Question: You have students who have been studying for more than 15 years. Do you see how they change? Maybe some change and some do not?

Answer: No, everybody changes. The fact is that the changes that we have to go through take a very long time. First, they are passed through by a group that moves due to a point in the heart and advances not because it is pressed by a crisis or some kind of suffering, but because it rushes forward on its own.

Therefore, our world group moves at its own pace, learns, and creates a huge spiritual academy out of itself. However, the masses who will come will begin to study just global nature a little: what kind of interconnected world we find ourselves in, what a closed integral system means, and so on. It will be easy for them.

They do not have to know much. It is enough for them to study such simple things as why we should be interconnected, why nature forces us to do this, and why we used to develop in a certain way, but today we develop in a different way, and why egoism used to force us to compete, to be in a consumer society, and now is destroying itself, becoming its own gravedigger, and forcing us to make it integral and global, to enter an analog system in which everything is interconnected so that we build a new society.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Internal Coup!” 5/28/11

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Comment: In the practice of Kabbalah, at some point a person goes through an interesting turning point where he begins to look at people outside of Kabbalah correctly. He seems to change and does not impose his views and interests on them.

My Response: What for? The fact is that each of us must become an integral element with his own mind, with his own feelings, with his own understandings, with adaptation. I can’t do this job for you and I can’t force you. Nature requires your personal reasonable participation.

The problem is that all eight billion inhabitants of the planet need to be trained so that they become smarter, more sensitive, so that they understand, realize, see each in their own measure the whole system, their participation in it.

You can’t come to anyone and show them: do this, be silent, and that’s it. Therefore, all the previous egoistic approaches with instructions, orders, and violence are not suitable here. As it is said: “There is no coercion in spirituality.”

There’s nothing you can do. Only indirectly, you will explain to a person twenty thousand times, show ten thousand times, hug him five thousand times, invite him to observe, watch, and so on. And what will sink into his heart after that, that’s what you’ll get, and there is no other way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Fanaticism!!!” 6/14/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What do you expect in 100 years based on what we have and are now?“

In 100 years, I hope that we become wiser and have new relations in human society that influence nature’s other levels—the animate, vegetative and still—which would calm down nature’s various influences over us.

Many people think about the different kinds of science and technology that we would develop in the future, but they really do not matter.

What matters is that we use science and technology for humanity’s benefit.

What does that depend on?

It depends solely on the love that we build between us.

Moreover, I hope that we do not have to wait another 100 years to see a world of love, but that we live in such a world much sooner.

Based on the video “What Would You See if You Were Born 100 Years from Now?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash.

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 7/2/23

We just held our World Kabbalah convention where thousands of students and friends gathered worldwide in person in several locations-from Australia to Ukraine, Georgia to Germany, and Argentina to Israel, among many others_and also virtually, to study, connect and delve deeper into convention’s topic, “Everything Is Obtained by the Power of Prayer.”

We chose this topic because nothing can influence humanity’s destiny like the power of prayer.

We learned what our prayer should comprise in order to receive an optimal response, that it should be aimed at reaching a state of wholeness.

We can understand it quite easily as follows: there are two desires in reality, reception and bestowal. By aiming our prayer in a direction of everyone’s harmonious connection, then reality’s guiding force of love, bestowal and connection, which Kabbalists call “the Creator,” will help us. The return to humanity’s state of wholeness is a state that Kabbalists call “as one man with one heart,” our primordial state as our single soul.

This soul underwent a shattering and a descent from its wholeness, which gave rise to our perception of an incomplete, fragmented and transient reality. In order to rise to the state of our single soul before the shattering, we need to undergo a correction of our perception of reality, and the means to do so is through a request—a prayer.

What does that request consist of?

It is us feeling a lack of a complete connection “as one man with one heart,” to feel no difference between people, countries, nations and various other partitions that our ego places between us. Simply put, it is the feeling of a need to be together above the ego’s boundaries in order to give ourselves an increasingly precise opportunity to bring ourselves closer to each other. By doing so, we come to the state of “as one man with one heart,” our connection as a single soul, feeling ourselves as belonging and acting in the spiritual world.

We went through several states at the convention, states of joy from such an immense global connection, as well as states of feeling how the upper light (the force of love and bestowal) acted on us, mixing us together like a salad. However, there was ultimately a feeling that thousands of people around the world acted in a direction to a single goal of harmoniously connecting “as one man with one heart,” with a readiness to connect and feel together above all differences.

If we continue investing in that direction, we will attain the feeling of our complete connection, the laws of the spiritual world, and the perception of how the world is one for everyone. It is my hope that we will come to this sensation soon.

