And the light descended

To the worlds, into the black empty space located in it

And each circle from each world, and those cloer to the light are important,

Until we find our world of matter in the central point,

Inside all the circles in the center of the gaping void.
(Ari, The Tree Of Life)

Concentric circles are such a representation of the worlds from the furthest from the center to the closest to the center. In this way, the Creator’s energy is distributed throughout creation.

We are at the most central point of all the concentric circles. From them the influence of the Creator’s energy descends upon us.

Question: Did everything that is written in the Ari’s poem happen before the Big Bang?

Answer: Yes, and after that too. We are talking about the stationary state of the worlds. At the same time, our world is located in the central point, inside all the circles in the center of the gaping void, which shines with its blackness.

A person feels this as an absolute incomprehensibility, absolute unwillingness, as lack of energy and lack of reason, of any motivation, that is, it is the blackest point of the entire universe.

Question: In principle, this state exists in potential. But when a person enters it, does he feel it as a recognition of the evil of his egoistic nature?

Answer: Even much worse. It feels like a complete absence of everything, an absolute emptiness, an absolute absence of desires in anything and in any way whatsoever.

Question: Is this state similar to death?

Answer: No, this is not death. Although, it depends on how you interpret it. But, in general, it is, of course, a terrible state.

Question: Does everyone have to feel this state in order to move on?

Answer: Yes, it is felt a little by every person, otherwise he will not move forward. He will not attain the Creator because he has no corresponding inclinations. In order to move him to the Creator, he must be given such states from which he would run away to Him.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/5/22

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In the News (Business Insider): “Our DNA is 99.9% the same as the person next to us — and we’re surprisingly similar to a lot of other living things

“Our bodies have 3 billion genetic building blocks, or base pairs, that make us who we are.

“And of those 3 billion base pairs, only a tiny amount are unique to us, making us about 99.9% genetically similar to the next human.

“… large chunks of our genome perform similar functions across the animal kingdom.

“Take a look at how genetically similar we are to everything around us:

“A 2007 study found that about 90% of the genes in the Abyssinian domestic cat are similar to humans. …

“And while the egg-laying and feathered body are pretty different from a human’s, about 60% of chicken genes have a human gene counterpart.

“Even bananas surprisingly still share about 60% of the same DNA as humans!”

Question: How can it be that a man, in principle, includes all levels of nature?

Answer: As the most perfect egoistic creature, man includes all lower levels. Indeed, it seems that his genome is the most complicated. But it is not about what we explore in the genome. It gives us nothing. We still come to the conclusion that we cannot deduce anything from this. We cannot even treat a person.

We will still have to go into another field of research when we ourselves, like Alice in Wonderland, have to build a completely different system: integral, global, interconnected, and based on total bestowing and dependence on each other.

When we rebuild ourselves in this way, and we can do it, then we will enter into the system of nature and will be able to explore it directly, but not through our egoistic filter. We will pass through this mirror, through this egoistic filter, and will enter the area where we will see nature as it is. That is when we will have a breakthrough, and overcome the crisis in science.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Human Genome” 7/17/11

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Then from the Light of Ein Sof, a single line hung down from Above, lowered into that space.

And through that line, He emanated, created, formed, and made all the worlds
(Ari, The Tree of Life).

The line entering the empty space is the influence of the Creator, who influences the desire created by Him, located in this void. Thus, this desire begins to react to the influence of the Creator (to this line) and gradually transform itself inside this void.

This line is not the Creator Himself, but the thought, the plan, that exists before any actions.

Everything described in the book The Tree of Life was attained by its author, the great Kabbalist of the 16^th century the Ari.

And every person has to attain this.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/5/22

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And He restricted that Light, and drew far off to the sides around that middle point.

And there remained an empty space, an empty air, a vacuum

Precisely from the middle point.

And that restriction was equally around that empty, middle point,

So that the space was evenly circled around it 
(Ari, The Tree of Life).

Question: What does it mean the space was evenly circled around it?

Answer: It cannot be expressed in other words. In this way, in the language of geometry, we can explain that in the center of the Creator, in the center of light, a void in the form of a circle was formed.

There are no mutual changes, restrictions, or separations, and all its qualities mutually complement each other so that only empty space remains.

The concept of place always implies desire. That is, initially an empty desire was created, which did not feel anything, even the Creator. The entire creation begins with this, the gradual development of desire to a state where it already acquires some kind of its own powers, goals, and thus begins to interact with this emptiness within itself.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/5/22

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Comment: You recently said, “First there was the word, and it was the word of God.” What was the first word?

My Response: “Bereshit.” There are Kabbalistic explanations for the word “Bereshit” that take thousands of pages. Thousands of pages! Entire treatises explain what Bereshit means. Because this word “Bereshit” contains absolutely everything! Apart from it, everything else is a consequence of it.

Question: Can “Bereshit” be translated as “at the beginning”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can you compress these thousands of pages of treatises into a few sentences?

