In the wisdom of Kabbalah we study the shattering of the upper world, the upper soul, and its cascading to our world through gradual breaking and destruction.

The very last level of our world is the one that cannot be corrected. We correct it only by existing in our body for many cycles of animalistic life. We need it only in order to start from it and to rise to the first level of the soul.

This is why we must exist. Why should I furnish myself with completely unnecessary things that interfere with this upper eternal perfect goal? I really only need what is necessary, meaning, convenient, comfortable, and good, something that will not distract me from reaching my most desired goal.

It is desired because there I can finally reach perfection and eternity, and stop being connected with this world, its horrors, violence, dirt, and lies. What is the point of messing around with this?

That is why it is so easy for me to be separated from everyone who think and rant about various topics: newspapers, government, politics, slander, vanity, and everything else. I feel sorry for the people! They spend the world, their lives, and all their time and energy on it! I look at them and they are shouting, scolding each other in the Knesset or in a parliament, thinking they are going to decide something.

Nobody will solve anything. It is like playing in a sandbox.

While you are given this animalistic body, provide it as much as it needs to exist normally and comfortably, so that it does not occupy you. You need a bathtub, gas, refrigerator, air conditioner, a car, i.e., things you need for the average normal level of a modern person. If today we distributed everything that is on earth among everyone, our level would be much higher than average. But we do not need this; we need to give everyone a normal average level.

Everything else should be directed only toward the development of each and every one. Everyone must study, learn how to get out of this sandbox, and how to become normal adults, to reach a balance with nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Lost a Million” 11/6/11

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Olga writes:

I was struck by your statement that nothing belongs to a person. You also said that if a person has two desires. On the one hand, he believes that the whole world belongs to the Creator, but on the other hand, something also belongs to a person, then this is a problem.

On the one hand, I understand that if only it were so, then there would not be these terrible wars – nothing belongs to me and that’s it. But is it really true that nothing belongs to a person?

Answer: Yes, nothing belongs to a person. What can belong to him?

Comment: Then she writes: “But still, my life, my family, my apartment, and so on is mine!”

My Response: This is yours. For just a couple more years and that’s it. You will leave all this, just as they, your family will leave it in due time. Nothing belongs to a person. He came, visited, and left.

Question: You said that if a person has two desires, then this is a problem. On the one hand, he believes that the whole world belongs to the Creator. He does believe this, after all. But on the other hand, something belongs to a person. Is this quirk a big problem?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: This means that everything belongs to the Creator, this is your formula that you hold on to.

My Response: Or vice versa, nothing belongs to a person.

Comment: Either everything belongs to the Creator or nothing belongs to a person.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Then the question is: to whom does everything belong?

Answer: What is the difference?

Question: Is there no difference? Does it mean that I can live with this formula: nothing belongs to me?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Then would there be no wars or borders at all?

Answer: What can I say about it? There would be no wars… As if people live according to this formula. Everyone wants to live for his own sake, for himself, and so that everyone else obeys him.

Question: Then there is this question, and she asks it: “Why then are we given the feeling that something belongs to us?”

Answer: So that you would fight it, correct it, cut out everything that you think is yours, and give it to the Creator!

Question: So, are you saying here that there is a host of everything?

Answer: Of course, there is a host. He was, is, and will be.

Question: Tell me how to come to this state that everything is not mine?

Answer: In general, it is very good and very simple. One just needs to tune in to it. Then from morning to evening, from evening to morning, a person lives as if this all is not his.

Question: In principle, is this the feeling of the Kabbalists who wrote this quote?

Answer: This is their feeling; they live and were living like this. What is wrong or hard about it? Nothing.

Question: That is, in principle, if you come to this state, does the lightness of being appear?

Answer: No! I would not say that this is lightness. As if they are doing this because of the lightness! No.

Question: Do they not recommend it because it will make life easier for you?

Answer: No, of course not! These are not the conditions; these are absolutely not the reasons. These are reasons for a person to change himself to reach this state.

Question: What should disappear in me? What should I kill, crush, or turn over in myself?

Answer: Egoism. That there is nothing of yours in you, including yourself.

Question: Is this my egoism saying: “Everything is mine”? Is this the basis of all the troubles, by and large? That “Everything is mine” is egoism.

Answer: Yes.

Question: It is our nature—egoism. When I say “everything is mine,” is it our nature?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why complicate the work so much?! To this extent?!

