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Do not be misled into the thought that the restriction of the light from the middle point caused any changes in Ein Sof. There is no change and absence in spirituality, and all the more so in such a sublime place (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Chapter 2).

Question: What does it mean “there is no absence in spirituality”? What is this principle talking about?

Answer: No subsequent form of reaction to receiving light from the Creator affects the previous forms. Light comes from the Creator and fills the creation in a completely free form. The creation reacts to it and changes according to the difference between its qualities and the qualities of light, meaning, the Creator.

The light itself is always in a state of absolute rest because it does not change its qualities and intentions when performing any actions. Moreover, these actions can be very different, but the light does not change itself.

Its quality is the absolute fulfillment, saturation, and delight of creation. Therefore, it can perform various actions, but its intention is always the same: only to fill the created beings with all the best.

Absolute rest means that the intention of the light to bring the creation to its purpose does not change.

We also have this in our life. For example, parents often can scold their children or they can caress them. But all the same and in any of their behavior regarding children, they are guided only by good intentions.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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The upper light is not subject to change and incidents. These above occurrences of innovations are only with respect to the vessels (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, “Restriction and Line”).

Baal HaSulam wants to say that there are no changes in the upper light, and all changes occur in creation itself, that is, in the desire. If creation changes, then in accordance with this it feels that the upper light, the Creator, the Creator’s attitude toward it, is changing.

The Light is in absolute rest, but something is changing in the Kli (vessel); that is, our desires are constantly changing, and it seems to us that the light is changing.

Do not forget that we are not discussing corporeal terms whatsoever. Instead, the more refined is called higher, and the thicker is called lower (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, “Inner Light,” #4).

We should not imagine a circle and a line as some kind of geometric shapes. Here we mean qualitative changes.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: Some psychologists believe that there are five main neuroses of the 21^st century. They classify this as the epidemic of narcissism, in which the pronoun “I” is used more often than “we.” Personal success is placed above caring for others. Is this neurosis?

Answer: This is self-love. It exists in every person.

How does a person love himself? I look at the other and I don’t like it. I look at myself; I have the absolute same thing! But mine is better than his. Why? Because it’s mine. That’s all. There’s nothing else. As in the joke, “But mine is still better.”

Question: Psychologists consider this a neurosis. Should something be done about it or should the “I” be transformed into “we”?

Answer: Kabbalah does not advise doing it the way it is done by psychologists, neurologists, and so on. Kabbalah says this should be explained to us as a process of becoming a mature person.

This process is not about suppressing my “I,” this function, and so on, which will all still come out. It will come out somewhere else! It is like a tumor or something. You don’t want it to grow and it will come out in another place and get even worse. Therefore, this is not the way to handle it.

In no way should you force anyone! Gently teach a person to see his emphasized “I” not as a positive quality but as something negative and the person will gradually heal himself.

The most important thing is not to put pressure on him. He is already self-conscious and it is all so stressful. By pushing him more, you can break him.

In such cases, what should be done? If you are great, you are big, you are strong, and you are smart, go into sports. Apply it in such a way in society where you can stand out and have it accepted properly. Such is sport. There, they will put you in your place. Especially if it is a group sport, it is very good.

Question: Another neuroses is called “Fear of Missing Out.” This is about: “I could have been somewhere else, become someone else, lived better, succeeded more…” What to do about it?

Answer: Don’t start!

Question: But it’s gnawing. I know it myself. It’s like a worm sitting there and gnawing at you: “What have you done?! When you could have…!” and so on. How can a person fight it or work with it?

Answer: I believe that, firstly, everything has its own fate. Therefore, everything that is, everything that was, and will be, let it all come.

Question: Can I do anything about it?

Answer: You should not! A person should live in a state where he can be told at any moment: “Lie down and die.” Thus, I lie down and die. So what?

Question: If only it were possible to let go of yourself like this. Can I actually let go like this?

My Response: Absolutely!

Question: Is this how it should be? To never look back?

Answer: Do not control your life or the world and, in general, nothing and no one. Just go along with it. If they stop you, they stop you.

Question: Then it ceases to be neuroses? I instantly calm down.

