Question: In the article “The Last Generation,” Baal HaSulam describes how all types of nature, including humans, develop. All animals remain at the same level, but the human continues to constantly develop. What level should our development reach?

Answer: It should reach the level of the Creator. First, we must develop at the level of our world, and then our spiritual development starts rising from our world through the worlds of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, Adam Kadmon into the world of Infinity.

When our physiological body reaches its final development, then only the inner essence of a person will develop.

The article says that a person has some kind of “mirror” through which he can see and understand the meaning of his correction. This mirror is located inside us, inside the brain, so to speak, and gives us the opportunity to correctly determine our properties, the properties of the surrounding world, and our connection with it.

The essence of the correction is to bring all of nature into global interaction.
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From KabTV’s “Era of the Last Generation“ 2/4/24

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Question: One day a disciple came to his teacher and said to him: “Teacher, I want full realization and perfect attainment of the truth.” “Wait,” says the teacher, “It will take some time, and this will certainly happen to you.” “No,” said the student, “I want it to happen now, right now!”

The student followed after the teacher.  The teacher took the student to the river, grabbed his head, plunged it into the water, and held it until he began to choke. Then he released the disciple who cried out: “What are you doing?! Another moment and I would have died!” The teacher replied. “Now you understand to whom the truth is revealed.”

The question is: Is it really to this extent?

Answer: Of course. The upper truth is revealed only to those who cannot live without it, who agree to do anything for the sake of its attainment.

Question: How do we come to such a demand?

Answer: This is only at the will of the Creator.

Comment: Because there are a lot of things around us.

My Response: No, no, everything around you does not matter at all. But it is possible to come to the meaning of life, to reveal it, to feel it only if a person understands that there is no other way. That is, it should be above life and death.

Question: Does a person bring himself to such an extreme state or is he brought to it?

Answer: No, this is the soul. This is a soul that seeks to free itself, to free itself from the shackles of this life.

Question: Does it mean that these are special souls, and we do not know when this will happen within us?

Answer: Yes, but gradually an increasing number of souls are approaching this state.

Question: Is this what we call a cry, a prayer?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does a gift come from above?

Answer: Everything is a gift. Absolutely everything is a gift from the Creator.

Question: Are my efforts to come to this point a gift?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will it not come to a normal head otherwise?

Answer: Never to anyone, and in no way. It only comes from the Creator and only to those whom He designates for it.

Question: Tell me, please, is the revelation of the truth the end or the beginning of the work?

Answer: Revelation of the truth is the beginning.

Question: Will there again be getting to the fact that it is impossible to breathe, and revelation again?

Answer: But it will be different.

Question: Then the last question is: What is the truth?

Answer: Attainment of the Creator, attainment of the entire universe through the Creator. This is the attainment of the perfection of the Creator’s actions.

Question: Is this what we have to attain?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does everyone have to attain this one way or another, sooner or later?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will everyone be taken through this state when I cannot breathe until I attain?

Answer: Not to such an extent. There are special souls who have to go through this in such a large volume on their own. And there are those who follow them, in their footsteps, en masse.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/8/24

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Question: In our work together, do we attain first everything revealed to us by the great Kabbalists and then are rewarded with the concealed part of the Torah? Or does it happen in parallel gradually?

Answer: No, first we attain what we can with our efforts and mind, and then through the connection between us, we reveal more.

Question: At what point does the soul begin to teach us? After all, we only have a germ of a soul.

Answer: It does not matter. The germ is what is revealed to us. We receive everything through the soul.

Question: What is the danger of premature revelation of the secrets of the Torah to a person? Or is it impossible at all?

Answer: Firstly, it is impossible. Secondly, it would just confuse a person.

Question: If while living in the physical world, I have no opportunity to attend lessons, but I have a strong desire, like someone is pulling me toward spirituality, then is it the soul teaching me or the Creator pulling me?

Answer: It is the soul.

Question: What should we come to at the current degree to focus on the next one?

Answer: To unity, unite as if you have everything in common without disagreement.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writing of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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Question: What does it mean that we connect with individual souls? My friends in the ten are like separate souls. Where is the part of the soul that I connect with in them?

Answer: The desire of friends for spirituality, the point in the heart is his private soul. You should try to connect with each of them so that you can be together in one common soul.

Gradually you will become closer and closer, at different levels, and from this connection forms a common soul.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/6/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “One’s Soul Shall Teach Him”

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It is written in The Zohar (Mishpatim, 4:11 in the Sulam): “Come and see. When a person is born, he is given a soul from the side of the beast, the side of purity, the side of those who are called holy Ofanim (Rabash, “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?”).

Question: Nefesh is the lowest level. Which level is the highest?

Answer: The highest level is Yechida. The spiritual degrees are in the following order from lowest to highest: Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida.

Question: It is said that a person is given a Nefesh, soul, from the property of an animal. What is the property of “animal”?

