Break The Shell Between Us

To subjugate myself does not mean to submit like a donkey so that everyone can ride me. I subjugate in relation to the Creator and enjoy this state, which comes precisely after the strongest eruption of egoism.¹

We come to connection from a desperate state, from feeling lost and powerless, when we are crying and demanding help from the Creator. Otherwise, we would be unable to feel connection in the right place—in the heart, in the desire.

Connection is a feeling in my heart, of life that happens in the heart of a friend. My heart only feels, but it lives the life of a friend. For this, I must convince myself that the Creator is in the heart of a friend and if I want to reach the Creator, I must come closer to a friend.

Connection is a feeling of mutual dependency, when I feel that I fully depend on others: on their success, achievements, health, on everything. That is why we are attached to our family, because we understand that we depend on it. If family members are healthy, it is good for me; if they are successful, this also benefits me. This is how our desire to receive works in its most primitive form: pleasure/suffering, detachment/connection, pain/absence of pain.²

The full measure (Seah), after which a qualitative change happens in us, is made up from the quantity and quality of changes that includes the number of actions, the number of years, and the total of invested efforts. Those are quantitative indicators, but from quantity comes a new quality.

All our efforts are aimed only at softening our hearts. The full measure means that the shell of our heart is broken. The heart is covered in a shell, and it must be broken “to get to the answer.” Even one crack is enough in order to begin feeling some contact with spirituality and our shattering. Prior to this a person does not even feel the shattering, his heart is just deaf.

It is impossible to break the shell with one blow. This is similar to the way a chick hatches from an egg: it knocks and knocks at the shell until it cracks and allows it to get out. However, in our case it is even more difficult because the shell not only does not break with one blow, it is also impossible to break it alone, but only together with the friends! This will take a lot of strikes that are made together.

Then whose shell am I breaking: mine or a friend’s? The shell is neither mine nor his, but it is between us. As it is written, “They helped every one his friend.” The friend knocks from his side and I knock from mine, and only together will we be able to break this shell between us.³
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot, item 74

A Place For Everyone In The Ten

Question: There are active and passive friends in our ten. Sometimes a desire arises to form a core from the active friends, but on another hand, it looks like there is a ten within a ten. Should we distribute our attention evenly and focus it on absolutely everyone in order not to fall apart?

Answer: In my opinion, the way ten is formed, let it remain so. There is no need to shuffle them. The ten is a spiritual unit. It should have everything: the core, the laggards, the achievers. Therefore, it is not necessary to change something in it by force. It should be taken into consideration that there is a place for everyone.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/6/19

New Life #171 – The Sabbath

New Life #171 – The Sabbath
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

What does the Sabbath day symbolize for us on which the entire family gathers for a communal meal, what is the idea of resting on the Sabbath and what is the power of the connection between us?

The Sabbath symbolizes the end of the correction of human egoism and is above nature. The integral power of human connection is discovered on the Sabbath. It is a day of healing and rest. It is love, connection, and reconciliation.
From KabTV’s “New Life #171 – The Sabbath,” 4/23/13

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Between The Friends

If I want to connect with a friend, I find I need the help of the Creator. The more I ask the Creator for help, the more I feel my dependence on Him. To the extent the Creator strengthens my connection with the friends, I establish a connection with the Creator, I begin to understand and feel Him. All this is revealed within my connection with my friends, within human relations, not in some abstract feeling of the Creator.

I feel the Creator, I appeal to Him because I need Him as a mediator standing between me and my friend. A I reveal different types of connection with a friend, I attribute it all to the Creator. Between me and my friend there is a difference of potentials, which the upper Light, the Creator, fills, like a current flowing between two poles.

In this form, I attain the Creator, that is, not Him, Himself but His actions, as it is written: “By Your actions, we know You. ” The Creator builds and ruins the relationships between us, breaks them, leading us through all possible states, through darkness and evil, making me cry and curse Him. But then comes insight, sensation, the Light comes, and I understand that one cannot exist without the other because “…the advantage of the Light from within the darkness” is revealed. As a result of all these states, I begin to attain the Creator. Although He is hiding, I begin to distinguish His presence judging by the difference between the states.¹

The 613^th commandment is love for the Creator. We can fulfill 612 commandments, but not the 613^th. The last commandment comes from above.

