Comment: You told us that your teacher Rabash used to sing and dance when he was in states of darkness and that is how he came out of those states. What do you do when you are in states of darkness?

Answer: When I remember Rabash’s determination, his aspiration, yearning, and refusal to accept anything except being with the Creator and holding only to his father’s method, I am flooded, if not by strength, then at least by patience.

Without that, I would certainly not be able to continue to work because I am not made of iron. Students leave me, and, of course, I am sensitive to that.

But I immediately think of Rabash and that gives me great power. He was like a rock! And therefore, I invoke in me feelings that belong to that rock and get strength. He gives them to me!

As for my students, I think that they see how I work and they should take an example from me. Rabash didn’t tell me anything! I simply saw a person who totally dedicated his life to spiritual attainment. What is more, he never thought twice, not even once, and always sacrificed himself.

I was always amazed by the fact that he never thought about his internal or external problems, and his reactions and decisions were immediate. There wasn’t one bit of a doubt! Every problem changes our routine and we sink into doubts. He had such an internal power that he only advanced forward and was absolutely calm externally. It was unbelievable!

Therefore, the main thing for us is the upper goal. It is superior to everything, determines everything, and I am its slave. My ideal state is when I am incorporated in this system as its component. Although I am a live component, I want to be incorporated in it as someone who has no personal life and who performs its laws without any questions.

I want to correct myself to such an extent that I become a cogwheel within it that moves in accordance with the upper system without any thoughts or doubts! This is called being the Lord’s slave, which means a person’s complete correction. I fully attain the system and the force that manages it.

Comment: Which means that a thought arrives and you immediately follow it…

Answer: No. I still have to clarify things, reach a solution, and make a decision, but all that doesn’t take place according to earthly time but on frequencies or at a pace in which the beginning and the end actually become one.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/12/14

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In the News (from The Independent): “For years, Finland has been the by-word for a successful education system, perched at the top of international league tables for literacy and numeracy.

“Which makes it all the more remarkable that Finland is about to embark on one of the most radical education reform programmes ever undertaken by a nation state – scrapping traditional ‘teaching by subject’ in favour of ‘teaching by topic.’

“’This is going to be a big change in education in Finland that we’re just beginning,’ said Liisa Pohjolainen, who is in charge of youth and adult education in Helsinki – the capital city at the forefront of the reform programme.

“Subject-specific lessons – an hour of history in the morning, an hour of geography in the afternoon – are already being phased out for 16-year-olds in the city’s upper schools. They are being replaced by what the Finns call ‘phenomenon’ teaching – or teaching by topic. For instance, a teenager studying a vocational course might take ‘cafeteria services’ lessons, which would include elements of maths, languages (to help serve foreign customers), writing skills and communication skills.

“More academic pupils would be taught cross-subject topics such as the European Union – which would merge elements of economics, history (of the countries involved), languages and geography.

“There are other changes too, not least to the traditional format that sees rows of pupils sitting passively in front of their teacher, listening to lessons or waiting to be questioned. Instead there will be a more collaborative approach, with pupils working in smaller groups to solve problems while improving their communication skills.

“Early data shows that students are benefiting too. In the two years since the new teaching methods first began being introduced, pupil ‘outcomes’ – they prefer that word to standards – have improved.”

My Comment: Everything that is group-related (connection) and closer to life (theme) will have a positive impact on knowledge and behavior.
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Confucianism, Religion and Society

Question: Today, Singapore, Macao, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, countries where the majority of the population are Chinese, is a rapidly developing area. Is it related to special psychological attributes or philosophies of the Chinese people? After all, Confucianism is the basis of their philosophy, which includes loyalty to the nation, moderation, and keeping the law.

Answer: Yes, it is relevant and significant to some extent since Confucianism replaces the religions that are the basis of religious ritual in the other countries in Asia and Europe. Confucianism is the religion of the society. The state and the society become a person’s god, and the person becomes their servant. Confucius laid the foundation of a serious system that matches the nature of the nation that is expressed in unlimited loyalty to society and one’s readiness to give up everything he has for its sake.

The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Confucianism

Question: Can we see any connection between Confucianism and the wisdom of Kabbalah in any way, in that one of the important components of this psychology or philosophy is the ability to postpone consumption to the next day? Even today, there are rigid laws in Singapore that regulate consumption. If you make more than a certain sum of money, you cannot spend it on yourself, but must give it to some special fund that saves it for your education, health care, and future pension. This means that everything comes down to norms of wise consumption.

