No Other Reality But The Ten

The substance of creation is the desire to enjoy, and all our work is to clothe it in the intention to bestow, the love of the neighbor. The intention matters most because it testifies to the essence of the action. The point is not whether I receive or bestow, but what I expect from this action: to receive or to bestow? It is what determines everything.

If an alien landed on Earth and saw how a person works hard all day long and at the end of the day gives all the money he earned to a salesperson in a store or a cashier in a bank, he would be fascinated: “What an act of bestowal!” But we understand why he bestows, then he receives something else more valuable for him.

It turns out that the action itself says nothing and everything is determined by the intention. This is the difference between an animal and a human being: the animal understands only the action itself. It is impossible to talk with it about intention, although it is possible to train an animal and to explain a little about the intentions of the owner to it, with the help of actions. But by and large, an animal understands only the action: if you give, you are good, if you do not give, you are bad.

A person acts with an intention, and this is different from animals. We are animals by nature, but the more we rise above the animal level due to education and acquired habits, the more importance we attach to intention. All fiction, cinema, and high art speak about intentions, not about the actions themselves. The more the intention diverges from the action, the sharper dramas, conflicts, and confrontations emerge, and therefore, it is hard to understand and feel the intention and difficult to express it. And when the intention finally connects with the action, it leads to a solution, to a denouement.¹

Intention for the sake of bestowal can only be obtained from the reforming light because this light comes from the system where we are all interconnected. It turns out that I begin to feel another person inseparable from myself, and therefore, I change my attitude toward him and bestow to him as if I myself receive. Bestowing to him turns into receiving, as if I were bestowing to my own child.

We understand the example with a child; it is even more enjoyable for us to give to children than to take for ourselves. Similarly, we should perceive a stranger as if he is our inseparable part. For this purpose, there is the light returning to the source, which has the power to show me that my friends and I are parts of one body and that by giving to them, I myself seem to receive.

Therefore, the change of intention is possible only in a group and only with the help of the reforming light.²

The lesson should be a practical action in the ten rather than mental speculations. It must enter into our substance, into our connection, because unity is the matrix of all reality. There is no other reality but the ten. If I rehearse all the scenes within my ten, clothing all the material of the articles in it—the ten Sefirot, the upper worlds, the Partzufim, the shattering, and the correction—this is the real study of the science of Kabbalah in practice, practical Kabbalah.

After the lesson, I go out completely different from what I was before it and my ten is also different because we took a leap on the way.³

What prevents me from feeling myself in perfection, complete abundance, merged with the Creator? The world is kind and beautiful, filled with the Creator, and I am eternal and perfect in it. Why do I feel different now? The difference between these two states is only in my sensation. If I do not calculate with my animalistic desire to enjoy, but I want to be in the desire to bestow, then I bestow pleasure to the Creator saying: “I feel infinite filling in what You give me. I need nothing else, and I am happy that You exist and take care of me! ”

Who prevents me from feeling such joy and fulfillment except for my egoism and my pride?⁴

At the end of correction, the whole world becomes absolutely good, as it is written that “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb.” Israel (aspiring to the Creator) is the Rosh (head) of the Partzuf, the common soul of Adam HaRishon. Adam did not have a Rosh; he was born an animal, an angel. An angel is the animate level of holiness, and an animal has no mind, no Rosh.

Now, due to clarifications, the Rosh begins to grow on the levels of Shoresh, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, and Dalet. We are the Rosh, striving for revelation of the Creator, for unity. The Guf(body) exists due to the Rosh and could not come to life without it.

