Question: How can a person move to the right line from some neutral state?

Answer: I do not think that a person can instantly move to the right line because he still has a lot of various properties that are opposite to the Creator.

You must collect the correct attitude toward the Creator from your ten, demonstrate it to everyone, and ask for confirmation that you have the correct attitude toward the Creator. Then a right line will begin to appear.

At the same time, you develop strength in the right line. In this case, you attract the whole Kli to this line, and thus reach its correction, but only through yourself. Then the rest of your friends should follow you.

In other words, when you call on the ten to unite with a certain intention, for a certain purpose, and the ten agrees and unites with you, then they are already together in the right line.

Question: How can I check if I am in the right or only in the left line?

Answer: You are in one line if all three lines come together for you, and you are in the right line only when you are able to be in connection with someone and fully justify what comes to you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Help that Comes from Above”

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Comment: There is a story by Alan Mayer called “Bad Luck.”

I awoke to searing pain all over my body. I opened my eyes and saw a nurse standing by my bed.
“Mr. Fujima,” she said. “You were lucky to have survived the bombing of Hiroshima two days ago. But you’re safe now here in this hospital.”
Weakly, I asked, “Where am I?”
“Nagasaki,” she said.

My Response: Nagasaki was bombed a few days later.

Question: Yes. Today there is a feeling in the world that you cannot be safe anywhere. Will it happen that I was, for example, in Hiroshima, but woke up in Nagasaki?

Answer: Yes. We will calmly experience every day with the realization that every moment may be the last.

Question: Is the world being brought to such a state now?

Answer: What is wrong with that?

Question: What is good about it?

Answer: It is very good! Because it drives us to properly evaluate ourselves and our lives.

Question: So you are saying that if I live with this, then I will live every minute as the last?

Answer: Yes. It is going to be good.

Comment: Mankind has never lived like this.

My Response: Of course not.

Question: And is it being brought to this point now?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean to live this minute, this moment as it should be, as the last?

Answer: Give yourself to the flow of life, to the Creator. In general, give away all of yourself.

Question: And then, will I feel safe?

Answer: What safety? It is the exact opposite of what you want.

Question: So I am living this moment for others, every moment? Is this what life is called?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And I do not think about the next minute, about the next moment, about tomorrow, about anything?

Answer: Life is a moment between the past and the future.

Question: Yes, exactly. We sing it.

Is that good, do you think?

Answer: This is very good! Then a person feels above this existence.

Question: Is it possible to learn this?

Answer: It is possible. It depends on how deep a person can go into himself, how far he can break away from corporeality. He can.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/16/23

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Hence, The Zohar makes the precision of telling us that it is from the great ZA, and this is why it said, “patriarchs.” They are called “flower buds,” which means plantings, since they grow like plantings. First, their measure was as that of NHY. Afterwards, in Yenika [suckling], they became HGT, and then, in the first Gadlut, they became HBD of Neshama. In the second Gadlut, they became HBD of Haya.

The flower buds are the patriarchs, who entered in a thought, and entered the next world, Bina. This refers to the Ibur [impregnation/conception] of ZA, since during his Ibur, he rises to AVI, who are called “thought” and “the next world.” Aba is called “thought” and Ima is called “the next world.” There is the beginning of the construction of ZA in three within three, which means that HGT are clothed inside NHY (Zohar for All “The Flower Buds”).

We are talking about the states our desires go through, which gradually develop to a level where we can perceive creation through them.

A certain level of desire development is called “Ibur“—gestation, then “Yenika“—suckling, etc. That is, these are states of a certain connection with the Creator.

For example, in our world, the embryo completely annuls itself in the mother’s womb. The same can be said about spiritual birth, when I do not use my egoistic desires at all, annul them, and thus find myself in some kind of connection with the Creator because I do not receive for myself.

Suckling is a state when I, together with my supposedly egoistic desires, begin to receive gradually, but only to grow and become like the Creator. Then, having absorbed the properties of the Creator in the prior stages, I am already working for bestowal. This is called the state of greatness.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 1/7/24

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Question: When a friend has obstacles and problems in the ten, it seems so simple and easy that I want to give advice. But is it better to show an example or continue to sort out the situation?

