Question: Why is it necessary to change our qualities in order to feel the Creator?

Answer: For example, a dog perceives the world through scents. Dogs have poor eyesight, and vision is less important to them. Their senses of smell and hearing are extraordinarily developed and serve as a substitute for everything else. A dog can hear what its owner did a hundred meters away and runs to him.

In addition, a dog has an exceptionally developed sense of smell. We see how dogs, running along the street, are constantly sniffing something. For them, smells serve as a map of the world. Therefore, if I want to become closer to a dog, I need to develop the same sense of smell and hearing as it has. Then we will understand each other and will be able to communicate in the same language.

And what if I wanted to see the world the way a snake sees it? Snakes navigate only by thermal sensations. For them, nothing else exists: only heat or cold. But this sensation is so developed in the snake that it is enough for it to feel the entire world as we see it with our eyes.

It seems to us that if we see with our eyes, nothing more is required. But in reality, there are many additional phenomena around us that we do not perceive. Therefore, we know nothing about them and are satisfied with what is necessary for the existence of our physical body.

The snake is also satisfied with its thermal sensations alone. But if I want to come closer to a snake, then I must develop an additional sense—heat and cold. Then I would be able to navigate using that sense, even with my eyes closed.

In other words, we all perceive according to our organs of sensation. The Creator possesses such qualities that He simply passes through us; we do not perceive Him, it is much like radio waves that fill the air. We must develop a special organ of sensation that will have qualities similar to those of the Creator.

If we want to understand a snake or a dog, we need to develop the sensitivity to heat and cold like a snake, or the sense of smell like a dog. In the same way, we must develop an organ of perception similar to the Creator in order to sense Him.
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From KabTV’s conversation “New Life 516 – The Wisdom Of Kabbalah: God And I, Part 2,” 2/5/15

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Today we have approached a state where we can gather into one single unified whole. By doing this, we encompass the entire universe within ourselves; we begin to construct from within ourselves the model that really exists and to reveal the true model: the unification of human souls, which include the inanimate, vegetative, and animate parts of nature, and above all, the spiritual ones.

A person who begins to work with his friends in this manner draws closer to perceiving the universe as a single unified whole. Then, naturally, he sees all the worlds, including our own, interwoven and contained within one another.

He sees them permeated, integrated, and bound by a single force called the “Creator,” and amidst all of this, he sees himself existing eternally and ascending through the degrees of perfection. That is, he sees the universe in its true form, a reality not limited by our world, which is lost within this entire picture.

Therefore, the fact that we are approaching a state when my students can begin to work on the perception of reality described in the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” is already a serious stage.

I hope that in the near future all the people who are with us to one degree or another, regardless of where they live, will be included in this picture of the perception of the world. This is liberation from egoistic shackles, from the limitations in which souls remain before contact with the spiritual, with the true creation.

This is the revolution in man, such is the most important moment of his existence, because after this, further revelation follows. He has entered into the sensation of the true volume, of the true universe, and that is all. And now there follow only 125 degrees of spiritual attainment.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Rise Up the Stairs” 9/27/10

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Question: Why does a Kabbalist, who sees reality from the Creator’s perspective and justifies Him, hold such a firm view that we must defend ourselves against enemies, both internally and externally?

Answer: You are essentially asking: “If you are a Kabbalist and are on the other side of the Machsom, then you see how everyone relates to each other with love, and that the enemy does not kill me. On the contrary, he is ready to kill himself in order to relate to me correctly. But if such an enemy actually comes to you now, what will you do?”

In which reality do you exist? Is it the one you perceive in the spiritual realm or the reality of the physical body? Can you combine the spiritual world with the material one or not? You cannot. In the material world, you must behave according to material laws, the laws of bodies; and in the spiritual world, according to spiritual laws.

This confusion will still continue. The world has not yet reached the state of final correction, and therefore there is a difference between the behavior of the body and spiritual behavior. That is why Kabbalists, despite already being on high spiritual levels, still fall ill and sometimes die terrible deaths. In this world, they also suffer greatly from attacks and slander against them. One is not connected to the other, because the world itself has not reached final correction.

