Question: What kind of emotional communication should exist between people so they will attain the goal of creation?

Answer: There must be absolute adhesion between them. Each takes his place in the system and is maximally devoted to others. “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) is a law of nature.

Question: Are there techniques of introspection in Kabbalah?

Answer: There is only one method in Kabbalah: to the measure of the Masach (screen), I perceive the Creator. According to my characteristics, I can describe Him. “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35). What I feel is always the Creator. Even all of our limited nature is nevertheless some kind of revelation of the Creator.

Question: What is my work?

Answer: Your work is to hear the example I set regarding the tens sitting in front of me and to participate in a ten wherever you are. You can even create a virtual ten and work in it.

Question: What did you mean when you wrote that the Creator is partially revealed in states of severe suffering?

Answer: The Creator is revealed in states of severe suffering during a particular stage of person’s development. As a rule, these are one’s first steps in Kabbalah when one begins to feel suffering. One felt the suffering before, but now one connects them with one’s impulses to comprehend their cause.

Question: Do you talk about the perception of reality from your experience and attainment, or do you say what was said to you?

Answer: I speak about the perception of reality according to what I have read and then went through in my own experience.

Question: A normal person feels life in the framework of time, motion, and space. How does a Kabbalist feel life?

Answer: A Kabbalist feels life through time, motion, and space spiritually, not physically.

Question: How can the correction of my soul on a spiritual level influence the physical world?

Answer: It can do this completely. By correcting your soul, you can stop wars and bring humanity closer to the solution to all of its problems.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 8/12/18

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New Life 1079 – Hatred: A Phenomenon Of Perception
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Hatred comes from the interconnected network between us in order to elevate us to a higher relationship with one another. If I don’t know how to manage the feelings that arise from the network, I become a source of evil toward everyone and outbreaks of hatred will result. Kabbalah teaches people how to react properly to feelings and give a calm example to others. It is a method of attracting a positive force into the network, against the negative force, with a layer of insulation in the middle. Kabbalists study in groups of ten and learn to make concessions for one another in order to discover the positive, upper force. Kabbalah leads us through the network so we can find out what we are living for and know the system that influences us.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1079 – Hatred: A Phenomenon Of Perception,” 12/13/18

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Lesson on the Topic “To Increase The Greatness of The Creator In Our Eyes”  (Preparation for the World Convention 2019)

Lesson on the Topic “Choosing Unity Above All Differences” 

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One’s free choice lies in either awakening to positioning the Creator as the source of all of one’s desires and thoughts, exalting Him above everything—or going with the flow of one’s egoistic desires and thoughts, which the Creator also arranges in the person ….
…. as He awaits his resistance.

In every state imagine that you are in the Creator’s kind governance. He surrounds you from all sides, in thoughts and desires.
These efforts will result in total consent to annul all your egoism and see the egoism as help from the opposite, created by the Creator …
…. an image opposite to the Creator.

From the Creator’s concealment, as the advantage of light from darkness, one must reveal Him, “One, Unique and Unified,” none else besides Him, who controls the ego. All of the Creator’s actions are deliberately covered by 125 layers of man’s ego so that, through overcoming,
he would gradually reveal the Creator.

I have to reform myself. How? How should I change?
Only in that which you need to be fully united with the ten.
For the rest, stay as you are. The goal is to be united over the constant obstacles, until our unity is complete and we can unite with the Upper Force, our Source.

Try to feel the states of night and day as equal, coming from the Creator, as if you’ve merited perfection.
And if you feel a difference between them, ask for the Creator’s help so that you wouldn’t feel a difference in any states …
… but value each one according to how much contentment you can give to the Creator.

Man has but one task: to reveal the Creator as the only existing entity that controls everything, regardless of how man perceives Him. To reveal the One governing him by raising the Creator’s greatness within, against the ego that befuddles him …
… and screens the Creator’s perfection and singularity.

At the start of his spiritual work, man must feel pleasure as he works for the Creator. Efforts exerted through force of will prepare him to the true spiritual work for the Creator.
And he is given the ability to find pleasure in his efforts for the Creator’s sake even in the period of concealment.

