And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. (Haruki Murakami)

Question: Is the storm and in general everything that is happening around us in humanity and now in the world happening only so that we become a different person?

Answer: Yes, everything that happens in nature! Even explosions somewhere in distant stars are happening only in order to somehow act through some chains of events on a person.

Question: If I am an ordinary person, and it happens somewhere out there in Africa, is it still happening for me?

Answer: Yes. Do not look for any laws of justice in this. We do not understand all this.

Question: But there is a big difficulty in this for me. Somewhere out there, in Alaska, something is happening, is it happening for me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What will happen if I can really train myself so that it will be my thought? Let’s dream that every person has managed…

Answer: Then you will begin to correct the world with this thought.

Question: What is the conclusion from this? That the world is tied to me and my actions determine what will happen in Alaska?

Answer: Yes.

Question: If we do not change, if I do not change—again and again troubles come into the world, next to me, and so on, and I do not change—do the troubles then increase? Will this pressure on me increase?

Answer: Of course. On you personally and on each of us, and on all of us together.

Question: Does this happen until I understand what depends on me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Isn’t this difficult for a person?

Answer: We live in this.

Comment: But we do not feel this.

My Response: But do we feel that it is getting worse?

Comment: Yes, we feel it.

My Response: Is the pressure growing?

Comment: It is growing.

My Response: So, we need to do something about it.

Question: Is the conclusion from this that the entire world is tied to me and this is so for everyone? And I am tied to the entire world?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How can we live with this?

Answer: But we live.

Comment: We do not feel this; this is why we live.

My Response: That’s right. But what should I do? To feel. Once you start feeling it, you start thinking about it, you start trying to change it mentally, and you change it.

Question: Can you imagine if a person comes to this thought and there is such a responsibility on him, then how will he live?! How?

Answer: He will live. At the moment, he, the miserable one, exists.

Question: Is this what you call life: to learn to tie myself to the entire world, to feel that it depends on me?

Answer: Yes. And to care for the entire world.

Question: Is it in a person’s power or not?

Answer: That is exactly what is in a person’s power. For this, people just need a certain education so that they understand that everything that happens is necessary only for them to realize where they exist, in what system of nature they exist, and why the environment is not so kind to them.

Question: If I understand this, will I be able to take a step, or will I do it all the time with the fear that I am responsible and I am worried?

Answer: No. On the contrary, I will take good and correct steps gradually, here and there, remembering, forgetting, and somehow else. But in general we will improve ourselves and thereby improve the world.
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All 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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Comment: This is story from the Internet.

One evening, Winston Churchill and his wife decided to take a walk around London. When they were passing through one of the cozy courtyards, a janitor approached them. To the surprise of the Prime Minister, the janitor spoke not to him but to the First Lady.

After this conversation, Churchill asked his wife: “Why did he talk to you with such interest?” She replied that in her teenage years, he was madly in love with her. Prime Minister Churchill said, “See, if you had married him, you would now be the wife of a janitor.” Churchill’s wife replied: “No, if I had married him, he would have become Prime minister.”

Here we have this eternal question: who makes whom? As they say, there is a woman behind every successful man. Is there a spiritual root in this or not?

My Response: In most cases.

Question: Does it mean that in most cases I cannot develop by myself and my wife has to push me all the time?

Answer: It means a lot. A man without female support is like a bush or a tree in the wind.

Question: Why is this so?

Answer: Although she cannot do anything, when she puts pressure on him, she supports him.

Question: But she does not tell him: “You will be Prime Minister. I want you to become Prime Minister.” Or does she say it internally?

Answer: She can say it. But this is what he needs.

Question: So, do we need nudges all the time?

Answer: Yes. Without a strong woman next to a man, a man is powerless.

Question: Is there some spiritual root in this?

Answer: Of course! Because together they make one common whole.

This female part, the desire to receive is what forces a man to work correctly.

Question: Is the inner female thought so that women do not take offense: “You have to fulfill me”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You can fulfill me with your power, and so on and so forth? |And she pushes him?

Answer: Of course. You see Churchill agreed.

Question: Not only Churchill, we see in history what happened. Behind each one stood some fragile, even quiet woman. Did Sarah move Abraham in the same way? Or was there some different situation?

Answer: The Creator said to Abraham: “Listen to what Sarah says to you.” So, apparently, it was even tougher there.

Question: How should we men behave in this case? Surrender or resist? Or, on the contrary, am I guided by a woman? What should a family tango be like in this case if we know that this is happening?