Answer: Sure. I have lived and I have done something; I hope I have done something good in life and I’m thankful for that.

Question: Psychologists say: Fear of Better Options neurosis or “the problem of the ideal choice” is when you stand in front of three roads and each one seems to lead you to the ideal place, to your dream and the person is bound by thoughts: “How can I make a choice? What to choose?” How to choose where to go?

Answer: I don’t think it’s a choice at all in this case.

Question: A choice between three options. You think, “somehow one is better than the other or this is even better.” Then you are driven by thoughts that: “No, this is better and this…” and so you stand and agonize. How should one act in such cases? Cast lots?

Answer: In general, yes. And the Torah says so—”Pur”  – “lot.”

Question: If you had to make a choice, what would be the main thing you would establish in order to choose?

Answer: To break away from myself and only then make the right choice. Only then will this choice be correct.

Question: So I have to stand before making this choice and try to break away from myself? Before these three paths. So that my “I” is not in control?

Answer: Of course.

Question: How is this done?

Answer: Break away.

Question: So you don’t want to listen to your inner voice here?

Answer: No. You can’t rely on anything here.

Question: What about examples? Let’s say others tell you: “Look, I went there. I am already a scientist, a PhD. I’m already a Nobel laureate. Follow this path.” While the other says: “But I’m already a businessman.” There’s a lot of noise all around you. Should you not listen to this environment?

Answer: Actually, it is better not to choose anything. As they say, you should rely on God’s will. Don’t do anything and just sit and wait. As it says: “Better sit and do nothing,” and then God will send it your way.

Question: Can I rely on Him?

Answer: No, you have to work and do everything you can. Although such fundamental fateful decisions are always difficult to make.

I used to be frequently asked for advice on the choice of profession, university, or something else, and I usually would not give advice. A person must figure out where his soul or hand is leading him.

Question: I still want to follow in your footsteps and learn more about you personally. How do you make a choice? How do you decide?

Answer: I always decide for the maximum benefit of society because I know for sure this is what the Creator wants.

I do not know if I am right or wrong. Usually we do not know whether we are right or wrong.

Question: Perhaps we are more often wrong?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. You never know what the alternative would be. Thus, I try to think: where does the greatest benefit for the Creator lie? What the Creator would like me to do. And this, as a rule, is what’s best for the society, for the people.

Question: Next is the need to adapt. A very common situation nowadays is when a person barely finishes studying for a profession and it is getting replaced by computers or artificial intelligence. He was studying this and he invested five years! Now he doesn’t know what to do.

What should one do in such cases? Today this happens all the time. Unnecessary professions! While colleges and universities go on. You are being taught, but when you graduate, no one needs this profession anymore.

Answer: A person should still understand that the baggage he has accumulated is not in vain. Society still needs educated people. Although they might not be able to apply themselves in the specialty they dreamt of working or advancing, these people with higher education, these serious people, are still of value. It means a lot.

Question: You mean, even if you have studied something random that will never come in handy, for example, like higher mathematics?

Answer: It doesn’t matter. He was still learning something and absorbing information. He also took exams and took part in educational processes. He possesses different information and has a different filling in his brain and heart.

Question: So you want to say there are no wrong professions?

Answer: Any profession shapes a person and makes him a proper part of society after all.

Question: And is it possible to re-make yourself later into something different?

Answer: Of course, he is already used to learning, hearing, listening, reading, and writing. He has developed a need for it. The hand reaches for pen and paper. It’s not like the tramps who sit in a pub not knowing what to do with themselves and only strum the guitar.

Question: So it turns out that it is not all neuroses?

Answer: These are not all neuroses. All of this needs serious revision, understanding by society, and adaptation.

Question: That is, if I direct myself toward society and not to myself, then all this ceases to be a neurosis?

Answer: Yes. You instantly eliminate a lot of societal problems, diseases, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “News With Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/14/22

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The workshop is a tool for quickly changing a person’s consciousness, his attitude to life, his values, his adaptation to new and various opinions that previously seemed opposite to his, and so on.

The workshop is a very effective form because if you tune in to it correctly, it makes you bow before others, listen to their opinion without denying it, absorb it into yourself, and offer your opinion—and they will treat you the same way.