Do you activate the filter, annulling natural logic and exalting the Creator in spite of it, as One who deliberately arranges egoistic disturbances in you, in order to crown the Creator in spite of them as the ruler of everything happening to you and inside you?
Do you build Adam inside you out of equivalence to the Creator?

If you’re feeling the night, you must raise the Creator’s greatness by canceling yourself. Despite your body ridiculing these efforts, you strive to raise the Creator’s greatness (Shechinah from the dust).
Despite the taste of dust, you have faith that the Creator is enjoying your efforts above the ego, that this is spiritual work, and that is why you’re happy.

We must accept the Creator’s rule in our lowest state, and still proceed above our reason and feelings, without consideration for them, as though between heaven and earth with nothing to lean on, because we believe above reason that it is the Creator’s wish for us to accept His rule without any conditions.

For as long as man feels bad states, he perceives them as coming from people. But when he merits seeing only good in the world, and that everything turns to good, the truth is revealed to him—that everything happens only by the Creator’s will.
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Question: Is exiting yourself some kind of fleeting state or a level a Kabbalist feels himself in all the time?

Answer: Exiting yourself can sometimes be transitory, sometimes repeated in different ways. It then becomes permanent and progressive.

Question: Is everything that comes directly from the higher power felt as pleasure?

Answer: Yes, because the upper force is the property of bestowal and love of the Creator. If it is acquired and felt by us in the same way according to the law of equivalence of form, then to the degree that we enjoy, we feel the Creator and our adhesion with Him.

Question: How must I relate to questions and answers?

Answer: Answers should be studied together with the questions. If you didn’t get an answer, ask again. Prepare a page of questions and answer them, organize the questions and answers.  Make notebooks or complete books from them. This is very important! I believe this could accelerate your progress.

Question: Is my true “self” a black point in the heart that is connected with its source, with the Creator,  and my egoism is exists separately from me?

Answer: The egoism is not yours. It is given from above so we will transcend it and can begin feeling the new world. Our “I” is a fixed point. Around it you build your new attainment.

Question: How is a Kabbalist different from the Creator?

Answer: A Kabbalist differs from the Creator in that he builds the property of bestowal and love above egoism. This characteristic exists initially in the Creator. With us it is acquired and with Him it is natural.

Question: Is death a punishment or a reward?

Answer: There is no such thing as death. There is a transition from an egoistic desire to an altruistic desire through the study of Kabbalah. If a person doesn’t study Kabbalah, then his egoistic desire gradually fades until it becomes zero, this is what is called a person’s death.

Question: You constantly say that it is necessary to study, and you invite people to participate in lessons, is it possible to exchange study for some kind of work?

Answer: You can’t replace study with anything, because the upper light descends on us during the lessons.

Question: If all that is presented to me is an illusion, then aren’t all ascents and descents part of the same depiction and therefore an illusion?  Should we try to get out of this maze?

Answer: Don’t try to be clever! Ascents and descents are spiritual states. They are what remain after your existence in this world. This is what you have. Both ascents and descents occur in spiritual stages.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/5/18

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Question: If all events are already pre-planned, then what is the use of me changing? Whatever is meant to happen will happen anyway.

Answer: No. The world is created not for us to let it run its natural course: “Whatever will be, will be.” We should not take it this way and relate to it like that.

Question: So there is a script, but it is not predetermined? Or is there some kind of freewill for the participants of this performance?

Answer: If I could rise a degree above myself, I would find that everything in me is determined from there: what I see, what I feel, how I decide to act, and what I achieve. Everything exists on this degree.

But I don’t know this. Therefore, I must act in accordance with this supposed higher degree, without seeing, without understanding, and without knowing it, to the extent of my faith in it and in the measure of my property of bestowal.

If I have an intention to give, to adhere to the Creator, to do what He deems necessary, then I rise up to this degree, carry out whatever He has written in it, and reveal that everything is prepared in this way; there is nothing new under the sun.

