Question: Antonio Stradivari lived more than 90 years and made more than 1,100 stringed instruments. 650 Stradivarius violins made more than 250 years are still considered to be among the finest instruments.

The latest technology cannot even come close to the sound of a Stradivarius violin. The International Association of Violin Makers has tried many times to reveal the secret of the master, and they have come to nothing. There are all sorts of logical explanations: the wood was different, the times are different, all sorts of things.

Tell me, please, what is the secret of such masters like Antonio Stradivari?

Answer: We must first understand what happens in our ear, why exactly, and what can cause such a reaction from its strings.

Question: Meaning, how can these sounds enter us like that? Is there a secret in this?

Answer: There is a secret. But I think even Stradivari himself did not know about it—he just worked this way. And the secret lies in a special combination of sounds that affect the heart. Here we need to think about how the heart responds first, and then the ear hears. That is the most important thing, and no one knows it. Stradivari did not know these internal mechanics either.

Question: So he was more like the executor of some will?

Answer: His hands and he in general were moved by an inner instinct.

Question: It didn’t happen without the Creator, right?

Answer: No, of course not.

Question: So an ordinary person is chosen, and later we talk a lot about them. But in fact, the person is chosen and a secret is carried out through him. This secret is suitable for anything and not only the violin or the cello?

Answer: Yes, anything, not only musical instruments. The sound should not pass into the ear but into the heart, and only then it comes out through the ear.

Question: Does it come out of the ear?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So I don’t hear with my ears?

Answer: No, with the heart.

Question: Does a word have such a quality as the sound, as you say now?

Answer: Of course. This is exactly how a word is pronounced.

Question: Is it necessary to find a word that penetrates into the heart and only then is heard?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Are there such words at all?

Answer: Yes.

Question: How do we find such words in our science? We are studying a science that is not curiosity, not knowledge. How can we find such words that will penetrate the heart?

Answer: It is very simple. I asked my teacher, Rabash, about this. He said: “Have you heard what is said in the Shema prayer? Shema, Michael.” I was surprised: “Why “Michael” if it is a Shema, Israel prayer?

Because Israel is a common name. But in fact, you can substitute any name there.

Question: Is this an appeal to the heart: “Shema, Michael”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is the Shema prayer considered one of the highest prayers?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Have we now reached the point where prayer is first heard by the heart?

Answer: Yes. And only then is it heard by the ear or heard at all.

Comment: You keep saying that the prayer of an ordinary person is higher than the prayers composed by sages, the Kabbalists.

My Response: Yes, because he feels it. He has an inner resonance of his heart with the upper word. Therefore, this is the highest appeal to the Creator.

Question: Meaning, when a person pronounces an appeal with feelings, he hears it first from above?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this appeal not born in him?

Answer: No, of course not.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/1/22

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Question: Some people have mental disorders and think they are in the spiritual worlds. A Kabbalist who has attained spirituality also feels a certain duality. Where is the boundary between mental instability and a person’s spiritual attainment?

Answer: People come to me and say: “I am already in the world of infinity. I corrected everything, and what about you?” There are such interesting impressions a person gives about himself. From the outside, of course, you can see, or cannot see whether he is in spirituality. If it is an outsider, he can conceal himself.

Usually, each of us sees the upper world with his inner sense, with the quality of bestowal developed in him only if he has already entered into constant contact with the upper nature and the Creator has been revealed to him, and not just for a moment.

After all, if he really wants it or suffers a lot, he can feel the manifestation of the upper force implicitly for a short period of time. But this is not an obvious feeling of the Creator, but a feeling of warmth that you are entering.

A person clearly knows and understands spirituality only when he has already passed the barrier between the two worlds. How can you determine whether one is behind the barrier or not?—By the quality of bestowal and love, which constantly embraces him toward everyone. But it can also be deceptive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Split Personality” 12/21/13

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Question: We are on the eve of the new year. Why, when there is a change of year, do people feel some kind of excitement and fulfillment? What is the root of this phenomenon? After all, we know that there is no time in spirituality. Why do people perceive it this way?

Answer: Firstly, there is no corporeal time in spirituality, and there is no spiritual time in corporeality. Therefore, it is not easy to talk about time.

In principle, the concept of time is quite complex. On one hand, this is connected to the coordinates we are in, against what and how we measure time and whether it exists at all. Is it purely our subjective inner feelings or is it really some kind of constant that dictates the course of our existence to us all the time? All this is not simple.

However, the fact that people get excited when the year changes is a common phenomenon that has nothing to do with spiritual roots.

The beginning of times, the end of times, and some kind of times, they of course do exist. But the “New Year” itself was adopted by people only in order to have some kind of reference point.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/25/22

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Question: What is the right way to go against one’s egoistic desires?