Answer: This is the average soul at the level of the animal body. The term animal refers to egoistic desires.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/2/24

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Question: Disciples asked the sage, “What happens after death?” The teacher did not answer. The disciples insisted, “Is there life after death or not?” The Sage replied: “Is there life before death, that is the question.”

What do you think about the sage’s answer?

Answer: This is a usual response. How do we perceive our current state, our existence—is it life or death?

Question: So then, what is life?

Answer: Life, by corporeal definition, is the existence of protein matter.

Question: If I pinch myself and feel something, is this life? If I eat something delicious and enjoy it, am I living? Is this life?

Answer: Yes, the life of protein matter.

Question: What about the life you are talking about?

Answer: This is a completely different level that needs to be achieved.

To do this, we need to rise above our nature and enter into the scope of spiritual, highest nature, when we feel life in which our non-corporeal matter exists. If the corporeal exists in the property of receiving, the non-corporeal exists in the property of giving. If we reach this state, we will feel what that life is all about.

Question: So I am a receiver now. This is called “protein existence.” And if I become a giver, is this above the corporeal?

Answer: Sure.

Question: Is that what you call life?

Answer: There is a different definition of life there, a way of giving to everyone and everything, and ultimately to the Creator.

Comment: As I understand it, the sage meant that you have to rise above this world in some way.

My Response: Yes.

Question: So why is it that even the disciples of the sage are interested in this question of what is beyond death?

Answer: Everyone is interested in it. The students have not reached this point yet, they strive for it, they have not revealed it to themselves, they also exist in this world. That is why they are asking. Naturally.

Question: Have you asked yourself this question, what is in that world?

Answer: I had a purely scientific interest in it. But I realized that science does not deal with this and never will. Today, they are talking about it openly. But in the days of my youth, they did not talk about it so openly, although I understood it anyway.

Question: When you were searching, did you seek what was there? Or what is here?

Answer: No, I was not looking inside myself.

Question: What did you long for?

Answer: I longed to reveal the secret of life.

Question: The secret of this life?

Answer: Yes, of course. I knew of no other.

Question: Whether I live or not, right?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Did you have a feeling you were not living?

Answer: I felt there is something more, beyond.

Question: When a person has this question of what lies beyond, does it mean he is pulled by this life? That is, when a person has such a sign, suddenly such a feeling arises in him, should it be seized?

Answer: Yes, we need to develop it.

Question: Not to run from it?

Answer: No, of course not.

Comment: But it gets to you, it hurts.

Answer: If it gets to you, good. It means you will get to it, too.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/23/23

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Question: What level must a person reach to no longer return to this world?

Answer: He must reach the highest possible degree of correction. It depends on him and his environment.

Question: Can a person reach the highest level, and still the system (the upper force) can decide that he has some other function in this world, and he can be returned here?

Answer: He himself may wish to return if he feels that he can add something more to the correction. Everything depends on the properties of the soul.

Question: It is clear to me that a person should aim to do the maximum so that he does not need to be born again. But is there a certain level that I have to reach and that is it?

Answer: We all rise to a common level called “Adam.” I hope that we can reach a point where no one has to start from the bottom up again.

Question: In general, is it considered not a very good thing when a person is returned to this world again?

Answer: No, no one is returned on purpose. But this, of course, is a serious punishment. There is no world worse than ours.

Question: In principle, every person dreams of returning here again.

Answer: With us, it is the other way around.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/2/24

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Their souls, come and become impregnated in a person, in what is called impregnation to assist him in the work of the Creator (Rabash, Article 10, 1984 “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?”).

“Ibur” is the conception of the soul of the righteous, which we must welcome, and we need to create all possible conditions so that people who begin to study Kabbalah can learn and rise to this level.

Man himself partially participates in this conception by learning to be in good relations with others. Initially, a man does not have a soul but only the potential for its development, and it is conceived only when he works in a group.

Question: It turns out that the soul is not something personal, but a kind of inclusion?

Answer: The soul is a general construction that includes everything. But each person can independently urge the special development of his soul, since everyone has a particle of the common soul. And when one reveals this, one attains his part regarding the common soul.

Question: Only his part, but not the common soul?

Answer: No, he cannot reveal his whole soul. It is enough for him to reveal only his part, and then unification, inclusion of souls in each other, and the further process of correction take place.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/2/24

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As our sages said (Nidah, 16b), and these are their words: “Rabbi Hanina Ben Papa said, ‘That angel appointed over pregnancy is called Laila [night]. He takes a drop, places it before the Creator, and says to Him, ‘Lord of the world, what shall become of this drop? A mighty one or a weakling, a wise or a fool, wealthy or poor?’ But wicked or righteous he did not say’” (Rabash, Article 10, “What Is the Degree One Should Achieve in Order Not to Have to Reincarnate?”).