The 612 commandments are the correction of the connection between the parts of the broken soul. 612 Lights glue and fix the shattered fragments of the vessel. The 613^thcommandment is an addition to the full, complete Kli—the Light of Yechida—coming from the Creator himself. We ourselves are not capable of any action regarding this commandment.

The spiritual commandment is love for one’s neighbor as for oneself. If we perform it, then we come to the love for the Creator. I do not neglect the physical commandments, but the main thing is to know what we want to achieve with this. For example, washing the hands means liberation from receiving after which our whole life should be only in bestowal.²

The Creator is between all the friends. Moreover, it is the feeling of a gap, of a distance between us—this is the feeling of the Creator. I look at a friend and see how different He is from me, what a discrepancy there is between us, what omissions—this is the Creator between us. And if we work correctly, we see that the Creator begins to unite us, as it is written: “A man and a woman, if they are rewarded, the Shechina [Divinity] is between them.”³

In Adam HaRishon before the shattering, there was no mutual inclusion of desires into each other. But after the shattering of the common soul, all its parts were mixed and penetrated into each other in an infinite number of variations, which allows a person to deeply understand and feel the Creator.

Prior to this, the sensation of the Creator by Adam was “circumcised,” as if in a small child. He did not have the tools to penetrate deep into the Creator. And due to the shattering and interpenetration of all parts that require working on their correction and asking for the help from the Creator, a man becomes acquainted with the inner world of the Creator and penetrates deep inside Him.

Before the shattering, Adam received the Light only into the body of the Partzuf at the level of Nefesh – Ruach. But thanks to the shattering, we can raise the reflected Light from the screen to the head (Peh de Rosh) upward, as if we are entering inside the Creator. And then the Light spreads from top to bottom to this height of the reflected Light, to the height of attaining the Creator, and we attain Him in ourselves. This determines the measure of our mutual inclusion, merging with the Creator: to the extent we attain the Creator in the head, to this extent we unite with Him through the body of the spiritual Partzuf.

And all this begins and ends in connection between the friends. This is our only goal, otherwise it will be not the goal of creation but some kind of surrogate. This determines our attitude to creation and shows whether we have the right to be called the last generation.⁴

The solution is only in connecting in the tens. Meanwhile, we cannot overcome the separation between us, our mutual rejection. We want to receive all the answers from our connection in the ten. Whatever happens in the world, I look into the ten and from there I get every answer. I arrange myself in this way and then I suddenly feel that there really is a system that can respond to any of my questions.

Everything that happens in the world and with me personally is a consequence of what is happening in the ten. This is an internal cause, which then causes all the consequences in my family, at work, and all over the world. It is only necessary to look inside the ten: to what extent are we united or do we lack unity—what happens in every corner of the world depends on, like a branch coming from the root.⁵
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/6/19, Writing of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot, item 64

Attack In The Group

Question: Can we create an attack in the group and how can we do it correctly?

Answer: An attack in the group is possible only when you are gathering together with one goal, one desire, one intention. Try to concentrate as much as possible among yourselves to clearly discern your desires, and then begin to pray and ask.

Think about what we should ask in what way. Try to formulate it together. You will suddenly see how you begin to understand each other more, see how your hearts become closer, how who you are becomes clearer, what you want, and what you should ask for.

Talk to each other, talk about it, and come to a single conclusion. Try to stay with this conclusion for the maximum time and you will feel how it changes you.

That is, you do not just send a telegram somewhere and get an answer. You are in the Creator’s system, and in the process of this work, you begin to feel how a right relationship with the Creator, or a desire for a right relationship with Him changes you. You will succeed!
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/4/18

New Life #170 – What Is A Funeral In Spirituality?

