What Is People’s Freedom Of Choice?

Question: What is free choice for ordinary people? How, having neither knowledge, power, or awareness, can they choose? On what basis are they able to make a free choice? The corporeal eye sees everything in reverse: the strongest of the dogs lead the flock of sheep.

Answer: That’s right. But the fact is that sheep, after all, can gather into a group and eventually teach the dogs how to control them.

It is very interesting how the dogs guarding flocks of sheep behave. They sit at the side for hours and just watch to make sure that everything is alright. They do not rush anywhere and seemingly do not act. Only once they receive a signal from the shepherd do they run and restore order.

There is an absolutely clear connection between sheep and dogs. Sheep are completely safe under the supervision of dogs and they feel clear and positive control. They have no contradictions with dogs, it is just that the force that is absent in a sheep is present in a dog. Thus, they need each other.

Let’s hope that our shepherd will guide us correctly and we will correctly begin to group together.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/3/18

Why Is There No Peace In The Middle East?

Question: Why is there still no peace in the Middle East?

Answer: The problem is not with Israel and the nations of the world. The situation is such that the method of correction of the world, which should now be realized in the whole world, is in the hands of Israel.

In its inner wisdom called the science of Kabbalah, Israel has the methodology of correcting egoism in the world: how to change from the egoistic perception of life and nature, where everybody wants to get something for himself, to the altruistic one, where everybody will be able to sacrifice and give of himself, and through it become fulfilled, complete, and perceive life through altruism.

Because Israel holds this wisdom, the entire world feels as if Israel is at fault for all that is happening. This pressure and anti-Semitism will not stop until Israel makes a contribution to the world—by revealing the science of Kabbalah to the world, a method of correcting the world, which explains how it can save itself from its selfish development that has come to an end and has resulted in the threat to its existence.

The world will reach peace, tranquility, and contentment only through the implementation of this method of its correction, which has been with Israel since Babylonian times. Emerging from there, from the cradle of all civilization, it has been in the midst of Israel for 6,000 years, and is only now being revealed. That is why the science of Kabbalah is in demand now all over the world.

The science of Kabbalah became open for general study at the beginning of the 21^stcentury. After all, it represents the methodology of making our world altruistic, perfect, and wonderful. Then there will be peace in the Middle East and all over the world. And if not, then it will not happen there or anywhere in the world, which will only lead to a greater danger of its annihilation.

What is happening today in the Middle East is, in essence, the concentration, the focus, the pinnacle, of the whole world problem. If we solve this problem, if Israel will reveal the method of correction of the world, by doing so we will solve the problems of the entire world, and peace will also reign in the Middle East.
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From The Round Table of Independent Opinions. Berlin, 2006

New Life #84 – Understanding Chronic Fatigue

New Life #84 – Understanding Chronic Fatigue
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

When we close ourselves in a bubble, we feel safe and comfortable on one hand, but empty and alone on the other. We block the spirit of life and end up lacking strength, will, and motivation. The resulting lack of circulation between us causes illnesses, troubles, and pains such as cancer, divorce, depression, and terrorism. Health can be restored by creating a warm connection to others. For example, caring for a grandchild can transform boredom into a new sense of life. Opening up to strangers with an attitude of love and bestowal has the power to open all the blockages and truly heal.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #84 – Understanding Chronic Fatigue,” 10/17/12

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Every Day An Opportunity

Every day we have an opportunity to become increasingly closer to each other, that is, to the inner, emotional, and spiritual center of our unity, despite the difference in opinions and habits that might seem strange to others. However, we know that we are looking through the eyes of our egoism and therefore, we see nothing right. The only thing left for us is to have faith in the sages, Kabbalists, and be grateful for the chance to overcome.

By this sign it is possible to check how far you have moved or that you have already left the path leading to the goal of creation, to faith above reason, whether you rely on a spiritual basis or you fall into your egoism every time. The Creator gives us opportunities for advancement at every second; we just need to correctly accept them and correct our properties in order to see from them the true world instead of the world of egoistic deception.¹

Give yourself as a gift to your friends

The creation of a spiritual Kli is carried out by getting closer to the friends. Such rapprochement is possible only through self-annulment, by adopting what I disagree with from them. This work involves including myself into the group, bowing down to it instead of dragging it into one’s own viewpoint.

