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Posted on August 17th, 2024 at 10:55 pm
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Question: Adam HaRishon had one program and the Creation had another. Are we starting to follow a third program?
Answer: No, there is only one program called the plan of creation (Machshevet haBriya), and it is constantly working. Depending on what level the souls (desires) are at, more or less broken, this program behaves one way or another. It is just like in a computer, there is nothing complicated here.
Question: Then why do we say that we are returning to the state of Adam? He did not have any egoism, did he?
Answer: There was, but it was hidden, which is why it shattered. Adam had everything. There is nothing new; there is only revealing data.
Question: Will we still have this egoism after the final correction (Gmar Tikun)?
Answer: Billions and billions of times more. Otherwise, how will we achieve a vast corrected state without a huge ego?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/24/20, “Preparation for the Convention”
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Question: Is it right to remember good impressions from previous connections in the ten and use them to reveal new connections in a new ten, or should we start from scratch and not take anything from the past?
Answer: You do not need to start from scratch. Start with the good connection you already have with the upper and wish to strengthen it.
Question: You say, “Open your heart.” Who opens the heart first: the person or the Creator?
Answer: The Creator always opens a person’s heart, but this is already a response to a person’s prayer.
Question: Love should come from above when we feel friends closer than ourselves. How can we hasten this?
Answer: Try to relate this way to the Creator.
Question: What comes first: love for the Creator or love for friends? Do we come to love the Creator through the love of friends or vice versa?
Answer: You can do it both ways. Generally, we come to love for the Creator from the love of friends. We still do not know what love is, and we can mistake almost any good feeling for it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/20, “The Spiritual Power of a Physical Gathering”
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Question: The nature of egoism contains the spirit of foolishness. Can it be avoided through internal work?
Answer: No, you cannot avoid it. The Creator specifically develops it in order to give you the opportunity to grow more and overcome egoism.
Question: Why does a person lose the importance of what the Creator gives over time? Why does the value of what is received decrease?
Answer: Because a person must constantly exalt the Creator in their eyes. If they forget about it, the Creator immediately falls in their eyes, and they have no one to turn to.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/28/24, Writings of Rabash “Good Taste in Small, Corporeal Things”
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Wherever I mention My name, meaning that you will give me the possibility to attribute My name to your actions (Rabash, “The Path of Truth“).
Question: How can we incorporate this into our lives so that we always give the Creator this possibility?
Answer: By desiring for the Creator to start working with you, addressing Him from all states, and always trying to engage Him in a dialogue, meaning, attempting to speak with the Creator and waiting for His response.
Question: In what form does a Kabbalist receive the Creator’s answer?
Answer: Most often in the form of what happens to him.
Question: Does it mean that we feel something as a reaction of the Creator in events and sensations?
Answer: Yes, the correct reaction is that we accept everything from the Creator: both good and seemingly bad. We only want to come closer to Him through our appeal to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/29/24, Writings of Rabash “The Path of Truth”
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Question: Can we say that our action of bestowal consists of active connection; for example, during a lesson, preparing for a lesson, studying and working in the ten are the desire, the passive vessel for work in active connection, and the work is the request for correction of the vessel, its fulfillment, and transmitting the light to the entire world?
Answer: Yes, this should be our intention. Therefore, before we open the computer and connect with our friends, we need to think about why we are doing this: to be connected together in one single vessel, to direct it to the Creator, and to reveal the Creator within it.
If we direct ourselves toward connection with friends, toward reading articles, and each time overcome various obstacles with an effort, we naturally receive much greater benefit from this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”
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Question: How can we be rewarded with going by faith above reason?
Answer: Mainly through turning to the Creator through prayer.
Question: Can we help friends in the ten to go with faith above reason?
Answer: Of course, if you connect, you will help each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/30/24, Writings of Rabash “Affliction Precedes Mercy”
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Question: UNESCO plans to send information about the cultural heritage of humanity to the Moon. They are translating it into 275 languages and significantly investing in this. The capsule will be sent aboard a Japanese automated module. This decision was explained as a necessity to preserve some information about the human race in case of a global catastrophe on Earth.
Do you think anyone will need the experience of humanity that managed to destroy itself?
Answer: No, but that is just what we are accustomed to do.
Question: Do you think no one will need it after all?
Answer: I think humanity is still in such an embryonic state that any possible other civilizations are several levels higher.
Question: So are we some kind of children?
Answer: Yes, therefore it is very easy to scan us.