New Life #170 – What Is a Funeral in Spirituality?
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary:

When a man dies, a group of people accompany him on his last journey. Why is it important to accompany the dead, what is death in spirituality, and what does it mean to be buried in the dust?

If a person invested in the wholeness of society, he has an eternal part in it. Only the bodydies.
From KabTV’s “New Life #170 – What Is a Funeral in Spirituality?” 4/21/13

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Progress At Your Own Speed

Each progresses at his or her own speed and own style and passes through one’s own specific stages. There is no need to worry about it, one does not know why one’s soul is being corrected in such a way, rising from the opposite state. The higher the soul was before the shattering, the worse it is in the broken state and the higher it rises after the correction, returning to its place.

This is what a person is given. The Creator created him or her with a soul of a certain height, and He organizes appropriate conditions for the person: thoughts, feelings, and an environment. All conditions originate from the shattering of the soul. The Creator does not consider anyone personally, but looks at the general broken soul that needs to be corrected. The shattering should go down to the lowest limit in order to start the ascent.

Each one begins to climb up, like in the parable of the king who called upon his subjects to transfer his treasury to another place and gave each of them one coin. Each carries its part, with his or her internal properties, health conditions, environment, and various obstacles along the way. He either gets sick, goes to prison, gets a promotion, or wins a million dollars in a lottery. Everyone overcomes their own obstacles, everything is arranged in advance.¹

There is no need to worry about the states we go through, as if I myself am responsible for them. I am only responsible for drawing the Light in this moment. All that was and will be, was and will be arranged by the Creator. All my steps are already known. It is only the quality of the steps that is unknown. I have to move from point A to point B, but I can ride in a horse-drawn carriage, in a train, walk, or barely crawl.

The speed depends on me, but I have to go through all the states that are already predefined. There are people who anticipate future events. So what? I do not ask them for predictions because I do not want to think about what will happen to me. All that matters to me is to what extent I adhere to the Creator at every given moment. Apart from this, nothing matters: I either rise or fall, or I am thrown in all directions; the Creator will take care of me.

All the obstacles have already been built into my path according to my soul, and I have to go through them; otherwise, I will not correct my soul and will not rise from them. Therefore, they should not be taken as misfortunes. These disturbances will be revealed, and above each disturbance I will have to adhere to the Creator. The only disturbance is separation from the Creator. In each state, I worry only about how to adhere to Him more strongly, attributing all the states and all the salvations to the Creator.

It is not the states themselves that are important to me, but my attitude toward them: to what extent I justify the Creator in them and am in solidarity with Him. The Creator scares me only so that I will cling to Him and justify Him even more.

Therefore, I do not fear the future, no matter what might happen. I fear only one thing: whether I will have the power to unite with the Creator and adhere to Him, like a baby who clings to his mother as if he wants to hide back in her belly.

I have to strengthen my faith, that is, to attribute everything happening in my world to the Creator. There is no other source. Everything happens only so that I can connect it with the Creator in my heart and mind. The evil inclination, Pharaoh, this is what wants to separate me from the Creator, from the sole cause of everything that happens.²

If it were obvious to me that everything comes from the Creator, then faith would be unnecessary because there would be clear knowledge. I have to be in touch with the Creator who pulls me by the strings like a puppet. This is how I become an angel, completely controlled, like a horse or any other animal. Therefore, on one hand, I want to remain separate from the Creator, and at the same time connect with Him by my own effort above the restriction, above the concealment, as if there is no concealment or restriction. This, I “as if” arouse by myself, and it is called the “reforming Light.”

If the king wants to check to what extent the slave is devoted to him, he pretends that his life is in danger. This is how it is possible to check whether the slave is ready to sacrifice his life in order to save the king. Therefore, first of all, we need to acquire the Light of faith in which adhesion with the Creator, the Light of Hochma, the Light of knowledge, is reached.

