Question: What is the right way to imagine the soul at this stage? Where can I find this organ inside myself?

Answer: The soul is a property of similarity to the Creator. If I begin to strive to bestow, to fulfill, and to be kind to others, that is, if I will try to somehow manifest in myself all the properties of the Creator that I know in relation to others, then I will increasingly feel myself approaching the Creator until I begin to feel Him more and more clearly.

It is this aspiration to discover an inclination for bestowal and love for other people in myself, that will be called the soul inside me.

Question: But why is it so? It is not clear.

Answer: There is nothing else besides this.

Comment: It is love and unity again.

My Response: This is the property of the Creator. It is His manifestation in relation to us, and in us this property is manifested as opposite to the Creator.

Question: Could they not have come up with something else?

Answer: You do not like it because it is too far away from you, opposite to you. That is why it was created this way, so that you could attain the Creator from the opposite state.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/16/22

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“Death comes to the Blacksmith with a scythe and asks him to sharpen it. He sharpens the scythe in horror, thinking that Death has come for him.

He sharpens it and says, “I can’t believe I’m holding a weapon in my hands that has mowed down so many people.”

And suddenly Death jumps up to him and says, “I didn’t kill anyone, not a single person! It’s not me! It’s you killing each other and blaming me.

I used to be a beautiful girl. I met the souls of people and escorted them to their resting place. And today I wore black clothes so that you couldn’t see the blood on me. I put on a hood to hide the tears that I cried, because I can’t stop this horror of your hatred—these wars, and blood, and so on. And today I’m an old woman. You made me like this.”

So says Death as she takes the scythe, turns around, and leaves.

And then he quietly asks her: “Why do you need a scythe then?” She replies: “The road to paradise—it has long been overgrown with grass” (Translation of”Domovoy’s Diary” by Evgeniy Cheshirko).

My Response: 🙂 Good!

Comment: Which means, as always, we blame someone. We do it in a terrible way: death with a hood, black clothes, and a scythe. And we don’t see that…

My Response: …that this is actually the road to heaven. In fact, it is so.

According to Kabbalah, our world is the worst of the worlds, the lowest of the worlds. And therefore there is nothing to regret that your being in it ends.

Question: I wanted to ask another question that Death asked. She said: “It’s you! Look at yourself! That’s how you are, not me. You created my scary image, and you are so scary yourself.”

Here there is a reversal. In principle, is this the main thing that a person should do?

Answer: Of course. He is killing himself from day to day, instead of making himself a free, bright, and eternal being.

Question: And then what will this Death with a scythe turn into?

Answer: It is necessary to kill egoism in a person.

Question: Does the person do it within himself?

Answer: Within himself, yes.

Question: What do I reveal then?

Answer: That your egoism is killing you, and you have to kill it.

Question: What attitude will I have toward death then, since it will come to me one way or another?

Answer: Calm!

Question: I won’t depict it like this?

Answer: No! It’s just a transition from one state to another.

Question: In principle, I could depict Death with a scythe as something very light. Can I eventually advance to this?

Answer: Yes. Death is a light state.

Question: Do I draw it in a black state when this black exists in me, when there is egoism in me? And when I start working with it, does everything turn over for me?

Answer: Yes. Renounce egoism and you enter the bright world.

Question: And then death will seem to be a completely bright state?

Answer: Of course. After all, only the quality of egoism is being killed in you and there remains a small quality of altruism that was in you, but you did not bother to develop it. And when you develop it, then everything changes for you.

Question: When they tell you that the road to paradise is too overgrown and it needs to be cleaned, what do you imagine?

Answer: We must go to that entrance to paradise—the quality of bestowal and love—and try to tread, to trample this path for everyone.

Question: When they say “overgrown,” what is it overgrown with?

Answer: Egoism. We feed this road with our egoism. It is overgrown, of course. We do not allow the quality of bestowal and love to manifest, which would clean this road.

Question: So it’s not that easy to pass through this road? Does it really need to be mowed? And the scythe needs to be sharpened?

Answer: It is necessary to sharpen it.

Question: Is this done by the person himself?

Answer: Of course.

Question: What does it mean that I have sharpened my scythe and mow?

Answer: I go out against my egoism and I just want to cut it off, to cut it off until it practically disappears.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/18/22

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Question: We know that birth is a very emotional, powerful event for a child. After a while, he can already see, hear, smell, and feel. But no one remembers this event.

