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Kabbalah Basics: The Three Factors of Spiritual Development

May 27

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A talk with Rav Dr. Michael Laitman on the three essential factors of spiritual development: the teacher as a guide for inner growth, a group of like-minded students, and the original Kabbalistic sources.

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Fundamentals of Kabbalah: Three Factors in

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Spiritual Development. Hello everyone. with us

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is Rav Dr. Michael Laitman. hello.

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and after we have completed a

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very fundamental basic course in the

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Wisdom of Kabbalah. more than 30

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lessons. now we'd like to begin

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a new course called Spiritual Work

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in a Kabbalistic Group. and in Hebrew

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it's called Kabbalah Maasit. namely Practical

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Kabbalah. Right. and in our first

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lesson we'd like to go over

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three factors of spiritual development. The

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first factor is the teacher. as

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a necessary element. an instructor for

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spiritual development. The second is the

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group; there needs to be a

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group of like-minded people. And the

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third factor is the source texts.

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And the first question is. we

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understand that a teacher is a

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person who gives knowledge. who sets

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an example. an educator. What is

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a teacher in the Wisdom of

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Kabbalah? Why is it so important

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to have a teacher? Why aren't

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the source texts enough? It could

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also be a source text. possibly

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without a teacher. but overall it's

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not enough. A teacher is one

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who is with you in the

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same world. and also. in addition.

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is also in the higher world.

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on a spiritual degree. in attainment

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of what he teaches you. You

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receive from the teacher knowledge in

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the form of printed texts. oral

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explanation. but he himself feels these

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concepts. Because in Kabbalah we learn

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that which. in our world. can't

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be seen. heard. felt. smelled. in

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short. isn't perceived by any of

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our senses. So the teacher

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is one who has an additional

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sense. a spiritual sense. and who

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perceives what he teaches the

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student. And the student perceives from

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the teacher only that which he

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can perceive in his corporeal senses.

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but gradually. over time. he receives

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from the teacher his attitude. closeness

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to those hidden spiritual concepts. forces

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that the teacher tells him about.

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And this way the teacher becomes

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not only someone who gives him

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a certain measure of knowledge. but.

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in a sense. a conductor of

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the upper. higher energy from the

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higher level. degree. which we call

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Creator. to the student. Meaning the

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teacher plays an additional role here.

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not simply like in our world

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a talking head. but here precisely

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as the conductor of the upper

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light. Can we say that the

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teacher is an example or needs

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to be an example? He can't

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be an example in our world

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because in no way is our

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world something that we can tie

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to the upper world. The teacher

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can be an example for the

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student only in terms of his

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devotion to the Wisdom of Kabbalah.

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meaning not in the day-to-day life.

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I can't look at how my

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teacher behaves in the family. No.

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no. Today these are completely different

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people under completely different circumstances. It

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doesn't matter. You can appreciate a

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person only according to his devotion

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to his goal. Okay. how do

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you choose a teacher? In our

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previous lesson we said that there

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are several criteria. like for example

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the teacher necessarily had to receive

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his knowledge from a well-known authority.

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meaning he can't simply get up

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at night and say. "That's it.

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I'm a teacher. I can talk

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nicely." No. no. The communication of

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information has to be clear. So

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you always need to ask. "Who

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did you study with?" Obviously. otherwise

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what can you receive from him?

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Well. for example. he can speak

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nicely. he has lots of knowledge.

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It's difficult for a beginner to

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examine these things. It's examined only

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according to who did he come

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from. who did he study with.

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How do you choose a teacher?

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First of all. the student looks

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for a teacher according to his

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needs. I won't go study geography

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from someone who teaches. I don't

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know. music. These are different things. And

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thus I choose a teacher according

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to my goal. I mean. first

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of all my goal. When I

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already choose a teacher. meaning I

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necessarily need to find a Kabbalist.

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Why? Because there you study the

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wisdom of the attainment of the

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higher force. attainment of the higher

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governance. etc. The system of the

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governance of nature. the scheme. the

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system that governs us. humanity. the

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universe. everything. Meaning this interests me.

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so I need to find a

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teacher. I can find a million

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teachers like that. Which of them

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am I going to choose? So

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I need to choose the one

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that possibly. possibly there can be

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different mistakes here. but that possibly

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he received his knowledge also from

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someone great. And then. because I'm

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blind. and so this is what

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I orient myself on. Meaning who

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did they study with? I have.

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suppose. 20. 30 teacher candidates. Who

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did they study with? This is

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what interests me. There's another criterion.

