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Universal Prescription For Fatigue

962.7Question: What is the right way to rest for a person who begins to study the science of Kabbalah? Maybe he does not need to rest at all, but can devote every minute to moving toward the goal? Or do you still need to relax somehow?

Answer: Perhaps there should be a place for both recreation and sports. But all this is within a very limited framework. The main thing is to study, work, eat, and rest.

Question: Is there such a thing as resting the mind, mental rest? Sports, of course, is physical rest. I can study, but at the same time think, continue working hard.

Answer: Personally, I relax mentally when I read or listen to anecdotal stories, not some rough concoctions, but those in which the brilliance of the mind is manifested.

In general, I just move from one action to another: I study The Zohar, articles by Baal HaSulam and Rabash, prepare for lessons, give talks and interviews. Since my occupation changes all the time, I do not feel tired.

Question: Is there such a thing that mental forces can be exhausted if a person follows a spiritual path?

Answer: No. This cannot be in Kabbalah.

Question: In general, while studying Kabbalah, can a person lose strength?

Answer: This is out of the question because a person is connected to a higher source. If fatigue manifests itself, it is from the fact that you have been doing the same thing for a long time. Move on to another and you will see that everything passes.

A person is always given the strength to take the next step. The universal prescription for fatigue is to switch to another thing in the same direction.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 07/19/21

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The Importance Of The Right Environment

530Question: Where is the best place for a person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah to live? In which country? In what environment?

Answer: The environment certainly matters. You need to have 10, 20, 30 people studying the same thing next to you. But the condition that precedes this is a good Internet connection.

Question: There are many programs and videos on spiritual geography that talk about the Land of Israel, about special forces in this place, etc. Is there something in this for a beginner? Should he strive to visit here?

Answer: There is nothing in this for either a beginner or an advanced one. Nothing! It is only important to have the right environment that does the same thing he is doing, and a good connection.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 7/19/21

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Do Not Waste Your Time—Come To The Kabbalah Courses!

151Question: How can a person prepare himself for the study of Kabbalah? What would you suggest?

Answer: I think a person should just come to our course. I cannot offer anything else. There are many suitable materials from simple to more complicated.

The best thing is to come to the course. Today it is very easy to do it through the Internet.

Question: What is the correct approach to studying and to the information about Kabbalah that a person receives through our channels, through your videos, and through the materials he sees on our sites?

Answer: He needs to understand that there is no more elevated and special occupation in the world than the study of the science of the universe, the science of attaining the upper governing force. If one has such an attraction, then the person is really lucky, and this must be realized. Let him not waste time.

Question: When a person begins to get interested in Kabbalah, how can he establish himself in the correct form in relation to the surrounding world, from to the infinite sea of ​​information and everything that happens around him, and to people close to him: family, children, work, etc.? What should be the correct form that would help him rather than interfere with him?

Answer: I think that when a person begins to deal with the issues of the universe, his own self, and his goal, then everything else shifts and becomes several steps lower in importance for him.

It is precisely the desire to attain his destiny, his world, and the upper force that governs him and prevails in him. This is what he must go for.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 7/19/21

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“There Shall Never Fail To Be Slaves From You, And Hewers Of Wood”

592.04Prophets, Joshua, 9:22-23: And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?

And now you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be slaves from you, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Question: Why are those who are close to you so dangerous and it is they who must be destroyed?

Answer: Because these are egoistic desires, which, one one hand, are absolutely opposite in ideology to the people of Israel. On the other hand, they can neither be altered nor corrected. You made peace with them just the way they are. They can exist in your nature, in your country, or just inside you. These are the desires that you have pledged not to touch.

But how can you move toward correction when you have enemies inside and you can’t do anything with them?

Therefore, the desires closest to a person are corrected first. And if he, accepting them as close, does not want to correct them, then as it is said: “There shall never fail to be slaves from you, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

That is, you will remain working in your desires, but we will subdue you to ourselves in these desires. We will not alter you, teach you; you will not become like us, working for bestowal, but you will execute our intentions in your desires. We will tell you what to do, but your work will be such that it can be done without intention. All this happens in one person.

Throughout history the qualities that you leave behind always harm you. They need to be corrected! And if you didn’t correct them and you gave them some slack, then you start to feel it in full.

Question: Why do they abandon these desires and not destroy them?

Answer: They give some slack. Let’s say you came, surrounded the city, conquered it, went there and saw beautiful women. You don’t want to kill them, you keep them alive, take them as your concubines, and maybe even marry them. They agree to undergo any purification. Hence there are many different types of flaws in the people themselves.

Question: And this is despite the fact that the foremothers, in particular, the grandmother of King David was a Moabite?

Answer: The difference is that she came from far away! She came by herself. That is why it is said: “Ruth-Moab.”

She said: “…for wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people and your God my God.” This is a completely different matter. She chose! She wanted to!

And here the peoples (desires) resist, and it is necessary to take them and correct them.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 7/26/21

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Change The Apparatus Of Perception

928Question: Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo said “There is no law of Nature that cannot be overcome and changed, if we have the faith that all is ruled by the Lord and that it is possible for us to come into direct contact with Him, if we know how to escape from the prison-house of age-old habits and give ourselves unreservedly to His will.”

What do you think about this postulate?

Answer: I absolutely agree with him. Kabbalah says simply: What we perceive today, we perceive inside ourselves according to our qualities and properties.

We experience the world through our five senses. If we had five or fifty more, we would perceive the world differently. Behind the material organs of sensation is our thinking, sensory apparatus, which synthesizes a picture of the world for us.

For example, frogs or bees have a completely different perception of the world, not to mention the fact that the thinking apparatus is built in accordance with this.

