Question: Why is Kabbalah considered a part of philosophy in our world? It is even studied in universities as part of philosophy.

Answer: In our world, it is believed that all spiritual sciences belong to philosophy.

It must be said that all science in general arose from philosophy. Since I am a PhD, my degree is a PhD [a doctorate in philosophy]. But if I were a doctor of physical sciences, I would still have a PhD written after my name since at one time all sciences belonged to philosophy. Philosophy is translated as “love of knowledge.” But today it is something completely opposite to knowledge.

Question: But why do so many people not consider Kabbalah a science? They say that what Kabbalah asserts cannot be verified empirically.

Answer: And they are right. After all, first you need to develop an additional sense organ in yourself, feel what Kabbalah is talking about, and then make sure that what it says exists in nature and is subject to verification and research. This confirms that Kabbalah is a science.

We explore nature through our five senses. Kabbalah says that there is still an opportunity to explore nature through the sixth sense organ, which works not for receiving, but for bestowing. It explains how to develop it.

There is a rudiment of this sense organ in man called the soul. Kabbalah develops it, and then, when a person begins to feel the upper world, it explains to him what he feels.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Seekers” 9/16/09

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The Base for the Revelation of the Creator

Baal HaSulam’s article “Peace in the World” examines four attributes: mercy, truth, justice, and peace. These are very difficult attributes; it is difficult to understand them; people are constantly confused about them, but we still need to study them.

Even if you forget about them later on like at school, how long did we study all kinds of subjects and what do we remember? But this is called education. The fact that this knowledge has passed through you shapes your brain.

Mercy, truth, justice, and peace are the four attributes that exist in each of us. They exist in society, in the family, in any object. We are drawn to these basics. We always want to use them in some way, to manage them or for them to control us.

In general there is a problem here: how can you master all four categories within yourself? We have a need for them, but we don’t know how to work with them.

Baal HaSulam examines the categories of mercy (hesed), truth (emet), justice (tzedek), and peace (shalom) in relation to the individual and society since they practically work in each of us and mainly in the connection of a person with other people.

Our correction depends on how much we are connected with each other because only then will we find such a network of dependence and interaction between ourselves, which is called Adam, and we will catch the Creator in it.

Therefore, it becomes clear to us that these categories are fundamental. And if we use them correctly, combine them among themselves, they will give us the basis in which we will reveal the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/28/19

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Question: What is the right action on my part in order to become part of the integral system? Or perhaps I have no part in that at all?

Answer: You do! That’s the whole idea! Now when I feel connected to the whole mechanism of the integral system, how can I act or its advantage?

This means that I am not an individual entity, but I am only a source of benefit or harm to the whole mechanism. It is just like every cell in the body, which doesn’t exist by itself, but only in order to sustain the multi- functionality of the whole body.

Question: How do I integrate in this system correctly?

Answer: We need to feel all the cells around us in order to do so, and also the Creator who fills them with His force of life. Just as there is a spirit that keeps the body alive, we too need to feel all the cells of the body and the spirit that fills them, and work accordingly for the wellbeing of the body and the wellbeing of the corporeal spirit. This is what is meant by “from the love of others to the love of the Creator.”

Question: How can we mutually cooperate with these cells? On what basis if I don’t have these attributes at the moment?

Answer: These attributes will appear in you. You will gradually begin to feel how you mutually cooperate with others, and how together, by the cooperation between you, you can bring the whole body to the form of the creation.

Question: Does this mean that I have to feel them and to feel this attribute that connects us in order to discover such a desire?

Answer: It isn’t a problem. Just start thinking in this direction and you will understand that it is possible.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/21/19

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International Kabbalah Convention, “Entry Into the Spiritual Degree,” Lesson 3

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Reality shows us that an individual cannot exist in isolation without a sufficient number of people around him to serve him and help him provide for his needs. (Baal HaSulam, “Peace in the World)

We see that any individual, and especially modern man, is doomed if he is detached from society because he cannot provide his needs in any way.

If the meaning of life is to reach connection with the Creator during our lifetime, to reveal the upper form that manages us, the main thing for us is the revelation of this force.

If we do that, we will ascend to a level of eternity because contact with the Creator provides us with a different form of life. We must therefore reach this level as soon as possible.

The main tool to attain this is the group that can support us, awaken us and encourage us so that we will begin to attain the Creator this way.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/21/19

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Prophets, Joshua, 8:34-8:35: And afterward Joshua read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the Torah.

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.

Question: What does it mean to read the entire Torah?

Answer: This is not about reading the book itself, but about fulfilling the commandments that people must fulfill if they wish to move in the direction of the Creator. This is the meaning of the Torah and human life in general, the essence of our existence on earth. This is what Joshua explained.

In principle, this is not a lot of work, just the fulfillment of the commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Nothing more!

You just need to place this commandment into your heart and nothing else is needed. It includes absolutely everything.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/19/21

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“I have been to the end of the earth. I have been to the end of the water. I have been to the end of the sky. I have been to the end of the mountains. I have found none that are not my friends.” (Native American Navajo Proverb)

We are all parts of one common soul.

Question: How pure Native American souls are! How is it possible to come to such a thought? Half of them are enemies but they say: “I have found none that are not my friends.”

Answer: No one knows. They also stripped scalps from each other and so on. But in general, they have accepted this attitude. This is their prominent philosophy.

Question: But if you do not talk about them, but refer to us, relate these quotes to us, how would you comment on: “I have found none that are not my friends“?

Answer: “As one man with one heart.” “Man is man’s friend.” “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All this is written in the Torah in direct language. It is all there.

This philosophy, in fact, exists in every nation but in a different form, at different levels, and in different depths.

But in principle, you can always find something similar in any nation when they talk about community, collective wisdom, the need to get closer, the need for peace, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/21

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Question: After the victory of Joshua over the city of Ai, an altar was being built to the God of Israel on Mount Ebal. One of the translations of the word “ebal” is evil. Why is the altar placed on evil?

Answer: And how else? Where is the temple placed? Also on evil. This is all done to rise above egoism. Therefore, everything that is under it is evil. Thanks to the construction, it is corrected.

Question: It seemed to me that first the evil is corrected and then the building is erected over it.

Answer: No, egoism cannot be corrected. A completely opposite quality is built over it, and thus this primordial evil works for good: for connection, unity, and unification.

One arises above the other. Nothing vanishes, nothing disappears. And even if we say that the ego is destroyed, it means that its evil usage is killed. And the ego itself remains and contributes to the creation of good. Egoism should always be at the bottom, while a temple is being built above it.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/19/21

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