Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah see the structure of an Adam (Man)? Does it recognize that the man is arranged according to the divine image? And in the wisdom of Kabbalah, how important is knowledge about the Adam?

Answer: In our world a person is a proteinaceous creature that walks upright on two legs. He has no soul and he is no different from any other animal.

When a unique desire is awakened in a person to attain the Creator and he realizes it correctly, this desire gradually grows and expands, acquiring characteristics of the spiritual Ten Sefirot. Only this part of us is called Adam. Within it we feel the next world, the Creator. This process is called becoming similar to the Creator.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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New Life 745 – Spiritual Genetics
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The whole corporeal world exists only so that we will be able to fulfill our spiritual DNA. Any relationship between people is meant to bring about the fulfillment of their spiritual DNA.

There is a system which includes all of the Reshimot (spiritual genes). This system is shattered and this world exists so that we can correct it. In this system every person has a Reshimo (informative data that defines each person’s developmental program). Every Reshimo defines a certain state of development that we have to undergo. The difference between one person’s Reshimo and another’s depends on his place in the general system.

The wisdom of Kabbalah engages in spiritual genetics and teaches us how to fulfill our spiritual DNA correctly.

Our reality is virtual. It is like a dream, and its only purpose is to enable us to fulfill our spiritual DNA by the corrected connection between our desires, so that everyone feels everyone else and complements him in every way.

The corporeal DNA is managed by the spiritual DNA and guides a person in every action he performs in life. The general system in which everyone exists called Ein Sof (Infinity), which manages everyone’s DNA.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 745 – Spiritual Genetics,” 7/12/16

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Is It Possible To Decode The Spiritual Gene?

Question: Does the spiritual system include in itself all people’s desires that were ever realized or will be realized? Does it mean that every desire that appears in me comes from this spiritual system that defines what I want at the moment? Does it control our entire life?

Answer: The spiritual system controls our entire life 100 percent.

Question: Is there a spiritual DNA in every person?

Answer: Of course, otherwise there wouldn’t be material DNA. Spiritual DNA connects me with the spiritual system.

Question: Does it drive us as if by remote control?

Answer: No, it isn’t far away, we exist right within this system. It isn’t in some other place, but between us and inside us, connecting us with each other. There are no concepts of time, movement, space, or distance in spirituality.

Question: Is it possible to read spiritual DNA the way geneticists decode material genomes? What information is recorded there?

Answer: The entire path that I need to go through from this moment to my final correction is recorded there. Final correction is such a state where everybody is connected together above egoism into one desire that is called a man, Adam.

Our spiritual DNAs are in one system and influence each other. Therefore, we in this world enter various relationships that, unknowingly to us, the spiritual DNA dictates.

In the corrected system all desires are connected so that each one completes all others. We are talking about desires, not about bodies. The body will die sooner or later, and so what? And our desires connect into one system that is called Adam.

Question: And does a desire of a person die?

Answer: No. Desire is a force and a force doesn’t die. It continues to reincarnate in different bodies.

Question: Which one is more important and in control, spiritual or material DNA?

Answer: Spiritual DNA controls everything, including material DNA.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 7/12/16

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New Life 744 – Our Spiritual DNA
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The cradle of ancient civilization originated in ancient Babylon. From there humanity scattered all over the Earth and people were influenced by the places in which they settled. In those times, religion connected people from different lands. But ultimately most people left ancient Babylon so all included everyone.

All of us contain additional information beyond the physical DNA. We call this spiritual DNA or a Reshimo (reminiscence). This spiritual DNA is the root of the soul and is part of the spiritual system called Adam HaRishon (the First Man). The spiritual DNA, the Reshimo, is the data within a person’s desire that determines how this desire will develop. For example, the spiritual information that is said to be realized in a child is what causes his parents to mate and give birth to him.

The spiritual system determines what will happen to every individual desire at every moment on the way to the completion of correction of the system. It manages us through the spiritual DNA that is implanted in us. The entire way through which a person must pass until the completion of correction, the end of correction, is recorded in the spiritual DNA. This is the state in which all desires are connected and all of them complement each other.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 744 – Our Spiritual DNA,” 7/12/16

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Spiritual DNA

Question: Does spiritual DNA also affect our life the same way the material does?

Answer: If the spiritual DNA is revealed in a person during one of the life cycles, it definitely affects his destiny. A person begins to realize this spiritual gene. After all, this desire that has been revealed in him now, the desire for spiritual attainment, the new goal that is above this material life, definitely changes everything.

Question: It is known from genetics that innate qualities recorded in DNA define what will develop in a child. Are there any other genes in a human?

Answer: Yes, there is also a spiritual DNA. The spiritual gene, Reshimo, is an informational charge that is included in every person, or rather in his or her desire, and defines in what form this desire will develop.

Question: Is this information recorded in a person at his birth?

Answer: Even before that. After all, if a drop of semen begins to develop, it means there was spiritual information that caused this development. Exactly this information leads a man and woman to copulation, instills in them a desire to have a child or arranges an unplanned pregnancy for them.

