Question: There is a well known parable regarding judgment taking place above—to hell or to heaven. The famous preacher’s turn comes; he is calm, and suddenly he is sent to hell. He asks, “Why to hell?! Right before me, a reckless driver was sent to heaven.” He is told: “What were you thinking? Everyone was asleep at your sermons. Meanwhile, when he was driving people, everyone was praying.”

How should we relate to this? Should we be led to prayer while we are alive; how should this happen?

Answer: We are being led. If we strive to reach a connection with the Creator, then all sorts of obstacles and conditions are put to us, and we involuntarily see that we cannot fulfill these conditions in any way, only if we get serious help from above.

Question: Does this mean that if we strive to connect with the Creator, then we can be grateful for all these things and obstacles?

Answer: For the stick.

Question: You keep saying, “Kiss the stick that beats you.” Then we kiss it? Otherwise what happens?

Answer: Otherwise we move along with our egoism, the way a fish swims, in such twisty ways.

Question: How should we treat everything that leads us, but is not yet directed, to the goal of creation, to prayer?

Answer: We have to push each other. We have to give an example. We need to shake things up a bit.

Question: How can I, an ordinary person who does not strive for the goal of connection with the Creator, someone who strives to live calmly and simply on our earth, also relate those misfortunes and troubles as things that should lead me to prayer?

Answer: Naturally a person does not want suffering, prayer, or anything.

Question: And how should I relate to this? Should I run away from them?

Answer: Of course. It’s best to run away from them and that’s what everyone does.

Question: This means I can run away if I’m not striving for anything, but I just want to live this life well on this earth?

Answer: In this case, “There is no need for suffering, and there is no need for rewards.”

Question: And what is the advice to such people?

Answer: The advice to such people is to try to live in peace, or even lower, quieter, and calmer. Try to go through life like this.

Question: Is this in order for the waves to pass over us?

Answer: Yes. But this is fate. There are some people who want it; there are those who disagree with this and those who disagree and yet with a couple of blows, they then agree.

Question: So one way or another, these blows bring a person down if he is here and wants to live his life here?

Answer: It depends on the root of the soul.

Question: And what is your advice to those who strive for the Creator and for connection?

Answer: For them, the most important thing is to get closer to the Creator, and it doesn’t matter in what way: either through getting a couple of blows on the way or any other way.

Question: So, one way or another they will and should treat these blows as help?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it correct to say that this parable is intended more for those who are directed to the Creator?

Answer: There is always suffering, but if they are not critical and are instead ordinary everyday sufferings, etc., then they are always good.

Question: Is this the way to relate to them?!

Answer: Yes.

Question: What happens if I start to treat them this way?

Answer: I mean the suffering that does not distract from building a right life or a right connection with others and with the Creator. If there are too many of them, then this is a different sort of suffering.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/4/22

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Comment: Surely you always have a certain position that you have to soften and adapt to the public.

My Response: Just like with children to whom you only say what they can understand and explain with language, gestures, facial expressions: “This is how this works, and this is how that is. Let us see together. See how it is connected. If I click here, what is happening there?” And so on.

That is, you must come closer to them. Of course, you have a huge supply of what to tell them for the next, say, five years, but you work gradually. At the same time, love for them and recognition of one single space and mass when you connect with them controls you and does not allow you to make a mistake.

Comment: But sometimes, when raising a child, they say: “Let him fall, prick himself, burn himself, do not tamper with him.”

My Response: Yes, it happens. But still, you do it with the knowledge that it will teach him even if he is harmed to some small degree. But he will remember this lesson and will gain in the future so that later he does not get into a situation where instead of a small burn there is a huge explosion.

You consciously allow negative feelings from certain circumstances imprinted in your child’s mind if there is no other possibility. Naturally, this is how we learn. The same is true in our spiritual accumulation of all kinds of events, qualities, and dependencies.

