Question: What is friendship? What are the sensations and feelings that must appear between two friends?

Answer: Friendship is reciprocity, secure support, a feeling of warmth and mutual understanding.

Question: Can this continue until the end of life? Have you come across such cases?

Answer: Friendship between Kabbalists can be like this because it is beyond the limitations of life and death. A person begins to experience completely new sensations and emotions that are produced outside of our beastly bodies.

Question: In life are there cases in which a friend gives his life for the sake of others. Is this welcomed in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t relate to this in any way and doesn’t say anything about this, neither for nor against. Everything depends on the situation.

Question: Are there general rules in the Torah when a person must give his life for the sake of others and when not?

Answer: In the Torah general rules and obligations like these don’t exist. But if necessary, a person himself gives his life because an inner connection can be very strong. I am convinced that there are circumstances like these in which a mother can give her life for the sake of her child. This can also be the case with two friends if one feels that the other is higher than he.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Question from Facebook: How can I tell whether the person in front of me is a Kabbalist?

Answer: There is no way you can tell, but there are external signs of a Kabbalist:

1. Regularly studying the wisdom of Kabbalah whenever he can.

2. Studying for 3 hours during the morning lesson.

3. Regularly attending the gathering of friends’ meetings.

4. Taking part in dissemination that leads to the correction of the world.

5. Making active efforts to bring the world to a corrected state.

This is called a Kabbalist

Question: If that’s the case, even a student who is a beginner can be called a Kabbalist.

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, a person is called a Kabbalist according to his intention and his goal, not according to whether he has attained a spiritual level. If he focuses himself on it the spiritual level, it means that he is in it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/8/17

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Question: What are the most important steps in building a sense of feeling the upper world?

Answer: The most important steps in building the soul are written and described in detail by my teacher Rabash in his first twenty articles. Therefore, I strongly advise you study them.

In fact, all of the conditions required for creating a sense of the feeling of the upper world, the Creator, and His eternal and perfected state, are indicated in those articles.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: Is there a spiritual root to feminism? Where does feminism stem from? Has it always been here or has it just emerged?

Answer: Ask women around you what they really want. Don’t they really want a sense of security about the future, a good family, children, and a husband, someone to care for? This is what they need first and foremost!

I don’t think that feminism did not exist in the past. It has always been here. In the past women like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, and others represented it. Even the Torah tells us about heroic women….

So feminism is not a new phenomenon. Today we can simply see a greater breach of the ego; it is being exposed and has become uncontrollable, impossible to restrain by the boundaries of the family, the state, or the world, but this doesn’t make anyone happier.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/4/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy 20:20: However, a tree you know is not a food tree, you may destroy and cut down, and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until its submission.

An infertile tree is cut down when it is possible to advance in the spiritual development with its help. You should use the tree for the movement toward the right goal: either the fruits themselves or at least something that you achieve with its help.

We have different types of desires. There are desires that we can transform into useful actions, and there are auxiliary desires. This is what we are talking about. It turns out that the desire itself isn’t at fault. It simply is this way according to its nature, and later it will turn into a fruitful tree.

All 613 desires of a person are located in the ten levels, what are called the ten Sefirot. Among them there are desires that can be easily managed in order to achieve the goal, and there are the passive ones that are impossible to control. They can be used only for the defensive purposes and for the advancing actions.

All this is sorted inside a person. He perfectly understands his spiritual states and the forces that determine these states.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/21/16

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Question: Sensory perception in animals is much more developed than in humans: sight, smell, hearing, and touch. Does this mean that they are more developed than humans?

Answer: In our world, animals are much more adapted to nature than people. However, man’s weakness in regard to nature, on the one hand, and his developed intelligence, on the other hand, enables him to adapt all of nature to himself. So this is, as they say, a double-edged sword.

Question: In spirituality, is the sensitivity of animals stronger?

Answer: There are no animals in spirituality. They remain on the animal level, as do those people who have not received the properties of bestowal.

Until we penetrate into the upper world, into the world of bestowal and love, we are considered beasts. After all, until then, we have nothing other than the five senses and a little more intelligence, which lowers us below the level of the animals.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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Question: Specifically why are humans called the crown of everything that has been created?

Answer: Humans are called the crown of creation because the whole creation was created according to a structure that is called “Adam” – Man, and all parts of creation are components of this system.

When a person begins to comprehend creation, it appears within him as his constituent parts. A person begins to understand that only he was created and that all the rest of the still, vegetative, animate, and human are found within him.

That is the way every person feels who has achieved creation, even though according to our logic, it makes no sense for a person to feel that everything is within him. This is precisely what happens, because creation is a system of many connections, and within it, every person includes all of creation within himself.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/25/16

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Question from Facebook: During the last convention, I had a feeling of ascending above this world. Why can’t I feel this in ordinary days?

Answer: You cannot feel that because you don’t have the society that can raise you. When thousands of people gather and everyone is excited about the idea of ascending above this world, they actually raise our world to the next level, and whoever is incorporated with them in this effort rises too.

This is the reason that you ascended; it was thanks to others and not as a result of your own efforts. Come and study how to ascend by your own efforts and how to raise others.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/8/17

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