The study of the Torah is often perceived as a simple study of the book’s text. However, we need to understand what is written in these stories. There are four languages in the Torah: Pshat, Remez, Drush, and Sod (a simple narrative, allusion, allegory, and mystery)—four stages of understanding the material.

The text of the Torah can never be perceived in the ordinary sense as a historical narrative.

This is a code that we must decipher. It has four degrees of understanding and the deepest degree is the wisdom of Kabbalah. Through it we reach the truth, and therefore Kabbalah is called the true wisdom.

Each one can decipher this code, but in order to do it, he must change himself, develop and expand his mind and senses. Then he will discover what is actually written in the Torah.

There are four stages of presentation of the Torah, and each of them is an additional development with respect to the level where we are born and live in this world. The Torah doesn’t imply that its text will be understood literally, as in any other book. It expects that a person will change himself and understand the writing on a more internal level.

Imagine that a child reads a fairy tale with his mother, how a prince met a girl, fell in love with her, and took her to his palace. The son only receives very shallow, primitive information from this story, and a mother understands it more deeply and sees what really happened there because she is familiar with the nature of people. That is, each understands the story according to the level of his development.

First, we need to understand that it is necessary to develop a person so that he will understand the Torah. The Torah itself prepares us for the understanding of it, if we study it correctly. Advancing to the love of others, the great rule of the Torah, to the extent of the expansion of this love within ourselves, we learn to understand the Torah deeper and deeper.

We perceive the reality where we live in a wider, deeper, and more multi-faceted manner. Then we really see all four degrees in it.

Love for others begins with close friends and extends to the nation and then to the entire world. If the entire humanity becomes as close to me as my own children and myself, then from this feeling I can understand what the Torah says; there is no other way.

Question: Who develops whom? Does the Torah develop a person or does a person have to develop to understand the Torah?

Answer: A person can develop only through studying the “inner Torah,” in other words, Kabbalah.

Love for others reveals new feelings in us that allow us to exit ourselves. Now I want to draw everything to me and to investigate it within me, only for my own benefit. But if I go out and begin to love my neighbor, I feel the reality that is outside of me. It already doesn’t depend on my relation to it and how much I benefit from it. It is the way it is by itself, as if I don’t exist.

Reality is not refracted in my feelings and mind anymore. After all, once I exit my own egoistic perception, I acquire the feelings and mind of the general system that the Torah provides to me. These are the feelings and mind of the upper system, and with them I can feel and understand all of nature in its true form.

Thanks to this, I reach eternity and perfection inherent in nature. I don’t bring interferences to nature as before due to my limitations, stereotypes, incorrect understanding, and perception in the material senses and the mind that I acquired during the life in this generation.

It turns out that the Torah raises me to the degree of eternity and perfection. I even cease to depend on my body. The body can suddenly get sick and die, and I will stay in the same consciousness, in the same mind and feelings that I acquired. Since the Torah is eternal, it makes me an immortal person—an eternal entity that is called the soul.
[195763]
From KabTV’s “A New Life” 10/20/16

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Question: Is there life after death?

Answer: According to the mundane understanding, the sensation of life depends on the manner in which we are living, and after death there is a sense that there is no life.

But according to the spiritual understanding, life goes on forever. Even here everything depends completely on the manner in which we realize and discover it.

Therefore, death doesn’t really exist in spirituality.
[195848]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: When we ask you about the soul, you say that it doesn’t exist. Is there a soul or not? What is the soul?

Answer: If this is talking about ordinary people, then there is no soul in anyone. But if we are talking about people who unite to some degree in a particular way, then the connection that is created by them above their egoism is called the Kli of the soul. In a case like this, a unique filling enters into the Kli, which is called the Light of the Soul.

In other words, the attempt to rise above our egoism creates a state that is called a soul, but it happens only in the connection between people, while for an individual there is no soul. The individual form of the soul amounts to being included within the singular collective soul, and the moment that a person moves away from that, it will immediately disappear.

For a person, there is nothing other than the beastly state. If he connects to others with a general and good mutual connection, then the soul appears with him. If he is disconnected, there is no soul. The goal of the connection is to give yourself over to the general unity, and that is the soul.
[197009]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 10/31/16

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Question: Why do tragedies that bring to the loss of human life occur more often in our world today?

Answer: A tragedy is actually a correction too. A person corrects a certain type of egoism that he has and disappears to the degree that this egoism was given to him. After he corrects his ego to a certain degree and has completed his role in a given lifetime, in his earthly mission, he passes away as a result of natural death or accidental death.
[195838]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: Do you see the level of the soul of your students and of others?

Answer: A Kabbalist sees the state his student is in, as well as the future, in other words, how far this person can advance, but he doesn’t say anything. The free choice remains the student’s.
[195619]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: What is the meaning of the word “history” according to the wisdom of Kabbalah if there is no time in spirituality?