Answer: That’s true. You have brought up a very important point: the connection between the wisdom of Kabbalah and Confucianism. The wisdom of Kabbalah calls for love thy friend as thyself. If we dig more deeply into Confucianism, we will see that it also aspires to the unity of the people and to providing its basic, normal needs, while everything that exceeds a person’s normal needs must be directed to the benefit of society.

Question: It is actually thanks to such funds that the economy in Singapore is flourishing so rapidly. You invest your money for your future, and it is invested in developing the economy, which, in its turn, leads to raising the standard of living of every member in society.

Answer: Unfortunately, the attempts made in China, Singapore, and other countries will collapse eventually because they are disconnected from nature. Their current situation is temporary, and it will hold on until the egoism in society grows to such an extent that they will not be able to remain in the old frameworks and existing laws. This will lead to large-scale bribery and thefts that we haven’t seen even in Russia and in the US.

Question: However, there are still people among the leaders of these countries who understand the impending danger. The current Chinese president, for example, is fighting corruption like no one before him ever did.

Answer: They will not be able to do anything unless they renew the educational values of the nation. It isn’t about a new Chinese education, but Kabbalistic education. A person should feel that he can reach a new level of development through education and at the same time he earns his eternal state. If he doesn’t, he will rot like an animal. It is one of the two. People gladly will agree to limit themselves on the corporeal level for such a reward because it promises only positive outcomes, being the sensible form of consumption, and will be more considerate of others since they will feel that it is in the connection with others that they can acquire the agreement, the framework, in which they will feel the next dimension.

The Constitution of Israel: Love Thy Friend As Thyself

Question: I didn’t bring up these countries as a random example. It is because it is easier to illustrate certain benefits in a small geographical area. Can your idea be demonstrated in Israel first?

Answer: I would be glad to implement this idea among the Chinese and in other remote places, but it can only work in Israel with its egoistic, stubborn people. Because it is from this nation that such ideas will pass on to the entire world. I believe that it is only by working with our people that we will feel the urgent need for a change in paradigm, of the actual basis of our world view and our attitude to ourselves, to the state, to the nation, and to the world. At the moment, we don’t have all that; at the moment there is no nation and no state.

Question: There is still no constitution in Israel.

Answer: There is actually an old constitution. It is concealed in the basics of the wisdom of Kabbalah: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” I believe that we will be able to fulfill it in our lives when we approach all the sectors of the nation, to meet with them, talk to them, not through approaching the government.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 4/1/15

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Question: I noticed that there are some expressions that sound like threats in the weekly section of the Torah “BeHukotai.”

Answer: These are not threats, but are detailed descriptions of our right and wrong actions and of the responses that may follow them. There is a clear and precise system in which everything depends on which button you push.

Suppose that there is an instrument with a thousand buttons, but we know nothing about its schematic, and we are told, “If you push this button, the result will be so and so, and if you push that button, the outcome will be different.” Are these threats?

It is getting acquainted with the system of creation, which tells us how we can use it correctly for our well-being and in order to carry out the plan of creation and attain adhesion with the Creator. On the other hand, we are told what we are forbidden so that our attributes, desires and actions will not be in contrast to the system. On the whole, we are given the freedom to act, but, at the same time, we also are warned.

Nonetheless, we can say, “What kind of freedom is this? If I knew how to jump from the tenth floor, for example, and would remain in one piece and healthy, then I would have the free will to jump or not to jump, but, because I know that I will crash, I don’t jump.”

Question: It may seem like a way of totally getting rid of a person’s self: You only need to listen and to obey; that’s it.

Answer: Our self is no more than a programmed animal that operates only in accordance with its small corporeal ego, and which, therefore, objects, “So, where am I,” while we are allowed to ascend to the Creator’s level in the spiritual work, as if we were told, “Your current situation is predetermined. Now, you must go through the levels of ascent and reach a new state. When you fulfill these laws and work on your animal by using them, you turn yourself into another creature. A creature that is formed by fulfilling these laws will be able to fully enter a totally different system and manage the creation from that position, instead of the Creator. You will know and understand everything and operate in absolute freedom.”

