Question: In the article “The Freedom,” Baal HaSulam writes that there is a foundation in every person, that the root of his soul that does not change. Is this foundation somehow related to the Reshimot?

Answer: This is the basis of all Reshimot over which all kinds of changes and actions take place. The very basis is unchangeable; this is called the primordial gene. That is, each of us has an original gene that goes through all kinds of states, Reshimot, and everything is recorded on it.

Question: What can we change? What changes and what remains the same?

Answer: We can change the application of the Reshimot (spiritual information records) that are in us for the future. And this, by the way, will correct our past.

Using correctly what is recorded in you, you can change your future destiny. It is impossible to change the past, but by changing the future, you thus change all impressions and consequences from the past.

Question: What exactly can I change? How will I feel about this future?

Answer: The future itself will feel positive. In principle, it is correct to say that a person is building his future. And a Reshimot is like potential states and nothing more.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/12/22

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Question: How can you develop a spiritual gene? All recorded states exist in potential. How can I activate and accelerate them?

Answer: This is what we are doing within the framework of our Kabbalah education centers (KabU).

In principle, all this is done using simple techniques. It is necessary to study the system of the universe a little. It is not difficult, but the terminology may seem complicated at first. Then you need to become included in a society that will attract a special energy that develops a person.

The technique is to evoke the influence of a positive force on the Reshimot, records of spiritual information. Then this force will awaken them, and you will soon start to feel it.

Question: Is there any connection between my internal information records (Reshimot) and the records of other people?

Answer: Everyone has their own, but of course there is a connection and mutual influence on each other. Their records affect you and yours affect them.

There also are information records of all of humanity. That is, there are personal states of each of us and states of the entire creation.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/12/22

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Comment: When you enter a state of unity at congresses or gatherings of friends, you feel that you are constantly analyzing how immersed you are in this process.

My Response: This is not euphoria but very serious states that you will begin experiencing as your real life, while everything less important will be “hanging” somewhere below and becoming quite insignificant.

The state of unity will determine all future parts of our life: our relations, science, culture, upbringing, education, family relations, absolutely everything. We will exist at this level.

Comment: Nevertheless, one is afraid he might reject this state. Knowing his nature to quickly run away and wait it out, he is constantly undergoing scrutiny not to let his desire to escape appear.

My Response: Yes, this is good. Here you always have the opportunity to enter this state and control it at all times because you are under the influence of a lot of people who help you.

On the one hand, they don’t enslave you, you are always free to leave because you have a very mature and constant inner scrutiny. On the other hand, you can always enter into this state of mutual bestowal, a feeling of mutual support, and later, into a state of love, which we will achieve. Meaning, you are free!

This constant feeling of freedom—being on the verge of entry-exit, start-stop movement, when every time you can leave, come back and discover some new sensations, leave again and come back—it gives us the opportunity to constantly renew our impressions.

Question: Did you and your teacher experience such states?

Answer: Yes, but I had a different relationship with him, as a student and a teacher, when by annulling myself, I allowed him to take me by “the scruff of the neck” like a kitten, and include myself in his big Kli, in his feelings.

I have been guiding you toward this state for several years. You learned this gradually, in mutual communication with each other, and would succeed in it equally.

We have to keep advancing as we have been.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The State of Perfection” 1/26/13

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Question: How can you give up this world, meaning, use it not for one’s own sake?

Answer: And what is there in it that you don’t want to give up? What’s holding you here?

Comment: Actually, nothing holds, but there is some kind of fear.

My Response: It is because you don’t know what you are changing it for! But you are not shown the next world for you not to change “the cow for a bull,” because then you would egoistically want to move to the next world. So how can it be shown to you?! There is no entrance there egoistically!

Surely, you will be fixated on it all the time, “I want to go there because it’s good there!”

In order to push you away from such an attitude to the upper world, you are given all sorts of opposite, negative states. You are pushed away, given fatigue, and detachment.

A person who perseveres anyway eventually achieves an emergence of a new feeling toward the upper world in him that is not egoistic: “I want it because it is qualitatively different! I start to feel it.” As, for example, in our world, a person prefers to be a poor musician rather than a rich merchant. He has a dream and it is dear to him.

When such a re-evaluation of values occurs in a person, he begins to approach the upper world. And our whole methodology—group, study, dissemination—is built just for this, to help a person in internal restructuring. Thus, he approaches the replacement of the values of our world with the values of the upper world.

