Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is Kabbalah from a perspective of a person practicing it?“

The wisdom of Kabbalah was made in order to guide us from our lives in this world to the attainment of the upper, spiritual world, and explains the absolute and fixed laws acting in both realities.

Using the wisdom of Kabbalah according to its intended purpose—bringing us attainment of the spiritual world—we gradually rise in our consciousness, perception and sensation of reality, eventually reaching, as Baal HaSulam described, the “exalted goal” of nothing less than the revelation of the Creator during our lifetime.

Who or what is the Creator?

The Creator is nature’s loftiest integral force, which includes the entirety of creation, everything that exists on its still, animate, vegetative and human levels.

When we understand how the Creator acts toward us, we can then understand the genuine causes of everything unfolding in our lives, and how to optimally respond to every situation in life.

The more we put the wisdom of Kabbalah to practice in our lives, the more we see exactly why and how we participate in creation, in nature.

In our era, more and more people feel the need for what the wisdom of Kabbalah provides, because as Kabbalists throughout history explained, specifically our era is the one when humanity would awaken en masse with questions about life’s meaning and purpose.

Our evolution is driving us all toward the revelation of the Creator. It is a process of accumulating suffering and deficiency. The wisdom of Kabbalah enters this process as a means to sweeten it, so that we don’t have to develop painfully, but increase our awareness of what is happening, and by doing so, experience the process much more enjoyably.

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are some photos which deserve millions of likes?“

We would be wise to promote photos and other media that show examples of love, unity, mutual consideration, support and encouragement above all differences, in order to positively influence humanity with such ideals.

The more we become influenced to want to love and positively connect to each other, coming closer to a sensation that we are all a single family, the more we would experienced improved social health, more happiness and confidence, less crime, anxiety, stress, depression, and many other negative phenomena in our lives.

This photo was taken at the 2008 World Kabbalah Convention in Tel Aviv, Israel. Each year, thousands of people gather at this convention from dozens of countries in order to unite above all differences, and by doing so, aim to become as a positive mini-model of humanity.

The method of connection (Kabbalah) starts from recognizing that we are egoistic by nature—we each by default consider self-benefit over benefiting others—and that this egoistic quality is the cause of all our problems.

Therefore, approaching love and unity is done not naively, but as a game: that we set a goal to positively connect above the innate division and differences we feel toward each other—not erasing those divisive sensations, but being aware of them and their source—and then acting out a social atmosphere where we each aim to mutually support, encourage and inspire each other to connect, and feel each other—ultimately, all of humanity—no less than we feel our own families and ourselves.

Playing such a game brings us closer to the fundamental laws of nature: laws of love, giving and connection. We thus awaken a positive influence from nature that helps us feel each other more closely, accelerating the pace of our development to feeling people who were as strangers, to feeling everyone as a single family.

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Question: As an average person, I would like to understand: what do I gain by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Living in this mortal world, you will exist for a certain number of years and then abandon it, leaving practically nothing but some garbage, just like each and every one of us in this earthly life. Kabbalah teaches that in this life, in this world, in our time, you can attain the spiritual world, as if you are already above our world, absolutely not leaving it, not dying.

You simply neutralize your egoism that depicts this world to you and start seeing the world of forces and properties called “the spiritual world.” When you reveal it, you can exist in it even today, control our corporeal world from there, and live in the two worlds simultaneously.

In this case, the death of your body will not be something tragic, unexpected, or special for you because while living in this world, you are in contact with your eternal part, with the soul. And then you will rise in your understanding, in the revelation of the soul higher and higher. Therefore, it is desirable to at least a little, in some way, adhere to your eternal part.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/26/20

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Question: We feel or try to feel what the Creator can do, we observe and analyze it. But what can the created being do? What does a Kabbalist feel when he can actually do something if he can do something at all?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah is the method of attaining the properties of the Creator by a person while still living in this world. One can be like the Creator to the extent that one attains the upper properties. This is what he can do. But it is his business whether he can do so. It depends on how much he devotes himself to it.

Question: What is the concept: “inner woman” in Kabbalah, and how can I use it?

Answer: It is your inner egoistic desire, which has been partially corrected. The altruistic part of this desire is called your “inner woman.”

Question: There is a statement in one of your articles: “Our egoistic desire is greater than our ego, greater than pride. After all, if it were the other way around, we would break and shatter to death, but we would not bow.” How is a desire different from the ego? Why is it greater and how does this save us from total shattering?

Answer: The desire to enjoy for my own sake is called the ego. This is our whole nature. Absolutely. There is nothing else in us. Only the desire to enjoy everything we can imagine as a source of pleasure.

Question: I am greatly confused about the mutual connection between the person and the Creator. It seems like some medieval religion.

