Thus, in our world, there are no new souls the way bodies are renewed, but only a certain amount of souls that incarnate on the wheel of transformation of the form, for each time they clothe a new body and a new generation (Baal HaSulam, “The Peace“).

Question: There is a certain number of souls in the world that have been constantly reincarnating for thousands of years. How many are there?

Answer: It does not matter, it can be five or ten thousand or billions. They are constantly dividing and connecting. We see that the number of people in the world is growing so there is a correspondence between the number of souls and the number of bodies.

Comment: But Baal HaSulam says that there is a certain number of souls (only a certain amount of souls that incarnate). Yet we see that over the past hundred years the number of people in the world has doubled.

My Response: They divided among themselves.

Question: Does it mean that a soul is some kind of unfixed state?

Answer: Yes, it is some kind of energy charge, form, and desire that can be divided into many different desires.

The benefit of the interruption between incarnations is that a person begins a new existence in order to change one’s nature and structure and, in general, his final purpose.

But one life is not enough for this. Tens or hundreds of lifetimes are required because the soul itself does nothing but communicate with other souls, and therefore it moves through various states.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Comment: Kabbalists write that a person in this world in a biological body (not after death) can attain the state where he changes his nature.

My Response: Nothing happens after death. It is because the death of the physical body has very little, if any, effect on the condition of the spiritual body, which we call the soul.

Question: Still a person goes through various states in this world. Do they leave any record? Does anything remain?

Answer: There remains as much as a person gives to the world.

Question: What if he just leads a normal life? He has a family on some island, he lived there for a couple of decades, and that is it. Does anything remain of him?

Answer: What can remain?

Comment: But he had worries, he loved, he suffered.

My Response: Yes, he loved money and suffered from the lack of it. That is it. This is what he has left.

Comment: But all the same, a person does not just live like that; nature does not simply create some circumstances.

My Response: He has nothing worthy of remaining.

Question: Do you want to say that it is worthy only to take care of others? That is the merit?

Answer: Yes, because if he did, it was against his nature. In this he was similar to the Creator who acts only in the spirit of bestowal and love for others.

If a person acts against his egoistic nature for the sake of some goal, for example, for the sake of attaining the Creator, then these actions are imprinted and as if develop the soul, our desires.

If a person performs actions according to his nature in which everything is already pre-established, then nothing remains because there is nothing of him in it.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: Does the speed of a person’s development and ascent to the spiritual world depend on previous lives and reincarnations?

Answer: Practically it doesn’t. It depends only on you.

Question: Usually people do not have problems with reincarnations; they are fine with this. The only question is whether consciousness remains. If at least something remains of me in the next life, then I can die without any fear.

Answer: As much as you think you can live in others and for others, to that extent you remain.

Question: There are many people who care about their neighbor and have maybe even sacrificed their lives for others’ sake. It is clear that we remember people who made some great discoveries for humanity a thousand or a several thousand years ago. Is it called that they live in us?

Answer: No, it is a poetic form of expression.

People who give themselves to others, that is, who have changed their nature from receiving to bestowing are indeed in a completely different active informational field. They go from negative to positive energy. In this case they have no fear of disappearing at all because they already exist in the quality of bestowal.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: If a person’s egoistic desires and thoughts are limited by the boundaries of the biological body, do they also cease to exist when the body dies?

Answer: Yes, because the thoughts of a person are by no means higher than the body.

The brain serves our thoughts and desires. Consciousness is their result. If a person develops love for his neighbor or he has altruistic intentions and desires, then they are not limited by time, space, and the biological body.

Therefore, if such a person lives in others, then he continues to live when his body dies.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: What does “reincarnation” of a person mean? What is being reincarnated? What part of a person disappears and what remains?

Answer: Nothing. If a person in this life strives to reach the upper purpose, the upper world, the upper existence, then he must use everything that he has in this world to do so in order to enter the upper world, that is, the quality of bestowal and love, to become a giver, as good as the Creator.

Then he has the opportunity to be similar to the Creator to some extent and to exist in a different dimension, in the quality of bestowal and love for everything around him.

Comment: It is clear to everyone that the human body remains in the ground and that there are no reincarnations of physical bodies.

My Response: Why not? The body decomposes into its parts that also participate in some kind of circulation of material in nature.

Question: A person is his thoughts, desires, and consciousness. What passes into the next reincarnation? What is left of a person?

Answer: Consciousness may remain. Desires remain, aspirations remain.

Comment: Yes, they do not disappear because they are not material.

My Response: But they are located in a material carrier. These qualities of a person do not disappear only if they are not similar to the qualities of our world—not receiving but bestowing.

Bestowing qualities are found not only in the one who carries them but in the one to whom they are addressed. Therefore, if a person has a will to bestow, then he is as if within others, as we usually say: “He lives in others.” Then he really exists independently of his material carrier.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: In the material world there are states of birth and death, childhood and old age, and in the spiritual world this is expressed in the expansion of perception. What does the expansion of perception mean?