Answer: Everything that happens in the corporeal world is an outcome of the upper roots that descend into our world, and so our world is a reflection of those upper roots.

In other words, different forces are revealed in the system of the upper worlds on the spiritual level and their corporeal reflection is expressed in matter in our world. Therefore human history allows us to talk about spiritual events. Although there is no spirituality in corporeal actions, they reflect the spiritual roots. The language of the branches of our world enables us to speak about spiritual processes.

As for time, Kabbalists can travel along the time axis from the beginning of the creation to its end, except for one state: a state that can be described as a “point.” On the one hand, it is a state of zero, and on the other hand, it is a state of 100%. It is the state from which the beginning of creation and its end gradually descend, and the time axis runs between them from 0 to final correction (Gmar Tikkun), the end of correction, until the end of 6,000 years.

Suppose I, meaning my soul, my Partzuf, my spiritual body (Rosh, Toch, Sof), am in the middle of the time axis, if I have a Masach (screen) over my egoism, I can time travel wherever I want to, backward or forward. This means that by using the Masach I can change and shape my egoism to bestowal, love, and connection, and move along the time axis. The initial point on the time axis is Adam’s sin, and the final point is the coming of the Messiah. I can be in the year 1000 after Adam or at any other point.

Who wouldn’t like to time travel? Humanity has always dreamed of it! In the spiritual world it is possible, but not in our world, although we can also see the outcome here. Baal HaSulam tells us about it in the book Shamati where he says that Abraham, for example, told Isaac something. How could he know what Abraham and Isaac had spoken about in the desert or in the olive grove? A Kabbalist enters the state of Abraham and thus understands the information that Abraham had to convey now to the next state, Isaac, and this is what he tells us about.

Question: Can we travel in the body?

Answer: What does it mean “in the body”? You feel these feelings, you are in them; you enter them. When Baal HaSulam read the commentaries of Chaim Vital to the The Tree of Life by the Ari, which were written 600 years ago, he called out in wonder, “but what you wrote here isn’t what I told you to write!” That is, he entered the Ari’s soul.

Kabbalists who wrote about their attainments lived in two worlds: in our world and in the spiritual world. Let’s assume, strictly hypothetically, that I could ascend to the level of the Ari. I would be able to feel everything he felt, said, and did then.

Question: Will we be able to time travel while being in our body?

Answer: You have to enter the egoism in order to imagine both our body and all the physical structure of our world. The point is that the corporeal state actually doesn’t exist. It is the outcome of the egoism that is parallel to the spiritual state, because everything we see around us is an unrealistic world that is depicted in our desire.

No one can change himself and be totally like the Ari. I can resemble him by entering his state, but I cannot be like him and at the same time also feel the events he underwent during his lifetime, which means to be in the 16^th century in the northern part of Israel. A Kabbalist cannot enter a person’s physical body or his corporeal attributes, but only his spiritual state. You can attain all these states spiritually but not physically.
[194795]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 5/29/16

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Question: The population of the world is growing every year. Does this complicate the task of correction? Wouldn’t it be easier to correct one egoist, instead of billions?

Answer: This is not so at all. If there are many egoists and they are linked together, they can choose a system of correct mutual interaction for discovering the soul much more quickly.

The breaking of the collective egoism into many small parts has made it possible for us to realize ourselves more easily. The immense quantity of egoism will be replaced by quality through the connection between us. This will make the way of correction very easy.
[195480]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, why aren’t the existing forms changing now? For example, why don’t apes change again into people as happened in the past?

Answer: All of existence develops only forward, toward the full completion of correction.

Question: Do all people have a personal Reshimo (spiritual gene)?

Answer: Absolutely.
[195693]

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Question: What should I do if I have not received a desire to discover spirituality? Does that mean that I have to suffer?

Answer: There is no doubt that you will suffer anyway. Only when a person begins to study the wisdom of Kabbalah can he understand the meaning of suffering: where it stems from, where it is leading him, and how he can turn the suffering into the joy of attainment, into a state of perfect eternal life. On the next level of perception a person understands that he doesn’t actually exist in his current body, which seems to be real, but in a spiritual body. The wisdom of Kabbalah advises us to transcend to this phase even now. It isn’t mysticism, but a very serious science that enables us to understand how to transcend from the level of still to vegetative, from vegetative to animate, and from the animate to the human level of nature, and then to ascend even higher.
[195390]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/10/16

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Question: You have said that the upper leadership has no account with the bodies. What does that mean? Is this the reason that the world is so merciless with regard to the bodies? Does the soul really develop by the suffering of the body?

Answer: It says in Shamati that the Creator hates the bodies, but the term “body” refers to egoism, not to our corporeal body.

We need to understand the accurate meaning of the terminology we use, otherwise you will always have different intrepretations.
[195845]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/6/16

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