Comment: But many also have this position: “We will talk to them when they are hit on the head. Then they will understand us more.”

My Response: No! This attitude is not out of love. When I love my child, I want to protect him in advance, and if I give him the opportunity to feel something, then this is controlled by me, it is within the framework of his upbringing. I do not leave him as if I had left him somewhere in the forest and let him educate himself: if he crawls home, good and if not, then not. This is an unreasonable approach.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Is it Always Necessary to Tell the Truth?” 9/5/13

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Comment: When we have problems, you recommend contacting a specialist, such as a lawyer and so on.

My Response: Yes, on the corporeal level we must use the tools of our world and at the same time make spiritual corrections.

Therefore, if someone attacks me, and I have some legal opportunity to oppose him, then I definitely do it through a lawyer. This is how it will be in the future as well. This is work at the level of our world.

Comment: But there are countries where problems are solved in a completely different way, not by legal methods, but by force.

My Response: If these are legal forceful methods, then yes, and if they are not the legal ones, then no. If we scare people, then this is no longer a correction.

Question: Why is this correction if we act through lawyers?

Answer: Because through lawyers, you teach a person to bite his tongue, treat others differently, and force him to understand his mistakes.

At least, this is how we should act and not have a physical clash. We cannot afford it, this is not the spirit of our organization.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Solve Problems?” 9/18/13

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Question: If you look at human life, most of the time we are silent. What is the spiritual root of this state?

Answer: Obviously, we can express a small amount of our emotions in terms of time, momentum, and other parameters.

Personally, I do not see anything vicious in silence. On the contrary, as they say, “silence is golden.” This is a sign of cleverness, inner work, and introspection of a person into himself. So, silence is encouraged more than chattering.

Silence can also be the transmission of information, depending on the kind of silence.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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“One” indicates a single evenness… “Unified” shows that although He performs the multiple operations, one force performs all these (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Inner Observation, Chapter 1, Item 1).

The Creator is one. There is no other force in the universe.

He is unified because everything that we perceive as completely different, even opposite qualities, comes from Him. Despite the fact that in our senses this force is manifested as many opposing forces, the Creator is unified.

Question: Does all this separation happen in our perception?

Answer: Only in our perception! Everything that we see as opposite to each other, we see in such a way only because this is how we separate everything that happens.

Question: Is it possible to explain the concepts of “One,” “Unique,” “Unified” practically, by example? Let’s say I have just read this information. What does it give me? How can I use it for my development?

Answer: Everything that you feel is the Creator and only Him. All kinds of actions and qualities that are revealed to us as opposites come from Him.

One force, one thought, one unique, unified purpose covers absolutely all the opposite forces that are manifested in you precisely because of your qualities. It all merges, connects, and unites into one single whole inside the Creator.

You have to feel it all. We must try to see it within us and around us.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/16/22

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Comment: In The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Baal HaSulam explains that the spiritual essence itself is simple, although it consists of many opposite forms relative to the receiver. Therefore, people began to believe that there are two upper forces: good and evil. Then they saw that they were disintegrating into many more different forces.

My Response: In our world, a person sees a great number of different forces around him and does not understand that all this comes from one source, from one force.

Question: Why is this done in such a way? What does this source want to tell us about this?

Answer: He wants to say that we should correct ourselves until we see only Him in everything. The correction of a person consists in discovering one force behind all the forces. There is none else besides Him.

Question: Let’s say I discovered this force. What is next?

Answer: Next you begin to correctly attain everything that exists within you and around you, that only one single Creator fills everything and acts in everything.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/16/22

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Question: Can practicing Kabbalah reduce the number of future reincarnations of a person? Or is their number predetermined?

Answer: It does not matter if it is predetermined or not, but we can change and influence them.

Question: I have heard that if a person who studies Kabbalah is in a ten and passes away, he continues to be a member of the ten. What does this mean?

