Question: Is there any connection between the process of the conception of the soul and the process of acquiring the screen?

Answer: Of course. Depending on the development of the screen over one’s egoism, a person begins to feel the upper world. And this level that one feels is called one’s soul.

And before that, when one is in the process of conception (Ibur), one has neither a screen nor a soul. Being born in spirituality and the appearance of the screen take place at the same time.

Question: Is it possible to transfer the screen from teacher to student?

Answer: No. Not in any way. Sometimes this can be achieved for a while by common study, common actions. But in general, this is not for the benefit of the student. The student must work on it and acquire the screen himself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 8/20/21

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Question: What is the meaning of the blessings before and after meals?

Answer: Any absorption of food must be accompanied by blessings, because everything comes from the Creator. Everything descends to a person from top to bottom. Therefore, before eating or drinking, a person should thank the Creator accordingly. Only then can you start your meal.

Comment: Many people bless food before and after meals. This is considered a folk tradition.

My Response: Yes, but in principle, this is giving thanks for the fact that we are sitting at a meal and now we will fulfill our desires, satisfy our hunger. Therefore, we thank the Creator, from whom everything, the sun, water, and everything else, descends, and thanks to which we can fill, revive ourselves, and support life.

Question: If we consider the Creator as nature, what does it mean to thank nature?

Answer: This means that you form the correct attitude to nature in yourself, you consider yourself not the master of everything that is in nature, but only the recipient. It is very important to understand that you are not the master.

Question: What is the difference between the blessings before and after the meal?

Answer: Before the meal, you give thanks for receiving this food. And after for the fact that you are satiated, and now you can live on.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/9/21

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Native American wisdom: Make me strong, not to rise above my brother, but to defeat my greatest enemy—myself.

That is correct. These are people who were brought up with the ideology of nature.

I have met real Native Americans who live in the mountains. They feel related to each other, they feel a part of nature, and each one as a part of others. They do not have such huge egoism like Europeans, especially like us. If one has something, he offers it all to the rest. Without any thoughts. Just like that, because it is us. This is us.

Question: Tell me, please, do we need decades or centuries to come to this idea?

Answer: I think millennia.

Question: But, in principle, if we come to this idea, will we make some kind of revolution?

Answer: We will make a revolution in ourselves when we start thinking about us and not about me. Just replace I with us on a worldwide scale and that is it. Nothing else is needed. By this, you change everything. Everything! Your sensation and perception of the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/15/21

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Question: According to what you say, the Creator does not exist. If so, to whom are we raising MAN?

Answer: I mean that the Creator people believe in does not exist. The Creator is the common force of nature that urges us to unite. This is its sole purpose.

So, the correct definition of the Creator is that it is the general, integral force within which everything exists. The wisdom of Kabbalah says that this force initially shattered everything that was created, and now the creation gradually yearns to come together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Every particle must take its rightful place in relation to others, and in their mutual integration they will discover the higher force more and more. Therefore, if I say that the Creator does not exist, I mean: do not try to find Him in anything else but the force of connection. He does not do anything else and there is no need to hope for anything else.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/7/19

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Question: It is written in the book of Prophets, Joshua: I have given into your hand Jericho and its king, the mighty warriors… And only you keep (yourselves) from the devoted thing, lest you make yourselves condemned when you take of the devoted thing. What does it mean to “keep from the devoted thing”?

Answer: The devoted thing is an egoistic desire that cannot be corrected. If you take it, in no way you will be able to overcome it. It will stick to you like a leprosy, like something that you cannot get rid of. You will start thinking that it is yours, and this is the worst thing.

The fact is that you did not have this desire before, but as soon as you stick to it, it becomes yours.

Question: Further, the book of Prophets tells us that a person called Achan sinned and took of the consecrated thing…, a goodly Babylonish garment, meaning clothing, …and two hundred shekels of silver, meaning money, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, meaning wealth. What does it mean?

Answer: Clothing is a covering (Levush) with which you can dress anything, and it will look like an external garment, not an internal one. That is, you put it on and immediately become a complete egoist without even realizing it.

Money (Kesef) from the word “Kisufa, Kisui” (covering). In principle, this is the same as the garment, only more insidious. It buys you and you start working for it. That is, you find money, get it, win it, take it away, and it seems to you that it is yours. Yet in fact, you belong to them.