Adam had a Rosh at the level of Hassadim, that is, at the animate level. When he wanted to have a Rosh with the light of Hochma (wisdom), that is, on the human level, he shattered. The correction consists in gathering back the Rosh and the Guf—this will be the correction of the world, of reality. Everybody will be joined by good connections in the light of Hassadim and filled with the perfect light of Hochma. This is called the end of correction.5
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/30/19, “There is None Else Beside Him” (Preparation for the Convention in Latin America Convention 2019)

New Life #239 – The Wisdom Of Abraham’s Happiness

New Life #239 – The Wisdom of Abraham’s Happiness
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Humans have existential questions. Abraham explained that we are controlled by the power of reception and can discover and develop the power of love and giving through kindness. In order to bring the entire world to correction, Abraham and his followers had to be brought closer to all of humanity. They fell into egoism like everyone else. Today, we must return to being as one man in one heart in order to turn hatred into love. True happiness can only be achieved through ascension to the upper force.
From KabTV’s “New Life #239 – The Wisdom of Abraham’s Happiness,” 10/10/13

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What To Do When There Is No Strength?

Question: What should you do when there is no strength? Fight with yourself?

Answer: Why fight with yourself? You can never overcome yourself because it is not you, but your egoism, which is much stronger than you, and you have nothing but that. This is a battle already lost.

The only thing you have to do is stick to the group as much as possible. Then you will have the strength, a direction, everything you need to overcome the problems.

Question: How can you not be trapped, thinking that you are developing, but in fact you have long since gone astray and are regressing?

Answer: Only by sticking to the group. I cannot give any other advice. If you have a ten, then you have a lifeline. If you do not have one, then you are drowning.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/20/19

“Their Voices Will Be Heard”

Spirituality can only be attained in the connection between us. It is not that easy to accept and it is not very pleasant because it is completely against our nature. The further humanity develops from generation to generation, over thousands of years, the more egoistic we become. This can be clearly seen in the transformations of human society, which began with tribal clans, then transformed into villages, which then grew into big cities and countries.

Connection is a very difficult topic, but it defines all the differences between us and the spiritual world. The main problem is our belief that we can connect. But we cannot connect because we are one hundred percent egoistic.

First of all, we must remember that we cannot connect, let alone love one another. This is completely against our nature. Let’s be realistic: we are capable only of hatred. All the rest are just beautiful games, like in kindergarten. Yet, we are inverting this game into a very serious one. Playing like good children and realizing that we are not and that in fact no one loves his friends and does not want to get closer to them, we are hoping for the only remedy—the reforming light.

We do not want to connect, and we clearly understand it. However, if we nevertheless try to connect, then we ask for the force of correction, the reforming light. We are not innocent children, but evil egoists, and we come to the group not to embrace each other, but to attain spirituality. Otherwise life will end in vain. Therefore, all our actions in the group, during workshops and in dissemination, have only one goal—to attract the reforming light. And the light will do all the work.

We do everything we can and the Creator will finish everything the way it should be; He will even correct everything that we have spoiled. The main thing is for us to try and reach a true request. We do not deceive ourselves. We do not want to connect. However, at the same time, we understand that there is no other way. In this global world everything is interconnected: inanimate nature, plants, and animals. Only man, the last degree, falls out of the general symbiosis and acts in an opposite way.

In order to correctly connect with others, we need the force of nature. This force cut us off from the rest of the levels and from each other. Now we must demand this force to reconnect us. Therefore, we try to talk nicely to each other and understand that this is a prayer, a request, that will help us egoists be corrected by this force.

The tens, the groups, and the workshops are very serious work against our animalistic egoism. We do not want to get closer to each other, but there is no choice: humanity must restore nature, which is completely integral and perfectly connected. Only man spoils everything; therefore, we are obliged to connect with each other and all other levels of nature.

I feel that I do not want to connect with anyone, but at the same time, I acknowledge that I must be connected with everyone, and therefore, I demand the reforming light.

