Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, for each time they clothe a new body and a new generation (Baal HaSulam, “The Peace“).

Question: There is a certain number of souls in the world that have been constantly reincarnating for thousands of years. How many are there?

Answer: It does not matter, it can be five or ten thousand or billions. They are constantly dividing and connecting. We see that the number of people in the world is growing so there is a correspondence between the number of souls and the number of bodies.

Comment: But Baal HaSulam says that there is a certain number of souls (only a certain amount of souls that incarnate). Yet we see that over the past hundred years the number of people in the world has doubled.

My Response: They divided among themselves.

Question: Does it mean that a soul is some kind of unfixed state?

Answer: Yes, it is some kind of energy charge, form, and desire that can be divided into many different desires.

The benefit of the interruption between incarnations is that a person begins a new existence in order to change one’s nature and structure and, in general, his final purpose.

But one life is not enough for this. Tens or hundreds of lifetimes are required because the soul itself does nothing but communicate with other souls, and therefore it moves through various states.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: If I understand correctly, the reduction of desire occurred due to the fact that the creation felt itself opposite to the Creator precisely in its intention and not in the fact that it has a desire to receive (Aviut).

Is the shame of creation not that it is opposite to the Creator (He is the desire to give and it is the desire to receive), but rather in how it uses this desire?

Answer: Naturally because creation cannot command what it can be, but it can choose a reaction to what it is. Therefore its reaction was: “I want to be similar to and as close as possible to the Creator.”

Question: Can this be applied to our lives? Should I not be ashamed that the Creator created me like this? It is clear that I have a desire to receive and I want to use everyone. But is the problem not that, but rather in how I use my desire?

Answer: Yes. It’s what is in your will, what your choice is.

Comment: That is, the fact that I will always want to enjoy is understandable.

My Response: This is not a vice.

Question: And the fact that I want to enjoy at the expense of others, can this in principle be considered a vice?

Answer: It is your choice.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: Can we say that inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature also prays on their own level?

Answer: Any creature, even the inanimate, not to mention the vegetative, animate, and human, prays. At the heart of all of them is desire, but only a person who is learning how to do this can correctly direct this desire. Then his desire becomes directed correctly and works for his benefit and for the benefit of everyone.

Every creation has Hissaron (lacks, needs), which the Creator created. Thus, the desire of inanimate matter is to preserve its form, and this, in a way, is its request.

A person, however, has the opportunity not only to preserve, but also to change himself, and to ask about it consciously.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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Question: What is the mechanism for activating the work of the upper forces in the system when many people pray? Let’s say that a large number of people are beginning to raise a request to the Creator, what mechanisms are activated in this case?

Answer: We proceed from the fact that we are one single spiritual object called the soul or Adam.

If we really want to engage this single spiritual object in which we are all included, to connect ourselves in it, and to raise the common desire of the object Adam to the Creator so the Creator corrects it, fills it, and brings it closer to Himself, then in the end this happens. And from this we feel positive consequences.

A person with his prayer triggers huge processes in the common organism called creation or humanity since he acts through the upper force, the Creator. Therefore a small human can launch huge forces of nature.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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Question: What should we do so that on the one hand we don’t get into trouble in dissemination, and at the same time understand that there is a Creator in this?

Answer: This is our job.

What do you mean, don’t get into trouble? I don’t get into trouble; I don’t specifically speak out against anyone. I express the correct natural point of view, the truth. And if it doesn’t go somewhere with someone in the same line, I don’t take it into account because I don’t even take into account that someone will disagree with me. I don’t get into conflicts with anyone.

In my blog I usually publish someone’s opinion and then I write why, from my point of view, this is not so. But at the same time I do not ridicule the author, but rather position myself as a Kabbalist and say that my remark is to give my assessment from the point of view of Kabbalah.

I don’t humiliate people, but, on the contrary, I respect them. From my point of view they are wrong and from their point of view I am completely wrong. So what? Where is the truth?

The truth in the story will manifest itself in the future. I’m not trying to convince anyone. I don’t even have that inner urge to make someone think like me. It’s impossible.

A person should come to this by himself, by awareness, experiences, internal struggle, and searches, and not by the fact that I would put pressure on him and he would change his mind. Is it possible to correct the world by doing this?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Protection from Enemies” 8/22/13

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Question: Do you have any protection against physical attacks?

