Question: What is conscience?

Answer: Conscience is responsibility related to the goal. Conscience by itself does not exist. When we interpret it in isolation from everything else, we understand it as an egoistic self-chastising and nothing more.

If you want to measure any property correctly, you must initially associate it with the Creator as a reference point, then draw it to yourself, and begin to explore it.

Question: What if a person is not in attainment of the Creator?

Answer: This is why our conscience is like a sail: it turns where you turn it.

Question: How can you learn to interpret this concept correctly?

Answer: There is no way. Under the influence of the environment, you can do anything you want with yourself.

Question: Do you mean human society?

Answer: Even if you grow up among animals, you will receive influence from them and become like them. Then at least you will have a conscience.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is Conscience?” 3/21/11

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If a person develops in himself an additional sensory organ—the organ of bestowal instead of reception—and begins to feel outside of himself in a completely different attitude to nature, then he already explores it with the help of bestowal, but following the same principles as the sciences of our world: research, repetition, recording, reproduction, and the perception of reality.

He passes it on to others, and they also investigate and see the same results. Based on the fact that this reality is attained by many, it is perceived as existing and thus forms part of science.

It is difficult to convey to what extent Kabbalah expands the perception of what kind of world we live in, how we relate to this world, and how we explore it. That is, it begins to show us how subjective we are and are limited even in our sciences and in everything.

It is impossible to convey, and it is not necessary to. Kabbalists do not want to do this. They do not flirt with scientists; it is useless. If I do not have any sensory organ, how can I talk about what can be perceived in it? It seems to me incredible, fantastic, and false.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is Science?” 3/28/11

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Question: How can a person use heightened sensitivity to achieve a more subtle sense of spiritual techniques? There are some people who are more sensitive.

Answer: It does not matter. Everyone has their own way forward.

Question: Doesn’t sensitivity make it possible for us to convey Kabbalah better?

Answer: No, we must do our best, try our best.

All our attempts, in fact, do nothing but become included in the general desire, in the general striving. Then the light penetrates this desire and spreads more, more widely throughout all of humanity. Humanity starts to understand, realize, and change; it is unknown why.

In fact, it is because through our efforts we have enabled the upper light to manifest itself more in all of us. This is, in principle, PR, this is dissemination.

Of course, distribution of materials, books, pictures, and clips is all good. But the most important thing is that by doing this, we stimulate the desire!

It is not clips themselves and at the same time those thoughts that you evoke in a person that lead him to something! No! Desires and aspirations make it possible for the light to descend and fill the emerging voids within each one and between us! And then we become wiser. That is how it works. Only the light!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Imitating Laitman” 2/22/11

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Question: What is health?

Answer: Health is the ability to quickly return to a state of balance with the Creator. The strength of a person’s balance with the Creator is called health.

In the corporeal world, everything in our body must be in balance: blood pressure, sugar, pulse, and other indicators. Usually, results of medical tests indicate the boundaries within which all parameters must balance. All this comes from the balance of the light, our desire, and the Masach (Screen) between them.

In our world, in our inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, we are in balance with the Creator. But we are in relative balance with Him; He always keeps it within some limits.

If we somehow disturb this balance, then immediately a tsunami falls on us, or a volcano explodes, or an epidemic spreads, and so on, after which the balance is smoothed out. Thus, on the corporeal level, it is more or less supported all the time.

But on the spiritual level, we need to achieve balance ourselves. That is, we can reach the balance with the Creator only by our freewill, through our own efforts to rise above ourselves, to unite with others, to become one common whole.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is Health?” 2/27/11

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Love and hatred are one property that manifests itself in its two opposite qualities. They are like the face and the back, two reverse sides of the same property. Their manifestation depends on understanding the importance of the quality of love or the quality of hatred.

Question: Which state is better?

Answer: In order to determine this, it is also necessary to take into account the third quality from which we will start because both love and hatred are the property of dependency.

