Question: What do we have to manage to do in this world?

Answer: In this world, we must manage to feel His entire system, the upper mind, and the will of the Creator that governs all of it.

Question: But we begin from a state where we absolutely do not feel this?

Answer: We do not feel anything. Then we begin to feel that we are completely confused. There is a period when a person simply does not know the why, the wherefore, or the how. Then gradually this goal begins to appear in us, the reason why everything is arranged this way. Starting from this goal, we, as if, unwind our life back to our birth and begin to understand how it all came to pass.

Question: And this point —the goal—that suddenly appears within all this confusion was it already in us, or is it put into us in response to our efforts?

Answer: Inside of us, there is everything. Absolutely everything! But we must sort all this out, and while holding on to the beginning and the end of life feel that we have lived through it precisely with the help of the Creator, in accordance with His intention.

Question: So, in principle, throughout our lives, we clear away all this garbage in us? We clear and clear until we find this point? Is this what human life is?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is “garbage” all the other desires, other thoughts?

Answer: It is that which deliberately confused us so that we would dig deeper and figure it out.

Question: “Deliberately confused,” so we are given this on purpose?

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/25/26

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Question: If I am the creation of a perfect Creator, why can’t I, just as I am, simply be allowed to enjoy the ordinary life given by the Creator?

Answer: You can. But then you will turn into a little “bug” sitting on a piece of cake and consuming it your entire life. No one will disturb it: just as it began its life, so it will finish it. Do you want to be like that? By all means!

Question: But the Creator will not allow a person to remain in such a state?

Answer: Of course not. We must stand level with the Creator, rise to His degree, nothing less than that. Each person must take their place in the system of creation, at its specific, pivotal points. All the more so this must be attained by those who have received a special awakening toward the wisdom of governance.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/25/17

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I remember asking myself this question: “And what comes next?” Well, next you go to school, then to college, and so on. Since I did not have an answer to this question, I did not really want to study, and in general, I did not want anything. I was quite often in a state of apathy.

Question: Because there was no answer? Did the answer arise from this “I” that demanded growth?

Answer: Of course. What do I live for, why? It was a terrible feeling that everything was meaningless and useless, yet you were forced to do it.

Question: So, in fact, our life is the formation of this “I” within a person?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then the question is: does this “I” have a connection with that upper force you are always talking about?

Answer: Yes. It is in the question: “For what purpose?” This question is transmitted to everyone, but in certain doses. The one in whom this question arises truly seriously can evidently develop it and receive answers.

Question: If we try to think and fantasize a little, are there “threads” from above leading down to a person’s “I”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And how can we determine when a certain “I” will play out, and when another “I” will jump out?

Answer: For that, one must reveal one’s soul, that is, one’s entire connection with the higher degree. Then you will know why you are being pulled in exactly this way and not another.

Question: And precisely at this time?

Answer: In everything.

Question: Is it programmed which “I” will jump out, and which one will be slightly dulled?

Answer: Absolutely everything is programmed. The beginning of creation, the end of creation, and its intermediate states, practically all are known in advance. Only one thing is unknown: how a person, in realizing their freedom of will, will realize their personal participation in all of this.

This realization is not determined in advance, it is given to a person.

Question: So does actually everything not depend on a person? Does something still depend on them?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 2/9/26

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Question: How should an ordinary person who does not strive for connection with the Creator but wants to live calmly and simply on this earth relate to what brings them to prayer, to those misfortunes, to those troubles?

Answer: Naturally, a person does not want suffering or prayer or anything.

Question: And how should I relate to this? Should I run away from them, cut them off?

Answer: Of course. It is best to run away from them; that is what everyone does.

Question: Meaning, if I am not striving for anything and just want to live this life well on this earth?

Answer: In that case, “lo em ve lo s’kharam”—“no suffering and no reward.”

Question: And what is your advice to such people?

Answer: Try to live peacefully. Even lower, even quieter, even calmer. And live like that.

Question: So that the waves pass over us?

Answer: Yes. But that is fate. There are people who want this. There are people who do not agree with it. And there are people who do not agree, but after a couple of blows, they agree.

Question: So one way or another, these blows put a person in their place if they are here and want to live their life here?

Answer: It depends on the root of the soul.