It is written that “Israel will not be redeemed by sorrow, nor by bondage, nor out of their wonderings or madness and not through pressures or lack of food.” No heroic efforts in this world can help to attain the meaning of life and achieve eternity, but only “by ten people sitting together” and speaking about unification. They understand that there is no connection between them and according to their own forces cannot be; they ask the force to come and connect them. “Thus, their voices will be heard.”¹
From Lesson 2, Latin America Convention 2019 “Building A Future Society” “Day Two” 5/18/19, The Work in the Ten
1 Minute 00:00 – 20:00

Joy—The Result Of Good Deeds

Question: How does the concept of joy unfold in Kabbalah? For example, faith is love, bestowal. And the joy?

Answer: Joy comes from the fact that I can perform the action of bestowal. As it is said: “Joy is a reflection of good deeds.”

When you perform good deeds: give, love, hug, help, push forward, then you have joy.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/4/19

New Life #238 – Quality Of Life Within Community

New Life #238 – Quality of Life within Community
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Recent studies have found a correlation between quality of life and a rich community life. In the center of community connection, a source of energy and happiness is discovered and felt. Community education must begin with family events, games, workshops, and music. It would include meetings and playful exercises that accommodate every population. The goal of every meeting is to build a warm, friendly, secure, pleasurable sense of human connection.
From KabTV’s “New Life #238 – Quality of Life within Community,” 10/8/13

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New Life #237 – Connection With The Community

New Life #237 – Connection with the Community
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Humans are social creatures by nature and even used to depend on a clan or tribe for survival. Today, we have come to believe that freedom and happiness can be found in isolation, each one closed up inside his own apartment. Egoism has been growing throughout history and the resulting alienation is devouring us. Our social services have lost the feeling of warmth, belonging, and support. The public needs an education so that we can begin to understand what can be gained from community life. It is a pleasant, free feeling with less tension and pressure in the air. There is warmth and a sense of mutuality and security similar to what one gets from parents. It fills you inside and goes straight to the heart!
From KabTV’s “New Life #237 – Connection with the Community,” 10/8/13

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Pleasure From Connection

Question: There are many groups of people in the world that enjoy connecting. What is the difference between those groups and a group of Kabbalists?

Answer: Indeed, there are many groups in the world that engage in various methods of connection and receive great pleasure from it. People do karaoke, dancing and singing together, etc. It is impressive to see how they enjoy being together.

How can we distinguish a Kabbalistic group of people from any other group that connects and receives pleasure from connection?

The fact is that the goal of ordinary groups is to enjoy themselves. But the goal of connection in Kabbalistic groups is to bring contentment to the Creator, and as far as they aspire to this, they rise to the level of the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19

Start From Zero

Spiritual work starts with limitation. A person is a device for measuring the Creator and like any device it needs to be calibrated. Therefore, first one must position oneself at zero and from this zero, one can already start studying, measuring states, and advance in this way. Zero is the beginning of the spiritual ladder, and without it, we would not know where we are: above or below, in minus or in plus.

However, a person does not agree to this calibration, our egoism pushes away the nullification, does not want to hear about it. After all, we already are in the best state, in the world of infinity, at the end of correction—nothing changes except our desires and thoughts, that is, the inner sensations that obscure from us the infinite light in which we are immersed.

That is why it is so difficult for us to accept self-annulment, but it is necessary. Zero is the absolute truth. That is, I always have to annul myself, understanding that I cannot evaluate anything according to my desires and feelings. I am in the ocean of the upper light, under its influence, and I fully annul my evaluation of it. After all, I have no correct feelings and understanding of it, and therefore, I do not want to judge it in any way: neither good nor bad. I detach myself from my “I” inside the upper light and strive to become like its qualities, to reveal the correct sensation of it.¹

Prior to using scales, they must be calibrated by placing the arrow at zero. Exactly in the same way I have to calibrate myself; otherwise, I will not be able to check how much I correspond to the qualities of the Creator. First of all, I need the precise definition of the Creator as the absolute good that gives me the world of infinity, the state of the end of correction, the light that fills the entire universe.

