Question: If I feel that my prayer is egoistical, then should I stop praying?
Answer: The worst thing that you can do is to stop asking. It means you are returning to the animate state since an animal does not and cannot pray. We are talking about a real prayer, your correction, not tears or words from a book.
Read more »Shamati #15 “What is Other Gods in the Work”
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Question: If you were to choose from the three different times: the time leading up to a Congress, the time during it, or the time after the congress, which is the most effective time?
Read more »Question: I have a big dilemma. One of my best friends that I've known for 10 years is getting married on Yom Kippur. He's not Jewish and I know he did this with only good intentions, but it's too late to change anything. To make it worse, I am the best man. Is there any way around this situation? I have to be there by 5:00 pm at the latest which means there is still 2 hours and 45 minutes left of Yom Kippur. Response: Think of Sandy Koufax. It's the 1965 World Series. He's scheduled to pitch on Yom Kippur, but declines. Instead, he attends synagogue in Minneapolis.
Read more »Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-07-29Video: ENG 52.89MB Audio: ENG 9.43MB
Read more »The pyramid upon which all of nature is based includes four levels: still, vegetative, animate, and human, and it exists inside every person. It is always inside a person, which means that he always combines all the desires within. Therefore, he must always take into account and realize that he has to build up his desires in the form of this pyramid or according to this scale of priorities.
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Question: Every time I try to focus on the lesson, I discover that I am distracted by countless irrelevant thoughts. What should I do?
Read more »Dear Friends, please ask questions about these passages from the great Kabbalists. I promise to answer them. The commentaries in brackets are mine.
All the Teachings in the World Are Included in the Wisdom of Kabbalah
Read more »Question: If we don’t really understand the state of having to unite together as one man with one heart, then what should we focus on or imagine while reading The Book of Zohar?
Read more »Rabash, Shlavei HaSulam, “A Congress is no Less Than Ten”
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"And the King Messiah will be revealed and all the nations of the world will gather
around King Messiah, and the verse will be fulfilled, 'The root of Jesse which standeth as
the peoples' ensign, unto it shall the nations seek, and his resting place shall be glory.
(Isaiah 11:10)'"
[Zohar 2:172b]
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Friday, 7:37 PM
July 30, 2010
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Saturday, 7:36 PM
July 31, 2010
