Audio Version Of The Blog – 1/31/25
Posted on January 31st, 2025
Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3Audio
Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3Audio
Question: It is said the people of Israel are obliged to prepare themselves and all the people of the world for spirituality by studying the Torah and commandments.
I feel that we are intermediaries between the whole world and the Creator. How can we make our work better?
Answer: Every day we need to extract strength, a more precise direction, and a clearer goal from the material we read so we do not make mistakes and constantly feel that we are correcting our advancement from yesterday to tomorrow.
Question: We are constantly raising prayers, but so does the whole world. How do these prayers connect? Or do we gather together, and the whole world joins us later?
Answer: No, prayers are integrated into each other and uplift the mood. Only our unity helps all the nations of the world. We, as intermediaries, bring down MAD (Mei Dhurin) to the nations of the world.
[339909]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”
Related Material:
The Chosen People
The Assignment Given By The Creator
Working With The World As A Guarantee Of Spiritual Advancement
Comment: You once said that man’s purpose on Earth is not just development, but spiritual development.
My Response: Yes, man’s purpose is to ascend to the next level of existence, to enter a new matrix, a new dimension.
Question: Has humanity lost its way? Or was this all intentional?
Answer: Of course it was intentional in order to give us the opportunity to make this ascent independently.
By making an independent ascent from our world to the upper world while still living in this world and in this body, we begin to attain who the Creator is, His level, and we become equal to Him. We come to understand what He has done and why He created our world from the upper world in this specific way. Through this process, we know Him.
The Creator made a complete picture, then disassembled and broke it, and now I must put it back together. By assembling this picture, I start to understand what these pieces are, how they fit together, why they are made this way, and why He, having created the picture, broke it specifically for me. In doing so, I attain His mind and His intentions toward me.
As a result, I become similar to Him.
[339843]
From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Purpose of Man” 4/19/10
Related Material:
The Destiny Of Humanity
What Is A Person’s Purpose?
How To Fulfill Your Mission
Question: Israel is responsible for uniting the world. What kind of unity is it? How can it be presented and explained to the whole world?
Answer: We must feel that all our friends in the world exist in one desire where everyone unites in it and are drawn to the center of their tens, and through them to the center of the world Kli.
Question: So when we say we are responsible for the whole world, we mean the world Kli and not the whole world, all people?
Answer: Of course.
[339906]
From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]”
Related Material:
We Must Learn to Unite
Unity Is as Strong as Steel
Great Responsibility
Question: Let’s talk a little about what happened this year. There have been many events, we need to read and explore all of this. I checked what people searched for the most on the Internet: the Olympic Games in Paris, elections in different countries, and the most was Donald Trump’s victory. This greatly interested the world. I’ll share other things that were highly viewed.
There were millions, almost billions, of views for the pygmy hippo Mu Deng born in Thailand. She bathes, she smiles, and people just keep watching, watching, watching.
There was the confrontation between two rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake. They lived peacefully creating their rap music until suddenly they started fighting, hating each other, insulting one another, pouring it all into their songs. And people are following this fight.
The successes of SpaceX—the space company; it seems people still dream of leaving the Earth.
Dubai chocolate is of great interest. There is a milk chocolate with pistachio filling, which got billions of views.
And then there’s natural disasters and much more.
Meanwhile, wars continued here and in Europe.
People are barely interested in scientific discoveries, Nobel laureates, or history.
I would like to ask you: how would you sum up 2024?
Answer: I do not know. It is time to shut it all down.
Question: You mean all of this?
Answer: All of it, really.
Comment: So you have little optimism about…
My Response: It is not that I have no optimism; I just have nothing to base it on. Everything is going downhill.
Question: Why do entertainers, like these rapper conflicts, interest people much more than anything else?
Answer: What else can they do? Where else can they throw themselves?
Question: So there is less empathy for wars, tragedies, suffering?
Answer: Of course.
Question: People are escaping, right?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: So a person does not go where…
Answer: They already have enough pain of their own. Personal troubles overshadow global ones.
Question: Is it possible that through interests in sports and entertainment people might eventually come to understand deeper things? That they will watch all this and gradually begin to ask: “Why am I watching this?”
Answer: They will. All this will lead them to the question of the meaning of life, of everything.
Question: So there is a positive seed in this, right?
Answer: I do not see people being able to evaluate their lives, their mission, and their purpose from a perspective where they would demand the Creator to reveal the full picture of creation to them. Humanity has lost itself.
This, I would say, is my diagnosis. At this point, millions will jump up and shout: “How can this be? What about this, what about that?” Live and you will see that even including this and that, and everything else, in the end, will all turn into one impassable swamp.
Question: Then tell me, if you could somehow guide humanity toward a single topic, and people would listen to you, what topic would you direct them to?
Answer: That is obvious—the meaning of life. I rely on the Creator; I completely believe in Him.
Question: Are you speaking about humanity or yourself right now?
Answer: About humanity.
I completely believe in Him. I completely align myself with Him. And in my understanding, that is how it looks. Give unto the Creator what is the Creator’s and to man what is his after the Creator takes His due.
Comment: I simply rely on Him, that is all.
My Response: Yes.
Question: But that is the right choice, to rely on the Creator?
Answer: I do not see any other option.
[339936]
From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/16/24
Related Material:
Next Year Will Be a Turning Point
Is It Better to Be Kind or Evil?
