Question: Does a person born in our world already have an intention? Is he born not just with the desire to receive?

Answer: Yes, but they are small, micro intentions.

Question: We see that a small child has a desire to enjoy. Yet you cannot even say that he enjoys for his own sake. But when he grows up, he shows such, one might say, cunningness that he does it consciously for himself, he consciously uses others. Do we have a desire, a mind, and another function?

Answer: We have mind, desire, and intention. The most important thing is the intention. It determines where a person aspires in his actions.

With the help of the mind, we can change the intention. Desire itself is purely mechanical. But how we can elevate the intention above the desires and change the nature of the desire itself—for our own sake or for the sake of others—is already a human ability.

The mind is a very important function. Thanks to it, we can change our intentions.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: In The Study of the Ten Sefirot Baal HaSulam writes that four worlds were formed at a point of contracted space. “Olam” (world) comes from the word “Alama” (concealment). Four concealments, four filters were formed. Why were these filters needed?

Answer: The fact is that no one created anything on purpose. But since there is opposition between the Creator’s property to fill and creation’s property to be filled, they form four stages of mutual, interdependent influence in interaction with each other.

Therefore, from the light itself, the zero stage comes the first stage where the light spreads in the desire. The desire begins to feel it and changes to the extent that it gets restricted. And then it still receives all the light into itself. This state is called the world of infinity.

In The Study of the Ten Sefirot, this is analyzed in great detail since knowledge about the four stages of the expansion of light is basic in the science of Kabbalah.

In other words, these are options for combining two properties: the properties of the Creator and creation, i.e., the properties of bestowal and reception. These combinations of connection provide four variants of concealment, which we later begin to discover in ourselves and change in accordance with them.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Do not be misled into the thought that the restriction of the light from the middle point caused any changes in Ein Sof. There is no change and absence in spirituality, and all the more so in such a sublime place (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Chapter 2).

Question: What does it mean “there is no absence in spirituality”? What is this principle talking about?

Answer: No subsequent form of reaction to receiving light from the Creator affects the previous forms. Light comes from the Creator and fills the creation in a completely free form. The creation reacts to it and changes according to the difference between its qualities and the qualities of light, meaning, the Creator.

The light itself is always in a state of absolute rest because it does not change its qualities and intentions when performing any actions. Moreover, these actions can be very different, but the light does not change itself.

Its quality is the absolute fulfillment, saturation, and delight of creation. Therefore, it can perform various actions, but its intention is always the same: only to fill the created beings with all the best.

Absolute rest means that the intention of the light to bring the creation to its purpose does not change.

We also have this in our life. For example, parents often can scold their children or they can caress them. But all the same and in any of their behavior regarding children, they are guided only by good intentions.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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The upper light is not subject to change and incidents. These above occurrences of innovations are only with respect to the vessels (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, “Restriction and Line”).

Baal HaSulam wants to say that there are no changes in the upper light, and all changes occur in creation itself, that is, in the desire. If creation changes, then in accordance with this it feels that the upper light, the Creator, the Creator’s attitude toward it, is changing.

The Light is in absolute rest, but something is changing in the Kli (vessel); that is, our desires are constantly changing, and it seems to us that the light is changing.

Do not forget that we are not discussing corporeal terms whatsoever. Instead, the more refined is called higher, and the thicker is called lower (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, “Inner Light,” #4).

We should not imagine a circle and a line as some kind of geometric shapes. Here we mean qualitative changes.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Prior to the restriction there was He is One and His Name One, and the mind cannot attain Him (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, Item 5).

Desire is created by the light opposite to it and is filled with it. We practically cannot understand this state. It is called the world of infinity.

It is written, “He is One and His Name One.” He is the Light, and His name is the state of desire. Initially, they were one; there was no difference between them.

Question: Why is it written that “the mind cannot attain Him”? Then why write about it if the mind does not attain?

Answer: Because there are other opportunities to bring this state closer to oneself and somehow evaluate it, realize it, measure it, and feel it. But not in the mind.

Our mind is a very limited tool because it is a desire. We must rise to a state where we become above our desire, where together with desire we will have intentions with which we can change desires to become similar to the light.

Then, by comparing the desire and the light of the Creator once we come to equivalence, we will be able to evaluate, feel, and even measure their coincidence.

Question: It is said: The mind is a consequence of desire. If the desire is egoistic, then the mind obviously serves it. Do you say that there also is an opportunity to rise above desire and there we will have some new mind?

Answer: Yes. It is called “faith above reason.” The quality that we acquire is the quality of bestowal. Within it we can feel the quality of the Creator by rising above ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: You once said: “If you unite, I will be able to explain more.” Do you own the information and you need a formed desire toward which you give this information?

Answer: We need desires that will be at the level of what I want to explain. If there are no such desires, then the explanation will not work.

Let’s say you are sitting in front of a group of students. They ask you some questions, and at the level of these questions, you have to explain everything to them. You can’t give them an answer a few courses higher—they won’t understand it and it will only confuse them.

Therefore everything goes only according to the plan that my students dictate to me. Sometimes I get a little ahead of events in order to prepare them for the next degrees.

Question: If an external person listens to the information that you give us and which is clear to us, will he somehow understand or will he not hear it at all?

Answer: He will think that I am saying something completely incomprehensible, philosophical, psychological, and generally abstract from our world.

But there are people, many people in the world, who are familiar with this information although they are not in it. Even the same Hasidim, although they do not attain what is written in their books, they know it. And so if they hear me, they will say, “Yes, he says what is written in our books.” After all, the founders of Hasidism were great Kabbalists.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hidden Information” 8/6/13

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Question: Why is it that the more we disseminate to the world, the more we are rejected?

