Learn to Appreciate the Gifts of the Creator

275Question: The Creator gives us gifts all the time. He created the evil inclination to shade Himself, gave us a method so that we would feel how to approach Him. Now He is ready to give us the quality of bestowal. How can we learn to appreciate these gifts, recognize them, learn from them, and be grateful?

Answer: We should try to connect with each other so that there are no contradictions or disturbances between us that would prevent us from relating to the Creator with one feeling, with one heart.

Try to adjust yourself so that everyone has one single desire of the heart, and by turning it to the Creator, you will begin to feel the manifestation of the Creator to you in this desire.

Question: Is this a test that we have become closer to the Creator?

Answer: This is not just a test but an action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Become an Intermediary between the Creator and the Friends

938.02Question: There is a place called “the love of the friends for me” and there is a place called “my love for the friends.” Are these different things?

Answer: Absolutely different. The love of the friends for me is manifested in their desire. “My love for my friends” is in my desire.

But the Creator reveals himself in both places: in my desire for the friends and in the desire of the friends for me.

Question: I suffer that I cannot bestow and bring contentment to my friends, and at the same time I rejoice that the Creator wants and can do it. I want to become an intermediary between the Creator and my friends in order to bring contentment to them. Is this the right desire, and how to come to it?

Answer: Everyone should be in such a state. And then everyone will unite with the Creator and with his friends to be a link between the whole group, everyone in the group, and the Creator. So, that is very good.

Question: How can you give to the group and not see the benefit for yourself?

Answer: With one’s heart. Try to include your friends in your heart and also enter into their hearts. And in this common mutual heart, you will always approach each other until you feel the Creator, that you are in Him and He is in you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Predisposition to Spirituality

937Question: If Kabbalah is not transmitted genetically, but only through education, why is it believed that the Jews have a genetic spiritual code?

Answer: Because they had already performed spiritual correction once, i.e., they were in these conditions.

The Jews are the same ancient Babylonians who left together with the Babylonian priest Abraham, who brought them together into a state of universal mutual guarantee. That is why this group is so cursed to this day, because after all, it is obliged to bring this method to the world. If the world accepts the method, it will develop at an accelerated scale, and if not, it will develop on a natural slow scale of time. That is the whole difference!

Question: How are spiritual records and spiritual experiences stored in each soul?

Answer: They were deposited in the partzufim of the soul, in the internal state it has passed through, which does not disappear anywhere. It seems to leave a person’s feelings; he does not feel his past, but he can again awaken it in himself.

Therefore, those who were once genetically in this state are more predisposed to spirituality. But the rest…look how many students we have from all over the world!

Humanity can be divided as follows: those who already were once in a spiritual state; these are today’s Jews who are obliged to make corrections and pass everything that is possible onto the world, and those who were not in this state but feel the pressure today. They, too, need to make corrections according to their current spiritual component that is pushing them forward.

But real Jews, who were already in the spiritual state once, are obliged to correct themselves; otherwise, they will be tormented even more.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalistic Calendar” 9/3/11

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I’m Talking about Facts!

504If I am engaged with a person and society, if I am talking about how society should change, and how a person should change, then of course I can always be attributed to politics.

In the end, I’m not acting with political tools, but only educational ones.

People go out into the street to demand some political or social changes from the government, and we went out into the street to give them pamphlets saying that the only thing that will help them is if each of them changes themselves.

I tell a person: “You have to change your attitude toward others and not demand something from the government. It is not able to do anything, and you can’t put pressure on it. In the end, nothing good will come from it. Look at what is happening all over the world! The only thing that will help is that here I’m giving you objective natural laws, which say you have to change yourself.”

If I address everyone personally and talk about how to change oneself, is this a political statement?

We exist in a world of objective laws. These laws show us where today’s confusion comes from, and how we can find ourselves in the current world, to do something with ourselves, with society, and with our family, in order to continue to give birth, develop, and live.