I try to get closer to this perception and to determine how I differ from it or resemble it, how much above or below it I am. But first of all, I need to annul myself to zero. As if there are two separate scales from which I remove all my weight and want to balance the arrow at zero first. I know that on the one pan is the absolute good. Now I put my egoism on the other pan as if it has already been corrected and check my similarity to the upper light. Thus, I constantly correct myself and ascend through the spiritual degrees.

First of all, I imagine myself inside the white upper light: there is none else beside the Creator, good and benevolent. Now I can start approaching Him, figuring out what changes I have to make within myself, how to restrict my heart and mind in order not to be a disturbance for the white light. To the extent I do not disturb the light, I begin to enter Him, undergoing the states of gestation, suckling, and adulthood (Ibur, Yenika, and Mochin), until I get completely included in the light, reaching the end of correction.

I detach myself from my “I” as if I do not exist and cut off my desires and thoughts in order to feel myself inside the white light, excluding any interference of my egoism. If I completely nullify myself, I can be sure that I will not fall, because it is impossible to fall from the floor—this is the lowest, safest point. Just like a baby immediately sits down on the floor when he loses balance. Then he can be sure that he will not fall.²

If I am not happy about my states and I want changes, it is a luxury. I am adding my desire to enjoy, which obscures spirituality from me, and I only feel the corporeal world.³

The first calibration is to exclude my interference with the white light and to not allow my desire to receive to wake up. I want to nullify myself completely so as not to be a disturbance for the upper light, like a drop of semen in the mother. As if I do not have any of my own desires and thoughts, I cancel them all before the white light.

I do not care what I feel, I nullify myself before everything I receive from the Creator who is good to everyone: to the wicked, to the righteous, and even to me. At every moment, only absolute good comes from Him. The only thing that I lack at any moment is to reveal that now I am receiving the infinity, the end of correction, absolute good.

If I calibrate my desires correctly, I will feel myself in the best possible state right now. There is no doubt that from above I receive absolute good, and now I must only bring myself to equivalence with it here below.⁴

Try to calibrate yourself so that you do not have your own mind and feelings—everything comes from the Creator. All my thoughts and sensations, everything in me is sent by the Creator. If I am ready to hold on to this state, it means that I am becoming a spiritual embryo.⁵

My egoism is always trying to raise its head and demand understanding and feelings. Besides, external disturbances come from all sides and I have to constantly nullify myself in relation to them. This is dynamic work; I must always remain in zero as if I constantly check the direction with a compass in order not to be lost.

At every moment I calibrate myself so that I do not care what will happen to me. I remain in the center of my desires and thoughts, like a spider in the middle of the web, and watch that no desire or thought escapes from it. It means that I annul myself to zero, and from that point I can already start rising. An absolute zero is the beginning of the spiritual ladder.

I feel that I have nullified myself, and the arrow of my scale points exactly to zero, that is, I do not interfere with the Creator to influence me. Then I say that there is none else beside Him. After all, if my arrow moves toward plus or minus, then this is not the direction toward the Creator; it means that I am not annulling myself. Therefore, to keep myself in zero, I have to work constantly. All future progress is based on it, when we just add new types of annulment.⁶
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/19, Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati 53 “The Matter of Limitation”

New Life #1088 – Indifference

New Life #1088 – Indifference
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

Indifference is growing because people have already seen everything and can no longer be seduced or attracted. Nature is advancing us toward a state in which we will be completely indifferent to this entire world. After we become completely indifferent to all materiality, we will be attracted to spiritual development. Nature is pushing us to recognize its eternity by opening the spirit within us. We will move on to exalted feelings, deep questions, and an awareness of an unlimited, powerful, united, and enlightened world.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #1088 – Indifference,” 3/5/19

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Separate From The Creator

Question: If pleasure is a form of light and the only source of light is the Creator, how can receiving pleasure be disconnected from the source?

Answer: This so-called “pleasure disconnected from the source” is pleasure not from giving, but from receiving. In our world, all pleasures are like that.

