Question: What kind of effort allows us to see that all judgments are fair, merciful, and are the best way for us?

Answer: By treating everything that happens to us through the condition of bestowal and love, we begin to see that everything comes to us from the Creator with love and care.

Question: The ascent from one degree to another happens in faith above reason. Is the ascent above egoism performed in the same way?

Answer: The ascent above egoism only occurs in faith above reason. There is no other way. Work in egoism is work in faith and reason, but work on egoism is in faith above reason.

Question: Why is the desire to receive faith above reason not considered egoistic? After all, gradually we feel in our work that it is much more beneficial to work in faith; a feeling of the Creator, light, joy, and love appear. Why is this not egoism?

Answer: Because the conditions to reach this state are anti-egoistic.

Question: Should we feel after the actions of bestowal that we have given 100% according to the measure of the Creator’s desire? Or should there still be a deficiency, a feeling of imperfection, that we did everything possible, but we could have done more?

Answer: It is precisely these feelings that pass through all of us. That is, it always seems to me that I can do a little more and I need to add something else. This is right.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/24, Writings of Rabash “Torah Lishma”

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Question: When we see a judge judging the world, what should we correct: our attitude toward the court or toward the judge?

Answer: We must correct our attitude toward the court, and eventually we will correct our attitude toward the judge, the Creator.

The Creator sets all kinds of conditions for us all the time, and we have to turn these conditions from bad conditions into conditions of friendship.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Torah Lishma”

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Spiritual advancement lies in closer connection between friends, in turning to the Creator, and in revealing the Creator from a common point of unity. This state indicates that you are together with the Creator.

In this case, you can raise the point of unity to the level of permanent unification. There is nothing complicated about this, it is as easy as one, two, three. The only problem is that you do not want to listen to it and hear it.

Question: How can I turn to the Creator from the point of connection if I am an inveterate egoist and do not feel anyone except myself?

Answer: Try to turn to the Creator as a representative of your group, and this is how you will advance. Each one turns to the Creator on behalf of the ten, asks, and demands that the Creator move you forward.

Question: So when I try to formulate this request, I immediately imagine my friends, the ten, and I think from the state of connection?

Answer: You feel them all together, and from this common feeling you turn to the Creator.

Question: But if everything is predetermined from above, as Kabbalists say, then my friends’ destructive habits also come from the Creator. Can studying Kabbalah correct them?

Answer: We can correct anything we want if only we act in accordance with the laws of the spiritual world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “Praise the Lord, All Nations,” in the Work?”

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Question: “A traveler asked a shepherd, ‘What will the weather be like today?’ The shepherd replied, ‘It will be as I like it.’ ‘How do you know you will like it?’ ‘I have learned to love what will be. Therefore, the weather will be as I like it,’ replied the shepherd.”

How can we learn to love what will be?

Answer: You simply accept with an open heart what nature, the Creator, is preparing for you. And it doesn’t matter what.

Question: So whatever it is?

Answer: Whatever it is. And what can happen?

Comment: Many things can happen that I won’t like.

My Response: Won’t like, I don’t talk about that at all. Whatever I don’t like, I accept.

Question: So you’re talking about acceptance? Whatever happens, I accept it?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: If only we could tune into that, if we could learn to live like that.

My Response: Calmly.

Comment: That is beyond one’s dreams!

My Response: But one has to die every day and that’s it.

Question: What does that mean?

Answer: What is happening now, what will disappear, and what will be all equally come from above in my eyes. And that is why I accept it in advance with submission.

Question: Without resistance?

Answer: Why resist? What kind of resistance can there be?!

Question: So what is called life?

Answer: Life is the property of the existence of protein matter. It is interesting how a person could come up with that!

Comment: There is not even a conversation about the soul or the heart. Protein matter exists, and that’s all. And you say: “Learn to go with the flow, completely. Surrender and that’s it. Accept everything that comes to you.” Just as he says, “There will be weather that I like.”

My Response: Of course. I agree in advance with what will be.

Comment: Wars, suffering, everything that is prepared for me, and so on, I accept it all.

My Response: Yes.

Question: It is really hard work. It sounds very appealing to surrender and annul oneself like that. But it’s very hard work! Very!