Answer: In this case, you need help because you have to go above what you feel in your egoism. Only then does a state arise in you where you are forced to acquire a second nature opposite to the present one.

This is incomprehensible to an ordinary person because he has no idea how to act or how to move. To do this, he needs the upper light, another energy, not the energy that spins the corporeal world, but the energy of light. This is the exit to the next space.

Now I am slowly starting to talk about it. At least just to prepare people for what will happen, and then which way they will come to this. They will come. They will still come!

Can you imagine how much a person will have to go through, live through, and re-feel in order to understand at least the program in front of him that he is obliged to implement? These are big problems.

But in unity, they are solved very simply, and if there is no unity, then, of course, they cannot be solved in any way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, Victory Is a Sign of Defeat” 8/2/13

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Question: Well-known psychologist Mikhail Labkovsky shares that shame is a discreet emotion, an emotion that a person tries to hide, and therefore it is toxic and harmful. He  gives the analogy of shame as a potted plant that given the constant feeding and fertilizing and resources a person gives it (the shame), it grows into a huge tree. He advises that you need to work with shame or it will consume your entire personality.

How can a person work with it?

Answer: Only the relationship between a person as a flower with other flowers, with other people, in mutual restriction, in mutual assistance, etc. will help everyone organically develop and collect a good flower bed.

Question: Where is the place for shame here?

Answer: It is inside between them. There is shame, pride, joy, sadness, and everything else.

Question: Should I relate to it somehow? What should I do with shame?

Answer: Manage it! If there were no shame, who would we be? We would be animals.

Shame is what distinguishes man from an animal. This is the difference between these two degrees. If I am not ashamed, then I am like an animal. It does not matter why and how.

Shame is from the fact that I am not like him, not so smart, etc. Shame is what keeps me from losing at least the degree I am at.

Question: Do I need to nourish it?

Answer: It is absolutely necessary. It is imperative to make sure that shame corresponds to the degree I want to rise to each time or it will not hold me.

Question: So, it turns out that it is shame that pushes me to this degree?

Answer: Yes, it is a restraining force and a pushing force. It restrains from falling and pushes to rise.

Question: Why do psychologists usually say don’t nourish it, crush it?

Answer: I don’t know. For them, there are qualities in nature that they consider negative. And for me, there are no negative qualities; they are all positive, and everything must be used correctly.

Question: So the correct sentence here would be, “We need to properly use this shame that exists”?

Answer: Of course!

Question: And to know that it is a positive quality?

Answer: Yes. I asked about it and talked about it a lot with my teacher Rabash. And he said that shame is a special creation of the Creator. A special invention of the Creator to make people ashamed. This is like an indicator for them that they are moving away from their path.

You imagine you have a compass guiding you to a goal that you cannot see, which is far away, and you are in the dark, in bad weather. How do you advance? Shame keeps you in place, you can always direct yourself to the Creator, and shame will help you in this. Neither to the right nor to the left, it will hold you.

Look at how a person even in our ordinary world can be so egoistic, pragmatic, rude, and so on. They are still trying to keep themselves relative to each other in some decent condition. It is a shame! Moreover, it is at every degree, at every moment. That is what keeps us going.

Can you imagine how different we are from animals! They have this state disabled altogether. They only act according to what makes them feel better at every moment. And we have another system enabled: how I behave and how I show myself to the outside.

And that is what sets us apart. This is what we call a human in us. Shame is what molds a person from an animal.

Comment: Nice, you have created such a monument to shame.

My Response: Therefore, we must use this in schools and in education to tell, explain, show, and psychologically develop a sense of shame in humanity.

There is none of this. On the contrary, the more shameless I am, I can brag about it, flaunt it, and it will be considered that I am special.

This is the difference between an intelligent upbringing, the correct approach to life, to the world, to people, and such a purely open, egoistic one.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/30/22

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All the worlds are in the place of that space that has been restricted (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Chapter 2).

The fact is that the light that comes from the Creator to the creation, that is, to the desire to enjoy, to receive, and to be filled, which was created by the Creator, saturates this desire.

The creation, filled with light and the feeling that shows how opposite it is to the Creator, restricts its desire to receive. This is why the separation between the Creator and the creation takes place.

Kabbalists write that the light that emanates from the Creator, i.e., the upper force, created a desire that was filled with light, then felt in itself how opposite it is to the quality of light and restricted itself to a point. This is the state of the first restriction.

Comment: This, in principle, is similar to the way our universe developed. Scientists say that it was compressed into one point and then an explosion happened.

My Response: ​​Yes. We are yet to see what degrees of development exist here.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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As long as I can remember, I have always had a tendency to think globally and understand the whole picture of the world and how much everything in it is interconnected. It was very hard for me without it.

I did not like something separate, for example, to retire to the garage and be a good mechanic, to breed bees, or to grow potatoes in the garden.

Of course, I can exist like this physically, but I need to know everything internally. I feel bad without it. This is my inner flaw. I have to embrace the whole universe within myself. Not the depth of everything: physiology, biology, mathematics, physics, or anything else, not even the system of the upper world, but its interaction.

I wanted to consume, absorb, the feeling and understanding of how it all moves so that I would be aware of it all, understand it, and feel it so that it all lived in me. This has always been such a passion, I would say bodily necessity.

Because of this, I could not find myself and I felt depressed. In a corporeal sense, my life was relatively simple and easy. Of course, sometimes it was hard, but literally for a few years. I have a wonderful family and a devoted wife who raised our children because I did not really do much with them. All the time I was just consumed by the desire to feel everything.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Man in the State of Attainment” 7/21/13

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