Question: Is it possible to combine Kabbalah with yoga or any other methods?

Answer: This is impossible because all other methods are opposite to Kabbalah, as they do not use the desire to receive to achieve the goal. All of them are based on the suppression of Kelim (vessels), rather than their development. Just as Kabbalah is a method of receiving, so they are methods of “non-receiving,” all without exception.

Receive as little as possible, eat only vegan food, think less, breathe less, want less, whatever it is, just less. That is, the goal is to lower a person from his level to the level of an animal or plant, or even to an inanimate level.

The source of all this lies in ancient Egypt, where even dead bodies were made into undecaying mummies. These are all Eastern methods. Of course, this has a spiritual root. There is also a justification on a material level.

When you give the masses an ideology based on the assertion that you must lower your desires and then everything will be fine, it immediately bears fruit. It is accepted because it makes sense to everyone. But if, in addition to ideology, we add a spiritual component to this, if we connect it with what is beyond our life and death, and assert that a person will receive eternal reward for this, it will become a religion. This is a great force.

But over thousands of years, the human ego has continually evolved from generation to generation. Whether we like it or not, we realize our egoism, which leads to the so-called development of humanity. As a result of the new desires that manifest in each of us from cycle to cycle, we are constantly striving for something new. Therefore even those nations that were committed to the ideology of reducing desire come to a state where they can no longer restrain it.

Nothing will be left of these methodologies over the course of a century. People who are going to India today are just traveling. No one is really able to engage their methodology. Those who manage to achieve this make themselves into a primitive animal. I do not want to talk much about it, but this is a kind of last Klipa against development. We are unable to resist the process of development of the desire to receive. In 10 to 20 years, all this will pass.

Those who today are able to escape from their suffering into such techniques—to turn off part of their mind, to lower themselves to a very low level, and to really be satisfied with it—such people are not for us. This is a primitive, undeveloped form.

However, the world is developing very fast. After all, all of this is against nature. This is not a correction, but an escape from correction. We will not achieve anything this way, just some kind of temporary artificial consolation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/10/26, Rabash, “What Is Above Reason in the Work?”

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Question: How can we determine what is “truth” and what is “falsehood” if we ourselves create both?

Answer: Today we take various values, such as “truth” and “falsehood,” as standards or benchmarks. Yet all these things are relative. What appears to us as false today may seem to be truth tomorrow, and what seems to be truth today may appear as a falsehood tomorrow.

Everything depends on our egoistic development. The further we advance, the deeper we look into the surrounding nature and into ourselves. Therefore, there is no absolute standard either in nature as we perceive it or within ourselves; everything depends on the degree of our development. In that case, it is impossible to determine what is good and what is bad, what is true and what is false. All of it is highly relative.

However, if we were to discover the general law of nature—an absolute law that exists independently of man, not relative to him, not conditioned by the egoistic human being who undergoes development, but existing objectively in the surrounding reality—then, in accordance with that law, we would also come to know what truth is and what absolute falsehood is.

Then, through this, we would no longer be mistaken. On the contrary, we would be able to develop our attitude and our approach according to these standards. As a result, our development would truly become beneficial, desirable, and directed toward the good of the entire world.

Thus, the knowledge of the general law of nature and its implementation—not from the ego of man, but from the desire to come into balance and harmony with that universal law—is, in essence, the source of everything good. Through this we will come to a good life and truly discover what truth is and what falsehood is.
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From the Round Table of Independent Opinions, Berlin, 2006

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Initially, our soul is “wrapped” in an animalistic desire to receive, a craving for animalistic pleasures: money, honor, and knowledge. This is how we reincarnate over the course of many cycles of life until this outer shell, the husk of this world and of this desire, becomes pure and refined through the suffering a person undergoes from generation to generation, driven by the development of humanity as a whole.

This desire grows and becomes immense: for animalistic pleasures, money, honor, and knowledge. Just look at the variety in our world! Five thousand years ago, there weren’t so many people striving for power. People were content to remain slaves as long as they were fed.

How many people craved money back then? If you just let him live in peace, sitting under a tree, and that is enough for him. Throughout the generations, how many people thirsted for knowledge and wisdom? The situation improved from generation to generation, but it cannot be said that in our generation the desire for animalistic pleasures, food, and sex is fading. These desires increase along with a growing desire for power and knowledge.

Humanity is coming to a state where it wants everything! Yet amidst all these desires, a “point” is revealed in a person’s heart, and the poor soul suddenly realizes that he cannot fill this vast desire for all these pleasures! The point in the heart nullifies the sense of fulfillment, no matter how much he receives.

