Question: You work with your desires. What exactly do you do?

Answer: There are desires inside me that seem alien to me. As far as I can draw desires that exist in my imagination outside of me to myself, make them my own so that they are like myself, to this extent I move forward.

The system that I reveal as the one inside me makes me unite all its elements and feel that this whole world is not external, it is inside me. As it unites with me, I feel its greater depth, the forces that govern it, and I contribute as much as I can to the good influence of all these forces inside me. Inside me!

You may ask: “Where are all the others?” There are no others. There is no one. Everything is inside me. Moreover, these are forces of huge negative or positive magnitude, of various forms. And all this is inside me, there is nothing outside! Therefore, I work inside myself.

But you can say: “Then why do you need to teach? Stay inside yourself and sort through all your ‘bugs.’ There is nothing else to do!” Right. In fact, this is how Kabbalists worked.

There is double work here because what seems to me to be outside of me but is actually mine requires double correction.

When I correct myself by bringing inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts closer to me, this is one kind of work. But when I work with those who seem to me as independent people, this is completely different work. These are my desires that allegedly have some independence from me. They are my own, but I can only correct them when I work against them as if they were outside of me. Thus, on these desires I kind of learn how to get out of myself.

And then, by bringing all eight billion different desires closer to me, my inner mini-humanity, through the fact that they want to unite, I rise to the level of the Creator.

This is achieved precisely by the fact that such an illusion, such a picture, such a performance, such a theater, has been created outside of me and I convince all the actors: “Let us unite together!” These are my personal desires, but I must convince them of the need for unity. In this way I correct my egoism, turn it over. I work in this inverse mode.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Unreal Reality” 6/27/11

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Question: How is it that a Kabbalist who has many students can so competently and so masterfully introduce everyone to the material? I have heard a person say: “I have met with various people who can manipulate, but a Kabbalist is a person who can manipulate in such a way! And you will also ask him to manipulate you again.”

Where did you get such abilities, such techniques that you use?

Answer: These are not moves but simply a deeper knowledge of human nature and society. There are no moves here. I do not manipulate people. On the contrary, I explain everything to them and like a child with a pacifier, with a spoon, I try to give my knowledge little by little so that they have their own tools, their own abilities.

Kabbalah tries to make an independent person out of man so that he is independent from anyone. Everyone should become like the integral nature, call it the Creator, no matter how. It is just the name that confuses people.

And manipulate, you do not manipulate anyone here! You explain how everything works. And he wonders: “How can you know all this? Really, look how you tricked me!”

Did I trick you? I explained to you!

At the same time, I led you to another opinion. Right! You can make a completely different decision now. Right! But isn’t it logical? Is it forced? Did I force you, did I twist you? Did I manipulate you in some way? Or did I give you some thoughts, waves?

No! I am telling you everything realistically and very slowly so that you slowly adapt to the new knowledge and you yourself would begin to understand that this is truly a real picture of the world and you live in some kind of bubble.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fraud #1 in the World!” 5/28/11

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Question: You speak about the spiritual world as a world of harmony, and about our world as disharmony. Is there any example from animate or vegetative nature that when looking at it from the outside it is immediately clear that it is a nightmare and needs to be corrected?

Answer: We have nothing to correct in this world except ourselves because we can only correct our desires. The desires of objects of inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature are given from above, and all of them instinctively follow the laws and rules that exist within them. They do not have any freewill.

So we cannot say that some reptile ate a person, and therefore this crocodile is bad and must be killed. Why kill it? For the fact that it has such a program? Then you should turn to the Creator and not to this unfortunate crocodile.

I remember once we were visiting a friend of mine in Miami, and he said: “This is the second day that I have not seen my dog.” There were small lakes around his house where alligators lived, and they freely crawled out onto land. The dog owner thought that his dog jumped over the fence and was eaten by alligators. So do we have to shoot these alligators now? What are they guilty of?

