Question: How do reading books like, The Book of Zohar and the Shamati articles influence a person and how can we read them correctly, with what intention? What must we want?

Answer: We must read with an intention to achieve the purpose of life, resemblance to the Creator, the characteristic of absolute love. That is what the first articles of Rabash talk about.

Question: When reading the Shamati articles, is it enough to want to feel the hidden meanings of the text so that the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light)  will influence the reader?

Answer: This is enough, but this is possible only on condition that the person participates in the practical realization of the text within a group.
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New Life 746 – The Four Phases At The Foundation Of Life
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

The four divisions in the foundation of nature are found in every detail of creation. It is very important to be familiar with them. Creation consists of a total of two forces, the force of giving and the force of receiving, which are also called Light and Kli.

Division 1: The desire to give creates the desire to receive.

Division 2: After the Kli receives the Light and has pleasure, it begins to receive the giving characteristic of the Light.

Division 3: The Kli understands that in order to realize its desire to give, it must receive the Light with an intention to give to it.

Division 4: After the Kli feels how much the Light loves it, a total desire to enjoy this is awakened in it.

This process is called the Four Phases of the Direct Light (Ohr Yashar) and is found at the foundation of creation, before the formation of the universe. At its end, there is a Kli that receives Light and feels its contrast with the Light. So it restricts its desire to receive. Every detail in reality is built from these four parts, in the technique of relationships between people in every area. In this process, the Light builds the fundamental cell of life, a desire to receive that will ultimately want to resemble the Light. It is important to understand these four phases to understand how we can bring the creation to correction.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 746 – The Four Phases At The Foundation Of Life,” 7/14/16

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Question: I don’t understand how to fit spirituality into the modern pace of life? I always feel that something isn’t on time, even though I know that haste is only harmful. It seems that I am missing the point. How can one not rush to keep pace with everyone? Can the wisdom of Kabbalah help here?

Answer: I would suggest that you attend our Kabbalah lessons at least one to two hours per day, as much as you can. You should try to listen and absorb everything into you, and if possible, pass it on to others also.

Question: Is there a general rule for beginners that would ensure that they become harmonized with reality?

Answer: The general rule is very simple. Listen to the lessons for beginners or the daily lessons and participate in unity with the friends.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/17/16

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Question: It is claimed that soon automation and robots will displace most working professions and people will be left with only creative professions. What is your opinion about this?

Answer: This is the natural way of advancement. In our time, technology, automation, and robotics are taking the place of human labor. While in the past machines performed only mechanical actions, now they can take on tasks that match human logic and provide technological guidance. It is possible to see ships, airplanes, and missiles run automatically. Soon cars will travel on the highways without drivers. This doesn’t require special understanding or technology, but only sensors, guidance, and coordination. The person will be totally freed for the necessary spiritual work.

Question: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes higher than human intelligence? They say that this will happen in the next ten years.

Answer: This will indeed be higher; already a computer calculates faster than a person. But we are not talking about that, but about spiritual attainment. The computer can never replace people in spiritual work. Everything else is corporeal and the normal functioning of life that can be easily programmed and connected to a machine.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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Question: Does studying the wisdom of Kabbalah change a person into a lazy super-egoistic person, yearning only for involvement with spirituality and no desire to work in the physical world?

Answer: When a person reaches the wisdom of Kabbalah, it grabs him and pulls his heart so much that he cannot be involved with anything else.

I discovered the wisdom of Kabbalah when I was the manager of a dental clinic that employed 11 doctors and other technical staff. It became very difficult for me to manage the business because I was suddenly immersed into an area that opened a new world in front of me. Even though nothing was clear to me about the wisdom of Kabbalah, this “void” and “emptiness” sparkled and attracted me.

A person begins to discover how this world was created, from where the laws appear in it, what their results are and what is happening with him. Everything that the wisdom of Kabbalah reveals to the person is truly amazing. Moreover, it is revealed in a very concrete and clear form.

A person acquires an absolutely precise view of the world that not even any science provides. Everything else falls from his mind and becomes completely unimportant to him, including this world. In general, the first few months of familiarity with the wisdom of Kabbalah go by like a “rosy mist.” After that the mist gradually dissipates and a gradual sobriety begins. The person somehow begins to find his way around.