But I myself reached the decision that I need to correct myself in order to see a corrected world; I depicted it before me and it materialized.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/26/18

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New Life 1077 – The Potion Of Death, The Elixir Of Life
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

A Kabbalist sees the upper world because he makes a special inner correction through the force of bestowal in nature. He rises above the ego each time he receives a dose of the upper Light. He constantly improves himself in this way and experiences the real, eternal world or the elixir of life. By becoming similar to the upper Light, he gains the power of bestowal and love. In Kabbalah, using drugs as a way to feel connected to others is unacceptable since it does not allow a person to overcome his egoistic nature. Each portion of Light that a person receives imparts a quality of bestowal and allows him to become a true pipeline of love toward others.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1077 – The Potion Of Death, The Elixir Of Life,” 12/11/18

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The first stage of spiritual work is acquiring awareness of work in the ten. The main thing is that everyone supports one’s ten, without letting anyone lose the impression of the greatness of the group, the Creator, the path, and our special destiny as a great gift.

This is checked during a descent when we do not feel the filling but are ready to remain in the state of bestowal for the sake of bestowal, Hafetz Hesed. That is, I lost everything, my last shirt, but I do not feel any deficiency. If I have nothing, it is all right that I have nothing; if I have something, that is fine too. I try to keep on such a “diet” when I am glad with what I receive and do not demand more. It is written: “a Hasid is one who is content with what he has.” Joy is the sign of the Light of Hassadim, the state of Katnut, the small state.

If nothing shines for me and I have no filling, I feel good too. I accept it as an opportunity given from above to check what I am doing this for. Am I in Hassadim, in a state of Katnut? If I am dissatisfied and demand filling, cursing the darkness, then I have not reached the state of Katnut.

In fact, I am not in the dark because the upper Light fills the entire universe. The upper Light is mercy, Hassadim, and I just do not feel it. Therefore, all the work begins with achieving the state of Hafetz Hesed. This is already faith, although not complete, in which there will be illumination of Hochma, but for now, it is only Hassadim.

And it is checked at the time when the Light goes out and we feel darkness in our desires to receive. Can we agree that we need nothing more than to stay on the path adhering to the friends and the Creator despite the darkness? That is, we work “at night,” choosing the right direction in order to “make for yourself a Rav and buy yourself a friend,” to be at the lesson every day. Such an attitude to all the states through which the Creator moves us will be the correct test of our work.¹

First, we reach a small state, Hafetz Hesed, bestowal for the sake of bestowal, Hassadim. And then inside this Light of Hassadim, we receive the illumination of Hochma in order to transmit it to others. In order to bestow to others, we need to use our own AHP.

To others, we bestow Hassadim, correcting the bestowing desires in them, but for this, we need to use our desires to receive. The Light of Hochma is revealed in our AHP, and we transmit the Light of Hassadim from it to GE (Galgalta ve Eynaim) of the lower one. This means that “blood turns into milk.”²

I must give all my strength to my ten in order to bring my friends to connection. I take from them their desires, the greatness of the Creator, the greatness of the goal, as it is written: “They helped everyone his friend.” No one can help himself. Each one by himself can reach the state of Hafetz Hesed, bestowal for the sake of bestowal, only at one point and not more.

And then, one must develop oneself in relation to the ten, leading them to the state in which one’s friends have no deficiency. We are connected to each other only due to mutual bestowal. I want nothing for myself, but I have to give to others, and therefore, I open my desires to receive for the sake of bestowal and allow a friend to bestow to me.

For example, when I would come to visit my mother, I would always say that I was hungry so that she could feed me and enjoy that. For me, this was not called receiving because I knew that she wanted to feed me more than I wanted to eat and I had to give her this opportunity. It is the same between friends, because otherwise, we will not develop one another. It is written: “Go and earn from each other.” No one can earn by himself.³
From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/24/19, Writings of Rabash, Vol. 1, Articles “Rungs of the Ladder,” Article 1, “Make for Yourself a Rav and Buy Yourself a Friend – 1” (1985)
1 Minute 0:30
2 Minute 28:45
3 Minute 32:25

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