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Posted on February 5th, 2025
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We can see how natural cataclysms can worsen our lives in a domino effect. Nature has a lot of such surprises in store. However, this is not the ingenuity of the Creator; rather, it is our delayed development that provokes forces acting negatively upon us.
We must understand that we need to rethink our philosophy of life regarding where such suffering leads us and what it awakens in us. We must not lose ourselves in oblivion. After all, natural disasters remind us how small a human being is, how insignificant our life is, how we all exist on the fragile crust of the Earth beneath which a massive internal volcano rages, and above us, there is just a thin atmosphere, and beyond that cosmic cold.
Where are we really, and what do we exist within? Let’s take a moment to consider whether there is a way out. The problem of humanity is that it does not see a way out and therefore seeks oblivion.
This is why we must disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah as effectively as possible because everything happening to us originates from a specific source and serves a specific purpose. Every event is intentional, pre-calculated by nature, and compels us to act.
Nature as a whole is a single, enclosed system that drives us toward perfection, and we must recognize this. We have the opportunity to attain this perfection, this harmony, with all of nature.
When humanity gains the understanding that everything happening is preordained by nature solely to push us forward and that we have the ability to do so correctly and intelligently, then people will no longer seek oblivion. They will have an alternative. Right now, however, they have none.
In its current state, humanity relies on God, on some supernatural forces: “Whatever will be, will be. In the meantime, I will enjoy myself.” “Let’s party and drink, and after that, the flood.” If there is no other way out, at least we can numb ourselves for today and not think about what will happen tomorrow.
But if you tell a person that tomorrow will be bad and yet there is a way to make it good and that they do not have to sacrifice anything for it, that they do not have to suppress themselves or deceive themselves, but: “Look at how together we can make everything wonderful, good, and joyful”—then humanity will have an alternative. And in that case, it will no longer reject this opportunity.
Everything depends on the dissemination of Kabbalah; this is the only issue. We must spread it as quickly and effectively as possible. Ultimately, it turns out that it is not humanity that is to blame for what is happening but rather those who possess and understand this wisdom.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Panacea”
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Comment: There are people who do nothing but create, write music, sit thoughtfully, and look at nature, and then paint various landscapes.
My Response: Of course! They should exist just like landowners or aristocrats once did who had a guaranteed income.
Question: Does the world need them? The world says: “They are idlers.”
Answer: The world cannot do without them! They give the world precisely right attitude toward life, creation, the Creator, and everything.
They behave correctly. That is, they have time for everything. A creative person should not feel pressure from outside, only from within, if there is any.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/26/20
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Question: In Kabbalah there is listening and watching. You have repeatedly mentioned that in the past the Torah was learned by heart, meaning it was listened to. Is the difference in perception really that significant?
Answer: The point is that when you load yourself with data, you can freely operate with it and act accordingly. Imagine that, like a computer’s memory, you had all spiritual literature embedded within you.
Not just memorized words and phrases but fully integrated in accordance with your own internal program like a computer filled with connections allowing you to extract, explore, and study information as needed.
For example, I recently had a discussion about the nature of envy, and I had to elaborate on the topic for half an hour: what kind of human trait it is, how it drives a person toward a goal, whether it is good or bad, how it manifests in a group, in a family, within oneself and in relation to the Creator, and so on.
Because I have accumulated a significant amount of Kabbalistic material, I never prepare for lessons or recordings. I arrive, hear the topic from the host, and immediately engage in discussion.
This improvisation is even more enjoyable for me than preparing in advance as I experience various new associations in the moment through the setting and the act of speaking itself. This process goes live immediately, and requires a certain mental effort, a bit of nervous, stressful inner realization. And I love that.
This is possible because I have stored the necessary material within me. I can instantly recall what is said about mutual hatred, envy, egoism, vanity, and other qualities that help a person internally structure himself and achieve a goal.
It is said that envy, hatred, power, vanity, and similar traits drive a person toward their purpose. These qualities exist within us for a reason; they are meant to help us achieve something great when used correctly, not to suppress others, but to learn from them and continually rise higher and higher.
I operate with this knowledge immediately. But if, at that moment, I had to start reading and searching through books like some philosopher, that would not be what Kabbalah demands from a person in their spiritual advancement. In other words, this knowledge, these informational records must be within us.
I am speaking about a Kabbalist-scholar and not about someone who simply moves forward internally. Such a person does not need this; they only need connection with others in order to restore the structure of the collective soul. There, they will perceive their own inner spiritual world and their eternal movement.
Question: So does that mean one does not need to memorize material?
Answer: No, people do not need anything at all except to correct the division between themselves that occurred during our creation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Listen or watch” 5/25/10
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Where did science, art, music, and painting come from? From people who never had to do anything, the aristocrats.
They did not have to work. They met, rode, traveled, and talked, had balls, all kinds of music, and so on. From this came science, art, and everything except earthly labor.
Therefore, if we want people to have the right attitude toward human spiritual pursuits—earthly spiritual ones, I mean, then we must give them time for these, provide for them, and ensure they do not work 15 hours a day like poor computer scientists and others do now.
On the contrary, they should have free time to go on walks, have conversations, rest, discuss, travel, and do things like that so that we could be like the aristocrats once were.
We do not have to be aristocrats to have millions behind us, but we need to feel secure in life and not be lazy, but not to work. Only in such a setting can notable works of art, literature, and music be created.
This should be a person’s attitude toward the world. Otherwise, nothing good comes of it. Look at what is happening in our time.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/26/24
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Question: Is it possible to live without plans?
