Question: Our desires are the creation. The last phase of creation, Malchut, is a conscious desire to receive pleasure from the status of the Creator, that is, to connect with Him and use Him for one’s own sake.

As soon as Malchut begins to use this connection for its own sake, a sense of shame arises in it, and it performs the next action called the first restriction.

What is this feeling of shame?

Answer: Shame is the feeling of not being similar to the Creator in desires, plans, and actions. From this, a person feels the disparity between oneself and the Creator, called shame.

Shame is a new feeling in creation, in the desire to enjoy, to receive, because there was no such feeling before. It arises when the desire feels that it does not correspond to the Creator.

Question: Is it something created by the Creator, by the upper force? Or is it a reaction of creation, i.e., something new?

Answer: No, this is not a reaction of the creation, but it is what the Creator created and what the creation feels as a fundamental difference from the Creator. The creation understands that it is receiving, but there is someone giving, and this causes shame in it.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”, 7/30/23

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Kabbalah primarily shares to create the right environment for yourself and everything will be fine. Nothing else is needed, no other effort!

Enter this environment. Be only among such people! Do not listen to others! They do not understand anything anyway. Why listen to them? Is it in order to allegedly object to them, to argue? There is no need! You will not convince them of anything! They have a thousand different issues.

Question: Suppose a person begins to study Kabbalah. At first he is delighted with everything and everyone, and then it begins: “This one is not quite right, and this is not the way it should be,” that is, he is no longer ready to exalt the environment. So, what is next?

Answer: Then he must understand what he really needs, what goal he is pursuing; is it to say that everyone is a fool and to feel good, or is it to really get out into real life, to attain something new through his own change. Then you have to put pressure on yourself and obey this environment.

Comment: The fact is that in ordinary life a person immediately isolates himself from this environment. And here, a person understands his inner rejection from the others, but at the same time he holds on with all his might. However, this process occurs naturally in him. He cannot bring himself to treat everyone the way he did before.

My Response: But we must try to quickly go through these states; otherwise, it is a pity; time goes by and life passes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ruthless People” 9/17/11

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Question: How, by changing oneself, can a person studying Kabbalah change his attitude toward others or toward the events that happen to him?

Answer: Only by learning integrality and complete interconnection above all contradictions. Leave all the contradictions below and try to connect above them. Drop everything else! Otherwise, we become more and more opposed to nature, and nature will rain blows on us. That is all. This is the easiest solution. Nothing else.

Therefore, it is our common global integral connection, that we need to discuss and implement. Above everything! We should solve our problems at a round table, like in a family, figuring out how to unite in the most kind way, mutually participating in everything.

At the same time, each of us has a huge number of claims against everyone, and we leave them all below, as in a family, and solve our common problem above them, otherwise, we will not survive.

The laws of nature are immutable. There is nothing in them to make nature take pity on us. This is a rigid law. If you are similar to it—good, if not—you receive negative effects. That is, you set yourself up with respect to this system, which is clearly determined and goes forward in this way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Problem Solving” 9/7/11

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Comment: There are two options for solving problems. Either a person decides something on the material level through some kind of connection or something else. Or, by changing himself internally, he changes the unfavorable situations that haunt him.

My Response: We will have to come to an inner change. Today we already see how much we cannot influence the world, how much nothing helps us, and we are floating somewhere like slivers in a whirlpool.

All mankind, people, nations, and countries are carried away somewhere by a single stream that twists and turns us, and we are not able to do anything.

This is the feeling that is evident now. And this will lead us to the fact that we will really begin to relate to the world correctly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Problem Solving” 9/7/11

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Question: I was very impressed by a story. A dying young man wrote a farewell letter because the doctors did not think he had even two months to live. Then his girlfriend came along and said she was pregnant. He said he literally felt the disease go away. He recounts that suddenly, confidence came and that was it, he was healthy. Many years have passed since then. His first daughter is already married and will soon be a mother. There is another daughter and a son. He reread his dying letter on camera and asked: “How can I tell people that we decide whether to live or die? It is only necessary, and this is very important, that we have a reason to live.”

Is it really in the power of a person to interfere in the upper providence, or is this some kind of an accident?

Answer: Of course, not every person is given an opportunity to turn around his fate. To do this, he must already be somehow prepared from the inside. And he should be willing to give up everything he has in the name of truth. Then everything can work out for him.

Question: Does he say: “I want the truth, and I am looking for the truth.” And then everything can recede: illness, death, and everything else?

Answer: Yes, then a completely new phase of life will come, and he will be given the opportunity to evaluate this truth and come closer to it.

Question: What if there is a feeling that I have to live in order to support this life that is being born now? He was about to have a child, and he realized that he had to raise this life. Can this also be a partial search for the truth, such a transformation inside a person?

Answer: Of course. This is the reason to live and get over the past and start anew. That is, it is a complete transformation of a person.

Question: There are a lot of people who are in such states now. At this moment should they direct their thoughts at some such dramatic moment, to this transformation in life, do you think?

Answer: If a person is directed like this, then yes. But if not, then no. It does not depend on the person.

Question: Is there any way to cause this? To pray for this somehow?

Answer: It depends on a person’s preparation, on what he did in life, on the root of his soul.

Question: We do not know that. Is this a secret?

Answer: Not that this is a very deep secret, but not everyone is given this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/17/23

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Do you like nature? Why?“

I really love nature, especially the inanimate and vegetative. I like to walk in the mountains, fields and forests. When I walk in such places, I feel a sense of goodness, pleasantness and calm.

I perceive nature as divine harmony. In our world, however, we cripple nature’s animate and vegetative levels. But in principle, we can still see harmony, agreement, complementarity and reciprocity throughout nature. Such phenomena bring about corresponding feelings in a Kabbalist.

The wisdom of Kabbalah highlights nature’s harmony and describes how we should aim for the same harmony in human connections. By achieving harmonious connections among us all on the human level, we then balance with nature and come to experience the full harmony and peace that exists in nature.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Drug of a Kabbalist” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laiman on September 3, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: We feel a great need for connection and a great desire to ask with all our might for our common correction and for freedom from egoism. How can we accelerate this movement?

Answer: Imagine that now we have the opportunity to get closer to each other more than usual and to attract the Creator. Ask and beg Him to join in our connection too.

We would like to make our connection absolutely good, mutual in form and content so that the Creator can fully be revealed in it and enjoy what we offer to Him.

And we would perceive His revelation in us as the Shechina, as an absolute, comfortable, pleasant revelation of Himself to His creations. That is why He created us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Comment: A person seems to become callous after studying Kabbalah.

My Response: This is a natural process. A person must become stronger and stronger. You are not going anywhere! That is who we are. And we have to go against it with the help of the right environment that will affect us.

And it affects you, along with the others, when you constantly read the primary sources and sometimes try to distance yourself as much as you can from your thoughts and desires, to look at yourself from the outside, and not be at the mercy of your egoism, but to somehow get out of it a little.

This happens at the most difficult, inopportune moments: when you are studying, when you feel bad, when you see how it all works on you, and when you are forced to submit to some other person’s will. This is help from above.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ruthless People” 9/17/11

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