It means that the first familiarity with the wisdom of Kabbalah amazes and confuses a person because the next more external sphere relative to our world appears before him. After that he gets used to it, even though it actually could take a long time. Meeting the upper world shocks a person no less than the initial introduction to the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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Question: I think that without the literature I read before beginning to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, I would not understand and not internally grasp the wisdom of Kabbalah that is close to me. Even Baal HaSulam read novels and historical works. What is superfluous and what might aid development?

Answer: I don’t say that it you shouldn’t be involved with anything or not read anything. I simply warn you in advance that studying the wisdom of Kabbalah will narrow your interests to a certain well-directed path. So he will go on a path from which it is already difficult to deviate because all of his thoughts and yearning will be directed only toward revealing the Creator.

But through attaining the Creator he will understand everything else. Harmony will unfold in front of him as in music, literature, and art. He will begin to see an inner meaning in everything, the inner drive of great people, writers, artists, and composers who created those works. Everything will move into his inner sensations and it is doubtful that he will have a need for anything on the outside.

So the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t limit a person, rather it makes possible the correct approach to life.
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Question: In response to your article “…Or Terror Wins” on Snob, Sergey Muroshav quoted from your article: “’It’s time to apply the unfailing remedy that will cure disease once and for all. A healing system that balances the forces that act upon us and make it possible for us to monitor them with understanding.’

And he asked, “Um…

“Is there such a tool in nature? Other than the indiscriminate destruction of all mankind?”

Answer: Yes, there is a natural remedy for correcting our nature, but we need to use this remedy wisely, otherwise nature will not annihilate us but will lead us through various torments to force us to use the remedy that will correct us. The method for correcting our nature is called, the wisdom of Kabbalah. Its common name is the method of connection and unity.

It amounts to a few simple actions:

1. Between 5 to 10 people sit in a circle.
2. Getting acquainted isn’t necessary; this is a distraction and has no relation to the purpose.
3. The facilitator explains the method and everyone follows it.
4. Each one tries to express himself more modestly, quietly,and less than the others in the circle.
5. Each one tries to imagine that the others in the circle have better qualities than he has, that they are apparently greater than he is.
6. Each one tries to treat everyone else as an equal.
7. Each one tries to imagine that they are all yearning for the center of the circle, the connection of everyone in a single point.
8. Everyone tries to attain a feeling of unity until they really lose their sense of self.
9. They try to feel the warmth and power that is revealed in the center of the connection between everyone.

As similar exercises are repeated, this force will be revealed more and more and will be felt closer and will be more understandable. Through its help, gradually each one will be able to balance his egoistic characteristics and drives. In this manner, you will be able to explore the good force that you discover together with the circle of friends and discuss, study, and explore its practical manifestation in you.

This is the revelation of the Creator to the creatures in our world … The study of this phenomenon in itself—is a long process, it reveals a person’s inner world. The fact is that, while we were composed of a single force, egoistic, we could not feel:

1. where we are
2. what we were without it.

But as soon it begins to emerge, the second force in us begins to open our image and our world—it is called the soul, and the upper world.

The method of discovery, the wisdom of Kabbalah, explains:

1. The states that we go through and how we must direct ourselves toward deepening the discovery of the new world. This part of the wisdom of Kabbalah is called “inner work.”
2. The states we go through, how they are formed in us, how we can manage them, and so on.

In fact, this is the wisdom of Kabbalah itself. Similar to physics or any other science, it explains the integration of two forces to us, the natural egoistic force and the force that is acquired in a circle, the higher, altruistic force, and all the possible kinds of mutual cooperation between them. The difference is only that the study and investigation is done on the person himself and not on an external object. So it is a discovery that is only for you and not for anyone else except you. The participants in these circles exchange impressions and keep track of their correspondence in the textbook.

All of this is learned in the framework of our International Academy for the Wisdom of Kabbalah.

