Question: We are the consequences of the Creator’s program; He created us with the will to receive. It is programmed in the light itself. Are we to blame for this?

Answer: Nobody blames you. You are just inside nature.

Question: What does nature want from us?

Answer: Nature does not want anything. It offers you a correct, normal, balanced, one might say ideal life, an ideal existence. But only if you follow its integral law.

Question: I do follow the law. I was created with the will to receive, so I receive for my own sake, right?

Answer: No! This is not enough. You must think about others because you are in the same system with them.

Comment: But I was created that way, I cannot think about others.

My Response: Here you must add your own awareness. It will raise you to the level of the Creator.

At some stage of development, you get the opportunity to rise and to realize what system you are in. If you fulfill the conditions of the balance of this system, receiving and bestowing, then you will begin to feel its general character, that is, the Creator.

Question: Does it mean that I was created opposite to the light only to realize this and want to change myself on my own?

Answer: Yes. This opportunity exists for every creature.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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Question: There is a parable about a  rich man was riding in a luxurious carriage drawn by six thoroughbred horses. They reached the mud, got stuck in it, and could not get out. Suddenly along comes a cart with a peasant and two non–pedigree horses, and they calmly skip through this mud.

The rich man asks the peasant: “How did you manage to do that?” He says: “You see, your horses, sir, although they are strong individually, there is no connection between them, each one considers itself more thoroughbred than the other and pulls in its own direction. You whip one, and the other is only happy about it. My horses, however, are simple, of the same breed, you threaten one of them with a whip a little, and the other one puts all her strength to help the one next to it.”

Nowadays humanity is all thoroughbred horses. Countries with their flags, with their anthems, with their pride. We are stuck in the mud, by and large, and cannot get out of it.

How can we all become such simple horses that skip through this mud and not thoroughbreds?

Answer: This requires the recognition of evil.

First of all, we are simple horses. Secondly, we cannot get out of the mud, the swamp of our lives, if we will not think about each other. Only together will we be able to go through all this swamp.

Question: So is it possible to be such a horse that feels that the other one is just about to be threatened with a whip, and is already accelerating?

Answer: Yes, of course. This connection is mutual. It is necessary in order to overcome any obstacles.

Question: Can we say that we will be in the mud anyway if we are thoroughbred horses?

Answer: No, we can be thoroughbred horses. But not in order to gloat over each other and to think only about ourselves.

Question: Does this apply to all of humanity and to each person individually?

Answer: Yes. This, in principle, is how each person judges himself.

Question: Is there an “I” in each of us that says: “I am better than the other, I am higher than the other”?

Answer: This is in each of us, we are egoists according to our original material. Therefore, we must think about the way we can move to universal love.

Question: In what case is this possible? When does this click, this flip, happen?

Answer: When we see that our nature is evil. It was specially created by the Creator so that we could change it to the opposite one.

Question: Is that why He created it?

Answer: Yes, specifically for this because we realize what good means only if we move to it from absolute evil.

Question: When does the understanding of the Creator’s thought come to me? At what point?

Answer: Firstly, it does not come to everyone. Secondly, it comes when a person really tries to find the meaning of life. This is when it comes.

Question: At what point is this search laid in me? When does it manifest in me? Is it as soon as I am born?

Answer: No, it is not simple and not for every person. There are people to whom this comes gradually over the course of life. And there are people for whom it does not come at all. This is still the majority of people.

So we must disseminate the thought of creation and correction in the world so that everyone understands that he was created in order to correct his evil to good.

Question: Does everyone have to come to this?

Answer: In principle, everyone, because the purpose is universal correction.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Question: If, according to Kabbalah, time, motion, and space do not exist, what actually happens when it seems to a person that he is walking around the city or going somewhere? After all, he is moving.

Let’s say a Kabbalist leaves for London to visit his students. Does it actually change his state? What is happening with respect to them and with respect to him?

Answer: Physical movement means internal, vector movement in qualities. Therefore, coming to London, a person feels differently, perceives everything a little differently, and treats everything differently. This is called “moving to London.” There is no movement, except inside, in your feelings.

Comment: But when you go to another country, you fly by plane.

My Response: So what? Who cares? An airplane is a manifestation of our egoistic desires, which have developed and manifested in this way.

Question: Is there any place that removes or brings a person closer to his essence? Where should he be? For example, someone lives in Chicago, someone else in China.

Answer: Of course, there is a difference in where a person lives. We see that in our world, there is a huge difference.

Question: What is the difference between my being there and here? What is changing? Let’s say I go to the airport, get on a plane, and fly somewhere.

Answer: You land, and immediately you are completely different. A change in the internal state of a person takes place.

There are people who do not feel these movements, because for them it does not matter where they are. And there are people who do not take it well. The Kabbalist moves everything inside himself.

If I go somewhere with a group of students, I hardly feel where I am. Of course there are different languages and everything else, but it practically does not change anything. I sit with my students in Rome, in Madrid, in South America, no matter where, and I do not feel the difference. But in the country where I live, if I give lectures to an outside audience, I feel different.