Not only do we have no memories of birth itself but also not of the first two years of our life, the time when we learned to walk, get to know mom, dad, family, and the environment, and uttered our first words.

We more or less remember all our emotional surges in life, we feel them, but we do not remember this. It is as if this period is completely cut off from us. Why?

Answer: A person begins to feel himself at the age when he really becomes human. This is at the age of 12 to 13, maybe even a little later.

Question: What feelings are you talking about? For example, I remember myself at the age of four.

Answer: Yes, that is true, but it is not a sense of your “I.” It is a sensation that I exist, and you remember some pictures, some scenes from those times.

Question: Are you saying that the “I” grows in a person and at some point it says: “From now on, you will remember everything”? And the “I” that was there when I was little was not the “I” yet?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When my “I” is revealed, what does it mean? What does it require? Why are such bright colors suddenly starting to appear?

Answer: This is when there is a connection with other people and especially hormonal attraction (at the age of 13 to 14). Then a person begins to form completely. All his, so to say, levels are already included in the awareness of the world and of oneself.

Question: Why does this “I” manifest in a person and begin to lead further?

Answer: In order for him to correct himself and to raise himself. In order for him to understand what he exists for. From this time on, you can already start working with a person.

Question: For an ordinary person, is the “I” something completely different?

Answer: It is because we are not being taught!

I was not taught either. But I remember wondering, “What is next?” And there is nothing. That is all. Next, you will go to school, to college, and so on.

Since I did not have an answer to this question, I did not want to study, and I did not want anything at all. I was quite often in a state of apathy.

Question: Was it because there was no answer? Did the answer arise from this “I” that required growth?

Answer: Of course. What do I live for and why? It was a terrible feeling that it is pointless, useless, and you are being forced.

Question: Is, in fact, our life the formation of this “I”? What does this “I” transform into,? What does it turn into?

Answer: It turns into indifference, into apathy. It exists because you exist. There are people who do not notice it. It is good for them, they are happy to live, acquire, build, give birth, and so on. This is how life goes on for them.

Question: Is there a connection between this “I” and that upper force that you are always talking about?

Answer: Yes. In the question: “What for?” This question is transmitted from above to everyone, but in little doses. The one in whom this question arises seriously, apparently can develop it and receive answers.

Question: Can we think and fantasize about this that these “threads” exist above and come from above to the “I” of a person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can one determine when and which “I” will play, when and which “I” will jump out?

Answer: To do this, you need to reveal your soul, that is, your entire connection with the upper degree. Then you will know why you are being pulled this way and not in another way.

Question: Exactly at this time?

Answer: In everything.

Question: Is it programmed which “I” will jump out and which will be dulled a little bit?

Answer: Absolutely everything.

Question: Does it mean every “I” of the entire eight billion?

Answer: Of course! The beginning of creation, the end of creation, and its intermediate states—practically all of them are known in advance. Only one thing is unknown: how a person in his manifestation of freewill implements his personal participation in all this.

Here, the implementation is not prescribed in advance, but is given to a person

Question: Does it mean that, in fact, something still depends on the person?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/18/22

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Kabbalists wrote about the essence of the soul: “The soul is a part of God above and is not at all changed from the Whole, except in that the soul is a part and not the Whole” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Chapter 1, Inner Observation, Item 3).

Question: How can we understand that the soul is a part of the Creator?

Answer: Basically, the soul is not a part of the Creator. The one who reveals the Creator, however, attains only some part. In fact, it is impossible to divide the Creator, to cut off a piece from Him, like a stone from a rock. One can only come to understand that this is how our attainment takes place.

Baal HaSulam wants to explain to us that there is no difference between the soul that is within a person and the Creator Himself. There is a difference in attainment; a person attains only some part, some manifestation, of the Creator, but nothing more.

Then, as he grows spiritually, he will attain a greater and greater part of the Creator within himself, until, as a result of his spiritual development, he reaches the feeling that the Creator fills him with absolutely everything.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/16/22

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Comment: You talk about the unity of all mankind and love for one’s neighbor all the time.

My Response: This is the most important thing.

Question: But who feels it and understands it in the correct form?

Answer: It is useful for everyone to strive for this.

And the souls are absolutely not felt by us. There are so many misconceptions, and therefore it is impossible to talk much about it. This will confuse people and give them the wrong understanding of where they exist, for what, in the name of what.

