It is very important to place yourself below everyone because in this way you can channel the upper energy, the upper force, through yourself to them.

Question: Let’s say an ordinary person hears this and thinks: “How am I supposed to place myself below someone else?” This is completely against human nature.

Answer: Yes, it goes against human nature precisely because it is against human nature. There is nothing else to it. Correction cannot happen otherwise.

Comment: In principle, even logically, I can truly hear another person only if I place myself below them, not above them.

My Response: Of course! That is always the case.

Every morning when I come before my students, am I not placing myself below them? Don’t I do everything so that they can learn, become wiser and understand, unite, draw closer to the Creator, and so on?

Question: So when you appear before your students, do you even have to lower yourself before them?

Answer: Of course! I am like a waiter. Yes, I bring and serve things, and I don’t even know how to say it—I tend to their needs.

Comment: In other words, you are prepared to serve.

My Response: Yes. I do not feel that I am above them. If I display such a state, it is only to give them an opportunity to somehow gain confidence and understand what they are dealing with.

Comment: There are certain movements, theories, and spiritual practices in which the teacher binds the students to himself, where he is above them.

My Response: No! Not in Kabbalah. Never! At any given moment, a person must feel they are free to leave, even without saying goodbye! Absolutely! Simply get up and leave. And how do they leave? You see they leave calmly.

Comment: Yes. Just like that, in a moment, and that’s it. They’re gone.

My Response: And then they may come back. There are those who return. I have no prejudice against them whatsoever. You can see that yourself.

Question: Yes, I see. Someone comes in, sits down, you look at him and carry on with what you were doing. You don’t react with, “Oh! You’re back?”

Answer: Why should I? It is not my business. My business is to serve. It is like a restaurant: customers come in and I am the waiter.

Comment: I set the table.

Answer: Yes. Exactly so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 9/18/26

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