What experience should I have to come to this?

Answer: Anyway, both this way and that way, and what needs to happen will happen. What comes from above will be with you.

Question: Does it come with age, with wisdom; how exactly?

Answer: Both this way and that way.

Question: But do I still need to gain experience to come to this?

Answer: Yes. Well, another five years, another ten years, and then? All the same, we will have to undergo such a transformation with ourselves, with our body, and so on.

Question: So we might as well agree with this now?

Answer: Of course. And what’s next? We will grow into a new form, a new life. Without hope, without any grandiose plans. We will try to be even more in agreement with the Creator.

Question: From everything you say, it turns out that this is exactly what we are being led to and only to this?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what life is, to come to such a state?

Answer: To complete agreement with the upper force, complete surrender to it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/27/23

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Question: What exactly should the mouth and heart be equal in since not everything that roams in the head and heart can be expressed in the ten?

Answer: You can say anything. I think that our friends are ready to understand and accept everything you say.

Question: What if it offends and leads a person astray?

Answer: So think before you speak.

Question: If the heart and mind have come to a state that they are important to each other, can they convey through the mouths the importance of unification to the group?

Answer: Even without uttering a word, you influence the group and become one with your friends.
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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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Michael Laitman on the Times of Israel: “Is Immigration Killing New York?”

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about an immigration crisis in New York. More and more migrants are making their homes on the streets of Manhattan, pitching tents and sleeping on the sidewalks in the cold winter months.

The mayor of New York has raised the idea of placing migrants on cruise ships. On the flip side, some are calling for closed borders, urging a return of migrants to their home countries. It is indeed a complicated situation.

Today, millions of people around the world are on the move, looking for a better life. But where they settle matters, and Siberia is not exactly topping their list. Manhattan definitely seems like a much brighter option.

On one hand, immigrants have built America into what it is today. But on the other hand, times have changed and now Americans feel like the landlords. They want their comfort and the idea of hosting everyone has lost its mass appeal.

The big question is whether it is right for a country to close its doors to illegal immigrants. I say yes. Every country has the right to decide who gets in and who does not, and it includes setting the rules.

But then comes a deeper inquiry. What about the sense of homeland? Is it right to feel that your home is exclusively yours? Well, not exactly. It depends on your values and feelings, but the idea of a shared planet for everyone is gaining ground.

I was once optimistic that people would come to the realization that nothing in this world is truly theirs. But nowadays, humanity acts like the world is its personal playground, tearing it up in the process.

The future? Ideally, humanity needs some serious re-education. We should view the entire planet as our shared home, working together to make it a good one for all.

Our world is undergoing changes today like no other time in history. The more globally interconnected and interdependent we become, the more we are being shown how we need to shift our perspective from “this is my place, my country” to “this is our common home, for everyone.” The time has come to break free from the mindset of organizing our lives for our own personal benefit to instead live in order to benefit others and the whole of humanity. If we succeed in making that shift on a mass scale, then we will bear witness to the birth of a brand new harmonious and peaceful world.
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Each degree in spirituality is a reality, and everyone sees the reality, just as all those who come to the city of London in England see what is in the city and what is said in the city (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 98 “Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost”).

Question: When we are united by some common desire, do we feel the light in it the same way?

Answer: No, everyone feels it individually.

Question: Then how can we have the same feeling if different people, different tens, connect?

Answer: Baal HaSulam gives an example that all visitors to London experience approximately the same impression.

Comment: But someone comes to London for shopping, someone to visit, someone to visit the royal palace.

My Response: It is exactly the same as you. The attainment of the spiritual degrees takes place in accordance with your needs.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/8/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Spirituality Is Called That Which Will Never Be Lost”

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“Let us make man,” who is destined to put doing before hearing (Rashbi, Zohar for All “The Flower Buds”).

All degrees of nature, all its forces, participate in coming to such a development when man emerges from nature. The inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human degrees manifest themselves sequentially until the appearance of man.

It is said: “We shall do it and we shall hear.” The fact is that in order for a person to attain spirituality, he must first perform an action, and then he will hear. Hearing is the quality of bestowal, Bina.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 1/7/24

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