Answer: It depends on the ten. It has the ability to feel this person and contact him. He lives in them because they were mutually connected with each other as Sefirot in one Partzuf. Therefore, the connection remains.

But he does not continue living in the way we understand, in the memory of these people but in their qualities. In this case he makes decisions, changes, and so on with them.

All this should become clear to us from the revelation of the soul to a person. It is hard to talk about things we cannot imagine and feel.

Comment: But you tell us many things about Kabbalah that we do not feel.

My Response: But you can imagine this somehow, and if you yearn for this, then you are approaching the purpose of creation.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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That should appease your mind regarding the perplexing expressions we often find in books of Kabbalah……, and some that are even foreign to the human spirit (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, “Inner Observation”).

Question: Baal HaSulam writes of such concepts as, for example, a kiss or copulation, which at first glance are not quite decent things. But in Kabbalah, they imply a certain connection between spiritual objects. Therefore, he says it is necessary to use the exact terms that clearly correspond to the root relating to the branch, which cannot be replaced with other words.

What if the Kabbalist makes a mistake? Could it be that he called the root the wrong branch?

Answer: If a present-day Kabbalist writes it, consistently using this or that term, we accept it as a given. And if, for example, he could have made a mistake, then it is not clear what his mistake comes from. It follows, he does not understand exactly what is happening in the spiritual world and therefore does not see the right consequence in our world. That is, his language of the branches is incorrect.

But a true Kabbalist who attains the upper actions and their consequences in our world cannot choose to use other words no matter how strange they may be.

Comment: For example, Baal HaSulam wrote about why the mountain in Jerusalem is called the Mount of Olives. That is, Kabbalists felt from their attainment that this is exactly what it should be called, or why Adam was called Adam in the Torah.

My Response: Yes, all Kabbalistic terms, and these are practically all the words in the Torah, come from the Kabbalist’s attainment.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 8/14/22

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In the program placed into a person by the Creator, there is a huge part called “mistakes of the past,” meaning the area of sensory, social, personal, and family successes and failures. Can you imagine what is uploaded into a person?! It is world that a child does not have, an enormous part of the universe in which an adult exists.

It is impossible to give a person such an injection that he immediately, like in a science fiction movie, “Oh-oh-oh!” and that’s it, he is already in the upper world. It does not exist.

He needs to get through it all, store it in himself, make an upgrade, and reload everything. He must live through all these states, feel the opposites, try to do it himself without the Creator or with the Creator, with a certain environment or without them, stumble, get up, and so on. At every step, at every given one. And out of these billions of steps, an opportunity is created in a person—only an opportunity!—to start feeling another state, another universe.

He enters into this feeling gradually; a feeling is revealed that did not exist before! It exists here and in another dimension. And now this dimension is being revealed! In order for it to begin to open up, I need to create in myself huge internal reserves, opportunities, sensations, accumulations of all kinds of thoughts and feelings.

In such a way I begin to enter into a perception of new connections, a new world. I see it in a completely different way. I see its opposite side, where it is controlled from, and how it all works. My world becomes small, I am entering into the management system, and it is becoming important. And this whole world and all these animate, small, instinctive interactions of ours just lose their importance.

My animalistic body remains in connection with the others, temporarily, for the time being, in order to contact the others through it and help them also enter into this new universe, into this dimension. And as soon as we all break away from this field, on which we graze like small animals, and enter with our sensations into a new state, into a new dimension, the material world simply disappears.

It does not exist even now, like everything else, because it exists only in our consciousness, which rises completely to the next level. And along with the area of new human relationships, our animate, vegetative, and inanimate sensations also rise, meaning our whole world.

But it is impossible to do it at once, like some kind of injection and a person is already in the next dimension. The program needs to enter into us gradually and be adapted by us. We must accept it, feel it, unite with it, and feel as we are it as one whole.

This requires consecutive, voluntary implantation into this program because it is against our egoistic nature. This is what our work consists of.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. See What Doesn’t Exist” 8/30/13

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