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Comment: There is a Buddhist parable about a professional pickpocket that lived in the city of jewelers. One day, he saw a man buy an incredibly stunning huge diamond that this pickpocket had wanted to acquire his whole life. So, he followed the man, got on the train, and sat in the same compartment. Once the man fell asleep, he checked through all the man’s clothes, but could not find the diamond. When the man left to the bathroom, he checked the man’s bags and suitcases, but still could not find it.

Upon leaving the train, the pickpocket followed him and earnestly told him: “I am a pickpocket, a professional. I never fail. Everything was clean. I followed you to tell you I could not find the diamond I wanted to steal from you.”

The man answered: “I saw you right away. When I was buying the diamond, I realized you would follow me, that you wanted this diamond. So I hid it where you would not look for it.”

“Where is this place?”—exclaimed the pickpocket.

“I hid it in your pocket.”

In conclusion, the “diamond” you seek is right next to you, closer than your breath.

We always look for these “diamonds” somewhere out there. All the time. We dedicate our lives to it, fighting, hating, searching. But in fact, it is so close. It is right here—in our “pocket,” in us.

What is this “diamond?” And why cannot we find it?

Answer: Find the real you, do not look for something in others; it is not there. Everyone has their own. One must find one’s own—one’s soul, one’s most intimate. And then a person will find everything in life. But if you look for it in others, you will never find it. It will not be yours.

Question: What does it mean to find yourself?

Answer: To find yourself is to find your connection with the Creator, the innermost point in the heart. This is this great, big, special stone.

Question: Is this connection with the Creator, this diamond, found in every person?

Answer: In everyone. This is the point of connection with the Creator. This is our personal diamond.

Question: Must everyone find it?

Answer: Of course.

Question: We always fall into despair. We keep looking for it, but we cannot find it, we search, but do not find. Must we face constant discouragement and make all attempts to find it?

Answer: Calm down, because this diamond is in you. You only need to find the connection with the Creator within yourself.

Question: When does the wisdom come to a person that everything is in me?

Answer: It is a result of experience.

Question: And the experience, must it be bitter?

Answer: It takes time. A couple of decades.

Question: And when I come to the fact that everything is in me, will I be at peace?

Answer: Naturally. After all, you have found the central point of your world—where the Creator and you exist.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Question: What is luck in spiritual work?

Answer: Luck, Mazal in Hebrew, is from the word “Nozel – drips.” If drops of light, photons from above, drip on you, then you are lucky.

Drops of light illuminate your path a little, ignite a spark in the darkness, and then you can at least see something. Although, drops of light give points of sparks, lights up and goes out, lights up and goes out, nevertheless, from them you get some idea, not of the picture that is around, but of how you should act in it. It is most important!

Based on this, one can begin to annul oneself in front of the group. This is the biggest problem! We hear about it, we read about it, but we are not able to internally understand it in order to begin to annul before the friends. That is why the beginning of implementation is so difficult.

And before that, you do not understand at all: “Could it not have been done at least a couple of years earlier? For ten years I was sitting and listening, but I was just listening!”

What does “heard” mean? For the first couple of years, it passed by the ear at a distance of ten centimeters, then at a distance of five, two centimeters, and, finally, it began to enter me. But by the time it came from the ear to awareness and from awareness to the heart and you realized that you need to do something, ten years have passed. It is not too long.

Question: What is this barrier? What is it?

Answer: The barrier is in the stupidity of our egoism. It does not want to hear anything! This is not ordinary egoism; the sharpness of the mind of a person and one’s special grasp will not help here. The ego will find any reason not to do it.

But this is very important information that a person receives about himself and about his qualities.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Body Strives for Constant Rest” 3/11/12

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Question: Is there such a phenomenon as the Jerusalem syndrome?

Answer: The fact is that people who come to Jerusalem fall under some kind of special excitement. Psychologists and psychiatrists talk about this, and artists even claim that there is a special yellowish light in Jerusalem.

In principle, it is psychologically difficult to withstand this. You are walking through places where a saint who represents something special to you once walked. I have seen people faint walking through these streets. Imagine, a Christian walking along Via Dolorosa and what he is going through!

But we are talking even about a person who has absolutely never been interested in religion and he does not care about anything at all. He arrives in shorts, in sandals on bare feet, with a camera around his neck, and he still feels that there is something here—some kind of incomprehensible feeling.

In addition, the uniqueness of this place is felt through the kind of people who live there. The people of Jerusalem are very special, tough, I don’t even know how to say it. This city stands apart from the rest of the country.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Jerusalem Syndrome” 4/7/12

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Question: Did your teacher Rabash tell you how he came to study Kabbalah?

