Question: What is the power of thought and how can we use it? From the Kabbalist’s perspective, what should one think about every moment?

Answer: The power of thought is very great because with it we can bring big corrections into the universe, into its forces and their interaction with each other. This happens only if we direct the entire power of our heart to the good connection between people. Then it multiplies many times. In this way, we begin to correctly awaken all forces of nature.

Question: What is so special about the power of the heart?

Answer: The power of love, the power of kindness, the power of good connection.

Question: Can a person awaken it or generate it within himself in any way?

Answer: Yes. He can awaken this power within himself; connect it with the powers of other people, and in this way advance toward the improvement of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: Why is it harmful to gossip and slander?

Answer: There is nothing more harmful to people than bad thoughts, especially words. Their presence, development, influence, and interference is very harmful to the world. The most useful thing is to be silent.

Question: You said that sometimes your teacher Rabash spoke to himself and explained that his words should go out into the world. What power was there in the words he used?

Answer: The words that come out of a person, especially a person such as Rabash, have a very great power in influencing the world.

Well, for any person, including you and me, what we say flies away from us into the environment, and this affects everyone and everything.

Question: What is the best word to say more often?

Answer: Love.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: Is the ordinary suffering in this world not enough for us, must we add suffering to ourselves by yearning to reach the upper world? Does it mean that by embarking on the spiritual path, a person doubles his sufferings?

Answer: Yes, you multiply your suffering in order to traverse this path as soon as possible! What else can push you forward?

However, we are not sent suffering from above, we by ourselves need to reveal the suffering of love within us.

The reforming light causes us the sufferings of love for it, and we rush forward driven by these sufferings, and not by life’s sufferings like animals who are beaten, do not understand anything, and run away from the blows of fate.

Therefore, from above they are waiting for us to start acting. But we think, well, we can wait until help comes from above and everything is arranged by itself.

But what kind of help can come from above besides the sufferings of the corporeal world that will make us move forward?!

If you are included in the group, you will get spiritual sufferings and you will start moving faster.

This is a feeling of spiritual emptiness, the sufferings of love. Then there will be no need to push you with ordinary sufferings.

If you yourself are yearning to move forward at the speed that is determined for you according to your initial spiritual data, your Reshimot, then there is no need to push you by a “stick to happiness”.

However, if you already rise so high that you connect with all the other souls, you begin to suffer for them, as a mother suffers for her children. Therefore, it seems to us that Kabbalists also suffer in this world.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/1/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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Comment: When a person begins to study Kabbalah, he goes through various stages including one when he is fanatical about what he is doing.

My Response: He is like a little child because little children are fanatical too. The child gets used to his pacifier, to his chair, to his rag, or toy, and he cannot tear himself away from them. This is a sense of security, confidence, belonging, and a sense of something that he lacks, i.e., a purely psychological help.

Why is he holding on to all these external objects and external customs so much? From the point of view of psychology, they mean a lot to him. Look, people wear a red thread on their arm. Is it good or bad? It just helps them calm down a little and gives them confidence that everything will be all right.

On the other hand, this, of course, prevents them from moving forward to become a grown-up person and not remain a small child who depends on a red thread. This is a lie, as are, in principle, all other psychological practices.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fanaticism!!!” 6/14/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Do dogs help autistic children?“

Autistic children tend to withdraw and find it difficult to communicate with people around them. They feel lonely, and dogs are indeed one way to help them.

Autistic children often develop special relationships with their dogs, patting, hugging and taking care of them with patience and devotion.

What does a dog give an autistic child that human beings do not?

When a dog gets used to a person, it is willing to accept them as a superior, both as owner and as friend, without considering whether or not they are autistic.

The dog is no friend at the level of empathizing with the child’s distress, but there is a common feeling and sensitivity between the child and the dog.

It is this sensitivity that human relations are greatly lacking in our present-day world.

We can thus learn from dogs the importance of increasing our sensitivity to each other. Dogs feel a lot, demand a lot, and they want to be loyal. The latter, however, is the main trait we can learn from dogs: loyalty—to our friends and to our owner, i.e., to the laws of nature that guide our every desire, thought and motion. The more loyal we become to caring about others and developing an attitude of giving, similar to nature’s giving force, the more we would balance ourselves with nature and experience more harmony, peace and happiness fill our lives.

Based on the video “What Do Dogs Give Autistic Children That Human Beings Don’t?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Vitaliy Zalishchyker on Unsplash.

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What is a rose? It is the Assembly of Israel, meaning Malchut (Introduction of The Book of Zohar, “The Rose”).

A rose is an external equivalence to the assembly of souls, and a more internal quality is the connection of all who wish to come together and direct themselves to the Creator. That is why they are called Israel, Isra-El—meaning. straight to the Creator. Thus, they draw closer to each other in order to rise closer to the Creator with their properties of kindness and connection.

Knesset is from the word “Kinus.” “assembly.” Israel is Yashar Kel, meaning those who are directed at the Creator. Malchut is the lowest, but at the same time the most defining part of society.

The connection between souls at the lowest level, which can rise to the highest level, is called Malchut. That is, it is our connection based on the most basic, most egoistic desires.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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Question: Why did the Creator create our world, and why does He need us?

Answer: The Creator created our world in order to create man. And He created man in order to give him the opportunity to rise to His level.

Question: What does it mean to love yourself?

Answer: To love yourself means to constantly think about what you lack in this life.

Question: What is sin?

Answer: Sin is to think about yourself all the time and not about others.

Question: Why does a person need conscience?

Answer: So that with a sense of his a conscience, he could direct himself more correctly to the purpose of creation.

Question: What is the secret of successful entrepreneurship? You said that before Kabbalah you were in business, and it was very easy for you.

Answer: I was guessing what was necessary and did it for a while, although after some time it was all becoming absolutely disgusting to me and I gave up all businesses. I did not tolerate them because I could not work for money, but I could work for some idea. It passes, and you have nothing left.

Question: Can you name three rules for a good life?

Answer: Constantly maintain yourself in good physical and moral shape and in good relations with others.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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Question: Do you remember what you were like before you felt a spiritual connection? When you found a teacher, did you also ponder questions about the meaning of life?

Answer: I pondered these questions probably from the age of five or six. I was greatly consumed by it. I absolutely did not want to live; I had a clear mindset that if this life had no meaning, then what was the point of being in it? I could not see any purpose unless I received an answer about the meaning of life itself.

It was very difficult for me until I found Kabbalah. I was constantly searching.

In my younger years, I would distract myself, but it was only an external distraction. I looked at others and tried to emulate them: “They see meaning in what they do, so I will be with them.” They attended certain gatherings and were passionate about something, and I tried to do the same, but for some reason, it did not captivate me. That was the case throughout my life.

I think it is not just me; it happens to many people. Some manage to distract themselves and fill their heads with other things while others cannot. But then they get married, have children, get caught up in work and maintenance, and they no longer have any free time or thoughts about the meaning of life.

Comment: But then you eventually met your teacher.

My Response: I met him because I was searching; I could not calm down in any other way.

Question: When you were with your teacher, did you feel that this person has the answers to your questions?

Answer: Yes, but he could not do anything for me or the other students. Like any Kabbalist, he only provided us with the methodology, and we had to do all the corrections ourselves. Each person had to go through this stage; otherwise, they could not attain the feeling of the upper world.

This feeling is created by each person within himself through various contrasting sensations: positive and negative. They must accumulate all these feelings, become aware of them, compare them within themselves, and be ready to taste the upper world. That is when they reveal it.

The teacher cannot do this for the student. The Creator cannot do it for us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman Outside of Kabbalah” 3/6/11

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