Question: Baal HaSulam has a verse that ends with these words:

“You shall relish in words of truth,
To speak untainted words.
And all you will see,
Your own eyes will see, and not that of a stranger!”

What will man see? What is revealed to him?

Answer: We are not talking about the corporeal image of our world but about the fact that man will attain the very essence of creation. This is the highest pleasure. It completely fills a person and he does not need anything else.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/10/21

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Baal HaSulam, “Letter 21“: And the most important is to pray extensively and strengthen the confidence that the Creator will help you succeed in meriting complete repentance, and to know how to adhere to Him in one connection for eternity. This is the most important, and this is what distinguishes one who serves the Creator from one who does not serve Him. “Do not rest, and give Him no rest” until He forgives all your sins and crimes and brings you close to Him forever and for all eternity.

By sins and crimes we mean that we forget the Creator, we do not remember Him, and do not attribute every moment in life to Him. These are our crimes and nothing else. He manages everything else, and “There is none else besides Him.”

I exist under His complete control except for one thing. I have the ability to connect myself to Him in a reciprocal connection. This is the only thing that does not come from Him. This is the only freewill I have. We will gradually discover more and more how everything is determined only from above except for: “There is none else besides Him,” “The Good that does good.”

All our so-called sins result from the shattering of the connection between us, which we can restore. Here we need to help each other by showing each other what can be done by creating a certain brotherhood so that everyone can feel how the friend thinks and cares about the goal and never leaves it.

Our role is to return to the thought that I am connected to the Creator at any given moment and that He determines everything that I receive in my mind and feelings. Everything that happens to me and those I come in contact with is all the ways the Creator appears before me.

“There is none else besides Him.” This is not just a force, because all manifestations and appearances of the friends, the group, the world, nature, and even me regarding myself are all His manifestations and revelations. We need to know, to understand and determine this clearly, and constantly strengthen in it.

Other than that, we need to multiply the prayer and strengthen the confidence that the Creator will in return grant us complete repentance. We will return to Him again and again until we acquire total adhesion with Him, which means connection in which we will feel that everything that happens inside us stems directly from Him. Then this whole world, which in itself is a partition between us and the Creator, will disappear, and melt away. Each of us will totally feel that there is only me and the Creator. But I will no longer be alone, but will be a huge group, the whole general soul.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/13/19

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Question: Did philosophers of the past ask themselves the question about the meaning of life?

Answer: Yes, but they treated this issue in the same way as many people today, purely speculatively.

They did not understand that one must enter the upper world, feel it, open it up, and exist simultaneously in two worlds, through our world to see the next one, the spiritual one. They did not understand that it is the same as attaining our world, and therefore, they worked purely with reason.

Comment: You have repeatedly said that all spiritual methods and religions originated from Kabbalah, from Abraham.

My Response: Yes, they are even called Abrahamic.

Question: In that generation souls very close to nature prevailed, and it was enough for a person to ask the question: What is the meaning of my life? Why did so many become philosophers then?

Answer: It does not matter whether a person asked this question or not. All the same, one should have had a point in the heart, should nonetheless have felt that he was attracted by the revelation of the upper world, that he had to feel it, learn from his own experience and not think that he is already in the higher realm based on some mental or physical exercises.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Seekers” 9/16/09

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Know of a certainty that the Lord your God will not drive these nations out from before you, anymore; and they will be a snare and an obstacle to you, and a goad in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the Lord your God has given you. (The Prophets, the Book of Joshua, 23:13)

“They will be a snare and an obstacle to you, and a goad in your sides and thorns in your eyes” means that if we try to correct egoistic desires that cannot yet be worked with, we will find ourselves in their trap.

Then the body will suffer, the vision will suffer, and you will not see how you are wrong. You will work with these desires in such a way that you will not be able to approach the Creator.

It is about sorting desires at different levels, meaning how we can work with ever-increasing egoistic desires that constantly arise in us and correct them with the intention to bestow, to love others.

Question: Now, when Jews live in the land of Israel, and the Arab people live next to us, what kind of relationship should there be between us?

Answer: Jews should do their own thing—correct themselves—and not touch anyone or anything until we, with our inner corrections, do so, so that the forces of nature will free us and everyone in the world will understand that this is the Creator.

He is one, the only one for all, and it is in this way that He must be revealed in fusion between all and with Him.

Then we will be able to stop all clashes and outrages by working on ourselves. The spiritual and material must be balanced.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/30/21

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Even in this day that I am in, I am happy to work under a great burden even seventy years, without any knowledge of its success (even my whole life), except that it is certainly the way that I have been commanded to walk in all His ways and to adhere to Him, which I have heard initially.