I’m talking about facts! Let’s say I’m just explaining the law of free fall and how we can apply it in our lives, or the law of the dependence of speed on time and distance and how it can be used. I explain everything on my fingers and show everything in action.

I attract scientists who tell me that our world is truly global, mutual, and completely interdependent. At present, there are laws in it that did not exist before, and our failure to accept these laws is called a crisis. But this is our crisis, our lack of understanding and our inability to adapt to this world.

So we need to adapt to it and then there will be no crisis, but instead a wonderful, broad development.

As long as you cannot interact with this new, global and integral world, you are in crisis. This is not an external crisis; this is your internal, conceptual crisis.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah, Politics and Religion” 9/3/11

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“Is there a specific way love should feel?” (Quora)

Dr. Michael LaitmanMichael Laitman, On Quora: “Is there a specific way love should feel?“

Mutual, reciprocal and whole among all people in the world.

It is because love is the force that binds us together in our whole and eternal state as a single soul, which we are all parts of.

How can we feel this mutual love among us as a single soul?

We can feel mutual love when we all connect, feel a common connection between us, and try to fulfill each other through such a connection.

Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on July 28, 2023, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward.” Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 8/18/23

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “We Should Always Discern between Torah and Work”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 178

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To Be Included in Common Request

936The feeling of the Creator’s greatness is a consequence of Him revealing Himself a little with respect to us. The question arises: how can one ask correctly for such a feeling for the friends? This is the result of our common work.

You can ask alone as well, but it is very hard and long work until He answers. But if you ask together with the ten, the Creator will not be able to refuse.

Question: Does the request for revelation of the Creator include any other actions, for example, our meetings?

Answer: Not meetings, but connection! As soon as you reach it, the Creator can be revealed in it.

Question: What is the difference between when we focus on asking and thinking about the revelation of the Creator, and the action when we talk about love of friends, but at the same time we wait for the Creator to be revealed? Are these different things?

Answer: They are different. It is necessary to clarify this. It is necessary to try more and more to combine all these desires, requests, and appeals so that they are arranged in such a way that you, your friends, and everyone in the world are included in this request.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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The Greatness of the Shechina

509Question: What is the Shechina (Divinity)?

Answer: The feeling in a person that the Creator clothes into him and fills him is called the Shechina. The Creator or Shechina are one and the same.

Question: How does the greatness of the Shechina in my eyes affect my friends and reality in general?

Answer: In a direct way. The greatness of the Shechina is the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of His force and the envelopment of the entire universe by His force. We have no other problems here, except to feel and reveal the greatness of the Creator. This is the most important thing for us.

Then we will be able to address Him correctly, not forget about Him, and understand that we depend only on Him. We need to tell all of humanity about this.

Everything in the world rests solely on revealing the greatness of the Creator. The first to receive it was a group of people that came out of Babylon. They called themselves “Yehudim” from the word “Yihud,” unity. At one time, they united with each other precisely in order to attain the Creator. They must correctly present the singularity of the Creator to the whole world.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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The Taste of Dust in Spiritual Work

243.05Question: You said that the taste of dust is a state of indifference when one does not feel anything. But there is a feeling of rejection when I just want to run away. With indifference, it is still possible to do something through the mind, but with rejection, there is absolutely no strength for anything. What is the difference between these states?

Answer: The difference is very big. We must try to draw ourselves through the group to the Creator. It should all be in front of us. There is me and there is the Creator, and the group is between us. And I, embracing the group and being in it, carry myself and the group to the Creator.

Question: Egoism always wants to convince us that if we feel that this is bad, then this really is so, and it is better not to do anything. How should one act in this state?

Answer: Only through the group.

Question: If the group does not react and is inactive, do I also have to be inactive?

Answer: No, we still need to pull our friends through ourselves to the Creator. We need to show an example.

Question: How should one react correctly to the taste of dust in the work: agree, endure, or ask to renew the taste?

Answer: In different ways. I do not want to limit you in anything. The most important thing is for everyone to pull the group forward. You can consult with the group.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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