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as I remember. There's the source

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text. that he teaches according to

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the source texts and not from

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himself. Yeah. many do so. There

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could be here different teachers with

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different source texts. with different methods.

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But I'm saying after I went

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through all of that. the main

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thing for me is nonetheless that

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I will learn from someone who

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was a direct student of a

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great Kabbalist of the supposed previous

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generation. So I checked. they teach

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according to source texts. From the

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20 I chose two that did

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learn from a certified Kabbalist as

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much as I could examine it.

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And the question left is. can

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I trust my heart? Meaning my

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heart draws me more to this

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teacher. Suppose my intuition. Is it

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correct? Yes. you can. According to

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my intuition. Yes. If you checked

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everything else. then you can check

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also according to your heart. Who's

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closer to you? Where is the

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style. the language closer to you?

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Everything in short. But you yourself

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said that human nature is the

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ego and yes. but you checked

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everything else. And here the only

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thing left is our details. But

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my inner nature. can't it deceive

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me? No. but here we're no

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longer talking about the egoistic nature.

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But the general style. general language.

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closeness. understanding. etc. There could be

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many nuances here. So to trust

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my inner sense. feeling. to some

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extent. yes. Is it worthwhile switching

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a teacher? Suppose I start studying

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two. three years down the line

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for certain reasons. Suppose I see

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that I have nothing to learn

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from that teacher anymore. or I

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even know more than him. Things

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like that happen in our world

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in music. sports. things like that.

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Does that happen here too? Yes.

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same thing happens here too. and

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it's very possible that you need

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to change your teacher. But again.

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you need to understand who you

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are switching from and whom you are switching to. Either you're

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switching because you don't want to

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apply any more effort and do

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something. or are you switching because

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really there's a true need for

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it. because with an old teacher

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you can't continue advancing. Is there

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some kind of a specific connection

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between the teacher and the student?

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The teacher is the conductor of

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the higher energy. higher light. upper

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knowledge to the student. And thus

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it's so important that he'll also

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be connected to his teacher because

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this chain. it doesn't disappear. Previously.

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as I understand. there were small

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groups. there was a tight connection

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between the teacher and student. That's

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how it was for you as

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well. You were with your teacher

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all the time. Today you have

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millions of students. and obviously you

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know only a few of them.

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The question is what kind of

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connection is there today? It doesn't

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matter who I know. The matter

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is which of them considers himself

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to be my student. And in

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that measure he aspires in his

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inner movement toward me. and that

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gives him contact through me with

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the higher force. So what's important

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is the student's attitude toward you.

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Okay. another question. A student needs

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to work on the importance of

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his teacher. and the teacher. on

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the contrary. always makes himself smaller

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in the eyes of the student.

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It's an interesting kind of communication

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because in our world it's to

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the contrary. In religion. everywhere. in

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all spiritual practices. to the contrary.

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the teacher needs to be great.

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This is how he behaves also.

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And in the Wisdom of Kabbalah

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it's the opposite. In the Wisdom

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of Kabbalah it's the opposite because.

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first of all. it's good for

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the teacher to make himself small

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in the eyes of his students

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because by that he spiritually grows.

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It's good to make yourself small

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in the eyes of your students

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because in that you make room

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for them to do their work.

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for them to make you great.

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elevate you. for them to understand

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that that which seems in their

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eyes. well. not so outstanding

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in their teacher. not so prominent.

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it's what their eyes see. And

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thus this is something that they

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need to correct in themselves. So

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the teacher lowers himself. for him

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it's good. The students. if they

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perceive him as small. for them

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it's very bad. That he makes

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himself small. it's not simply making

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himself small. but he intentionally shows

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his weaknesses. Intentionally. of course. otherwise

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what will be with the students?

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Anyway. our eyes are corrupted. One

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way or another we see all

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of a person's shortcomings. deficiencies. No.

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no. that's not enough. Here everything

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needs to be exaggerated in order

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for the students to be able

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to rise above it. So by

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that the teacher gives his students

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the freedom of will. of choice.

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And I'll tell you something else.

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For the teacher it's actually very

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important that the students will ascend.

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on the one hand. But on

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the other hand he's not bothered

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about himself. He's not some professor

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in the university that keeps score

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of how many people come to his

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lectures. Meaning either the Creator will

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bring students to me. or not.

