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Measuring Our Progress

laitman_250Question: In any study, there is a process of advancement. How can I assess my progress in the study of Kabbalah?

Answer: Progress in Kabbalah is when a person attains the material more closely and begins to identify with what he studies in the world around him.

He begins to see through the system of the world forces that manage this world and himself. This control system is called the general soul.

A person begins to realize how he can affect it, how it responds to his actions and influences him. He studies this whole cycle—actuating forces and receiving feedback. In essence, this is our entire life.

This is how we can get closer to the goal in a good way and not along the path of suffering. After all, what we feel in our life now is the action of the forces that lead us to recognize as quickly as possible the control system so that, ultimately, we become part of it and begin to manage our own lives so that there won’t be such troubles and sufferings everyday.

Everything depends only on us! We have freedom of choice precisely because we have the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Once a person recognizes and attains the system of control, he sees his states throughout his previous and future incarnations. He sees the whole way until the end of all the corrections. His is a life filled with meaning.

Question: How does that affect my daily life?

Answer: The moment you realize how to fill your life with an inner content at any given moment, what you do in your corporeal life becomes unimportant. You immediately begin to feel that you have something to do in life; every minute of your life, you gain something priceless.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 11/1/15

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Private Lessons Will Not Help

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Do you give private lessons?

Answer: I don’t give private lessons to anyone because it is useless.

A person must study together with a group; it is only in connection with his friends that he creates the same system of forces in which he begins to feel and discover the upper world.

So there is no reason to study alone. The study should take place only in conjunction with other people, a minimum of ten people. And with the right connection between them, they will begin to feel the upper world.

Question: But you were taught one-on-one with your teacher. What has changed at this time?

Answer: I studied according to a particular program; in history there have been cases like these. Later it wasn’t easy to move from personal study to group study. I understood what it was, but didn’t personally work with the group. Most of my study took place one-on-one with the teacher.

But this cannot be today; we have entered into such a historical period in which all of humanity needs to go out to the upper world. So personal study will not yield results.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/27/15

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The Road To Happiness

laitman_283_01Question: Why can’t we simply be in a state of happiness?

Answer: Because then we wouldn’t have any desire to discover the upper world. We would exist in a state of unconsciousness.

After all, now we exist in the upper world. It is all around us, but we don’t feel it because we have no need for it, no real sensors or desires to attain it.

In order to attain them, a person must change himself so that all of his desires for this world will be practically detached from him. He will be satisfied with normal, essential existence, only in order to attain the upper world.

This is what the sufferings lead a person to. It isn’t only him but the entire world that inevitably must reach the next level.

Question: Do we  have to deal with it somehow?

Answer: The study the wisdom of Kabbalah implements the method for spiritual ascent before you encounter the suffering! Then, there will be no need for suffering since one slight sting will be enough to push you toward the upper world.
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Men And Women Studying Kabbalah

laitman_582_01Question: Does gender, age, or nationality influence the study of Kabbalah?

Answer: No, only desire does.

But there is a difference in the attitude and in the way of climbing the spiritual ladder that stems from a person’s attributes and especially from whether it is a man or a woman.

Just as men and women in our world differ in their perception of reality and in their advancement and in their actions, they also differ when it comes to the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Question: What is the role of women in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: It is the same as the men’s role. There is no difference! There are simply personal differences between men and women, just like in our world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/27/15

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Do Not Waste Your Life On Worthless Things

laitman_546_01Question: Every movement or doctrine must be represented in the media proportionally to the degree of its popularity. But the wisdom of Kabbalah is not so popular when you try to bring it out in the media.

Answer: This means, it will be popular.

I give it the greatest importance! I believe here is no other study in our world that a person must learn except the wisdom of Kabbalah. Nothing except it will provide us with a good life, access to the upper world, the truth of existence, and knowledge about the system of management.

Do you want to feel wholeness and eternity now? Feel it! Exist in it! At the same time, you do not destroy this world; rather, you will connect the two worlds together.

