Question: You write that the concept of sacrifice was revealed after the consecutive entrances into Egypt of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. “Egypt” in Hebrew is Mitzraim, i.e., Mitz Ra—the concentration of evil when man enters this evil.

The people of Israel (our inner desires) made sacrifices. The Egyptians, who represent egoism, seeing how the Israelites made sacrifices and tried to unite, hated them for that. In general, our ego hates when it is sacrificed.

The question arises: can we say that this is where the root of anti-Semitism comes from?

Answer: The root of anti-Semitism comes precisely from this state, when people see that Jews interpret everything in the inner sense of the word.

For example, sacrifice means the sacrifice of our egoism. Pray is not to some God or something, but to the upper force that can reward you with the opportunity to be kind and empathetic to other people. And so on. This misunderstanding of Judaism led to the beginning of anti-Semitism.

Question: Does it mean that hatred of the quality of bestowal and love, which was cultivated by people called “Israel” who lived in Egypt at that time, in principle, caused anti-Semitism?

Answer: Yes, it is natural hatred. If I am in the qualities of reception, I just want to receive pleasure, and if I see that someone near me is trying to connect and acquire another quality, the quality of bestowal and love, I naturally hate that person.

Thus, my hatred of the qualities of bestowal and love evokes anti-Semitism.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/8/23

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Comment: Information about the creation of creation through the descent of the four stages of the development of desire has been available to the scientific world for a few hundred years already. However, no one has used it.

My Response: What does the scientific world have to do with it? It does not work with this data at all.

Question: But science is searching for the answer to the question of how the world was created. Various theories exist about this. Billions of dollars are invested in this research. Do you think there is a possibility that the Kabbalistic theory will be used in the future?

Answer: In general it is possible, but science has to come to some kind of dead end in order for this to happen. Then it will begin to re-examine itself: where did we stumble, make a mistake, or take a hypothesis as a given, which in general do not place?

When people start to question whether we are on the wrong path and that this is not the path of nature, but the path of our egoism, then they will find answers to their questions in Kabbalah.

Comment: Perhaps one of the reasons is that we are talking about the level of “human.” Therefore it is difficult for science to research it. Science has a relatively easy way to study inanimate and vegetative nature specifically.

My Response: Yes, here indeed we are talking about our desires. It is not easy to research them.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/1/23

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The crises passing through the world are not just the constant crises of overproduction. Now it is already a global crisis. But the point is not that people are tired of buying and they are fed up. The fact of the matter is that a person has changed.

This is no longer a person who wants to grab the whole world for himself. He himself has changed so much that he no longer wants this world. This is the reason!

Offer me another 20 phones, 1,000 televisions, something else, and something else; there is no longer a craving for this!

No! Invent me something else. So what? The general depression that passes through the world in a strong wave suggests that a person today no longer needing material fulfillment. Everything has its own limit.

We come to: “What’s next? What will you fill me with?! What will you sell me?!” And what can you sell me? After all, I don’t want anything anymore!

First, sell me a desire to make me want. And the fact that you invest 50 – 60% of the cost of the product in advertising, with this nothing can be achieved. It does not work anymore. No matter how much you spin it on TV and on the Internet, everything is practically useless.

A person is not just oversaturated with toys, he is no longer interested in these toys at all.

A new kind of emptiness appears in him, an internal emptiness that in our world has no source of filling. That is the problem.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Make a Revolution” 2/10/12

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Question: To what extent can egoism take over a person who is on the spiritual path? How do we escape this situation?

Answer: Egoism cannot rule a person who is on a spiritual level. This means that it breaks down again, but these are extraordinary cases.

A person who is on a spiritual level is dominated by different forces. His intentions may seem egoistic to us, but in principle he does not have any intention for his own sake.

Everything works differently for him. Just as a magnet holds a piece of iron at a certain level above the ground and balances to some extent the force of gravity, it is the same here. An anti-gravitational force that already exists in a person keeps him at this height.

The decisions he makes are different from those made by anyone else living on Earth. But since he is not yet completely corrected, he makes decisions based on the extent to which he exists in the spiritual world.

And if an additional egoistic desire is added to him now, he will fall from the spiritual level and will see everything based on our world. But this is given to him precisely so that he understands that a descent has occurred.

Question: What if a person is not yet in spiritual attainment, but is already on the way?

Answer: While on the way, he feels that he has risen or fallen. That is, he feels the measure of the presence of the upper light in him as the best state of open eyes and an open mind or conversely as a fall, a descent.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Egoism Uses Me” 1/28/12

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Preparation to the Lesson

Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “Torah and Prayer” 

Lesson on the Topic “Following the Creator in the Desert”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Is there any such thing as fate or destiny?“

Yes, we have fate. That is, we live in a predetermined reality.

We each have different fates that move us through life’s various states at differing rates. For instance, some people live basic lives, doing nothing much more than working to provide for themselves and their families until they pass away, and then there are people who undergo many more changes throughout their lives. It is not apparent why it goes one way for some, and another way for others.

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, each person’s fate depends on the inner structure of the soul that we are all parts of.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz of Questions and Answers” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on January 6, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: Why are Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey called the name of the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is the light that depicts itself against the background of black desire. Therefore, all kinds of figures that the light draws on a black background are letters that make up the name of the Creator. Meaning, we perceive His actions in this way.

Question: Does it mean that someone felt the influence of light on their desire and thus depicted it in the form of letters or text?

Answer: Yes, this is how the Torah is written.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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Question: Why does a relationship between a man and a woman end?

Answer: People do not know how to value their relationships; they have not been taught.

Question: How can you keep the intensity and passion of sex?

Answer: I think this is a very complex, multifaceted question. If they are healthy partners, they will find how to keep the intensity and passion.

They should appreciate each other, think about how to please the other, and then they will succeed.

Question: But according to Kabbalah, a person’s desire is fulfilled, and that is it. We see that many couples face a problem when in the course of life they lose some kind of sharpness, brightness of relationships, including sexual ones.

Answer: It is necessary to bring a game into the relationship.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: In our world, sacrifices are offered to God in a certain place. Where is this place of sacrifice in spirituality?

Answer: In the heart. Nowhere else.

Question: Does it mean that the Temple is the heart?

Answer: Yes. Only.

Question: Can we conclude that previously sacrifices meant bringing people’s hearts closer to each other?

Answer: Yes, as it is said: “As one man with one heart.”

Question: And then all this disappeared somewhere, and people began to build external temples in which sacrifices were made?

Answer: In general, yes.

Question: Or should it go in parallel since we exist in two worlds?

Answer: No. It does not have to go in parallel. There is no need to build any temples at all. All this must be within the person. But people started to gradually distort it.

Even for those who study Kabbalah, it is much easier to do some external action for the sake of someone than to try to connect with them internally, with the heart. Not because it is difficult, but because it is not clear how to do it. For example, bringing someone a box of chocolates is clear, but to make offerings inside the heart is not.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/8/23

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