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Perception of reality is the most important topic because a person wants to know in what reality he exists, in what kind of world he was born.
How are the upper worlds and the lower world built, how do they exist, by what forces are they controlled, what is the reason for such existence, what are its results, and toward what everything is moving—we need to reveal all this. And this is why the correct perception of reality is so important.
For simplicity of understanding, we can say that there are two worlds: the upper world and the lower world or the spiritual world and the corporeal world. In the corporeal world, which we feel with our five senses, we exist according to the flow of time.
Time is our inner feeling, and according to our feeling everything happens at some time. We associate the flow of time with various external factors: the sun, moon, stars, and past events that give us a general sense of the past.
We do not know what the upper (spiritual) world is. But according to the stories of Kabbalists, people who have revealed the upper worlds, other times and forms of existence operate there. We can reveal them, feel and exist in them, and in this way we will attain the eternal and perfect reality in which there is no beginning and no end. There we exist above time, space, and all movement.
The spiritual reality exists outside of time, motion, and space, and the corporeal world is inside time, motion, and space. Since our sensory organs are based on the perception of a corporeal system of coordinates, meaning, time, place, and motion, we therefore feel only this reality.
If we want to feel the true, spiritual reality, we will have to rise to it in our perception by changing our sensory organs. We will no longer feel reality as a physical movement in corporeal time, but we will feel it in a spiritual form, and this is how we will live. The Book of Zohar writes that spiritual time is determined by the change of forms and degrees that are above space and time.
It is very important to imagine what the upper spiritual world is, which exists above time, motion, and space, and how we can feel it, live in it, and connect everything that is there with our corporeal world so that these two worlds will merge into one for us.
When we attain what time based on changing forms and degrees means, we will understand what the corporeal world is and what the spiritual world is and how these two worlds are connected. We will also understand why the Creator created us with a sense of the corporeal world and why from here we must ascend to the upper, the spiritual, world in order to feel ourselves between two worlds— the upper and the lower.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”
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Expansion of the light means filling desires with light. Despite the fact that the light and the desire are opposite, they need each other simultaneously. After all, the light wishes to fill all creations, all desires. And the desire of the vessel, the Kli, is to be filled for its own sake.
Here arises a contradiction between them, and the light gradually corrects this desire so that from the state of being filled for oneself, it begins to understand that it is best to be filled for the sake of the light.
Question: Why does the by-product of the state of receiving for oneself manifest itself in our world as great forces of evil?
Answer: The fact is that we are interconnected parts of the system. So, if you do something for yourself, it goes to the detriment of others. No one can act in isolation from others; therefore, by not acting for the sake of others, you are acting to their detriment. That is the problem.
Question: Indeed, people do everything for themselves. I think any psychologist will confirm it. However, most people do not do evil to others. Yes, they receive for their own sake, but why is it called evil in Kabbalah?
Answer: If we saw the true picture of the world, we would understand how we constantly wish good for ourselves and, at the same time, necessarily cause harm to others.
Question: Even if I do nothing explicitly bad to others?
Answer: Even if you do not understand it. We are all in a closed system as if inside a sphere. And if you think only about yourself, you are definitely stealing from others.
This happens at the level of desires, thoughts, and actions. But we do not see these actions.
Question: Does it mean that even if I live on an uninhabited island, I still would cause harm to the whole system?
Answer: Yes. An enclosed system is totally closed in, and no one can disconnect themselves from it.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23
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Question: What satisfies a woman?
Answer: You need to say good words to women all of the time and nothing else. She doesn’t require much. Show her your affection, care, and love, and she will do everything for you.
I’m not talking about a woman like she is some kind of a pet. The female nature is such that she is ready to do everything for a good attitude from you. But this must be taught.
Question: What attracts men to women?
Answer: Care, affection, and warmth attract men. A woman can easily manage in life because she serves him; that is, she replaces his mother.
Question: What does it mean to love a woman?
Answer: Loving a woman means to feel that you need her and to show her that.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23
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Comment: Sometimes you tell your students: You are an experimental group, and a methodology is being worked out on you.
My Response: I work with them. They are changing, and thus we can find out increasingly higher and deeper layers of nature.
