Comment: You say that everyone has their own path.

My Response: Of course!

Question: What does it depend on?

Answer: Within the global nature of humanity, we are so different so that, precisely through our future connection, we will create one universal structure called “Man” (Adam).

Question: Will everyone have their own place?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Every nation?

Answer: Of course! I may be spinning at tremendous speed, others spin more slowly, and still others even more slowly, it is just like in our body there are systems that operate with tremendous speed and intensity, while others function much more slowly. You can compare the fingernails and toenails. Fingernails grow about a millimeter a week, while the toenails grow about a millimeter a month. Each has its own rate, even though it is seemingly the same tissue.

Comment: Yet it is one organism.

My Response: Yes.

Question: You mentioned the goal. Is the goal the same for everyone or not?

Answer: The goal is the same for everyone. But who actually knows what it is? If we knew that we all have one goal, we would agree with one another. We would begin searching together for how to attain that goal.

But instead, we feel that everyone has their own. Egoism tears us apart and does not allow us to feel that we all must move together toward one goal.

Question: Can we nevertheless come to this? Will we be brought toward this one goal or not?

Answer: I think it must become clarified from within.

Question: What is that goal?

Answer: The goal is very simple: to attain the meaning of life.

Question: And what is it?

Answer: The meaning of life? It is to attain its meaning.

Questions: So the question arises, and I must?

Answer: When I attain the meaning of life, I feel absolutely fulfilled! I know why I exist. I know who governs me, to whom I turn, what I am carrying out at every moment of my existence, and where I am going. Ever new horizons open before me. I feel like a child who has entered Disneyland. And all of it is incredible! All of it is a fairy tale! This is how a person should feel when revealing the Creator’s plan.

Question: Does everyone have their own meaning of life, or not?

Answer: Everyone will enjoy it individually, because that is how we are made. But each will enjoy it from the fact that they are constantly connecting with others. The revelation of this spiritual “Disneyland” comes from the fact that we reveal the integral connections between us more and more. And they will be revealed precisely as the attainment of the upper world. It is a serious adventure.

Question: So now you have come to the conclusion that the goal of a person is to attain the upper world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is that the goal of a person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what is the upper world? We are speaking to people who do not study Kabbalah. Simply put, what does it mean to attain the upper world?

Answer: It is to attain the harmony of the interaction of all the completely different forces of nature. And to feel that harmony when you see how all problems, actions, thoughts, aspirations—everything, throughout all times—join together, and all of it turns out to be harmoniously interconnected, so necessary for one another, that the revelation of this harmony is the revelation of the thought of Creation, the Creator’s plan.

Question: And you constantly speak about revealing harmonious relationships between people. Is that included in this?

Answer: Of course! Naturally. That is the highest degree of all this harmony.

Question: The highest degree? That we are all harmoniously connected?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And this is the purpose of a person’s life—to discover this harmony?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 7/8/26

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Question: They say that the Ari was Mashiach ben Yosef. What does that mean?

Answer: The correcting force called “Mashiach ben Yosef” carries out the preparation before the “coming” (revelation) of the correcting force “Mashiach ben David.” Yosef points to the Sefira Yesod, and David to Malchut. Yesod prepares its influence on Malchut in order to correct it.

The Mashiach is not a person, not the Ari himself, not his physical body, but his teaching, his method, his force. It is a soul that operated in the common system of souls in such a way as to open a path for the light and illuminate all souls with it.

It stands on the path of the light from above downward, connects the higher corrected souls of the Kabbalists of the past with those souls that are still uncorrected, receives the light in its higher clothing and clothes it in a form suitable for our souls, distributes it by degrees, and brings the light closer to our souls.

Therefore, starting from the Ari and onward, souls began a mass correction, as in the times of the Baal Shem Tov, with the emergence of Hasidism. In this way humanity began to advance spiritually.

If not for the Ari with his method, there would be no Baal Shem Tov with his Hasidic movement (which gave rise to numerous Kabbalistic groups among the people). And without the Baal Shem Tov there would be no Baal HaSulam, and without Baal HaSulam there would be none of us today studying Kabbalah.

These stages are called the “steps of the Mashiach.”  In other words, it is the development of the method and practice of correction toward its final completion. We are the first to implement the final stage of correction, because we use the force of Mashiach ben Yosef in order to attain the revelation of the force Mashiach ben David and to correct Malchut itself, the general assembly of all souls with a common screen.

