World Kabbalah Convention, “Preparation to Lesson 5”

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World Kabbalah Convention, “A Prayer from Within the Ten,” Lesson 5

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Question: When I feel a terrible betrayal, just terrible, when I can barely stand it, am burning up, you say, at this moment or a little later when you have burned out a little, you need to focus everything on where it came from and not on the one who betrayed me?

Answer: On the Creator! What does some small person have to do with it?! He is a puppet, and the puppeteer is the Creator.

Question: So should I start talking and working with the Creator? And let go of this man who allegedly betrayed me. He did not.

Answer: You cannot demand anything from him! He is a puppet! That is all. And you feel calm. You do not see traitors or betrayers around you, nothing and no one. You see puppets. And the Creator above pulls their strings, that is it.

Question: You almost always say that we hate someone, rather than start to change ourselves and our attitude toward the Creator. Is that it?! Is this all our work?!

Answer: This is all. But this is the hardest part.

Comment: So if I can control myself in such a way that I direct all my efforts to work for Him, and only with Him, then everything will begin.

My Response: Then you need to completely redefine, what the truth, lies, devotion, and betrayal are.

Question: All concepts disappear. You have just practically eliminated the concept of “betrayal.” So, it does not exist on the part of someone else, I cannot blame him?

Answer: No. There is no love, no hate, no devotion, no loyalty.

Question: Should I aim the vector at myself, and that is it?

Answer: Yes, but at least it would be beautiful, true, and pure!

Question: Will it be a clear experiment then?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But then I hate Him! I say it with caution.

Answer: Do not worry, He does not hear it.

Comment: I see. Like Guberman’s quote: “He is blind, he does not see your monkey business.” So it is. When I hate a traitor, you say: “The Creator is doing this, setting me up.” Then my first feeling is: “I hate the Creator!” Is that true?

My Response: Of course. Naturally! There is no doubt about it! If you hate anyone at all, it is the Creator. Your relationship is really always with Him!

Question: How does my hatred of the Creator change?

Answer: We do everything only with the Creator. We are connected only to Him. And everything that seems like we are in good or evil relations between us is a pure lie! The Creator sets up such cases, novels, stories, and mysteries that no one could have imagined.

Question: Why is He doing this to us?

Answer: So we would set this whole world aside and deal with Him alone. But in order to do so, we must be pure: either absolute egoists or absolute altruists. He does not tolerate anything else. All else is waste, dirt. Therefore, we need to tune in only to the Creator and deal only with Him.

Question: How does this state of my complaints, hatred, and prayer to the Creator: “Leave me alone!” turn into a different state—love?

Answer: It turns into a prayer, that I want to see His actions behind everything that surrounds me, both in myself and around me. That there is none else besides Him!

Question: Is this the main prayer?

Answer: Yes, for Him to reveal it to me.

Question: Is this the fundamental change within a person? And it changes everything, the whole world?

Answer: It changes everything. It turns everything upside down! It messes with my head! Because I always thought I was connected to something else, dependent on someone else, doing something else. In fact, there is no one and nothing!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/22/26

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Comment: As is known, someone has to stand at the head of an organization—it is impossible to do without a leader. People need to believe in someone. Someone gives them an example, as you set an example to your students.

My Response: I think my students will understand that only together, in a powerful group that already includes tens of thousands of people, will they be able to achieve something. After all, a spiritual leader is not some individual person, but a common force, a common idea. Its bearer is the group that can unite and lead everyone forward.

In this case, we are not talking about an egoistic world, but about a world of unity, an altruistic world, in which the leader is the Creator. I think that I am the last one who, in some sense, is a spiritual leader in Kabbalah—a teacher and a disseminator who has many students.

My aspiration is to bring my students to a state where only their unity will lead them forward. Only unity!

And when they all become as one and form such an element that will lead them forward, when in their unity they will feel the Creator, then it will be He who will lead them forward, and not some tangible personality with a beard and glasses. Only this way! That is why I am trying to create a kind of stimulator within spiritual leadership.

That is, everything must be set up so that it will be the group! And if it is one person, then a second will appear, and a third, and everything will fall apart, as happened in the past in Hasidic and other movements. All of this led to the wrong path, and in the end everything disappeared.

Comment: But you have very strong students.

My Response: They are not strong in anything, absolutely! They are strong and powerful only from the point of view of egoism, and they should be feared. Precisely those who are considered advanced are in no way more spiritual than the others. On the level of our world, such people simply have a greater ability to persuade and to speak.

Because of this, one must not follow them!

I am warning you: Do not listen to any of my students individually! Instead of me, there can only be only a spiritual directorate. Under no circumstances either those close to me or those far from me. Only this way!

Whoever wants to organize separately, whoever has some kind of “creative itch,” let them go and open new communities. In a Kabbalistic society this cannot exist. Only a general assembly, at the head of which stands the spiritual directorate!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Destruction of Laitman” 9/18/10

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Question: Why does Rabash call the measure of judgment “Elokim” in the article “What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?”?

Answer: The Creator in His governance in several forms appears to us, but not as Atzmuto; rather, as it is said, “By Your actions we know You.” His actions toward us are the nine Sefirot relative to Malchut.

Malchut, by making a restriction, a screen, and reflected light upon herself, takes in the first nine qualities, and wishes to resemble them. Then it turns out that the screen and the reflected light are the Kli of Malchut, her attitude toward the upper, according to the principle “as He is merciful, so you be merciful.” That is, to the extent that I reveal how He relates to me, to that same extent I accept it and relate to Him likewise, and no more.

One of the Creator’s attitudes toward us is called “Elokim.” It is said to be the measure of judgment. How can there be a measure of judgment in the first nine Sefirot?

Judgment is a limitation on the part of the creation, when it cannot always accept the Creator’s governance as good and doing good, cannot perceive it as such, and therefore this bestowal appears to the creation as the category of judgment. This is what is meant when we say that the light builds the darkness. If the Creator is revealed to Malchut in a state where she cannot accept Him, she feels Him as darkness.

What is Elokim? When Malchut rises to Bina, she brings her limitation into Bina, and according to this limitation, Bina’s bestowal is divided relative to Malchut into “Mi” and “Eleh”—“Elokim.”

When Malchut rises to Bina, on the one hand she raises the measure of judgment there, and on the other hand the desire to acquire the qualities of Bina. Then Malchut herself begins to remove the measure of judgment, and to the extent that she acquires the qualities of bestowal from Bina, she can realize them.

Then this name Elokim operates in full. “Mi” and “Eleh” join together: “Mi” is Galgalta ve Eynaim, “Eleh” is AHAP. Thus the name Elokim is revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/25/26, Rabash, “What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?”

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