This is a completely new structure of relationships between people. If they understand this and they are drawn into it precisely on such conditions, then great opportunities for remaking a person are revealed here. That is, you need to place him into some kind of machine, so to speak, to blend him in and make him a little different, not as stagnant and petrified as he used to be in the way the system, society, and so on made him, but completely different.

Take all his components and completely blend them: be yourself, be simpler, and that is it. Don’t immediately get into a confrontation with others, object to them, or thrust in your opinion. Of course, all this ruins us.

Identifying opinions and analysis does not necessarily happen through conflict. This happens through integration. So much for the opposition of two worlds. This is the new world, a completely different system of relationships. The relationships of people of the old egoistic world are built on conflict.

That is why they say in television studios: “We will not have any program if there are no exposures. What would be interesting about it? Where are all these screams and tears? Where is the swearing and smearing of the other?” This is what this hard egoistic world is built on.

However, we are talking about something completely different: to rise to the next step, to rise higher. Of course, the producers and directors do not understand this. But you can offer to show them that it is possible. People will join in with all their hearts.

For them it will be a rest from the ugly and vile world, which moreover has an end. Then the producers will have a completely different program that is not available anywhere else in the world.

Comment: The principle of American shows is based on the fact that they invite people to the studio, they tell a certain story, and they pit the guests against each other. They attack each other and everyone rejoices.

My Response: This is why we have come to such a crisis. If they want to show something radically new on television, then let them make their own program, which would be the opposite of their program. Let them show that they are doing this in the process of discussion, in the process of people being in a common circle.

Perhaps each of them is drawn to the past, to collision with each other, and the others hold him back and say: “No, we will try to act differently.”

Let them show the fight between the past and the new world on themselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Television of the Future” 8/19/13

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The world will be receiving blows all the time until it finds the solution. Either we will start listening to the method of integral connection or we will receive all kinds of blows, personal, public, wars, etc., until we understand what needs to be heard. To hear that the only opportunity to live differently lies in connection.

For humanity, there is nothing else left to do: either live in competition with each other in constant struggle or in connection. We know that during cataclysms or wars, a person instinctively strives for it. Therefore, we will be taught with the help of all sorts of troubles.

Then we will begin to understand that we need to move toward connection in order to escape from suffering. But it will be a purely egoistic movement forward and nothing else. This is very far from a true exit from egoism.

Knowing the nature of a person, we gradually, consistently reveal to him the stages of his development. There is not any trick in this. There is love and kindness, and, based on love, we always treat a person according to the conditions that he must go through.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

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Question: The pace of change in the world is noted as a problem for businesses, world leaders, and the general population alike. Many are not able to adapt to it and simply cannot keep up with the changing world.

Why is there this acceleration? Why are we being pushed harder and harder?

Answer: It is to give us a sense of life and movement. If there were a constant speed, we simply would not notice this movement and the fact that something is happening. We only feel changes in states.

Question: What if people feel that there is a change, an acceleration, can they somehow assess it, influence it, or check it?

Answer: They will try to understand the nature of the matter and toward where it’s heading. If we are moving from point A to point B, then let’s see what lies ahead.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/23/22

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How do I teach my children to embrace failure?“

Suppose we encounter failure. Michael’s group played against Oren’s group, and we lost. We then sit and talk about it, understanding that we were weak and we lost, without crying about it. We might feel some pain or cry internally, but we try to understand why we lost. It is quite complicated and it takes time.

At first, there might be shouting, yelling and blaming, but later on, we reach a state where we lost, and now what? Do we throw it away or do we continue? In such a juncture, we need to learn and absorb examples from those who have succeeded and dealt with failure, and there are several movies and books on such a topic. Those who reach success have undergone major crises, become disappointed, faced exploitation and whatnot.

We then decide that we now want to learn from our failure, and seek how we can overcome such a state. At this point, we learn what was wrong, what we should correct, how to correct ourselves, and how to study our opponent. And if we discuss such a phenomenon in terms of our inner traits, then we each learn about our egoistic nature that is ultimately behind all failure and loss, and in so doing, we prepare ourselves for our next battle.

Based on the video “How to Teach a Group of Children to Deal With Failure” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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