Man Is Someone Who Is Compassionate
Question: You say that the Creator never changes. Let’s say we are trying to think about someone so that the difficult situation facing the person will change. And it is really changing in the direction we think about.
If the Creator does not change, then how does reality change? For example, a person went to take tests knowing that he had some kind of illness, but it turned out that everything was fine.
Answer: The fact is that human qualities change in which he sees himself and the world around him as different.
There is nothing outside of us! Everything about us can change instantly. Moreover, changes occur either inside or supposedly outside. A Kli is multifaceted.
We simply have not yet encountered serious spiritual actions in our world, nor have we come close to spirituality to see how much it changes our world.
Now nature will slowly accustom us to this with all kinds of cataclysms, sudden changes in us and outside of us, so we will be convinced that there is nothing absolute in the world, everything is relative and depends only on our inner state, because our inner attitude to ourselves and to others actually paints a picture of the world for us. The whole picture of the world is like in a movie; I can order it with my inner change.
In a matter of seconds you can change absolutely everything, like ordering a movie on television, or logging on to the Internet and choosing a picture. It all depends on you because apart from you there is only a flashlight, and you paint the whole picture only with your qualities. It is all in you.
Question: But if I have a certain path, how can I draw another path for myself?
Answer: The path does not matter! It all depends on your attitude toward the path; it paints you a picture of the world. In fact, when you look at the world, you see your attitude toward it, toward the Creator, toward people. It is an attitude, it is not the world itself.
Everything we study: sounds, colors, all kinds of notes, words, images, parts of the world, times, any temporal, spatial, sensory axes along which we act, and the relationships between ourselves and others, all this is inside us. I can change it, own it arbitrarily, build a picture of the world, rearrange this mosaic as I like: countries, sides, perceptions, sensations. Everything is inside me. I can do all this arbitrarily however I wish. If I own it all, there is no problem.
Question: Is this what you do?
Answer: No, I do not do this, I do not need it. You have to be an important person to do that. But why? I am just talking about this possibility. We all need to put together a good picture of the world when the whole world would be like the light, the absolute. It is possible. But we need to put this mosaic together ourselves.
[339881]
From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Picture of the World” 5/26/10
Related Material:
Измени себя и мир изменится
By Changing Ourselves, We Are Changing The World
Switching the Channels of Your Own Perception
Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 65
How Much Are Daily Corporeal Actions Connected to Spirituality?
We need to distinguish between the soul dressed in human form and requiring correction and the body. What we do throughout the day in relation to our surroundings, whether through our body or our animalistic and human desires, does not pertain to the Torah, spiritual progress, or the Creator. People lived before they knew about Torah and Mitzvot. They had partners, children, homes, and the means by which to make a living. None of that relates to spirituality.
Ordinary life disconnected from Kabbalah does not relate to spirituality. It is a bodily, corporeal existence in this world. While such life is not entirely disconnected from the spiritual world, since everything exists as “branches” stemming from spiritual roots, it can be compared to the desire to receive as it manifests in inanimate objects, plants, animals, and humans within this world. In its slow progression, it advances to the end of correction according to the universal timeline of creation.
Related Material:
Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 64
Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 63
Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 62
Preparation to the Lesson
 Video: Play Now | Download |
 Audio: Play Now | Download |
1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah),” Item 28
| Video: Play Now | Download |
Audio: Play Now | Download |
2nd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “The Creator Is the Place”
| Video: Play Now | Download |
Audio: Play Now | Download |
3rd part of the Lesson — The Book of Zohar, “Bo,” “There Was a Day When… Satan Also Came Among Them”
| Video: Play Now | Download |
Audio: Play Now | Download |
Selected Highlights
| Video: Play Now | Download |
Audio: Play Now | Download |
Listen to an Audio Version of the Blog
Download:MP3Audio
Comment: You say that a person should develop in many ways. But as a rule, there is some association or community that builds a framework and walks within that framework all the time.
My Response: That is natural. These include religions, all kinds of spiritual practices, and everyday cultures of humanity. In this way, people create a reliable environment for themselves within which they exist in confidence, and it supports them.
But for a Kabbalist, it is like death. He needs to constantly develop, change, transform his environment, and feel highly unconfident so he would have a need to hold on to the Creator and the group. He has a need to find his support in bestowal and love for the others rather than in the notion “my house is my fortress.”
Question: Does it mean that “we only dream of peace”?
Answer: You bet! And you should not dream of it; it is bad. “We only dream of peace” when I am forced to come out of the state of rest, and not that I am pulled out of it. I exit this state on my own into the raging inner world where I feel completely lost every time, and it is precisely because of this that I am ready to cling even to love for the neighbor.
Question: Does it mean that the step your students are taking is one of the many steps ahead?
Answer: Yes, of course. And the entire humanity will go this way. We are only beginning to shake. Ahead of us are even bigger social and natural disasters. We will have no choice but to look for a true and serious decision.
There will be no escape. It is like an exploded volcano. Imagine that it is really erupting, approaching you, enclosing you, the day becomes night, and this will be for the next couple of years. The temperature drops to the negative 40 to 50 degrees. What can you do here? You can oppose these forces of nature only with the spiritual force. Only! You have nothing else.
[339542]
From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Efficiency of Combined Actions” 4/17/10
Related Material:
We Can Only Dream About Resting
Don’t Resist Change
The World Where “There Is None Else Besides Him”
Daily Audio Version-MP3
Get the Weekly eNewsletter
Follow on Twitter
