Question: Is there any parallel between the development of the spiritual embryo and the embryo in our world?

Answer: The development of a spiritual embryo occurs in the same way as in a human in our world.

Question: As a rule, an embryo has stages of development according to a pattern. For example, a cell is formed on the first day, then the pregnancy develops further strictly according to days an hours including the attachment to the uterus and other processes.

Why do they occur exactly this way and what do they reflect? Is it possible to convey something through this by studying this process?

Answer: I do not understand what does “to convey” mean? To whom and what? I know that I have to define a higher instrument, property, object, desire relative to myself; it doesn’t matter what I call it. I have to attach myself to it.

When I begin to attach myself, I form myself relative to it, I create a cell from myself that is built over the course of three so-called spiritual days: the right, the left, and the middle line. I finished, created a cell, and that’s it, I’ve attached to the upper.

And then I begin to develop. My egoism grows and I am above it, opposite to it, as I am attached to the upper. The ego pulls me back into desires to receive, and I, by annulling them, attach to the altruistic desires of the upper. This is how I struggle with these two forces and build myself between them on the middle line.

Question: Does this whole process take place in the womb?

Answer: “In the womb” means annulling oneself in relation to the qualities of the upper, the qualities of bestowal and love.

Question: And then the fetus grows. At about five weeks all the systems begin to form, and by three months, the entire embryo. If you take any animal, absolutely everything in the world is built according to this principle. And is this exactly the same as the birth of a person in spirituality, his point in the heart?

Answer: Of course.

Question: But ultimately, birth occurs. This is about crossing the Machsom?

Answer: Yes.

Question: A person transitions into a new reality after passing this entire path in the womb?

Answer: Yes, from a closed space he transitions into an open one.

Question: Does this happen within the same physical parameters, meaning he comes out from the mother’s belly?

Answer: This is a completely different attachment to the upper. He becomes independently higher, and therefore feels himself differently.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Birth and Death” 9/18/10

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Question: There is a classic saying that in his life a person should plant a tree, build a house, and beget a son. Suppose he has built his little house, planted his garden, and so on. What is the meaning of all this? Grandchildren run around who hate their grandfather; children wait for him to finally die. And nothing good happens at the end of life except disappointment.

Must a person necessarily come to disappointment at the end of life?

Answer: You don’t have to; you don’t have to be disappointed. It is up to you. As a rule, people who die a natural death agree that they must die. They simply die from exhaustion.

Question: But not from joy, not with a smile?

Answer: No, I would not say that because it is a kind of deliverance. A person does not think of death as something terrible. It appears to him as liberation from various problems, especially those that cannot be solved that are still hanging over him and he is tired of.

Comment: I have seen many people your age who have given up on themselves.

My Response: They simply have nothing left anymore. Especially when a person retires, he has nothing left but to continue his animal existence for as long as his body lasts. Then, of course, nothing can be done; you live involuntarily because the body lives.

Comment: But at the same time they do not want to perceive anything. It is as if they have shut themselves inside their little world.

My Response: Tired! Tired.

Comment: Once he was ready for anything. You explain to him…

My Response: You cannot explain anything to him because inside us operates the desire that causes all our actions.

Around 50 and onward, a person’s desire begins to fade. Until 40 he lives with open eyes. From 40 to 50 one begins to stabilize, and then one begins to decline in one’s desires. And when these desires completely disappear, the body dies.

Desires bring about life, flourishing, or the death of the body. That is all! The body by itself could live for thousands of years. It is the desire that leaves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Purpose of Life,” 9/19/10

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Question: You say that a person should improve and change. Some people can intelligently lay out what is happening in the world and why. Some religions describe this by saying: “Because people do not believe in God, He punishes them.” How can you stand out from a large number of smart people?

Answer: I am not going to stand out.

Comment: But you want people to know the truth.

My Response: I say what I say, but I do not want to criticize others. A person who yearns for serious analysis and scrutiny of cause-and-effect phenomena will see a rational seed in me, and in all others, their failure.

Comment: Many people convert to Buddhism. They may think they will find peace in Buddhism.

My Response: They may think that, sit there for a few years there, and then come to their senses because they will not find a solution. Their solution is to disconnect from this world, reach nirvana, and detach from everything.

Where do we see an example where Buddhists are happy? Where do we see in India (with its castes and disunity, where people live in squalor, and everyone fights for their piece of bread while they worship the sacred cows that walk the streets) an example that we should live like this? Is it the fact that they retreat into their illusions where they find at least some escape from this life? Or is it their belief in burning souls and then launching candle-lit boats along the Ganges?

I do not see anything in this, not in their state structure, nor in their friendship with each other when they shout about love. What kind of love is there with their castes where you cannot give a hand to another, let alone marry someone from another caste, where there is such poverty, such a separation between classes?

What can they set an example in? In an escape from reality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Harry Potter Platform” 10/4/10

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After a person crosses the machsom, one moves forward—one’s soul teaches the person. He understands where he is.

