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Posted on April 9th, 2025

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Degrees Of Attainment

Posted on April 9th, 2025

Question: Rabash and Baal HaSulam were great Kabbalists who reached high levels of attainment. If a person advances along the spiritual degrees, does he also reach their level or are they completely different souls?

Answer: I have not reached it yet.

Question: But can any person do this?

Answer: Of course, he can rise even higher to complete correction. I do not know who is at which degree, but everyone must reach the final correction (Gmar Tikkun).

Rabash and Baal HaSulam were certainly great. I just haven’t attained their height yet and therefore can’t say how great they are. In our world, a small person looking at a tall one can say: he is one meter eighty centimetres or two meters tall.

But in the spiritual world, you only perceive the degree that is directly above you and no more. You can’t feel beyond that. You can’t measure and say, “He reached this or that level in the spiritual worlds.” How would you know those worlds? You don’t know anything.

In our world, too, we don’t realize how limited we are. We think we grasp a lot. But each person grasps only what they’re able to grasp and thus forms a picture of this small world based on their sensations, understanding, and maybe just a bit beyond themselves: “If I were a bit more developed, what would I then feel?” In truth, we only feel to the extent we are capable of feeling.

Question: But did Rabash complete the correction of his soul?

Answer: Most likely. I don’t know. I have not reached this level, so I can’t say anything.

Question: But you still hope to reach it too?

Answer: I hope so. But I speak only about what I truly see and feel.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Levels of Attainment” 7/6/10

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The Mirror in Which Only I Am Reflected

Posted on April 9th, 2025

Question: Nowadays we live in a time when a person stops sensing other people. Sociologists and scholars write about this. I don’t see the other, I don’t want to see, I don’t want to feel. What kind of time is this?

Answer: If I don’t feel the other, truly the other, outside of myself, don’t feel myself within them, then I don’t feel the world at all.

Question: So, I must always see myself through someone else?

Answer: Through someone else, yes.

Question: And the fact that we now see ourselves as so ugly, why is that?

Answer: Because we shut ourselves off, close ourselves in, limit ourselves, and don’t want to see anyone except ourselves. That is my world.

Question: So if I don’t let anyone in and I don’t enter anywhere myself, am I ugly? Is that my world—an egoistic one: here I am, alone?

Answer: I see myself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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Better Had We Not Invented It

Posted on April 9th, 2025

Question: Why does humanity keep inventing more and more?

Answer: It wants to achieve a serene, good life. But in the end, the opposite happens.

Comment: It is interesting that nuclear energy is used for peaceful purposes, and at the same time, it can sweep everything away.

My Response: Yes. Man cannot invent anything truly good or kind.

Question: What invention would you call eternal and useful for humanity that could ultimately lead it to happiness?

Answer: The correction of the evil nature of a man—only that. There is nothing else.

Comment: But man must first realize he is living with an evil nature.

My Response: That is what drives him to ultimately realize it. The world is in such a state that it does not know what to do with itself.

In the past, we thought that socialism, communism, capitalism, or something else would save us. Some kind of freedom, liberalism, and so on. Now we see that everything quickly leads to the realization of evil.

Comment: You once said that the development of humanity proceeded as a linear development of egoism. That things would get better, and then communism would follow. Now you claim that egoism has sort of closed in, that we have become interconnected like one village, yet the same research continues, and humanity does not come to the realization of the evil of its nature.

My Response: Do you want them to shut it all down?

I think we will come to a state where humanity will say, “It would have been better had we not invented this.” Can this already be said about the atom today? And it will say the same about everything else.

It is written: “He who increases knowledge increases sorrow.” (Ecclesiastes 1:18) Or “He who increases wealth, increases suffering.”

Question: Do you think this proverb is still relevant today?

Answer: And how much more so!

Question: Can we stop increasing knowledge?

Answer: We cannot. We can stop increasing neither wealth nor knowledge. Egoism will constantly push us toward it.

The goal is to lead us to the realization of evil. That evil is in our nature when we believe that the world we live in is the one we need to improve. But it cannot be improved—we need to rise above it.

Question: That is, to change ourselves?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will we come to this realization during our lifetime?

Answer: You are already setting limitations.

Comment: Yes, I would still like to see the righteousness of your words.

My Response: I do not believe it.

Question: You do not believe it?

Answer: No, I do not believe that it will happen so quickly.

But personally, it does not bother me. What difference does it make when it happens? In whatever state we will be, it will eventually happen to all of us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/2/25

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 101

Posted on April 9th, 2025

Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 101

Chapter 10 Movement and Rest

Effort takes place when we feel an ascent and we utilize it to the fullest extent to intensify the sensation, to increase awareness, and to deepen our understanding of spirituality. This is how we strengthen our grasp on spirituality through using all available means. When we are given even the slightest opportunity from above, we need to exert our own effort.

During a descent, it is difficult to make an effort, and during an ascent, we do not exert effort by our own strength. Instead, we are given an ascent, and so we receive an awakening. If we are not given an ascent, then we do not receive an awakening. So what do we contribute from ourselves? It is not about the amount of effort, but the opportunities available to us. When we are in a state of ascent, we have the opportunity to cling tightly and hold onto spiritual discernments with all of our might, to penetrate them and recognize them more deeply. We need to immerse ourselves in these discernments as much as possible so that even if a descent takes place, even though we strive never to have one, we will carry Reshimot (spiritual records, impressions) with us and an understanding that is already at a different level than before.

In other words, a window is opened for us, and the extent to which we delve into it depends on us. Therefore, all the work takes place during the ascent. During a descent, sometimes we must simply sink, “lie on the ocean floor” and wait, just as one simply waits in a submarine when something unclear happens.

Confusion usually arises when we transition from one degree to another. During this transition, we lose the understanding we had on the previous level, but we have not yet acquired a new understanding from the next level. This is why we feel confused and have no idea what is happening to us.

In such situations, there is nothing to do but restrain ourselves. When a real descent takes place, we need to protect ourselves as much as possible by remaining within the framework on the still level. But during an ascent, we must increase our own effort and really step on the gas.

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