Why waste your life on all kinds of worthless things when you can provide yourself with everything good; after all, it comes from the abundance of the Upper Light, from the energy that descends to our world. Do it so that it will pour down in a direct stream, and everything will be yours.
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From KabTV’s “Confrontation. How it works in reality” 10/28/15

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What Does The Wisdom Of Kabbalah Engage In?

laitman_234Comment: Many believe that the wisdom of Kabbalah should deal with the spiritual elevation of man and not in finding a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah provides the solution to all conflicts and disputes because it allows people to get closer to the revelation of the upper world. When we get closer to it, our lives becomes better.

Yet, our adversaries are right: The true role of the wisdom of Kabbalah is not to bring goodness to our world, but to raise a person to the next level, to the level of the upper world. This is the real goal!

But how can you approach a person and start explaining that? After all, he wouldn’t even listen to us.

But when the blows hit him and you tell him that there is a solution to his problem, he will listen to a couple of words and then to a few more words, and so on. Thus he will gradually realize that you are offering a solution to the problems in our world because this is the only thing he hears. As it is said: “Educate a boy according to his way.”

Then he will understand that this is only a way to truly rise to the upper world. He receives blows in this world because the wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t attract a person directly.
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From KabTV’s “Confrontation. How it works in reality” 10/28/15

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Key Difference Between Kabbalah And Religion

laitman_214Question: What is the key difference between Kabbalah and religion?

Answer: Sciences of this world perceive nature with our material sensors. Therefore the space that surrounds us looks the way we regard it through our five organs of perception: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

There is nothing we understand beyond this point. Our world consists only of the impressions that are given to us by our organs of perception that are enhanced by devices that were invented to widen or deepen the range of our sensors.

We don’t even suspect that besides our regular material sensors some other types of perception organs can be created. We don’t need a sixth finger on the hand, and therefore we don’t feel we might want to have it.

Similarly, we don’t realize that we require an additional sensor. That’s why we are placed in a “box” through which we perceive only this world, limited by our material sense organs.

Kabbalah studies the upper world that exists beyond our sensors; it allows us to develop five organs of perception that are opposite to the ones we already have. They are built not on our egoism, but on true bestowal and love. We can develop them without stepping outside ourselves, but absolutely on the same research principles as in our world.

A Kabbalist is a scientist, a researcher. A Kabbalist doesn’t believe in spells or mysterious phenomena. The most important condition in Kabbalah is the study of the facts that can be proven or tested.

Kabbalists study their sensations, explore them, get each other’s advice, and come to a unified conclusion. Only then does their research become a law.

Religion is faith, believing in something rather than doing research. Therefore Kabbalah is not a religion: not with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Kabbalah is the foundation of science. Ancient philosophers and medieval scholars wrote about Kabbalah as the source of all disciplines.

Question: Why should we believe that Kabbalah reveals the upper force? Any religion states the same.

Answer: Religion doesn’t reveal the upper force; they only say that people have to believe in it. Kabbalah brings a person to a state where one attains the upper world that is opposite to our egoism and allows one to exist in it.

Kabbalah discloses the space in which an alternative universe exists – the inverse of this world, the anti-world. When we say “anti-world” we do not mean the “material” it is made of but the internal state of a human being that is able to go against one’s will. Our desire is egoistic, whereas, the spiritual anti-world is altruistic. Mirror laws rule there.

Religion says “believe”; Kabbalah says: “Do not believe anybody or anything. Test everything yourself.”

Question: What makes Kabbalah a science?

Answer: The scientific method of researching the upper world makes it a science. If we explore this world with the help of our five material sensors, then by creating and developing five new organs of perception, called Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut, in Kabbalah, we can explore the higher realm called the upper world.

The upper world is investigated by clear scientific laws. Therefore Kabbalah is a science. It is not based on faith, spells, conventions, or symbols. It doesn’t bow to anything!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/27/15

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How Can We Improve Our Lives?

Laitman_133Question: You speak about the upper system that controls our life. Will it help me succeed and improve my life and my fate if I begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah and learn this system more deeply? Will I be able to control my fate?

Answer: On the whole, the wisdom of Kabbalah allows a person to discover what is going on and how to improve his life.

Then, with everything that he has learned, he can be on several levels of mutual cooperation, or he may know what happens and remain passive as he continues to flow with the current of life. But at least he acquires some peace of mind and understanding of why things happen, that everything has its own account, and where everything stems from. This is a great support for a person.