A person can have a huge desire and every possible advantage, wealth like Rothschild’s, power like a president’s, and knowledge like Einstein’s. But if the point in the heart is present, no amount of worldly fulfillment will prevent a feeling of profound emptiness.  The point in the heart gives a person the sensation that they possess nothing spiritual. They do not yet know what spirituality is, but suddenly they feel a sense of total lack. They feel deficient in every respect; this is the conclusion people gradually reach.

Never in thousands of years have people been as desperate as they are than in our generation. Consider the sheer number of psychological and emotional issues that exist now! The whole world is depressed. A mere century ago, people were content with what they had, but today contentment has become a problem.

Did drugs exist a thousand years ago? They did, yet almost no one needed them. Even a hundred years ago, there use was rare. It was only in the 60s that this trend began, triggered by the emergence of the point in the heart alongside all other desires, even those desires that were already being fulfilled!

Typically such phenomena originate in developed countries. Where is drug use most prevalent? In Europe, America, and Russia, places where people have the opportunity to more or less fulfill themselves with something, but are unable to. Learn, do whatever you want! But a person does not want anything, he does not feel fulfilled.

In other countries that are at a preliminary stage of development where the point in the heart is not yet shining enough for them to see their emptiness, they produce drugs and sell them. They find fulfillment in money, food, and everything that precedes European development. They do not need drugs themselves. They sell them to get food. In the developed world, they do not want food, they want drugs.

This situation arose for a reason: the point in the heart was revealed, exposing emptiness in all other desires. The rest of the desires are strong but hollow; they offer no tangible sense of fulfillment.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/1/26, Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”

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At present, the point in the heart within the more developed nations reveals a sense of emptiness to them, the inability to fulfill their lives through the five senses. In their despair and confusion, they turn to drugs and other escapes, seeking only to flee from reality.

We will see how Europe gradually descends into a state where even development itself comes to a halt, because there will no longer be any stimulus, any desire driving it forward. The same will become evident among Americans who speak so passionately about progress, work, and money. Gradually, we will see an entire society that no longer wishes to do anything, and this, too, is part of the process of development.

Why, then, do they not come to Kabbalah? Because their time has not yet arrived. For now, they are only beginning to discover the futility of seeking fulfillment within this world. The signs are everywhere: culture is no longer important, literature is no longer important, and even progress itself no longer seems important.

Were it not for the fear of physical survival, the world would long ago have ceased to develop altogether. Such is the path of both the individual and humanity as a whole. A person begins to feel that he cannot fulfill himself. He has no strength and no desire to do anything. He does not know what he is working for. He is confused, unable to find a direction, unable to understand what is worth striving for or searching for. He abandons everything and, naturally, loses all desire to work.

Gradually, this process will encompass the entire world until humanity discovers the pointlessness of all its development. Are we truly happier today than those who once lived in caves? In what way? Because we have a hundred television channels? Who even watches them? A person will come to feel, in every aspect of life, that nothing truly fulfills him.

All of this takes place before the point in the heart is revealed in an open and tangible form. Yet even these states are beneficial; they are stages of advancement. They are very distinct stages. Just look at how humanity has progressed over the past hundred years in its understanding of the reality it lives in.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/1/26, Rabash, “These Are the Generations of Noah”

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I will tell you that something else is coming: a time when the love of our world disappears, when there is no reciprocity, and no attraction. This is already happening! We can already see it developing in the new generation. And then we will realize that we have nothing left to live for, nothing to fill ourselves with!

Question: Will we ask for a different kind of love?

Answer: Yes, we will request fulfillment. Man does not live by bread alone. And then we will feel that we need the true source of all fulfillments.

This will be a moment of profound disillusionment, yet also a profound revelation regarding a new source. And then a cry of supplication will rise from all of humanity: “How will we be able to fill ourselves?! How will we be able to exist?! Where is this source?!”

Question: So now we can see how we are being cut off from all sources of pleasure? Is a passage, a tunnel, being constructed for us that leads to the true source?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will the Creator be that source?

Answer: There is no other source.

Question: But will a person actually say: “This is the Creator”?

Answer: Yes, this is the Creator of my life, of all my aspirations; He is everything that I want. I want only Him.

In fact, He is the one we striving for all along, with egoism, but it does not matter; it is always only toward Him.

Let us wait.

Comment: Let us wait, hope, and believe.

My Response: Yes, it will happen soon.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/19/26

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The unification of people is always a spiritual force, even on the material level. If we are talking about such a group, be it a sports team, kibbutz members, or anyone else, they also use a spiritual force by uniting for some goal.

This gives rise to a problem. If they use this force for the sake of the Creator, then they win, move forward, prosper, and everything ends wonderfully. If, however, they take this force and use it for self-gratification, as they wanted to do in Soviet Russia or in the kibbutzim, then they get exactly what they eventually ended up with.