When the whole world, that is, the collective awareness of all humanity, crosses over to the other side of the picture, aligns with the Creator, and merges with Him… What does it mean to merge? It means that from your own viewpoint, you move to His viewpoint. And this means that you have drawn closer to Him, merged with Him. You have corrected your attitude toward reality, and now you are like Him.

If everyone does this, then the two sides of a single embroidery (the front and the back) will merge. They will become as one with respect to all the souls of Adam HaRishon, with respect to our shared perception of reality.

And then all of us will have a common view with the Creator; we will be together with Him, in other words, in the state of final correction. Then there will be no difference between the spiritual and the material, neither in bodies nor in souls.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

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Question: What does it mean to combine your minds into one integral mind?

Answer: If we have one goal, then our brains will work to achieve it and connect.

Question: But even today, people are connecting for a common goal, a common business, why don’t they have a common integral mind?

Answer: Because this association is based on their selfishness. If we build our union on the abolition of our egoism, then we begin to feel a common desire arise between us. There is no difference between the desire of one and the desire of the other, as if the genes from both parents are combined in one child.

That is, a common goal is not enough, it is important what it is: to rise above the egoistic nature of everyone and create something truly common, which is possible only with the help of a higher power, which is one for all.

If we both want to unleash the power that created and animates all of reality, then this goal binds us, and we begin to live in a common desire and common mind. We connect to such an extent that it is impossible to distinguish where one is and where the other is; we turn into a third something that is completely new. This is called the “middle line.”

Question: I understand the example of a child with the genes of both parents, but where is the mind we share, in whose head?

Answer: This is no longer possible to imagine in our usual, deterministic concepts. When we unite, we become involved in a higher power, in our root, in the Creator. Our common mind will be in the Creator, who is the common force of bestowal, the source of life. Our mind joins one higher mind in what is known as fusion. We cannot connect with each other directly, only through the Creator.

Question: Who is the Creator?

Answer: The Creator is the desire to bestow and to love; it is the source of all life. Our selfish desires are consequences. Therefore, one can rise above one’s egoism only by joining the Creator, “for our heart will rejoice in Him.”

Question: And where will a person who does not believe in a higher power come to in the process of evolution?

Answer: It will be the same with him as with all the others. It doesn’t matter if he believes or doesn’t believe, he is still under the control of a higher power. A person does not have any freedom of choice and free actions except to accelerate his proper development a little, that is, to strive for unification and adhesion himself. He can learn this from the science of Kabbalah and realize it.

He does not need to believe in a higher power; there is no blind faith here. He only needs to know how to move toward the goal, which he will be obliged to achieve in any case. But he has the opportunity to accelerate its achievement, which will be for his benefit.
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From KabTV’s conversation “New Life 931 – Evolution: The Next Stage,” 12/12/17

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Question: Will the humans of the future possess a more powerful mind?

Answer: The human of the future will have stronger feelings and intellect that are more developed tools for perceiving today’s reality, as well as the reasons to move from it to a new form of perception.

This is not about a simple increase in intelligence; we are not talking about the material mind. We will begin to acquire an “integral mind” by connecting with one another emotionally and intellectually. We will feel that there is a system in which we are all included through our thoughts and our hearts.

This system is the only thing that truly exists. The material world in which we now believe we exist will disappear from our perception. We will suddenly discover that matter does not exist, only waves.

And then we will cease to perceive even the waves and will realize that behind them stands a force, not a physical one that can be detected by mechanical or electrical instruments, but a spiritual force. This spiritual force can only be perceived if we are within the same system as it.

Such a transition from passive evolutionary development under the influence of natural forces to an active one where we ourselves govern our development is possible only through the science of Kabbalah, which explains to a person how to rise to the next level of development.

Through our connection, we create one great force, despite the smallness and egoism of each individual’s personal forces. If we even aspire in potential to unite in order to create a new state between us, and become like one person with one heart, then our minds and desires will unite.

Out of all our desires a single desire will emerge, but it will not be egoistic. In order to unite, we will have to break the egoistic approach that makes each of us opposite to others.

And when our minds unite, this shared mind also acquires a new quality that is altruistic instead of egoistic. Thus, we rise to a new level of connection and become like one person with one heart, one desire, and one mind.

