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Why Do We Need Concealment?

608.02Question: In the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, Baal HaSulam describes how worlds emerge from the four phases of the development of desire. World (Olam) comes from the word “Olama,” that is, concealment. What should be concealed after the Creator has created a desire?

Answer: Creating a desire is one thing, but making a creation from it is quite another.

The creation must sense that it was created by someone above it, and feel what it should do to implement the actions of its maker. This is a continuation of the development of creation based on what is in it, because the last phase of Malchut consists of the previous parts and can begin to transform itself, and adjust to the form it chooses.

And it chooses to be similar to the Creator, that is, to become not a desire, but a source of desire.

Therefore, it begins to receive light in the way that the first phase wants to give it. That is, Malchut begins to transform itself to become a giver.

The creation must be a source of light, i.e., become similar to the Creator and be like Him. Therefore, all concealments are necessary for the creation to become independent, and to want to be like this source itself.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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Kabbalah Is an Exact Science

249.01Question: People come to study Kabbalah not only because of the lack of meaning in life, but also because they are searching for answers to their problems, like for example, their children’s autism or something else. But you immediately dismiss these topics saying something like “Do not talk about this.” Maybe it is worth revealing some things?

Answer: I do not know what to answer to this because these are border areas that are not clearly clarified in our world. I do not like to talk about inexact scientific data.

I examine psychology because it relates to Kabbalah and speaks about the perception of the world in the five senses. Kabbalah also speaks about an additional perception of the world in five spiritual sensory organs.

By itself, the wisdom of Kabbalah operates with clear physical data. We dissect the desire into parts, grade it, and show in which part and depending on what, a person feels and attains reality one way or another.

But when can I talk about this with him? When can this be explained to a person? When he is already in this.

Before that, he himself does not know what he is learning. Even if he enters into The Study of the Ten Sefirot or something else, what is the use? This makes no sense because in our world there is nothing analogous to spiritual sensations.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Why are You Scaring Everyone?” 9/5/11

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Primacy of Spiritual Sensations

527.06Question: If a person wants to go deeper into the study of Kabbalah, should he know Hebrew?

Answer: No, not necessarily. A person should work on himself, this is the most important thing. He can even feel spirituality without any words and read books in any language.

I have students who do not know Hebrew, who read Baal HaSulam, Rabash, as well as my books in their native language and they are advancing perfectly.

If they study the Hebrew alphabet, they study not the letters but its design, because the letters represent a combination of certain forces.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mother tongue” 9/21/11

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Kabbalah—the Psychology of the Modern Times

222Materialistic psychology, which has developed during the past 100 to 150 years, is the study of human egoism: how individual egoism interacts with everyone else, what connections, thoughts, tastes it has, and how it develops and satisfies itself.

Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychology, developed this system in practice, but today it does not work anymore because the system has become integral.

It requires us to exit ourselves and to not view the surrounding society with the selfish purpose of gain and fulfillment. After all, according to Freud, our main instinct is food and sex, “bread and circuses.”

Now the surrounding environment asks something different from us. “You will not receive fulfillment if you are not participating in bestowal in the way that you would be in balance with the surrounding environment” nature says to us. Thus, Freud’s approach does not work here anymore.

Kabbalah steps forward in place of Freud. It tells how to balance oneself with the surrounding environment in order to feel optimal and comfortable. In other words, Kabbalah is also psychology, but it is a psychology of the modern times, the psychology of connecting humanity into a single integral one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You’re repeating the same thing!” 8/13/11

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Water Is the Receiver of Our Thoughts

703.03Question: Today seas and oceans are becoming more and more violent. What is water from a spiritual point of view?

Answer: Water is the quality of Bina. Salty sea water is the union of Bina and Malchut, i.e., a union of the highest quality water and the lowest quality salt.

Salt is the only element consumed in food that does not spoil, i.e., it is like a constant in our world, and that is why we need it so much. The union of Bina and Malchut gives us this huge mass (salt), which determines all life on the planet.

But first of all, it is water. We came out of the water. Life originated in water. The embryo in the womb is in amniotic fluid. Water is everything. And now this substance is being killed by our thoughts and actions, and accordingly transmits its threatening reaction to us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Great Mystery of Water” 8/20/11

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I Never Repeat Myself!

552.02Comment: It often seems like you repeat the same things over and over.

My Response: No, it is not the same. I am working through the material within myself and trying to give you a completely different kind of energy, to relate in a different cause and effect way what I am saying.

I give out information and believe that my blog is an educational source. A person who wants to study the science of Kabbalah should attend morning and afternoon lessons and read my blog.

If you read it more carefully, then everything I bring there gradually shapes you and creates a certain inner atmosphere, thanks to which you begin to look at the world with different eyes.

