Question: You said that Rabbi Shimon conducted pure light, and Rabbi Aba clothed it in letters. What was the function of the other nine disciples of Rabbi Shimon in this chain?

Answer: They represent a common system. If they had not been there, Rabbi Shimon would not have felt anything and Rabbi Aba would not have been able to open the upper light and clothe it in letters. After all, all these ten people are ten Sefirot, a complete Partzuf. How could anything happen without it?

Question: When Rabbi Aba clothed the light in letters, what exactly did he transform?

Answer: He clothed the light in a type of shell you need to acquire to reveal the upper light.

The rest of Rabbi Shimon’s disciples worked in this system together, in harmony, to reveal the upper light that emanated from their teacher.

Comment: Interestingly, Baal HaSulam worked independently and described all this as well as they did.

My Response: Firstly, Baal HaSulam also had his own disciples.

Secondly, when a person enters the spiritual world, he already has other students and another company: those properties, those desires, those corrected and uncorrected elements of the general system, which we simply do not detect with our five senses.

There, contact takes place at the level of desires and thoughts, and not at the level of the bodily matter that we imagine.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How The Book of Zohar Was Written” 6/2/12

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”

Lesson on the Topic “Connecting the World in the Last Generation”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why do some people find thrill-seeking activities such as bungee jumping or skydiving exciting rather than scary?“

Whether it is bungee jumping, skydiving, other extreme sports, thrill-seeking theme park rides and even scary movies, in such instances we want to feel the limit and how we breach it: that we reach a state beyond our capabilities.

We then enjoy the state. There is pleasure in exercising a certain level of control over fear.

The pleasure of having control over fear then becomes stronger than the instinct of fear that surfaces.

When fear dominates us, it feels like it penetrates every cell of our bodies, all the way to our bones’ marrow. That is why the pleasure we experience when we feel a certain level of control over fear is very powerful.

However, if we felt that our lives had a higher eternal purpose, and we set ourselves on a path to attain that purpose, we would then feel no need for these kinds of transient pleasures, no matter how strong they are.

We would also then not fear anything because we would see that we are controlled by the upper force, which wishes solely to develop us in order to benefit us with its eternal and perfect quality of love, bestowal and connection.

Based on the video “What Are You Afraid Of?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Comment: A person is powerless over his words and actions, and this includes someone who has been on the Kabbalistic path for some time. First, he speaks with an understanding of certain states and he can make some promises. Then he acts as if he has been replaced and has competent excuses for his conditions. This is such a trick!

My Response: This is not a trick. This individual is changing!

Of course, there are people who plan in advance to get out of some state in this way. But I am talking about those who always speak sincerely based on the feeling they are currently experiencing; it is only that the states change.

A person has no control over anything! If you want to deal with someone and be more or less sure of a positive outcome, then you have to deal with extremely primitive, and not spiritual people, they do not change.

They are like animals: in ten years everything with them will be the same as yesterday. Therefore, with great reliability you can be sure that what the person said today will also be true tomorrow, unless he has planned some meanness in advance.

A spiritual person is constantly changing internally. Every time he thinks and decides differently. He does not understand how yesterday he could think in such a way because today he sees that everything should be completely different.

Question: What is changing in him at this moment? It is like a different chemical composition is poured into a person.

Answer: Absolutely! You are affected by light from the next spiritual level, and a change occurs. This means that completely different qualities are awakened in you.

We have desires, and their formation is like a blank computer in which there are memory cells, a motherboard, various blocks, a microprocessor, and so on. The light sets the whole program of work, and therefore such great changes take place.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You Cannot Trust Anyone!” 7/14/12

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Question: Is there any alternative to egoistic fulfillment? What does a person acquire as a result of rising above egoism?

Answer: With his upper knowledge, upper sensation, and upper attainment, a person acquires absolute fulfillment. He sees the whole universe from end to end indefinitely and integrally and feels and realizes how interconnected everything is.

Question: Does the suffering of love give a person such fulfillment?

Answer: It is easier for me to say yes. It is impossible to describe this because for this it is necessary to rise into a different sensation. For any sensations, a substrate is needed, the so-called screen, otherwise what will you feel them on.

Today, man is at the animate level. He does not feel himself outside the body and cares only about feeling as comfortable as possible every second. This is the meaning of his existence, which fits into one small phrase “as long as I exist.” This is our entire animalistic essence.

Therefore, if you do not give a person suffering, he will remain the most primitive animal and will not move. All our movements are made only in order to fill ourselves with something.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Pride” 7/30/12

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Question: Why is there such a factor as a surname in nature?

Answer: Because this is how we are arranged. Animals have the same thing, only their identification is of a completely different kind. A dog in order to find out about another dog does not need to ask for a passport. A dog will smell it from all sides and knows everything at once: who it is, what it is, and where it is from.

Question: Do names and surnames have any spiritual roots? For example, in Kabbalah, sages are given certain names according to their spiritual achievements. But there are also human names.

Answer: These names are given according to origin.

If we value a person in our world, first of all, by his social status, wisdom, family, professional, national, or state affiliation, then according to this we attribute all sorts of epithets to him.

For example, a doctor, professor, or laureate. We attribute all this to the name in order to emphasize the essence of this person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Meaning of a Person’s Name” 7/10/12

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Question: In modern physics, there are three main types of matter: matter, field, and dark matter. What kinds of desires and how many of them are there in the spiritual?

Answer: There is the desire to receive. This is what we reveal in ourselves, and other things are not attainable to us.

Question: Is it probably also divided into some hundreds and thousands?

Answer: But it is still a desire to receive.

Comment: Let’s say in our world we see that there is a substance and there is a field— two different types of matter.

My Response: This is a manifestation of the same force, just on different levels. And it is the same way in the spiritual.

Question: From the point of view of Kabbalah, what is primary: matter or consciousness?

Answer: Of course, consciousness; only question is: of what? The realization of matter itself is primary, otherwise we cannot say that something exists. This can be said only to the extent of self-attainment.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 2/12/23

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Question: Can a person force his child to study Kabbalah?

Answer: Of course not! In no way! He just has to give him an opportunity, and the child himself chooses yes or no.

But, in principle, when a child is still small, you give him a certain amount of knowledge. You pass to him what you consider important. That is how the world works.

If you consider Kabbalistic knowledge important, then you instill it in him. If other knowledge is important to you, you will pass it on. This is natural for parents.

That is, what is natural in nature and thus recorded in our life has the right to exist.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Find the Purpose of Your Child” 6/27/12

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In the corporeal world we very often observe the beginning and the end of relationships between a man and a woman because our world is built on an egoistic basis. This cannot happen in the spiritual world because there is a constant continuity, an “eternal orgasm.”

Question: What is the ideal use of spiritual rules for a person’s protein life?

Answer: It is to become like the relationship between the Creator and the creation! This is the purpose of our existence here—to learn about the eternal, great, and powerful contact with the Creator and build it at all levels from the world of infinity to our world. This is the final correction of man. And the rest of nature is also included in man.

The ideal relationship between a man and a woman will happen when they begin to complement each other correctly so that the Creator, the force of bestowal and love, is revealed between them. This cannot happen if there is no upper attainment.

Therefore, nothing can be solved at the level of our world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Man and Woman – Eternal Orgasm” 7/15/12

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