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I try to do. I need

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to do everything that I understand

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is necessary. but it's not about

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the number of students. And I

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need to show them all the

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problems I have in life. For

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example. I was the personal helper

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of my teacher in the 12

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last years of his life. And

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I saw his entire life. He

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didn't hide anything from me. He

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lived. acted. did. I knew all

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of his weaknesses. all of his

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inner feelings. Meaning as a human

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being. as a person. and in

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my eyes it was a serious

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field of work to nonetheless raise

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myself above it and dissolve. Okay.

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the next factor for a person's

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spiritual development is the source texts.

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Throughout history. an enormous number of

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source texts were written in the

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past five or five and a

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half thousand years. And what's interesting

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is that there are the source

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texts and there's the commentary to

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them. What's the commentary? By no

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means should one use any commentary.

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besides very special ones. There are

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source texts that were written also

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two and three thousand years ago.

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and then a thousand or a

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thousand and a half years later

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a commentary was written to it.

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about it. So the commentary is

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also serious. It stood the test

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of time. And there are those

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that were written in our times

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by so-called Kabbalists who declared themselves

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Kabbalists. And thus you should

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take into consideration that you can

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put all the Kabbalistic books in

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just several sources. It is the

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Book of Yetzirah. obviously the Tanakh.

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the Talmud Bavli. Mishnah. and the

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Zohar. Yeah. obviously. The Zohar and

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a few books that were written

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in the period of the two

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Israelite kingdoms. And after that are

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the books of the Ari that

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we read and the commentary to

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Ari's books by Baal HaSulam and

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the spiritual work that comes in

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addition to Baal HaSulam. written by

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Rabash. So you recommend only the

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commentaries by Baal HaSulam. Practically. we're

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left with Baal HaSulam with his

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commentary to the books of the

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Ari and his commentary to the

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Book of Zohar. And Rabash with

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all of his letters and articles

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that tell about the spiritual work.

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The commentary itself. what is it?

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What does he comment on? He makes

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it. he simplifies it. opens it

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up. He opens it up. He

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scrutinizes it for us. obviously. That's

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all there is to it. Were

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Rabash not to write his articles

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about the spiritual work in the

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group. How do we need to

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do it all? Were he not

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to describe the entire spiritual work?

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This is practically the only thing

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that he wrote about. He took

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some little articles. excerpts from the

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Torah. from other sources. but it's

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only in order to show on

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them how to do the spiritual

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work. Well. as I understand. the

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sole reason for which we read

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these source texts is in order

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to draw upon ourselves the influence

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of these source texts on our

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nature. innate. egoistic nature for it

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to change. Right. So the question

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is why comment on something? We don't

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understand anything anyway. No. but it's

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in order for it to be

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clearer to us how to act. So we

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do need to understand because it's

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written that a person doesn't change

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through his knowledge. It doesn't matter

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if he understands or not. No.

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There are things that we need

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to organize in our day-to-day life

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and the right connections between us.

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meaning in the group. the study.

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and everything else that's related to

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it. To the group and the

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study. Well. I'm asking about the

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source text. Does it matter whether

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a person reads the Zohar or

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Baal HaSulam's commentary to the Zohar

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because he doesn't understand either? Baal

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HaSulam. by his commentary to the

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Zohar. brought it closer to

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man. The thing is that we

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had no commentary to the Zohar.

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Well. then it's for more advanced

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students because for beginners there's no

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difference. Zohar. the commentary to the

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Zohar. one way or another a

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person doesn't understand what it means

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because until he attains the very

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first spiritual degree. for him it's...

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The thing is. we need to

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understand that it's not an ordinary

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science or some scientific articles. works.

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But the thing is that a

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person who feels the Zohar. who's

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on the level of the Book

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of Zohar. meaning who reveals the

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whole of creation. the system of

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governance of the forces that govern

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us. and he comments on them. He

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doesn't simply comment. add some stories

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of his own. But he puts

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into his texts additional force that

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draws you. brings you closer to

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the attainment of those forces that

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the Zohar writes about. Meaning it's

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not just in order to give

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you a few more sentences in

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order for you to understand. It's

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not at all about clarifying on

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the day-to-day level what the Zohar

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talks about. But to draw closer

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those forces that exist on the

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level of the Book of Zohar

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to make them closer to you.

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for them to better influence you.

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So there were the people who

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wrote the Book of Zohar two

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thousand years ago. I read the

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commentary of Baal HaSulam now. and

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that force that works on me

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while reading the commentary is more

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suitable for our generation. for us

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today. He took the Book of

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Zohar and supplemented it a bit

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in order for it to influence

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you in the state that you're

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in in your generation. Okay. that's

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clear. He put in certain forces

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of his that in the meantime

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I don't feel them neither here

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nor there. But these forces. they're

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closer to me. to our generation.

