Question: Why are there things like cults and other similar elements in the common system? What are they created for?

Answer: These are the delusions of man, which he must go through in the same way as all religions. Misconceptions help him and develop him until he comes to the truth.

A person cannot immediately come to the truth! How many years have you been soiling diapers, making mistakes, and breaking toys? How many years passed until you started to understand something, to do something on your own? This is what we have to go through!

All theories and techniques work themselves out in our mind. We need them or we cannot perceive the truth. We have to prepare for it.

One can prepare for it through such “toys.” The way you played all sorts of games in your childhood, then onto more serious things, and then you started to more or less understand some truth. The same is happening here.

Without these dense beliefs, red strings, religions, all sorts of slander, and everything else, a person cannot develop. Then will have to be abandoned  except for everyday customs and cultural traditions and all these beliefs will be replaced with knowledge and attainment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why do sects exist?” 8/27/11

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There are all kinds of movements that sell various “holy” attributes under the flag of Kabbalah. Well, how can you sell red threads? If you think they bring good luck, then give them to all of mankind and do not sell them for $20 per string!

Why do you demand payment for each of your movements? What are you leading the world to? What are you saying to the world? About being unselfish, kind, loving? Or do you also demand money for saying this? Are you selling love? I cannot agree with that!

It is also written by the ARI and other Kabbalists that amulets are forbidden in Kabbalah. They have always been attributed to Kabbalah because it was hidden.

And today, in the 21^st century, selling these things under the name of Kabbalah is such a horrific profanity, that it cannot be worse! This is not just mysticism, as they say about Kabbalah, but the very opposite of it!

The very first thing Abraham did at the beginning of his spiritual journey was to break all the amulets and gods that he made himself and sold for money. Only after that he went the correct way and became a Kabbalist.

There is nothing more contrary to Kabbalah than “holy” attributes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Anti-Kabbalah” 8/20/11

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Question: Could you create one product that describes everything and send it around the world?

Answer: No, I cannot. I know from myself that when I was advancing I needed to read Kabbalistic books. There are a lot of good books on Kabbalah in our time, but at the time I started studying there were only The Study of the Ten Sefirot and The Book of Zohar with the Sulam Commentary. Nothing else!

Then, within five years, the “The Giving of the Torah,” letters, and articles by Baal HaSulam appeared. It was possible to start reading something. My teacher gave me his notebook in which he wrote down what he had heard from his father, Shamati. But before that, there was no literature at all.

And what did I do? Anyway, I have read everything in these two sources thousands of times: The Book of Zohar and The Study of the Ten Sefirot.

And now? I am not forcing anyone! When people need it, they will suddenly remember that there is Kabbalah and it really says how to get rid of problems that are worse than death!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You’re Repeating the Same Thing!” 8/13/11

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Question: At some point in your life you studied Kabbalah alone. How did you determine that you did not fall into some wrong current?

Answer: After the death of Rabash, I locked myself at home, did not listen to anyone, did not see anyone, tried not to feel anything, and only worked on books.

I wrote my first 10 to 12 books. After that, I practically did not write myself but only spoke. These texts were processed by my students, they were published under my name, but these are books spoken aloud by me and not written by hand.

I was only inside the sources! Except for Baal HaSulam and Rabash, no one existed for me. So the years went by, years and years.

At the same time, I was not under anyone’s influence, not even under my own; I was only under the influence of what the books of Baal HaSulam and Rabash told me. I studied them, copied archives, processed manuscripts, and I was at it from morning till night. I held on to it like a lifeline. Not a step to the side!

After all, Rabash mentored me all the previous years. And despite the fact that he died, he is always with me. I try to be in contact with him and follow the calling that I feel from him. That is how it works. You can imagine whatever you want, but this is what it is.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Anti-Kabbalah” 8/20/11

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Question: If a person reads The Book of Zohar in Hebrew, do the Hebrew symbols influence him much more than when reading in his own language?

Answer: If he sets his heart and his intentions in the right way, it affects him in exactly the same way.

The fact is there is a lot of additional information in the Hebrew word itself. And less so in other languages.

For example, the sentence “Moses took a ram and slaughtered it on the altar” in Hebrew has a slightly different meaning than, say, in Russian. “Altar” in Hebrew is “kurban,” “karov,” “akrava” from the word “approach.” And then you already start to think: “What does it have to do with “approaching”?

Or the word “mikvah” is a ritual pool. What does it mean? Mikvah is a property of Bina from the words “mikave, emunaʹ,” and so on.

That is, the word itself carries information about the object it talks about. Thus, if you translate it correctly, it gives you an idea of the object itself or the meaning of the action.

It is not so pronounced in other languages. Therefore, when I read the Torah, Psalms or any texts known to a wide range of people, for me these perceptions are much deeper and wider than the way other people perceive them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mother Tongue” 9/21/11

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Question: We admire all kinds of discoveries, but all of our human discoveries are imperfect. Meanwhile, nature creates absolutely perfect things. For example, a bird’s egg is considered one of nature’s most amazing creations. This structure protects new life from the surrounding world while allowing it to breathe. It is strong enough to withstand the weight of the parent incubating the egg, yet it is fragile enough for the chick to break the egg from the inside. Everything is thought out.

Why can’t we create a perfect structure and nature can? Perhaps something needs to change in the approach so we will be able to at least get closer to it?

Answer: Perhaps we can get closer to it, but it is impossible to create the same thing.

Question: What is it within us that we cannot replicate?

Answer: We cannot replicate the Creator’s actions and results.

Question: And we will never be able to?

Answer: No. We will contrive, we will do something, and perhaps we will shout that we have done even better, but of course, we are highly unlikely to succeed. The goals and conditions pursued by the Creator when He created the foundations of life, such as an egg, a cell, and so on, are all inaccessible to us, beyond our control, and unattainable.