The textbooks of the wisdom of Kabbalah were written over thousands of years ago and they are called “The Secrets of Jewish Teachings.” They are called secrets, not because they are concealed, but because they are discovered through the practical effort of the person himself. Even though the other matter is also correct, specifically in our day, because humanity has reached the end of its egoistic development, the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed to all people. Before then people were simply not sufficiently disappointed with life such that the question about the meaning of life really interested them.
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Question: The question about the meaning of life interests me so much that in addition to lectures on the wisdom of Kabbalah, I also listen to lectures by other teachers from various sources and doctrines. Is this “garbage” for my spiritual life?

Answer: I wouldn’t advise you to connect the wisdom of Kabbalah with other teachings. It is better for you to engage in other methods and leave the study of Kabbalah.

It is better for your spiritual health. For example, engage with Yoga or Tarot cards, anything you want, just not everything together. You think you can understand it all? But you can’t! Personal and spiritual “garbage” will really appear that you will have a hard time getting rid of.

A person is unable to get along with and profoundly understand what he hears from everyone. It only seems to him that he can “sort the wheat from the chaff.”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/10/16

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New Life 741 – A True Blessing
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

Jewish customs stem from Kabbalists who discovered the system of leadership through which the Creator, the upper force, operates us. The blessings mean that I have revealed the upper force as good and benevolent, and therefore I bless it.

The Creator created an evil inclination in us, the ego, and He “created a Torah spice for it,” a positive force that can balance the ego. We have to reach a state in which we say the blessings not simply as words from our mouth but in thought and desire. This happens as a result of the correction of the ego.

The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us that it is possible to correct the ego through a special connection of mutual guarantee between people. Thus from the love of the created beings we come to the love of the Creator. The effort to connect summons a positive force upon us that balances the ego. Blessings between a person and his friend are meant to be the outcome of our request, asking the Creator for the power to love others. The Creator wants everyone to reach His level, and so a person’s true healing can be only as a result of correcting himself.

In spirituality a person discovers that he is a small world, which means that everything is inside him. Thus when he corrects himself, he corrects the world, and when he sees that someone suffers, he understands that he has to correct himself. Turning to the Creator is a request for the power to see reality correctly. “There is none else besides Him, the good and the benevolent.” At first there is nothing in us but the evil inclination. All the good that we seemingly do stems from our egoism. When we bless, we bless the appearance of the good force that we have been rewarded to actually reveal.

All of reality exists between two forces: the force of receiving and the force of giving, which we have to acquire. We have to ascend to a state in which we will feel the others just as we feel ourselves; the bodies will not separate us. The blessings people bless one another with symbolize the level we have to reach with the help of our efforts to connect. Eventually a person discovers that there are no other people before him but the Creator, which means that only he and the Creator exist in reality.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 741 – A True Blessing,” 7/5/16

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New Life 740 – Morning Blessings 
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

What is the origin of all the blessings? After all, no book fell from the sky? Kabbalists discovered that there is an inner more concealed part of nature that manages us, the Creator of the operating system. Feeling this system is called day. Drawing away from this feeling is called evening, and being disconnected from it is called night. Returning to it is called morning and so on.

Kabbalists also discovered that unpleasant events are also in our favor and this is from where the blessings stem. The heart of Kabbalists blesses everything by itself. They wrote the blessings for other people in order to guide them to the Creator, to be in contact with Him, connected to Him. Washing hands, for example, is an action that stems from the same Hebrew root as taking. When I wash my hands, I want to keep them away from egoistic actions.

To be in contact with the upper force means, that we feel the Creator’s presence every moment in our life. Kabbalists tell us what we should do in order to raise ourselves to the recognition of the Creator. We are actually inside the upper force although we are not aware of it, but we should be aware of it and not detach ourselves from Him. We have to reach a state in which we feel how the Creator manages every thought, every desire, me managing myself.

In the past people performed the rituals that Kabbalists determined in order to reach the revelation of the Creator. The revelation of the Creator raises a person above time, motion and place. When a person discovers the Creator he connects to eternity and to wholeness, and the internal meaning of the blessings recited upon arising in the morning are meant to help us hasten the revelation of the Creator in practice.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 740 – Morning Blessings,” 7/5/16

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