Answer: You cannot overcome your egoistic desires if you do not resist. Above all your desires, you need to build a connection with the Creator.

After all, everything that arises in you now gives you a feeling directed against the unity of the Creator, against His existence, and you must behave as if He exists, as if He is the one and only source of everything that happens, who is absolutely good and doing only good.

And you get a completely different, constantly changing picture against these settings. But you rise above them and act, saying: “You give me these feelings, these thoughts, these relationships with everyone, and this attitude to everyone, you build this worthless world around me. And I will treat You above all this as good, bringing good, the only one who exists, and the cause of everything that happens. And in general, all this around me does not exist, there is only You!”

Suppose you are talking to me now, which means that I do not exist; you treat me as the Creator’s influence on you, and I do not exist. The same for me. Even those thoughts and feelings that arise in me, it is You who arouse them. And who am I? I am only an expert point that feels all this and is tuned to perceive it this way. And then the soul begins to develop from this expert point.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Get Over Yourself” 2/15/14

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Question: The pioneer of research in the field of neuroscience Benjamin Libet proved that a person’s decision arises before he makes a decision, that the brain is 100 – 200 ms ahead of consciousness. It turns out that what comes from the outside comes along with the reaction to it.

It sounds like a revolution. There is no choice, there is no freedom. I am receiving some kind of a blow, and my response to this blow is already embedded in it. Where am I here?

Answer: There is no “I.” Why do you think that every person has some kind of “I,” that he should imagine that he has his own opinion, his own reaction, understanding, and response to what is happening?

Comment: But man is thinking, reasoning.

My Response: I understand you. But it has nothing to do with the truth.

Everything that we feel is all represented in our consciousness, sub consciousness, super consciousness, it doesn’t matter what you call it, but all this only appears to us.

Question: What do you mean “appears”? My brain works, it is given to me for something. Why was the mind given to us? It is to realize, to make a decision. There are formulas that we have known since childhood.

Answer: It is in order for you to annul your brains, your consciousness, and accept that you are in an upper consciousness.

Question: So my only consciousness should be that my mind is given in order for me to attain the upper consciousness?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: Still, there is freewill here.

My Response: Freedom is only in the fact that you want to jump higher than yourself, in wanting to feel the upper world in the quality of bestowal and not in the quality of reception, in rising above your egoism.

Comment: While I live in the quality of reception, I live within reason, within logic, and so on. And you say it is all in order to eliminate the reason.

My Response: It must be removed. Reason is given in order to annual it and master the upper mind instead.

Question: What will this upper mind do if I master it? What will it do to me, to my “I”?

Answer: It will teach you the quality of bestowal, to bind the whole creation within yourself, to imagine the whole universe as one single whole. That is when you will see a whole new world.

Question: Will I get to a state when everything around me is a single whole, a single organism, only if I turn from receiving for myself to bestowing to others? Is that why everything is given to me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And the fact that scientists are approaching this, does it provide anything?

Answer: No. They feel that something is wrong; they have wandered into the wrong place, but they cannot agree and understand this because they are internally not built for this. They do not have the qualities of bestowal, love, and connection with others based on which they would begin to see the correct universe.

Question: So, all our scientific discoveries, one way or another, are only in the field of our mind and that is it?

Answer: Only, at the level of our world.

Question: Why do we need scientists then?

Answer: In order to be disappointed in all sciences.

Question: So you see the need for them to come to a dead end and disappointment?

Answer: As a result, we will see that all this does not give us anything, not the Moon, Mars, Venus, nor all these underground, aboveground creatures, spaceships, etc.

Science is all completely unnecessary. We can understand the truth only when we unite into one whole.

Question: Will we unite into one whole only when the upper mind comes to us, when we can attract it?

Answer: When we want it to come to us, we will slowly begin to see the light. It will slowly begin to unfold in us, and then it will be a real science.

Question: So, our main action is to want?

Answer: Yes.

Question: We just said that a problem comes, and then its solution comes. Now you said: “Our main problem is to want.” Where is the solution here?

Answer: It means that we should just try to explain to each other and support each other in that we should come to a connection, to a complete connection between us. And then help will come because we will be a completely different organism—one, whole.

Question: Despite the fact that we will do this almost automatically, will we talk all the time and move toward this?

Answer: Let’s say that we will just talk about it, but we will not be able to do it. But from our conversations, gradually, gradually, we will receive an external impact, and it will make us a single whole.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/25/22

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Every line of the Torah has such depth. The Torah is infinite, as if the whole sea is in one drop. As Kabbalah says: the whole universe exists in every point of the universe.

Question: How can this be?