Knowledge cannot be above faith because it is not the faith that is known to us in our world. Faith above knowledge is the willingness to bestow everything without any reason. What is required of us is devotion, in exchange for what? In exchange for nothing. First, we reach the Light of faith, of devotion, and only then can we connect with the Creator.³

Adhesion with the Creator lasts one moment, but a person wants to adhere to this moment forever as if nothing else exists. He attributes all the past, present, and future to the Creator, seeing in Him the cause and effect of all his actions and achievements. And he himself remains only one point that states all this.

The Creator created the evil inclination, and He also created the good inclination. A person only decides that “There is no one else but the Creator.”⁴
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/26/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot, item 17

Spiritual Bestowal

Question: I have repeatedly asked what spiritual bestowal is and never received a clear answer. You give an example of a mother and child, which is not spiritual, but material bestowal. So what is spiritual bestowal?

Answer: Spiritual bestowal is bestowal above my egoism, when, relying on and starting from it, I produce altruistic actions inverse to my desire.

I can only do them if I rely on a group that supports me in this, and through it, I receive the upper light—the light of bestowal. Then I can act.

This is an absolutely real action that ultimately turns out to be the opposite of my egoistic desire.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/11/18

New Life #169 – Brit Milah And Bar Mitzvah

New Life #169 – Brit Milah and Bar Mitzvah
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary:

All Jewish customs symbolize connection. The Brit Milah ceremony symbolizes the cutting of the “foreskin of the heart” and a person’s willingness to correct his inner relationship to others. The Bar Mitzvah ceremony symbolizes the beginning of the process of overcoming the ego, connecting with others, and influencing others in practice. From birth through to adulthood, we must educate our children to correct their hearts and open up love for others.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #169 – Brit Milah and Bar Mitzvah,” 4/21/13

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Don’t Allow Bad States To Manifest

Question: If I see that my friend is in a bad corporeal situation does it mean that I want him to be in this state?

Answer: No, all bad states are the result of the shattering of the soul of Adam. Therefore, we do nothing bad.

You are not the creator of the bad states. However, when you don’t ask for their correction, you let these states manifest. The degree to which these bad states improve depends on us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 11/4/19

Like A Missile Escaping Earth’s Gravity

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we study the actions of the upper Light upon our desire to receive, to the extent that we are ready for such changes. There is no coercion in spirituality.  A person must undergo all the changes with complete understanding, feeling, agreement, and subjugation, according to his own desire. The changes within him cannot take place automatically, without his participation, impression, and reaction. He must make efforts for this. Therefore, serious changes take place gradually and require a lot of preparation.

In essence, we learn how to help the upper Light implement the program of creation in us, how to fulfill the part of the process that depends on us. This is the entire purpose of the study and of our existence.¹

How is it possible for the egoistic desire to subjugate before the Creator and even enjoy annulling itself? The upper Light influences the desire to receive and changes it so that it begins to feel pleasure in subjugating before the Light. Any change in the desire is possible only because of the Light returning to the source.

The desire still wants to enjoy, but the type of the enjoyment changes. Before, it was enjoying reception, and now, it enjoys the fact that it does not receive. The previous pleasure was from a simple, natural fulfillment. Now this pleasure is from a different fulfillment, from the feeling of its surrender before the Creator.

The desire does not feel the Creator yet, but it already feels that it is subjugating before Him, before some kind of upper quality. The very action of subjugation gives it satisfaction, pleasure, calmness, and joy in its state. This is the influence of the upper Light on the desire. This happens even before the entrance into the spiritual world (before the Machsom), prior to acquiring the quality of bestowal.

Before this subjugation, a person usually experiences opposite states: rage, irritation, and anger. He is angry at being forced to surrender. The egoism is trying to escape from its cell by all means. This is an entire period at the end of which suddenly comes calmness and a person feels how wonderful it is to surrender himself.

A person experiences these two polar states in a very strong and emotional way: a great anger, and suddenly a complete calmness. He understands that subjugation is the best thing. This is the first correction that later accompanies a person throughout the entire path.