I know one thing—when a person feels bad, he is ready to listen to the same thing from morning to evening, like some kind of mantra. Again, again and again. He needs it because it gradually works in him. And even if he reads the same thing, he will suddenly see a deeper meaning in it, wider connections.

Therefore, when you say that I repeat myself all the time, it seems to you purely external now. Then you will understand that I seem to have repeated something because I have gone to the next level and shown you that this is connected with this and that with that. But if you have not gone deeper with me, then at the same level you feel that I am supposedly saying the same thing.

I never repeat myself!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You’re Repeating the Same Thing!” 8/13/11

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Through Forces, Not Mysticism

962.2There are people in our world who understand that they can be confused by anything, but the main thing for them is to attain the upper world. I could be confused too. I remember the states I was in. From all sides I was told this and that.

But some upper precognition or simply my nature itself directed me in one direction. I knew exactly what I needed: I must really attain the universe, find its physical and mathematical apparatus, and reveal the formulas by which everything operates. That is what I found.

All this is clearly written in Kabbalah. You begin to understand the whole system of cause-and-effect development that you follow and attain. You attain it clearly in nature by forces, not by mysticism.

For adherents to other spiritual practices, this is completely unimportant. The main thing for them is to feel that they are flying. Well, fly! Most importantly, this is cheating, selling all kinds of fetishes to people.

At one time, Abraham broke the figurines of the gods that he was selling. This is when he really became a Kabbalist. But they still sell idols to this day. This is the basis of the delusion of humanity. How is it possible to agree with this?

But they, not understanding even this, come to me and say: “Let us connect.” That is, they do not even feel the difference. Do you understand the darkness people exist in?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists do not Exist!” 8/20/11

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Jewish Calendar

740.01At present, the preparation of all mankind for the final correction of all religions is taking place. Islam is the right line, Christianity is the left line, and Judaism is the middle line.

In accordance with this, they make up their calendars. Islam has a lunar calendar, Christianity has a solar calendar, and the Jews have a generalized one: both lunar and solar.

Therefore, everyone has a problem with calendars, except the Jews. The Jewish calendar was created several thousand years ago with no amendments since then! Absolutely! There are no leap year additions, new time, old time, nothing!

It is based on the movements of the moon and the sun and is calculated to the nearest second. There were such great Kabbalists as Yehuda Ha-Nasi who compiled this calendar even before the collapse of the Temple. We have been using it since then.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kosher Pork?” 7/16/11

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On a Mental Level

627.1Question: Why are the three religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism considered the main ones?

Answer: Because they symbolize the three lines. All other beliefs accompany them and are included in them. They clearly do not come from the state where the soul was whole and then shattered into pieces.

I do not even want to delve into it and engage in comparative analysis. For what? This all is ending anyway.

Comment: Buddhism also plays a big role in the lives of many people. They see it as a religion.

My Response: This is a philosophy of life, a mentality, not a religion. It is impossible to be a Buddhist if you are not a Buddhist by birth. This is the inner, mental structure of a person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Three Religions” 8/12/11

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Mercy Is Contact with the Creator

294.4All bodies, the firmament, the stars, the earth and its kingdoms, are not equal to the lowest mind; for it knows all these and itself; and these bodies do not know anything. All bodies together, and all minds together, and all their products, are not equal to the least feeling of love. This is of an order infinitely more exalted (Blaise Pascal).

Question: What kind of property is mercy? Can a person manifest this property at all, or is it not given to us?”

Answer: Mercy is a property of the Creator. And this is a property that can be generated by a man. In part, it exists both in animals, in plants, in fish, and in all living beings. But in a man it must awaken in a measure similar to the Creator.

Man is born to achieve compassion. It is necessary to learn to be compassionate.

Question: Pascal was a great scientist. Did he achieve some point of the basis of man?

Answer: Scientists of those times felt it, and that is why they entered the field. That is why they called it all philosophy.

Comment: But the former philosophy is not the philosophy of our time.

My Response: It is natural.

Question: How does a scientist who works in exact sciences come to such feelings?

Answer: He feels the world; he feels how the whole world is interconnected, and therefore he strives to study its even greater interactions.

Question: Does he reach the foundation of the world?

Answer: Yes, of course. Scientists do want to dig into that. But if they reach this point of mercy, it means that they got to the bottom of something.

Question: You once said that the world was created just from this point, the point of mercy. Did a spark of mercy appear?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If a scientist comes to this, then does the road to the Creator in principle become closer?

Answer: This is practically a contact with the Creator.

Question: Is it like the fate of scientists, or is it the fate of every person, to reach such an understanding of the spark of mercy?

Answer: This is the fate of every person. And we will all reach the state in which we will reveal—each for himself—that interaction, interconnection, and mutual sensory penetration into each other that is the goal of our development.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/12/23

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