Question: Is the method that the Kabbalists pass down primarily intended for the preparatory stage?

Answer: No. Kabbalists write about many stages. For example, The Book of Zohar speaks only of the three lines when you are already moving up the ladder of spiritual ascent. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we are talking about ongoing spiritual movement.

Of course, there are articles and letters that deal with the preliminary stages. But in principle, the main material concerns serious spiritual advancement.

The preparatory stage is like this: act as you can, and then see what happens. No matter how much you talk about it, a person still doesn’t fully understand it.

The main problem that throws people off is that they either confuse Kabbalah with religion, believing they must perform some external actions, or they confuse it with work as in our world where the result depends directly on your own effort, or they confuse it with Eastern methods where you do nothing and simply wait for everything to come.

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, spiritual work is built on the middle line. You must make many efforts, become disillusioned with your own strength, and reach a genuine request for the light to correct you. By doing this, you create the conditions for the light to act upon you. The Creator does not need your suffering or your pleas; rather, your desire becomes ready to change—and then it changes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, Over the Machsom” 9/12/10

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Question: Let’s say a person is studying Kabbalah. But in the world around him all kinds of negative actions, hatred, intimidation, etc. are happening. You say: “It does not have any effect. Follow a clear path toward the goal. And everything that happens is, as it were, special effects that distract you; they simply divert you from the main path.”

But what for? If a person does not pay attention to these “special effects” and focuses on the goal, why are they needed?

Answer: It is in order to work them through. You must rise above them and connect with the goal. These “special effects” and everything that is created in the world are needed to direct you toward the goal, to lift you up, to sharpen your movement, and to accelerate it. Only for this! It is in order to more sharply orient you on the goal and accelerate the movement toward it. Nothing else.

Comment: So if someone puts a knife to your throat, you say, “Excuse me, I have to run to the lesson now”; or something else. And you say: “Don’t be afraid, it is all for your own good.”

Answer: Yes, this is how everything is arranged. And this is felt when a person works on himself in order to somehow create the image of the Creator within himself. He sees that from all these images that are created by him, before him, inside him, and outside of him are all so that he can correctly form the image of the Creator within himself.

Image means qualities, not some visual image, but, let’s say, character. The character of the quality of bestowal and love.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. External factors or why does everyone hate Jews?” 9/14/10

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I am not in favor of suffering. There are many examples of people choosing suffering and believing that this elevates them. This is incorrect.

Question: What does it mean not to suffer?

Answer: If you clearly understand, and you have the conditions where your suffering alleviates someone’s difficulties and helps them progress, then yes. But if this exists only in your imagination…

Comment: You have raised the bar now by saying: “If my suffering makes someone’s life, fate, and soul easier for someone.” You did not say “for me,” but “for someone.”

My Response: For someone else, of course.

Question: So if it serves as an example for someone, and I do this in order to set an example that it is possible, try it?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: That is high!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/5/25

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Question: Can you give an example of how to rise above an egoistic state?

Answer: The most common state a person goes through is when something “unpleasant” is orchestrated from above, some kind of negative incident, and then they are manipulated, supposedly revealing it to the whole world. Because of this, a person finds him or herself in a constrained, intensely anxious, stressful state, terribly afraid for their good name.

They are pressured from above to show how much they love themselves and how unwilling they are to sacrifice their ego for any thoughts about spirituality, how they are even ready to run away from spiritual work just so they would not be exposed or revealed in any way, so that their insignificance would not be shown. These are the usual exercises carried out from above on our egoism.

But it is easy to talk about this, and when you are actually in such states, living through it is almost impossible. A person constantly wavers on this borderline, back and forth: either spirituality is important to me, or my ego, my shame. They keep examining and re-examining this. This condition is given so that they constantly try to understand that they must follow the path of bestowal and rise above their shame. This cannot be ignored.

I believe that one day films and books will be created on this topic and the time will come when it will be published, not only in a purely instructive format as it is today, but also in more popular styles accessible to many.

We know that today our sources are understood by only a small percentage of the population. Therefore, (just as Baal HaSulam dreamed) we will have to write new books, create new films, and new media tools that will emotionally bring a person into these states, because reason alone cannot achieve much. These tools should prepare a person through feelings, inner definitions, and inner analyses for the perception of spiritual influences.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Over the Machsom” 9/12/10

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Question: Is everything we do during the preparation period aimed at becoming disillusioned with our abilities?

Answer: Of course! The first phase is necessary to confirm that my entire being is singularly egoistic in all my thoughts, actions, and desires.

This egoism disconnects me from the Creator; that is the main point. I am not just an egoist, no. The egoism disconnects me from the Creator so much that I start to get angry at myself, at others, and at Him, and wonder why this is happening. I am in a struggle between Him and me and don’t know whether to justify Him or not for what is happening to me.