If a person is able to withstand a long period of frustration, irritation, pain from envy, and stinging ambitions that burn him from the inside and twist his soul, then at some instant, he suddenly comes out as if to fresh air.

It is like a missile that, with enormous efforts, overcomes the gravitational pull of the Earth and suddenly exits into outer space where everything is quiet, calm, and completely weightless.²
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/19, Writing of Baal HaSulam, Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot, item 74

“Dems Vote on Anti-Hate Resolution: We’ve Seen Better Days” (Times of Israel)

The Times of Israel published my new article “Dems Vote on Anti-Hate Resolution: We’ve Seen Better Days”

Thirty days to the elections in Israel, Israelis are so entrenched in their daily fix of political and cultural bashing, that they barely notice the global resurgence of anti-Semitism.

A giant parade in Belgium featured floats of two Hasidic Jews reaching out for money with money bags behind them. In the U.S., the Democratic Party softened its condemnation of anti-Semitism and made do with a lukewarm announcement, pledging to “combat hate of all kinds.” The next day a fan of the Berlin Union football team caused an outrage by tweeting that Israeli footballer Almog Cohen should be sent “to the chamber.”

However, the fact that headlines are increasingly drawing attention to the Jews is welcome, because all of us must begin to ask some serious questions about the root of anti-Semitism and the connection between the Jews and the rest of the world.

Let us briefly recount the birth story of the Jewish people: Some 3,800 years ago, in ancient Babylon, a priest named Abraham traveled to the various the tribes and clans who lived there. Amidst the growing human ego, he was looking for individuals who were willing to choose unity above all differences.

Thus, Abraham assembled a group of representatives from the cradle of civilization and turned them into a model of global unity. They learned how to discover the deeper binding force of nature, which connects human beings above all their differences.

Over time, that group left Babylon and grew in scale to the proportions of a nation. As long as they maintained their unity, they also radiated it to the rest of humanity. Or in other words, they were being a “light unto the nations.”

However, the human ego continued to grow out of control and ultimately led to division and conflict among the Jewish nation, just as it did among the rest of the world.

And so, Jews have forgotten their destiny. We have forgotten that if we abandon the unifying force that guides us, we no longer serve our purpose in the world, and invite hatred against us. As Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, “Baal HaSulam” wrote, we have forgotten that “the Israeli nation had been established as a kind of gateway, by which the sparks of purity will flow onto all of mankind across the world, until they develop and come to understand the pleasantness and serenity of love of others.”

If we do not rekindle the same kind of connection that has established our nationhood, and has been dormant for some 2,000 years, anti-Semitism will never stop.

The major difference between today and the 1930s is that it was only the Führer of Nazi Germany who openly pushed for the extermination of the Jews. From now on, manifestations of hatred towards Jews will multiply everywhere in the world. It will transcend geography, culture, religion and language. Anti-Semitism will not distinguish between a Republican and a Democratic Jew, a religious Jew or a secular Jew, an Ashkenazi Jew or a Sephardic Jew.

It is also a mistake to think of the State of Israel as a place of refuge. As things will escalate, it will be easier for the world to push the Jews to a place where they can isolate and sanction them.

The only place of refuge is our connection. Just as it was in Abraham’s tent: unity, love, caring and mutual responsibility put us in contact with the binding force of nature itself, so we can share with the rest of mankind. This is the only way to fulfill our true role in the world, and stop the growing waves of hatred towards us.

Is There Any Selfless Bestowal In Our World?

Question: Are there any examples in our world that illustrate reception for the sake of bestowal?

Answer: Suppose someone wants to give me a gift and brings a box of chocolates. I have high blood sugar and do not eat sweets. But I accept this gift because the person gives it to me with all his heart. But in principle, I receive it in order to bestow my good attitude to him.

In our world there is no example of true receiving for the sake of bestowal. There is not even such a state as bestowal for the sake of bestowal. Here, everything is selfish, egoistic, and performed only for one’s own sake. Otherwise, we cannot make any movement: not in thoughts, desires, or physically. We would have no energy for it. We are destined to receive. This is how we are created.

