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Question: Did your teacher have a developed sense of justice?

Answer: Yes, Rabash had impulses to defend his point of view—and quite strongly. Especially when he saw arrogance on the path, he never gave in. Calmly, according to the laws, he demanded what was his. Everything should be fair. The sense of demanding justice was very deep in him. He did not give in.

Question: Is this a human quality or a principle of a Kabbalist?

Answer: I think it is a principle. Sometimes it cost him a lot of nerves and even maybe inconveniences. But he could not help but stand up for justice.

Question: What about you?

Answer: I think I have the same thing and even more. I still bully—and often—if there is such an opportunity.

It depends on how you see insolence, impudence, obvious neglect, contempt, swagger, and all other egoistic pranks. If they are a result of the natural development of a person, like a small child, then you do not focus on them because that is how he or she is, still has to develop, and nothing can be done. This is a natural manifestation of the forces that the Creator has given us.

And if this is not a natural development, if a person wants to subjugate others in this way and uses it for evil and deliberately harms people, then it is very unpleasant to see. I would be happy to stop such people.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Secret Powers of the Kabbalist”  10/25/13

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Question: You keep saying that unity of the people of Israel is the only salvation. Why are people so distant from each other in a nation that has such a destiny?

Answer: Unity is the truest thing, and therefore the egoism of humanity rises against it.

Our work is to attract everyone to unity through a long process of re-education and to become a source through which the whole world will understand how it needs to reorganize and achieve the revelation of the upper force so that the upper forces of nature, and later the general upper force as well, are revealed at the level of our world.

Then all of humanity will become eternal and perfect. But only if we reach unity among us as one person with one heart.

Question: Are you talking about Israel?

Answer: I am talking about the entire world. But first of all, it is Israel and those people in the world who feel an attraction, a need, a necessity, for this.

It is Israel, because in every Jew there is such a point in the heart. Other people in the world also have it, but it can be manifested today, or maybe in years, as they develop spiritually.

But the Jews are obliged to do this, and most of all the Israelis. If we go forward in our spiritual development, that is, toward uniting with each other, we will see how everything bad around us dissolves, we are given the opportunity to act further and feel only good influence and help.

I do not see any problems at all in the fact that those countries that are so vehemently opposed to us today will change. It depends on us, not on them. In their behavior, we must see the imprint of those missed opportunities that we can correct and do not correct.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Role of the Jews” 10/19/13

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Question: Crying is a way of expressing feelings. What is the difference between spiritual tears and egoistic ones?

Answer: Spiritual tears arise from the fact that a person cannot clothe the attitude of the Creator toward him in the right way. In our case, a person cries because he does not have the possibility of clothing his emotions in the right way.

We can say that in the spiritual world a person cries for others, for the fact that he cannot love and give, and in our world for the fact that no one loves him, that he is not fulfilled.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/6/22

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Served like a hound, killed like a dog (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec).

Question: What do we serve as dogs?

Answer: “Dog,” I think after all, especially in Polish, is an honorable name.

Comment: But “served like a hound” clearly means “faithfully.” Licked from all sides.

My Response: Yes. But not obsequiously, rather, devotedly. And was killed like a dog, meaning, pushed away, neglected.

Question: And if we touch on your constant theme—egoism in this world, how would you consider “served like a hound, killed like a dog”?

Answer: I don’t know. After all, “killed like a dog”—I do not know. If a person wants to be devoted to the right cause or the right goal, then I don’t believe that he was killed like a dog. Of course he perceives everything that happens to him, but in a different perspective, in a different focus.

Question: If a person serves a real purpose, how would you finish this sentence? What’s happening? What would you replace the word “killed” with?

Answer: “Did everything one could and departed.” Insignificant. As he was born, so he departed. He wanted more, but it didn’t work out.

Question: What good is in the fact that one departs the way he was born?

Answer: This is the routine.

Question: That’s how one should depart?

Answer: Sure. Give everything away! Absolutely!

Question: Don’t cling to anything?

Answer: Never. And that’s good. If you think that that’s how the end should be, this is a state of rest when you are not trying to hold anything, but only to let go.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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Question: To what extent did you feel a different perception of yourself before and after feeling the spiritual system in you? How did you perceive this?