We actually have no choice. The plan has been activated. Therefore, the Torah doesn’t tell us about detailed threats, but about suggestions for accepting these laws. When you correct your attitude toward them by yourself, you will be able to reach the state in which you will want to discover and know the meaning of “in order to bestow” and what it means to love others, to exit yourself, to feel the world that is external to you, to act without any self-benefit. You don’t know how and where you will be taught, but you already want that.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 11/12/14

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Question: Dozens of nations are investing billions in a particle accelerator in Switzerland. They hope to discover the “God Particle.” Why do the scientists call it that?

Answer: In the eyes of the scientists, it is the “God Particle” because this is imagined to be the last particle missing from the standard model of quantum theory. So, they see some kind of component from some higher level in this particle.

It is considered that the particle originated in the Big Bang, but the idea is that this entire universe, with all of the galaxies within it, exists only within us. This universe doesn’t exist without human existence, for that is how it was created in our perception of reality.

The scientists don’t accept this approach, so all their research won’t lead to anything. Nevertheless, the wisdom of Kabbalah respects the natural sciences. However, ultimately, science is designed to prove to us that the truth is found in the inner development of a person where he discovers the true reality, and that same nature that we discover now, with all of the laws known to us, doesn’t go beyond the limitations of the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate that depict our ego on levels one, two, and three for us.

The study of behavior and all kinds of shapes and forms of our ego on the first, second, and third levels is called the study of the science of this world. Certainly, the scientists will discover more and more particles and new phenomena because we advance from day to day and make new discoveries in the spiritual world, and accordingly, we discover phenomena that were previously unknown in the substance of this world.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/8/15, Writings of Rabash

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In the News (psychologies.ru): “Hatred, unlike fear and happiness, doesn’t belong to elementary human emotions and is itself a symbiosis of several simultaneous emotions. The foundation of hatred is disgust, one of the primary emotions.

“Disgust, revulsion, is an emotion with a significant physiological cause and purpose to protect a person from the influence of a harmful object (toxic) on him. This is the reason that vomiting and nausea accompany the perception by the person of something disgusting, revolting.

“The main function of disgust is to bring the maximal contact with the unpleasant or dangerous object to zero. When we experience disgust or revulsion, we run away or become petrified. Fear attracts our attention, whereas disgust, on the contrary, rejects. The disappearance of an object that arouses disgust or revulsion relaxes us.

“Psychological or ethical disgust awakens in us values or behaviors that are unacceptable to our education. Together with this, the natural counter reaction is identical to physiological disgust.

“It is worthwhile to add several additional components to disgust, by which we get hatred. Most of the time, hatred is a product of the mixture of disgust, revulsion, fear, insult and the inability to move away from the object that arouses the emotion.

“If there is no possibility of moving away, this means that it is necessary to annihilate the object. This feeling presents the option sharply and unambiguously: It’s either me or him. Disgust, unlike hatred, presents the option in another manner: Get out of my sight.

“How is it possible to create hatred? The answer is simple. Supply people or a group with disgusting or revolting features, add fear, invoke old insults and suppress the ability to see the good. The more limited the worldview, the easier it is to arouse hatred and there are more reasons for its manifestation. When hatred develops, it limits the perception of the world and fixes the attention only on the object that arouses disgust.

“It is not possible to stop hatred through hatred. Only love, which is the opposite characteristic, acts as a neutralizing force. Releasing oneself from the shackles of hatred is possible when you focus on what you are doing with yourself. This will help in turning away from hatred.”

My Comment: The wisdom of Kabbalah instructs us not to listen to ourselves, but to engage in connection with others. In this way we remove all characteristics other than love!
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The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about the discovery of the higher system that is concealed within our nature. Behind the nature that we see, feel, and discover with our five senses, there is a system that manages us, our entire lives, and all of our development.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is engaged with discovering this system. It explains how this same system, the upper force, created us, how we exist, how we are evolving, and what kind of state we must ultimately attain.

This entire system is called Elokim (God). Elokim and nature (HaTeva) are the same thing (they have the same numerical value according to Gematria, and this indicates that they have the same essence). However, by the word “nature” we don’t mean the physical nature that surrounds us, but an immense system, a minute part of which is revealed to us, whereas 99.9% of it is concealed.

