Why Do We Hate?

Question from Facebook: If we, the Jews, are chosen, then why do we hate each other so much?

Answer: Because we are chosen to be the first to correct our egoism. In order to push us to correction, this egoism evokes mutual hatred in us. This is called “the stiff-necked people.”

As for the rest of humanity, they do not have unfounded hatred for each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman”

The Life Of A Kabbalist

Question: How does a Kabbalist of your level deceive his own egoism?

Answer: I don’t need to deceive it. I simply act to attract the upper Light and try day and night in all circumstances to arrange contact with the Creator, convincing myself that “There is none else besides Him” and that all this is only goodness.

And I am presented with such terrible and incomprehensible states in which I must confirm all this. In addition, a Kabbalist has a multitude of various calculations when he enters the state of Aba ve Ima, YESHSUT, and so on. Working in three lines, he begins to orient and live in this system.

Question: Does a Kabbalist convince himself? I thought that “There is none else besides Him” is as natural a feeling for you as the ability to see for the sighted.

Answer: No, it isn’t so. If you reach the very last degree and reveal on the last egoistic level that there is none else besides Him, only then do you really feel that in all manifestation of our animal and spiritual egoism there is no one but the Creator because you revealed Him in your heaviest desires.

The fact is that there are some events behind which a Kabbalist sees this single force, and there are other events behind which he still doesn’t see it, but tomorrow he’ll try to see it and he will see.

Question: Should a Kabbalist see this single force behind the external events of our world?

Answer: Of course, he should see it behind all the events of our world and the spiritual world. Practically, there is no division into two worlds. We just perceive it this way relative to ourselves.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

Why Does The Book Of Zohar Use Corporeal Images?

Question: Why does The Book of Zohar use images like grass, rivers, crocodiles, etc.?

Answer: The Book of Zohar was written on the level of the upper world and uses its terminology. At the same time, it uses the terminology of our world, although it means to express the upper forces and spiritual attributes that yield the outcomes such as a table, chair, man, tree, sun, etc. This is called the language of the branches.

In addition, The Book of Zohar uses the language of Kabbalah. In the upper world where there are no worldly names and terms, The Book of Zohar uses the pure physical mathematical language of Kabbalah.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

Tests In Spirituality

Question: Why does a person return to his bad inclinations to a greater degree after transcending to a new spiritual level? Why is it impossible to be tested and to pass the next test like in university?

Answer: A person does not go back. He is given the next test—an addition to his egoism.

Even at school and in university, we study the same subjects for many years.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

Ethics And Kabbalah

Question: Why is Kabbalah not human ethics and philosophy at the same time if its main postulate is “love your neighbor”?

Answer: Kabbalah should become like that, and it will become like that. However, today humanity is not ready for this yet.

Currently, we undergo certain stages of the realization of the evil nature of man, and we learn through all the troubles that constantly haunt us. It leads us to the fact that we do not know what to do with ourselves and our world.

Therefore, we are already beginning to realize that we require knowledge about our world, about the depths of the actions of the forces in it. Gradually we will understand that without the knowledge of Kabbalah, we are just a lost generation.

When we discover Kabbalah for ourselves, that is already ready for use, we will enter into a very rapid, easy, and pleasant development, up to our final, absolutely good state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/22/17

New Life #853 – Hope And Purity Of Heart

New Life #853 – Hope And Purity Of Heart
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

The ceremonies in our world do not change our intention from reception to bestowal, but are only symbols.

The physical action does not purify anything because everything depends on the person’s intention.
From KabTV’s “New Life #853 – Hope And Purity Of Heart,” 5/11/17

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The Work On Yourself

Torah, Deuteronomy 25:02 – 25:03: and it shall be, if the guilty one has incurred [the penalty of] lashes, that the judge shall make him lean over and flog him in front of him, commensurate with his crime, in number. He shall flog him with forty [lashes]; he shall not exceed, lest he give him a much more severe flogging than these [forty lashes], and your brother will be degraded before your eyes.

Question: It is written: “If the guilty one has incurred the penalty of lashes, that the judge shall make him lean over and flog him.” What does it mean “lean over”? Why are these small things described in such detail?

Answer: These are not small things. It is about a person’s descent to such a state where it is necessary to humiliate not him but his egoism and to humiliate it in such a way that he will see egoism in all its ugliness and will not be able to use it anymore. He will consider using it as a baseness for the “man in him.”

This is one’s work on oneself. Therefore, all judges and jurors are needed only to help a person understand himself. He himself must select a punishment in the form of blows that come from the quality of Bina, the numeric value of which equals forty—level “forty.” He must feel these blows on himself and how much he is opposite to the quality of bestowal.

the feeling of oppositeness to the qualities of Bina, understanding of how far he is from reaching its level and the realization of evil in himself are blows on egoism, and not on a person.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/2/16

Do You Help People Find Out About The Wisdom Of Kabbalah?

Question: I have been studying the wisdom of Kabbalah for three years. I often feel guilty about not being able to talk about the wisdom of Kabbalah with those people who are trying to find themselves. How can I do this, how can I help them?

Answer: Give them a book as a gift or invite them to a lecture, but no more than this. Don’t force a person. If it interests him, he will find out about everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/22/17