At the same time, I cannot excuse myself at all by any notion or contemplation from doing any work for His sake because of my lowliness. I crave and think all day about the sublimity of the work of God, in such sublimity that I cannot even write about it. (Baal HaSulam, “Letter 9“)

A person who has attained the spiritual world, the integral system of mutual connections of the whole creation with the Creator, says this. All of the levels of creation that are below the Creator were revealed to Baal HaSulam. He felt that his connection with the upper force enabled him to connect the creation to the Creator through him, which means that he constantly engaged in increasingly greater correction of the whole creation, since this is what the Creator had prepared for him.

There isn’t anything more sublime, clear, revealed and eternal than what Baal HaSulam did. And each of us is the same, every individual, even if he doesn’t totally understand and doesn’t know what the wisdom of Kabbalah is, he performs the Creator’s instructions, and still participates persistently in the process of the creation by living his life, even without being aware of it. So there is actually no one we can complain to with regard to sins and disrespect since everyone carries out instructions from above. No one can do anything against the Creator’s will.

The only question is how we should consciously reach the full understanding of the nature of the creation, the upper force, or the attribute of bestowal in the creation, which is called the Creator, and how we should carry out His instructions, His actions, and His desires. By performing all His actions consciously, we bring a great addition to creation. We exist in reality through our wise participation. This summons a great addition of energy, light, and joy there is in the attribute of bestowal in the Creator.

But even if we don’t do that, we need to understand that no created being can do anything against the Creator’s thought. This is impossible, because we are all clearly and precisely all the desires under His attribute and under His control. The only difference is in carrying out His instructions, the instructions of nature, consciously or unconsciously.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/13/19

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Question: How do you feel when you are told that one of your videos has been viewed by several million people?

Answer: I hope that this will help people avoid problems in life and to quickly achieve a good state, connection with each other and with the Creator. That, in principle, is the whole purpose of what I do.

Question: How do you deal with pride when a movie is made about you or you are interviewed? There are hundreds of these interviews!

Answer: I don’t have any pride. No! You can invite anyone to me or you can take me anywhere, even to a meeting with presidents—I am not impressed. I am talking to the Creator. What is man to me? I do not neglect it, but not a single person in the world can impress me somehow.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/10/21

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, Shamati #30 “The Most Important Is to Want Only to Bestow”

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 74

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Is evolution truly random?“

Evolution is not random. If we perceive anything random in nature, it only appears to us as random because we lack understanding of how nature truly operates. Nature’s laws are very clearly determined. Nothing in history happened coincidentally, and nothing today is unfolding by chance either.

The driving force of evolution is the constant growth of a desire through four levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate and human. The process of increasing globalization we now experience is due to these desires reaching their satiation and from a linear development where we could always find new solutions within our range of desires, we have reached a stage where we are becoming increasingly “rounded,” i.e. globally interconnected and interdependent.

When we understand the forces acting on our evolution, then we can understand what is required to further evolve in either a painful or a harmonious manner. The painful path is via increasing crises that lead to reduction of the human population, and the harmonious path is by implementing connection-enriching education based on revealing to humanity the real world and nature we live in.

We currently fail to perceive a lot of what is around us, and we have no clue about the forces acting on us. We do not know what we will think and want in the next moment. All of a sudden, a thought or a desire surfaces, from where? It comes to us from the secret hidden part of reality that we need to disclose. The wisdom of Kabbalah is a method, called a “secret science,” which lets us reveal that hidden part of reality.

When we perceive the entire system, the relations between us on the human level and with the other levels of nature, then we naturally start thinking and acting in a way that is balanced and harmonious with nature, shifting our evolution to a positive direction.

Based on a talk with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman, “Close Up.” Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: Should I minimize the importance of negative events I undergo and increase the importance of the Creator or should I minimize the importance of the “me,” of myself, so I will not even divide the events I undergo as negative or positive?

Answer: You don’t need to engage in destroying yourself, not at all. On the contrary, you should think that you are strong, great, so you can impact the world in a good way and not minimize your impact on the world.

Question: Suppose I am summoned by the police or the IRS, should I immediately see the Creator behind this, i.e., increase His importance at that moment and then automatically decrease the importance of the police or the IRS?

Answer: You shouldn’t do it intentionally. You should relate to everything equally and then what difference does it make if you are playing with your child or if you are being interrogated by the police? You are in contact with the Creator.

If you try to reach contact with the Creator then this is how it is supposed to work out for you. Try it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/21/21

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