If I really want to get closer to the center of the group, where the Creator is hiding from me, I have to look for difficulties and problems that I can overcome in order to connect with my friends. My gift to the group is my heartfelt and sincere participation by faith above reason.

Despite my disagreement, I join my friends. I then see that everything is already prepared in advance and there is no one to correct except for me. Everybody is already including themselves in the common soul, and only I, Malchut, should correct myself in relation to them. I will then reveal the structure of the common soul with its filling—the Creator residing within it.

All this is due to the fact that I correct myself against my will, making gifts to a friend or the group by annulling myself and joining them. I do not want this, and this unwillingness remains in me as the depth of my egoism (Aviut), but I do it above my unwillingness, against my egoism, and so I make a restriction, a screen, and include my Malchut in the first nine Sefirot.

The nine first Sefirot are the properties of my friends given to me for work and self-annulment so that I can restrict my egoism and be ready to give, to help, to support them in everything. As a result, I find out that everything has already been corrected. It is is the clothing of the Creator who arranged it all to help me develop love in myself and reveal Him.²

Only by the power of the greatness of the goal received from the environment is our willingness to transfer ourselves to the group measured. It is as if I came to a store to buy a gift for a friend and choose it according to the price indicating how much I appreciate him, how much am I willing to pay for his love: one hundred dollars, one thousand, or one hundred thousand?

In the same way, I assess my state in relation to the group: What I am ready to give up for the sake of connecting with my friends? After I have chosen the group, I have to go with it by giving up my egoism for the sake of connecting with it all the time. Gradually, I transfer my desire to enjoy from “within reason” to “above reason,” lifting it above the screen until I accumulate so much desire there that I can feel the presence of the Creator in it.

This is my gift to the group because this is the most precious thing that I have and that they need, that very desire that can be attributed to the Creator. The group is waiting for such a gift from everyone.³

The gift is always internal because you need to deny yourself something for him, to pay. The gift itself is just an external symbol, but it includes an inner action regarding our egoism, our desire to enjoy.

If I do not feel that I am going against my egoism. This is not considered as a gift because I do not refuse anything. A gift is when I, an absolute egoist, can cut off, suppose, ten percent from myself and pass it on to a friend. Only if my ego resists such a gift is it considered a gift. If I bring gifts to the one I love, then I make gifts to myself, like a mother giving to a child and enjoying it even more than the child does.

The giver of a gift to a friend refuses his egoism and passes it to the service of the group. It is necessary to make a gift of what causes the greatest resistance inside of us.⁴

A gift means that I take some filling from my egoism and pass it on to the benefit of others. Even buying a gift for a friend in a store, I refuse a hundred dollars, passing to a friend my desire to enjoy, which he can now use.

This is how we use the whole world, as it is written: “Go and earn from each other.” Let us begin to connect in such a way that each one will yield to the other, and in this way we will again unite in one Kli. Mutual earnings are an exchange, a connection of our desires into one desire. All of reality is a desire, there is nothing else. The whole world does the work of the Creator, consciously or unconsciously.⁵

Money is a cover, a screen. To the extent that I have such coverage, I can “pay,” that is, raise my desire to enjoy and transfer it to bestowal.⁶
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/15/18, Lesson Preparation for the Virtual Convention 2018

Making Worldwide Bnei Baruch One Spiritual Vessel—The Spiritual Embryo

The upper governance is pushing us to unite into one world Kabbalistic group around the entire globe in order to feel ourselves as one spiritual vessel. For this purpose, it is necessary to overcome all differences, to understand and feel each other despite the difference in languages, time zones, mentalities, levels of preparation, technical interference in communication, etc.

Of utmost importance is to understand that we are moving toward universal unity at the demand of the upper governance, and we are implementing it step by step, level by level. The first step that we enter in the spiritual world is called the embryo. This embryo must be perfect, that is, similar to the construction of the common soul of Adam HaRishon that had shattered.

Now we are collecting the parts of this soul back into one soul, and we must understand that this embryo is the first step of the union. The embryo is built on concessions, annulling oneself in relation to the group. Heartfelt participation is necessary, but a person is not the master of his heart, which is in the hands of the Creator. We thus need to learn how to influence the Creator so that He will unite our hearts into one. We will then become a spiritual embryo.

