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Posted on July 10th, 2023
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Question: There is a very short prayer called Modeh Ani, which is a morning prayer in which a person thanks the Creator. Before getting out of bed, just as he opens his eyes, he says this prayer: “I offer thanks to You, living and eternal King, for You have mercifully restored my soul within me; Your faithfulness is great!”
Please explain why it starts with gratitude?
Answer: “Modeh ani lefanecha, I thank You.” For what? “Melech chai ve kayam”—that You fill the whole world, You control the whole world, only You.
Question: It says: “Thank You, living and eternal King,” What “eternal” means is somehow understandable. What is “living”?
Answer: “Living” means which exists in everything that exists. Without His presence in something, it would not exist.
Question: So every person should start any day with this gratitude?
Answer: With the fact that he got up to get to know the Creator. This is the beginning of the day for absolutely anyone. “Melech chai ve kayam, she he chezarta bi nishmati”—”for You have mercifully restored my soul within me; Your faithfulness is great!”
Question: Did He take the soul?
Answer: He takes it in the evening and returns it in the morning.
Question: The fact that I go to bed and go to sleep, is it called that I give my soul for this time?
Answer: The soul flies away.
Question: And how do the Kabbalists explain that the soul “leaves” for this time?
Answer: A person enters a dream, and he no longer controls himself, and therefore his obvious connection with the Creator is cut off. Only the Creator is the master over him during sleep, at night. And in the morning a person gets his soul back and thanks the Creator for it.
Question: You just said that the soul is my connection with the Creator. Is this called a soul?
Answer: Yes. And at the time of sleep, it kind of breaks off.
Question: “For You have mercifully restored my soul within me,” does this mean that it is the Creator who decides whether to return it or not?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What is night then?
Answer: This is when the soul, so to say, breaks away from the body, and a person feels only a dream or his animal state.
Question: Then here’s the question: can night come during the day? Or do I have to fall asleep?
Answer: No. Can you imagine how many people don’t wake up at all?!
Question: So these are people without a soul? The Creator took it and does not return it?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Why?
Answer: It’s quieter in the world. A man without a soul is better off. You have to work on your soul and be thankful for it.
Question: And then: “Your faithfulness is great!” Am I repeating this as a mantra: “Your faithfulness is great!”?
Answer: No. Because thanks to the fact that I believe in You, I am connected to You, thanks to this, I wake up to a new day. “Raba emunatecha”—great is the faith in You.
Question: Do I imagine it or does it live within me? Or should I repeat this as a physical exercise in order to establish a “muscle” of connection with the Creator? Your faithfulness is great! Your faithfulness is great! Your faithfulness is great!
Answer: It just forms within a person, inside him.
Question: When we analyzed the prayer for the road, you said that the road is where a person goes from state to state. This is not a way from city to city.
And here, too, is this prayer also from state to state?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So you don’t have to say it in the morning when you just opened your eyes?
Answer: No, it has nothing to do with day and night at all. In Kabbalah, a day is when I have enlightenment, when I see, feel, and have a connection with the Creator. And night is when a state descends of twilight on the soul and on the heart. And when the dawn comes next, I have to say such a prayer.
Question: Is it necessary to pronounce it in these exact words or not?
Answer: No, in principle, all this can be said differently.
Question: And what should a person say from the heart?
Answer: How good it is for me to be connected with the Creator, this is a day for me. And how bad and sad it is for me to be alone without the Creator, for me it is like night.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/1/23
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Question: What is hypnosis in spirituality?
Answer: I do not know. In spirituality, there is a state when a person goes by faith above reason. Maybe it can be called some kind of hypnosis? That is, it is a state of complete and explicit wakefulness.
In spirituality, sleep is a certain disconnection from the real state, when a person consciously lowers the level of light within himself from GAR to VAK.
There are such measures of attainment of spiritual space as sitting, standing, wakefulness, sleeping, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of Hypnosis” 7/24/11
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Question: Why is the first reaction of a person under stress to get drunk or take some kind of sedative? Is there any substitute for this?