The most unpleasant, terrible things, happen to me with such inner scrutiny and analysis that an ordinary person does not face. To show me the lowliness of egoism, I am given situations in which I am terribly embarrassed in front of society and very afraid of “exposing” my bad thoughts and desires so as not to be judged or marginalized.

Such sensations are deliberately sent from above to shake a person so he would rise above his states, will not treat them carelessly, and would realize they are all products of his egoism. That is, in order to be in the property of bestowal, you need to think not about yourself, but you must be above yourself, not to avoid shame, but to truly reveal that the property of bestowal is worth paying anything for.

Thus, there are such internal scrutinies that you cannot describe. I believe that, in the future, there will be works of art that describe what Kabbalists discuss in their articles, but in a more artistic, psychologically detailed form.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Over the Machsom” 9/12/10

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Question: You once said that there are many souls that are revealed without clothing in bodies in this world. The body is a help for interaction between souls. But there are forms of souls that are not able to understand where they are. Does it mean that there are souls that perceive this world and others that do not feel this reality?

Answer: In the beginning, a desire was created that was obligated to descend to the very bottom, to a complete disconnection from the light. Only from this lowest state, standing on it with its own feet, does it begin to properly attain itself. But not in the place where we are now, in bodies, because the lowest state is considered to be the state in which we begin to feel the Creator.

Our current state is completely disconnected from the true reality. We exist as if in an unconscious state. We are turned and moved around, but we ourselves, in essence, do nothing. Various actions are performed on us, actions we must go through in order to develop the initial feeling of the light in ourselves, that is, the quality opposite to ours.

As soon as we become able to feel it even a little, to become aware of it, to understand it, then we will immediately find ourselves truly existing on the minimal spiritual degree. And our prior state is like an embryo in a mother’s womb, that cannot be spoken of as existing because the mother does everything for it, and it is only a preparatory process for the birth of the organism.

Although we speak of it as something that exists, something that cannot be killed, still, in any case, it is nobody and nothing. Right now, we are in exactly such a state.

But as soon as we rise to the first spiritual state, its growth begins. That is, we will continuously grow head upward, higher and higher, until the world of infinity, passing through 125 degrees, just as, for example, a human being grows from zero to 125 centimeters.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Soul Without a Body,” 10/5/10

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Comment: Any system, any hierarchy, is built on a leader.

My Response: No. In Kabbalah, the leaders are different. Our leader will be the one who completely annuls himself in relation to me. People still do not understand how strict the hierarchy is in the spiritual world.

In any corporeal sciences or in any corporeal achievements, you can surpass your teacher, move forward and further, as, for example, in the development of sciences. The same applies to children: We want them to develop even more and deeper.

But in Kabbalah a very interesting process takes place. There are two paths in it—from top to bottom and from bottom to top, from the world of infinity to us and from our world to the world of infinity.

Receiving information and spiritual instruction occurs from the top down, and therefore it goes through Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, David, and so on, that is, through all Kabbalists, and ultimately through my teacher and me to those who are my students and even those who are not.

Suppose people listened to us for a bit, picked up this contact, and they disappeared to who knows where; it does not matter. Even if they live somewhere else and study with someone else, it is not important. As a result, they will come to the same result and then, as if, return back.

What do I want to say? In receiving information from above, a student must annul himself before me. This is called the condition of learning from me “mouth to mouth” (“peh el peh“) on the common level of the screen. This is very important! Baal HaSulam writes about this in many of his works.

I cannot say this to the students, because, first of all, there are those who will think that I need their worship, or that they should completely “erase themselves.” The student must gradually understand what it means to cling to the upper, and on the other hand, he must try to be independent all the time.

Any spiritual state consists of two opposites, and the problem lies in our adapting us to it. Therefore, I am very sorry that sometimes such rejections of students from me occur. But nothing can be done.

Either they do such stupid things themselves that can only be compensated later by many years of searching and by other alternative actions of correction instead of those that they should have done earlier.

It was the same for me with my teacher. There is no such thing as going through it absolutely smoothly. There were many small, stupid distances from him: disobedience, even neglect, depending on the level at which all this is evaluated, measured, weighed.

I am absolutely certain that there has never been a student in history who could completely, from the first moment to the last, annul himself before the teacher, so that information would flow into him from top to bottom in the same way with as a fetus in the mother’s womb, when it completely annuls and therefore becomes an integral part of her body and thus develops.

I see that what happened to me happens very often to my students. I was not the most compliant student; on the contrary, there was something in me…

Question: Is it better for a student’s advancement when he is compliant or rebellious?

Answer: It depends on the root of the soul.

Comment: You know that there are students who do everything without question. On the other hand, there are those who resist.

My Response: This is not the kind of resistance and this is not the kind of submission. Submission can stem from pride, while resistance, on the contrary, from the desire to feel as quickly as possible at the junction of contact, in contradictions, where a person must change himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Pyramid” 9/18/10

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