When I feel dependency, either my dependency on someone or someone on me, then the quality of either love or hatred appears. Now it all depends on how I want to feel this dependency, either as good and desirable, which means to develop it, to enjoy it, or vice versa, I do not want to be dependent, I do not want to tolerate this property, and then, it is hatred.

That is, if someone hates me, he depends on me, and this limits him very much. But if he changed his attitude to love, he would also depend on me, but at the same time he would enjoy it.

Therefore, we must first reveal universal hatred and then come from it to love.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What is Love and Hate?” 3/12/11

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Question: The article “The Letters of Rabbi Hamnuna-Saba” describes how the letters came to the Creator in turn, and He each time explains why He will not create the world with it, until the letter “Bet – ב״ came.

It is written that the essence of the letter ״Bet״ is a blessing, and it has no opposing forces. Therefore, the Creator began the construction of the world from it.

How can it be that there is a sign that has no opposite force? What is special about the letter “Bet”?

Answer: The letter “Bet” means blessing. That is, there is a special force of the Creator that affects a person and moves him to the right goal, in the right direction, along the right path. This is what is called a blessing.

Question: Where can I find the letter “Bet” in me?

Answer: If you read this article, you will begin to feel how it affects you.

Question: That is, I will clearly understand that the force that leads me somewhere and gives me some kind of awareness is the force of “Bet”?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 4/23/23

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “If I rise above my own desires and fulfill the desires of others, then how do I feel those people?“

You feel yourself and the others as one, that they are the closest and dearest people to you.

The “self” that you previously considered, your personal “I,” disappears from your sensation. Its relevance drops significantly as it becomes more like an animal that lives next to you.

However, your desires constantly grow, so how does such growth reconcile with the motion to rise above them?

It does so for you to use the growing desires in order to increasingly connect with others.

The more your desires show you how separate and distant you are from each other, the greater your opportunity to overcome such desires with the positive force of connection that dwells in nature–to connect with others and feel fulfillment through them.

This process can be likened to fulfilling a loved one. You fulfill yourself more than you fulfill them because you do so despite your own desires. As such, you feel the full strength of the fulfillment on yourself. It is similar to how electricity passes through a resistor: the stronger the resistance, the greater the voltage.

That tension is the pleasure you feel. It is not painful. It is a delight. The minus—your self-aimed desires—inverts to a plus, replacing hatred and rejection with love and connection.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is Pleasure?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on February 21, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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The letter Shin entered before Him. She said to Him, “O Lord of the world, it is good for You to create the world with me, for in me is Your name, Shadai, called, and it is becoming to create the world with a holy name.” He said to her, “You are comely, you are good, and you are true. But because the letters SheKeR [Shin-Kof-Reish, meaning “lie” or “falsehood”] took you to be with them, I do not wish to create the world with you, for there will not be falsehood unless the letters Kof and Reish take you (Zohar for All, “Introduction of the Book of Zohar,”“The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba,” Item 24).

Question: The article “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba” describes how each letter entered before the Creator and spoke about its virtues, and He replied that there were negative forces in it, and therefore He would not create the world with it.

How can we understand this text correctly? I want to connect it with me. Where is it in me? What will it give me if I read it now?

Answer: I do not think it is going to give you anything special. But you will begin to feel that something in you is beginning to move, to act inside of you.

Even if you do not understand anything, nonetheless, putting your efforts into reading and trying to understand, absorb, swallow, and somehow digest this text (although you will not be able to do this of course), will help you reach some new state. After all, the reading itself, the letters themselves, and their appearance will affect you.

Question: Even if I read just out of curiosity because I am interested in the style of writing, since they wrote it 2,000 years ago and everything is presented in an entertaining dramatic form, will it affect me?

Answer: It will still affect you. I advise anyone who can to read it, in any language. Everyone will be able to feel for themselves how it affects them. Calmly, slowly, just read from the beginning to the end the “Introduction of The Book of Zohar.”
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 4/23/23

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