Answer: It is possible to live without plans if you throw your plans aside and accept the plans of the next, higher level.
Question: What plans are these? What plan do I live by then?
Answer: You live by the plan of the upper nature, the Creator. This means that all you can imagine is that you want only one thing—to be in close contact with Him.
You only want to achieve this, and what will happen is unimportant. The main thing is that you want only these plans to come true inside you.
Question: Do you not even find out what the Creator’s plans are? Do you just surrender completely?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Can a person live that way at all?
Answer: Are you going to check His plans?
Comment: I really cannot. But still, even to pronounce it may be scary for someone. What if He has such plans that…
My Response: Whatever they are, these are already the plans of the upper one.
Question: So here is my complete annulment before the upper one?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24
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Question: If such a request, a prayer, to the Creator, truly arises, what will happen? Will He respond?
Answer: The Creator is already responding; we just don’t understand His answers.
He tells us that if we follow the right path, that is, if we abandon our egoistic goals, then we will elevate ourselves to the next level of development.
There we will be completely different. First of all, we will no longer be immersed in ourselves, in our egoism. We will strive to create a reality where everyone is equal. And beyond that, the most important thing for us will be to feel the necessity of holding on to each other, of staying together. This is what the Creator wants to bring us to.
Question: Are you talking about all of humanity? About relationships between people, between countries, between everything? Is this our next degree?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Why don’t we want to move toward it? It sounds very appealing, considering the state of our reality.
Answer: “Do I have to think about others? I can’t, and I don’t want to.” That is what every person feels.
Question: And the Creator will give us this ability if we turn to Him?
Answer: Yes.
Question: But do I have to truly desire this next stage?
Answer: I have to reach the realization that I must desire it.
Comment: It seems like this desire can only come from something very bad.
My Response: Gradually, that is exactly what we are descending into.
Question: So we will be brought to something very bad, to the point where we finally ask: “Give us the ability to be together”?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24
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There is a distinction between someone who lives an ordinary life and someone who, in addition, seeks to progress spiritually. The difference is that a person with a desire to spiritually progress has “spies,” doubts, and must turn to the Creator for help. Such a person feels a lack of contentment in their life because the point in the heart within them demands fulfillment, a fulfillment that can only come about through feeling the Creator and experiencing the light.
Turning to the Creator for help is a unique feeling that draws us to study the wisdom of Kabbalah. Then, we encounter “spies” that give us no rest. They constantly awaken doubts about the spiritual path and make us question why we are on this path with questions such as: “Why is what we already have in our lives not enough?” and “What are we looking for that is so special through this path?”
The spies are the reasons and the vessels through which we progress. They seem like negative forces acting on us, but they are actually messengers of the Creator with a purpose of calibrating us to enter the Land of Israel in a more precise manner.
Why did the Creator design this entire process for us? It is because observing the commandments alone is not enough to achieve what is contained in the Torah. We need to acquire an additional desire, the desire for adhesion with Him. That is the ultimate goal. Moreover, the desire to adhere with the Creator becomes necessary only after we see that there is no other way to find resolve or fulfillment.
Therefore, the myriad disappointments and challenges brought about by the spies repeatedly frustrate us and makes us despair of achieving our goal through our own efforts. Gradually, a feeling, a readiness, and an understanding grow in our heart that without the Creator’s help, we will never achieve our goal. It is like children who desperately want something, but eventually recognize their helplessness and understand that obtaining what they desire depends on their mother or father, that only their mother or father can help them get what they want. Similarly, we gradually come to recognize our need for turning to the Creator.
It is written about human desires and human nature being completely opposite to the Creator that “the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” Therefore, without a sincere need, we would never turn to the Creator. It is thus through disappointments that we acquire the desire to turn to the Creator and, in doing so, attain adhesion with Him. We then see that all the paths that the Creator paved for us—the spies, disappointments, previous fulfillments, and the many levels—were solely meant for bringing us to the point of needing the Creator.
Our “I,” the will to receive, was created ex nihilo, opposite the Creator’s nature. The more we transform our will to receive into a will to bestow through an intention to bestow, the closer we come to the Creator until we adhere to Him through equivalence of form.
Thus, the correction is not in the desire itself. Since it is our nature, we cannot change our desire. We can only correct the desire’s modus operandi and the purpose of its use. If the use of the desire is aimed at adhering to the Creator and attaining equivalence of form with Him, then we start gaining proximity with Him. The closer we draw to the Creator, the more we become filled with the upper light, and thereby reach eternity and perfection.
We can only prepare our vessels, and then the abundance in Yud-Hey (of the name HaVaYaH) in Hochma and Bina fills us. How does this happen? Keter, as the root level, is the thought of creation “to benefit His created beings,” from which the light descends. Hochma and Bina, referred to as Abba ve Ima, prepare the light. This is the upper system, the upper light, i.e., the source of the entire plan of creation.
Zeir Anpin and Malchut, or ZA and Nukva (ZON), are the lower levels, the “sons,” our good deeds. To the extent that the lower levels align with the upper ones, i.e., to the extent that Zeir Anpin and Malchut align with Hochma and Bina, they become filled with the unlimited abundance that exists there. Then they reach the purpose of creation.
This is what Baal HaSulam writes in his “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot,” that the answer to the sense of emptiness that urges us to start asking about the meaning of our lives is “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” This is the upper light, which must fill the vessels—the soul of the created being.
Ultimately, Zeir Anpin must resemble Hochma, and Malchut must resemble Bina, as it is written: “MA will become AB, and BON will become SAG.” This is the condition to reach the end of correction.
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