Question: What is the advice for those who strive for the Creator, for connection?

Answer: For them, the most important thing is closeness to the Creator, and it does not matter what the path is, whether they receive a couple more blows along the way, or something else.

Question: So one way or another, they will and must relate to these blows as help?

Answer: Yes. If we strive to achieve connection with the Creator, then various obstacles and conditions are placed before us, and we inevitably see that we cannot fulfill these conditions in any way, only if we receive serious help from above.

Question: Meaning, if we strive for connection with the Creator, then we can be grateful for all sorts of obstacles?

Answer: Of course. The stick—yes.

Question: The stick? So, when, as you always say, “kiss the stick that beats you,” then we kiss it?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And otherwise, we will have to…

Answer: And otherwise, we move with our egoism along such winding paths like little fish swimming.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/19/26

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Question: From childhood, we have probably been tied to this world with a thin “string,” and we do not try to escape. Does this world suppress us?

Answer: Yes, from the very beginning.

Comment: We know that there is freedom somewhere, but we are still afraid to take that step.

My Response: To do this, we must overcome ourselves, that is, all our habits, our attitude toward the world and toward each other;  we need to annul all this somehow.

Question: And we are afraid of doing this?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Actually, I understand why we are afraid. We have a home, we will be fed, but what is out there is unknown. That is where we are afraid to go. But you are urging us to break free somehow.

My Response: It is not me who is urging this. It is the great sages of Kabbalah who speak about it.

Question: Did they take this step?

Answer: Yes. They say that we must break free from this attraction, to rise above it. And then we will see a another world; we will see ourselves differently, and in general, all of life and the entire universe differently.

Question: How did they gain the courage to take this step?

Answer: It was given to them by nature.

Question: So it was not even their own courage?

Answer: It was not their courage.

Comment: So it is given to a person from above, and he takes the step.

My Response: It is given to certain people from above, from their inner state, from their inner essence. And everyone else can follow their advice and accumulate a certain reserve of energy within themselves that would give them the ability to break free from this attraction.

Comment: If you try to break free from this attraction, you follow the Kabbalists, do as they say, and see that it does not work again and again, for years!

My Response: It is accumulation. It is a process of accumulating the necessary energy and efforts, which will ultimately allow us to break free from Earth’s gravity.

Question: How can we avoid despair because so much time has passed?

Answer: We have no other way to leave this “post” we are tied to with a “rope.”

Question: Meaning that despite the time, despite the fact that despair has already come, you keep trying to take this step?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And still the question is how not to despair.

Answer: There is no other way.

Question: And you must come to this realization that there is no other way?

Answer: Yes, there is no other way. If you are lucky, so to speak, you will accumulate strength and break free, break the “rope” and run like a little elephant across the field of life. And if you are not lucky, you will remain on the “rope” until the next time.

Question: Is the word “lucky” not offensive?

Answer: We do not know all the laws of the world, so we put it like that.

Question: And what will help double or triple the strength?

Answer: This is what we study. It is our unity, the study of the laws of the upper world. In the end, we accumulate a certain reserve of energy in order to break out into a free orbit.

Question: So an escape as a group is definitely better than an escape alone?

Answer: Yes, much more likely.

Question: But is the escape of one person also possible?

Answer: We see this from the ancient Kabbalists and even from those not so far from us in time, like Baal HaSulam and others. They were able to break free from egoistic, earthly attraction.

Question: Why do we believe them that this is indeed so? After all, we have not yet broken free.

Answer: Because otherwise, the essence of earthly life loses any foundation whatsoever.

Question: So earthly life has meaning only if we take this step?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this what it exists for?

Answer: Yes. How else?

Question: So, you are saying that the meaning of life is to take this step and break away from this “rope”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is the space we enter when we break away?

Answer: It is a free space in which we can act according to its laws, the laws of this free space.

Question: What are they?

Answer: It is freedom. Freedom from earthly gravity, from egoism.

Question: Earthly gravity is egoism?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And when I break free, what is there?

Answer: Free actions, free life, free soaring. Truly like an elephant in the air.

Question: So now all my actions are egoistic, I am being led, and I am not free here? And there…

Answer: And there, you are free.

Question: Free. Deep inside, I do want this, don’t I?

Answer: I do not think we really want it that much.

