Concepts that are opposite in our perception exist in the world of Infinity in simple unity and connection. (Baal HaSulam, Talmud Eser Sefirot, Part 1 “Histaklut Pnimit”)

Question: What does it mean that opposite things are unified? Can you give an example from nature?

Answer: Einstein gave examples of dimensions emerging above time and space. For example, a grandfather and his distant descendant meet hundreds of years later. They both exist simultaneously, but with respect to our attainment it is experienced as past, present, and future.

Question: Does this mean that dinosaurs might be wandering around us and we just don’t see them?

Answer: Dinosaurs are not wandering somewhere; they are wandering within you (in the same way as before, by the way). There is nothing outside of us. We project everything that we perceive so that it seems outside of us and call it “our world.” We feel it only within ourselves. We do not perceive what is outside of us. It is as if some electrodes are connected to us and we imagine that we are somewhere talking with each other and seeing others as if on a screen.

The question thus arises: does this all just seem to exist or does it really exist? We cannot say, because we do not feel anything outside ourselves. Therefore, a person cannot claim objectively that something exists—he always perceives subjectively.

Everything that we reveal and study is purely subjective, including Kabbalah. We never attain the absolute picture. It will be revealed only after the general correction, when all of us unite and our small private sensors (Reshimot) will be united into one common sensor, our small private desires into one common desire that will result in absolute perception, eternal white Light. Then we will be able to talk about what really exists. This state is called Gmar Tikkun—Final Correction.

This is all in relation to us; there are no problems regarding the Creator since His properties include everything. We will be able to achieve this same state when our desire becomes fully integrated, including all the opposites in itself. This is considered loving your neighbor as yourself.

In other words, when I accept everything that exists in another person—all his unpleasant properties, states, thoughts—as my own, as the most precious, with love, then I will include the desires of all the people in the world and will be able to be objective, as all the opposites inside me will be united.

Question: Is it possible to say that both love and hatred will exist in me at the same time?

Answer: Of course. One will not annihilate the other because they will only support each other, so that between them I can feel the acuity of attainment. This is how it works.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/8/18

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Question: What is the ladder of spiritual ascent? Is it possible to jump over its steps?

Answer: No, you cannot jump over the steps. With each degree, the desires constantly grow, forming a spiritual ladder. If we are immersed in these desires and begin to realize them more intensely, then we rise from step to step.

The steps are not really like a ladder, but more like a DNA spiral in which the spiritual genes (Reshimot) are concentrated.

They contain all the information about us, only not genetic, but spiritual—much more extensive, accurate, deep, and interrelated.

Spiritual information is the stage of a human development up to the level of the Creator.

When I connect with people in more and more serious relationships, then dependencies between us appear, explaining to me what is universal, supreme, good, absolute power, intelligence, and feelings. I feel them as one single whole. This is the spiritual level.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/11/18

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Question: When we are on a spiritual level will we be able to understand each other without words?

Answer: In general, yes. Of course, it is possible to work with a shared screen without verbal communication. But not just yet.

Such communication can be not only between two people who are near each other, but also between those who are in different parts of the world and even in two different worlds—it doesn’t matter. What hinders our understanding of each other are the mechanical, minor limitations of our world.

Question: Why is it that when you suddenly experience some kind of sensation, it is usually impossible to express it with words even to oneself?

Answer: It means that you are not yet able to experience the spiritual impact within your reasoning mind and your heart equally.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 4/1/18

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New Life 1027 – Freedom And Slavery, Part 4
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

The core of a person is the eternal root of his soul or his point in the heart. Unique fruit can grow from the genetic acquisitions found in each point in the heart if the right environment is provided. Kabbalists connect in small groups and build the future state of humanity. They can see the future and understand what changes need to occur in order to properly develop. They understand that separation is death just as it is with cells in the human body. When all of humanity connects together with mutual love, we will form a single fruit or system and will be like one person with one heart or Adam. This connection will free us from the angel of death and bring us into the Garden of Eden.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1027 – Freedom And Slavery,” Part 4, 6/28/18

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The world will say the #Jews are controlling #Trump. It wants to abolish Israel as a state, strike it out of all international organizations, ban trade with us, and reject our planes.
Kabbalah explains: Only thus can the Creator compel us toward correction.

Hate toward #Israel is growing around the world. We will soon feel that we are surrounded and there’s nowhere to flee.
Kabbalah: our destiny is in our own hands. Our salvation is the pursuit of unity. “Love your neighbor as yourself” must be fulfilled for the sake of our survival!

Liberation is achieving what we wish for in exile. Exile gives rise to the right request, and I get what I want: to think only of the Creator, His contentment. And this is actualized through the same attitude toward the friends. So the group reveals the Creator between us.