Therefore, when we talk about our human ability to unite into one common integral whole, we mean that we will be similar to the integral nature.

There is one unified force in nature. And today we are looking for this divine particle, from which all matter was created, in order to rise above the problems of movement, space and time.

We are going to achieve one single whole, the basis of the property of nature. When we begin to feel nature in an integral form, our egoism becomes our helper, and through integral vision we perceive everything in a completely different way.

I see the world as one common whole not through myself, but let’s say, through a dozen people, and therefore, my perception becomes multifaceted, integral. I begin to feel the universe, its inner forces, what drives it in a completely different way, and at the same time, as a person, I am changing nature, changing the world. It depends only on me.

I cannot say that today I feel the world as it is, because I perceive it in my senses, evaluate it in my conceptual apparatus, in my mind, built in a certain way.

And when I go out to others and try to unite with them, I achieve a completely different mind and feelings. Then, naturally, both nature and the whole world are perceived differently. We call it the upper world, because it is higher than our egoism.

But in principle, this is the world, only it is felt differently, because we have changed our perceiving apparatus. Nevertheless, we explore it completely realistically and understand that by changing ourselves, we are changing the world. The world is our reflection.
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From KabTV’s “The Science of Management”

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Why Study Kabbalah?

051Question: Why did you start studying Kabbalah?

Answer: I wanted to know the meaning of life, where it can be found, how to check what it is worth living for. These questions really bothered me and constantly excited me. I wanted to know what I exist for. Thus, in the end, I found Kabbalah.

I met Kabbalists in Israel and around the world, traveled a lot, asked questions, and researched. Over time, I defended my dissertation on the topic of Kabbalah. Since then, I have been known as a Kabbalist.

I have a great number of students. Every day I give lessons that are simultaneously translated to many languages of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 7/29/21

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How To Start Studying Kabbalah?

962.1Question: Recently, the question often asked on your channels is: “Where to begin studying Kabbalah?” People say that there are a lot of different materials on the Internet, including videos with you. But what is the right way to begin so as not to get confused?

Answer: I would still advise them to enter a group that is beginning the training, and to systematically engage in it. If they want to move faster, then more intensive classes are possible in parallel with this group.

We have a lot of literature, audio and video materials. But still, to move forward correctly, you need to be attached to some group.

Question: Indeed, there is a huge amount of material. Can a person figure it out for himself?

Answer: I think not.

I read material about Kabbalah for five years without any guidance, I passed through many different teachers. But until I found my teacher, I did not understand anything systematically. I had a big farce in my head and in my heart.

Only systematic classes bring our thoughts in order and give a complete picture of the world.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 2/16/21

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The Head And The Body Of The System

268.01Question: There is “Pareto’s 80/20 Rule: This ‘universal truth’ about the imbalance of inputs and outputs is what became known as the Pareto principle, or the 80/20 rule. …The generalization became: 80% of results will come from just 20% of the action (Forbes).

Do you think that with the widespread knowledge of Kabbalah, it would be possible to influence the consciousness of 80% of people by changing that of 20%?

Answer: This percentage can be much lower, down to one percent. As it usually happens: one shepherd walks ahead of the herd and the whole flock follows him. So, it is possible.

The only problem is to create this dependency. Anyway, all the people will have to be taught the system of right connections so that they understand the idea of a leader and follow him for their own good. This requires very serious work in the team in order to unite them.
In this case, you can succeed very fast, especially if you understand the current state of humanity in any society or nation.

Whatever the percentage of the team, the most important thing is that all 100% of its participants understand the common goal, imagine that they benefit from the right interaction, and that their leaders really work at a very serious, objective, altruistic level, in pursuing the goal that is clear to everyone and is for their benefit.

If this can be brought to the entire collective, then there is no problem, one person can manage them all. They will be happy to obey him and unite around him because he will be considered the head while the rest form the body of this system.
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When Will Hatred Disappear?

600.01Comment: Gulnara writes to you: “It is very difficult to unite people of different nations and faiths. I think it is impossible. They unite during difficult moments, but then, when the difficulties pass, they hate each other again. National hatred and faith exist in people just like blood flows through their veins. It is very difficult to correct people. We have gone too far to be able to fix this.”

My Response: This is true. However, we all have the single upper force, the one Creator. Therefore, we can still unite, unite in Him! Then we will not have any opportunities to escape and hide. Only in this way will we be able to reach our single root and find the right connection between us in it.

Question: Is this what a person should discover and start aiming toward?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it our task to tell people about this?

Answer: This is, in principle, the solution to all our problems.

Question: Then there will be no multitude of nations but only one, the nation of the Creator, right?

Answer: Yes, just humanity.

Comment: Humanity.

I think we are getting closer to it. Of course, we still need some blows and disappointments.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/1/21

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Do Planets Control Our Fate?

712.03Question: Should I study sciences like astrology and the impact of the moon in order to plan the future?

Answer: Kabbalah teaches that celestial bodies and many other things are only indicators of the impact of the upper forces on us.

Certain forces control the motion of the planets and thus impact our fate. And we, by the movement of the planets, think that it is actually the force that influences us, let’s say, the moon. No. It is the upper force that controls the moon.

Therefore, by studying Kabbalah, we gain access to the real upper force that manages our fate and not the lifeless celestial bodies. By themselves, they do nothing.

It is said that Kabbalists are above the stars. That is, they deal with the source of the light, the upper force that manages the celestial and the earthly actions, objects and phenomena, and so it seems to us that they determine our fate. This mistake stems from the past and goes back to the Pharaohs with their pyramids and priests.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 4/28/19

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