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Question: You said that until now all your students have not developed as a group. Then how did they develop? What kind of process was it?
Answer: If we take the history of humanity as a basis, then from Adam to Abraham there were twenty generations, so-called “ten plus ten Sefirot,” which constitutes the growth of egoism.
Following, in the state of “Babylon,” in the time of King Nimrod, who is a prototype of Pharaoh, there was an enormous, explosive growth of egoism.
After that, a person “fled” from this egoism with the help of a point within him called “Abraham,” and took along a small portion of desires toward the land of Israel (“Israel” – Yashar El, meaning “straight to the Creator”), with which he supposedly wants and is able to exit his ego.
Then these desires also begin to grow more and more, and within them an entire “Egypt” appears, the foundation of all of egoism.
That is, within desires that had already developed to the egoistic level of “Babylon” and with which a person first approached spirituality, egoism appears again. You purify it to the level of striving toward the Creator, work on it, and then the ego appears again within you. You purify it again and direct it toward the Creator, and then it appears once more, but at a higher “resolution,” and so on.
Thus, from the initial aspiration toward the Creator, called “Adam,” to Abraham, there were twenty generations, that is, twenty degrees, on which you constantly strive toward the Creator and must continuously choose: extract this aspiration and discard everything else as husk.
From Abraham onward begins a new stage of selection, a more refined sorting of the aspiration toward the Creator. A person leaves the entire vast “Babylon” of his desires and escapes with a small portion of desires that he selected from the quality of Adam through those twenty so-called generations, i.e., degrees.
Now, when he is in this state of selection, of subtle sorting, that leads to clarification of what it means to “strive toward the Creator,” he discovers that all of this turns into a huge egoistic desire called “Egypt.” Egypt (Mitzrayim) in Hebrew means “concentration of evil” (Mitz Ra).
A person enters these desires, develops within them, and tries to separate Pharaoh, who represents the foundation of his egoistic desires, from the “Jews” in Egypt: Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and Jacob. He tries to determine which of these desires truly represents a pure aspiration toward the Creator, and realizes that it is not a single desire, but only their combination.
When he selects their correct combination, leaving everything else in Egypt, he sees that he cannot simply separate from them, he must do so through an “escape” (a special inner action), internally detaching and fleeing with these desires. It is with these desires that he strives toward the Creator, toward the quality of bestowal, toward spirituality. This inner state is called the “Egyptian night.”
A person undergoes immense sensations of crossing the Final Sea (Red Sea), symbolizing the final egoism that separates him from the Creator.
Then he comes to the next stage called “Mount Sinai,” where all the qualities with which he fled Egypt undergo numerous processes of purification, like gold that is refined through heating, melting, treatment with acid, and filtering, removing all impurities until pure gold remains and everything else is cast aside.
Each time he approaches the next stage of purification, he sees that everything previous, which had seemed 100% pure, turns out to be almost completely impure and unfit for further use.
That is, each previous degree, although completely pure at its completion, appears entirely impure when viewed from the next higher degree because the resolution of his analysis has increased. This is how he gradually ascends from degree to degree.
Ascending Mount Sinai means that a person reveals within himself absolute hatred toward everything: the Creator, himself, and others. This terrible state leads him to the decision that he must make a radical change: completely nullify himself and accept the upper governance without any calculations, doubts, or personal desires.
In other words, he becomes ready to detach from all his current egoistic desires, thoughts, and abilities, and not use them anymore, and to use only those qualities that he will receive from above, from the Creator.
Why “from above”? Because he considers them higher than himself. In reality, they do not come from anywhere, it is simply how he evaluates them. In his system of values, they are now higher. This readiness is called “standing at Mount Sinai.”
What condition of the next stage does he now feel within himself? It is the condition of unconditional, unquestionable unification between all parts of creation so that they merge within him into one single whole. Indeed, that is how it truly is; the Creator created one unified desire. The moment a person reaches the point where he can first form this unified desire within himself is called his entry into the spiritual path.
