“It is a question of discipline,” the little prince said to me later on. “When you’ve finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care.”
Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince

Question: What does it mean “to attend to the toilet of your planet”? A person gets up in the morning and says what?

Answer: He does not like what is happening to him, to others, to everyone.

Comment: Now there is a pandemic, a virus, you cannot meet anyone, fly anywhere…

My Response: Yes. One must agree with what is happening because this is actually the most correct way. One just needs to justify the Creator. This is the most correct path to the best state.

We just do not understand why this is happening, what is this best state to which we must advance in such a terrible way. None of us likes this world. Everyone would rearrange it in their own way.

Question: Does this agreement: “Whatever You do is for the good. Thank You so much for everything you are doing” mean to attend to the toilet of your planet?

Answer: The Creator does all according to our state. We should be His partners. However, since we are not His partners, He needs to bend us a little and, accordingly, still direct the “boat” in this direction.

Question: That is my understanding. So, does this mean putting my planet in order?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do I then advance without suffering?

Answer: This is, of course, not possible. On the contrary, I should accept these sufferings as corrections and be happy about them because they heal me.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/31/20

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Question: What is the difference between The Book of Zohar and the Torah?

Answer: The Book of Zohar is a commentary on the Five Books of the Torah. It comments on each passage and explains what is hidden behind the allegories and behind the everyday language in which the Torah is written.

It seems to us that the Torah tells about history, geography, and certain earthly incidents. And The Book of Zohar raises all this to the next level and speaks of those forces that descend into our world and form everything spiritual.

Through the picture of our world, through the earthly description, together with The Zohar, you seem to enter a spiritual state and start to see not a world of physical images but of higher forces.

You begin to live in it as in a spiritual matrix that influences you and you influence it. You tear yourself away from your body, bare your inner properties and forces, abstract from everything you feel with your five corporeal senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch), and bind yourself only with your soul.

All properties, forces, desires, thoughts, and intentions that remain with you after you cut off everything earthly from yourself begin to contact the forces that The Book of Zohar describes. It explains to you how you can now put yourself in order as if “combing” yourself inside your soul.

How can you create a new order in you every time: new occurrences, new shifts, connections, combinations of different properties, thoughts, intentions in order to understand more deeply with whom you are dealing.

As a result, it turns out that the soul, which now manifests itself in you in isolation from everything earthly, in the form of your inner forces, begins to draw to you the qualities of the Creator. But they are also your qualities; they are portrayed on you.

It turns out that on one side there is you, on the other side is the Creator, and there is a screen between you upon which your joint properties are depicted. These joint properties can change depending on how you change.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #7

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Question: What is the purpose of the brain in human life?

Answer: Kabbalah says that in his perception of the world, a man consists of two components, the desire and the mind. The most important is his desire.

Our desires can be egoistic, i.e., completely aimed at revealing oneself and the world precisely in an egoistic manner, in terms of personal comfort. They can also be altruistic, that is, opposed to egoism. But altruistic desires do not initially exist in nature, they need to be achieved. When we enter above the egoistic area of our cognition of nature, we investigate it, as it were, independent of ourselves.

However, this is relative independence because it is us who are exploring anyway. But this is completely different research, which speaks of what exists outside of a man, and how he can attain, cognize, and use it.

Thus, there are two types of cognition: cognition in egoism and cognition in the property of bestowal and love to others when a man, as if from himself, emotionally transmigrates into others. Then he feels the world outside himself. These two types of cognition are studied by Kabbalah.

Our brain is just an auxiliary tool. It helps us connect pictures of the world, either egoistically or altruistically, helps us explore them, and is directing us to this.
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From KabTV’s “Together about Important Things” 9/2/18

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Question: If everything is predetermined by the Creator, is the only thing in my power to relate to it differently and to go through it in a different pace?

Answer: Everything is totally and precisely predetermined from the beginning of the spiritual path to its end, and there is nowhere you can escape from it. You must reach the root of your soul which has descended from point B to point A, and you must return from point A to point B by your own efforts.

This process can be described by three lines. The first line (1) is the descent from the world of infinity to our world. The second line (2) is the history of our world, our corporeal path (6,000 years). And the third line (3) is the ascent back to the world of infinity

Descents and ascents have practically no time. But we are returning to our root.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/30/18

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Question: You are our spiritual guide in this world. Is there an explanation for the fact that the teacher of such a global group speaks Russian?

Answer: The fact is that today the Russian speaking audience is the most receptive in the world, for several reasons.

First, the majority of the Jewish nation lived in the territory of Czarist Russia and in Eastern Europe, which impregnated this area with its Kabbalistic ideas. This is very important. The land itself began to grow Kabbalists.

Second, while the wisdom of Kabbalah was gradually revealed starting from the 16th century, from the time of the ARI who lived in the land of Israel, in Safed, it mainly developed in Russia in the areas where the Jews in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine lived, which is where Kabbalists lived.

Many Kabbalah books, which are still famous today and which we study quite often, were written in these places in the 17th to 19th centuries. So from a territorial perspective, Russia is the birthplace of modern Kabbalah. It is the reason that part of the Jewish nation, and not only the Jewish nation, which grew there, perceives the wisdom of Kabbalah so well and is drawn to the attainment of spirituality.

I can see an inclination to study Kabbalah in these people and I welcome them warmly and make sure that I satisfy their spiritual yearning.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is the attainment of the meaning of life and of the whole structure of creation. It explains how the system works, how it operates, and how a person can impact it.