Answer: He was born into the family of a great Kabbalist and continued his work.

Comment: But you said that Kabbalah is not transmitted by inheritance.

My Response: This is not about inheritance, but about the environment in which he lived. He could very easily not study Kabbalah. Baal HaSulam certainly did not force him.

I have two daughters and a son. My son studies constantly, but in a very calm way. One daughter is completely disconnected from Kabbalah because science, biology, is everything to her. The second one is very devoted to our path, inner work, and everything that happens to a person on this journey.

It is not possible to understand where it came from to them and what it is. It is as if I was divided into two people. One is me, the incomplete scientist incarnated in the first daughter, and the other, a Kabbalist, in the second one. This is how they divided my internal system among themselves.

Question: Although Kabbalah is not transmitted at the genetic level, does something remain? You are a Kabbalist, and are your children carrying a part of you?

Answer: Maybe yes and maybe no, and not necessarily in one’s children.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Genetic Kabbalah” 3/31/12

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Question: What is the difference between a lesson conducted by a Kabbalist and lessons by a rabbi or lectures of a professor?

Answer: A rabbi or a professor talk about our world. And the Kabbalist speaks about the next degree of man and how to ascend to it. That is the difference.

The Kabbalist brings revelation of the upper world to the world, and a professor and a rabbi simply bring knowledge.

Question: Based on what needs does a professor or a rabbi do this? What is their fuel?

Answer: Based on everything that governs a person: fame, power, knowledge, it doesn’t matter what.

Even that same professor (who is only interested in knowledge and wholeheartedly wants to pass it on to his students) has even more egoism because knowledge is higher than fame and power. Knowledge includes all previous degrees.

Therefore, it cannot be said that he has locked himself somewhere in a corner and does not need anything from the world. On the contrary, it is huge egoism.

And above this ego, there is egoism that arises in the Kabbalist, and he corrects it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference Between A Kabbalist And A Rabbi And A Scientist” 3/11/12

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Question: There is a Jewish parable about a man who one day visited a sage and began to complain: “Everything is bad for me: I lost my job, my wife is sick, my daughter still can’t get married, and my son doesn’t want to study. What should I do?” The sage said: “There is an old remedy. You need to take a lot of pieces of paper, write on them ‘All this will pass,’ and put the pieces of paper in every room. The visitor did not understand what it was said, and left. But since the sage said it, he did as he was told. After a couple of years, this visitor returned to the sage happy. “How grateful I am to you! I found a great job, my wife recovered, my daughter got married, my son finished his studies and is perfectly settled. Everything is fine! Thank you very much”! Then he added: “I just wanted to ask: those pieces of paper that I put in the house in the rooms, can they be removed already?” “Why remove them? ” said the sage, “let them lie down for now.” That is, this too will pass.

It was also written on King Solomon’s ring: “Everything passes.” What kind of wisdom is this? What kind of words are these that turn everything, all the grief goes away? What is it?

Answer: It is a different way of looking at the world. No more than that. Nothing changes. Only the view of a person changes.

Comment: Nevertheless, he said that everything was fine with him, and everything settled.

My Response: Yes, his attitude to life, to the world, and his outlook has changed, and therefore everything has settled down.

Question: What advice can be given to humanity and man, when he is not well here, today?

Answer: There is nothing that is wrong today. Today, everything is fine already.

Question: Is this what they call “everything passes”?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely everything is in a good state, and don’t invent bad states yourself.

Question: And if I feel bad at all?

Answer: There is no such thing as bad. It is what you are drawing for yourself.

Question: Don’t you believe that there are such terrible states when a person feels bad? Well, bad!

Answer: Actually, it is not a bad thing. There is nothing wrong.

Comment: It is not easy for a person to convince himself of this.

My Response: There is no need to be convinced. You just must accept it and that is it.

Question: What does it mean to put notes in all the rooms and that everything will pass?

Answer: It is to remind yourself because every minute you must come back to such a state that everything passes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Preparation to the Lesson

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Eleventh Commandment,” Item 244

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Twelfth Commandment,” Item 245

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How would you become the best version of yourself?“

We can become the best versions of ourselves when we realize that we need to achieve love for one another.

When we reach a state of loving others, we exert our energy into that love, and we then want nothing for ourselves but only the ability to benefit, support and encourage people.

Realizing this ability means overcoming the egoistic force within us—human nature, our desire to enjoy at the expense of others—with the altruistic force of nature. With such an overcoming, we reach balance with nature.

The egoistic force remains within. It acts as a minus, and then the minus and plus—the altruistic force—function optimally in order for us to achieve our common goal: the unification of everyone and everything into a single whole.

Based on the video “Jewish Self-Realization” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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