Scientists also confirm that they have discovered only a minute part of what is happening in reality, but they hope that, through the continued development of science, they will discover what is concealed. But there are strata in the system of nature that we cannot ever discover with our five physical senses because these senses are limited—it’s just five organs of sensing in total and the tools that we create to expand their range.

Here, what we need is an additional, new method in order to discover that hidden system in which the higher management that develops us is concealed. From this system, we can see, feel, and discover for ourselves what our fate is, what motivates us, and whether we have freedom of choice in everything that we do—or does it only seem that way to us, but, essentially, we are not free, and we are only realizing the will of some force, some desire of a unique program?

Question: Does this system manage my life and the life of everyone now and at all times?

Answer: Certainly! This is a general and complete system within which we exist, as if we were within a gigantic computer that determines everything for us, transforming us and moving us through different situations from the beginning of creation to its end.

Question: Does the wisdom of Kabbalah investigate this gigantic computer?

Answer: Yes. It reveals to us the entire reality, including this world and the upper world. It explains how we move between five worlds and how we attain the final state. A person who begins to recognize and attain this system is called a Kabbalist.

Question: How does this knowledge and attainment influence the a person’s life? What does it give to him?

Answer: When a person becomes familiar with and attains the higher system, the person discovers all of the forces that operate on him and the consequences of his actions. He discovers whether his actions are planned from above or whether he can insert his free and personal component into them. Is this life a “rigged game,” as if it were, in some kind of machine, and there is nothing to be done about it? Could it be that someone is watching it and following it from the outside, carrying out all kinds of exercises and experiments on it that he doesn’t know about, only carrying out the will of the higher desire in this world—or can he attain a state in our world in which he adds something of himself, and, moreover, can he discover the higher desire and obligate it to be involved with him such that he makes his own choices? A person discovers all of these things.

Question: Are you saying that there is some kind of system that manages me now, at this very moment?

Answer: Not just now, but always! It is beyond time, motion, and space.

Question: But I don’t feel it; I don’t feel that someone is managing me. I manage myself!

Answer: Do you feel how your body behaves, how it is managed? No, it has an inner program, and it acts like some kind of mechanism. You don’t feel this, but within it there is an infinite number of states and processes.

Question: I thought that the brain manages my body.

Answer: This is only the way it seems to you. Your body manages a much more complex program.

Question: Who manages me?

Answer: That same gigantic computer, the higher power, manages not only you, but everyone together, all of reality.

Question: But what does it want from my life?

Answer: The higher power wants you to discover it and become its full partner. This means that you will discover what its purpose is, how great, complete, eternal, and good this power is.

Question: How can we break into this immense computer?

Answer: To do this, you need to be a talented hacker.

Question: Which hackers break into this computer?

Answer: Those who learn the wisdom of Kabbalah can penetrate into this computer, into the higher system.
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From Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 2/15/15

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Question: After two years of reconstruction, the biggest particle accelerator in the world that is on the border between France and Switzerland finally has been reopened. Physicists are looking for the elementary particle, the “God Particle.” Does this mean that the world is in a search for something upper?

Answer: Scientists kindle public interest in this quest because they can thus satisfy their curiosity, as well as get a chance to work. It is clearly impossible to find the “God Particle” this way. It is impossible to touch things that are above matter. Scientists want to discover the “God Particle,” but it is a paradox. If it is a material particle, it cannot be a “God Particle.”

God is spiritual; it is not perceived by our senses or our lifeless machines. Therefore, it is impossible to perceive the “God Particle” by the collider that they built. However, they have already spent billions, which could be have been used for something useful. These experiments are funded because there is a hope that, thanks to them, it will be possible eventually to create a more powerful bomb.

Question: Isn’t there a connection between spirituality and corporeality, between a root and a branch? Can’t we discover the spiritual world through this particle?

Answer: This is absolutely impossible. How can there be a connection between any corporeal phenomenon that is revealed in our egoistic consciousness and something that exists in the world of absolute bestowal?

There is no connection between the corporeal and the spiritual worlds; there is no bridge. We cannot build a passage from one world to the other. There is a great partition between them. Scientists don’t understand what godliness is and what spirituality means, although there were great minds like Einstein and Huge Everett III who realized that they didn’t understand this matter and spoke openly about the limitations of their theories.

Question: Why is it impossible to discover spiritual phenomena through the Higgs boson search with the Large Hadron Collider? Doesn’t corporeality affect spirituality? If it doesn’t, why do we have discussion circles and believe that it does have an effect on people?

