Question: I feel that I cannot cope with my ego! Should I tell my friends about it or keep it to myself?

Answer: That you cannot cope is clear. But don’t look to discuss these issues with your friends as they have their problems. Instead, seek connection with the Creator.

Be wholeheartedly connected with your friends and at the same time turn your heart toward the Creator.

There is no need to involve your friends because you are in one state and each of them is in a different one. The most important thing is to seek connection with the Creator, and based on your connection with the group.

Question: So should I pretend that I am in a good mood?

Answer: Of course, always keep your friends in good spirits. Especially when you are in a low state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is this state where my egoism desires the Creator? And even not just the Creator, but the quality of bestowal. How, while denying bestowal, can I want it? What is this state?

Answer: Gradually, under the influence of studying and working in a group, the importance of the quality of bestowal will arise within you.

You will feel how you begin to respect this quality; it becomes valuable to you because by possessing it, you can transcend time and space. There would be no difficulty or problem for you because the quality of bestowal is above our world.

Our world is the quality of reception, while the upper world is the quality of bestowal.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: When does the work in the ten begin and end?

Answer: Work in the ten begins when you feel that you have no other choice, you must be in a ten for the sake of attaining your soul, the Creator.

The end of the work in the ten occurs when the whole world is also connected to this ten and only one Partzuf of ten Sefirot is obtained.

This is the end of the correction of the whole creation.

That is all. That is, the whole work, in general, from beginning to end, is in the ten.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: Are Kabbalistic materials from twenty years ago appropriate for our time?

Answer: We record everything. There are very good materials from those years.

I’m moving with the group. The group is moving forward and no longer needs to chew through the material as it was in those years. Twenty years ago, for the first time, I took the Introduction to the Wisdom of Kabbalah with students: Sefirot, worlds, soul, structure. I chewed it all out for them in a way I can’t do today. I see people in front of me who don’t need to be told this.

Now I have to speak briefly. I express some new, more analytical internal data; synthesize the material from different sides, in different planes, and in a different way, and they already understand this.

That is, the material for beginners is no longer served in the simplicity that it was once taught. On the one hand, this is a big disadvantage. But, on the other hand, there is an archive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Expiration Date of Kabbalah” 1/31/10

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Question: I feel my egoism has grown significantly. You said, “Either we annul egoism, or we elevate the importance of spirituality.” What should I do?

Answer: You should be glad that more and more egoism is revealed in you. You distance yourself from your friends; you do not want them, you do not want a group or any connection with others. These are all signs of growing egoism, and you should be glad about it.

That is, the left line develops in you, the growing ego, and the right line, correction, working with the ego despite it, must be aimed toward connection.

You must attract the upper light in order for it to create a second force in you, the force of attraction, so you will have two forces: the right and the left.

The fact that egoism is growing and you feel that you do not love your friends, do not want them, and push them away, are all signs of closeness.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson 2/16/20, “Questions and Answers”

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Question: What is the Kabbalistic meaning of the holiday of Shavuot?

Answer: The meaning of the holiday of Shavuot is the receiving of the instruction for revealing the Creator to the people living in our world. This is the Torah, or more precisely, the science of Kabbalah.

Shavuot is unique among all holidays because we received from above, through certain people, the revelation of the method that provides the foundation for revealing the Creator to people in our world. This method is called the Torah, or Kabbalah, or the true Torah.

Essentially, this is the only thing we need to achieve in this world. It is the goal we should strive for. Everything else is transient. Therefore, I very much hope that people, year by year, especially in connection with this holiday, will increasingly understand its significance.

Question: If we delve a little deeper into the essence of this holiday, why was it necessary to bring people to a state of hatred? As it is said: the children of Israel stood around Mount Sinai.

Answer: It had to be this way; otherwise, we do not feel the need for the method of connection within us.

If we feel that we can reach the highest level of our development—on the level of the Creator—as if on the top of a mountain, which can only be climbed if we overcome Sinai (the state of hatred between us), then the method of overcoming mutual hatred, mutual rapprochement, which allegorically represents climbing the mountain, can only be achieved with our active participation, our serious work on ourselves. This is the entire method of implementing the Torah.

