Comment: Recently, the topic of the evil eye has been given a lot of attention because the hatred of man for man has increased. And a person is afraid of the evil eye. At the same time, scientists still claim that this does not exist, that it is all invented.

My Response: No, I don’t agree with them!

Question: People hang all sorts of keychains from the evil eye. There are online tutorials on how to prepare such a keychain, and how to make an amulet from the evil eye. It is known that this is thousands of years old. Do you think there is an evil eye or not?

Answer: Yes. But it’s not such an evil eye that I looked at you in some special way. By our desire, we are all bound together in one great common desire, which the Creator created, and so we can influence each other with our desires, each from his own level where the root of his soul comes from. Therefore, by thinking ill of others, I hurt myself and hurt them. I do harm because I act through my desire.

Question: Is this happening unwittingly?

Answer: Yes, of course. People don’t know that. Why is our world so bad? Because people think that way about each other!

Question: From the fact that they sort of flatten out the other?

Answer: Sure. Does anyone wish the others well? It turns out that our whole world lives only on the evil eye. On disgust, on the rejection of people from each other.

The eye is the highest organ: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are the five senses. And vision is the highest of them.
And so we have to worry about looking at each other correctly, that is, treating each other correctly.

Comment: You just said that our whole world is built on the evil eye.

My Response: Where have you seen a normal human-to-human relationship? Only in the negative direction!

Initially, we are not attuned for good. We are not initially set up for the right attitude to each other. We put on such conditions that if he treats me well, then I will treat him correctly, and so on. But initially I have no kindness for others. Why on earth would I? Why should I treat others well? I speak like a normal person in this world. This can’t be happening!

Man is made of evil! Man is evil! So, you can’t get away from it. Only education can lift him out of this egoistic, envious swamp, pull him out by the ears, bathe him, dry him well, hang him by the ears in the sun, so that it will dry him out well. And after that, you can start filling him with something good.

Question: Then this whole science of correction, called Kabbalah, is about how we can translate these evil thoughts, the evil view on which our world exists, into a good view?

Answer: Yes.

Question: It is about how to raise a person from this world to the world of a kind view, kindness?

Answer: Yes. This will already be a spiritual world. The upper world.

And our world is created in evil alone. Just evil, because a person relates everything only to himself, whether it makes me feel good or bad, consciously or subconsciously, unconsciously.

Question: If I am like this and I can’t change, what is the process of education that you keep talking about?

Answer: It’s about making you change so that you will draw upon yourself the positive force of nature, which is called the Creator, which will begin to correct your negative force.

Question: So we always say that in order to do this, we must understand that there is only a negative force in me? And hate it, really? Is this the starting point? Then I’ll want the good force.

Answer: Yes. That’s it!

This good force is all around us. Absolutely fills the entire space! Only we push it away, we don’t want it. We are specially created to rise above ourselves, to get out of ourselves, to this common force.

Question: Then we still have to understand that at ground level, in this world, we can’t do anything ourselves with these hands, with this head?

Answer: Nothing.

Comment: And all our attempts now to make a better society, a better world…

My Response: It’s the same toys again.

Comment: And humanity is still looking for some earthly leader.

My Response: It doesn’t know how to use the forces of nature! Meaning what Kabbalah gives us, and what Kabbalah explains to us. Kabbalah tells us how to get to this positive force of nature, to attract it constantly to ourselves and thereby, change the world. What does peace mean? What I see and feel around me, either with my evil eye or with my good eye, is what I call the world.

So, how do I change my evil attitude to the world for a good one? This is the whole science of Kabbalah, the science of getting the right impression of the place where you are, of this world.

Question:  Are the evil eye and corruption different things?

Answer: Corruption is a bad attitude toward everyone else, with the help of which I really bring a lot of damage to the system of forces that surrounds us, in which we are, like in a web, connected to each other.

I am already doing this deliberately. If I deliberately treat others with evil, I bring evil force into our mutual relations, I damage the world with it.

Question: Is it coming back to me that I’m deliberately ruining the world?

Answer: Yes, it is comes back to me.

Comment: That is, if in the evil eye we say: “touch wood, so as not to jinx,” that is, a person feels that something bad comes from him, then in the corruption I do not knock on the table, I go straight to kill him.

My Response: You concentrate all your evil on doing evil to another. By this you spoil the system of forces, this web in which you are placed, and it comes back to you. But it comes back through a thousand different paths, so you can’t connect it with your evil eye, which you turned on.