This is the natural reaction of an animal to an animal desire when a large animal desire absorbs a small one. At the same time, they are mutually absorbed, ensuring each other’s existence, and thus the movement of nature continues.

Any desire always consists of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels. It can only be corrected on a human level. If you correct it, then all these desires connect together, and all of them are considered corrected, since the human level is, so to speak, the head of all desires.

Therefore, it is said that when we come to a complete correction, the wolf and the lamb will walk together in a friendly manner on the green lawn, and a little boy will guide them.

This is actually so because all these desires will come to the right combination with each other. That is, the correct human desire will connect the inanimate, vegetative, and animate desires and give them the right direction to work in this symbiosis.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ugly World” 6/27/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is the meaning of the Tefilat HaDerech (Traveler’s Prayer or Wayfarer’s Prayer)?“

The meaning of the Tefilat HaDerech (Traveler’s Prayer or Wayfarer’s Prayer) is that we leave the place where we think we live, to another place and path.

We do not know how long we will be on the road and when we will reach our destination. Maybe we think it will take just a couple of minutes, and then we find ourselves on a path that takes several years, which could start seeming endless.

Where the prayer writes, “lead us in peace,” it means that we should bring no harm to anyone in our path forward in life, i.e., in what comes from us outwardly to others.

Likewise, “direct our steps in peace” means to let there be peace for ourselves and for everyone we encounter on our path forward.

“And cause us to reach our destination in life, joy and peace” means that ultimately, everything we do on our path should be good for everyone.

The direct literal translation of “Tefilat HaDerech” is “prayer of the path.” What is the path? It is absolutely everything, and it is endless: the prayer of our direction and our existence, i.e., how our lives should be.

“Save us from every enemy and ambush, from robbers and wild beasts on the trip, and from all kinds of punishments that rage and come to the world” means that we should observe our movements from one inner state to another. It does not discuss geographical locations. Rather, it emphasizes our peaceful progress so that we avoid problematic encounters with anyone and so that we safely reach our destination: a “place” where we connect with others with ever-greater bonds of kindness.

The path is thus the direction to more and more connection with others and nature. Why else would we wish to leave our abodes? It is so that we exit to a greater connection time and again.

The robbers are then those obstacles sent to us on the path, which help us further connect with each other in order to reach our true and final destination in life, the purpose of our lives.

We never make a prayer in order to have a smoother path, but we wish for the path to bring us to our destination, to more and more closeness among each other and with the single good and benevolent force in reality, which Kabbalists call “the Creator.” Since coming to closeness with each other and the Creator depends on us adjusting our attitude to be good and benevolent outwardly to them, then we come to discover that they are one and the same.

Then the prayer continues: “May You confer blessing upon the work of our hands and grant me grace, kindness, and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all who see us.” It refers to us treating the world and everything that comes our way as best as we possibly can, i.e., trying to justify everything and staying connected to the idea that everything stems from the single good and benevolent force, the Creator. By doing so, we ourselves become benevolent conduits of goodness. This is the meaning of “May You confer blessing upon the work of our hands.”

There can only be a blessing if we strive for greater closeness. Without an effort to reach more closeness with each other and the Creator, then we would not be able to ask for such a connection, and we would accordingly receive no blessing.

The prayer then ends: “And bestow upon us abundant kindness and hearken to the voice of our prayer, for You hear the prayers of all. Blessed are You G‑d, who hearkens to prayer.” That is, the prayer ends in us thanking the Creator for hearing the prayer.

However, does the Creator really hear this prayer?

It is important to understand that the Creator is the single force of reality that acts within us, and so everything we think and say, we say practically with His desire. In general, He does it all Himself. In other words, the Creator Himself places the prayer into our mouths as He is the single force that exists in everything.