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The forces themselves. not the understanding

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of the book itself. Right. because

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it's impossible to understand either. Also

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I'd like to understand. do the

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letters themselves have some kind of

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force? Obviously. but the thing is

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that we're far from it. It's

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only after you start attaining the

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higher forces and their combination between

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them that you start seeing their

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alphabet. their correct combination in the

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form of letters. numbers. different kinds

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of drawings that specifically retell you

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about the interaction of forces. And

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this way you start understanding the

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language. Is there some kind of

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some amount of necessary hours per

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day that a person needs to

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study? All of his free time.

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So it says? Otherwise what was

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your life given to you for?

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Well. in order to enjoy. The

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purpose of creation is to enjoy.

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So enjoy. I wouldn't say that

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study is such a great pleasure.

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or at least it's one of

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the pleasures to enjoy. To enjoy

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precisely the greatness of the Creator

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and that which he has created

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as the necessary system. thanks to

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which we reach and attain his

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degree. But a person himself needs

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to determine. like any other thing

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in life. he needs to decide

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how much time he dedicates

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to the study. Is there some

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kind of a minimum amount or?

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No. it simply says that the

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main thing is to define. The

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main thing is to define what

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is your free time. Free. meaning

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I have to sleep a certain

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amount of time. work a certain

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amount of time. Kabbalah obliges a

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person to work. Nourish myself. take

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care of myself. etc. For all

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of this I need a certain

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amount of hours. But what do

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I do with the rest of

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the time? So for the rest

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of the time I have a

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very clear calculation that I will

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dedicate it only to the attainment

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of the Creator. Meaning the Creator

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created me as an animal. and

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thus I need to exist this

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way: to work. eat. family. etc.

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And along with it he also

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made me a man. Meaning in

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the rest of my time what

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I take care of is the

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man part in me. I'd like

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to ask about the Kabbalistic vocabulary.

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the terms. Is it necessary to

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study them by heart? Because Baal

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HaSulam wrote a Kabbalistic dictionary

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where he gives a definition to

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those words. Is it necessary to

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learn them by heart or not?

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Because any beginner. whatever he reads.

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he materializes everything that the Kabbalistic

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source texts talk about. I don't

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think that you need to learn

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by heart words because we're not

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linguists that simply study the language

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this way. But to learn. to

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learn the words means to

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understand. attain their inner meaning. What

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are they talking about? And thus

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here there already needs to be

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specifically attainment. The inner meaning of

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the word needs to interest me.

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What does it talk about? What

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does it mean in the spiritual

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world? On what level? How to

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attain it? Because the word itself.

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even the letter. it talks about

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the combination of many forces that

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I need to accumulate in myself.

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create in me. connect in a

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certain order between them. and then

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I attain a letter and another

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one and another one. Moving from

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one state to another. from one

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letter to another meaning. By that

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I start reading. I start understanding

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the meaning of the development of

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these states. What are they leading

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me to? And as a result

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they turn into a word. A

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word is already a serious package

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of information. So to simply sit

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and study some dictionary. it's like

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if I want to learn English.

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I look in the Russian dictionary

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and look what it means in

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English. You don't do that. But

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when I read a text. nonetheless.

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it's preferable to know what a

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screen is. I need to know

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that the screen is some kind

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of an anti-egoistic quality. and Baal

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HaSulam gives a definition to what

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it is. So it's good to

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look it up. Absolutely. That's the

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way to study. Meaning both the

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meaning and the inner meaning at

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the same time. And the last

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factor of spiritual development is

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the group. And all of our

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following lessons will be dedicated to the

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subject of the group. What are

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the principles of building a group?

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Because actually. as it is written in

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all Kabbalistic sources. the Creator.

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the higher force. is revealed precisely

24:35

in the interactions between the friends

24:37

and the group. And so a

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few questions. First of all. what

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is a group from the Kabbalistic

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point of view? Obviously it's not

24:46

the bodies. but what is it?

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The desire? A group is the

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accumulation of egoistic forces that are

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willing to step on their ego

24:59

in order to create between them

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a network of forces similar to

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the Creator. Would it be correct

25:06

to say that the group needs

25:08

to direct a person toward the

25:09

goal? That's already the consequence of

25:13

it. Because if the goal is

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to attain the qualities of the

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Creator. which is bestowal. then where

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else can it become revealed? Only

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in the group. Because it can't

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become revealed toward the still or

25:28

vegetative nature. Right. only in the

25:30

group. I can't bestow to plants

25:31

or rocks. Right. Another very important

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element is to cultivate the desire.

