Question: Why are the planets and the stars round and not in the shape of a square or a triangle?

Answer: They are not totally round but close to being round because the whole universe aspires to roundness as it is an ideal mathematical and physical form in which we observe a balance between all the attributes.

On the whole, a physical form doesn’t necessarily have to be circular because its shape can be other properties.

Nature, which is the whole structure of Adam (Man), that is, a system that resembles the Creator (“Adam” in Hebrew is from the word “Domeh” – to resemble, the Creator), is in itself an absolutely perfect sphere because only in that case is the balance between all the forces revealed in our world, in our coordinates.
[200607]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/14/16

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Kabbalistic books written hundreds of years ago and even thousands of years ago present tables of mutual positions of the sun, the moon, the Earth, Venus, Mars and the other planets. The Hebrew calendar, which has been used for many generations, is based on this information and does not need any corrections.

All the holidays, special astronomical dates, the beginning of the month, the eclipse of the moon, the eclipse of the sun, and the positions of the planets in relation to each other, etc. are determined and take place on the same day of the year. What is more, this was determined many years in advance.

I don’t know the exact date that the Hebrew calendar was created, but I believe that it is thousands of years old and is still working like clockwork today. It indicates precisely when, in which year, a certain holiday will be celebrated and a certain event, for example, will occur only on a Sunday or a Wednesday.

Can this calendar be changed? No, Kabbalists understand so well how the upper forces that manage our planet’s work that they created this calendar as the eternal calendar. Its uniqueness is that it is related both to the sun and the moon.

The Muslim calendar is focused only on the moon, and the Christian calendar is focused only on the sun. The Hebrew calendar is focused on both the sun and the moon because according to the wisdom of Kabbalah every motion, the whole philosophy of life, is arranged according to the middle line.
[200651]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/14/16

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Question: The Big Bang and the big black hole that the entire universe revolves around perfectly complement each other and are the embodiment of the law of the conservation of energy. Infinity, gravity, and entropy are in constant balance, and thanks to the flow of energy from one form to another, an infinite number of universes appear.

The cosmic microwave background radiation reminds us of a gene, a Reshimo, which contains all of the information of all of the states of the universes. This history will never end because the energy does not disappear. A series of infinite explosions and compressions will continue to occur, and therefore, will follow the development of the desire from the inanimate level to the level of the speaking.

This makes sense since everything was created in resemblance to spirituality, which is eternal. It turns out that the Creator created the created being, but from a slightly different quality because he contains all of the previous information inside him.

We can consider it to be infinite abundance or infinite darkness, but does that mean that this entire game was created as a goal in itself (to sustain life itself), and when will this end?

Answer: When we ascend above the ego, we ascend above time, motion, and space, and we realize that we have existed in a contrived and illusory world.
[200319]

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New Life 798 – Differences In Sensory Perception
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

There are differences in people’s perception of reality, as there are differences in tastes.

The five senses are characterized by the distance from what is perceived: sight is the sense that perceives from the greatest distance and touch is the sense that perceives from the closest distance since it involves contact.

There are waves beyond what our senses perceive. We are surrounded by infinite Light, by unlimited waves, but we perceive through the limitations of our senses.

Our instruments of perception are operated by our desire, by a sense of lack. We can develop our desire to unlimited dimensions by changing our attitude to other people. If reality becomes more important to me than myself, my perception expands, just like a mother who feels her baby. What we feel through our senses operates on our desire, and this is how an experience is created.

It is impossible to penetrate another person and to feel how he actually perceives reality since our internal nature is concealed from us; a person doesn’t even really know himself. No matter how much we try, we have no access to a person’s internality; we don’t know how and there is nothing to investigate about ourselves. We have to study the upper nature, the upper operating system, and to be like it.

Even if we could assemble all the senses of all the animals together in ourselves, we would end up with nothing more than an elaborate animal.

The method of developing our perception is called the wisdom of Kabbalah; it teaches us how to perceive unlimited waves. To perceive the unlimited reality, a person needs a new receiver to receive what is external to him, not what is inside him.
From KabTV’s “New Life 798 – Differences In Sensory Perception,” 12/6/16

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Question: What is the meaning of the end of creation and what will happen to the physical world then?

Answer: At the end of creation people will connect together more and more.

We begin to feel the upper world more fully, until we reach a state where it holds all of our desire within us, and the same tiny part of desire that feels the present distorted reality, simply disappears and moves to grasp the true world that exists outside of us, not inside of us.

“This world” apparently disappears, so it is called the “imaginary world.”
[198782]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: How can I measure the degree I am in illusion or reality?

Answer: When on the steps of the spiritual ladder, you will be able to determine the states you are found in. Right line, left line, or center line, on what stages: Reshimo de Hitlabshut (record of clothing) or Reshimo de Aviut (record of thickness) indicates the number of the level, in what world and in which Sefira you are found: Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut, and so forth.