It is important to understand that this prayer is not simply a prayer for travelers who leave onto the road from one geographic location to another, but it is a prayer for the path of life. Everything that is implied in the Torah, in prayers, is all a means for our exit into life, and “life” in its fullest meaning is the eternal and perfect life that we attain when we learn to apply the same attitude of the Creator—goodness and benevolence—from ourselves outwardly.

In order for such a prayer to truly be heard, it is insufficient to simply say it with our mouths. We rather need to pronounce it in our hearts. When the prayer comes from our heart, then it is of utmost importance, and it influences the Creator.

Here is the prayer, Tefilat HaDerech:

May it be Your will, G‑d, our G‑d and the G‑d of our fathers, that You should lead us in peace and direct our steps in peace, and guide us in peace, and support us in peace, and cause us to reach our destination in life, joy, and peace. Save us from every enemy and ambush, from robbers and wild beasts on the trip, and from all kinds of punishments that rage and come to the world. May You confer blessing upon the work of our hands and grant me grace, kindness, and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all who see us, and bestow upon us abundant kindness and hearken to the voice of our prayer, for You hear the prayers of all. Blessed are You G‑d, who hearkens to prayer.

Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Semion Vinokur on May 22, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman
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We are all in a vast ocean filled with the love of the Creator. We only need to open ourselves to feel this love that fills the entire world with its infinite light.

Let us make at least a little effort and open our eyes, open all possible passages into our mind and heart. Especially before the upcoming convention, let us prepare ourselves so that everyone becomes a pipe that conducts the upper light to each friend. Then we will all be completely filled with this light.

Let us prepare for the convention in this form: become one man with one heart in a common embrace so that the Creator fills us more and more with His love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/23, “Receiving and Giving a Gift”

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Comment: People who study Kabbalah seem to be playing like they are prophets all the time.

My Response: What today is prophetic, tomorrow is reality. After all, we are not predicting thousands of years ahead. We are talking about a crisis, about the fact that we are on the verge of depleting all natural resources, especially energy, and that we have polluted the earth so much that we are ruining all of nature and ourselves. Is this called a prophecy?

A prophet is a person who talks about what will happen tomorrow. But if we base this tomorrow on science—and not only on the wisdom of Kabbalah, but also on other sciences—then we are not prophets, we simply know the system of the world.

Of course, humanity will not disappear as a species on Earth and in the universe because we have a different purpose. Our world is just a small part of the entire universe from which we must rise.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Wooden arm… Bony Leg” 7/9/11

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Kabbalistic books consist of two parts. One part directs you to intention: what you should do when reading texts.

The second part is the texts themselves when, by reading them, you invite upon yourself the upper light, the hidden force that exists in the world that is called the Creator. Thus, this force of nature raises you and develops you.

In our world, when a small child plays with toys, this force develops him because he instinctively wants to be big. In the spiritual world, I myself have to want to create such a desire in me and play.

What am I playing with? With texts. I read about my future upper state, and then the same force that develops a child in our world will develop me. It is called “concealed light” or “the light that returns to the source,” “the reforming light.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Hidden Power of Books” 7/14/11

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Comment: Very often people do not want to listen to Kabbalah students, who it would seem have answers to everything.

My Response: Whether we do have all the answers is a question. But if we do, then of course a person does not like to listen to us because allegedly the other is smarter than him. However, this does not mean anything.

In the media, in science, in art, in anything, everyone wants to express their opinion, especially people who see and feel in advance. Naturally, they have something to say to others.

So what if it annoys others? Egoism does not want to listen to anyone and allow them to be smarter.
When I talk to others, on the contrary, I try to be a little lower than them, I never push, but hint that it may be this way or that. Let them ponder whether they agree or disagree, let them debate and find out the truth.

We need to approach this as scientists, as researchers. We are all in the same world. We all have the same problem; we do not know where we are going and what is happening to us.

Therefore, a person should first come to you and ask: “Give us knowledge about where we are and how we should live.” You, for your part, will go down to them and give them what you can with love for them. It will not work any other way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Wooden arm… Bony Leg” 7/9/11

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