Question: Why do you call the wisdom of Kabbalah a science and not a doctrine?

Answer: Kabbalists and people who tried to understand them say that the wisdom of Kabbalah is a science. The wisdom of Kabbalah meets all the criteria according to which we define science rather than a doctrine.

A doctrine doesn’t rely on facts. It is a synthesis of ideas and assumptions that a person acquires by experience, but in any case not facts; it is not clear, accurate documentation according to the rule: “a judge has only what his eyes can see,” of observations and measurements of our world to the extent that something is revealed to him.

A Kabbalist is a person who has developed extra senses by which he explores nature more deeply than others. He explores the level of nature where the forces of the leadership are, the plan and the data of the leadership of our world, and it is a reality for him. He attains it in an absolutely accurate manner, records and builds it. The world he is in is no less real for him than our world, and so he considers his studies of the upper world scientific research and himself a scientist.

Moreover, Kabbalists claim that the wisdom of Kabbalah meets all the requirements and the definitions of a science, more than all the other sciences because it explores nature in its real form—not in the narrow framework we receive in some confusion of a range of influences, reflections, refractions of our understandings and feelings, and out of our impact on the environment.

Now we perceive the world only through our five senses or by instruments that expand their range of perception a bit, whereas Kabbalists perceive nature in its absolute form, because they develop abilities of exiting themselves, by ascending their egoism, which distorts the ability to understand nature by our egoistic feelings and mind; they become true researchers, scientists, who outperform the scientists of our world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/17/16

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Research (from wired.co.uk): “Co-operation is a key component in human interaction and also, according to new research from the University of British Columbia, the spread of civilisation. Not because [of] any altruistic reason, though; instead it might be directly down to a fear of a vengeful god.

“In a study published by Nature, a team from the university found that it wasn’t a belief in divine reward that promoted co-operation, but a fear of punishment.

“’Co-operation among throngs of strangers in expanding societies required a common faith in moralistic gods,’ said Benjamin Purzycki, who conducted the research.

“Worshippers believed that these gods were able to read thoughts, observe good and bad behaviour and punish and reward them accordingly, the study suggests. Shared beliefs about these gods apparently paved the way for trade networks, economies and institutions such as governments and courts.”

My Comment: Religions are a kind of club or lifestyle. Humanity needs frameworks like these for its development until its finds its inadequacy to solve social problems—the mutual hatred and rejection. After all, the religions are fundamentally egoistic, as is the human society in which they came to exist and continued to develop, until present day.

The masses, in any case, need to find the wisdom of Kabbalah, and will be compelled to sell it. However, as Baal HaSulam writes, everyone can remain in his religion. This is because the Kabbalah only reveals the characteristic of bestowal and love toward others. Religion fills a person’s “niche of the unknown.”
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Comment: Scientists have discovered that every object, from cars, birds, or people’s faces to the letters of the alphabet seem different to people who know them from those who see them for the first time.

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah differs from other sciences since it immediately shows a person the world on the next level, and so all the current and future studies, which always reveal something new to the ego are not considered new according to the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Kabbalah immediately provides us with the basis for the egoistic perception of the world and that which is above the ego, therefore everything that exists on these two levels, and between them, a person who studies Kabbalah begins to perceive absolutely correctly.

There is never an actual face or form, so a person’s perception depends only on the extent to which he is an in absolutely objective state, that is, rising above all his sensations.

After all, everything that we feel we sense in our desires, characteristics, and feelings. If our attributes changed, we would see the trees, the sky, the birds, the earth, people, and everything that surrounds us differently from the way they are depicted to us now. It depends on our internal attributes.

If a person from another planet came here, he would perceive everything in this world in a totally different manner than the way we perceive it in our attributes. It is therefore impossible to say that there are forms in this world, sights, attributes, or laws that are objective and independent. Everything is revealed and exists only in a person’s individual attitude.