A person must learn to properly master the positive and negative forces. He can control them and make the world around him perfect and himself eternal.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/19/20

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Judgement Day from Kabbalah’s Point of View

Question: The Book Prophets mentions the Day of Judgement. Almost all religions say that God will judge all people for different actions. What does the Judgement Day mean from an internal point of view? Who is judging whom and for what?

Answer: Judgement Day means that the true reason for their existence, for their suffering, and the true opportunity to correct everything that is entrusted to a person is revealed to people.

When people see this, it will be the happiest day for them. On one hand, it is a day of judgement, but on the other hand, it is a happy day because the truth is revealed, how people can bring themselves to an eternal, perfect existence.

Question: The subject of life after death is also addressed in connection with the Judgement Day. Although Judaism does not speak much about it, there is still such a concept as the resurrection of the dead. What does it mean inside a person, from a spiritual point of view?

Answer: Judaism considers a person not as a protein body, but as a combination of his positive and negative qualities, and human ones at that, not animalistic ones. Our body is not considered a person. It is considered an animal. It is said: “The creatures are as beasts.”

But what we have in us, that is, what determines a person’s attitude to the surrounding world, especially to other people, must be corrected. A man is called one who connects himself with the entire world. A man in Hebrew is “Adam,” from the word “Domeh,” meaning “similar” to the Creator.

Question: Can we say that the resurrection of dead desires is our correct use of them?

Answer: Exactly. This is what is called “complete correction.”
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/30/21

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Ascending Above Bodies

Question: Today the masculine part in a woman is salient and the feminine part in men is more prominent. Is there a reason for that?

Answer: We are in a process, in a period of transition, but we will eventually begin to understand how we should get closer to each other in order to reveal the Creator.

By the revelation of the Creator we mean to our next level of existence in which we ascend above our bodies and begin to exist in a volume our corporeal life and death have nothing to do with. We begin to exist in a soul.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 3/3/19

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The lower the soul of a person,
the higher the nose  [turns] up.
He stretches his nose to where the soul has not grown.
(Omar Khayyam)

We see this in real life even with a naked eye. And everyone can see that it is so.

Comment: A person displays himself, he becomes a great politician, a great businessman.

My Response: He has to hold himself up somehow. If others do not hold him by appreciating him and respecting him, then he raises himself in this way. Look at all the politicians.

Question: That is, “he stretches his nose to where the soul has not grown”? Where does the soul stretch, rise up to what?

Answer: The soul stretches to the Creator, that is if a person understands this. And if his soul does not grow to such a state, then at least he wants to raise himself to such a level that he is respected.

Question: Does he put pressure on others?

Answer: Of course!

Question: And if the soul grows, then it raises him?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why is man given individuality? After all, he is still growing, he wants to grow!

Answer: Everyone is very individual. To the extent that a person wants to realize himself in closeness with the Creator, in likeness to the Creator, and he shows himself more through these actions, all his correct properties become prominent.

Although it seems that if he wants to become like the Creator, he nullifies himself. No!

Question: Why is man given talents, individuality?

Answer: Only for this. So that he becomes like the Creator in each of its special properties.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/2/20

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Question: What is the purpose of generational change from the point of view of the work on correcting egoism?

Answer: The purpose of generational change is to divide this huge burden into small parts between many people. This is written in The Book of Zohar. It tells a parable about how a great king who decided to move his capital from one place to another. But how to transport the royal treasury? He could not leave it to one man or an army to do it in case they were attacked.

Then he decided that he would give each of his many subjects one coin. Everyone would bring him this coin back because it is not worth it for a person to abuse the trust of the king and tarnish himself because of one small coin. Thus, his subjects moved the huge treasury to a new place, to a new capital.

This is how The Zohar speaks metaphorically about why we divide all the work between many billions of people, like a line that moves forward from generation to generation all the time. That is how we work.

Then the enormous work that we have to do is not so terrifying. Of course, it is difficult for each person, but it is surmountable. However, if we imagined that we could overcome all the egoism created by the Creator, rise above it, and connect with the upper force at its true spiritual degree, then each of us simply could not do it alone.
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From KabTV’s “Close-up. Generation” 8/24/09

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The coronavirus pandemic has made such drastic changes in the world that it has thrown it in disarray. And we will see how governments, leaders, and all kinds of organizations cannot find ways to work with people. The need for the science of Kabbalah, for the method of connection between us and the Creator, will be revealed more and more.

Divinity is only those souls, those desires, directed to the Creator. The souls who have awakened to the Creator are called Divinity, and the Creator begins to reveal Himself in them according to their efforts to awaken themselves to connection with Him.

In the end, everyone must join the common soul, each according to his own level. Do not think that souls that awaken later are smaller. On the contrary, souls awaken starting from the lightest to increasingly heavier ones. The light corrections are done first, which then help us make larger and more complex corrections.