Answer: There should be mutual support. A husband should provide for his wife financially, a wife should support her husband spiritually.
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Question: One student asked his mentor, “Teacher, what would you say if you found out I fell?”
“I would say: “Get up!”
“And next time?”
“Again: “Get up!”
“How long can it go on, this constant falling and rising?”
“Fall and rise as long as you live! After all, those who fell and did not get up are dead!”

Until when are we learning to fall and rise all the time? After all, we are growing and we do understand something.

Answer: But these descents and ascents grow in their quality along with my growth. Therefore, they are not the same, they are not equal.

Comment: According to this sage, this is life. When they stop, this is death.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Should we expect falls all the time?

Answer: I do not think it is necessary to live with this. But, in principle, the fact that they will be is inevitable.

Question: Is it possible to teach a person and humanity in a different way?

Answer: No, a person will not reveal himself in any way if he does not go through descents and ascents.

Question: What is the secret in these descents; what do they teach us? They can lead to extreme conditions.

Answer: So, what? They can bring us to any state.

Question: You are calm about it. This is life, right?

Answer: This is life and this is development.

Question: Can the fall be such that a person will not get up? To whom is this given and for what?

Answer: These are special individuals. I do not think this is given to people often. And some people really need this.

Question: You have said more than once that a person is given only what he can endure. What do you mean by that? We see that there are many things that people cannot endure, but they are given them. Or can they still endure them?

Answer: They can. What can people not endure? It all just seems to us that they cannot endure and cannot survive. No. A person survives everything, endures everything, and can work on himself so much that no other being can survive it.

Question: What does “endure” mean? Does it mean to agree with this blow? What is “to exit out of it”?

Answer: Even to agree and even to understand, realize, and survive. This is called getting out of a descent. The fall itself is when I just give myself to it.

Question: What should be the principle of a person’s life in general?

Answer: The principle of a person’s life should be very simple: I have to feel others instead of myself, I have to live not in myself, but in others. That is all. In principle, this leads to the correct result.

Question: So, are you saying that if I close in on myself, then a descent is inevitable, and if I am always open to others and live for them, then I quickly jump out of it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why are we given these falls?

Answer: The descents are given in order to empty a person of the past so that he is ready to be filled with the future. Every fall and every rise is a renewal of a person.

Question: Until when can he be renewed? Which peak should he reach?

Answer: Until it completely renews itself. This is the state when he returns to the state of the first man, Adam, that is, to the root of his soul. After then, he no longer needs to change, so to say, internally.

Question: Does he then return to his permanent place, as it were?

Answer: He returns to his place in his original point in the soul of Adam.

Question: “Soul of Adam,” do you mean that this is a single soul?

Answer: Yes. He returns to his point in this soul. Each person has to go through this path of rises and falls in order to return to this point. We cannot run away from this.

Question: Do we know this point in advance? Do we know where we are going?

Answer: We cannot know it because we cannot feel it.

Question: At what point do I begin to feel it?

Answer: When you actually approach it.

Question: Why is it given to us not to feel it?

Answer: We do not have these properties of bestowal, love, connection with other souls, and so on.

Question: So, am I going to this connection, which will connect us into one? Is that where I am going?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, the commandment, that is, the main condition, is “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Question: What kind of movie would you like to make, one that would really work? What should it lead to?

Answer: I have not seen a movie like that, that would change people and lead them to some serious internal changes.

Question: But would you like for such a movie to exist?

Answer: Of course! Who would not want that? Practically everyone wants a good future. But I do not know.

Question: Are you saying that if a movie would change a person, then you are for such a movie?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: You have said more than once that we are as if in a theater right now.

My Response: We see that this does not change us either.

Question: If so, the first condition is that a movie should change a person, then next is from whom to whom, from what to what?

Answer: From who one is now. Now, a person is just a beast that thinks only about oneself and cannot think about others. Or if he can think about others, then only in the form in which what he does to them will return to him.

That is, if a person is actually given absolute freedom, he will be completely indifferent to everything around him except to the extent that the immediate surroundings will be pleasant to his eye.

Comment: This is the man of today.

My Response: This is man.

Question: We are talking about correction. What should this beast come to?

Answer: To begin to understand that the most important thing is when your joy is in others. For this, it is necessary to change the nature of man.

Question: “Your joy is in others”—what do you mean by this?

Answer: It means that when others feel good, you feel good. But how can this be? It is the other way around. You can be happy, on the contrary, that you are better than others, that they are worse than you.

