Question: Why are there things like cults and other similar elements in the common system? What are they created for?

Answer: These are the delusions of man, which he must go through in the same way as all religions. Misconceptions help him and develop him until he comes to the truth.

A person cannot immediately come to the truth! How many years have you been soiling diapers, making mistakes, and breaking toys? How many years passed until you started to understand something, to do something on your own? This is what we have to go through!

All theories and techniques work themselves out in our mind. We need them or we cannot perceive the truth. We have to prepare for it.

One can prepare for it through such “toys.” The way you played all sorts of games in your childhood, then onto more serious things, and then you started to more or less understand some truth. The same is happening here.

Without these dense beliefs, red strings, religions, all sorts of slander, and everything else, a person cannot develop. Then will have to be abandoned  except for everyday customs and cultural traditions and all these beliefs will be replaced with knowledge and attainment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why do sects exist?” 8/27/11

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Previously in nature and society, we acted according to an egoistic, impulsive, and linear program, when everyone earned as much as they worked. That is how I chose my job, family, and everything else, and due to my natural abilities and efforts, I achieved something.

I know that there are objective conditions that exist around me, and everything else depends on me; certain conditions are placed before me, and the rest is up to me to move forward. That is how I went through life and saw that I accomplished this and that.

I had some savings, a house, family, children, friends, and some plans. I wanted vacations, retirement, medical insurance, and so on, just like any ordinary, normal, person desires. But today there is some incomprehensible situation, like in a Winnie the Pooh story : “Some kind of wrong bees.” Everything seems wrong, and I do not know how to act.

I can go to work, try to invest anywhere. And what? I am not getting an adequate response to my reasonable, obvious, serious, and straightforward efforts! I am not trying to deceive anyone; I work with my egoism, and I want to receive as much as I earn. It does not work! Perhaps there should be some kind of luck involved, but it does not smile at me. What’s the matter?!

It turns out that a completely different scheme is working now; I can succeed in my life only if I also think about the well-being of other people. How can that be?! What do other people have to do with it?! I am investing! Why are they in the picture?! Maybe they are lazy or are even my enemies.

They tell me: “It doesn’t matter whether you like it or not because today these are the conditions and this is the way society is! You have to take into account the welfare of everyone and not just brush it off: “Okay, let them be happy.” You must learn to strive to be integral with them in one system so that everyone would feel good, and so that when investing, you think about what you are investing in them, and that you truly feel you are working together with them.

Moreover, you have to share with everyone and they with you. You don’t just go out into the world, earn money, bring home your prey, and share a piece of mammoth in your cave with the family; No!

You have to think about whether everyone has brought their prey. And when you come home and sit with your family, you have to imagine that you are sitting with the whole world. Does the whole world have what you have? How would you share it with them?”

Do you understand what dreadful conditions nature sets for us?! This is the state of the world today, and that is why no one knows what to do.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind in Action” 8/13/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Who led the Exodus from Egypt?“
The exodus from Egypt is the exit from our egoistic approach to each other to new relations of love and positive connection.

Being in Egypt and under Pharaoh’s rule means that we are under our ego’s control, which pits us up against each other, making us each wish to enjoy at the expense of one another.

If we reach a desire to leave such a state of unfounded hatred that we find ourselves in by letting our egoistic desires control our lives, and start to feel each other with open hearts—a collective force of love and bestowal appear among everyone—then we become ready for the exodus from Egypt to the Land of Israel.

The word for “Israel” in Hebrew comes from two words, “Yashar El” (“straight to God”), which means a desire to aim ourselves directly at the force of love and bestowal, which is God’s or the Creator’s quality.

Based on the video “What Is the Exodus from Egypt?” by Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 11, “Concerning the Debate between Jacob and Laban”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 144

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Question: Sometimes I am in a state where death is better than such a life. The Creator as if highlights the evil within me. I feel very scared by the thoughts that appear. How can I work with this?