Question: Are we, as you said, petty egoists on the surface of this Earth and that is it?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: And all the experience, all culture, all the science, all the millennia of development—all of that…
My Response: What about science? Science exists in nature and is open to all. Art is also very relative as it depends on the organs of perception.
I believe that no one needs this. But humanity wants to cheer itself up a bit, to uplift itself, as if to say: “Look at what we are doing, we are declaring to everyone who we are and what we are.”
Question: What do you think if we received a message now that once there were people who created a civilization here, some living beings, and then they killed each other and disappeared, would that study teach us anything?
Answer: No, that is how it was, but it did not teach us anything.
Question: Do we even know why they destroyed each other?
Answer: It is the usual human egoistic nature.
Question: Did this knowledge not lead us anywhere?
Answer: Nowhere, of course.
Question: Why does experience not teach us?
Answer: It is not even in our genes to be afraid of this. There is nothing at all.
Question: Why did the Creator exclude this possibility in us?
Answer: So that we would be independent from our nature.
Question: So if we are dependent on our nature, we learn nothing?
Answer: No.
Question: And if we become independent of it, then who do we learn from?
Answer: That is impossible!
Question: Is it a catch-22?
Answer: Yes.
Question: How can we navigate through this?
Answer: We need to reach the level of anti-egoistic interaction with each other.
Question: What is that?
Answer: As it is said in Kabbalah—faith above reason.
Question: So is all our interaction egoistic?
Answer: It is absolutely egoistic. And we have no possibility to exist if we do not rise above this nature.
Question: On the other hand you say that it is also not easy to rise above nature.
Answer: It is not easy, but it is possible.
Question: Do we need to have a proof of this—that there were people who rose above? We come back again to the fact that people who rose above have some experience?
Answer: No. In principle, we did not have such examples in the past.
Question: Where does your confidence come from that this is possible?
Answer: Because the Torah states so, and it was given for this purpose. We need to use the Torah to rise above our nature.
Comment: Please tell me, you just used the phrase “faith above reason.” This is actually the basis of Kabbalah.
My Response: Yes.
Question: Can you explain it simply to ordinary people? What is “faith above reason”? I live according to reason, right?
Answer: Yes, we live entirely according to reason. But we need to rise to the next degree, the degree of faith above reason.
Question: Does this mean that I just believe?
Answer: No, it does not mean just believing. It means governing yourself from the degree above our egoistic nature.
Question: Should I imagine myself being on this degree?
Answer: It is impossible to imagine. So it is a problem, but it is solvable. I think that ultimately humanity will solve it.
Question: Basically, we understand what faith below reason is. It means that we are told: “Believe.” Is that below reason?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Faith at the level of reason is also more or less understandable. This is science, which says: “I have proven it.” This can be so. But faith above reason, you say, is a degree above reason that we need to reach?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Essentially, is the Creator on this degree?
Answer: I think the Creator is beyond this degree. But to rise to this degree, we need the Creator.
Question: Does He want us to do this?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What does He do to help us rise to this degree?
Answer: He responds to our prayers. If we truly want this, desire it, and ask Him, He will do it.
Question: If I truly rise to the level of faith above reason, if we rise to this level, what does my state become?
Answer: You begin to feel the force of the Creator who fills all of nature, and you are in contact with Him.
Question: What is your definition of the Creator whom I begin to feel?
Answer: The upper force in which we exist.
Question: What is it like?
Answer: The force of goodness, the force of care.
Question: Do I begin to flow in this state?
Answer: Yes, it becomes your natural state.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/24
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Question: What is the first point of contact with the Creator in the ten?
Answer: The first point of contact with the Creator occurs when the Keter of the lower connects with the Malchut of the upper.
The Keter of the lower, that is, the Keter of the ten, is the force of your bestowal. It rises and reaches the Malchut of the upper.
Question: Let’s say that we have gathered with the friends and formed the force of bestowal, Keter between us. How can we now connect with the Malchut of the upper?
Answer: With each other you form your common Keter, and all that remains for you is to connect to the Malchut of the upper. To do this, you must connect all your desires for bestowal, i.e., all your Keters, and raise them to what the upper one desires from you.
Question: How can we feel the Creator in our feelings in order to connect our Keters with Him?
Answer: By forming a connection between yourselves, you will be able to feel what the Malchut of the upper one is, rise to it, group together, and grasp it. This is what we need to do.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/20, “The Spiritual Power of a Physical Gathering”
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