Everything before that was only preparation, not to mention the state before Adam when a person existed like an animal. Then comes the preparation for spirituality: from Adam to Abraham (to Babylon), from Abraham to Moses (to Egypt), from Egypt to Mount Sinai, all of this is preparation.
Such preparation takes many years. In the past it took 20 to 30 years. In our time, it is shorter, perhaps 7 to 10 years. But still, these are years. They continue to shorten, because the masses are moving forward, and purification is taking place within the collective soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Rise Up the Stairs” 9/27/10
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Question: You say that only from unity, from connection, can anything of real value come. People ask you: “What is unity? What is connection?” You seem to explain it, but you do not answer the question directly.
Answer: How is that? I answer directly! I perceive unity clearly; I am in it right now! From this state, the closest one to you, I explain what it means.
But there is a difference between the very first, the lowest state of connection, of mutual guarantee, and the one in which you are.
If I cross this barrier toward you, then I will be like you and will not be able to explain anything. I descend from the degree I am on to the very lowest spiritual degree, and from it, I try to explain to you, who are still lower, what this lowest spiritual degree is. I cannot descend any lower.
Question: What must happen for us to hear you?
Answer: You must generate a profound desire to experience unity.
Question: You speak about mutual guarantee, the power of unity, connection, and all this is, in principle, seems to circle around the same thing, perhaps with slightly different nuances. Recently, you said something concrete: “Think in this specific way and act in that particular way.” That resonates more clearly with people. But will this really work in practice? These things like: smile at each other and treat each other with kindness?
Answer: It depends entirely on your implementation and on nothing else, absolutely nothing else!
You must want it! You must want it a little bit more. And this “wanting it a little bit more” can be achieved through mutual assistance. It is precisely within that small added increment, within the mutual help that you can give each other, that you will attain the shared sensation of mutual guarantee in which the Creator will be revealed.
I explain everything in terms that are absolutely accessible! All that is required is to actually do it. At the very least to start, but I do not see any starting taking place.
Question: So how does one go about starting?
Answer: You need to map out all these actions in writing.
How is any business enterprise built? It begins with general plans and discussions, followed by more concrete details. Then come the development phases, various forms of research, an analysis of the dependencies involved, and so on. But the crucial step to is commence the serious work.
Question: Suppose everyone gathers together and, as it often happens at conventions, feels an intense collective desire for this to happen, will it actually happen?
Answer: Yes, it can happen at a convention, but it is a temporary state, a fleeting desire. Consequently what you will experience is a temporary sensation, a momentary illumination or revelation, rather than a permanent one.
To attain something permanent, you must engage in work, you must cultivate a constant desire within yourself, an aspiration that continuously accumulates. It builds up steadily until it becomes palpable, firm, and deeply ingrained within your very being.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Useless and Worthless People in the Group” 9/26/10
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Question: There is confusion between what is called love and our sensations. You said that you relate to your students with love, but this is not always what we feel.
Answer: When you have children, I am sure you will love them, but I am also sure that sometimes they will receive punishment from you. Tell me, how is that possible?
You always relate to a person with love, but your momentary attitude toward them is determined by what they do compared to what they should do. Then, despite loving them, you may strike them as if you hate them.
Do you really hate them? You hate their external form that does not correspond to the level they should be at. You hate their lack of correction, not them. In order to pull them out of it, you punish them precisely to the extent necessary for them to free themselves from that deficiency.
The punishment lies in revealing suffering in them, which shows them that they must extract this deficiency themselves. The suffering they feel becomes their salvation, their fuel, a precise indication of what they must now uproot from within them.
If you do not do this correctly, they will not understand why you punish them or what you want from them. Then they begin to hate you. But if the punishment is directed precisely against the evil within them and they understand that through this punishment they can free themselves from it, uproot it, cut it off, and discard it, they will be grateful to you. But this is the ideal case.
This is how we come to understand the Creator’s attitude toward us. He causes us harm, creates negative qualities within us, and then punishes us, but in a targeted way, so that we rid ourselves of those negative qualities.