But gold (Zahav) is above everything – “Ze Hav,” which swallows everything. This is the representation of absolute blindness before wealth. If a person falls for gold, he is irrevocably lost.

Comment: It would seem that the people of Israel have already passed the stage of building the golden calf.

My Response: It does not matter since the final correction has not happened yet. The building of the golden calf will be finally corrected only in the last generation. In total, all this is the devoted thing.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/19/21

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Question: There is no concept of prison in Kabbalah, but there is a concept of the death penalty. Should a person have a reason to be afraid of harming other members of society?

Answer: No. The death penalty is merely a theoretical concept, and in fact, practically no one was ever executed in the nation of Israel.

During its entire existence, the Sanhedrin (the Supreme Court) sentenced someone to death only once, and as far as I know, this was later canceled. It was considered that they can sentence a person to death only once every 70 years! The death penalty was regarded as something inhumane and terrible.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 7/7/19

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Lesson on the Topic “Faith Above Reason” 

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The desire to receive does not disappear and does not extinguish in us, but gradually we learn to use it for the sake of bestowal. The quality of reception, which is called Malchut, remains in us, and the quality of bestowal, the quality of Bina, is clothed on it. Therefore we become like the Creator and are called man, Adam, that is, like (edome in Hebrew) to the upper force.

In this way, a person can advance becoming more and more like the Creator. This means that he rises up the degrees of equivalence of form to the upper force. He wants to prefer the governance of the Creator to the governance of creation, to prefer the desire to bestow to the desire to receive. So he rises from this world, where the quality of Malchut reigns, to the upper world, where the quality of Bina rules.

We still do not understand what “faith above reason” means, that is, the rule of Bina over Malchut. These seem to be empty words to us until we make this transition from Malchut to Bina. Malchut remains but hides inside Bina, and Bina wraps Malchut and gives it form, that is, determines its behavior, controlling Malchut.

And Malchut supports Bina; the more Malchut grows, the higher it raises Bina. Therefore the Creator says to the creatures: “You made Me.”

Within our egoism, the Creator is at the lowest degree of all possible degrees, and therefore hides from us. But the higher we raise Him above the level of Malchut, the more we can reveal Him. We raise the Creator, Bina, to reign over Malchut. This is how we overcome our egoism and establish the Creator as king over the world.

From the moment we make an internal decision that Bina will rule over Malchut, that faith will rule over reason, the human level begins to develop in us. And this milestone of our development is called “Rosh HaShanah” (new year). We declare that on this day the first man, Adam HaRishon, was born, a man was born in us, already somewhat similar to the Creator. From this moment a new period begins, the “new year.”

This is why this world was created: so that a person would raise the quality of bestowal above the quality of receiving, replacing the force of egoism with the force of bestowal. And the higher the quality of Bina rises, the higher our desire to receive rises with it, until all Malchut rises to Bina and then to Keter. This completes all the corrections of creation prepared for us by the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/21, “Faith Above Reason”

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A person like you, who was born with the question of the meaning of our existence and understands that if his life is temporary, then there is no need to live, thinks about it.

Comment: A person like you who was born with the question of the meaning of our existence and understands that if his life is temporary and so then there is no need to live, thinks about this. But today many people still do not ask this question.

My Response: Then suffering will force them gradually and the question will arise.

I also did not have it right away. What do you mean I was born with this question? It appeared from the feeling of emptiness of this life, and that, that in general, there is nothing in it.

I was born in a very well-off family with excellent conditions, received an education, and I had no problems in the corporeal sense all my life. I know how to provide for myself and how to conduct business.

I had no problems with anything except for one thing: Why am I doing all this? This is the question that constantly bothered me. Everything else I had in abundance and in surplus. You can say that I was born “with a golden spoon.” This is what is called “Mazal” (luck). But the question of the meaning of life bothered me all the time.

There are people who come to this question through suffering. They have such problems that they begin to ask themselves: “Why? What for?

What is happening to me? What have I done wrong?” From this they gradually reveal the meaning of life.

Eventually, we all will reveal it.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Hope for Peace” 9/9/09

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