Question: When we open our hearts in our connection, I feel unbearable longing. It is so strong that it is impossible to open the heart any further.

What is the other side of this feeling, and how can I use it for the benefit of my group?

Answer: You must connect all your feelings and direct them toward the unity of your ten, and then after the ten, to all the others.

It is necessary to try to come closer together so that you feel absolutely all the friends in your heart. This will be the revelation of your soul.

We think that the soul is something that must descend from somewhere, ascend somewhere, and move. The soul is our desires that are ready to connect and give a place for the Creator inside them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: Are rubbing hearts and melting in the friends different actions?

Answer: Rubbing hearts means that I feel the complete contrariness of my heart to the heart of a friend. When we are rubbing our hearts in this way, we feel how much everyone needs to give up on himself and annul his egoism, and then to this extent we will be more and more ready for connection. This is our work.

Question: How can I practically rub my heart with my friends in the ten in order to melt in them? Do I have to think about them, meet them, and pray?

Answer: You have to think about how to fill your friends through yourself. When you try to do that, you will see how much you still need to correct yourself. In this way, you will be going forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: Our task is to ask the Creator to be together in one heart. We constantly ask for this. How do we deal with the disappointment that sometimes arises when the Creator does not seem to hear our prayer?

Answer: It is natural that the Creator separates, alienates, and empties us so that we ask Him even more and see how dependent we are on this. Therefore we must always be careful not to move away from the friends. It is very important.

Not many words are needed here. There is nothing else but becoming so close that the Creator begins to reveal Himself between us. We begin to feel Him in our unity, and thus we come closer to greater and greater correction.

This is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah, although we learn various clever things from The Study of the Ten Sefirot, from the book The Tree of Life, and from other books. In general, Kabbalah is considered a very difficult, closed, and secret wisdom.

In fact none of this is important. The main thing is for a person to understand that he must open his heart by any means and be on this path all the time. You need to constantly urge yourself to connect with others because only in connection can you reveal your point in the heart, your soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/28/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is social development essentially a matter of?“

As we mature into adults, we inevitably engage with one another, not solely within our familial bonds, but in social interactions. What binds us is the necessity of our earthly existence.

Without social connections, self-sustenance would be unattainable, especially in today’s world, where global interconnection is paramount for our well-being.

If we examine any objects within our environment, such as the items currently in our apartments and homes, we will find that practically the entire planet contributes to shaping our living spaces.

Now, the question arises: what comes next? What follows is our need to participate with one another, not solely in order to create self-serving alliances and to organize our lives, but more so, to achieve harmony with nature.

Nature urges us to establish harmonious connections with one another. To the degree that it interconnects on various levels—the still, vegetative and animate—it compels us to form a unified societal framework marked by mutual support, integration, encouragement, unity and inclusion in a single, cohesive picture. That is why we have been created as social beings, and such unification is next stage of development that we are being led to.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How not to Lose Money?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on October 31, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash.

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When you come to the convention, you need to jump into this sea of love. Even in ordinary life it happens that when you love someone, it is impossible to keep your feelings inside; they pour out. This is the relationship we want with the Creator.

Here we are not talking about love between a man and a woman or parents and children, but about the kind of love that is above bodies and above all calculations—a boundless ocean where you can enter and disappear in its depths. This is how we need to drown in our feelings, like in the ocean.

We enter this sea; it picks us up and carries us. It pulls us in all directions, and it makes us feel that we are in the ocean of our friends’ love, in the sea of our unity. I am not afraid of drowning in this sea; on the contrary, I feel surrounded by friends, I am together with them, and there are no boundaries to our mutual feelings.

The sea is Malchut, and therefore there is a custom of going into the sea and plunging headlong three times. This is a wonderful thing.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: How does the Creator open our hearts? Is it through love for each friend or through perceiving the boundless good world of the Creator and the creations He created?

Answer: The Creator affects us in different ways. It is impossible to say exactly how. He awakens desires and aspirations in us, and at the same time all sorts of circumstances around us. This is how we move.

The main thing is to do our work, that is, to awaken ourselves to unification starting with the ten and further to the entire world Kli.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: If I look at the group, at the spiritual environment, and at the same time try to focus on the Creator, on the point of unity, how does the structure of the ten Sefirot manifest itself?

Answer: We are gradually beginning to feel that there is a living network of connections between us that is always in motion, in transformation. As a result, we will experience various attitudes from our friends, from the world, from our surrounding, and we will begin to define these movements.

We need to reach a state where we find ourselves completely dependent, connected, and glued together to the extent that the internal changes of each of us will affect everyone.

In Kabbalah, this is called adhesion (Dvekut). Then we will see how in achieving this gluing between us the Creator begins to manifest Himself. This glue itself is Him who determines our spiritual states. This is how we will work and reveal spirituality.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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Question: You said that at the congress we will feel living connections between us. How can we revive these connections?

Answer: Open your heart and try to get closer to each other from the heart because you have a common goal and task: for the Creator to shine in your common heart.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/29/23, “Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress”

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