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Posted on June 12th, 2025
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Question: The God that many people think of, does He exist?
Answer: He does not exist.
Comment: But there is a God, as you say, who is called…
My Response: The Creator, the upper force.
Question: And what is that really?
Answer: It is the supreme force of nature, which includes all of nature. The Creator Himself is God. Nature itself is God. Not the nature of our world, but the general one, which we can already begin to reveal to the point that we can unite with it, with this nature. We can even govern it. The Creator wants us to be at such a level in order to become partners with Him.
Question: And when you say the word “nature,” what do you mean by that?
Answer: I mean all the worlds. Of course, our world does not even count. All the worlds, including five worlds in total, which are all included in and governed by one single force, one single law, this law of unity is the Creator.
Comment: I see, but this is quite elevated.
My Response: Not really if we are talking more or less about some kind of approximation to the truth. And that is why, naturally, I seem…
Comment: Like an atheist, a non-believer God, and so on.
My Response: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/9/25
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Question: Can you tell people whether there is a God or not?
Answer: There is a single force of all nature in all the worlds including our imaginary world. It is called Olam Amedume—the imaginary world. So the highest power that includes absolutely everything, of course, us too, is called the Creator.
Question: And how should we interact with Him, with this nature, as you say, with the Creator?
Answer: This is what Kabbalah teaches. You have definitely come out on a direct line: “How am I supposed to address the Creator? What should I do? How do I find Him? How do you regulate your state relative to Him? And anyway, what should I do with my life? How do I live? What if I get something for it?”
And here we need to understand what the Creator is. So what does Kabbalah do? It tells you how to behave so that you do not feel bad.
And why do you pray? It is about actually feeling the remote control of the world and really starting to control your destiny. It is given to man. And the upper force that we know, the Creator, wants us to come to this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/12/25
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We must strive through our own efforts to reach a state in which we constantly guard our connection with the Creator and try to stay connected with each other and with Him, without losing sight of what is happening in every cell of our animal and spiritual body, both inside and outside the collective Kli (vessel)—our group.
All of this happens solely according to His will, intention, and influence. But we desire to be in constant intention and constant appeal to Him. In this way, we are joyful about any changes, any fluctuations, that occur within us because they give us the opportunity to feel that we exist somewhere and that we are doing something.
After all, if there were no such movement, we would not feel any changes. Without feeling disturbances, we would not feel life or its inner motion. That is why we rejoice in all kinds of disturbances, no matter what they are! They compel us to concentrate even more together in mutual support because only in this way can we understand how to position ourselves before the Creator in order to form a pair with Him: He and us.
Therefore we begin to feel our life not in the achievement of closeness with the Creator, but in the very movement toward Him, which becomes the most important, joyful, and fulfilling thing for us. In other words, the goal is not to reach similarity and adhesion with Him, but rather to strive toward it because it is precisely in this striving that we experience the movement of spiritual life.
It is similar to any form of creativity; when a person creates, he lives. The process itself gives a sense of life because it is motion; it is the revelation of new problems, new desires, and their solutions. That is why we act this way.
Every day and every moment we need to rejoice in the efforts that we can make for the sake of advancement on the path of Achishena toward the Creator.
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From Lesson #1, Convention in St. Petersburg, 7/29/2016
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Everything comes from above, from the Creator. A person is not responsible for oneself, not for what happens to him nor for his reaction to what happens. So how can he determine his actions or his future?
In the spiritual world, everything is determined solely by the environment. A man has nothing of his own; either he receives something from the Creator for himself, or he receives something from the group for himself; all this goes to the Creator, and he himself is merely a small gear in a vast mechanism.
Everything passes through him from the Creator to the others, and likewise, through him from the others to the Creator. And what about him? His work is to make himself the correct kind of gear.
The correct inclusion in the group and in the Creator turns us into a gear, but one that is completely connected with the Creator in full adhesion with Him.
If I am the only flawed element in the world, then everything depends on me. The state of the Creator and the state of all of creation depends on me because I am included in everything.
Therefore a man must look: what more can I do to be precisely aimed at “There is none else besides Him” and “The good who does good”? He must feel responsible for the entire world. It does not matter what is actually happening in the world. He must feel that it is all a result of an incorrect connection between the Creator and the world through him.
This is implemented within the group. When a person completely submits to the group and does what it demands of him, then he aligns all of creation with the Creator.
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From the Convention in St. Petersburg 7/29/2016, Lesson 1
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How Can We Direct Desires?
We cannot direct our desires except by examining whether a particular desire is beneficial toward our goal. If we have no goal beyond simply fulfilling the desire, then we are like animals: when commanded to crave grass, they eat grass; when commanded to rest, they lie down; they drink water according to command, and so on. In this animalistic state, we merely carry out whatever desire arises within us, period. We possess no other inner program aside from instinctively executing desires. Thus, we are called “inanimate,” “vegetative,” or “animate.” In the “speaking” or “human” degree, we have a goal, an additional program that connects us to our “host” through the processes happening within.
RABASH explains that there is something called “the sustenance of existence,” which exists in the inanimate, vegetative, and animate. It concerns how each being lives: how it has a will to receive, how it sustains itself, and what it desires for its own survival. But beyond this, there is a purpose: to bring this existence to a special state. The wisdom of Kabbalah does not deal with the sustenance of existence, with how everyone was given a desire and how we maintain ourselves like animals. It deals solely with the ways to reach the purpose, the additional inner program implanted within creation.
Thus, two programs were instilled within us, which create a split personality. We do not know which program to follow that will be better for us. The first program demands we protect our animalistic self, while the second demands we reach the goal. Then, we bounce between desires: we want money, then we want honor, then we want honor again, then we want the Creator, then we want the Creator again, then we want the purpose, and we scrutinize whether to act or not to act, constantly moving between a blend of drives. This is all because we possess two programs. As Kabbalah explains: when there is a host and there is also food on the table, the two contradict each other.
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Preparation to the Lesson
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #6 “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?” (10.2.21)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 17, 18 (5.16, 28.2006)
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3rd part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer”
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4th part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” “Who Created These of Elijah”
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