I allow myself to open up to the extent that they change. Just like any teacher if he has more advanced students, he can talk to them on higher topics.
Question: What is best for you and your laboratory?
Answer: I wish they were at my level! That would be the best thing. We would do experiments together.
Question: If there are 10 to 20 people next to you who are in spiritual attainment, what is the benefit?
Answer: This would give a completely different exploration of the world. I would really like to have 10 to 20 such students so that all mankind will rise up! We would have been on a completely different degree already! It is a different dimension!
This is not our world, but the lowest state that we do not feel. What should we live for?! Not for the sake of our mortal body, but in order to exist on a spiritual level, in attainment, and in reciprocity!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Laboratory” 1/28/12
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Question: To what extent do you feel this world? Is there still some sort of borderline? If some experts in their field come up to you and claim: “I am very good at it,” and you do not need to plunge into it. Is there any borderline here?
Answer: If specialists in something artificially created by man in any field come to me, then I can learn something from them for the purpose of dissemination. And for my personal spiritual elevation, I do not need any specialist.
But since I deal with teaching, that is, I turn to students, I am happy to meet with specialists. They help me find new examples and develop the language.
I published several books with psychologists. And I can also talk about Kabbalah with historians from a historical perspective, and so on. That is, I am ready to communicate with them.
Let the physicists come. It is more difficult to find a common language with them, but still it is possible somewhere on the so-called “periphery.” In other words, there is no common language inside physics and Kabbalah, but outside there is. For example, if physicists begin to tell me about all sorts of processes that take place in atoms, I will see them in the form of Reshimot, light, and Kli at different levels of entry and exit of the light when the screen expires, suppose from Tabur to Peh. It is interesting for me.
The same is true about chemistry, biology, zoology, and so on. The principle is the same! The exchange between plus and minus is all nature! There is nothing else. This is at different levels. After all, an electron, an atom is the basis of everything.
I have always strived for a complete picture of the world. A partial one never suited me. I could not stand a partial one! What is the point in sitting somewhere in a corner and picking at bugs there?! I could not stand it!
Only the general picture! Only the global one! You see, you understand, and you connect all the elements of the picture into one common whole, harmony, a huge panel, a palette of everything. It is breathtaking when everything opens up in front of you, and you see and feel it! It is fantastic!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Border between the Spiritual and the Corporeal” 1/28/12
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Comment: There is a Sufi parable about a fool who met the ruler of Baghdad. The ruler asked the fool, “Where are you coming from?”
He said, “I’m coming from hell. I wanted to be given a fire to light my pipe there.”
The ruler asked him, “Well, have you found the fire?”
He said, ‘The ruler of hell told me that they have no fire. I asked him “Why is there no fire? This is hell!”
The ruler of hell told me, “Everyone comes here with their own fire.”’
My Response: Yes. Otherwise, how else will you get to hell?
Question: With what kind of fire in us do we come to hell?
Answer: With an egoistic one. There are two types of fire: black fire and white fire. The black fire with which a person wants to burn everything in order to acquire everything for himself is the fire with which we come to hell. If we come, God forbid, it burns us.
Question: What does it take to extinguish this fire?
Answer: Do not give it a place in yourself or in your heart. Rather, show everyone that you have a fire, but it is white and does not burn in hell; it burns only in a good connection between people.
Question: So when it says “I am burning in hell,” does it mean that I am burning in my own fire?
Answer: In your own egoism.
Question: Is it still possible to extinguish this fire?
Answer: Only if there is a good connection between people. Only through this feeling.
Question: How is this extinguished? What kind of water is this?
Answer: It is not water. Water is also used, of course, because water is the quality of bestowal. But in principle, this is extinguished only by changing the relationship between people from evil to good. And then this black fire turns into white.
Question: Is this the main task? But the fire still exists?
Answer: Yes. Fire is the basis of life. It exists.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22
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Light is the force in nature that influences, governs, permeates and animates everything. All other forces that we observe in nature are derived from it.
We feel the light as a source of goodness, a law of nature, a powerful force and a great pleasure or fulfillment.
Based on KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” on January 15, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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