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Posted on June 7th, 2026
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Question: In our group, there are friends who love working in the kitchen, others enjoy writing, and still others find themselves in organizational work. Is this an indication of some quality of the Creator revealed in a person, an indication of necessity? After all, this is where a person finds fuel for the work.
Answer: Does a person’s external work, in which he expresses himself in relation to the group or to his spiritual path, whether through kitchen work, uniting the friends, or writing, indicate something?
Of course. It points to the type of his soul. But it does not indicate how elevated that soul is. Is a person who likes to write closer to spirituality than one who prefers working in the kitchen?
For example, Baal Shem Tov was the greatest Kabbalist in Europe after the time of Isaac Luria. Between the ARI and Baal HaSulam, there was no greater Kabbalist than the Baal Shem Tov. Yet he did not write a single word. He went out among the people, explained, gathered Kabbalistic groups, and taught.
He had absolutely no inclination toward writing. Everything we have from him was heard and written down by his students. After the Baal Shem Tov, an entire body of Kabbalistic literature remained and was used by great Admorim (leaders of communities and yeshivot), who themselves were major Kabbalists. All of this literature was recorded from his words, although he himself wrote nothing. We have had many examples like this.
Question: But why does a person feel the need to bestow to the group in such a specific way, through writing, kitchen work, organizing, and so on?
Answer: I cannot say. It depends on the inner structure of the soul. For example, astrologers divide people according to zodiac signs into roughly sixteen character types. This is also mentioned in The Book of Zohar, but it does not give us a clear and precise table according to which soul types can be classified.
Of course, one can say that there are a certain number of soul types, because there are 248 “organs” and 365 “tendons,” divisions of the Partzuf into Rosh, Toch, Sof, divisions into three lines. There are countless variations, but there is no simple chart. And when there is no simple scheme, it means there is no final and serious understanding. Therefore I would not want to explain things according to how they seem to me. It may appear one way now, and later turn out differently or with major changes. Who knows?
But it is absolutely certain that each person receives their own individual life path and obstacles. All this is the result of the revelation of his Reshimot. The upper light influences everyone equally, but the fact that each reacts differently and feels differently happens according to the Reshimot revealed in order to be realized. Ultimately, these Reshimot reflect the development of each person’s soul.
However, the development of the soul itself does not precisely indicate its character. For example, Albert Einstein did not display remarkable abilities until the age of twenty, and he performed poorly in school. Then suddenly he became a genius, and everyone was astonished. It is the same in spirituality. The development of the soul in its “infancy” does not testify to its overall structure or level. For this reason, I refrain from making conclusions or constructing theories.
What the Kabbalists wrote in The Zohar about soul types is too complex and intricate. I hope that one day we will be able to create a kind of table: 600,000 souls divided into several billion parts and thousands of reincarnations. This table would summarize all the data in such a way that we would receive one Kli (one common soul).
Why does each person have a unique path? I do not even know how to place all this into a single field of vision. But it is possible because in the state of final correction (Gmar Tikkun) each person attains this internally, and then sees, feels, and reaches the end of his path.
When we reach the state of Gmar Tikkun, then we will see whether it is possible to “bring down” all these things into our corporeal world (to explain them in the language of branches), and publish them in a book called Kabbalah for Beginners.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”
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Comment: You said that if a person joins our system now, they have a great chance to catch up with those who have been studying for 15 to 20 years.
My Response: Yes, just as a small child entering our world, even though they seemingly haven’t “earned” it, benefits from all the advantages humanity has prepared for them, newcomers will be able to rise together with us as well.
They will benefit from what we have created. After all, they existed in previous generations, in past cycles of life, just as we did. We have all been cycling through existence to reach this very moment.
Question: When describing the over all system, you said that grasping it in the past took 10 to 20 years, but now this period is shortening to about 10 years. Did you mean the experience of a single individual?
Answer: Yes, but since now we are entering this state as one global group, it will be very easy to connect with us.
Newcomers will be able to feel and enter into all of this very quickly. It will be much easier for them than it was for us. Look at how quickly small children master mobile phones and computers.
Comment: But for them, it already exists inside. They seem to be naturally built for it.
My Response: Of course. Nothing appears out of nowhere. It comes from their previous cycles of life. We exist within a system in which everything moves and develops according to a precise order.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Properties of our generation” 9/30/10
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A person should not look back. He should not gnaw at himself or reproach himself for certain actions, nor at the same time praise himself for some of his deeds.
In other words, he should not try to strike a balance, thinking that I did this in such a way and that in another way, and here I fell a little short.
Question: Was this my life; either that of a hero or a sinner?
Answer: My life is not mine. And now I can finally say that what I lived through was not lived by me. It passed through me, but it was not me. I was being led. My life, it is how it appeared to me in a dream. It was not me, it all passed like a dream. And therefore, one simply must accept this; nothing else is required.
Question: Just accept it?
Answer: Yes. Just accept it. And that does not matter either. Whatever happens to a person will happen. And whatever he feels in the process, he will feel. It is not “he” who feels it, but rather “he” who is felt, so to speak.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 4/18/26
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Everyone is an egoist. People are raised that way and the conditioning continues. The greater your egoism, the greater the perceived opportunity to get ahead of others. We do not understand that true success ultimately means being in the right relationship with others.
We have reached a state where the world is exhausted and burned out from egoism. It can no longer continue moving forward on an egoistic path. All our grand dreams and ambitions are fading away.