Question: Will a person with a special soul appear in our world who implements the method of correction and who will be called Mashiach ben David?

Answer: It is possible that Mashiach ben David is our common desire, which in the end will carry out this action, and not a particular individual. We are not interested in the people who lived in this world—the Ari, Baal HaSulam or even Rashbi—but in their influence within the system of souls. We are speaking about a soul that reveals the light of correction to us.

And we act in the same way. Together we create a system of souls in order to draw the light from above and pass it on to all the uncorrected souls. We perform an action that already belongs to the Malchut of David.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/11, Baal HaSulam, Preface “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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Question: Recently, it has been felt that the world Kli is working in a single desire. Once, Rabash gave you advice to attack from such a state. What exactly are we attacking?

Answer: Ourselves, our heart, our laziness, our pride, and our old habits. I must rise above all these calculations.

The main thing is to dissolve among the friends and intentionally push myself into the group. That is where I want to be all the time. I want to lose my personal mind and personal feeling; I want to receive the mind and feeling of all the friends. It is as though I lose myself in them by my own will.

That means acquiring the vessel of mutual guarantee.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/6/11, Baal HaSulam, “Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah]”

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Question: In our group, there are friends who love working in the kitchen, others enjoy writing, and still others find themselves in organizational work. Is this an indication of some quality of the Creator revealed in a person, an indication of necessity? After all, this is where a person finds fuel for the work.

Answer: Does a person’s external work, in which he expresses himself in relation to the group or to his spiritual path, whether through kitchen work, uniting the friends, or writing, indicate something?

Of course. It points to the type of his soul. But it does not indicate how elevated that soul is. Is a person who likes to write closer to spirituality than one who prefers working in the kitchen?

For example, Baal Shem Tov was the greatest Kabbalist in Europe after the time of Isaac Luria. Between the ARI and Baal HaSulam, there was no greater Kabbalist than the Baal Shem Tov. Yet he did not write a single word. He went out among the people, explained, gathered Kabbalistic groups, and taught.

He had absolutely no inclination toward writing. Everything we have from him was heard and written down by his students. After the Baal Shem Tov, an entire body of Kabbalistic literature remained and was used by great Admorim (leaders of communities and yeshivot), who themselves were major Kabbalists. All of this literature was recorded from his words, although he himself wrote nothing. We have had many examples like this.

Question: But why does a person feel the need to bestow to the group in such a specific way, through writing, kitchen work, organizing, and so on?

Answer: I cannot say. It depends on the inner structure of the soul. For example, astrologers divide people according to zodiac signs into roughly sixteen character types. This is also mentioned in The Book of Zohar, but it does not give us a clear and precise table according to which soul types can be classified.

Of course, one can say that there are a certain number of soul types, because there are 248 “organs” and 365 “tendons,” divisions of the Partzuf into Rosh, Toch, Sof, divisions into three lines. There are countless variations, but there is no simple chart. And when there is no simple scheme, it means there is no final and serious understanding. Therefore I would not want to explain things according to how they seem to me. It may appear one way now, and later turn out differently or with major changes. Who knows?

But it is absolutely certain that each person receives their own individual life path and obstacles. All this is the result of the revelation of his Reshimot. The upper light influences everyone equally, but the fact that each reacts differently and feels differently happens according to the Reshimot revealed in order to be realized. Ultimately, these Reshimot reflect the development of each person’s soul.

However, the development of the soul itself does not precisely indicate its character. For example, Albert Einstein did not display remarkable abilities until the age of twenty, and he performed poorly in school. Then suddenly he became a genius, and everyone was astonished. It is the same in spirituality. The development of the soul in its “infancy” does not testify to its overall structure or level. For this reason, I refrain from making conclusions or constructing theories.

What the Kabbalists wrote in The Zohar about soul types is too complex and intricate. I hope that one day we will be able to create a kind of table: 600,000 souls divided into several billion parts and thousands of reincarnations. This table would summarize all the data in such a way that we would receive one Kli (one common soul).

Why does each person have a unique path? I do not even know how to place all this into a single field of vision. But it is possible because in the state of final correction (Gmar Tikkun) each person attains this internally, and then sees, feels, and reaches the end of his path.

