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Waiting for an Answer

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:42 am

Question: In Baal HaSulam’s article “Two States,” it is said that the answer to a request to the Creator comes after a long time. It seems that there is some kind of bureaucracy at the top as if a letter to Him was lost there.

But it turns out that when a person begins to ask, his request is not yet complete and its adjustment begins, which takes time. Is this why you have to wait a long time for an answer? And when the request comes to a perfect state, does the person receive it?

Answer: We do not know that. Each time it can be a different reason. But we must understand that there is only one higher root that controls everything, and when it is revealed, it becomes clear to us that there is a higher control. And when it hides, it is clear that that control is at the level of our world.

Question: So, is it impossible to answer why such a period occurs?

Answer: This may not be clear to us. However, everything happens according to the same direction from above. Whether the Creator will answer or make a person forget depends on the upper management.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two States“

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Dangerous Ascent

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:41 am

(Rashbi) …he permitted only Rabbi Aba to write, for he could disclose with intimation, so only the sages of the children of Israel would understand, and the sages of the nations would not understand, for fear that the wicked would know how to serve their masters (Baal HaSulam “The Shofar of the Messiah,“ “Writing The Zohar and Concealing It”).

Question: What is the danger that sinners will learn how to serve their master?

Answer: The danger is that sinners will somehow be able to serve the Creator and receive from Him without correcting themselves all kinds of correct answers that will lift them on the ladder, although they do not deserve it. They would be creating conditions for themselves to climb the ladder of the spiritual worlds without changing internally.

Comment: This is a bit like the work of Lo Lishma (for myself). But this is a necessary step to come to Lishma (for the sake of others).

My Response: No, this degree is not necessary. You cannot approach and do what you wish without correcting your tools with which you will work with light and Reshimot (spiritual information data) because you are uncorrected. All sorts of wrong thoughts, desires, goals, and actions will arise in you.

Question: It seems that we have the opportunity to receive without correcting ourselves, right?

Answer: Yes, it is emphasized, on one hand, that there is such an opportunity to be inside the system. But, on the other hand, it cannot be used in any way because it is given precisely so that it can be declined.

That is part of the correction when we are offered such a path, but we do not accept it.
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From the 3^rd party of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Shofar of the Messiah“

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It’s Good for Men to Be Silent

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:36 am

Question: Communication should be through feelings, internally, through silence. Why talk? What are words for?

Answer: Words are in order to get in touch in conversation, in order to tune in to each other. Musical instruments also are tuned before they are played together. It is the same here. But in principle, if you know a person, then you can come to him, sit down next to him, and be silent.

Question: In general, can we say that a few words can be spoken in order to be silent?

Answer: Yes. If people know each other, even married couples, they are silent. A woman, however, needs to speak, express, and listen a little more. This is how they are built because they are adapted to looking after small children and so on. But men do not. It is good for men to keep quiet.

Question: So do you see that in the future, maybe the distant future, that the transmission of information will be through silence?

Answer: Sure. This will not be like our TV nowadays.

Question: Will it fall silent as a result?

Answer: I think so.

Question: And what do you say about hermits who move away to be silent?

Answer: There are good periods in a person when he does not want to communicate with anyone except with himself and with the Creator. And he has this communication going on.

These are good states, and they are very strong. They are very thoughtful and generate a lot in a person.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/21/23

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In the Same Direction

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:30 am

Question: In “As Though Standing before a King“ (211), Baal HaSulam says that a person should be careful in all the material things that he receives so that they do not cancel out his Hisaron (spiritual need). How does the ten help a person in this?

Answer: Try, in your common desire for the Creator, to imagine that you are in front of Him, that you support each other, that you turn to Him together, and that you have no problems other than remaining in connection with Him. Be together with all your friends in the ten in the same direction so that the common aspiration for an even greater rapprochement with the Creator becomes constant.

You must try to see the Creator in front of you all the time and hold on to Him. If you constantly imagine that He is in front of you, then gradually you will succeed.