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Meaning we need to increase the

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desire in the group. How does

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that happen? Meaning when I understand

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that I need to attain the

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Creator and in me there is

25:51

only sheer ego. then along with

25:53

it I understand and I accept

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that my development needs to occur

25:58

in the group. For that I

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need to annul myself. Come to

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the group. enter it. become equal

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with them and even lower than

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them in order to start receiving

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the influence of the Creator. of

26:13

the higher light from them to

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me. Also it's interesting. it's written

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in Kabbalistic texts that the Creator

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relates to me through the group.

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He has no particular relation to

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me. Never. Meaning it is particular

26:27

but through the group. If you

26:29

can explain. Meaning the Creator appreciates

26:32

a person only in the measure

26:33

to which he dissolves in the

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group. adheres to it. and does

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everything in order to be the

26:41

smallest of them all. The most

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beneficial. The most dissolved in the

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group. Meaning all these events that

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happen to each person. it all

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passes either through the group or

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the whole of humanity. Not only

27:01

that it goes through. the thing

27:02

is that a person himself is

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not considered a person but only

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in the measure to which he

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influences the group and ties them

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together in similarity to the Creator.

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in that measure he's considered a

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man. Meaning there's no talk about

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a single individual but only about

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a ten that comes together in

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order to become like one. like

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the One. Meaning the Creator doesn't

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see a person as a body.

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No. no. The quality of bestowal

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cannot relate to something that is

27:31

less than ten. It's simply not

27:34

realized in a smaller quantity. Is

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there a difference between whether the

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Creator relates to me through the

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group or through the whole of

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humanity? No. it's one way or

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another through the group. So through

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humanity. the group. then to me.

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Okay. and how then to see

27:50

the signs of the Creator through

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the group? Specifically your interaction with

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the group. your inclusion in the

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group gives you the signs of

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the Creator. So something happens. It

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is said that in every given moment

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I can recognize the actions of

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the Creator according to your relation

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with the friends and the friends'

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relation to you. Between yourselves and

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the connection between you. you will

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start revealing the Creator's relation to

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you. In life there are certain

28:23

events through which it is practically

28:26

impossible to understand. What does the

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Creator want to tell me? You

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don't need it. You need to

28:32

act yourself. What do you want

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to tell the Creator? Meaning suppose

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a person lost his job or

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he can't find. well. if you'll

28:42

start looking for answers to these

28:43

questions. yeah. but it bothers a

28:45

person. He can't find a spouse.

28:48

No need. You need to say

28:49

that it all comes from the

28:50

Creator and this is what I

28:52

need to do. The main thing

28:54

is forward. And no matter if

28:57

he pushes you away. still you

28:59

go forward. To him. So you're

29:03

saying that there's no connection between

29:04

what a person gets in life.

29:08

the different blows that he experiences.

29:10

etc.. and what he does in

29:11

the group? No. there's no connection

29:13

because the blows that we get.

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they could be completely for others.

29:17

connected through many. many different systems.

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The system of the general soul

29:26

includes absolutely everything in it. everyone.

29:30

The still. vegetative. animate. human nature

29:33

and all of their states. How

29:35

can you understand it now? So

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I want to be righteous. Try.

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Simply don't ask about anything. And

29:43

I get blows for others. That

29:45

doesn't matter. You'll say thank you

29:46

for it. Okay. Probably better to

29:52

end the show here. So in

29:56

order to understand what you just

29:58

explained. I think that we'll have

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another 20 lessons in which we

30:03

will examine how. through the group.

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to reveal the signs of the

30:07

Creator. Will I be able to

30:10

understand? You will be able to

30:12

recognize them. What the Creator wants

30:15

to tell me. Yes. only in my

30:17

relation to the group and the

30:19

friends. how I relate to them.

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they relate to me. and how

30:24

I'll need to scrutinize it all.

30:27

In that I will discover the

30:28

language of the Creator. So we'll

30:30

go over the communication with the

30:32

friends in the group. after which

30:33

I'll understand the communication with the

30:35

Creator. I'll understand why. how. and

30:38

for what purpose the Creator relates

30:40

to me the way that he

30:41

does. Right. Okay. Thank you very

30:43

much. Till next time. All the

30:45

best.