Answer: It is not religion. The Creator is the general force of nature in which we exist, and it includes all physical, chemical, and all the other laws.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/26/20

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After the point in the heart has been opened in a person, and he does not leave it even if it is black and there is no light in it, no filling, one realizes that it speaks about something higher than this world. One believes that it is better to be in this state of uncertainty and depression than in the animalistic state of our world.

And he begins to pay attention to his spiritual development. The black point gradually develops all kinds of movements in him in one direction or another. That is, a person rushes toward spirituality, then somehow falls behind, trying to approach this either from a scientific, mystical, or emotional point of view.

In general, he does everything that the great Kabbalists Baal HaSulam and Rabash advise: he reads a lot, he studies, he engages. But still, he is moving forward very slowly, almost without changes.

This is a process of internal accumulation of information, sensations, which is still unclear to us. After all, the way the sperm enters the uterus and begins to develop in it is also completely hidden from us and only after a while it makes itself felt. The same happens to us.

The only problem is that a person’s spiritual development can take many years. Ultimately, insight, awareness, and sensation is also not his spiritual birth but only a certain stage when he feels being in the upper world but still does not understand what is happening to him.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/16/20

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Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 6

Lesson on the Topic “Connecting the World in the Last Generation” 

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 4/29/20

Israel’s Independence Day often invokes reflections on the meaning of independence and whether we are truly independent. Evidently, we are not independent economically. In a globalized world, no country is independent, much less a country whose economy relies so heavily on export and import. Israel is also not independent in the military sense or in the diplomatic sense, since we are dependent on America’s support in both these aspects.

Yet, these three facets of our nationhood have never been the decisive factor in our being. Our strength was never in our economic, military, or diplomatic fortitude, but in our unity! The Jewish people formed when Abraham united people from all over the Fertile Crescent around the principle of love above all differences. The ancient Hebrews achieved independence from their innate hatred of each other and formed a nation that was based on love of others regardless of background, ethnicity, or faith. Only when Israel achieved this level of union and pledged to be “as one man with one heart” they were declared a nation. When Israel abandoned unity, they were exiled from the land of Israel.

Now that we are beginning our 73rd year of renewed sovereignty, I hope that this will be the year when we finally achieve true independence—from hating one another. Today, our very lives depend on this.

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The #UN’s International Labour Organization warned that roughly half of the world’s workers, and that’s over 1.5 billion people, may end up destitute due to the #coronavirus pandemic. Nature will force us to restructure society to become one, integral.
Whether with suffering or self-awareness.
From Twitter, 4/29/20

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Question: You have relatives who live abroad. Do you discuss the coronavirus with them? You must be worried about them.

Answer: My son, his wife, and three children have been living in Canada for more than 30 years. Of course, I worry about them.

Question: As a Kabbalist, do you give them any advice?

Answer: As a Kabbalist, I do not give any advice to anyone. All the advice of a Kabbalist is in the form of suggestions: you can either do it or not.

Whatever I say, I say for everyone. My son listens to our lessons, participates in all our events, distributes books—he has a publishing company. He knows what needs to be done. Why would I tell him anything?

Question: What would you advise a person who has COVID-19?

Answer: As a human being, I cannot even say. As far as I know, this virus cannot withstand high temperatures.

As a Kabbalist, I advise you to think and act so that all the people on Earth will become closer to each other because this virus that is separating us shows exactly where we are sick: in the connection between us. And so it divides us.

Question: What measures do you personally take to protect yourself from the coronavirus? For example: quarantine, vitamins, exercise, washing hands frequently, and so on.

Answer: I wash my hands, even with a special disinfectant. I do not come in contact with other people if not necessary, as prescribed by the Ministry of Health. Everything that needs to be done, I do as an ordinary citizen.

Whether I believe it or not, whether I feel bad or good about it, does not matter. A Kabbalist always does what the government or experts tell the people to do according to the rule “Be with your nation.”

Question: Let’s imagine that you were in isolation due to the quarantine.and some mysterious computer virus hits the Internet, and you, like everyone else, were left unable to communicate with anyone over the Internet. You were left by yourself for 14 days. What would you do? What would you think about?

Answer: As long as I have books, I do not care if it is two weeks or 20 years. However, then I would not be able to convey to people the method of correcting themselves and the world, that is, the method of getting rid of all viruses in order to achieve a good, higher state of humanity. That would be a problem. But with regard to myself, I am self-sufficient.

Question: If there were no books, what would you do?

Answer: I have this all in my head. I am in a state of connection with other people, and it does not depend on connection through Internet networks. I feel humanity, I feel souls, I feel other people. I am connected with my teacher and with other Kabbalists of past centuries. I do not have any problems here. No viruses limit me.

It would only be a pity that in the absence of conventional means of information, I would not be able to convey to all people through the customary methods of communication what needs to be done to get rid of all viruses and to reach correction.
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From KabTV’s “Coronavirus Changes Reality,” 3/26/20

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