Therefore, a practical tool for your spiritual work is to imagine the power of the Creator before you. And when He answers you, i.e., draws you closer, you will begin to see the world differently.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/16/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “As Though Standing before a King“

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Sorting and Analysis

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:27 am

Question: How can I hate reception for my own sake? Is it possible to learn this or to understand how to reach this? It seems that there are some moments of enlightenment, as if you come closer to the Creator and then He pushes you away again.

Answer: First of all, you should check what the actions that you perform give you: whether they bring you closer to the Creator or distance you from Him, whether they bring you closer to your friends or distance you from them.

With the help of such sorting, with the help of such analysis, you will be able to understand what is happening to you and change the direction of your development.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/12/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is Peace in the Work?“

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Questions about Spiritual Work—31

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:23 am

Question: Under the open governance of the Creator does a person always feel only mercy and goodness?

Answer: Yes, of course. How could it be otherwise? He feels the Creator, that is, only positive effects on himself.

Question: Why do we say in some cases that if there is a plea, the answer is ready immediately, and in other cases we wait for years, months, or days for answers?

Answer: It does not depend on us. We should just increase our plea. If this is a true request, we should focus on it and direct it to the Creator all the time.

Question: There is a great need for the Creator in our ten. We feel that we really miss Him. What else do we need to bring contentment to the Creator?

Answer: We lack a real sense of the need for the Creator to become one and, in this unity, to feel that the Creator is in us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/14/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Two States“

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What Should One Do if Your Wife Is Lured Away from You?

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:19 am

Igor writes:

Dear Michael Laitman,

I never thought that this would happen to me! I had a misfortune. My closest friend lured my wife away from me! It is a primitive triangle, but I can no longer breathe and live!

You say: “We must accept the situation.” But how? I now understand what hatred is and what despair is when one gives up and tears flow uncontrollably. I am crying for the second time in my life: the first was at my mother’s grave and the second is now. How can I survive this?

Answer: I do not know what to advise a person in this case. I think that you need to think about others and not about yourself. Was she happy with you? Apparently not so much, and that is why she left.

What could happen now? Suppose you force her back or in some fantasy you make her feel bad so that she comes back to you, throws herself at your feet, cries, and all that. I do not think that would reassure you because the very action when she left for someone else is already irreparable.

The best thing, of course, is to change the environment, get married, and start a new family.

Question: That is, let it go? She was a part of me, my “I,” that is why Igor is suffering, and you say: “Let it go”?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: A part of his “I” was cut off and you say…

My Response: This is generally a huge loss and a very strong defeat, of course. Let her go!

Question: Let her go? Do you even say: “Let her be happy there”? And do you think that at that moment he will begin to feel a relief if he comes to this thought?

Answer: I think so. It is very difficult to change your hatred to some kind of love, that you love the person with whom you were maybe even happy, and everything was good. But she did not feel good, and she exchanged you for someone else.

And you make it so that despite the fact that you were happy with her, you raise yourself here and think: “But if she really did not feel good, and now she feels good, can I be happy because she is happy?” Here you have to answer this for yourself.

That is, you must rise above your egoism, above your jealousy, ambition, above all this, and say: “If she is happy, then I am happy.” Otherwise you will not fix it.

Question: You will eat yourself up as a result. Will you feel much worse?

Answer: Yes. And if you find out that she is happy, and you will feel happy because of this, then you resolved this problem.

Comment: This is beautiful! But how hard this is! How difficult!

My Response: It is very hard in feelings.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/16/23

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With Words We Pollute the World

Posted on November 30th, 2023 at 7:14 am

Question: What does the eruption of all our verbal information mean for the world?

Answer: We pollute the entire world.

Question: Why did the upper one need us to talk all the time so that we have TV and everything would be talking all the time? What is it for?

Answer: Have you heard kids screaming and running around at a playground? That is the same kind.

Question: But we use words differently, we humiliate, lower. If we are talking about TV, this is our way. We give such power to speech. What does it produce in the world?

Answer: It produces new corruptions over and over in the world. We cannot escape it unless, we begin to transform ourselves.

Comment: It happens that one can kill with a word, but it is unlikely with silence.

My Response: You can never make it worse with silence. It is better be silent.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/21/23

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