Answer: This perception gradually turned into a sensory, explicit one that you live in, and it is extremely pleasant. It allows you to see everything. Your eyes open, your feelings open, and you begin to understand in what world, in what system you exist; there is no difference between the worlds, there is only one world everywhere.

In fact, our world, such as it appears to all people, does not exist. They seem to be in a state of a disconnection, in semi-consciousness, and even that state is practically absent. They do not know where they are, but I do. I kind of woke up, while they crawl around like blind kittens and do not understand where they are.

Question: But before that you read, for example, The Book of Zohar, The Study of the Ten Sefirot. How did you perceive them? Surely it was different.

Answer: I felt the same way as it does to you. I listened without understanding what it was talking about, and I imagined it as if it existed, nobody knows where and how. I did not feel that it was in me, that it was my sensations, my attitude, either to a person or to the Creator. The Creator is what appears between us. Now I clearly feel it.

Question: When you give directions about how to change, does a person have a chance without this perception that you have, to connect to the system?

Answer: From where? What kind of Kelim (vessels) can he do it with? What means of communication does he have? You do not have a modem, how can you do it?!

Question: Is waiting the only thing left to us?

Answer: Do not wait, but act! Solder the circuit, my friend!

Question: Were you not also preparing for this for a long period?

Answer: Of course, for many years. Nothing comes immediately, only gradually.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Change Myself” 11/9/13

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Question: Surely you saw your teacher Rabash in all sorts of states, including descents. The person who explained spiritual laws and principles to you, in a state of descent, might be completely opposite, might contradict himself. What was your attitude to this?

Answer: Do not be naive. What contradictory states are you talking about? A descent is a state in which you switch off in order to gain new ballast and rise with it. Of course, such states are very, very sharp. A person disconnects from the world, from his own essence, from the mind. He is plunged into severe internal upheavals, but he passes it all.

I cannot say anything about such conditions. It is impossible to convey them, just as you cannot convey to a child your feelings from a symphony, for example. He does not yet have the appropriate feelings; he has not gone through all sorts of ups, downs, worries, sufferings, or feelings of joy. He is not yet flexible inside; his feelings are not yet expanded.

It is the same with a person in our world compared to a Kabbalist. Therefore we need to work on how to expand people’s feelings and to reveal them, then they will begin to perceive the fulfillment that exists in our world—the force, the field in which we exist and that holds all matter.

This is the result of Kabbalistic or integral education.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Confidentially” 10/12/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason”

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 2, Part 6, Item 20

Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why does the Torah have so many strange prohibitions, like eating shellfish or wearing mixed fabrics?“

First, it is important to understand that the Torah does not describe our world. The Torah is called “sanctity,” which in Hebrew means something different and separate to our world. It explains spiritual laws of the higher spiritual world, and it thus explains what is permitted and forbidden for a person who is in the spiritual world, who attains and perceives it.

We live in a bubble of sorts, the laws of which we have no real understanding. We learn a bit about the laws from the sciences of our world like physics and chemistry, but we are unfamiliar with the real laws.

The Torah, or the wisdom of Kabbalah, describes the spiritual laws that become revealed as the forces of the higher nature. The higher nature is called “the force of bestowal” or an altruistic force, and the nature of our world is the force of reception, or the egoistic force. There is thus one very simple law of the higher nature: that it is forbidden to be an egoist.

In the higher spiritual nature, any action we do for our own benefit is prohibited, while any action that we to for the benefit of others is called a Mitzva (commandment).

About the prohibitions in the Torah, it is written that Hillel told the proselyte that came to him: “Don’t do to others what you hate.” In relation to the Mitzvot, the actions of correction that we do in spirituality, those who are in spiritual attainment, who have revealed the spiritual world, have a clear picture of what is permitted and prohibited. In our world, however, it is not so clear. For instance, a regular person in this world does not see what kind of transgression or harm they commit when they light a candle or a lamp on the Sabbath—nor should they.

In short, in the higher spiritual nature, it is forbidden to use the ego, and it is allowed to use the force of bestowal and love.

Based on the video “What Are the Prohibitions in the Torah?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Photo by Taylor

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