Question: I see. One way or another you always lower others so that they are lower than you, right?

Answer: Naturally. Instead, you should raise them above you.

Question: Is this the main change? If there were this kind of movie that directs a person in this way, are you for such a movie?

Answer: I am for such a movie, but it would not be successful.

Question: Financially?

Answer: It would not have any success. No one would be enthusiastic about it.

Comment: So, you do not want to dream, you are going back to reality.

My Response: For a long time I cannot dream, I am not young anymore, to put it mildly.
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Question: From a letter: “In Tarkovsky’s film The Sacrifice, there is a nuclear war. The main character, in order to save his family and the whole world, as if agrees to make a deal with the Creator. He makes a sacrifice: he burns down his beautiful house, renounces his family, refuses to communicate with people, and takes a vow of silence. In return, the Creator allegedly turns reality backward, and the war does not happen. What sacrifice does each individual need to make now to change the reality of humanity? Is it necessary to give up yourself and everything that fulfills you for this? To what extent should we give it up, if at all?”

Answer: We must give up receiving pleasure for our own sake so, a person does not enjoy what his body wants. Obviously, this does not mean just some kind of animalistic pleasure. Instead, a person should enjoy the fact that he lives in harmony with others.

Question: Does such a revolution need to take place in a person? I live by receiving pleasure only for my own sake. To give it up means to live for the sake of others. If I receive pleasure from the fact that someone else receives pleasure, is this a normal formulation for an explanation or not?

Answer: This is the condition of my pleasure: if others receive pleasure at the same time. It is important to me that they receive pleasure.

Question: When we say pleasure, what kind of pleasure do you mean?

Answer: Absolutely any, no matter what kind of pleasure.

Question: That is, I am happy when others are happy, I am happy when someone else is happy. Is this a victorious formula?

Answer: Basically, yes.

Question: What did I give up in this case?

Answer: Receiving pleasure for my own sake.

Question: Is this when I am the only one who receives pleasure, and I do not care about others? That is, they all exist to serve me.

Answer: Yes, even more than that! This is how the world is today.

Question: Now the most difficult question is: how can you give it up?

Answer: There is no way.

Question: On one hand you say that we have to come to this. On the other hand you say that it is not in our power. What is in our power, after all?

Answer: It is to create a society in which you can receive pleasure, but in the same measure as others.

Question: Not more than others?

Answer: Yes.

Question: A society of equal pleasures? There were such utopias in their time. How do you differ from these utopias, from everything that was built there?

Answer: I am a supporter of the doctrine that says this is impossible.

Question: If I realize that this is impossible, is this a good point?

Answer: This is a good point, and it will lead you to a solution.

Comment: So, you say this: it is impossible to give up receiving pleasure for one’s own sake, it is impossible to love one’s neighbor, it is impossible to give to another. Impossible!

My Response: Yes.

Question: If a person comes to such an understanding, which is very sharp, bitter, and inside himself, are you saying that this is good?

Answer: This is the recognition of the evil of your nature! From here you should say: but there is a need for me to rise above it, above this nature. What do I need to do for this? Where can I find such a medicine?

So far people have not found it. They have already stopped even hoping, on one hand. But, on the other hand, they gradually, slowly understand more and more that if there is no such medicine, then there is no happiness, there is no good, and no future.

Comment: That is, here we have such a pitchfork: I understand that it is impossible to live like this, that I am like this, my nature is like this, and at the same time I understand that I cannot move on.

My Response: In no way.

Question: I am at such a point; I can move neither backward nor forward. What should I do in this case?

Answer: When we reach such a state, then we begin to understand that if such a task is really set before us by nature, then, obviously, there is a solution to it in nature itself.

Question: This is logical. That is, there is no solution around us, but there is one in nature itself. Do I gradually begin to communicate with nature in this way?

Answer: Yes. This is communication with nature.

Question: Do I say: “There is a solution within you. Give me this solution!”?

Answer: Yes. This should reach a state that will force a person to really turn to nature in this way.

Question: At what point will nature respond and give answers?

Answer: When a person is in complete despair when he really needs only this.

Comment: In this case, a person will be able to give up only with the help of nature, when he desperately, badly needs it.

My Response: Yes.

Question: If we summarize all this, are we being led to this state right now? Will we not get around this point and pass it in any way?

Answer: No way.

Question: Do you have a clear feeling that this is what we are being led to?