Let’s become acquainted with different objects and the world more deeply, meaning what they represent. And then we would cease to see our world and instead would begin to see the upper spiritual world: the forces, the mutual connections, the intrinsic properties, which are now depicted to us as corporeal objects.

And if we penetrate more deeply, we will cease to see corporeal objects since they don’t exist. We will only see the properties rather than the material bodies.

If a person has been married for forty years, for example, he is used to seeing a certain figure instead of his wife, and she also perceives him as an image that is built by his attributes, by their mutual relations, etc. People get used to each other and don’t pay attention to certain attributes that each one has.

This can somehow be compared to what would happen to us if we began to acquire the attribute of the upper world. We would simply see it instead of our world. It is just as a wife sees her husband in a totally different manner than a stranger would see him, since for her he is a more internal image than the external image.

This is also how we would see the internal image of our world that is called the upper world. We would see forces and attributes, not the external wrappings that our five corporeal senses depict for us.

Everyone can do that. We only have to learn about the upper world, and then the internal attributes that match its attributes will appear in us. We will begin to feel it just as it really is and our world in the form of objects will disappear.

Question: If I see a table, a wall, you, etc., on the dimension of this world, will I see forces when I rise above this dimension?

Answer: Yes, forces that depict in you such objects that don’t really exist.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/10/16

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New Life 479 – The Creator’s Typewriter
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi

All of matter —the still, vegetative, animate nature, and human beings—is a desire to enjoy. Whether consciously or not, all want one thing: to feel good at any given moment. This is the only natural yearning of everyone.

Question: Now I yearn to feel good. How are letters related to that?

Answer: The letters descend into your matter, into the desire to receive and imprint their form in it. The letters come to us all the time. They are like typewriter keys that constantly click on your matter, on your desire to receive, and you constantly receive different impressions, desires, and thoughts. And it is the same for everyone.

Question: But how does the letter click in me? Where?

Answer: We are in a TV studio now and there is a group of cameramen around us, and behind the walls different events are taking place. The letters are printing all that on the matter of the still, vegetative, and animate nature, and the speaking levels so that everything will exist and develop in a certain direction. We are all operated this way when someone Above touches the keys of His typewriter typing a text, and we operate according to this text. It is like a code in computer software.

Question: Does this code operate me?

Answer: Yes, it determines what you want, what you think about, what you decide, what you do, and what will happen. It is all inside this code, everything! Everyone wants to know the letters, but they don’t know what it is.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 479 – The Creator’s Typewriter,” 12/21/14

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Question: How do you see attacks on you and the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: With kindness. Not surprisingly, after 2,000 years of concealment, the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed with difficulty, acquiring rivals who are united in their absolute ignorance of the subject.

Therefore I have decided to lead with an “educational program” of the wisdom of Kabbalah with answers so that those who speak out against it will understand the essence of their objections and opposition.

The answers are not mine but those of great Kabbalists. If they want to understand at least somewhat, of course.

The wisdom of Kabbalah includes all of creation within it, the upper worlds and our lowest world with everything that fills them. Moreover this entire structure is not discovered in parts but completely together, but its scale goes and grows gradually through 125 levels.

Therefore, to talk about Kabbalah can only comprehending the upper world, not comprehending at all can not imagine anything!

Therefore, only someone who attains the upper world can speak about the wisdom of Kabbalah, and someone who hasn’t attained it cannot comprehend anything at all, and cannot imagine anything. He can’t understand even one word of what is written in the books of the wisdom of Kabbalah. Even if he has studied it for 20 years, but has not achieved the revelation of the upper world, he does not understand anything in Kabbalah.

But our age is amazing! It turns out that all are well versed in this science. It does not matter if he is a believer or not—on television they broadcast programs about amulets, charms, red strings, symbols for success, and say that it is the wisdom of Kabbalah, and even the Orthodox Jews. As far as it seems, it is in this way that the wisdom about the coming level of humanity is being revealed..
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Question: How can we feel happy when we receive disturbances that the Creator sends us?