Answer: It is like a holographic picture because everything consists of everything. Our world is only now beginning to understand this based on holography. In principle, if there is perfection, then every part of it must be perfect. How can it be imperfect if it must be equal, similar, and completely repeat the whole in everything?

It turns out that the whole and the part are absolutely equivalent. Every person and the whole world are absolutely equal.

Question: Then how did something imperfect come out of the perfect Creator?

Answer: The Creator created the creation not out of Himself, but out of nothing. The will to receive is His imprint. That is, we are absolutely opposite to Him. But our final state is equal to the Creator and perfect. We must reach it by ourselves.

We, as if, go back by the same path and become more and more perfect by returning to the source. Kabbalah and the Torah are engaged in this.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 2/12/10

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Question: What joint actions between people are welcomed from the Kabbalistic point of view?

Answer: Actions such as sitting together and studying. Sitting together and eating together. Sitting together, discussing the greatness of the goal and the attainment of the upper world.

Participating together in some joint actions aimed at connection, at spreading the idea of equality, brotherhood, and solidarity, all things that the Soviet government reproached the West with and claimed that the West did not have these things but the Soviets did, and eventually was revealed that they did not have unity either. But it was a powerful card to play.

In general, Kabbalah welcomes everything that leads to the connection of people because precisely within it the next state of the world is revealed. When a person comes from opposing others to a real connection with them above his egoism, it is in this connection that the upper world is revealed, that is, our next state.

We do not have to die to move into this state. In general, our death does not mean anything. After all, the death of an animalistic body, like any animal, does not mean anything because absolutely nothing happens to the person.

The only thing we lack is just a serious connection between us, when the “I” disappears and instead the “we” is created in which we feel a completely new state of ourselves and the whole world.

Perception changes. You see a different picture of the world, how all people are interconnected and how everything around is filled with the force that drives the universe. One should feel this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mind of the Crowd” 11/23/13

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Question: You explained that we never see people in their true form; that is, our egoism hides who they really are from us. In turn, others also seem to see you not in the form that you are, but in a form they put on you that is comfortable for their egoism.

Where is the truth then?

Answer: There is no truth. There is no real truth; it is always relative. And the absolute truth will be only with the complete correction of all states of humanity when it reaches complete correction.

Right now, we cannot define it. But we know that truth manifests itself only in the property of bestowal and love, that is, in absolute goodness. What is absolute goodness, I do not know.

I can say that in some ways I define it for myself. But it is above me, above my nature; it is when I can put myself in the most objective position, that is, when I am not taking any of my own desires and motives into account, but instead rising above myself, accepting the desire of another, and acting only in his name.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Whom to Believe?” 11/16/13

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Question: Why is there an illusion that I can influence any external factor that is in front of me?

Answer: Because you still exist only in one plane. You are like a bug that is just crawling without understanding that there is also height. In the same way, we do not understand that the universe is arranged in a completely different, non-egoistic way.

We run into all kinds of troubles all the time and live trying to dodge them. Such is the world, and such is our state.

To show us how to get out of it, there is the wisdom of Kabbalah. Otherwise, a person will come out of these states by a method of trial and error and hitting sharp corners all the time, which is very, very painful. It will take a long time for a person to learn from this.

We see how people do not want to learn. You tell them what the problem is and why they are experiencing such a crisis, but they do not want to accept this method. Why? Because it is against their will to receive, although small and petty, but it is against it. That is why they keep suffering, but no one wants to hear you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Turn an Enemy Into a Friend” 11/18/13

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Question: If you face a criminal who is against you, there are two approaches to deal with him. The classic, conventional approach is to resist, to fight externally, to suppress, to defeat him. And the Kabbalistic approach is to change this in yourself, and then the adversary will change. How is this change produced?

Answer: It is very simple! It is very direct and obvious. Let’s say someone wants to strike me, that is, kill the possibility of my correction in me. Life is cut short; this means that the opportunity to correct oneself, to carry oneself toward the goal of creation is terminated. In that case, I have to strike him. But only if he wants to annihilate me.

And if he doesn’t have that intention, then I have to think about how to correct him. How to correct this quality in me, so that it changes in me, and outside of me into something else, so that I see him as a friend, not by accepting his conditions, but by correcting his image in myself.

Question: You frequently say, “Find in yourself.” How can we do this?

Answer: For this, friends are given to you. Try to find contact with them and correct what you can correct. Among them you will find those qualities that create these images of haters outside of you. You have to correct them in your connection with your friends. As much connection as possible, as deeply as possible, as obviously as possible,  discover the quality of bestowal and love between you, and further already try to reach such a connection where all this is corrected. And then the external is corrected.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Turn an Enemy Into a Friend” 11/18/13

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