Answer: This word “Bereshit” contains the essence of the Creator, the purpose of creation and its full program of development, up to the last state.

Question: What is the essence of the Creator?

Answer: The essence of the Creator is good who does good.

Question: What is the essence of the creation that He created?

Answer: The desire created by the Creator, which yearns for adhesion with the Creator, for coming closer to the Creator is called creation.

Question: Does it mean that the program of creation is to come closer to the Creator? If we yearn for coming closer to the Creator, do we fulfill the purpose of creation?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/20/22

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Comment: According to some studies, ultrasound radiation is harmful to the condition of the unborn child if it is conducted in the early stages of pregnancy.

My Response: Any phenomenon that we artificially evoke in nature is ultimately harmful to us. We must live in a natural way, the way we were created, without especially inventing anything.

Sages of the past thought about this, about not revealing the science to humanity, to force it to change internally and to gradually enter into an integral nature. Then it will be happy.

We have already gone through thousands of years of our egoistic development and only now we are beginning to understand that it is better to develop not technologically, but internally, and then we will enter perfection.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Human Genome” 7/17/11

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And when upon His simple will, came the desire to create the worlds and emanate the emanations,

To bring to light the perfection of His deeds, His names, His appellations,

Which was the cause of the creation of the worlds,

Then the Ein Sof restricted Himself, in His middle point, precisely at the center…
(Ari, The Tree of Life)

The Creator wished to create created beings that would feel the need to reach His level—the level of the Creator. In other words, they would discover absolute emptiness in their original state and would want to be on the level of the Creator.

The Creator gives them the opportunity to rise from the state in which they found themselves at the beginning of creation to His state, the most perfect one, which means the end of correction.

In order for the created beings to gradually reveal the levels of the Creator, they were created in the lowest state and must slowly attain the Creator, that is, the more and more elevated state. Therefore, it is said that the creation of the worlds is a manifestation of His perfection.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/5/22

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Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,

A boundary between the things misnamed

Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,

And a wide realm of wild reality, (Lord Byron, “The Dream”)

Question: People have long been interested in the nature of dreams and dreaming. What is a dream from a spiritual point of view?

Answer: I have been studying Kabbalah for many decades and have not seen anything that coincides with what ordinary people say and think about dreams.

A Kabbalist has spiritual states, which are called VAK—incomplete attainment of the spiritual world. They can be called a dream. But the dream of an ordinary person in our world has nothing to do with this.

Therefore, Kabbalah does not deal with dreams, nor does it interpret dreams. All sorts of things are attributed to it, but in fact, there is nothing of this in Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 6/28/22

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Behold that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created,

The Upper Simple Light had filled the whole existence.

And there was no vacancy, such as an empty air, a hollow,

But all was filled with that Simple, Boundless Light
(Ari, The Tree of Life)

We are talking about the fact that the upper force created an empty space where the light appeared and filled it with itself.

Space is desire. If a person has a desire, he feels that there is some kind of emptiness inside him that he wants to fill. This empty space that wants to be filled is the place of creation.

Question: How can we consider all this? Like something that was before me or inside me?

Answer: Best of all, for now—outside of me. There is nothing, no time, no place, no movement. The maximum is that there is a sequence of events.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 7/5/22

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Question: It is said that the Creator has many names. How many are there and who gives them?

Answer: Names are many forms of manifestation of the Creator to the created being, that is, to a person who attains the Creator. Therefore, here we can already talk about a language.

Colors, smells, and all kinds of sensations, with all these means it is possible to describe the Creator. After all, people who gradually reveal Him, perceive Him exactly in this way. Moreover, these were special individuals, such as Moses, who wrote the Torah.

In our world, you have to rise above your ideas to a plane where you will reach extraordinary objectivity. There is nothing of your own in you, you want to perceive the Creator the way He is. Therefore, you must make a restriction on yourself, on all your knowledge and feelings, and then you can approximately talk about the Creator to the extent of your attainment.

You can reach such a state only by excluding your egoism from yourself. You have to become as if non-existent in order not to perceive the revelation of the Creator, His various influences on you in some form and be absolutely objective.

This is called “to make Tzimtzum (restriction) on oneself,” meaning to restrict all egoistic desires, qualities, intentions, and understandings in the heart and mind. If the Creator is the only quality of nature that does everything, includes everything, then the question is: How can we talk about Him without knowing this?

Here a problem arises: if a person does not make a clear effort to create the correct image of the upper force within him, which is the only one that includes everything, then he makes a mistake and depicts for himself a farfetched image of the Creator. This is a serious mistake that usually leads to big problems, I would even say tragedies, because everyone begins to transmit the Creator to humanity in the form he sees fit, that is, from his inner ideas.

Therefore, people create religions, philosophies, anything they want, based on nothing but their conclusions: “I heard a voice, I had a vision,” and so on for thousands of years. These ideas have nothing to do with reality or even with science, with anything at all.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/21/22

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