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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Comment: A Sufi was asked: “Venerable, why are there no traces of sadness on your face?” “I do not have anything worth grieving about the loss of,” the Sufi replied.

We are in sorrow all the time. We wanted something, but did not get it. A scratch on the car, we were fooled, or we were not given the position we wanted. We are constantly sad, all the time.

My Response: What a disaster!

Question: Yes! Humanity is like that. You see what is happening! It is in sorrow all the time. And this chain of sadness becomes our life. Can you, please, explain how not to be sad? How can we not be sad?

Answer: First, accept everything as coming from nature—from the Creator. And there should be no objections. And ask for one thing all the time—rapprochement, connection, and adhesion. Then everything will be fine.

Comment: But man is desire. And I always have desires. This one did not come to pass, that one did not come to pass, and still another one did not come to pass. How can I work with this? I am not filled with what I wanted to be filled with.

My Response: What would you like to be filled with?

Comment: What would I like? You name it!

My Response: If you imagine that in the next minute you are gone, then everything is fine.

Comment: Yes, then you are happy with the moment you are in now. That is all.

My Response: You are happy not because you are alive and have continued to live for one more minute but because you simply exist in this moment that the Creator has given you. And you live in it and try to adhere to Him.

Of course, one must strive to the best of one’s ability to ensure one’s future, and so it is written in the Torah, but nothing more.

Question: But if it is not secured, should I accept it?

Answer: Of course.

Question: That is, I want something, but whatever happens, happens and that is it?

Answer: Yes, definitely.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/12/23

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Question: What does it mean to come to one opinion during a workshop?

Answer: One opinion means that it is common, not personally mine, not personally yours, not personally someone else’s, but our common opinion. It is not the sum of our personal opinions. The common opinion is a consequence of the influence of the upper force between us.

There is no yours, mine, his, and others’ opinions! There is no addition of them! There is just a willingness for the upper opinion to come and become ours. It should in no way relate to us because by being at a certain degree, we want the upper opinion of the next degree to come, and we raise ourselves up to it.

Comment: I’m trying to do it, but as a result I realize that I can’t.

My Response: No, this is wrong!

If you try to do it well, normally, slowly, and calmly, then you will be able to feel at least a small result of your effort. After all, you are waiting for the upper force that will lift you up and give you a completely different thought, and a different desire–not your own, not others, but its own.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Lithuanian Experiment” 3/13/12

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Comment: The Kabbalistic group is constantly in a certain “brew.” Like it or not, you pay attention to what is happening to others, conduct an analysis, and make a conclusion for yourself. It is not for nothing that you see it.

My Response: Why do you need to know what is going on with them? You do not know yourself, you do not know them, and yet you want to conduct an analysis. This is an unreasonable approach. I have a crooked eye, a crooked level, and a crooked wall, and I want to do something even. How?!

Question: But then, how do we interact with these people?

Answer: In no way. You are given another way out. Attract an upper dimension upon yourself. It will change and align everything. You will not do it, but it will, and it will do it in you, as there is nothing outside of you.

Everything is in you! Do you want to have another world; do you want to see the relationship between people? Everything you want to see is done only by the change in yourself because everything exists in you and nowhere else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It Is Forbidden to Reveal the Soul” 3/31/12

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Question: Can the 400 years that the Jewish people spent in exile be considered a period of a dream?

Answer: The period of a dream is generally called the entire period before our common redemption from egoism because a dream is a minimal influence of light from above, which holds us only in a physical form.

This is the state we are in now. Therefore, it is called a dream: the illumination of VAK, that is, a small illumination of light that is not even felt by us.

Where does life come from and why do electrons spin? Where does all the energy come from and how did our universe appear?

Does it all come from an infinitely powerful explosion point, which is just one point, and all matter, energy, and information developed from it?

We do not feel where it comes from. It goes away, diffuses into the next dimension and comes from there again, but we do not feel these transitions.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A 400-year-long dream” 4/26/12

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