When we reach the state of Gmar Tikkun, then we will see whether it is possible to “bring down” all these things into our corporeal world (to explain them in the language of branches), and publish them in a book called Kabbalah for Beginners.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/26, Rabash, “The Difference between Charity and Gift”

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We are all interconnected from the very beginning. Each of us is already in a designated state. If in life we need to meet one another in some way as a result of the correction of the common soul, this is already predetermined according to our spiritual genes.

Therefore, there is nothing accidental in the fact that we meet or distance ourselves from one another. So, do not worry.

The main thing is that at every stage of your development when you encounter other people, you should be as kind, welcoming, and engaging as possible to everyone. Then, ultimately, you will not go astray and will always remain in the direction of correcting your soul.

Nothing happens by chance. All our encounters are predetermined.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/6/26

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Question: When do I establish a connection with the whole world?

Answer: To the extent that you acquire a screen, you turn not inward, but outward, beyond yourself. Baal HaSulam clarifies this in his article Matan Torah [The Giving of the Torah] and uses the example that as a person grows, so do his worries.

At first a person cares only about himself, then about his family and his surroundings. Later, he begins to worry about the whole country, and as a result, the whole world becomes the subject of his thoughts. Here, Baal HaSulam describes a great man in terms of his human qualities. However, this surely also works in spiritual development.

Just imagine that everything we attain in our desire through the five senses, as well as all our spiritual attainments, is included in our common desire, called “Adam HaRishon,” the common soul.

I am a part of this common soul, one of six hundred thousand, and all my attainments—all that I can absorb inside myself to fill my part—are called “this world.” Whatever I perceive as I enter the sensation of external Kelim is called my external world, that is, my spiritual world. As a soul, I already reside in these external spiritual vessels.

Question: How can this be implemented during the lesson?

Answer: If the Creator has charged you with the initial Hisaron, you will continue to work on it until you gain a true desire for spiritual things. You just have to want it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘If a Woman Inseminates First, She Delivers a Male Child,’ in the Work?”

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In creation, there is only the Creator and the creation. When the shattering occurred, the Creator, as it were, shattered Himself, and took on the negative qualities of the creation.

It is as though He contracted Himself, placed veils of concealments over His governance, and hid that it is good and does only good; He as if corrupted Himself in order to correspond to the future creation, which is destined to grow from a state of zero until it attains His level.

The Creator diminished Himself, His light; this is what is referred to as the entry of Malchut into the first nine Sefirot. This was only a preparatory stage. Subsequently Adam HaRishon emerges; he undergoes a shattering and a descent, and at this point the process of discernment and correction begins. This process must originate from us, from below upward.

Adam HaRishon, by correcting himself, thereby builds the correct governance with respect to himself.

Question: Why was Adam HaRishon not able to clarify this immediately? Why must we discern something that already exists?

Answer: We are discerning it because we are Adam HaRishon!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes At All”

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Question: What does it mean to combine your minds into one integral mind?

Answer: If we have one goal, then our brains will work to achieve it and connect.

Question: But even today, people are connecting for a common goal, a common business, why don’t they have a common integral mind?

Answer: Because this association is based on their selfishness. If we build our union on the abolition of our egoism, then we begin to feel a common desire arise between us. There is no difference between the desire of one and the desire of the other, as if the genes from both parents are combined in one child.

That is, a common goal is not enough, it is important what it is: to rise above the egoistic nature of everyone and create something truly common, which is possible only with the help of a higher power, which is one for all.

If we both want to unleash the power that created and animates all of reality, then this goal binds us, and we begin to live in a common desire and common mind. We connect to such an extent that it is impossible to distinguish where one is and where the other is; we turn into a third something that is completely new. This is called the “middle line.”

Question: I understand the example of a child with the genes of both parents, but where is the mind we share, in whose head?

Answer: This is no longer possible to imagine in our usual, deterministic concepts. When we unite, we become involved in a higher power, in our root, in the Creator. Our common mind will be in the Creator, who is the common force of bestowal, the source of life. Our mind joins one higher mind in what is known as fusion. We cannot connect with each other directly, only through the Creator.

Question: Who is the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is the desire to bestow and to love; it is the source of all life. Our selfish desires are consequences. Therefore, one can rise above one’s egoism only by joining the Creator, “for our heart will rejoice in Him.”

Question: And where will a person who does not believe in a higher power come to in the process of evolution?