So apparently it is not a coincidence that I speak Russian. I know Hebrew only in the framework of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, but my mother tongue is Russian and I think and feel in Russian. It is impossible to part from that, although I came to Israel in 1974. This is my fate.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/2/18

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Question: There is a phrase: “What is impossible to observe openly, a person observes secretly.” With the development of the Internet, the line between observation and peeping has been completely erased. What has always been hidden is open and accessible to everyone.

According to recent studies, this is defined as the experience of certain stimulating emotions that cause a person to develop. That is, he receives the strength that makes him go further.

Why do people like to spy on others?

Answer: Because at the same time a person, first, evaluates himself above others. This is the first impulse: they do not see me, but I see them. I’m kind of cooler than them, and that’s the most important thing. Secondly, maybe it gives him the opportunity to command them or somehow defend against them, etc.

But, in general, peeping is a great help to our egoism, which expands the ego and makes us feel like rulers, masters, owning circumstances.

Question: Is the feeling of such power good or bad?

Answer: This is neither good nor bad. This should lead us to reassess our values so that we understand that all our egoism, all our desires to be better, stronger, and smarter than others are wrong. After all, in the end, relative to nature, we act as one single whole—humanity.

To position ourselves correctly, we must unite among ourselves. And then we will be able to correctly manage our own destiny, nature, and the world. By uniting, we lower our selfishness and raise our altruism. Then we can truly rise above our selfish nature and will not abuse the idea of spying and eavesdropping.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 2/16/21

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Question: Why are all the sources, all the global spiritual writings like the Torah, Ecclesiastes, and the Book of Psalms, written in Hebrew?

Answer: It is because the letters of the Hebrew language don’t change, and it is impossible to express them differently. Take any source you like that is thousands of years old and a modern book and you will see that not a single letter has changed.

It is just like a mathematical formula, if you change one symbol with another, you would not be understood, and it would also lead to nothing.

Besides, it isn’t about just another symbol, although a letter in the pure sense is a symbol. When you express your feelings through letters, you affect the world. A letter connects you to the internal system of the world, and by that you seemingly press the buttons, and do something inside the internal system.

Comment: But when we look at a book now, we don’t see or feel anything at all.

My Response: It is a multi-layered system, and even when an ordinary person looks at these letters, he still penetrates the system to a certain degree and receives some illumination. The light operates on him.

There are people who don’t understand the language at all, but during the lesson they place the book in front of them and look at it, even if they cannot follow the text, and the text impacts them.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 1/6/19

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Zohar For All, VaYera, Item 375: Similarly, on a day when there is Din in the world and the Creator sits at the throne of judgment, that Satan is there slandering above and below. He is there to destroy the world and to take people’s souls, since he is Satan, the angel of death.

Comment: We say that there is no one in the world beside the Creator. Yet, it turns out, there is also Satan.

My Response: In the “warehouse” of the Creator there is not only Satan but also Pharaoh, good and evil angels, the angel of death, and so on.

Question: What about “There is none else besides Him”?

Answer: That is why they are in His “warehouse,” and He uses them, sends these forces in all directions, and He just controls them, pulls the strings. We are under the influence of both good and bad forces. Moreover, they are allegedly bad because everything is for good.

After all, in order to move us forward, it is necessary to push us from the opposite side. Here He is revealed to us in His different guises, with different faces: kind and evil, bad and good.

All this is in order to show man the inner meaning, to show him life, history, geography, all the development of humanity, the inner world of everyone, and so on. We must discover this from two opposite qualities.

What does the Creator do? He takes control over Satan and works through him. The good is clothed in evil in order to influence our evil and by this counterattack lead us to good. Otherwise, we, as egoists, would take the good in such a way as to selfishly seize it.

However, when this good is clothed in evil and as if the external evil from the Creator opposes our evil, then our discontent manifests and problems arise. We are forced to do something with ourselves.

Gradually, we become softer, open up, and become ready for the revelation of good. Then the Creator releases the good out of Himself, and we merge with each other. This is the only way we can influence each other: good for good and evil for evil.

It will not work out otherwise because others will not understand you. Try to treat well those who treat you badly, and you will see that by doing so you only awake even greater evil. But internally, one must still act with love and kindness.

On the outside, you must behave the way they do because only in this way can you force the opposite side to accept the method of correction. This is an elementary corporeal psychology. The Creator also works with us according to this principle.

There is nothing complicated about this. You just need to go a little deeper into the system of relationships that exists between us, see that it works, and use it precisely to understand the internal system of the universe and reach your spiritual ascent.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar,” #7

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Question: What is the spiritual meaning of cleaning for Passover? Why do we suddenly have to clean everything up?

Answer: The Passover cleaning symbolizes that we must completely purify ourselves from our egoistic desires and intentions.

Question: And are all these states described in the Passover Haggadah (Legend)?

Answer: Yes. They are displayed there purely symbolically. This is called Seder Pesach.

“Seder” is the order of exit from Egypt, and “Pesach” is from the word “Pasach,” that is, the transition. This refers to the transition from egoism to altruism.

Question: In principle, this is a clear instruction on how a person crosses the Machsom?

Answer: Yes. But this is not a physical transition, but an internal one, for which you need to prepare a lot.

Question: And not just one person, but a group of people?

Answer: And how can it be that a person goes from egoism to altruism alone? This should be done in his connection with others, in his attitude toward others. He must transfer all concern from himself to others, all worry about himself to others, all his personal goals to general goals, all connections of himself with himself in connection with others. That is, he must completely turn his worldview around.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual states” 4/15/19

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