And all of a sudden it turns out that in order to annul himself, he is ready to make an enormous effort. How is it done in our world?! Everyone wants to stomp on everyone like a cigarette butt and grind! And here it is the opposite. How does it happen? Under the influence of the upper light.

This will manifest itself more and more clearly, and people in our world will feel that this is a possible physical, literally physical, internal psychological restructuring. It can be done very quickly on yourself; you change your values and preconceived notions and enter into a completely new matrix.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. New Matrix” 2/2/13

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Question: You always emphasize that you can pass some information about spirituality to another person in the form of a book. Let us say he looked at, read, and closed the book and that is it. Does it make sense to pass this information? Or is there nonetheless some inclusion happening in him?

Answer: If he came into contact with me, if he got to the point that he received some information or bought a book, then even if it will be sitting on his shelf, even if he sometimes will remember something, this is already a lot. He is already tied into a global network! He is already developing subconsciously. Somewhere something is happening in him. He is closer to correction than the rest.

If a person just heard it at least once, it is already useful because he became connected to the general system.

We are all connected to each other by one web of forces, and this tube by which he is connected to all the others, as if, opens up and the higher information flows through it, a person subconsciously catches it and gradually changes. He is already getting an infusion.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Get Hooked on a Spiritual Needle” 11/3/09

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Question: If the Creator reveals His endless love to us, then we will begin to neglect Him, and therefore, as protection, He gives us blows and rejects us. Why is it necessary to do so?

Answer: This is done on purpose so that we change our state. This neglect is the result of a new level of egoism emerging and unfolding in you.

Question: Why can’t we immediately embrace all of the Creator’s love?

Answer: You do not have any abilities for this. We need to work on it. After all, sensation and the understanding of sensations, i.e., the heart and mind must be together. You cannot just feel it! There must be a period of awareness of the cause, action, effect of these sensations, certain control over them, then the next state, and so on. There are a lot of different switches here.

It all depends on how ready you are for this, how much you want to take part in all the metamorphoses happening in you and your willingness to call them upon yourself. This will reduce the time to adapt to the new world.

This is a completely new world in which you will feel that there is neither time nor space, there is no life or death. You will look at your body as at an animal that is next to you; well, you stayed with it, made friends with it, like with your dog or a bull that grazes in your yard, and now you are parting.

Moreover, you feel this animalistic state that also has its own egoistic form. But since it supported you and brought you closer to spirituality, then in this egoistic form it begins to enter the spiritual as an integral part of it. Therefore, there is no death, there is no disappearance. On the contrary, it is like all your inanimate, vegetative, and animate desires that join your next state because they led you to this.

Starting from the appearance of our universe, that point that developed in you has now led you to exit our universe into the next one. This is a very special state, an historical moment. Although there is no history and time.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Dangerous Love” 1/23/14

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Does God understand constructed languages?“

The Creator, which is a quality of love, bestowal and connection, understands the language of feelings when we relate to Him independently of ourselves, and when we wish to feel Him and simultaneously forget about ourselves. In other words, the feeling of the Creator needs to be completely objective.

Based on “Ten Blitz Answers about the Creator” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 21, 2022. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Lesson on the Topic “Opening the Locked Gates”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot,” Item 20

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Study of the Ten Sefirot,” Vol. 1, Part 4, Chapter 1 

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Question: What did Rabash introduce into his texts that they again and again bring me an inner trembling that cannot be endured?!

Answer: You can communicate with a person at different levels of desires but with the Creator only if you give yourself completely to Him. From above, we are never given a half but only a full Kli (full desire). And therefore, although we divide it into NaRaNHaY—zero, one, two, three, four levels of desire, this already refers to the state when a person completely cuts himself off from personal reception and works for bestowal.

This is where we need to see how we are approaching this and whether we have any part in it or not, but so that it will not seem impossible or very far away to us.

In general, we are on the threshold of this state. A little effort and we will be in it. And the fact that we feel how high and far it is, this is very good for us to make the jump.

Question: How can we make the attack? By aiming t he hearts of one regarding the other?

Answer: Drawing these forces in relation to each other is possible only when everyone gives an example of how devoted he is to others.
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From the “Arava” Convention in Europe – Lithuania 2022, Lesson 2, 7/24/22

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