Answer: It is possible only according to the level of your ascent above the ego, when your intentions are truly in order to bestow and not in order to receive, which means only after the effect of the Surrounding Light and the appearance of the Masach (screen).

Question: How can one be your student and part of the system successfully without torturing himself by getting up early for the morning lessons?

Answer: You can watch them some other time during the day and do your best to participate in our events in a group near you.
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Question: Should one go out with definitions from spiritual sources in the Russian language in addition to Hebrew, thinking that with a specific operation this could bring together a larger circle of people around the Wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah can be studied in any language, even though its concepts, as in every science, are preserved in the original language in which they were discovered, which is to say, Hebrew. But other than that, it is possible to study without any limit to  language.
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Question: There is a thirst for knowledge and for spirituality that is awakening today. Does the force that is against knowledge and attainment appear at the same time?

Answer: It must be so! A person is given both the pushing force and the resisting force so that he will discover himself through these two forces.

If a person advances only by the force of nature, it will be the result of the instinctive evolutionary force that has pushed humanity to develop for millions of years. Humanity didn’t develop by itself but was developed by these forces.

When a person wants to develop under the pressure of one external force, and at the same time, there is another external force that is a force of resistance, a person feels as if he is between the hammer and the anvil. This is the point from which a person can develop and discover himself, and grow through these two opposite forces. A person turns into a spiritual creature through the right conflict between the two forces.

The upper force leads a person to clarify things between these two forces in order to form the third force through them, which is called the middle line.

Question: Can we say that there are several spiritual attainments, or is there only one?

Answer: The nature of our world is the ego, and the nature of the upper world is the attribute of bestowal, which is expressed by altruism.

It is on top of the conflict between these two forces that we resemble the Creator. There is no other way.

Therefore, all the methods that use different forces, actions, and manipulations simply know nothing about these two major parameters in nature, the force of receiving and the force of bestowal, one versus the other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/10/16

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Question: In your blog you include some Psalms of David. Would it also be worthwhile to similarly include the main prayers from the Siddur (prayer book), which are essential for our spiritual advancement?

Answer: I think that it is still too early to study the Siddur. We are talking in our lessons about prayers as the correct expression of turning toward the Creator, of His revelation to the Kabbalists.

The Kabbalists discovered the Creator, and from their practical experience in turning to Him, meaning the creation within them of desires, requests, MAN, they described the formation of prayers for us.

But we ourselves must be in connection with the Creator, at least on the level of Lo Lishma (not for Her name), so that the words of the Siddur that were created by the giant Kabbalists, the participants in the Great Assembly more than two thousand years ago, will not seem naïve and strange.
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“The age of 40” in Kabbalah

Question: There is a rumor that a person can start studying Kabbalah only after the age of 40. Is that correct?

Answer: It is a big misunderstanding that one is not supposed to study Kabbalah until he is 40 years old. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, the number 40 means the level of Bina.

A person who has reached the level of Bina obtains the absolute property of bestowal where he can reveal the entire enormous Light of Hochma that governs the entire universe. Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah has two parts: before the level of Bina and above it. Everyone is able to study up to the level of Bina. However, above it, only those who are capable can continue and rise further.

The level of Bina is called “the age of 40.” Therefore, the only people who can “study Kabbalah”—meaning, receive the Light of Hochma—are those who have reached the level of Bina, which is defined by the number 40. However, this has nothing to do with the biological age of a person.

As proof, there is the example,of famous Kabbalists who died at a young age without reaching the age of 40, such as the ARI, Rabbi Nachman from Breslav, and others. Obviously, they began studying Kabbalah long before they were 40 years old.

There was also a ban for unmarried people to study Kabbalah. It was considered that a person with a family was more stable and balanced, and as a result, they would be more suitable for the study. However, during those times, people used to marry when they were 16 to 17 years old.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 2/28/16

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