If I know that there’s a condition in which I’ll wish to bring contentment to the Creator thru the friends, but now I still don’t have a desire for it and am unable to want it—then I’m in exile, controlled by the forces that don’t allow me to want it. This is the degree of exile.

Exile is a feeling of incapacity to give contentment to the Creator. I wish to, but I cannot. This feeling is called exile. Each condition is determined in relation to the opposite one. Therefore, there is no liberation without exile, and there is no exile without liberation.

Desires are constantly growing, so that we correct them in the connection between us and fulfill each other. Otherwise, desires grow and suffering will as well. They accumulate and will force us to realize that they come in to push us forth toward connection, bestowal, love of others.

Regarding the evolution: Desires grow—suffering grows. The only way to correct them is to turn them into bestowal. Suffering comes only to the desires that through unity can be turned into enjoyment. Great ego-desires are waiting to unfold in us. Correction is in unification.

Egoism develops to such an extent that its rule goes from being pleasant to unbearable, which pushes us to look for a way out of it.
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Question: Is there reincarnation from Kabbalah’s point of view? And if so, what for?

Answer: From the point of view of Kabbalah, there is reincarnation, which is called Gilgulim, that is, circuits. These circuits, however, are not our lives, not the return to our world, that is, death and rebirth. They are the circuits in the spiritual space if we achieve it.

Our world has absolutely no circuits. The person who lives in his ordinary life just dies, that is, his animal life ends here. From this point of view, there is nothing in a person. There is a potential embryo of the soul that he did not realize, but it has nothing to do with the material body.

Question: But didn’t you say that reincarnation is a cycle of souls?

Answer: For this, you must attain the soul, and then you will participate in its circuits. But this does not depend on the life of the material body.

Question: Does that mean it can happen instantly, and then again after a few moments?

Answer: Not even instantly; it happens on a different time axis.

Question: What is reincarnation then? Is it an appearance of another desire?

Answer: Yes. Desires are constantly changing. My teacher wrote a few excellent articles on this subject. You can read them. The intention of the desire changes. The higher the intention, the more it is for bestowal, the higher the person. Changing one’s intention from small to large leads to such circuits.
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From TV program “News with Michael Laitman” 6/20/18

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Question: Does a person’s intention to inflict harm on another affect the inanimate and vegetative levels of nature? Kabbalah says that destructive hurricanes and other natural disasters are a manifestation of our actions toward each other. How we should understand this?

Answer: Since all nature is integral and completely interconnected, our impact on any of its parts affects all other parts. The higher the level of nature that we influence, for example, people, the more it affects all the lower levels: animals, vegetation, and the inanimate.

In contrast, if we exhibit some attitude only toward inanimate nature, it has a lesser impact on vegetative nature, an even lesser one on animate nature, and still less on humans.

It turns out that my bad attitude toward another person permeates the entire pyramid. This is the source of ecological problems and of everything else. We ourselves cause hurricanes, natural disasters, and other problems.

Previously, we were unable to affect anything with our intentions, but everything changed at the beginning of the last century. Look at what we did during the 20th century! Kabbalists say this is because humanity entered a completely new state.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the world population was two billion people, and this is about as much as the planet can sustain. Today, it has grown to eight billion. This suggests that over the past 100 years, we have really driven our system out of balance.

Question: Does this mean that two billion people cannot endure the current level of egoism and therefore there has to be eight billion?

Answer: If we were developing correctly, we would not need eight billion people.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 03/25/18

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Question: What is the difference between the revealed and the concealed parts of the Torah?

Answer: The concealed part of the Torah is the part that is revealed to a person when he works on his spiritual development. The Torah is completely opposite from what people think.

Question: So, is it always revealed and it only depends on us if it is concealed or revealed to us?

Answer: The Torah is the control system of the entire system of creation. It is concealed with respect to a person individually. However, to the extent in which we are able to participate in this system intelligently and productively, it is gradually revealed to us.

Question: But how is the Torah, as a system of the world’s control, connected to the book that was written 3,000 years ago? Is it the written Torah and the oral Torah?

Answer: They both describe the system we need to enter, learn about, and engage with.

Question: What is the oral Torah? It seems that there are some laws that were possible to describe on a piece of paper and there are laws that could only be passed down by word of mouth?

Answer: The oral Torah is a system of laws that was passed down from teacher to student: from Adam through 20 generations to Abraham and then through all the rest of the generations to Rabbi Shimon, the author of The Book of Zohar. Then it all became hidden. The knowledge about the world, about the individual’s work in drawing closer to the Creator is called “the Torah,” from the word “Ohr” (Light). This knowledge was gradually passed down through a small group of people in each generation. Only now, beginning with the Ari (17th century) and onward, everything began to be reborn.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 3/18/18

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