Question: From childhood, we have probably been tied to this world with a thin “string,” and we do not try to escape. Does this world suppress us?

Answer: Yes, from the very beginning.

Comment: We know that there is freedom somewhere, but we are still afraid to take that step.

My Response: To do this, we must overcome ourselves, that is, all our habits, our attitude toward the world and toward each other;  we need to annul all this somehow.

Question: And we are afraid of doing this?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Actually, I understand why we are afraid. We have a home, we will be fed, but what is out there is unknown. That is where we are afraid to go. But you are urging us to break free somehow.

My Response: It is not me who is urging this. It is the great sages of Kabbalah who speak about it.

Question: Did they take this step?

Answer: Yes. They say that we must break free from this attraction, to rise above it. And then we will see a another world; we will see ourselves differently, and in general, all of life and the entire universe differently.

Question: How did they gain the courage to take this step?

Answer: It was given to them by nature.

Question: So it was not even their own courage?

Answer: It was not their courage.

Comment: So it is given to a person from above, and he takes the step.

My Response: It is given to certain people from above, from their inner state, from their inner essence. And everyone else can follow their advice and accumulate a certain reserve of energy within themselves that would give them the ability to break free from this attraction.

Comment: If you try to break free from this attraction, you follow the Kabbalists, do as they say, and see that it does not work again and again, for years!

My Response: It is accumulation. It is a process of accumulating the necessary energy and efforts, which will ultimately allow us to break free from Earth’s gravity.

Question: How can we avoid despair because so much time has passed?

Answer: We have no other way to leave this “post” we are tied to with a “rope.”

Question: Meaning that despite the time, despite the fact that despair has already come, you keep trying to take this step?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And still the question is how not to despair.

Answer: There is no other way.

Question: And you must come to this realization that there is no other way?

Answer: Yes, there is no other way. If you are lucky, so to speak, you will accumulate strength and break free, break the “rope” and run like a little elephant across the field of life. And if you are not lucky, you will remain on the “rope” until the next time.

Question: Is the word “lucky” not offensive?

Answer: We do not know all the laws of the world, so we put it like that.

Question: And what will help double or triple the strength?

Answer: This is what we study. It is our unity, the study of the laws of the upper world. In the end, we accumulate a certain reserve of energy in order to break out into a free orbit.

Question: So an escape as a group is definitely better than an escape alone?

Answer: Yes, much more likely.

Question: But is the escape of one person also possible?

Answer: We see this from the ancient Kabbalists and even from those not so far from us in time, like Baal HaSulam and others. They were able to break free from egoistic, earthly attraction.

Question: Why do we believe them that this is indeed so? After all, we have not yet broken free.

Answer: Because otherwise, the essence of earthly life loses any foundation whatsoever.

Question: So earthly life has meaning only if we take this step?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what it exists for?

Answer: Yes. How else?

Question: So, you are saying that the meaning of life is to take this step and break away from this “rope”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is the space we enter when we break away?

Answer: It is a free space in which we can act according to its laws, the laws of this free space.

Question: What are they?

Answer: It is freedom. Freedom from earthly gravity, from egoism.

Question: Earthly gravity is egoism?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And when I break free, what is there?

Answer: Free actions, free life, free soaring. Truly like an elephant in the air.

Question: So now all my actions are egoistic, I am being led, and I am not free here? And there…

Answer: And there, you are free.

Question: Free. Deep inside, I do want this, don’t I?

Answer: I do not think we really want it that much.

Comment: Everyone talks about freedom and imagines it in some way.

My Response: I do not know why a person needs freedom. And he does not know either. He just wants to run away from his “rope.” Why? Perhaps because of his childish foolishness. And what is there furthe, we still do not know.

Question: But freedom is freedom from egoism. Is this real freedom?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/2/26

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