In order to begin to bestow, to live in bestowal, we need completely new energy—the energy of bestowal. We begin to receive it only by studying in a group. And then we gain the opportunity to gradually reach the properties of selfless bestowal without consuming any egoistic energy. After all, we will receive energy from the Creator.

I approach the Creator as I approach the sun: I receive energy from Him, and therefore, I can bestow. Only in this way can we act in spirituality.

This is what we need to learn, and it is ahead of us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/14/18

“House Resolution Against Anti-Semitism, Hatred: A Band-Aid Solution” (The Times Of Israel)

The Times of Israel published my new article “House Resolution Against Anti-Semitism, Hatred: A Band-Aid Solution”

Anti-Semitism has become a problem on different levels in America. Repeated anti-Semitic tropes by Rep. Ilhan Omar, suggesting American Jews’ dual-loyalty to Israel and the US, prompted the US House resolution that denounces anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry. However, it will be a finger-in-the-dike fix until the Jewish people realize what is in our ability to do: to treat the core of the problem—a lack of unity among the Jewish people—and implement its solution—a method that can unite us above our differences, enabling the world at large to follow suit.

As I expressed in my previous article, “Anti-Semitism in Mainstream American Politics,” there is no fine line between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Criticism against Israel is the new façade masking Jew hatred. Rep. Omar’s recent insinuation that Israel demands “allegiance” from American lawmakers is another link in a chain of accusations suggesting Jewish money is pulling the strings behind US politics, and that Israel has “hypnotized the world.”

How should we respond when we’re increasingly blamed for all kinds of problems in the world?

From Abraham’s Tent to the US House

The House resolution, which passed after an intense partisan debate, states that “accusing Jews of being more loyal to Israel or to the Jewish community than to the United States constitutes anti-Semitism because it suggests that Jewish citizens cannot be patriotic Americans and trusted neighbors.” It also condemns “anti-Semitism” and “anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry against minorities.”

The problem with such statements is that they are useless and will fail to prevent any future flaring of hatred since they fail to address the root of the hatred. Moreover, such a resolution also lacks a model that can be followed in order to transform society into a place of acceptance and harmony. In short, there needs to be an accurate diagnosis of the root of anti-Semitism, and a realization of the method to solve it.

Where can we find such a diagnosis and method?

In ancient Babylon, a group gathered under Abraham’s tent to rise above their egoism, i.e. self concern on account of others. They build the foundation of the Jewish nation by studying and implementing a method of connection upon themselves, bringing them to the attainment of unity above the egoistic division piercing society.

This nation also became the first and only nation in history built solely on the basis of loveof others, instead of geographical proximity or biological affinity. This remains the uniqueness of the Jewish nation till today: a critical mass of people from all walks of life who attained and lived by unifying themselves above all forms of egoism and division that surfaced.

That is the kind of role model the world needs. Moreover, the world expects such an example from the Jewish people: world leaders, societies and nations, and literally every person on the planet, has a subconscious expectation on the Jewish people to bring a positive example of uniting above egoism.

Anti-Semitism is the world’s way of telling us to unite above our differences, to become a replicable model of unity for the world to follow, bringing about a peaceful and harmonious existence above hatred, bigotry and division. In the words of the sage King Solomon, “Hate stirs strife, and love covers all crimes” (Prov 10:12).

Today, we’re out of options. We live in a time of rapidly mounting pressure against Jews worldwide, and we can succeed only with the aid of a method that unites us over hatred. Otherwise, we will suffer the consequences of the increasing hatred swallowing us. The method of connection is our Jewish heritage, and it is our duty to bequeath it onto humanity. It is our role and the purpose of our existence as a people. Its implementation is our safety net, our insurance for a pleasant life and for the world’s embrace.

Ask Or Thank?

Question: Does it make sense not to ask the Creator, but simply to thank Him? Or is just the request needed?