Comment: Everyone talks about freedom and imagines it in some way.

My Response: I do not know why a person needs freedom. And he does not know either. He just wants to run away from his “rope.” Why? Perhaps because of his childish foolishness. And what is there furthe, we still do not know.

Question: But freedom is freedom from egoism. Is this real freedom?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/2/26

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Question: Why do we need physical suffering? Is it to awaken the point in the heart?

Answer: Our material essence is a body that we want to provide with the maximum comfort.

We live in a family, and want everything to be good there: house, children, health, pension, rest, etc. Meaning, we want to live comfortably in this world.

However, if a person achieves it, and everything is fine in his life, he becomes an animal because he already does not aspire anywhere; he is not doing anything. Give him everything that exists and you will see that nothing will change. We see how without wolves, sheep begin to get ill and decline.

It is the same with the Jewish people. Without antisemites, there would be no Zionists, there would be no Jewish home and Jewish nation. It means we have to respect antisemites and understand that they exist as a certain force in nature that is holding us. Otherwise we would run away in all directions.

It is the same with a person in general; he cannot exist without suffering. Suffering directs us because we are egoists. Our desire is absolutely egoistic: to become filled, to do nothing, and to have everything at the same time.

How is it possible to accomplish this? It is impossible! After all, the task of a human being in nature is to reach his highest development. But if I enjoy and feel good about everything, then I will never fulfill this task.

We should not forget that “love and hunger rule the world.” Therefore, only suffering pushes us forward. “One beaten man is worth two unbeaten.” This is true indeed. Therefore, “through thorns to the stars.” We lack precisely these thorns.

The wisdom of Kabbalah says that a “point in the heart” that has awakened within a person triggers depression in us, a question about the purpose of life and its futility. If this weren’t the case, how would we go forward? Thus only suffering leads us.

Moreover, it has to be suffering that is directed to the achievement of the goal, its anticipation and aspiration—the suffering of love. However, if we lack it, we become urged on by other suffering. This is how the entire system of nature is structured, and it is doing it.

If you want to go forward correctly and willingly, no problem; there is the wisdom of Kabbalah for you. It shows you the entire system and the correct direction to the destined goal. The goal is defined in advance. There is nothing to make up.

However, if we are not going toward it, then nature causes suffering in us through various alternative ways. It still leads us to this goal, but already through the long and tangled path.

Question: Does it turn out that our earthy (animal) suffering leads us to the suffering of love?

Answer: Not right away and not directly, but it does lead us. Any little suffering in our life pushes us forward. Had a person understood this, he would himself aspire to the goal, and there would be no need to “move with a stick to happiness.” He would be moving forward faster than the stick could reach him.

This is the sensible development, and this is what Kabbalah shows us: the goal, and the shortest path to reach it, so you would not be pushed by suffering from behind.

Come and join the kind, good, and correct development. We look forward to seeing you!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/21/16

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You will not break natural egoism with artificial means such as public opinion or education. There is no cure for this but a natural religion (Baal HaSulam, The Writings of the Last Generation).

Baal HaSulam believes that neither education nor public opinion will help humanity, only religion will, that is, enlightenment, which is absolute and unlimited. By religion, Baal HaSulam means the science of Kabbalah, which reveals the upper force, a system through which this force, from its highest point in the world of infinity, governs all the worlds, the system of governance, and us in our lowest world.

Without understanding how this system works and adapting to it from our side, from the bottom up, we will not be able to attain the meaning of life. At the same time, we do not attach any philosophical connotation to the concept of “the meaning of life,” because without an understanding of life’s true essence, we cannot function normally.

We are moving to a state in which any of our actions that align with the direction of development toward the goal of creation are beneficial to us and yield positive results. If the action is not directed precisely toward the goal, if it does not move us closer to it, it yields a negative outcome, and we suffer. Moreover, we may not know which actions produce which outcomes, as we are not familiar with this system.

In order for us to know exactly what to do at this point in our development, to stop standing still or going backward, falling, getting bumps, and moving from crisis to crisis, we must understand what the science of Kabbalah says.

It explains which system a person lives in and which worlds surround him, how the upper force, the Creator, governs us through these worlds in the lower world, how we should respond to the Creator’s governance, and what we should come to, which is complete similarity, alignment, and adhesion with the Creator.