There are many such people. We cannot say that everyone reaches the level at which they can manage their life after studying the wisdom of Kabbalah.

There are those who don’t settle for passive study and who advance into greater depths. They actually can attain a state in which they improve their lives and manage it by themselves.

We are interested, of course, that people will advance to this level and that we will have such students who advance until the ultimate goal, but it all depends on the person himself.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM 10/25/15

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Discovering The Management System Of The World

laitman_254_01Question: There are many different currents in the world. Why should we believe you?

Answer: Don’t believe anyone, not even yourself! On the other hand, come and explore why and how the world works.

When you attain the proper, independent, and totally objective revelation, then you will begin to understand the general system of management and balance of the world. Kabbalah is the science that reveals this system.

Today, if you are certain that you can’t do anything, and all of humanity is convinced about this, all of the great ones of this world, then you are invited to uncover the system of control. This is real and completely clear, without anyone believing anything.

First of all, you need to correctly configure your conceptual apparatus. The study of Kabbalah opens these possibilities for you.

You begin to understand how they are limited, why you only perceive our world, and how to expand the range of your sensitivity to feel the upper world. The upper world is the system of management of our world, and you learn how to influence it.

You discover that in the world today are people that Abraham chose in ancient Babylon. These are people who sense the yearning for the discovery of the upper world.

It is not an obligation for them to be Jews. It is all who sense the yearning for correction, the comprehend the purpose of life, who can enter into the feeling of this system and influence it. Only in this way do we bring our lives to a good state.
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The Upper World Is A World Of Information

laitman_219_01Question: In modern physics, the law of the conservation of information has become the most fundamental law. If before the main law was the law of the conservation of mass, energy, now it is information.

As a general rule, physics defines information as inversely proportional to entropy, that is, chaos. How is the soul/consciousness associated with this information?

Answer: This information is a clear comprehension of the relationships between the parts of the world we reveal in  Kabbalah.

The perception of the network of forces, their dependence and the interconnections between objects in this network and its connections, is information. Moreover, it is clearly calibrated and constantly changing, spilled from one place to another as in an ocean, between all the particles of the levels of the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking nature.

Information is found in every point of the network of forces, on all the levels that we specify. It aspires to fill the volume by itself, i.e., to transform not into a network but into a ball, a sphere, and when it reaches its full volume, then the creature reaches wholeness. In fact, complete information is what we call the “Creator.”

Everything that exists beyond this, besides knowledge, is a network of interconnections between the creatures that makes it possible for us to discover the information that fills this volume.

The information itself is originally there, in full, and its discovery is only relative to us. It is attained by us to the degree of the expansion of our consciousness, making it possible to discover this network.

In our world we always divide this information into completely different arbitrary sectors: physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, etc., into anything possible. But this indicates only the narrowness and the weakness of our perception.

In fact, information in the spiritual world is not perceived as existing in fragments, in various sciences. It is perceived as a single whole, and so even the perception of a small fragment of it is called the revelation of the Creator. In other words, the law of conservation of information says that in a closed system the amount of information is fixed.

In our world there exists only a weak glimmer of the information that descends from the upper world. Scientists are attracted to it, but they encounter a potential barrier between the two worlds.

Question: Is there some kind of feed that is descending from the upper world to our world?

Answer: Without a doubt! Our world is constantly gaining more nourishment from the upper world.

It is set on a particular program and encourages us to further development. If not for this illumination and its manifestation in our world in the form of more and more information, we would not aspire to it. A person cannot even subconsciously be attracted to something that doesn’t exist. So the information comes first and later the awakening of a desire for it.

This means that the physical world is an open system into which knowledge from the outside constantly streams. This contributes to the qualitative development of humanity.

So I hope that more and more Kabbalists will move through the potential barrier (Machsom) between our world and the next level, and this will produce such a good, beneficial connection between those below and above this barrier so that we will mutually help each other transfer more and more people through the barrier, or more precisely, their perceptions.

And then we will understand that even physical bodies actually have no place in our world because this is just one of the subjective feelings of physical existence.
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