Answer: It will be the same with him as with all the others. It doesn’t matter if he believes or doesn’t believe, he is still under the control of a higher power. A person does not have any freedom of choice and free actions except to accelerate his proper development a little, that is, to strive for unification and adhesion himself. He can learn this from the science of Kabbalah and realize it.

He does not need to believe in a higher power; there is no blind faith here. He only needs to know how to move toward the goal, which he will be obliged to achieve in any case. But he has the opportunity to accelerate its achievement, which will be for his benefit.
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From KabTV’s conversation “New Life 931 – Evolution: The Next Stage,” 12/12/17

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Question: Will the humans of the future possess a more powerful mind?

Answer: The human of the future will have stronger feelings and intellect that are more developed tools for perceiving today’s reality, as well as the reasons to move from it to a new form of perception.

This is not about a simple increase in intelligence; we are not talking about the material mind. We will begin to acquire an “integral mind” by connecting with one another emotionally and intellectually. We will feel that there is a system in which we are all included through our thoughts and our hearts.

This system is the only thing that truly exists. The material world in which we now believe we exist will disappear from our perception. We will suddenly discover that matter does not exist, only waves.

And then we will cease to perceive even the waves and will realize that behind them stands a force, not a physical one that can be detected by mechanical or electrical instruments, but a spiritual force. This spiritual force can only be perceived if we are within the same system as it.

Such a transition from passive evolutionary development under the influence of natural forces to an active one where we ourselves govern our development is possible only through the science of Kabbalah, which explains to a person how to rise to the next level of development.

Through our connection, we create one great force, despite the smallness and egoism of each individual’s personal forces. If we even aspire in potential to unite in order to create a new state between us, and become like one person with one heart, then our minds and desires will unite.

Out of all our desires a single desire will emerge, but it will not be egoistic. In order to unite, we will have to break the egoistic approach that makes each of us opposite to others.

And when our minds unite, this shared mind also acquires a new quality that is altruistic instead of egoistic. Thus, we rise to a new level of connection and become like one person with one heart, one desire, and one mind.

In this way we see that all previous forms (inanimate nature, plants, animals, and humans) were never truly material or physical. They only appeared so in our perception; in reality, they were merely forces.

Modern physics also asserts that all reality is force. And we begin to see reality as the connection between two forces: the force of the Creator and the force of creation.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 931 – Evolution: The Next Stage,” 12/12/17

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Is there a guarantee that on the next degree I will feel better? Perhaps, in the spiritual sense, yes. But as for the body…

There are a lot of questions that are connected with a person’s state and with his advancement. First of all, a person is not an isolated animal in this world.

Souls are connected with one another; there is a connection of souls and embryos of souls. I may at this moment be acting while carrying out tasks that are not connected with my own soul, but are serving other souls.

We all belong to the assembly of souls that make up the soul of Adam HaRishon, and accordingly we have a common lot, a common destiny. And each of us, or together with certain other souls, has his own individual, private destiny.

I cannot say that I will feel better in all respects by rising to any higher degree. The most vivid example that can be given here is what physical suffering Baal HaSulam experienced before his passing. He suffered from severe joint disease, pains in his heart, and besides that, cancer. He suffered immensely.

And as for everything concerning ordinary life: he lacked money, food, and the most necessary things for existence. Family problems… It was as if he had no peace in anything.

What is the source of this? We study that a person is merely a fragment of the collective soul, the soul comprised of all the other individual souls. There are numerous examples of great Kabbalist enduring physical suffering. Consider, for example, Rabbi Akiva and his death. But we cannot determine what the lot of each person is.

Our task is to rise along the degrees of the spiritual ladder, that is all. As for what may happen to the physical body, or even on the spiritual plane, to each individual soul, is all entwined with the action of the general system called Adam HaRishon. Certain phenomena and interconnections exist that can give rise to seemingly contradictory states: a righteous one who nonetheless suffers misfortune.

It is futile to dwell on this question. First of all, this is not in our power and is not revealed in advance. On our present level of understanding we do not know where they originate and why they come.

This belongs to much higher degrees. There a person begins to understand why and how events unfold, what their underlying cause is, and why one is interwoven into specific interconnections. These are very exalted matters. To understand them one must rise into the general part of Adam HaRishon.

But in whatever state we may be, it does not matter, reality does not change because of this. Only how we perceive it changes.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/7/26, Rabash, “The Connection between Passover, Matza, and Maror”

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