There is a spiritual system that determines how each desire included in it must develop. Desires are connected in one network that is required to achieve a given state called final correction. This network consists of many desires that belong to all the people in the world.

This network is advancing in its development all the time. Based on this, it decides what will happen with each separate desire at the moment, whether to leave it without implementation in this world or to implement it as a person, man, or woman, and in what form.

It turns out that the spiritual system determines the form of our material life on this earth based on the need to reach the end of its correction in perfect form.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 7/12/16

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New Life 737 – Free Yourself From The Cycle Of Suffering
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Suffering is the basis of life. It comes as a result of various shortcomings that constantly change and a person suffers without them. On the other hand, the foundation of creation is the Light in which nothing is missing.

The goal of human evolution is to come to the question, “What reason is there for living?” and the discovery of perfect and eternal fulfillment. After much running, a person gets tired of chasing transient fulfillments and awakens a desire to understand the source of life and the purpose of existence. Basically, all the suffering in his life comes to lead him toward the question: “What am I living for?”

People come to the wisdom of Kabbalah who are asking about the meaning of life, often suffering derived from loss. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us that our lives here in sum are quite brief within our eternal existence, and the understanding that we are constantly evolving toward the infinite gives a person a new perspective on life. The ultimate goal is to reach infinite and eternal fulfillment with Light, reaching this through realizing the general rule, “And you shall love your friend as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18).

Love your neighbor as yourself is the operation that explains how to connect with each other into a single soul. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us that innate drives and environmental influences are managing us, and we have no choice.

If we want to gain control over our lives, we must build a unique society that will bring the Upper Light closer to us and connect us with, “And you shall love your friend as yourself,” filling us with supreme abundance and happiness. Within a special group like this, the suffering will disappear and the aspiration will be only how to rise higher toward the eternal.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 737 – Free Yourself From The Cycle Of Suffering,” 6/23/16

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Question: What is the relationship between the corporeal way and the spiritual path?

Answer: I don’t know what the corporeal way and the spiritual way are. They should be unified by the goal I adhere to; I go by that.

The spiritual goal is the revelation of the one upper force that manages our reality, which you can call the Creator or God. It makes no difference. Best of all is to call it nature.

If a person chooses the upper force, then he dismisses all but what is actually necessary for his physical existence because, after all, he is still in a corporeal body.  It needs to exist under special conditions: a person needs food, a home, different services, medical care, etc. To have all that, a person must work.

It turns out that in addition to the work required to serve one’s mortal body, a person needs nothing but aspiration to reveal the upper force in order to serve his soul.

Thus, the thousands of unnecessary, empty actions, hobbies, and occupations disappear from a person’s life. I feel free! I have time for everything.

For example, I engage in preparing for the lesson, I read,  and I participate in different TV programs. In addition to the morning lessons, I also give lectures and write articles that are published in various newspapers. I have time for everything.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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The real goal is to find out the source of sufferings, their function, and to learn to use them correctly for our benefit.

The source of sufferings is the basis of the entire creation. Sufferings are created by the Light of the upper force that wants to fill the creature, and therefore leads and develops it. We can develop only through suffering that eventually leads us to the question about the meaning of life.

A person must rise above material pleasures, such as food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge and understand that there is an absolute and eternal fulfillment. The same Light that created sufferings will now fill them.

It doesn’t matter what we are suffering from, any suffering is a lack of fulfillment. This is why drugs are used so widely today. There are so many desires, a person wants this and that, and something else. And if he takes a drug he wants nothing and he can soothe the pain.

However drugs soothe the suffering through disconnection of the mind, specific receptors in the brain. And the Upper Light, while filling a desire, increases it and makes me want more and more in order to reach absolute and eternal fulfillment.

I don’t cancel suffering, suffering and the Light work together. It is called fulfillment in the middle line when I make sure that the suffering remains. I don’t try just to fulfill and extinguish it in order to lose all desires.

I appreciate my suffering that gives me an opportunity to constantly fill it and enjoy, moving from suffering to fulfillment, as if satisfying my hunger like in the way we try to increase our appetite before a meal, we go for a walk, eat something spicy, or talk about food. After all, the correct use of suffering brings pleasure.

People are ready to pay a lot of money to restore their appetite for food and sex; they pay psychologists to support their desire for family and avoid divorce. All desires are for our benefit and we shouldn’t suppress them. Even pain is good, because it indicates disease and compels us to go to the doctor and start treatment.

Suffering performs a very important function, therefore we shouldn’t just remove it, but we need to use it correctly. This is what the wisdom of Kabbalah does.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/23/16

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Question: It is hard for a person to overcome suffering: the loss of loved ones, illnesses. What is the essence of overcoming?

Answer: Suffering has a special role in our lives; it develops us. During its history humanity went through many phases of evolution developing societies and families, and all this was due to suffering.

This follows from the fact that we emerged from the shattering, from the one shattered soul called Adam HaRishon. Therefore we find ourselves more and more shattered in order to be able to correct ourselves more and more.