Answer: We create a special accelerator of correction in the circles. This is already a totally different process that has nothing to do with quantum physics, but is related to the wisdom of Kabbalah. Something new indeed is formed inside it that is created by the thoughts of people who annul their egoism and wish to connect. Thus, they turn themselves into an amplifier, a great spiritual accelerator, but any physical instruments cannot measure this action. A person comes out of the circle greatly impressed, but it is impossible to assess and measure such feelings that are a result of the connection. There is no connection between the two. These phenomena can be the result of endless reasons since they are merely physiological phenomena in our corporeal body. There is no connection between corporeality and spirituality. There never has been, and there never will be.

Question: Doesn’t spiritual work affect the corporeal life?

Answer: I correct my inner vessels of perception through spiritual work, and then I see and perceive the world that is inside me in a new way because my inner vessels of perception have changed. I see a different world that is reflected differently in my consciousness. It is the result of the change of my attributes, the inner accelerator, which we form in the circle, that changes our attributes, and we see a different, better world. When a person sits in a circle, he is incorporated in a machine that accelerates his development. He is under the influence of the Light, the upper force of nature. Therefore, he suddenly discovers that it is actually possible to connect, that it is really good and that we should do that. People come out of the circles with a feeling of great elation. This isn’t the result of persuasion, like in some lecture, but the direct effect of the Light that operates on us and advances our development.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/8/15, Writings of Rabash

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If we understand what kind of a life we are leading, we want to get off this wheel. Today, the world is reaching such a state that it will have no choice. Otherwise, all the governments will need to think and decide what to do with 90% of the population that they don’t need.

One or two hundred years ago, a person who didn’t work didn’t have anything to eat. However, today, a person doesn’t need to work in order to eat. There is an abundance of food in the world. In the past, a person didn’t have anything to wear if he didn’t have money. Today, there is so much clothing in the world that there is no problem in being clothed.

So, what is to be done with those people for whom we have no need? Out of a population of seven billion, half a billion are enough to supply everyone with everything that is necessary.  And what will all the rest of the people do? Where is this world going? What kind of sense is there in the existence of all seven billion? How will the next generation be built?

There are a few approaches and options here. One approach is a fascistic approach that says that we have to rebuild gas chambers and ovens, and return to the Holocaust. Cleanse this earth of a few billion people if there is no need for them. So, what is to be done with them? Others say that this is inhumane, but it is possible to do the same thing through drugs and medicines. There are many methods to reduce the population.

There is an another method: Arrange for wars all over the world in which they kill each other, or develop such an ideology in which a person doesn’t need to get married and produce children. Same-sex marriage will become acceptable to everyone, men with men and women with women. The main thing is to reduce the amount of the population that is not needed by anyone.

Today, the greatest problem is that there are billions of superfluous people. This is not in the sense that there is not enough food, and there we can’t feed them. Rather, there is a huge ballast, that has nothing to do. There is not enough for them in terms of time, space, and care. They become irrelevant, and this is a very big problem.

If we look at the world from above, from a demographic point of view, from the side of the governments, we see all the seriousness and severity of this problem. Maybe then we will understand what is happening today in the world, why no one cares about where wars are happening and there is increased drug use.

The reason for such an indifferent attitude is beginning to be understood. We are facing a very big problem. We want to continue to advance through the old methods as before, but the world demands that we reach a new structure.

Clearly, it is possible to start an atomic war and reduce the number of people who live in the world by half or three-quarters. However, nature obligates us to reach a state in which there will be neither elites nor a lower class.

In the world of today, there are a huge number of “extra” people for capitalism. We have no choice. We must reach a new social form built on absolute equality, for at the end of the development of capitalism 90% of the population will be left without work, and there will be nothing to keep them busy.

The only way is to give them work on building new relationships between them according to the principle of equality. After all, only a form like this assures the continuation of human existence in the modern world, advancing toward equality and more and more connection between people until we discover a new way of life between us.

This is exactly the process that is happening in the world today, although not everyone sees it. But the approach from above is very clear. The problem is only in the seam between the new form and the old by which the world always has existed up to our day and through which we developed on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate. Today, all of humanity has reached a new level of human development.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/8/15, Writings of Rabash

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