It is not enough to sit together and study—you need to somehow unite the hearts, and this is what is most difficult. The construction of the world group provides us with a new connecting force because a lot of additional interferences are revealed that must be overcome. In our group, we seem to have done our best, performed all the physical actions, and the heart is not in our power. But by striving to unite on the scale of the entire Bnei Baruch World Kli, we are taking one more step toward opening our hearts, sharpening our feelings for each other.

Due to such an extensive unification of the 80 groups around the world, of a huge number of people of different mentalities and culture, we will be able to awaken and touch each other, completing the impressions we lack to create a common Kli, which will be called a spiritual embryo inside the upper system.

All we need is to connect the parts of the soul separated from us. After all, once we existed as a single soul, Adam HaRishon, in the form of a perfect system. However, this system was shattered, and now we need to exit ourselves and attach the lost parts back to ourselves so that the Shechina will reign in this perfect spiritual body forever.

It sounds so simple: to exit yourself, collect all the parts of the soul that are outside, which are essentially my own organs, and attach them back to me. Then, in this connection, similar to the structure of Adam HaRishon, we will reveal the Creator who fills this Kli.¹

I need to perform three actions and the Creator will finish the rest:

• Exit myself
• Collect the separated parts of my soul
• Implant these organs into myself so that they become one body.

The most difficult thing is to feel that I really lack these organs in order to internally attach and implant them into me. I currently do not feel that I need them, like I do not feel the need of a sixth finger.²
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/11/18, Lesson Preparation for the virtual Convention 2018

What Gives Birth To A Desire?

Question: How can one desire give birth to another? Is there an example in our world?

Answer: The Light gives birth to a desire. We study this in the four phases of direct Light. The Light acts on the original desire and begins to develop it from the still to the vegetative, then to the animate and human, which gives its desire to bestow.

The quality of bestowal, unity, love, helps the desire become diversified and at the same time connected. That is why atoms appear, molecules, and all sorts of chemical compounds that form the vegetative nature, developing under the influence of the sun, photosynthesis, and other phenomena.

Then the animate nature appears in which complex protein and other processes take place. Then, finally, human nature—but this is not even in matter, but higher than matter—the desires and the thoughts of a man are what distinguish him from the animal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/13/18

New Life #82 – How Can We Ease The Pressure Of Daily Life?

New Life #82 – How Can We Ease the Pressure of Daily Life?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

A healthy group is one that is connected to nature’s capacity to radiate healing energy. Anxiety and the sensation of pressure in life can be transformed into positive emotions when we know how to manage ourselves socially, what to talk about together, and which activities to engage in.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #82 – How Can We Ease The Pressure Of Daily Life?” 10/14/12

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Kabbalah And Faith

Rabash, “Love of Friends – 2”: Thus, we must also use faith to have confidence that we can reach the goal and not despair mid-way and flee the campaign. Rather, we should believe that the Creator can help even a low and ignoble person like myself. It means that the Creator will bring me near Him and I will be able to attain adhesion with Him.

Reaching the goal is not easy. But the fact is that we were given a group, an environment to help us. It is necessary to create such an environment in advance, which can support you in times of descent. If you create it, you guarantee in advance that your descent will be very special, soft, understandable, and there will be a glimmer of Light within this descent.

Question: What is the concept of faith in Kabbalah?

Answer: Faith is the quality of bestowal.

Question: Then, why is it said: faith in the sages? What is it?

Answer: Faith in the sages is a state when I have already grasped how much they understand the situation and therefore I am ready to follow them like a little child. Despite the fact that I do not understand what they are talking about, but they claim that this is what needs to be done, and so I do it.

My faith in them is based on the fact that I comprehend their sublimity. I submit to the upper, as a lower one. Therefore, faith is the feeling of the greatness of the upper Partzuf, the upper state, the upper soul.

This feeling comes when I earn it. I need to work hard for this.

Question: Is it not that someone said something and I believe it?

Answer: No. Such an approach will not save me. The person begins to believe either in a state of despair when he has no other option or when he has gone through all the scrutinies and is convinced that this is so.

Question: But then what is the difference between religion and Kabbalah?

Answer: Religion says: “You have to close your eyes and believe in what you are told.” And Kabbalah says: “A person has nothing more than what his eyes see.”
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation” 3/22/18