This is why from generation to generation, even from year to year, and in our time already from day to day, new phenomena, deficiencies, personal and general problems, and a crisis of humanity and society are revealed in the world. Previously these problems didn’t exist and suddenly they have arisen seemingly from beneath the earth, but this is exactly what moves us forward.

Suffering develops us, but to what extent?

The correct response to suffering, first of all, is to understand its purpose. Otherwise, we are like animals in a field running away from blows but suffering reaches them again. People rush through life until they die without reaching anything good.

And what is really the purpose of life? Is it just to escape from suffering the way we do? What is its meaning?

We rejoice giving birth to children, but they grow up and leave home. We study so much in order to get a profession, and then work all our lives and are left with nothing, because everything ends with death.

A person looks for some compensation for his continuous suffering. Even our pleasures are a way to escape from suffering. Obviously this is not the purpose of life. Actually the greatest suffering eventually revealed to the person in the modern world is the realization that with all our intellect, high level of development, strength, and technical capabilities, we don’t understand anything about life.

Why do we live, for what purpose? This is completely unclear. Suffering keeps us alive because we are afraid of death and we invest a lot of efforts in order to somehow distance ourselves from this moment. Although eventually we agree with the inevitable and humbly surrender to the current until we die.

It means that the greatest suffering is that a person doesn’t feel that he is the master of his life. He doesn’t know what he is living for and what the benefit of it is. Therefore young people don’t want to get married, have children, and get a profession, but are attracted to drugs, trying somehow to fulfill themselves.

Now, we do a thorough audit of our lives, and against the background of the unfolding crisis we still want to understand the meaning of life and its essence. The suffering from the meaninglessness of life becomes overwhelming, and this is the result of our high level of development. Previously people didn’t even think about this.

A hundred years ago there wasn’t less suffering, but the question about the meaning of life never arose. And today this question even torments children who don’t understand why to study and obtain a profession. The spiritual development has reached such a level that a person must know whether he should live and why. Therefore, antidepressant and drug use are so prevalent.

We need to make a big effort to uncover the source of the common suffering of man, i.e. teach them how to fulfill this common empty desire. Above the usual desires for food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge, an additional question arises, what do I need all this for? Why do I need food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge?

All these fulfillments are a kind of a drug with which I fill and soothe my desire to enjoy. So why chase fulfillment, isn’t it easier to just take a pill? This approach kills a person.

Shopping centers are crammed with a variety of products and all kinds of clothes. People go somewhere, fly, travel; they just don’t know how else to fill themselves, what other “drugs” to take in order not to feel suffering. But suffering still comes.

Therefore in our time the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed, and I hope very much that it will help humanity to understand that it is not enough to soothe ourselves with all kinds of “drugs” in the form of food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge. It’s time to reveal the true, original source of suffering and begin to fill it with real fulfillment.

The real fulfillment doesn’t lull us to finish the material animalistic death. This suffering raises us upward and instead of the earthly death, we find an eternal life. Let’s hope that humanity will understand what opportunities are opening for it.

But all this is due to suffering, therefore we must not soothe it, but appreciate it. After all, in it is the foundation of life. The correct management of suffering and its fulfillment in every moment is an engine for the correct development that leads to the eternal life.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/23/16

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Question: Why is it impossible to live without suffering? What role does suffering play in our life?

Answer: Suffering moves us forward. Like we prod an animal in order for it to walk in the right direction, in the same way suffering awakens a person.

Once a person receives a shot in one of his desires (for food, sex, family, money, honor, or knowledge), he awakens to the external and internal action, meaning to change in order to eliminate the suffering and its source, or at least to move away from it, to sweeten it somehow.

Therefore, suffering performs a very important function; we would not be able to do anything without it. For example, I sit and speak feeling certain limitations, trying to behave so I won’t be ashamed, meaning this is the fifth type of suffering that infringes on my desire for honor. And my companion suffers from the desire to know what I will say; this is the sixth type of suffering.

Life would be impossible without suffering. Even electrons, molecules, and cells of our body that collide, merge, and divide also suffer from this.

Suffering is the basis for feeling. If there were no suffering, we wouldn’t feel anything. The only question is with what do we extinguish suffering? If, when suffering from hunger, I sit down for a meal, then I enjoy on the basis of the suffering that makes me hungry. The moment the suffering disappears, the appetite and the pleasure from the food also disappear.

Everything is based on suffering and it is essential in order to enjoy. The moment I am satiated, the enjoyment disappears; it is so with everything. A person who stops feeling suffering has lost desires, doesn’t feel any deficiency, and becomes indifferent and fades. This is real death. When we cease to desire, we die.

Therefore, we care so much that children will have strong and correctly aimed desires, and we stimulate them with gifts and punishments. Suffering is the foundation of our life. If there is no suffering, there is no life and no feeling. All is measured on this scale, from suffering to pleasure.
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From KabTV’s “A New Life” 6/23/16

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