Answer: It is best to show an example. If this example is displayed correctly, it is necessary to repeat it.

Question: What is a free, strong desire to merge with the Creator?

Answer: A free, strong desire is a desire that is freed from Klipot and rushes to the Creator.

Question: Are the various temptations of the material world the biggest obstacles for us, or is it still a bad relationship between us?

Answer: In fact the biggest obstacle lies in the relationship between us in the group. The obstacles may be of a completely different type, but that is the reason.

Question: There are states when, after connecting with friends, you feel lightness and joy from connection, and sometimes there are states when serious heaviness occurs. Are both of these states correct or not?

Answer: Both are correct. In general, all states are necessary because all of them, one way or another, twist us and direct us to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/13/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “With a Mighty Hand and with Fury Poured Out”

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Baal HaSulam, who wrote a commentary on The Book of Zohar, says that “flower buds” are the action of the beginning of creation. That is, the Kabbalist sort of sees and wants to convey the process of the development of creation, by comparing it with the flower buds that appear in the land. In this way, he gradually reveals to us the beginning of all creation.

Therefore, in the article “The Flower Buds” we are talking about the evolution of nature in our world until man appears. Then it explains what happens to this man.

It says in the “Introduction of The Book of Zohar“: The flower buds have appeared in the land; the time of pruning has arrived, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “The Flower Buds”). It means that the whole of nature at all its levels—still, vegetative, animate, and human—in its development is gradually approaching a state where a person can begin to act as the peak of its creation.

This process is considered an external manifestation of nature’s development, as well as the internal development of a person. After all, everything that happens is carried out at all levels of nature, including the spiritual one.

Question: Let’s say “flower buds in the land” we can understand somehow: the land symbolizes a common desire and the flower buds represent the manifestation of the intention in this desire. What is “the voice of a turtledove is heard”?

Answer: This can be considered as a manifestation of the Creator’s call for a person to begin interacting with all other levels of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 1/7/24

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The speaking has virtues: 1 – It acts against the will of the Landlord. 2 – It is not confined to its contemporaries like the vegetative, meaning it is independent of the environment. 3 – It also feels others and can, therefore, care for them and complement them (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 115 “Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking”).

To act against the Master’s wishes means to act against the nature that the Creator has placed in us.
The owner, i.e., nature, the Creator, requires one thing from us, and we choose a higher level. We go against the Creator because we do not want to obey our egoistic nature. We want to be above it.

Question: How does a Kabbalist choose whether now he is going against the will of the master or the will of society?

Answer: It is according to one’s perception of their life. That is already felt in a plant, an animal, and even more so at the speaking level.

To move from the speaking level to the human level, we must go through all the previous levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and speaking. And then we will achieve a complete sense of nature and accordingly, the Creator in whom we all find ourselves.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking”

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One must always delve in the work of Malchut, called “writing,” considered “ink” and Shacharit [blackness] ( Baal HaSulam, Shamati 122 “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch”).

Question: Why is the work of Malchut called the property of ink and blackness? Where do we record this?

Answer: Malchut is the desires of a person, which are initially all egoistic and therefore called blackness.

Recording is what we write with black ink on a white background. In other words, everything that appears to us is drawn to us by our desires (black ink) on the background of white light (Bina).

Question: The article says that sometimes the Sitra Achra helps a person by drawing everything in black light to show his true situation. Can it be said that hardships or some kind of sorrows also help us see ourselves in the true light?

Answer: Of course, they help. A person feels the difference between what is in the heart and what is in the mind and sees that the mouth and the heart are not equal. When one realizes that what one says differs from what one feels, then a person sees what needs to be corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/7/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Understanding What Is Written in Shulchan Aruch”

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Question: How does the speaking level differ from the animal?

Answer: The speaking level differs from the animal level in that it cares about its neighbor, about those who are outside of it.

It can develop so much, feel the other so much that in this way it becomes incorporated into him, saves him, and takes care of him.

Question: But animals also take care of each other. Is there any exceptional factor that will really lift us above the animal level?

Answer: Only the feeling of the Creator. And this is the fourth level, above the speaking level.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/11/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Still, Vegetative, Animate, and Speaking”

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