Question: So, for Him it was the creation of life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When we create something we are not involved in the creation of life?

Answer: No. We are generally driven to this by ambition, desire for wealth, fame, and so on. This is the secret of failure.

Question: You just mentioned the secret of why we cannot build something perfect. Are we able to turn this around?

Answer: No, for that we need to change ourselves and change our egoism to altruism. Change the purpose of your existence from conquering nature to conquering yourself.

Question: Is the scientist who creates such systems the one who conquered himself?

Answer: No, he does not conquer himself but wants to conquer nature. Before conquering himself he still needs to undergo a transformation.

Question: Does the one who truly wants to become like that have to conquer himself?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If scientists who have conquered themselves were able to create something, would we then have such an egg?

Answer: No, we are not capable of doing that. Only if we bend before the Creator and are able to transform ourselves.

Question: What kind of world will we get if we manage to submit to the Creator?

Answer: We will get a magical world where there is only love, concessions, and goodness. Everyone will live in joy, happiness, and mutual support that is considered the highest manifestation of human nature.

Question: Would that be the world of the submissive, and our world is the world of the rebellious?

Answer: What kind of world is this? This is the animalistic world.

Question: Are we inevitably on the way to that world? Are we progressing toward it through everything that happens to us?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/12/23

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Question: Why did Christianity rather than Islam receive greater initial development in the history of humanity?

Answer: Islam is a younger religion. It has a different method of development. For many years it existed in isolation, but now it is starting its phase of spreading.

At the time the same was happening with Christianity. Crusades and other conquests of new lands were rooted in the spread of Christianity.

Only Judaism has never been spreading. It was considered prohibited because the religion along with its idea has been conserved until humanity matures. Then it will be possible to talk about who we are.

The thing is that we are nobody and nothing until an urgent need to use the method of correction of souls arises. This is the purpose of our existence in our world on Earth, and today we are approaching the actual realization.

Now Islam is experiencing its boom. Judging by the numerous turbulent phenomena, this should end very quickly. Then humanity will face the question “What should we do next?”

Today Christianity and Islam are experiencing a very strong intermixing: penetration, mutual rejection of religions, discernments, etc. Everything we see is happening more at the spiritual level rather than at the corporeal one. However, this is a necessary phase.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Three Religions” 8/12/11

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Question: How did the history of Christianity develop?

Answer: The development of Christianity historically was based on conquests so that Christianity would spread throughout the world. All wars were of religious nature because in this way humanity was preparing for the realization that there is a Creator and that it is necessary to somehow approach Him, to come in contact with Him.

People had to go through these stages in the measure of the breakage of the souls after the one common soul had been divided into three parts: right, left, and middle. Since then, they have not been connected to each other as they should be in a united corrected soul because they have broken into many parts—into pluses, minuses, and all kinds of neutral parts.

These different parts form the remnants of their attitude to the Creator. In other words, this is the same Kabbalah that in its corrupted earthly form (in the right, left, and middle) is a religion—Christianity, Muslim, and Judaism.

In this way, these religions correspond to the state of humanity today—defective, broken, and egoistic. And then the true correction will begin to become clear. It consists of rising above religions and above our world in the correction and unification of humanity.

Then all religions will be completely unclaimed in their highest form. They will remain as a culture of these masses that will not contradict each other. You have this kind of a culture, you are used to this kind of food, and I am accustomed to something else. You like to wear a red shirt, and I like to wear a white one. Who cares?

That is, religions will remain at our previous level because we will rise above from it like a rocket. We will leave them on Earth along with our bodies, and we ourselves will look down on them from our souls. And in the meantime, the souls will unite and correct in one soul as in their single source.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Three Religions” 7/30/11

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Question: What is the difference between the first phase of Hochma, in which receiving the light of pleasure happens for the first time, and the last phase of Malchut, which is a pure desire to receive?

Answer: There is a great difference between Hochma and Malchut. The fact is that the first phase of Hochma is mechanically created from the zero phase of Keter. It had no desire to receive, to be filled, and to enjoy the light. But when the desire passes through all the other phases of development and reaches the last one, Malchut, then this phase is defined as the dominion of the desire to receive.

In other words, if from the phase of Keter a very small desire Hochma appears, which in its development through the phases of Bina and Zeir Anpin reaches the level of Malchut, then, in doing so, it turns into a great desire that yearns only to receive and to absorb into itself. Therefore, it is considered a complete desire, a complete creation.

In addition, the difference between the first and the last phase is the quality of pleasure. In the first phase, the creation unconsciously receives pleasure from the light of the Creator, which He gives, and in the last one, it already wants to use this light for its own sake or to be like the Creator. That is, it is a qualitatively different level of desire.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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The first or zero phase of the development of desire is called Keter; it represents the source of light, the influence of the Creator.

The second phase is called Hochma. It is the first phase filled with the light of the Creator.

The third phase is Bina, which does not want to receive the light coming from the Creator and wants to give like the Creator, but it cannot. It has nothing to give, it remains empty, but at the same time it still feels a certain sense of satisfaction because it is not opposite to the Creator but similar to Him in aspiration, in purpose.

After the phase of Bina comes Zeir Anpin, which still reveals a little of the Creator’s light in the parts that it emptied in itself because it is impossible to exist without light at all. When it finishes spreading a small part of the light inside itself, it comes to the conclusion that its desire will be to completely fill itself with the light of the Creator. That is when it begins to receive all the light of the Creator into itself, which forms the fourth phase called Malchut.

This phase is the last phase; there can be no more. After all, if the Creator’s will was to create a desire that He would fill with light, then the fourth stage practically satisfies this requirement of His.

Therefore, Malchut is the last phase of the development of the desire, which the Creator created from nothing.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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