Answer: You have a group. Through it, you must turn to the Creator and also through it receive the light from Him. Receiving through a group is much more difficult, but you can bestow only through it.

Question: What does it mean to receive from the Creator through the group?

Answer: In principle, the Creator is a single upper force. He fills the Kli that He created, and it is a great desire to receive. We are parts of this desire and receive from Him. This is how we connect to Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/26/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Question: What does the expression “according to suffering so is the reward” mean?

Answer: When a person regrets that he cannot yet be on the same level as the Creator, as the Creator gives to him, so he would give to the Creator. As it is said: “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.” If he cannot do it yet, then he is sorry.

Question: How can we awaken this regret in the group?

Answer: To do this, you simply show each other an example. Then the friends will quickly grab it, they will want to imitate those lucky ones who are successful in it. And you will all move forward together.

Question: Should I regret why I am not as giving as my friends?

Answer: Yes, that as well.

Question: What reward will come for this suffering? The ability to also bestow?

Answer: You will move forward on the path to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/23, “According to the Sorrow, So Is the Reward”

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Question: There are moments when the Creator, through Rabash’s article, gives out a key that opens clarification in the form of sensations inside the heart. How not to lose it? How can we work onward from these feelings?

Answer: One should not be afraid of losing them. And when it is necessary, you will find this key again.

Question: Does the Creator take these feelings from a person, or does a person lose them for some reason?

Answer: This feeling is in a person, he should not be afraid of losing it. The main thing is to get closer. The key is between us, and when we search for the Creator together, we find Him.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/27/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, “Anyone Who Mourns for Jerusalem Is Rewarded with Seeing Its Joy,” in the Work?”

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There are all kinds of movements that sell various “holy” attributes under the flag of Kabbalah. Well, how can you sell red threads? If you think they bring good luck, then give them to all of mankind and do not sell them for $20 per string!

Why do you demand payment for each of your movements? What are you leading the world to? What are you saying to the world? About being unselfish, kind, loving? Or do you also demand money for saying this? Are you selling love? I cannot agree with that!

It is also written by the ARI and other Kabbalists that amulets are forbidden in Kabbalah. They have always been attributed to Kabbalah because it was hidden.

And today, in the 21^st century, selling these things under the name of Kabbalah is such a horrific profanity, that it cannot be worse! This is not just mysticism, as they say about Kabbalah, but the very opposite of it!

The very first thing Abraham did at the beginning of his spiritual journey was to break all the amulets and gods that he made himself and sold for money. Only after that he went the correct way and became a Kabbalist.

There is nothing more contrary to Kabbalah than “holy” attributes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Anti-Kabbalah” 8/20/11

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Question: When you touch objects, do you get additional information directly from the contact? You said that when you enter the sea you receive information.

Answer: This is not information, these are sensations. These are feelings that cannot be described. They are not even related to Kabbalah.

Suppose a person living in the forest feels that something is happening there. I have met such people. They are completely different. They also talk about nature in a completely different way.

Question: Does this mean that the physical perception of some phenomena never helps you?

Answer: No, I try not to be in physical perception at all. What for? I exist in it because I have to live, teach, and explain. I have a mission. Actually every person has it. I seem to have found my mission, and I am trying to realize it.

On the other hand, a Kabbalist is limited by certain borders. He does not hang out with people at various gatherings and participate with them in all kinds of events. He does not care and does not need it. Why should I explore anything in this world when the whole point is to raise it higher?

And there is no one to talk about what I am researching except for the specialists who are next to me who also strive for this, that is, my students. When I give a lesson, explain, and they ask, these are the best hours of my life. We get included in the general system together, we climb some steps together, and I raise them.

By asking a question, they push me to new explanations and new research. And the solution comes at this very moment. All this is a wonderful symphony, the harmony of feelings, desires, thoughts, analysis, and synthesis of the entire universe!

Besides that, what else is there? What exists in our world is just an automatically operated machine. Therefore, it makes no sense to solve anything in it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Feeling That Can’t Be Described” 8/20/11

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