Nowadays, the science of Kabbalah is becoming very relevant because we see that today, none of the global rulers, neither philosophers nor scientists, have a good idea of where we are, how we conduct ourselves, or how to manage ourselves to ensure a more or less tolerable “tomorrow,” rather than head toward destruction.

Today many are increasingly aware of this, but people still do not understand that there is a system of knowledge known as “Kabbalah.”

In general, we call religion the study of the upper force, not just faith in the upper force, but the study of it. That is, the science of Kabbalah is the science of the upper force. If the upper force governs us through a system, then we can study that system. It may be impossible to study the upper force itself, but at least its effect on us can be understood, investigated, and applied.

Kabbalists, those who have mastered this system in the past, write to us from the depths of time that the desire of the upper force is for us to reveal it, understand its goodness, eternity, perfection, and strive to be like it.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation,” 7/3/17

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By way of suffering, by moving only by means of blows, we cannot get anywhere. We will still have to develop ourselves on the path of light, while the blows only prolong the time. We only prolong our suffering and slow down our awareness of its source. Ultimately, one way or another, we will have to discover it and begin to work with it.

Whereas, if we heed the advice of Kabbalists, we can immediately use the upper system and demand from the source of the light that it influence us.

If we begin to organize ourselves into circles in the likeness of the corrected soul, if we build correct connections and strive to rise above our egoism, the upper light will respond to our efforts, realize our connection, and shine within it. This is called the revelation of the Creator to the created beings in this world.

This is exactly what the science of Kabbalah deals with; it is a method of revealing the Creator to creatures in this world. By doing so, we greatly reduce our time and suffering because we immediately go to the source of the light that created our egoism and demand that the light remedy everything. Therefore, we need to awaken ourselves rather than suffer.

On the path of suffering, we are gradually moving toward the path of light, but extremely slowly. The prophets describe the path of suffering because it is clearly defined; it is an existing program. The prophets, who were Kabbalists, saw the upper system and the opposition of right and left forces in it, and therefore they understood what suffering our desires must go through in order to achieve the final correction.

They write that merciful mothers would cook and eat their own children. These would be horrific times. We are shown what will happen if we do not go by the path of light, by the acceleration of time, what terrible physical suffering would be required to move us toward building a vessel at the level of the natural course of evolution.

The prophets can describe this scenario because it follows from a general formula: the amount of suffering multiplied by its quality. This is the natural way because it is entirely in the hands of heaven. But the prophets do not know how much of our own efforts we will add to this process. No one can know this in advance because we are given freewill in this.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/15/16, Rabash, Article 16, “But the More They Afflicted Them”

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All the suffering that is destined for us along the path of natural development must be revealed. We exist within a system and must recognize all our evil in order to correct it and come to good. But we can accelerate this process and transfer suffering to another level.

Therefore, Baal HaSulam writes that the premature revelation of The Book of Zohar brought about much suffering, yet at the same time it led to the fact that today the world stands on the threshold of redemption.

Hence, one must strive to move forward and shorten time, to transfer oneself and the entire world onto the path of light, the path of acceleration (Achishena). One should not wait for the time of blows to arrive, for them to be revealed from above, manifested in this world, and forcing us to correct ourselves. After all, we can accelerate our development on our own and move the blows onto another plane. And although we will still suffer, these will be completely different sufferings.

Instead of simply suffering on the animal level, we will suffer in a human way, that is, from the absence of taste in life and from not understanding it. These too are sufferings, which already torment many people today, lead them to depression, and sometimes even to suicide.

People try to drown out these sufferings with antidepressants or drugs. But these are suffering from the absence of a goal; they belong to the human level. Previously, sufferings were purely material and earthly: from lack of food, sex, family, money, honor, or knowledge.

Any dissemination of the method of Kabbalah advances the process of general development along the path of light. Sufferings do not disappear, but they become human: from lack of knowledge, understanding, purpose, which a person requires, and not only the animal body.