In this way we see that all previous forms (inanimate nature, plants, animals, and humans) were never truly material or physical. They only appeared so in our perception; in reality, they were merely forces.

Modern physics also asserts that all reality is force. And we begin to see reality as the connection between two forces: the force of the Creator and the force of creation.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 931 – Evolution: The Next Stage,” 12/12/17

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Question: Can we say that the creation is a psychological force and the Creator is a spiritual force?

Answer: I do not want to use definitions such as “psychological,” “spiritual,” “material,” and so on. What does psychological or not mean? It is a person’s attitude. You may call it psychological, but this is not human psychology. You see the world from another side according to the extent to which you yourself are in the intention for the sake of bestowal.

How can you see a taxi driver, striving to earn from others, as someone helping everyone with love, if you do not have the corresponding vision? You will not see him that way, because what you reveal in reality corresponds to your own qualities. Change yourself, and the world will change. Do not demand that the world change if you do not change yourself. That will never happen!

The conclusion is simple: work on improving yourself, and then everything will change. The world depends only on your own change, not on the change of others. You will discover that they do not need to change at all.

The whole world is in final correction, the entire world! And you are only now revealing this: “Imagine that, I did not know! They also do not know, but I already know!”

In the article “Two States” in the book “Shamati,” Baal HaSulam writes about this: then a person sees that the holy Shechina is clothed in the whole world, and everyone is engaged in bestowal and exists in a state of stillness.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

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The Creator did not create anything except the final correction. We are in it even now. Everything depends only on our inner development—that’s all! By adopting a different attitude to reality, I will see a different reality. It is not that I will see it as merely a bit more pleasant, a bit more palatable, or perhaps worse, no. I will perceive it as fundamentally something else through all my sensory organs.

Our attitude to reality is called “intention.” To transcend the perception of reality as something existing independently to the understanding that it does not exist by itself, but rather, it is the result of my attitude to it. This signifies the transition from this world into the spiritual world.

In other words, one must rise above matter, above the assumption that “this exists and that’s it.” This does not exist! It is I, who, through my attitude and my intention, determine what truly exists. This is known as shifting from the external to the internal, engaging in the internal. The internal is defined as intentions.

We tend to take intentions for granted. What does it mean “to work with intentions”? “I will relate to this differently and then I will feel better” That is what psychologists say. Therefore, people often advise each other: “Take it more calmly, accept it as a fact.”

In reality, we are speaking of something completely different, something distinct from the conventional human attitude. If I relate to the reality I find myself in from the level of the final correction, it does not simply mean that I relate to it more calmly or passively accept it as doctors and neighbors might advise. Rather, I relate to it differently in its essence: the reality I am in operates according to different laws, not the laws of reception, but the laws of bestowal.

Consequently, I begin to perceive it in an entirely different form, I discern completely different connections between its parts. I see that the whole world, all people, only bestow to one another in absolute similarity to the Creator, and the Creator is clothed in each one and fills them; all are absolute righteous and are in the final correction.

Everything depends on how I perceive the picture of the state, whether I look through the prism of the laws of bestowal or through the prism of the laws of reception.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

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Question: What does it mean “to hear nature”?

Answer: To hear nature means to be close to it.

Question: Close to nature, what is that?

Answer: A person close to nature is one who perceives everything around him as the attitude of the Creator toward him. Therefore, he does not see anything bad in it, right up to his own death. He also does not see anything bad in this: when it comes, it comes, and I go.

Question: Is it possible to live like this, in warmth and calm?

Answer: Yes, why not? Of course. It is an inner voice within oneself that simply has to be revealed.

Comment: But we have been deprived of this hearing, of hearing nature.

My Response: It is our egoism that locks us inside ourselves and does not let us turn anywhere.

Question: So, is it better for it that we do not hear nature?

Answer: It is an evil force that acts in parallel with the good force, but we give preference to this evil force.

Question: And how can we begin to yearn for nature, for this hearing?

Answer: Try to penetrate inside nature; this is a connection with the Creator. We must try to draw closer to Him. And then everything will work out for us.