Question: Does that mean if it is pleasure from bestowal, then it is not disconnected from the source but is connected with it? Does all the sweetness come from there?

Answer: Yes, food, sex, family, wealth, honor, and knowledge are all pleasures of our world that we receive apart from the Creator. Therefore, they are all transient, do not remain, cannot be eternal, and all of them end badly.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19

Independence From Our Nature

A man is born and exists in this world in order to achieve independence from his nature, to break away from the inanimate level, from the desire to enjoy, and to build the form opposite to it. This means becoming independent from the previous stage. The next step does not exist in its completed form so that you could see, study, and take an example from it. We have no one to imitate; we can only aspire to the opposite properties and in this way build the next step.

Each time desires and thoughts change and grow, and a person can work on building oneself independent of them. One develops more and more at the animate level: one is no longer a simple animal one was born as, but egoism, the evil inclination, becomes increasingly apparent in him. But evil was created in order to build the opposite over it, the spiritual level, a good inclination, a man (Adam).

The human level is characterized by the fact that it requires connection with others, unlike the animate level at which everyone feels increasingly isolated and distant from others. At the same time, at the animate level, it seems that by moving away from everyone, one attains independence. But to build myself on the human level, I need to nullify myself and connect with everyone. One wonders: “Where is independence here?” On the contrary, I neglect myself for the sake of others. This is absolutely the opposite.

We need to realize how insignificant the animalistic independence we strive to through the call of nature is. And independence at the level of a man is the aspiration to fulfill the instructions of the upper force. We build our similarity to the upper one to the extent we can rise above our animal nature.

It is written: “The Creator saves humans and animals alike”—both these levels rise, supporting each other, and together they build independence from nature, from the desire to enjoy. In this way, we reach the goal of creation for which the Creator created everything with an egoistic desire so that we can build the level of man, Adam, similar to the Creator, above it in adhesion, mutual support, connection of all the desires.¹

Everything Baal HaSulam said about the people of Israel almost a hundred years ago is still relevant today—we really are like “nuts in a bag” because we are forced to hold together due to the influence of external negative forces. No one knows the great mission of these people, which still must be revealed. Therefore, we envy all other nations undisputed right to exist on their land.

But the Jews are a special people toward which no other peoples of the world have a positive attitude. This is a special phenomenon. And the people of Israel themselves are not able to unite in a natural way and they feel inner separation.

Even non-Jews in whom the point in the heart—the desire to unite with the upper force that leads them to the study of Kabbalah has awakened—also reveal how different and remote from each other they are. They have no desire to get close to others. It does not matter what nation they belong to in the corporeal world, but as soon as they unite in a group that is engaged in spiritual advancement, they immediately become similar to the people of Israel: they feel just as divided. Each group is like a bag of nuts that grind in friction against each other and do not want to connect.

This is a manifestation of the same nature: both in the people of Israel and in Kabbalistic groups around the world that want to approach the Creator. From this, it is clear that Jews are not a people, but a group of Kabbalists that existed in the past. Once, they were on a spiritual level and were able to overcome separation and unite, then they fell from this height and now exist in the opposite form.

It is necessary to study our spiritual state from its opposite form that exists today. After all, the further we develop and try to be together, the less we succeed in it. But we must rejoice that the evil, our true nature, is revealed. This nature is not ordinary, it is much worse than that of all other nations because it comes from the shattering.

All others have a regular animalistic nature and strive for the material well-being of their bodies. But the people of Israel, trying to unite and studying Kabbalah, consciously or unconsciously awaken the upper light that reforms, thus revealing the shattering, the lack of unity and spirituality. Therefore, anti-spiritual qualities opposite to the Creator are revealed in us.

It is necessary to clarify and understand them and to treat them with great respect because it is above these consequences of shattering, corruption, and rejecting spirituality and unity that we need to build a corrected state. All these states which are opposite to unity and correction, as well as those supporting unity, belong to the human stage. Therefore, we need to appreciate them and work on them.