A person will feel all of these concepts as he begins to move to the upper world.
[198725]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: What is “illusion” and what is “reality” as defined in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer:  An illusion is anything that doesn’t resemble the Creator. And reality is any part of the Creator I perceive. That is, it is an immense field, which I correctly perceive to the degree of my similarity to it. This field is perceived by me as the Creator and it is not an illusion but the truth.

The true reality – Upper Light or the Creator – is found at absolute rest. But our perception of this reality can change. The change depends on correction. If a person completely corrects himself, then nothing changes in his perception any more.

Everything is measured only relative to a person.
[198273]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Question: Are all the obstacles we encounter in our minds or are they created by the Creator?

Answer: All the obstacles are created by the Creator to help us advance.

Question: Is the Creator among my friends in the true reality?

Answer: The Creator is between my friends, but not in the form I belong to now. When I truly exit myself and enter them, I will discover the Creator between them.

Question: What attributes does one need in order to attain the true reality?

Answer: Only the attributes of bestowal, an intention of bestowal.

Question: Is the illusion temporary and reality fixed and eternal?

Answer: The right and true reality is not only eternal, but it is beyond all boundaries, beyond the frameworks of time, motion, and space. It is simply the Upper Light.

Question: What is the human body and is it real and not imaginary?

Answer: A body refers to a desire. Real refers to a desire with an intention in order to bestow. Imaginary refers to a desire with an intention for your own sake.

Question: Will everyone see the same reality in the attribute of bestowal, in altruism?

Answer: Not only will they see the same reality, but they will also directly participate in it; they will be one unified soul.

Question: How do you relate to civilizations beyond our planet earth?

Answer: I don’t. There is no one out there. There is no life here or anywhere else, nowhere except in the upper world.

Question: Will a person who attains perfection see and perceive everything in the true reality? Will he see himself, his physical body, as a reflection in the mirror?

Answer: Even if he is totally free of the intention for his own sake, which means that he has attained the highest state of correction, the body will still exist in the same form it is, because the body exists on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature, whereas he is corrected internally on the human level. This is the reason that it is not reflected in the body in any way. Physically, even a great Kabbalist can be ill whereas the most primitive man can be healthy.

Question: Do we have to ascend above our ego or should we correct it?

Answer: The correction of the ego is to ascend above it. It is the same thing.

Question: If everything is the Creator, is everything that does not resemble the Creator an illusion?

Answer: No, it isn’t an illusion, but you may say that it is an illusion in our feeling.

Question: How can I determine that I am ready to perceive the Creator?

Answer: If you have a desire for it, you already have everything else. It is because we establish groups, classes, and publish a lot of information on the Internet. Everything is before you, everything is revealed.

I am really pleased that I have managed to lay such a foundation during my lifetime and I hope it will continue to develop. You have everything, including great help from the Creator; you have everything from Him. All you need is a desire and to be a bit more organized.

Question: Why has such important information about life and the perception of reality been concealed for thousands of years?

Answer: Because until now humanity has not reached the crisis that we are undergoing today. For thousands of years it was not fully ripe, whereas the current crisis shows us to what degree the ego is finite and has already exhausted itself.

Now it will only kill us. Humanity developed until about 50 to 60 years ago and now we are beginning to fold; now we are only killing ourselves, sinking into depression, drugs, divorce, unemployment, and wars. The ego has developed us to a certain point where we lived its development and now we have reached its final phase. Now we have to ascend to the next level.

The next level is the human “Adam” level stemming from the root “to resemble – Adamah” in Hebrew, which means to resemble the Creator. Here we have to develop on a totally different level.

Therefore, we have to begin to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah and to peacefully enter the next world.
[198918]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Comment: Recently you explained the subject of the proper perception of reality, more precisely of creation. But currently, I cannot perceive this.

Answer: We do not perceive information from the outside through our five senses, as it seems to us.

The senses through which we perceive our Ohr Pnimi (Inner Light) are organized within us according to the degree of equivalence and resemblance of our desires to the Light, to the Creator. To the degree that He is revealed in our system of resemblance to Him, which is called HaVaYaH, it becomes our spiritual senses.

To the degree that we improve and change them to bestowal, we begin to perceive the changing world, the Light that is closest to us.
[198692]
From Daily Kabbalah Lessons 12/12-13/16

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Question: Even the Talmud says that one judges according to his own flaws, that everyone judges according to his level of corruption, which means that even back then people understood that by changing their properties, they would be able to see the world.

Can we say that the connection with others was given to a person only so that he can check his attitude toward them since a person sees what is negative in others, and what is in him he always sees as positive? How can we use this principle in order to advance?

Answer: The external world exists only in a person’s perception, but he cannot say whether it exists externally to him.

Does the world continue to exist for a person who lives today but is gone tomorrow, or not? A person cannot determine or prove that. No one can determine or prove that, including Newton, because with regard to each of us, the whole world is an absolute, subjective illusion.

One may say that we see how a person dies and the world continues to exist, but with regard to the person who died, we cannot determine anything because we don’t share his feeling.

Thus a person was created like that in order to alter his attitude to others, which for him is the indication of exiting himself and of feeling the upper world outside himself. The world outside a person is the upper world.
[198786]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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