Only one question remains: how can we continue to exist? This is possible only if we begin to value the connection between us. Within that connection, we will discover goals, spaces, and a completely different world.
Question: What is the most important advice you can give about how to preserve a friendship to the very end?
Answer: One must understand that whatever bad I see in others, is all within me. There is nothing bad around me, only within myself.
Therefore, one must try to correct oneself until one sees a beautiful world in everything around them. Then you will find yourself in the spiritual world, in paradise. Change yourself within, transform the hell inside you into paradise, and you will see that you are already in paradise.
But if you do not change the hell within yourself, then it seems to you that you are living in hell.
Question: And if you see hell in another person?
Answer: Then it is within you. Change yourself, and you will see that you live in a wonderful world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/8/26
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We are all interconnected from the very beginning. Each of us is already in a designated state. If in life we need to meet one another in some way as a result of the correction of the common soul, this is already predetermined according to our spiritual genes.
Therefore, there is nothing accidental in the fact that we meet or distance ourselves from one another. So, do not worry.
The main thing is that at every stage of your development when you encounter other people, you should be as kind, welcoming, and engaging as possible to everyone. Then, ultimately, you will not go astray and will always remain in the direction of correcting your soul.
Nothing happens by chance. All our encounters are predetermined.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/6/26
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Question: Why do people think that play is something childish? “I don’t play,” they say, even with pride: “I don’t play!”
Answer: “Don’t play” at what? At becoming a greater human being? What exactly is it that he does not play at?
Comment: When a person says they are “playing,” they are talking about something made-up. You know: “I’m just pretending.”
My Response: Of course it is imaginary. I’m inventing something. But what does it mean to dare?
Question: So, in your opinion, to dare means to play?
Answer: Of course. To play at something greater, something magnificent; it is striving, aspirations. Like children: whatever game they play, they want to become better.
Comment: But for children it happens naturally.
My Response: Exactly. And it should be natural for us too, but we have lost it.
Question: We have lost it?
Answer: Of course. A young person is given everything and nothing is demanded of them, and essentially, they…
Question: Stop playing?
Answer: Of course.
Question: So this is the root of all depression, drugs, and so on? A person stops playing?
Answer: Life no longer compels them.
Question: Should life compel us to play?
Answer: “What is our life? A game!” Only a different kind of game.
Question: We talk about suffering and so on, but does suffering push us toward the game? Does it say to us: “Play”? If I played, would I not suffer so much? Can one say that?
Answer: I would say that I constantly examine myself and am vigilant in checking to see if a desire to stop has arisen within me. You know, I’d like to make that final move at the last minute with real intent: snap.
Comment: And that’s all.
My Response: Yes, that is good.
Comment: I envy such endings too. You know, when someone walks onto the stage and boom! That’s it.
My Response: Yes.
Question: I want to ask something very relevant now. Is playing the way out of the state humanity is currently in? Humanity is at a dead end, lost in thought.
Answer: Of course. We must play at the state we wish to attain. You know how Kozma Prutkov said: “If you want to be happy – be happy”? It is very true.
Question: What game should we play now, in these uncertain times?
Answer: We must play at friendship and love.
Comment: Your simple answers always unsettle me. Friendship and love, they seem to require something more.
My Response: Is that bad?
Comment: It sounds childish. I’ve told you many times, it sounds childish, fit for children.
My Response: Well then, let people remain trapped in their narrow-minded seriousness. I don’t know what else to call it.
Comment: But you truly say: “Play at friendship and love.”
My Response: Of course. What else does a person really have? When this disappears, life loses its taste.
Question: So this is the main game? Constantly?
Answer: Of course. A flirtation with life.
Question: With life or with another person?
Answer: No, with life.
Question: When you say “friendship and love,” do you mean toward another person, toward those close to us, toward distant people, toward the world? Is all of that included?
Answer: Of course. Everything is included in it. There must be movement.
Comment: But if it is a game, and inwardly I understand that I do not truly relate to him this way.
My Response: That does not matter. Even if I do it deliberately.
Question: So it must be done intentionally?
Answer: Of course.
Question: Even if I do not actually feel this way toward him?
Answer: Initially I may not feel this way toward him, but afterward I create it.
Question: I create this world of play: I do not naturally relate to a person with love, yet I constantly want to love him and want friendship with him. And then this world manifests, this level? Do I step into it? Does it actually happen?
Answer: What happens is what you truly want to happen.
Question: Let me summarize. Our main game is the game of friendship and love?
Answer: Yes, because only a good connection between us—let’s not call it “friendship and love” because that sounds too childish—rather, only a benevolent connection between us, mutual help, and a sense of the necessity for good relations can bring us to a new world. There is no other way.
Question: What do you mean by a “new world”?
Answer: A new world means a new society where I increasingly feel that my physical and emotional well-being depends on everyone around me, and theirs depends on me. We are so interconnected that it becomes impossible to separate one from another.
I must realize that is a law of nature here, a strict, very strict, law that my attitude toward others determines their attitude toward me. This seems very strange to us. But if we try, if we make the effort, then gradually we will see that the world depends only on our attitude toward it, and it will change for the better. In other words, you paint your own world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/13/26
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 7 “What Are the Times of Prayer and Gratitude in the Work?” (1990) (1.29.2002)
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah)”
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