At the close of this wondrous convention, the time has come to thank the Creator for this amazing opportunity, to thank everyone who invested their hearts into the event, and of course, to invite everyone who wishes to be a part of this immense connection experience to participate in our future conventions.

Based on Lesson 3 of the World Kabbalah Convention with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Question: What did Rashbi’s students, who wrote The Book of Zohar, want to convey to us?

Answer: The authors of The Book of Zohar tell us how our world works, how it receives governance and fulfillment from the upper world, and leads itself to equivalence, to a good connection with it.

Question: When someone writes a book, he tries to make it clear to everyone so that some kind of connection in the story is observed via cause and effect. And in the article “The Rose” of the Introduction of The Book of Zohar, at the beginning it is written about some kind of “rose,” then about the fact that the Almighty flew, then about some letters. Why are all three points seemingly not connected at all? They are like three different stories.

Answer: It all depends on the state the reader is in. We cannot imagine what a person feels who is in the sense of connection of the upper and lower worlds and receives this information.

Question: Did Rashbi’s students write specifically so that no one would understand anything?

Answer: No, they just saw it that way. In addition, The Book of Zohar is not written for beginners. Imagine a modern scientist who wants to describe some natural phenomenon. He uses formulas, names, and definitions that are understandable only to people like him. After all, Einstein’s theory of relativity is also not clear to anyone.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 6/4/23

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Question: People love when you give public lectures. You explain various things very clearly because it is difficult for many to understand more complex lessons like The Book of Zohar, TES, etc. Can they remain on a constant recharge from such large-scale lectures?

Answer: Yes, that is enough. If a person constantly listens to my lectures, and there are a lot of them, dozens, even hundreds, of all kinds of lectures available to a wide range of people, then through these simple phrases a person receives more and more internal information. It breaks deeper into him and works within him.

Perhaps later, he himself will be inclined to open my specific articles and books.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Accessible Kabbalah” 7/15/11

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Comment: Baal HaSulam’s book Shamati (I Heard) is written logically, beautifully, and understandable for a person. But this text seems to be encoded because it speaks about something slightly different than what is written in the book.

My Response: Yes, but a person can discover this code. It cannot be passed on secretly from one person to another. One who can understand, understands. One who does not understand cannot do anything about it.

Put a dog next to a Kabbalist, what will it understand? It must first attain the qualities of a human, and then turn from a human into a Kabbalist.

It all depends on us. While we read Shamati, we feel this text differently due to our corrections, not because something exists in the text, but because everything exists in a person.

Let’s say you have a musical score in front of you. If you have a musical instrument, you can play it. If you understand the notes, you can sing without an instrument. But if you do not have an understanding of what these symbols are, what can you do?

Therefore, a person who constantly reads Shamati reveals more and more information in it. There is a deeper code in this book than we imagine when we first read it. It describes the entire spiritual path of a person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Entire Spiritual Path of a Person” 7/9/11

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Question: Why is music so much more sufficient than a visual picture? For example, if I do not see a person, but I hear what he is saying, I can understand him. Yet, if I do not hear, but I see that he is waving his arms, then I can only understand certain symbolism.

Answer: Hearing is the level of Bina, and sight is the level of Hochma. That is, sight and hearing cannot be connected with other sensations. These are already the channels through which, as it were, spiritual information is transmitted.

Through smells, tastes, and tactile sensations, you cannot convey internal, semantic information. This requires special codes. But through words, music, and especially through pictures, this can already be done.

It is like laser frequencies or high frequencies in radio engineering, through which you can transmit a huge amount of video and audio information. At low frequencies, however, only small packets of sound or some other information can be transmitted.

So here, from organ to organ, the possibility of transmitting semantic information increases.

Question: Is sound in any case more meaningful than sight?

Answer: No, 90% of information is perceived through sight, not by hearing, because sight is closer to direct perception than hearing.

We must hear the words, translate them inside ourselves into the language of pictures, because we perceive only them. We feel these pictures, which have moved from their sound format to semantic ones within us, and something happens to them.

The visual range, however, is immediately perceived by our desires in a sensory form. This is the difference between hearing and seeing, as between Bina and Hochma.

If someone speaks, I must listen, understand the words, build their semantic series in myself, translate this series into feelings, and so on. But if I see a picture, it immediately evokes feelings in me. There is no buffer in the form of a link of words.

You might ask, “How is this perceived with regard to the amount of information?” You can talk a lot about this topic, but, in principle, this already applies to psychology, and not to Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Secret of Hearing and Vision” 6/27/11

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