Answer: Yes, we need to understand and feel that an internal inversion is based on this point, and it is necessary.

Question: Is it because this is the future and it will necessarily happen? Is there nowhere to escape from it?

Answer: No. Otherwise, you will not pass into another existence.

Question: Tell me, if a person heard you, what are his actions at this moment? Even if he begins to mechanically communicate with nature, as with the Creator.

Answer: He needs to strengthen himself in this paradigm.
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Question: Dale Carnegie, American psychologist, speaker, and writer, wrote books that gave hope to people. Millions of copies of his books How to Win Friends and Influence People, How to Enjoy Your Life and Job, and How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking were sold. Carnegie was called a seller of happiness and a teacher of humanity. But he was unhappy. During the last years of his life, he was very lonely. The reason for his suffering at the end of his life was that he got lymphatic cancer. After the doctors told him about it, he couldn’t forgive them.

He fell into a terrible depression. It is not known whether he died naturally or committed suicide, but he was in such loneliness without friends.

When troubles came, it turned out that everything was jus theoretical. His books touted that diseases come from the isolation of a person and that one should have a lot of friends because then you are open and not subject to depression. He himself became he lonely and depressed, and that is how he died. Tell me, how does this happen?

Answer: Every person has a certain threshold of sensitivity of where he can overcome his suffering and what befalls him, and where he is no longer in the right state to overcome. He had this threshold, he lived through it and gave up.

Question: Another question is if it is possible to agree with the diagnosis, to agree that now is your final time, and not fall into depression, not distance yourself, and not die alone.

Answer: In the end, every dying person agrees with this. Where can a person go? In principle, he understands practically. In the last days, hours, and minutes of his life, he is no longer in the euphoria in which he was born. He already understands that it is all coming to the end.

Question: So this understanding comes to a person and he calms down?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you have any advice if say a person receives, God forbid, some bad news? How can he continue to swim? Carnegie fell into such a state, into depression, loneliness, and withdrawal. Even though he preached something else.

Answer: Everyone is still looking for some kind of salvation.

There is no escape from this. There are still thoughts that you are already in the hands of the Creator. And He does what He wants with you. And you can only, if you want, pray to anyone, however you want. But in general, this is what remains to a person.

Question: And how do you survive these minutes, hours, days, or months? Is there any way to direct the ones that go through this?

Answer: The way to direct thoughts correctly is only if you read Kabbalistic articles. I can’t say anything else. This directs you—your thoughts, your desires, and eventually your soul in the right direction, to the right goal.

Question: Why? What is in them?

Answer: Rapprochement with the Creator, a real, true rapprochement with the Creator.

Question: So you’re saying that I’m kind of locked in this little world of mine and that’s the trouble? And so do I have to open it almost indefinitely? And swim like this?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is there an article that you like the most in such cases?

Answer: “There Is None Else Besides Him.”

Question: This is the first article from the book Shamati (I Heard), the crown of this book is “There Is None Else Besides Him.”

When reading it, does peace come or something else?

Answer: Peace comes. Humbleness comes. And joy comes after that. And the joy is very great because you begin to believe that this world exists according to its upper program, and not just that nature thus removes us from its path.

Question: Is it possible to reach this point earlier?

Answer: You can get to this earlier, but you still have to go through this period.

Question: Are we coming to this article anyway?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you think doctors should tell a patient that he is on the verge, that everything is over, that he is now in the last stage of the disease and he is dying?

Answer: I think doctors need to say this to patients. And to say that it is time to turn to the Creator.

Question: Is it right for the doctor to say so directly?

Answer: Yes. That now everything is in the hands of the Creator, and not in the hands of doctors. And a person should turn to Him. I believe that this will be true and open.
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Question (from a letter): Why do you formulate the golden rule in the interpretation of Rabbi Akiva’s “love your neighbor as yourself”? Rabbi Akiva said that all the commandments of the Torah converge to this one, single commandment. But the sage Hillel said that the main commandment is “Do not do to another what you do not want to be done to you.” Isn’t this second, more passive formulation the key to success? And besides, it’s more realistic.

Answer: That is right, I totally agree with that. But the fact is that “Do not do to another what you do not want to be done to you” is not a complete, passive fulfillment of the commandment. The second part is active—love.

So, the first one does not solve the problem. It only seems to distance people from each other. But they tend not to harm.

Question: So do no harm is the first condition? Should there be some kind of attack next?

Answer: Active.