Correction relates only to the human level; it requires us to unite and to converge in our opinions and sensations, although no one relinquishes their opinions and feelings, the connection takes place above them, as one person with one heart, like in the first person called Adam HaRishon. The last, the finally corrected person will be the same. The revelation of the past shattering indicates a future correction.

Therefore, today we are a special group, new people, people of the Creator, who are trying to raise themselves from the dust.²

There are people, that is, such a desire to enjoy, which are united at the animal level. They feel intimacy and understanding according to their corporeal properties, and therefore, they feel good together. Everyone feels that it is worth relating to this group, to his people. There are 70 such nations of the world, groups, each of which has its own spirit, extent of unity, level of existence, character, and physical genes. People naturally feel that they belong to one of those groups. Even if hatred between them appears, it is purely corporeal and has nothing to do with spirituality.

But at the same time, there may be a group at a higher level, which exists due to a connection for a special goal. This goal is not natural, it is above the corporeal nature: it is to connect above one’s egoism. Here, two opposites combine. On one hand, there is a negative connection between them because no one feels obligated to this group and connected to it. But on the other hand, they are united by an artificially set goal.

A common goal creates a common space for them because only by joining together can they achieve this sublime higher goal. Then they will be called a special people—not according to the corporeal DNA, but according to the spiritual genes (Reshimot) awakening in them.

Such a group that reaches a new type of connection in contrast to their natural corporeal disunity is called the people of Israel (Isra-El) because it wants to become similar to the Creator (Yashar-El), the upper force. It possesses a new nature, a new essence. From generation to generation, it has been trying to attain the upper force, creating a methodology for this, and establishing traditions in accordance with the upper force, like holidays, special days, and physical commandments according to its spiritual attainment.

That is, the union is formed according to spiritual laws. A group of people that establishes laws and traditions for itself according to the upper source appears in history. Every nation has its own traditions, but the traditions of the people of Israel correspond to spiritual steps, either achieved in the past, or marked for the future as a “sign for the sons.” These traditions remind a person of the spiritual levels that he or she is to achieve.³
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/19, Independence Day

A Lesson From The Holocaust

Holocaust Remembrance Day is a special, very sad day in the history of the Jewish people and all of mankind since we are all connected with each other. On this day, we need to talk about the causes of this tragedy and its lessons so that “the deeds of the fathers will become a sign for the sons.”¹

There is nothing except the upper force that is good and does good; it governs us all the time. There is no action beyond this good governance. Therefore, if in our research we do not rise above our egoistic nature and instead we begin to condemn the Creator, doubting His good governance, we will be mistaken. In this case, our entire research will not bring any benefit and will lead us back to the same bitter reality, which we must talk about today.

The Creator feels what we feel. If we are united and happy about it, the Creator rejoices. He has no personal feelings—He is within us, like a mother who lives inside her beloved baby. Through our connection, we create a place for the Creator where He can exist. If we are not connected, then there is no place for the Creator and we feel His actions in the inverse form, as if they are not coming from Him. Every action is experienced in us according to the extent of our connection or disconnection.²

The Creator lives inside of our connection with each other. This connection should develop all the time, starting from the first shattering caused by the Creator until the final correction, until complete adhesion. As long as we are not behind in our advancement in the stages of correction that we must undergo, we are all right. However, if we fall behind, we find ourselves in a bad state that we ourselves have caused.

If at every moment we do not correct the connection between us, we feel the difference between the desired and the actual states. Let’s say that today I should have been corrected by 20% in my connection with all of humanity, but I have reached only 15% of the connection. Therefore, -5% is revealed to me as pressure and problems. In fact, these are forces that are intended to accelerate my advancement in order to make up for the delay, to extinguish the difference between the desired and the actual.