Answer: The best substitute is not to be alone with the cause of the stress, to break away from it. This happens if I am in a group that immediately starts discussing the cause of stress and working with it, that gives me all sorts of advice, their empathy, and solves this problem for me.
This is the only real solution because it is a solution. It is not escaping it, not postponing for the future, but working together with others on what caused stress in me.
Others understand my stressful state and take it upon themselves. And I, understanding that they take it upon themselves, as if, overcome the stress. Then I feel that, in principle, I received this state precisely in order to pass it on to them and so that by engaging in this and correcting the cause of stress, they would connect even more with each other.
This can be compared to the way some organ in the body begins to send an SOS, and the whole body instantly comes to its aid and takes it upon itself to compensate for the problem in which it found itself.
Thus, shifting the problem to the rest of the body, it gets out of it. This is the only way to really correct any cause of any stress.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Drugs, alcohol and sex” 7/29/11
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Question: Very often we associate a person’s appearance with some way. Let’s say I have a friend who looks and thinks a certain way, and all of a sudden he goes crazy. But, in principle, outwardly it looks as usual, but it is not at all adequate. What’s going on with him?
Very often we associate a person’s appearance with a certain image. Let’s say I have a friend who looks and thinks a certain way, and he all of a sudden becomes mentally ill. However, in principle, he looks as usual externally, but he is absolutely inadequate. What is happening to him?
Answer: There are problems in the brain. There are no diseases as such, we are not ill with anything. Our disease is an incorrect perception of reality at the inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human level.
Our brain is a holographic system that is connected to the brain of the universe, with all the brains, if I may say so, of inanimate, vegetative, animate, or human beings at the general level of information, energy, that archives transmission of all data and their reproduction.
We all represent one single system, only each of us feels it as much as he can enter into it, solidify, and work in it.
Why is Kabbalah called “the science of reception”? Although each of us is now on the far periphery of this common, global holographic device of the entire universe, Kabbalah allows a person to enter it and perceive everything that is happening within the immense collective desire and thought on all levels.
It is like a holographic image that is created with lasers at different angles and which can then absorb an absolutely infinite amount of information. But while each of us has not yet entered this picture, he perceives only his small part. Therefore, sometimes he perceives it from a certain broken angle. In the material world, this is characterized by us as some kind of psychological, psychiatric problems.
Kabbalah tunes a person to enter and exist within this n-dimensional holographic picture. Then for him there will be no problems of time, distance, all kinds of past, present, and future events, as well as movements at the levels of this hologram, when he sees it from different angles, from different sides and all together.
This is the state we must achieve. This holographic volumetric system is the authentic universe.
Question: Can a person with mental disorders undergo correction?
Answer: No, they cannot because they have a problem with perceiving reality in the correct sequence, and they are unable to be in contact with us.
Such people have always existed. But as humanity gets closer and closer to the correct entry into the general hologram of the universe, it will be easier for us to work with them, and fewer people will have mental problems.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Brain Of A Mentally Ill” 7/9/11
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Comment: You often say that if we do not come to correction in this incarnation, then we will continue in the next one. It sounds scary because until you come to some kind of awareness, you have to start this process over again.
My Response: This is a good incentive to study. Later on the next higher degrees, when you are already advancing toward bestowal, you will find out that this is not the most important thing. But, in general, we must take care not to live life in vain.
At least you have a chance; the rest is in your hands. I give you everything I can, I hide nothing. I even pull out of myself such things that if I think carefully, are too early for you to know. I talk too much, maybe not for today’s generation level. Therefore, I seem so strange, unreal, and not quite adequate.
Then, after a couple of years, the things I was talking about happened. For example, I delivered a report about the crisis in Arosa back in 2005, and a few years later, everyone began to talk about it.
That is, I try to give everything and even more. In the blog, I also write for the future. In addition, we invest a lot in the system of integral education and upbringing. Everything we do today is a groundwork for the future. But the problem is that our theory is ahead of the practice. This is not good.