But if these people become Kabbalists themselves, then, to the degree they reach, they will see, feel, and understand all this. Good luck to them.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: Why is a person’s life so short from the point of view of spiritual development? He can go through all the corrections in one lifetime, right?

Answer: No, he can’t. He has to change himself. And to die in a relatively uncomfortable state, even with torment. This is necessary for his correction

Question: Are you talking about any person?

Answer: Yes, about anyone.

We don’t understand this system at all. We think that if a person is a Kabbalist, then he has patronage in the spiritual world, he himself makes orders. No. This is the system in which you exist, the scheme where you are a small element. And even if you generate and define a lot, you are still an element of the system.

Question: Why is this change necessary? Why do I need to restart in a new body?

Answer: A person needs rebirth in order to start working under new initial conditions, at a new level. You cannot, even as a Kabbalist, move from one level to another without changing the external adapter. You have to return to another reified animal state.

But how can one return, is it necessary to return? This is a very complex system. We are not talking about the return of the animal body, it can absolutely completely rot. All this worship of the dead, respect for the dead, these are all anachronisms. In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with the spiritual.

We don’t understand what it means to live in this world and in another parallel world at the same time. We don’t understand what it means to see the system of governance of our world.

We have no idea what it means to exist in the form of thought, energy, and spirit not clothed in a body, that is, in some huge system where you and the system are one common whole. And you don’t have one separate thing, you merge with this system, as if you don’t exist. We don’t have the words to explain it.

But we don’t need that. What for? It won’t help us, it will only confuse us. A person is told only what can help him realize himself quickly. Whoever wants to do this seriously, let him engage in it and attain it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. See How to Die” 9/7/13

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Question: Can practicing Kabbalah reduce the number of future reincarnations of a person? Or is their number predetermined?

Answer: It does not matter if it is predetermined or not, but we can change and influence them.

Question: I have heard that if a person who studies Kabbalah is in a ten and passes away, he continues to be a member of the ten. What does this mean?

Answer: It depends on the ten. It has the ability to feel this person and contact him. He lives in them because they were mutually connected with each other as Sefirot in one Partzuf. Therefore, the connection remains.

But he does not continue living in the way we understand, in the memory of these people but in their qualities. In this case he makes decisions, changes, and so on with them.

All this should become clear to us from the revelation of the soul to a person. It is hard to talk about things we cannot imagine and feel.

Comment: But you tell us many things about Kabbalah that we do not feel.

My Response: But you can imagine this somehow, and if you yearn for this, then you are approaching the purpose of creation.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: Does a person have the opportunity to learn about his past reincarnations? There is a lot of speculation on this topic and quite serious evidence that people seem to remember who they were in other incarnations. Is it possible?

Answer: No. As a rule, these are all far-fetched thoughts. But if a person really reveals the upper world, he absolutely clearly attains his soul, his cycle, where he is, what is happening to him.

Question: It is written in the book of the Prophets that at the end of days all bodies will rise. Is there such a thing as the “resurrection of the dead”? What is this about?

Answer: That in the end all souls will attain themselves and will be able to unite together into the one soul of Adam.

Question: Does it matter what actions a person performed in his past life and does it connect with his future cycle?

Answer: Of course there are certain connections and dependencies. But, in general, we cannot figure it out.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: If the soul of a person is exchanged, if he is given another one, where does the previous one go?

Answer: It does not go anywhere. There are reincarnations of souls all the time; they move from one state to another.

In general, there is only one soul in the world, and all that happens to it is the development of its constituent parts.

We see the world as differentiated, divided into different souls that are clothed in different bodies. But if you look with different eyes, it is one soul.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: On one hand, according to Kabbalah there is only one soul. On the other hand, they speak of “the reincarnation of souls”; that is, there are many of them. How should one understand this?

Answer: The common soul was divided into parts. It is called Adam because in total it should be similar to the Creator, from the Hebrew word “Domeh” -similar. And then it must undergo all kinds of transformations and at the same time constantly draw closer to similarity of form to the Creator.

Question: Let’s say a person lives. He must die and be reborn, and again go through dozens or hundreds of lives. What is the benefit of this?

Answer: The fact is that these parts, which feel like people, eventually unite, achieve some kind of mutual merger of intentions and desires, and become like the Creator.

Question: There is such a thing as a male and female soul. What is the difference? What is this talking about here?

Answer: It does not depend on gender, but only on the qualities of the soul at the moment.

The soul is a desire with an intention. This is the construction of the soul. For every form of desire to receive, there is an intention for what.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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