Answer: I do have spiritual protection. I am under the influence of the same upper force; what it wants, it will do according to its plan.

I am obliged to give out the maximum of what I can at every moment. The maximum! I consider myself to be authorized to do this by my teacher, by all the Kabbalists, and by all those sufferings that are coming toward us all.

Question: Have you ever been threatened?

Answer: I do not know how to answer this question, but for me it is not a threat.

I am facing the Creator! Each of us is in front of Him. But the fact that I entrust myself to Him gives me such peace that I am calm in the face of the greatest dangers.

This is constant work because you are constantly given all kinds of doubts, descents, and various events just to force you to work on yourself and to elevate faith above reason.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Protection From Enemies” 8/22/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “All Your Actions Will Be for the Sake of the Creator”

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Gatehouse of Intentions”

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are disadvantages of marrying your first love?“

Marrying our first love does not guarantee a good marriage.

We usually encounter several mistakes, breakages, arguments and perhaps also divorces, and only later, at an age closer to the end rather than the beginning, do we perhaps meet someone and start appreciating the marital connection.

People usually change since the time they had their first love. Their ideas of connection, closeness and relationships become totally different.

We need to go through hard times, ups and downs, the destruction of previous states that we lived through, and we can then cherish our relationships.

In short, after we meet, we need to learn a lot about ourselves, go through alternating positive and negative experiences and encounter states of desperation in the process, and then we understand how to build a life where we strive solely for positive relations. We need to accumulate an arsenal of various negative sensations and states, and only afterward can we avoid them. It is like storing weapons for a period, entering into a war, and then casting the weapons aside after the war.

As it is with partners, so it is with humanity in general. Humanity is now accumulating various weapons, and then it will understand they need to be cast aside. All wars take place for this purpose.

There can be no good without the recognition of evil, whether in our individual lives, between couples, or in the world in general.

Therefore, the advice for young couples is to have very long and nagging conversations with each other, where each partner spills out everything that they think about their partner, like two researchers, and gradually, little by little, they will be able to reach a state where they will mutually explore themselves and one another.

Life then becomes interesting. It turns into research of how can we can improve our relationships from one day to the next, how to change them in order to continually come closer together, and we regularly try to discover each other’s qualities, feelings and the relationship in general as vibrantly as possible.

For the time being, such relationships take a long time to build, say about fifty or sixty years, but the time will come when all people will live in such a way. Until then, we need to encourage young couples and people in general to go through a form of education that teaches and encourages them to treat relationships similarly to a research lab, where we can constantly seek how to improve our relationships, changing ourselves in order to get closer and more positively connected to each other above all forms of destruction that can emerge in our lives. It is indeed possible and doable, and the more such connection-enriching learning spreads throughout human society, the quicker and easier we will all be able to progress through all negative states with more awareness and understanding.

Based on the video “Does Marrying Your First Love Guarantee a Good Marriage?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Semion Vinokur. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Comment: Kabbalists write that a person in this world in a biological body (not after death) can attain the state where he changes his nature.

My Response: Nothing happens after death. It is because the death of the physical body has very little, if any, effect on the condition of the spiritual body, which we call the soul.

Question: Still a person goes through various states in this world. Do they leave any record? Does anything remain?

Answer: There remains as much as a person gives to the world.

Question: What if he just leads a normal life? He has a family on some island, he lived there for a couple of decades, and that is it. Does anything remain of him?

Answer: What can remain?

Comment: But he had worries, he loved, he suffered.

My Response: Yes, he loved money and suffered from the lack of it. That is it. This is what he has left.

Comment: But all the same, a person does not just live like that; nature does not simply create some circumstances.

My Response: He has nothing worthy of remaining.

Question: Do you want to say that it is worthy only to take care of others? That is the merit?

Answer: Yes, because if he did, it was against his nature. In this he was similar to the Creator who acts only in the spirit of bestowal and love for others.

If a person acts against his egoistic nature for the sake of some goal, for example, for the sake of attaining the Creator, then these actions are imprinted and as if develop the soul, our desires.

If a person performs actions according to his nature in which everything is already pre-established, then nothing remains because there is nothing of him in it.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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