That drop of semen from which a person emerges is practically neutral and contains everything. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we understand what germs of good or evil actions we have and how we can speed up or slow down our good or evil development. In principle, this is what practical Kabbalah deals with.

Question: Does it mean that what kind of person one will be, strong or weak, smart or silly, rich or poor, does not depend on him?

Answer: It all depends on the drop of semen from which he develops. But a person determines whether he can influence his destiny through good actions. He must choose whether he will be righteous or wicked. This is his only choice, and everything else is already given in the drop of semen.

Question: In regards to what do we determine whether one is wicked or righteous?

Answer: Regarding the fulfillment of the commandments. Will he love other people, since “love your neighbor as yourself” is the basic law of the Torah, and will he treat the world this way?

That is, being wicked does not necessarily mean doing some kind of evil deed. It is enough that he simply thinks about himself, and this is already a sin.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 1/2/24

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Question: Often, elephants are simply tied to a post with a thin rope. They are not in cages or shackles, yet they do not run away. Elephant owners say, “When the elephants are tiny, we tie them with the same rope. At this age, it is enough to prevent elephants from running away. And when they grow up, they believe they can’t just run away and never try to get free.”

We are probably tied to this world with a thin “string” since childhood and do not try to escape. What kind of string is this?

Answer: Habit.

Question: Or do I know that I can’t escape?

Answer: And that, too.

Question: Which is the greater factor?

Answer: I think that I won’t be able to escape.

Question: So, this world suppresses us?

Answer: Yes, initially.

Question: Please tell me why we are afraid to take a step. We know there is freedom somewhere, but we are still afraid to take this step.

Answer: To do this, we need to overcome ourselves, that is, all our habits, our attitude toward the world, all of this must somehow be annulled.

Question: Are we afraid?

Answer: Yes, it is animal instinct, just like the elephants.

Comment: Here we have a house. We have sustenance, but who knows what will happen there? You are calling us to break out, to take this step.

My Response: It is not me who is calling, but the great sages of Kabbalah say that we need to break out of this magnetism and rise above it. And then we will see another world and ourselves differently, and in general, all of life, the entire universe.

Question: Have they taken this step?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How did they have the courage to take this step?

Answer: It is not their courage. It was given to them by nature.

It is given to certain people from above, from their inner state, their inner content. Everyone else can follow their advice and accumulate a certain amount of energy that allows them to break out of this attraction.

Comment: You try to break out of this magnetism, you follow the Kabbalists, you follow what they say, and it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work—for years!

My Response: It is accumulative. This is a process of accumulating the necessary energy and efforts that will ultimately allow us to go beyond the limits of gravity.

Question: How can you not despair because so much time has passed?

Answer: We have no other way to leave this post to which we are tied with a “string.”

Question: That is, despite the time, although despair has already set in, you continue to try to take this step?

Answer: Certainly.

Question: And still, the question is: How not to despair?

Answer: There is no other way out.

Question: Should you come to this thought that there is no other way out?

Answer: Yes, there is no other way. You will be lucky, so to speak; you will accumulate strength and break free, break the “rope,” and run like a little elephant across the field of life. And if you are unlucky, you will remain on a string until next time.

Question: Isn’t the word “lucky” offensive?

Answer: We don’t know all the world’s laws, and that’s why we say it.

Question: What will help you double or triple your strength?

Answer: That is what we are studying. This is our unification, the study of the laws of the upper world. As a result, we accumulate a certain amount of energy to break out into a free orbit.

Question: Is a group escape more remarkable than a solo escape?

Answer: Yes, most likely.

Question: But is the escape of one person also possible?

Answer: We see this in the ancient Kabbalists and even in recent times, like Baal HaSulam and others. They were able to escape from selfish, earthly gravity.

Question: Please tell me why we believe this is so. After all, we haven’t escaped yet.

Answer: Because otherwise the essence of earthly life loses all foundation.

Question: Does earthly life make sense only if we take this step?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And that is what it exists for?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, you say the meaning of life is to take this step and break away from this “string”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is this space that we enter when we break away?

Answer: This is a free space in which we can act according to its laws, the laws of this free space.

Question: What are they?

Answer: This is freedom from gravity, from egoism.

Question: Is gravity egoistic?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And when I’m freed, what’s there?

Answer: Free actions, free life, free-floating. Indeed, like an elephant in the air.

Question: So now all my actions are egoistic, I am being led, and am not free here? And there?

Answer: And there you are free.

Question: I secretly want this, don’t I?

Answer: I don’t think that’s what we want.

Comment: Everyone talks about freedom and somehow imagines it.

My Response: I don’t know why he needs freedom. He doesn’t know. He just wants to get away from his “rope.” Why? Quite possibly from childish stupidity. We don’t know what’s next either.

Question: But freedom is freedom from egoism?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/30/23

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