Why? Because, as Baal HaSulam explains in the article “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]“, they use the unification of souls, which is supposed to be a Kli for the Creator, for the light, as a Kli for achieving animalistic goals. If you unite several people and want something to come from it, then from their unification there must flow an intention for the sake of bestowal to the Creator and not for the sake of bestowal to oneself. Bestowal “for one’s own sake” brings about darkness, suffering, and misfortunes.

Let us say people unite to launch an enterprise, to get rich, to achieve something in this world. We see that all this is done precisely by means of unification. This also relates to the era of industrial development that began from the time of the Ari to the subsequent period of enlightenment. Such is the nature of development.

But all these steps in development were essentially not made out of a desire to draw closer to the Creator, but by creating groups of people in which one helps another. And all these groups, societies, or enterprises, whatever they may be, ultimately led to suffering. Through this, we come more quickly to the recognition of evil.

What does modern industry mean for us now that the whole world has become like a single village? Ultimately, through our pursuit of money, honor, and base pleasures, we reveal the flawed nature of our connection with one another.

We are tempted by trivialities like money and honors, supposedly a better life, but essentially, without our awareness, a higher force intends to show us that by uniting for reasons other than the sake of the Creator, humanity suffers a catastrophic loss. This realization dawns on us very quickly.

Rabash gives as an example a person who is given a desire for money and opens a restaurant to make a profit; however, in reality, this setup compels him to give to others. The money serves only as a lure. In essence, the Creator uses this to facilitate bestowal in the world prompting everyone to begin giving to others sooner. Consequently, Reshimot (spiritual records) multiply and combine in various ways, which causes an acceleration in our development toward correction.

In the same way, humanity is given a desire for money and various achievements, and groups of people unite among themselves in order to reveal the negative side in this. Everything that we see on the outside is the temptations given to us so that from our will to receive we perform various incorrect actions, and then come to the recognition of evil and, after correctly summing up the results, move onto the right tracks.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/22/26, Rabash, Letter 59

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Everyone is an egoist. People are raised that way and the conditioning continues. The greater your egoism, the greater the perceived opportunity to get ahead of others. We do not understand that true success ultimately means being in the right relationship with others.

We have reached a state where the world is exhausted and burned out from egoism. It can no longer continue moving forward on an egoistic path. All our grand dreams and ambitions are fading away.

Only one question remains: how can we continue to exist? This is possible only if we begin to value the connection between us. Within that connection, we will discover goals, spaces, and a completely different world.

Question: What is the most important advice you can give about how to preserve a friendship to the very end?

Answer: One must understand that whatever bad I see in others, is all within me. There is nothing bad around me, only within myself.

Therefore, one must try to correct oneself until one sees a beautiful world in everything around them. Then you will find yourself in the spiritual world, in paradise. Change yourself within, transform the hell inside you into paradise, and you will see that you are already in paradise.

But if you do not change the hell within yourself, then it seems to you that you are living in hell.

Question: And if you see hell in another person?

Answer: Then it is within you. Change yourself, and you will see that you live in a wonderful world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 5/8/26

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Question: If one entity devours another in nature, yet nature is in harmony, is it possible that our devouring one another is also an absolutely harmonious state?

Answer: Yes, but only on the animate level. The inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels of nature are structured on the principle of mutual consumption amidst a struggle against each other. This struggle constitutes evolution.

On these levels the use of one by another is not considered shameful or blameworthy. One animal, when it eats another, does not feel any pangs of conscience. Suppose a human acts against another human,  he may rationalize in order to justify himself, to somehow explain to himself the purpose and reasons for his actions. But animals do not have this; they have a simple calculation: I must eat the weaker in order to continue my own existence.

All this, on the animate level, is considered the norm. But now we are rising to the level of Human. And here a problem arises. We must begin to move forward, not by devouring one another, but precisely through connection with one another, by rising above our egoism and not indulging it.

I hope that people will begin to understand this because otherwise we will not survive. Of course, we will continue to exist, but in very bad states.

Therefore, we face a monumental task: to spread the message as widely as possible that we must come to a collective resolution regarding how to advance toward the goal of creation. And the goal of creation is to bring human society to a harmonious state, to mutual fulfillment, to the right connection between us.

And then the rest of nature (inanimate, vegetative, and animate) will also come to harmony. Then we will be able to restore our ecology, an issue that causes deep concerns for everyone. If we come to a balance among us, everything will be wonderful.