Answer: Our appeal to the Creator consists of two parts: from a request and from gratitude. It is best to begin with gratitude because it prepares us for the right attitude with the higher power. And then comes the request.

Question: How do we give thanks correctly?

Answer: Do it from the heart. Give thanks the way you feel it. There are no canons or rules. The desire is in the heart.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/4/18

New Life #168 – The Housewarming Ritual

New Life #168 – The Housewarming Ritual
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Home means security for everyone through mutual guarantee. A warm human environment is the safest home. A housewarming ceremony includes all the neighbors and children, the sharing of food and a small speech that gives the message, “We are happy get to know you and we are willing to help you and make our neighborhood fun for everyone. Rather than hiding from others at home, we will direct ourselves toward becoming a faithful, loving cell in the family. We will help to build an atmosphere of connection, openness, and warmth for everyone in the community.”
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From KabTV’s “New Life #168 – The Housewarming Ritual,” 4/18/13

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It Is Hard To Believe, But It Will Happen

If any part of the world is not running perfectly, it is a sign that there is a fault in me. The end of correction should be implemented in practice in the world we are living in now. Intentions to bestow, proper distribution, good relations—all this must be realized here. Everyone will be concerned with fulfilling everyone else. This will become their work, their biggest desire. The intention must be united with the action. Love will guide a person and will compel one’s desire to become like the desire of the Creator.

This is hard to believe, but it will happen. According to the program of creation, the upper Light must descend through all the worlds to the lowest point and turn the entire creation into the world of infinity. Not a single part can be left uncorrected and not turned into bestowal. As the prophets wrote: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb…,” that is how it will be. Two opposites will peacefully coexist together.

All the spiritual worlds and the corporeal world will reach complete correction. That is, I must reach such a mutual connection with all people so that the Creator will be revealed between us, and from the unity within Israel, the connection will spread to all other nations. And from all of humanity, such a connection will extend to all animals, then to plants, and finally to the inanimate nature.

Everything will then become balanced. At the moment, every level of nature is out of balance because of the human influence. The world will reach full correction, complete harmony, where everyone fulfills everyone and becomes included in each other. It follows that even the smallest particle, a tiny insect, that is integrated within people, contains all the worlds.

The lowest point, the center of all creation, is called the point of this world, the final border of descent of all the worlds. At the end of correction, this world acquires the same amount of importance as the world of Atzilut. However, we are not talking about the imaginary corporeal forms that we see now: plants, trees, and animals. We are talking about the forces behind them, concepts. All these concepts will be elevated to the level of bestowal.

We live in an imaginary world because this is how the spiritual forces are revealed to us. Therefore, we need not correct corporeal forms, but when we correct the spiritual Kelim, this world changes, and all its parts penetrate each other, unite. In fact, the wolf will live peacefully next to the lamb, and everything will be united into one whole, one HaVaYaH.¹
From the 3^rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/19, “Building The Future Society”

Corporeal And Spiritual Interests

Question: Why does it seem that when we start studying Kabbalahwe no longer have common interests with our former friends, and our social life fades away?

Answer: When a person begins to practice Kabbalah, it is as if he breaks away from his ordinary earthly affairs. He unwittingly works, unwillingly lives in the family, and unwillingly exists because he is captivated by this science , which talks about the eternal, perfection, and the soul, and this makes a much more profound impression than one’s material life.

But gradually this sensation disappears, and he balances his perception of ordinary life with his impressions of spiritual life. This must be experienced.

Naturally, you will not have much in common with your former friends because their interests are at the level of our world, and yours are at the level of the upper world. Therefore, the group that you organize to study Kabbalah will represent the most important society for you.
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From the Lesson in Russian, 11/11/18

New Life #167 – The Wedding Ritual

New Life #167 – The Wedding Ritual
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

A wedding unites, integrates, and connects a couple, their families, and their communities. It is a social union. Guests come to strengthen the connection between the bride and groom who make a mutual promise to become one.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #167 – The Wedding Ritual,” 4/18/13

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