That is, the quality of suffering rises. The quantity of suffering multiplied by its quality determines the volume of the vessel in which the creation must reveal the entire light of infinity.

m (quantity) × h (quality) = V (perfect vessel)

If the quality of suffering increases, then its quantity decreases, and vice versa. It turns out that we have the opportunity to reduce the quantity of suffering by increasing its quality. But we are obliged to reach the required volume, the required intensity of suffering, in order for the vessel to be perfect. We all exist according to this formula.

For example, one minute of suffering from being distant from the Creator is worth a month of suffering from losing the lottery. In essence, suffering comes from a single source, but we can raise it to another level, to another “frequency range,” to another quality, and thus shorten its duration.

This is similar to how modern devices are able to instantly transmit enormous volumes of information on short waves, at high frequencies. In the past, when devices could not operate at such high frequencies, the same action required many long hours.

Suffering can push us from behind if we ourselves do not want to move forward, with things like having no money or nothing to eat, and one is forced to go and look for work. But if I am drawn by a goal that shines ahead, then I myself seek a source of strength that enables me to advance. This is a huge difference: feeingl material suffering or replacing it with goal-oriented suffering. A person is evaluated accordingly.

However, we are obliged to work through a certain intensity of suffering: quantity multiplied by quality. Therefore, by one path or another—natural development, acceleration of time, or alternately both—we are obliged to arrive at a perfect vessel (desire).
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 7/15/16, Rabash, Article No. 16, “But the More They Afflicted Them” 

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Comment: You say humanity is being pushed toward awareness by blows.

My Response: Naturally. We see that the blows are pushing humanity toward a more realistic view of the world.

Comment: There is a vast amount of information in this world.

My Response: There is no vast amount of information here. It is all nonsense, all on the earthly level, at the level of a small man who can collect crumbs from what he imagined with his five material senses and a small head, and at the same time, he thinks he is drowning in these crumbs.

There is no need to drown in it. Why? You must imagine this world as something that is depicted in your ego, rise above it, and then you will see it as a small grain, because there is no vast information here. These are all your little egoistic impressions of what is depicted to you.

You are like a child who imagines this world as if there is so much in it! But in fact, there is nothing in it. This is purely egoistic matter seeking to maintain an optimal egoistic state throughout its existence and then die.

What is there in this world? What can you offer me between life and death if it all comes to an end?
Nothing. That means I am no longer interested in it. If everything ends, I am no longer interested. This is how I look at life. And this is why I immediately dismiss all your philosophies and politics. What is America or Russia, what difference does it make to me? As the Prophet says, “Calm down, calm down, nations.”

Comment: But you are talking from a position of knowing.

My Response: Not because I know! Once, I did not know anything either. But I was looking at the fact that it all has a beginning and an end. So what difference does it make to me what happens midway?

If the train is heading to a junkyard, what then? We sit in it, open a bag of sandwiches, chicken, beer, and play cards. And then what? We are going to a dead end anyway. Therefore, I am not getting on this train. And if there are theaters, movies, and all kinds of games inside the train, I have no interest in that either, because it is going to a dead end. I do not look at human history, the public, politics, or anything else, because it is all inside this train.

I have held this view since childhood. I could not see it any other way. I had to find another way, take another train, like Harry Potter’s platform “nine and three-quarters.” I need to find the platform from which the train departs in the other direction.

Comment: But you did not initially assume that you could simply feel it.

Answer: Of course, I did not know where it was, but I also did not want to board that train. That was the most important thing for me. So I ran from everywhere, tried to search, but could not find anything. It was not easy for me. But when I found Kabbalah, I immediately quit my business with pleasure and immersed myself in it.

I do not advocate this kind of lifestyle. It is given to a person either as happiness or as misfortune. I do not know how to say this, but it is a special desire for a goal. I am just saying that many people are in this state today. Therefore, I appeal to them, to those who are looking for another train and not the one that goes to a dead end. That is the most important thing.

The Torah states that it is a cure for death. This intrigued me because it is the most important thing. Everything else is nonsense; everything else does not matter. I am saying this as an old man. What does it matter what you fill your life with? You are only 30 years old, while I do not have much time left. I am telling you, there is nothing else to base your life on.

And when the younger generation finally begins to understand this early in life, it is simply a blessing that they are given such an epiphany from above, not to be polluted by various conventions.

They need to find an environment for themselves, whose purpose is clear and precise—to achieve eternity.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Harry Potter Platform” 10/4/10

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