Answer: Each time you don’t die, but, as they say, you change your “skin.” You change all your instruments, desires, and insights for new ones.

The cycles for you do not go through a complete shutdown, as it is in our world, because you do them yourself. You yourself go from one state to another, and therefore, they are controlled; they are desirable.

A person does this himself, within himself, and attains the upper world. He begins to gradually expand these boundaries, to feel himself in another.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Expanded Consciousness” 8/14/13

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Comment: We really want to believe that there is some kind of continuation after death. Something inside us demands it.

My Response: If we tried to fill our life with some deep upper meaning, then we would cherish it, fear for it, and try to find out what kind of continuation it could have. But based on the way we live, what can we expect? And reincarnation? Again, in something like a spinning wheel, well what is good about that?

Comment: If you look at it from one side, we really value our lives and want to know if there is a continuation—who I was and who I will be. On the other hand, we treat it so lightly. There are so many wars and various dangers to life that we create ourselves. It turns out somehow illogical.

My Response: We ourselves devalue our lives. It does not look like a person appreciates it very much.

Comment: Maybe we value our own life but not the lives of others.

My Response: We relate to our personal life this way not because we really value it but because we are afraid of the unknown.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/9/22

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Question: The topic of reincarnation interests many people, but why is there so little written about it?

Answer: It is in order not to pass incorrect information and it is not to try to hide the correct one, but to give a person only what is needed. Therefore, Kabbalists prefer to remain silent.

Question: But does the concept of life cycles still exist?

Answer: Yes, it exists. In principle, nature is full of cycles: gasses, water, minerals, air, planets; everything is subject to some kind of cycle.

Question: So, life does not end after death? If there are cycles, then nothing ends?

Answer: Is this the most important thing that interests a person? He is not happy with his life, sometimes curses it, and still fears that it ends and there will be no continuation.

Let’s say a person was born, grew up, was taught, punished, and encouraged. In the end, he grew up, created a family, and gave birth to his children. And what is next? He reached the state of death and died like everything in nature. So is there anything to worry about? As it is said: “Against your will you are born; against your will you live; and against your will you die.”
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In the News (Business Insider): “Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes death is critical to human progress. Death is ‘important,’ he said this week, because people rarely change their minds — ‘they just die.’ ‘If you live forever, we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed,’ he said.

My Response: Why all these scrutinies at all? To create some kind of longevity pill?

Comment: Yes. I mean, he does not want to do it. He says: “Everyone is engaged in it, but I don’t want to. I believe that people should die in their own time.”

My Response: I do not know what “in their own time” means. Today, let’s say, I am 75. 20 – 30 years ago it was already an exorbitant age. And today, it is such that you can easily live for another 10 – 15 years.

Now the question arises: “What is the point?” Should we create such a pill that a person could swallow and live another 10 – 15 years? The fact that we will naturally live so long is another matter. But really?

Question: Then in which case does a person need to go on and on and on?

Answer: Only if a person knows exactly what he exists for and if can benefit himself and others. Only in this case! But this then turns out to be a selective attitude to life; they will not all live like that. But if so, if the benefit to people is constant, then everyone should live like that. Then it makes sense.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/27/21

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Question: Suppose some acute situation arises somewhere nearby, in a city, in a country and then all over the world. To which of them should I direct my attention first? I can watch the news in a purely detached way: “Oh, well, yes. They are blowing up there, they are shooting there. Well, it’s bad for them.”

Answer: The world appears as one single whole, but at the same time you see the clear hand of the Creator, which leads all souls to correction. If, for the sake of this correction, it is necessary that today, for example, one hundred million people perish in the world in a single day, then they will perish.

In our time, somewhere there is some kind of accident and it is there already. But earlier, let’s say, two or three thousand years ago, the soldiers of King David engaged in hand-to-hand combat. There was nothing else: either I strike you or you strike me. When leaving for the war, men gave a divorce to their wife in advance, so that later she could get married.

How else can it be? I am faced one on one with the enemy or maybe even with not one but with several who attack me. And what did they fight with: shield and sword, spear or mace, stone throwers or slings. So during the war, tens of thousands of people would die a day.

Therefore, when you look at what is happening in the world, you begin to justify everything that is happening because at the same time you see how the calculation is done not with bodies, but with souls. This is first.

Secondly, it is not possible to correct them otherwise. This is the best, optimal method for them to get closer to the spiritual because at the moment they are not able to respond to challenges to correct themselves.

But when people are already close to correcting themselves and not falling under the millstones, under the firm pressing force of development, then it’s really a pity. When they have freewill, then it’s a pity. And what will you do? As it turns out.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, Spiritual States” 4/17/13

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