These forces do not indicate the goodness or the evil of the Creator, but are simply a natural consequence of the system’s operation, as it is written: “The law is given and cannot be transgressed.” That is, we should evaluate not how much pain or pleasure we feel, but how much these forces that are revealed to us as good or evil help us to advance correctly.

The Creator does not wish us harm, but there is a law of nature, by fulfilling it, we feel our connection, and by breaking it, we feel pain, and today it is to such an extent that we must remember the Holocaust—the saddest event in the history of the Jewish people. Of course, it was caused not by the Creator but by people who had to correct the connection between them and did not. The delay in correction was so great that it resulted in terrible suffering.

What lessons can we learn from this? From Ancient Babylon to the present day, there were many such sad events, and all for one reason. Since the Creator is the general law of nature, the system shows us the need for connection. But we do not listen to it and are not in a hurry to eliminate the delay, and we receive the corresponding consequences. In fact, we ourselves cause them and we cannot blame the Creator.

There are conditions known to us, but we do not fulfill them and by doing so, we draw upon ourselves forces that push us to the goal more firmly and resolutely. Throughout history we have been plagued by pressures and problems: exiles, Egyptian slavery, the desert, the destruction of the Temple. Yet, the Holocaust is a very different state. The people of Israel in their historical development have already reached the need for the fourth degree of connection in the soul of Adam HaRishon, but have not implemented it. Today, we are also not fulfilling this goal, so what can we expect? We can only expect even worse states than before. We have to learn from history so that we do not to repeat the same states.

After Babylon and Egypt, we have been plagued by blow after blow every moment we have not established mutual connection in the required measure. The punishment will be collective, to all the people of Israel. Today we are responsible not only for ourselves, but for the entire world. Once, it was possible to make a correction in a limited group: the European Jewry. The Nazis themselves wanted to help the Jews rebuild the state of Israel. At first, they acted as forces helping the correction. However, if we do not use the chance given to us, these forces turn into negative ones.

Today as well, if we do not use the awakening forces that are already acting negatively, they will turn into much more terrible ones than before. Today’s Holocaust will be on a different scale: not only in Europe, but all over the world. Therefore, it is worthwhile to understand this and to hurry up with the correction before it becomes too late.

If we connect, the upper force passes through us to all the nations of the world, to all of reality, and gradually the whole world attains unity. Then everything calms down and the Creator begins to reveal Himself to the created beings, and the world reaches the intended correction.

However, if we, the people of Israel, do not connect between ourselves at least within Israel where we have the best conditions for connection, if we do not become one man with one heart, do not love our neighbor as ourselves, do not become the light for the nations of the world by showing them an example of unity, then we will go through such horrible states that will make the Holocaust pale in comparison to.³

Merits turn into debts and debts into merits. Therefore, we must believe that now we have the opportunity, time, place, and all the means not to repeat the mistake made by the Jews almost a hundred years ago. We must not miss the opportunity to connect between us in order to be in contact with the upper force, which is good and does good, and that through us, this force that wants to appear to all the inhabitants of this world, will be able to reveal itself. We must help it with this and become a conduit between it and humanity.

Let’s not repeat past mistakes. The wisdom of Kabbalah talks about the laws of nature that do not depend on whether they are pleasant or unpleasant to us and do not take into account someone’s political or economic interests. There is no doubt that if the Jews behaved differently back then, the world today would look completely different.

Everything is in our hands and we determine our fate and the fate of the entire world. The law of nature is an immutable law that must be fulfilled. The Creator does not pity or punish us, but fulfills the general law. The Creator is nature, and according to the program of nature, we must connect in one desire, in one intention, according to one formula of mutual bestowal. We must bring this connection to the world; this is our mission.