Question: But this requires clarification. For a person, what is the Creator?

Answer: Everything that is around us.

Question: Is it all the Creator?

Answer: Yes. And even everything that is within us is all the Creator.

To come closer to Him means to reveal your sensations so that there would be no borders, no barriers, between you and Him. And then you will feel that in general, the whole world is filled with a subtle singing. That is how I would put it.

Question: Beautiful! I will not even try to clarify what that is. Let this feeling remain. Tell me, is this necessary for our survival?

Answer: The point is not to survive in this world, but to be in harmony with it. And that is how this harmony comes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/16/26

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In Baal HaSulam’s article “The Concealment and Revelation of the Creator,” he describes the extent a person’s attitude toward reality alters the entire picture, from hell to heaven. He explains that in truth nothing actually changes. You are in Malchut of the world of infinity, in the final state. You are merely being guided through various impressions so that you may change your attitude toward them.

Nothing changes! You must change your attitude within the very reality in you currently exist. You cannot accomplish this in one go; therefore, you are led through various states, one after another, so that each time you will be able to deliberately change your attitude toward them, until you reach the final state in which you understand with absolute clarity that you have always been in it, you simply failed to perceive it due to your attitude, you did not realize where you were.

In principle, what we feel and call our world is not where we are, but rather where our attitude is. Our attitude reveals a specific segment of reality to us, presenting a picture of it solely in accordance with our attitude toward it. It is this perception that we designate as “worlds.”

There are no distinct worlds, no separate degrees, and no discrete states; rather, my ever-changing attitude toward the environment in which I am immersed is what alters this picture for me. It is this shifting picture that I refer to as degrees or worlds.

Therefore, if we try to relate to reality in a more correct way, we will return to the true reality and discover it as it really is. What follows from this? If we do not work on improving our attitude to the state we are in, the state remains inert, it is dead. This implies that I am failing to consciously define my attitude to my world and my state. However, the moment I begin to define my attitude, seeking to evaluate it differently, from a new perspective, I embark on the process of inner development.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

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Question: What does it mean that if I change my attitude to reality, the world is revealed to me? How does this happen?

Answer: The world being revealed to you means that you have succeeded in perceiving the picture you are in with a different understanding of the connections between things. You suddenly see that people and laws that exist in the world have different connections, different intentions, different goals. You manage to discover a more inner layer of reality. This means that your attitude to all of reality has changed and you see another world.

To do this you must constantly strive for an ever more inner perception, try to see what is behind the outer facade. What does “beyond the Machsom,” the spiritual world, mean? It means that beyond this world you begin to reveal the connections between things, the plan of creation, which connects all the details in this world.

Then you see that there is a completely different intention there, not the one that seems to you from this side. And the connections are determined by completely different formulas, not at all what appeared to you before. You see that everyone bestows to one another, everyone loves one another, and there is nothing bad in the world, provided you look at it from the other side, in accordance with the true connections between things.

Rabash gives the following example: a person is given a desire for money. Suppose you see that a taxi driver whom you perceive as dull-witted as his car’s engine, as someone who is driven only to earn as much money as possible, who never turns on the meter, who overcharges you double the fare, and so on.

And suddenly, from the other side, you see that this person wants to bestow and to help his neighbor. He is constantly thinking about whom to take where and how to make it so that everyone will be as comfortable as possible. It only seems to him that he wants to earn money. In fact, he simply “reads” his state in the wrong way. His attitude is incorrect. But you already see this picture from the other side, from beyond the Machsom.

It is like looking at embroidery. On the reverse side there are always various knots and connections in which it is impossible to make sense. A person sees the front side, but he does not see all the true connections on the reverse. And when he is given the possibility to see the reverse side of the embroidery, he discovers the correct relations between things.

This is what we lack. But we acquire it by rising along the degrees and reaching the best possible state. This means that you see this world, which does not change (“the world continues to live by its own laws”), and at the same time the second side, all the connections that exist between the parts of reality. And then you can justify the Creator, see that it was always so from the outset, it is just that your vision was not ready to see it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/15/26, Rabash, “What It Means that the Generations of the Righteous are Good Deeds, in the Work”

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