It is better for me to give classes for our Italian or Spanish groups while there than to give a lecture to strangers in Israel. After all, my students, Italians, Spaniards, and others, are much closer to me. While being among them, it is as if I do not go anywhere. They understand me, but locals, outsiders do not.

Question: But when you fly somewhere, are you completely different?

Answer: No. Each time it feels less and less, that when approaching them, I speak differently. Now this is gradually disappearing because very similar social, economic, and group processes are taking place everywhere, we are all studying the same thing.

Before, I was a little different with them because their groups were young and new, and I talked to them as if they were people who were not yet aware of our methodology.

Now I can speak to them in exactly the same language. After all, they are present at all our lessons and meals. They read my blog translated into their own language, which means they are in continuous communication with us and with me. Therefore, I am the same with them as I am with my students in Israel.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Space, Does Not Exist!”

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Comment: You once said that we are not correcting ourselves, but we are correcting the connection between us.

My Response: Yes, of course. A person corrects not himself, but his attitude toward others and his connection with them.

Question: But everyone has their own qualities. How is our connection being corrected?

Answer: By merging with nature. You can be properly connected with others only if you wish to rise to the next degree of development, to the common force of nature.

You cannot connect with someone unless you acquire the force that holds the whole universe, unites all its parts and laws, and contains all the opposing forces.

This force is the global law of the universe, the balance and the connection of all forces. Einstein was so eager to find its formula, its manifestation. Naturally, he could not do this, because he was engaged in research at the level of inanimate matter. However for this, the vegetative, animate, and, especially, the human level is necessary.

Therefore, physicists today also do not succeed, although there are many theories close to it. They feel both the necessity and the need for it.

But the most important is the need, at any level of our correction, to pursue one common goal: to come to unity, to connect, so that the common force of nature supports us, manifests itself between us, and connects us.

Then we will really achieve unity because nature has this quality. It controls everything that exists—what we see and what we have not yet discovered.

The fact is that this single force is somehow relatively manifested at the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, but not at the human level because we ourselves must summon it, we ourselves must wish and understand where we lack it, and then it will fill all the voids between us.

When I discover that the right relationship is needed between you and me, then to the extent that we determine how much we need it, the force of nature that binds us will gradually open up and realize this connection.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Vicious Ties” 2/4/12

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is the biblical definition(s) of sacrifice?“

Sacrifice is an inner state experienced by everyone undergoing spiritual development.

What do we sacrifice?

We sacrifice our egoism, i.e. our desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone, or in other words, we sacrifice our nature on the inanimate, vegetative and animate levels, which wishes to experience self-aimed pleasure, success and an easy life.

Such desires are egoism’s innate nature. If we wish to limit our egoistic approach to life and reach another state where we wish to not use our egoism but, on the contrary, to distance ourselves from it, then such an inner action is called “sacrifice.”

Based on KabTV’s “Spiritual States” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Michael Sanilevich on January 8, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “The Commandments of the Torah, the First Commandment,” Item 189

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 2/6/23

My heart is with the citizens of Turkey during the heavy disaster that befell them with the powerful earthquake. My students from Turkey update me on every development, and together we are closely following my dear student whose building he and his family lived in collapsed and has since disappeared. We will connect to one common heart and pray for their safety.

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Question: Is a family needed in the modern world?

Answer: I think it is impossible to live without a family, although today millions of people in the world do not create families and do not give birth to heirs and the next generation. I believe that all this is wrong and temporary.

Question: Does it make sense to have children if you do not know what will happen tomorrow?

Answer: Of course it does. If you do not know what will happen tomorrow, it does not mean that there will be no tomorrow. So we need to give birth. And tomorrow will come and already establish some of its own specific relationships, laws, and values, and you will understand that you did not give birth to children in vain.

Question: How can a couple maintain a relationship if both live in different countries?

Answer: I do not think it is possible. If this is a couple, then there must be some joint actions for them. It is the tactile sensations that are important.

Question: What if one of the partners in the couple is an energy vampire?

Answer: Divide this role into two.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: Does contact with the Creator always run through the prism of humanity? What is the difference in what I feel now, how I give to people, receive from them, and naturally enjoy in one form or another?

Answer: That is where the problem is. What are you enjoying for?

Question: For my own sake, of course. Is that why I do not feel the light of Hassadim or the light of Hochma?

Answer: Yes, precisely because in your manipulations with anyone you pursue only your own goal, your own well-being.

Consciously or unconsciously, the calculation always proceeds from the fact that you will benefit from this action. And if you get out of this restrictive framework, you will begin to feel what you are doing.

And then, behind all humanity, behind all the people from whom you receive and to whom you give, you will see the higher force. If you just give without receiving anything in return, then it will be the light of Hassadim. And if you receive for the sake of giving, the light of Hochma.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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