Since we are on the very highest level of development compared to the other levels of nature, we will compel them to come into balance too. The time of the human level is coming.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/13/19

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All the forms that preceded the appearance of man are hidden inside us. In the process of evolution, matter progressed through the stages of inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

At each stage there were also four stages of development: four within the inanimate, four within the vegetative, four within the animate, and four within the human.

That is, from the beginning of the inanimate level to the end of the human level, one must traverse sixteen distinct steps before a human finally emerges from the ape. Thousands of years ago Kabbalah asserted that man appeared as a result of the evolutionary development of the ape.

Nature evolved from the inanimate to the vegetative through an intermediate form, corals; from the vegetative to the animate through a hybrid vegetative-animal form known as “Kelev Sade” (field dog); and from the animate to human through the ape.

We, in turn, must continue to develop as human beings until we attain the stage of development of the spiritual human, one who begins to ask about their root and ultimate purpose.

In other words, we will undergo profound internal, sensory, and intellectual development that we become capable of rising above our innate animal nature and begin to ask questions that are no longer pertain to the animal level: “Who are we? Who created us?” People who are concerned about such issues begin their spiritual development and who turn to the science of Kabbalah.

If a particular species becomes extinct in the course of evolution, it does not truly disappear; rather, it simply sheds its external form and transforms into the next one. This implies that we are the same dinosaurs, only now in the form of humans.

The same form continued to evolve and develop, much like the classic illustrations of Darwin’s theory of evolution, where the ape is followed by a figure grasping a stick, and gradually transforms into modern humans.

This means that all kinds of creatures that have evolved in the past and continue to evolve are ultimately designed to lead to the emergence of a person who will ask himself “Who am I? Why am I here?”.

He will want to discover his root and will reveal it using the method of Kabbalah; that is, he will become similar to the Creator. Consequently, he will be called “Adam,” a name derived from the Hebrew word “Edomeh,” similar to the Creator.” He will become so similar to the Creator that they will achieve a state of fusion, a complete correspondence between them, like two parts of a single whole.

Question: Does it mean that all living beings have something in common?

Answer: What we all have in common is that we all come from the same root, which is called “Creator.” It is He who created our shared substance, the desire to enjoy or “creation.” Subsequently, these creations begin to differentiate into levels and species distinguished by a multitude of diverse attributes.

Question: Over the last two hundred years, a rapid process of species extinction has begun. If in the past centuries only fifty species disappeared each year, today thousands of different species disappear per year. Why is this happening?

Answer: Apparently these species are not required in the process of evolution to advance to the next steps. In this case, these species do not disappear altogether, but take on hidden forms that are incomprehensible to us, and they contribute to the existence of more advanced forms.

Consider, for instance, the dinosaur that ceased to exist in the form of dinosaurs, yet they continue to exist within us in a different form, as latent potential forces. Without this potential, we would not have been able to develop to the level of humans.

This leads to a very important conclusion about the proper attitude toward nature. There is no need to keep endangered species by force, nor to forcibly develop those species that seem more useful to us.

The main thing is to take care of the human species while not destroying anything in nature. In other words, you cannot destroy anything, but you do not have to go against nature and artificially keep species that disappear naturally from it.
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From KabTV’s conversation “New Life 931 – Evolution: The Next Stage,” 12/12/17

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Question: How should one deal with the evil inclination if a person sits idly and does nothing?

Answer: If a person sits and does nothing, then the evil inclination, by awakening Hisaronot (unfulfilled desires) within them, begins to push them toward various actions. And if they carry out these actions together with the evil inclination, they come to such a state where they feel bad, that is, to such negative results that intensify and unite to such an extent that a person cannot endure them.

At that point they do not agree with such a trajectory and they carry out a kind of inner revolution, taking action to change themselves. However, afterward, gain and again, they continue along the path alongside the evil inclination.

And so it continues until we reveal in our present day that we are approaching a critical threshold: if we continue to develop in this way together with the evil inclination, then our life will become worse than death.

Despair and drugs are flooding the world. A person sinks either into despair or into drugs; there is no escape.

From this, we begin to understand that we must, through hatred toward the state in which we find ourselves, change our attitude to life, to reality, to ourselves. Then an inner revolution takes place in our perception of our entire system of calculation, of our entire nature, of how we develop.

We discover that already since the times of the destruction of the First and Second Temples, we have been developing incorrectly, that a flaw arose then, but it is only being revealed now; that we must not follow the advice of the evil inclination but act in the opposite way. We must take the form from it but in the precisely opposite direction: not in the direction of the desire to receive but in the direction of the Creator.

The evil inclination gives you advice on how to give pleasure to the desire to receive. And you must invert everything so that through this same form, you bring pleasure to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/9/26, Rabash, “It is Forbidden to Hear a Good Thing From a Bad Person”

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