Let us not repeat the bitter mistakes and let us try on this sad day to take upon ourselves the responsibility to bring the world to unity. ⁴
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/19, Holocaust Remembrance Day

New Life #1087 – Education For A Change In Human Nature

New Life #1087 – Education for a Change in Human Nature
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Summary

The wisdom of Kabbalah is a method of education that transforms egoism to altruism. Realization of the method requires small groups of around ten people to participate in unique exercises which help them to communicate with each other so that they will feel that they belong to a single body. In the small group, each individual tries to connect, listen, and correct his egoistic nature. What’s most important is to awaken the higher power from within the depths of nature so that it will influence us.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #1087 – Education for a Change in Human Nature,” 2/26/19

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“How To Be Happy”

From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 5/27/19

A new study suggests a method to stop suffering: simply not to think of ourselves, but of others. But this is not the way to be happy according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.

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When Egoism Erupts

Question: Is humility the same as belittling yourself? Is there a difference between humility and belittling yourself?

Answer: Humility and humiliation are not the same. However, it is too early for us to analyze this. The main thing for us is to always try to receive what is happening as coming from above, from the Creator, especially when egoism flares up in me and I start getting angry and express discontent.

This means that a person opposes the Creator, essentially saying, “I am dissatisfied with your government.” This is a problem. There is no humility; there is no feeling that the Creator governs everything, that “there is none else besides Him.”

“Well, the Creator controls everything, there is none else besides Him, and I am against Him!” This is a pure manifestation of egoism. Here we must try not to annul the discontent somehow, but to rise above it: “I don’t want it not to be there, otherwise I’ll go down to zero. No! I will rise above it and in this way I will become higher than my ego.”

That is how we need to try to work. I am not talking about more. But it is very important that we start to treat the manifestation of egoism in us that way, The most important thing is to rise above your discontent.

Question: And if I feel that I am angry not at the Creator, but at myself, at my egoism. What should I do?

Answer: If you are angry, then you are dissatisfied with the Creator. That is all.

Then explore yourself and decide what to do. Until you are satisfied with everything that happens, you will not rise above your egoism and you will be only at the level of this world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/4/19

Thoughts: Good And Evil

Question: Which parameter in thought determines the strength of its impact?

Answer: There are positive thoughts aimed at connection and good for others. There are negative thoughts aimed at separation, at the submission of others to ourselves. They are all graduated on levels.

In the spiritual worlds, there are 125 steps of good or evil thoughts; along with positive thoughts, there is a great system of dark forces, evil thoughts, which are described in The Book of Zohar. But as a system, we do not study it.

Kabbalists saw that when you study a system of wrong, evil thoughts, at the same time, you awaken them and it does not act well on us and the whole world. Therefore, we do not study that. It is described by Kabbalists, but we do not include it in our course of study.

If we become so big that we can use this system only for our benefit, then we will study it.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/3/19

New Life #962 – True Identity

New Life #962 – True Identity
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

What is our true inner identity, how is it possible to discover this identity and why isn’t it clear to us from birth? Every person wants his own unique identity which stems from human egoism. Today, each one is living as if he was in a theater playing a fabricated role, thinking it is his true identity. The goal is for every person to achieve their true, unique, spiritual identity by discovering the root of their soul. This root is concealed and can only be discovered when we learn to open the soul in the right type of environment.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #962 – True Identity,” 2/11/18

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Do Wars Lead To Progress?

Question: You say that mutual annihilation leads to regression in the development of society, but ultimately doesn’t war usually stimulate productive forces?

Answer: Yes, wars stimulate forces of production, but they fail to contribute to society’s and people’s inner development, which is what really matters. On the contrary, they usher men into the next double helix, and therefore, technical progress is the only progress they bring.

Of course, if it were not for wars and threats, humanity would have developed much slower on a technical level, and consequently, in science and in other areas, but not in the social sphere.

Wars bring about society’s regression, not progress. The wounds that remain after wars take a very long time to heal and are practically incurable. They lurk somewhere inside as we try not to deal with them, but in fact, they disallow the construction of normal relations.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/13/19