That is why we received it. To the extent that we implement this method, we attract the upper light upon ourselves, which changes us, brings us closer together, and binds us to one another. This is what we must achieve.

Question: Why is it called the holiday of Shavuot?

Answer: Because it precisely measures the time from the exodus from Egypt: 49 full days, seven weeks, which we precisely measure from the rejection of our egoism (Pesach) to the state where we can receive the instruction for rising above it, that is, the instruction for changing our egoistic nature.

Breaking away from egoism for 50 days, we begin to correct egoistic desires into intentions for giving and loving. And then we reveal within them the upper force, the upper state, the upper world.

Question: What do I do during these 49 steps?

Answer: I correct all my egoistic intentions corresponding to each of the 49 steps—seven weeks. Everything else needs to be studied.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/11/24

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It happened once that there was a certain pious man who was married to a pious woman, and they did not produce offspring together. They said: We are of no use to the Holy One blessed be He [if we remain childless]. They arose and divorced each other.

He went and married a wicked woman, and she turned him wicked. She went and married a wicked man, and she turned him righteous. Thus, everything comes from the woman (Midrash Rabbah, Bereshit Rabbah, 17).

Comment: We are talking about many disagreements here.

My Response: There are no disagreements. It all depends on the woman! With a good wife, the husband will be righteous and with a bad one, he will be wicked.

Question: What is the meaning of the term good wife?

Answer: One who obeys her husband.

Question: Then what should the husband know to correctly instruct her? After all, husbands can be different too.

Answer: Of course, it is not that simple. But, in general, much depends on the wife. She can turn a wicked husband into a righteous one and a righteous husband into wicked.

Question: What is meant by wicked? What does this mean?

Answer: It means that he sins against the Creator; he does not believe, does not pray, does not follow the commandments, and leads an immoral life.

A righteous man is one whose behavior is righteous. He follows the Creator’s commandments and loves his wife.
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From KabTV’s “Man and Women” 5/14/24

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Question: One of the top five most popular words lately, especially now in Israel, is “Tehillim,” the Psalms of David. After all, is it written in the genetics of people that when I am anxious, when I feel bad, I should turn to the Psalms of David?

Answer: That is why he wrote them, in general. This is exactly the language, the form, in which we can turn to the Creator.

Comment: But it was he who turned to the Creator.

My Response: It does not matter.

Question: Then it turns out that he exists practically in everyone?

Answer: Of course. This is King David! He is the person closest to the Creator.

Question: And for us, if each of us turns to Tehillim, to the Psalms of David, does it mean that he is in us too, the closest to us?

Answer: He is partially inside us, of course, inside each of us.

Question: Are we talking about more than just the Jewish people? Are we talking about the whole world?

Answer: Yes, King David is universal to the whole world.

Question: Is there is a point called King David and Psalms every person in the world?

Answer: Yes, that is why they are so popular. That is why everyone sings them.

Comment: All religions…

My Response: Yes.

Question: Please tell me, does reading Psalms help psychologically?

Answer: Not only. This is a real help from above. They have strength; let us say, the power of protection.

David was strongly connected with the Creator, with the upper world. He was a king. That is, he paved this connection to the Creator. And therefore, his Psalms are the most important.

Question: Now, there is a question: Did King David really write them?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Was he thinking about writing them for us or was he simply spilling out what was inside him, the cry of his heart and soul?

Answer: I think he was simply describing what he felt.

Question: Why did he write them? He could have just said it all? Moreover, the feeling is that everything naturally comes out from the heart.

Answer: Of course, he said it too.

Question: What is happening when a person is writing?

Answer: He is pouring himself out. He is pouring himself onto paper.

Question: So, you advise working like this?

Answer: I recommend it! When a person reaches this state, he does not need advice.

Question: Will it work like this on its own?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It means that this connection of mine with my hand, with what I am writing, will not disappear?

Answer: No.

Question: Despite all the existing devices and recordings?

Answer: No. A person will reach out for a pen, paper, or a knife and stone.

Question: That is, civilization will not affect this in any way?

Answer: No.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/15/24

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