Question: “Love your neighbor as yourself” is like an attack on yourself? Can I do it only after I have fulfilled this first rule?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Can’t I jump over it, right away to “love your neighbor as yourself”? Instead of proceeding from the rule “Do not do to another what you do not want to be done to you.”

Answer: Try it. But on the way you’ll still be doing it.

Question: So, it turns out that “Don’t do to others what you don’t want to be done to you” is included in “love your neighbor”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it possible for an ordinary, simple person to come to this and not to do to another what you don’t want to be done to yourself? Or will you still do something wrong to someone?

Answer: A person cannot restrain himself. He faces his own kind all the time and constantly sees where he wins and where he loses.

Question: And they annoy him all the time. So why do they offer things that are unrealistic for a person to do?

Answer: It is realistic, you just have to work on yourself.

Question: The result should be the fact that I need to work on it?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: And until this arises in a person, he is not capable. Because a lot of people write to us: “I already live by this rule,” “I have been living by this rule for a long time.”

My Response: 🙂 I believe that it is impossible without the Creator. But, on the other hand, I believe that we will come to this.

I am optimistic because it does not depend on us. Nature moves us, and we will inevitably come to this rule.

Comment: All these rules of both Rabbi Akiva and Hillel seem to say to a person: “Do it!” And you say that one cannot do it without the Creator.

My Response: One cannot. Man cannot change the laws of nature.

Question: Which are only for themselves, only egoism?

Answer: Yes, a person is not able to do it.

Question: So, the question is if a person wants to follow these rules, what should be his steps? What is step one?

Answer: The step is very simple. You have to come to a society that will be occupied only with correcting the connection between them. There you will be able to see how they work on loving each other and at the same time study yourself, as far as you are capable of this at all.

So, one way or another, you have to connect to this breathing machine.
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Question: There is a very short prayer called Modeh Ani, which is a morning prayer in which a person thanks the Creator. Before getting out of bed, just as he opens his eyes, he says this prayer: “I offer thanks to You, living and eternal King, for You have mercifully restored my soul within me; Your faithfulness is great!”

Please explain why it starts with gratitude?

Answer: “Modeh ani lefanecha, I thank You.” For what? “Melech chai ve kayam”—that You fill the whole world, You control the whole world, only You.

Question: It says: “Thank You, living and eternal King,” What “eternal” means is somehow understandable. What is “living”?

Answer: “Living” means which exists in everything that exists. Without His presence in something, it would not exist.

Question: So every person should start any day with this gratitude?

Answer: With the fact that he got up to get to know the Creator. This is the beginning of the day for absolutely anyone. “Melech chai ve kayam, she he chezarta bi nishmati”—”for You have mercifully restored my soul within me; Your faithfulness is great!”

Question: Did He take the soul?

Answer: He takes it in the evening and returns it in the morning.

Question: The fact that I go to bed and go to sleep, is it called that I give my soul for this time?

Answer: The soul flies away.

Question: And how do the Kabbalists explain that the soul “leaves” for this time?

Answer: A person enters a dream, and he no longer controls himself, and therefore his obvious connection with the Creator is cut off. Only the Creator is the master over him during sleep, at night. And in the morning a person gets his soul back and thanks the Creator for it.

Question: You just said that the soul is my connection with the Creator. Is this called a soul?

Answer: Yes. And at the time of sleep, it kind of breaks off.

Question: “For You have mercifully restored my soul within me,” does this mean that it is the Creator who decides whether to return it or not?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What is night then?

Answer: This is when the soul, so to say, breaks away from the body, and a person feels only a dream or his animal state.

Question: Then here’s the question: can night come during the day? Or do I have to fall asleep?

Answer: No. Can you imagine how many people don’t wake up at all?!

Question: So these are people without a soul? The Creator took it and does not return it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why?

Answer: It’s quieter in the world. A man without a soul is better off. You have to work on your soul and be thankful for it.

Question: And then: “Your faithfulness is great!” Am I repeating this as a mantra: “Your faithfulness is great!”?

Answer: No. Because thanks to the fact that I believe in You, I am connected to You, thanks to this, I wake up to a new day. “Raba emunatecha”—great is the faith in You.

Question: Do I imagine it or does it live within me? Or should I repeat this as a physical exercise in order to establish a “muscle” of connection with the Creator? Your faithfulness is great! Your faithfulness is great! Your faithfulness is great!

Answer: It just forms within a person, inside him.

Question: When we analyzed the prayer for the road, you said that the road is where a person goes from state to state. This is not a way from city to city.