You may ask: what is the benefit of this? The Creator appears harsh, He punishes, points to where the evil is, and this punishment ultimately frees us from it. And who am I in all this? The one who is present, with whom all these events occur? Why do I need this?
It is so that I change my attitude toward this process. In this way, I study the actions of the Creator, who created the evil and now assigns punishment against it. That is, He shows me His attitude toward evil and thereby brings me to the side of good. Thus, I acquire His mind.
Can I learn this without punishment? Only if I try to look at this entire process happening within me in the same way that He does.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”
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Question: What would we see if we lived just a single day? Besides this transition, what else should we see? If I am living solely in the moment?
Answer: You want to drink it in, to gulp it down until you are gasping for breath! You want to experience it from beginning to end, to draw everything in between, to draw it all into yourself!
Question: What does it mean to live this moment correctly?
Answer: To live it correctly means to attain it. Life is but a moment. Who is in control of it?
Question: Is that what we need to attain?
Answer: Yes. And furthermore, for what purpose was this moment given to me? What was I supposed to do What did I fail to do? And perhaps, do I still have the opportunity to do it?
Question: Are you talking about a constant work within this moment?
Answer: Yes, within that moment, that single moment.
Question: Then will there be another moment, and I will ask the same questions and move in the same way?
Answer: I do not know if there will be another moment. That remains unknown.
Question: Exactly! So, this is how I should be living this moment?
Answer: Yes.
Question: But people do not live this way, right?
Answer: People do not live this way, but they should!
Question: Should they? Will we be taught how to live like this?
Answer: No, I think that capacity is already built into us from the start. That is just the nature of human beings.
Comment: So are we controlled in such a way that this internal mechanism, our intellect and all these ongoing probing questions, is switched off and we just go on living like that.
My Response: The Creator made it this way on purpose.
Question: Why did He do that?
Answer: So that not too much would be demanded of us.
Question: Otherwise, He would demand it?
Answer: Of course!
Comment: Meaning: “What do you live for? What do you live each moment for? Who governs the world?” And so on, and so on.
My Response: Yes. If He had placed His own mind, the beginning, the end, all actions, and so on, into the creation, and we required to provide an answer to all this…
Question: So what is it that a person should understand? Let’s focus on the person.
Answer: A person must understand that there is a mystery in life that he must constantly strive to reveal. Not that someone else uncovered it long ago and now he can read and know about it; rather, he must dig deep within himself, within life, and within the Creator, and search for it himself.
Question: Is this what you call a person’s real life?
Answer: This is life.
Question: What will he ultimately reach if he proceeds this way, if he takes these steps?
Answer: I do not know. Each one reaches something unique to themselves. Everyone has a completely precise, personal task in life!
Question: Is a person destined to arrive at this mission, at this root of one’s being, one way or another?
Answer: A person is nudged toward it, but I do not know whether he is going there. No one knows. Only the Creator. And even that may not be known in advance.
Question: So absolutely everything depends on the Creator—whether I move or not, everything?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Should I turn to the Creator and ask: “Reveal my path to me”? Or is that useless?
Answer: Try to ask.
Question: Should my prayer be to live life correctly, in a good way?
Answer: It should.
Question: What would you say to a person now?
Answer: You should live in such a way that in every moment you are trying to uncover the mystery of life.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/18/26
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Question: You always say that we must turn our descents into constant ascents. Is this merely a mental attitude or is it something more? What is the difference between a descent and an ascent?
Answer: It lies in your attitude toward them.
Comment: Suppose a person feels bad, but he understands that, thanks to this, he will connect with spirituality on a psychological level.
My Response: No, that is religion: “I will suffer, and then I will receive a reward.” There is no such thing in Kabbalah. The Creator does not want you to suffer. Since He is in an absolutely perfect state, He wants you to attain this state as well.
Comment: But people say that if you feel bad now, it means you are in a state of ascent.
My Response: Absolutely not! This is simply foolish and incorrect!