Answer: So that, from this point onward, you would work on yourself and understand that you do not belong to yourself in any way either. When you come to this, you cross the border between life and death calmly and easily.

Question: Do you mean that death is the result of something belonging to me?

Answer: Of course. Life belongs to you.

Comment: My life belongs to me.

My Response: Yes. They take it away from you. This is called death.

Comment: And if my life does not belong to me, then there is no death either.

My Response: There is no death.

Question: Have you and I come to the formula of immortality?

Answer: Yes. So far. There is even further, but at least this.

Question: I want to summarize. Do you think that it is possible for a person to come to this state where nothing belongs to me?

Answer: It is in the person’s power to come to a state that nothing belongs to him, and he does not belong to himself either.

Question: This addition “I do not belong to myself,” why do you add it strenuously?

Answer: Because this is the most important thing.

Question: Do I not belong to myself?

Answer: No.

Question: Do I belong to someone?

Answer: To the upper force.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/30/23

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Question: After the Creator is revealed to a person as “there is none else besides Him” and “the good who does good,” can the states when he still can’t justify the Creator come to him?

Answer: Yes. It is said about this, do not believe in yourself until the moment of death. This means the death of the ego, because until egoism has died in you, you cannot be sure that the worst egoistic states will not return to you.

Question: So you can really forget about such a big revelation as “there is none else besides Him”?

Answer: Of course, you can. Everything is in the power of the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/23, Writings of of Baal HaSulam “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?”

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Question: What should the preparation for the request to the Creator include, and how can we verify that we have really achieved attunement with Him?

Answer: This can be checked according to whether the Creator answers you or not. If you feel yourself with the group and with the Creator as one, then He has accepted you, He has answered you.

And if you do not feel this, then you must continue to work on connecting with the group and the Creator.

Ask for connection with the Creator, merging with Him through merging with friends. Don’t forget that. If the friends are not included in your request, then the Creator will not hear it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/22/23, Writings of Baalh HaSulam “When One Feels Oneself in a State of Ascent”

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Question: My desire for Lishma is a tiny fraction compared to the desire for pleasures on which I depend. What can convince me?

Answer: Only the connection with the ten that yearns for mutual connection between them can convince you.

In this way you deceive your will to receive because you feel that your egoism, your desires for pleasure, are standing in front of you. But you are offered to connect with the friends, rise with their help, and overcome this obstacle.

As far as you can become as one man with one heart, that will be your good luck.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/23/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “For Bribe Blinds the Eyes of the Wise“

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Question: Should awe before friends come before awe of the Creator?

Answer: Fear before the friends and fear before the Creator are interrelated. To reach real fear before Him, you can start with fear before the friends and then move on to the fear before the Creator, and vice versa.

This fear is necessary because it increases a person’s connection with the group. Our most important task is to connect with the friends and through them, all of us together with the Creator.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/23, Writings of Rabash “Who Needs to Know that a Person Withstood the Test?“

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In other words, we observe Torah and Mitzvot because we want to please Him, to give Him contentment, for it is the nature of those who love that the love obligates them to want to bring them contentment (Rabash, Article No. 28, 1989. “Who Needs to Know that a Person Withstood the Test?”).

Question: If I do not feel the Creator, I do not feel my friends. How can I practically work with the pleasure mentioned in the article?

Answer: The fact is that when you are among friends, and even when you are far from them in your feelings, you have to imagine all the time how you are getting closer to them, how you are becoming closer and closer to each other. And from your inner feelings, you should choose those common feelings in which you come into contact with each other.

Try to feel the perceptual connection.

Question: How can I check that joy comes from getting closer to the Creator?

Answer: It depends on the friends. You should approach the Creator together and experience a sense of joy and pleasure because the Creator fills your common desire.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/19/23, Writings of Rabash “Who Needs to Know that a Person Withstood the Test?“

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Question: How can we regret that we are not in perfection in order to exit the state of the wicked into the state of the righteous?

Answer: We must learn to justify the Creator in all our states and yearn for complete adhesion with Him. Therefore, you should regret that you are not in this state yet.

Question: If we have some lack and we raise a prayer, does it mean that it always comes from the position of the wicked?

Answer: No, not only the wicked, it can also be from the position of the righteous when you feel good in the world of the Creator, and you want to thank Him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?“

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