Therefore, those souls who must rise after us are heavier and more important. And the souls that are awakening now, which are called Israel, i.e., those who strive “straight to the Creator” are not so difficult to correct compared to those who will come after them.

Generation after generation the desire grows, and the ability to be smarter and more inventive, grows accordingly. We will see how after the pandemic, the Creator will perform other exercises with us to awaken the understanding of how to get closer to the spiritual. He will act on our entire generation so that everyone feels the need to approach Him and connect with Him.

The whole world will feel that the main thing in life is not the coronavirus, not material success, and not the illusory values with which we filled our lives. The Creator will begin to shine a little deeper into the thickness of our material and will illuminate our inner darkness. We will discover such desires in ourselves that we did not even know about.

Blow by blow, people will gradually begin to discover how much they lack the meaning of life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/2/21, “Chasing the Shechina“

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Question: Why are life and death such sharp states? Before the beginning of life, a person does not feel anything, does not remember anything. After death, he feels nothing, remembers nothing. Life and death for him are probably the best and the worst thing that can happen.

Answer: The life of a person takes place in his egoistic desire. This is why it is so clearly defined from the beginning to the end, from birth to death. The opportunity that we are given is to rise above birth and death.

However, it is not given in order to some how extend life (something we would like to do), but to change the attitude toward it, in particular, to change the force at the basis of this existence—to make it altruistic instead of egoistic. Then we will not be feeling the influence of the egoistic force on us, that is, life itself, but we will be as if above it.

Question: But this clarity, this definition, it is good, is it not? Does it mean that in the other state, a higher one, everything will be clear enough?

Answer: Yes. In the quality of bestowal, contrary to the quality of reception that we now have, everything is also clearly defined, and in much greater intensity in quality and quantity.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 4/12/21

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Question: A person who lives in this world has his own place. This is his home, planet Earth, a place in space, a place in time. Does the soul have a place in which it exists?

Answer: The soul not only has a place, but it is a place in itself. There is no other place but the soul.

There is a so-called imaginary place called our universe. It is imaginary because it exists in the desire to receive, the egoistic desire. And there is a place called the soul, which is the desire to bestow. This place is really eternal and perfect.

Question: Is this place for humans?

Answer: This place is for us to discover and exist in.

Question: What is the connection between the soul and the “I” of a person?

Answer: The soul is my “I.”

We do not yet feel what the soul is because we do not have the quality of bestowal and love, and therefore, we have to meander along in this way, without a soul.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 4/12/21

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Question: The issue of aging has been of great concern to humanity all the time. A person in his youth and old age, are they two different people or one?

Answer: Whether we are young or old, alive or dead, these are just our depictions of ourselves. Of course, any reasoning is possible here, but until we rise above the egoism in which we feel ourselves and our world, we will not be able to correctly recognize what other possibilities there are to feel.

Question: That is, I depict myself as young, and after a while as old. Yet, I do not feel that way. Is this feeling imposed on me?

Answer: Yes, it is imposed. But still, it is imposed inside of you.

Question: Who imposes it?

Answer: The upper force imposes the entire picture of this reality on us. Each of us has his own picture imposed on him. And this is how we act.

However, at the same time, there are people who are given the opportunity to change this picture. It depends on how they work with it and this is where the interaction between people and their mutual development begins.

Question: What is the purpose of imposing this picture?

Answer: For a person to rise above it.

Question: All the people?

Answer: Eventually, all of them.

Question: Is this why we are given the feeling of the state of life and death?

Answer: Yes, of course. After all, they do not really exist either. However, they are given in order for a person to rise above and go beyond them.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 4/12/21

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Question: How many people throughout history have crossed the Machsom? Are there only a few, tens, or thousands of them?

Answer: Millions of people. However, we must understand that this is a process. Souls are not some blocks separated from each other, but rather, they are desires that constantly mix, change, and connect. That is, it is a complex integral system.

Question: Where do these millions exist?

Answer: They exist outside of bodies, in desires. After all, the most important thing is desire. The body appears to us as existing in the same limited volume as our world. In fact, there is no material world. Only the spiritual world exists. Therefore, we need to move to the feeling of the spiritual world and make certain that it is the one that exists and not this world.

Question: Where do people exist after crossing the Machsom, and what do they do there?

Answer: They exist in their qualities. Everything that is outside of these qualities, all kinds of inanimate, vegetative, and animate matter (there is no human matter in our world; it is classified as animate) are perceived only in our earthly feelings. In reality, all this does not exist.

Feelings change, and this world disappears.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 2/6/20

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