And here, too, is this prayer also from state to state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So you don’t have to say it in the morning when you just opened your eyes?

Answer: No, it has nothing to do with day and night at all. In Kabbalah, a day is when I have enlightenment, when I see, feel, and have a connection with the Creator. And night is when a state descends of twilight on the soul and on the heart. And when the dawn comes next, I have to say such a prayer.

Question: Is it necessary to pronounce it in these exact words or not?

Answer: No, in principle, all this can be said differently.

Question: And what should a person say from the heart?

Answer: How good it is for me to be connected with the Creator, this is a day for me. And how bad and sad it is for me to be alone without the Creator, for me it is like night.
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Comment: There is a parable about a young man who came to the sage with a request to accept him as a student. “Do you know how to lie?” The sage asked. “Of course not,” the student replied. “And do you know who to steal?” – “No.” “And to kill?” – “No.” “So go and learn all this,” the sage exclaimed, “and when you learn how, don’t do it.”

My Response: The sage was a Kabbalist!

Question: Do we really have to go through all this, to steal, to serve time in prison, to kill someone, even within ourselves, and all of this to become a man, to become a sage?

Answer: Of course. One must go through everything. Then he will become a great man. He learns what the real quality of the world is.

Question: Is it the quality of stealing?

Answer: Stealing, lying, robbing, and then he will rise above it.

That’s what we have to do. By nature, we have only a bad quality; it is egoistic, egoism.

Question: Are we thieves?

Answer: Yes, all of us. And from the Creator we received the commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Question: How He twisted it all! He just let us be the last and said: “You must love your neighbor.”

Is it only a wise man who needs to go through everything? Because here a disciple came to him to learn how to be a sage.

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what about a calm, normal, ordinary person who does not dream and does not want to be a sage?

Answer: There are no commandments for him.

Question: That is, just live your life as you do?

Answer: Yes. And what should be demanded from him if he does not have a bad quality, if he doesn’t feel egoistic?

Question: Is that the most important thing? And does the wise man send his student to go and study himself?

Answer: Yes. If he knows that this evil is in him, and he wants to get rid of it, then everything opens up to him.

Question: So a person should be horrified that he is a murderer, a thief, and a rapist?

Answer: But it is revealed so gradually that it is a long process until he is really horrified.

Question: You once told me that your teacher Rabash somehow stopped you when you were outraged and said: “What a bad world!” And he suddenly said that in him, your teacher, there is a thief, a murderer;  everything is within him. How did you take it then?

Answer: I, of course, perceived Rabash in the form that he already had gone through all these stages, these terrible stages of revealing egoism in himself. And then he corrected it and discovered the opposite qualities, the positive ones.

Question: So he found it all in himself all the time?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: It’s hard work.

My Response: Everyone who is bigger than the other is more egoistic than the other.

Question: And he is given even more work? So maybe it’s better to sit quietly on the sidelines and not feel like this?

Answer: Then you will be like a beautiful flower or like a kitten.

Question: Fluffy. To live a life without discovering this dragon in yourself?

Answer: There are some religions that call for this and give their adherents generally good advice, the basics.

Question: How can you not touch this evil in yourself? To live like this?

Answer: But what can you do?

Comment: And Kabbalah is the opposite.

My Response: It begins by saying that the Creator confesses: “I created evil.”

Question: Tell me, will everyone come to this or only those who want to become wise men? Will everyone want to become wise sooner or later?

Answer: No, it is not that they want to become; everyone will discover this in themselves. The world will come to a completely positive end. But before that it must reveal absolutely all the negative qualities in itself.

Question: In the meantime, only the ones that break out should reveal this?

Answer: This is what we are trying to do with ourselves.

Question: Why do these units suddenly break out of the crowd?

Answer: They adapt the Torah, that is, the method of correction, to our world in each generation.

Question: Do they pass it on themselves?

Answer: Yes, of course, on themselves, how else?

Question: So those who want to become such wise men, to go through all this on themselves, are necessary for the world?

Answer: They are preparing the world for correction.

Question: And what does their correction give to the world ?

Answer: The basis. Thanks to them, the world is being corrected.

Question: So the world does not have to go through all these states as a murderer or a thief?

Answer: In general, yes. It goes through them, but not like that. Because there are some individuals, Kabbalists, who go through all this on themselves and justify the ugly world, mutilated by the Creator. And by correcting themselves, they correct it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/1/23

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