An ascent is when I evaluate my state, whatever it may be, solely according to whether or not it brings me closer to the Creator. A descent is when I am unable to evaluate my state on terms of its proximity to the Creator, but instead I evaluate it by how I feel.
Comment: So in any case, regardless of the sensation…
My Response: What importance does the sensation have! If a sensation dictates my attitude toward my current state, this is called a descent. But if my connection with the Creator dictates my attitude toward my state, this is called an ascent.
Question: How do I transform what my “flesh,” my physical sensation, dictates?
Answer: Here lies the little problem: how to rise above yourself.
Comment: But surely I can do this psychologically.
My Response: You cannot do anything on your own. You can say whatever you want, go through all sorts of training exercises, but in doing so, you do not actually change yourself; you are merely training yourself. You can accustom yourself to pain, do whatever you like, it will give you nothing.
There is a vast array of techniques, but none of them alter human nature. A person cannot reach a demand to the Creator that would actually transform him.
Question: How can one use a descent as a means of ascent?
Answer: You must undergo a transformation that you receive the force of bestowal from above, the quality of Bina; this alone can effect this change within you.
Comment: All this seems conceptually clear: the light acts on you and everything falls in place.
My Response: You will understand nothing until it takes place within you, within you!
Such is this wisdom, because it speaks of transformations that must occur inside of you. If you have not experienced them, you will not understand what it is. You may construe a purely intellectual image in your mind, but it will bear any resemblance to what actual reality will be.
It is like trying to explain the concept of a human being to a dog. It may gaze at you with utter devotion as if it is with you with all its soul and heart, but with its dog’s soul, it will not understand you.
Therefore, all sorts of psychological changes are nonsense. You can find a multitude of techniques, throughout the world, but you will not find one that alters human nature. This is a truth that cannot be explained to yogis or to anyone else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Use the Descent” 9/26/10
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Question: Why must a Kabbalist necessarily be married? What is the basis for this?
Answer: A home, a wife, children, and responsibilities are essential so that one may make efforts in our world akin to the spiritual level of the inanimate (Domem).
When you correctly manage all this on the earthly level, understanding that this is necessary for achieve resemblance to the spiritual, this too becomes a condition four your spiritual advancement, and all your efforts are taken into account.
Question: How did this work in your case? You spent practically all your time with your teacher. You didn’t seem to place such a strong emphasis on family.
Answer: Regardless, my family was constantly beside me. So much so that my children also became connected with my movement toward spirituality. They take an active part in it. And no one forces them.
Question: But your wife surely must have thrown tantrums from time to time?
Answer: Never! I cannot even imagine what tantrums she could possible make. I provide the home and the family with everything necessary, and I ensure that the family lacks nothing. I make sure there is always food on the table, clothes to wear, all the basic necessities in the house; that is, I provide a normal standard of living. This is a Kabbalist’s primary concern, this simple earthly, fundamental concern. It is his duty to do this.
Only after that comes the concern for his spiritual development. That is all; nothing more! There are no problems.
The home is a woman’s primary domain. I cannot imagine what else she could possibly demand. To go out to the theater or visit friends? My wife did not demand this; she knew that I was not cut out for that.
Nevertheless, I always devoted a certain amount of time to her to go for a walk in the park, to sit at home, to talk or to listen to something together, especially as we grew older. And aside from that were were the children and then grandchildren.
She always had plenty to keep her occupied. She was fully aware of what I was doing. Had she ever hindered my spiritual advancement, I would have left. Knowing this perfectly well, we maintained a normal, honest understanding between us. Moreover, she helped me in my work with my teacher. She prepared food for him and looked after him; he was an elderly man after all.
A woman must know why she is getting married and whom she is marrying so that later you will not spring any unexpected surprises on her. That should not happen.
She must know that you work in order to provide for her and the children. But beyond the usual normal level of provision, you dedicate everything else to your spiritual development that she benefits from just as much as you do, acting as a full and equal partner in the process.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Spiritual Couple” 9/15/10
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