A theory should be given only to the extent that it is immediately put into practice. We are talking about things that are still completely unrealizable in us. But I have no other choice.
Question: Is it programmed in a person in what reincarnation he will eventually come to the understanding of the need for correction?
Answer: He already has this opportunity in the incarnation in which he receives contact with Kabbalah. He can come to it! The rest is his work, his freewill.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Need for Reincarnation of Souls” 7/18/11
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Antisemitism will disappear only after the final correction that should happen in the world. But it is still more useful for the peoples of the world to follow their natural impulses as little as possible, which will eventually turn against them anyway.
In the future, we are to see that everything they have done against the Jews (after all, the Jews are a completely spiritual structure) will indeed become a horrible experience for them.
However, this is necessary for correction. As far as you go down, you go up, and at the same time you go through such opposing forces.
Thus, there are no winners here. Therefore, I would recommend being very careful with these things.
This is not because I am talking about my people, but because in the future (according to Kabbalah, and we see it from the structure of the upper world), all the evil that you have caused to others, you will have to pass on yourself.
Comment: In general, the classic approach is do not do bad things to others and you will not invite this negativity upon yourself. In essence, people are afraid to do something bad to others since it might be reflected in their future life or reincarnation, it does not matter in what.
My Response: Although this is a purely egoistic approach, because a person is doing it out of fear, it is still justified in the framework of our world. He is afraid of punishment, but still believes in the Creator, in some upper force, and in some governance.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hatred of the Jews” 5/14/11
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The people of Israel can exist if they unite or at least have an inclination to unite, i.e., that they have a certain plan of how to realize their unity in the future. If there is no motion at all toward unity, then the people of Israel are simply not the people of Israel.
Where do the people of Israel come from?
The people of Israel come from the 70 nations of the world that once lived in ancient Babylon around 3,500 years ago. At that time, Abraham the Patriarch taught anyone who wished to unite and be part of a unique group that would come to feel how to live in mutual support and brotherly love, i.e., to reach “love your neighbor as yourself.” Various people from these 70 nations heeded Abraham’s call, came to learn from him, and he guided them to unite.
From the point of their unification, Abraham gave them the name “the people of Israel,” with “Israel” coming from the words “Yashar Kel” (“straight to the Creator”). That is, this group became united by a common aim at the upper force of love, bestowal and connection that exists in reality, which Kabbalists call “the Creator.”
There are two forces in nature: the force of unification and the force of separation. There is no good or bad, but only these two forces. Those who wished to associate themselves with the force of unification received the name “the people of Israel.” They were people who came to Abraham from various Babylonian nations, and Abraham made a new nation out of them. It is not a people or a nation in the biological sense of the term. Everybody is different by nature, but they became unified according to the law of “love your neighbor as yourself.”
In the roots of the people of Israel, there is unity among different people that makes everyone equal and creates this unique society.
Today, we can see the vast extent of variety among the people who make up that nation. Each person is a world in and of themselves, but while each one is their own world, there is a mutual disregard of one another.
The State of Israel is also unique in that, unlike other countries, it cannot exist if there is no unification among its inhabitants. However, as divided as the people of Israel currently are, they still prosper. Why? It is because we have been given a certain kind of extension. We can exist in order to reach unification because we nonetheless emerged from the diaspora. There is a gathering of exiles in Israel and we have to build something common in order to witness what it means to do something together, and to be together.
Nature’s higher plan organizes us together in one place so that we start understanding the meaning of our togetherness, i.e., so we come to know that we cannot get along harmoniously here without a method of unification that merges us together in a positive fashion, and which can then sustain our nation. Otherwise, we will continue enduring an increasingly divisive and bitter path into the future.
That is why we need Kabbalists: to explain and teach the method of unification, which has the power to unite the people of Israel and evoke the positive force of connection that dwells in nature into human relations.
Based on the video “Is Israel’s Division an Existential Threat?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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