hebrew, removed various additions, clarifications, references to other sources, outside commentaries, etc. in order to make the text more readable.

Practically, the whole task in Kabbalah is to adapt the spiritual material for the consumers, for the students.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mindflow” 3/13/10

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Question: What can be done to make the ninth of Av not a day of mourning? What state must we reach for it to become a holiday?

Answer: Change yourselves from those who receive to those who give, from those who hate others to those who love them, and this day will become a holiday.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Cast Their Seed Among the Nations”

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