Comment: You once said that 99.9% of people who study Kabbalah leave before they reach the initial state.

My Response: Usually, in their attempts to ascend, many fall from this path. Then in the next cycle, or after several years, they try again. It is very difficult.

In principle, 99% leave because they do not understand or do not realize that 99% of their effort is the effort of the upper light. The light works on them, and they need to contribute only 1%.

But this participation must be very subtle, delicate, and selective. It must be precisely such that it draws the influence of the upper light upon oneself. A person, when he carries out certain actions, should assume that through these actions he is drawing the upper light onto himself, and see his future and his fulfillment in this alone. It is as if you are waiting for air, for something that does not depend on you, it will come, and that is it!

This is the state that we must have, where we act with all our strength—we study, we try to unite, to disseminate, anything—and on the inside there is this feeling of waiting. This is the concept of “awaiting the Messiah.”

This is why Jews were called “zhidy”—from the word “to wait”—those who wait for redemption. This is the redemption.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Soul without a Body,” 10/5/10

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Question: Lately, I cannot understand what faith above reason is. Could you explain how one reaches this state, and what it actually is? As I understand, it is given by the Creator, and without this faith, one cannot move anywhere.

Answer: Faith above reason is that the intention to bestow and love are higher (in importance) than the intention for one’s own sake.

This happens under the influence of the surrounding light that descends during study, and while participating in the group, and dissemination. Until the light gives you this quality, you cannot understand it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/28/08

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Comment: You have a very broad mind, but the human brain cannot perceive and sense the entire universe so broadly. There is wisdom in you.

My Response: This is a consequence of spiritual attainment, not because on the earthly level I am intelligent. On the earthly level, I am not Newton or Einstein.

Question: Then where does your vast knowledge come from?

Answer: The fact is that I have a completely different volume of desire. In my desire, I look at everything that happens in this world as a game of little children. I see our world on a level that I can easily grasp, understand it through-and-through from top to bottom and from bottom to top in its entire volume, in all its connections. For me, it is like a sandwich.

I see it consisting of four parts: still, vegetative, animate, and human levels of matter, and see how they interact with each other and gradually develop so that the human level will finally rise upward, into the spiritual world, and pull all the other levels along with it.

I see this purely speculatively, visually, but precisely because I have developed a spiritual Kli, a spiritual desire, within myself. Otherwise, I would not be able to see with such volume and such clarity from top to bottom and, so to speak, manipulate it.

I have spoken with scientists in our world with great minds who contain so much information based on the fact that “someone said,” “someone thinks,” “according to this,” NS “according to that.” They drown in an enormous mass of information, unable to chew it. Because they rely on knowledge, and therefore, it is difficult for them.

Question: But you cannot see through all the states of other people, can you? You are not omnipresent to see everything as if on a plate.

Answer: Yes, I see nature in general. Of course, I do not know all the states, all the metamorphoses, everything that happens and passes through each one. I simply know the general plan of development. I have gone through it myself and therefore understand what the others must go through since the path of the individual and the path of the whole are absolutely identical.

I know the nature of all transformations and changes, and therefore, it is no secret to me. I do not know a person’s private states; I am not a psychic who can look at another person and say what he is thinking, like Wolf Messing.

Kabbalah, by the way, does not give such abilities at all (to do some kind of extrasensory tricks in our world, perform various stunts, add twenty-digit fractions, numbers, and so on). It does not allow seeing the past or seeing the future in a private sense; it simply gives the general system of all development. You feel how you pass through this system, and understand from what you are now going through, how it must develop further.

You do not enter private souls. And why is that needed? What difference does it make what I might see in others?

Question: So, you recall the states you went through, and only because of this can you understand what is happening with a person?

Answer: Of course, only from my own experience and only up to the degree on which I am today. If you ask me about what is above this degree, I can only guess, I am not certain, absolutely not certain.

Moreover, all my experience tells me that all this is absolutely incorrect. On the contrary, if you tell me: “What do you think: will it be this way or that way,” I can tell you anything, and it will still be unpredictable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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Question: You say that everything spiritual is feelings. What are feelings?

Answer: Feelings are what happens in the desire, and desire is our matter. That is, we are talking about matter and the form of matter. This is what we study in Kabbalah and what we can sense, analyze, and reproduce. Therefore, absolutely everything is in our feelings.

Comment: But feelings don’t have a specific location.

My Response: Desire is the very place in which you sense what you feel. My desire is the only reality. And all the objects surrounding me only seem to exist. In fact, they are drawn for me in my desire. Besides desire, there is nothing. Matter is desire.

Comment: In reality, this is something inexplicable.

My Response: It simply cannot be grasped.

Comment: Neither feelings nor desire can be conveyed in any way. Only if, as you say, there is a common form. If someone has experienced it, they can convey the feeling.

My Response: That is why I try, in some way, to push students to start writing emotional works about everyday situations that would lead a person to a certain awakening, similar to a spiritual one, and would accelerate their development.

Question: Is it possible to convey Kabbalah in this way? Can you take all the explanations from the heights and transmit them in a sensory form?

Answer: Yes, try to present all this in the form of various novels. One can, of course, write purely psychologically about a person’s inner states, even when he doesn’t intersect with others. Or one can base it on his relationships with a group, with friends, with animals, with women; it doesn’t matter.

That is, the foundation is always the same, only more complicated. Just like in our world: There are more intelligent people, there are less educated ones, but the foundation is always the same—emotional.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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Question: Do you believe that the Jews of Israel will eventually bring about the correction of all of humanity?

Answer: It is precisely the circumstances in which they find themselves that will compel them to do so. Why does the world around them bristle against them?

This is eternal antisemitism; the perpetual feeling that you are hated and that you must defend yourself and justify your existence in the world. When all this passes over a person from generation to generation, it is transmitted through the genes; it leaves behavioral layers in one’s character, in one’s perception of the world, in one’s attitude toward everything. There is nothing like this in any other nation.

The Jews are not like the Gypsies, who are simply despised, nor like people who impose their culture, manners, way of life, or religion on other nations. In those cases, it all stems from a sense of superiority. But here, on the contrary, it comes from a sense of inferiority, smallness, and worthlessness.

This complex has developed very strongly over the last 2,000 years. It has already produced secondary and tertiary consequences, which gradually evolve and merge with all other philosophies of life.

All this has left a deep imprint on their attitude toward everything and has generated enormous internal stress within the people, especially among the European branch of the Jews who were forced to develop in order to elevate themselves above the surrounding nations in some way, to protect themselves.

We see, in the Middle Ages, how they suddenly experienced a leap in special character traits and intellectual abilities; it is not even clear why. Previously, nothing like this existed anywhere, not even among other branches of Jews in other countries where they lived more or less peacefully.

There is a great deal of research on this topic. And indeed, we see how many scientists, artists, and thinkers they produce. All this is the result of their defensive reaction.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call, The Jews of Israel,” 9/13/10

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Question: Can we consider the revealed Torah as a desire to receive, and the hidden Torah as a desire to receive for the sake of giving?

Answer: No, we cannot. The “hidden Torah” is what we reveal in the process of learning Kabbalah. And the revealed is what is revealed to us as children.

Question: Does the iron wall get broken on both sides? How can one feel the other side?

Answer: You can feel the other side only when you strive to unite with what is outside of you, on the other side of the wall.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: You keep saying not to look back into the past, to cut it off and not look back. How can we do that?

Answer: I think it is just a conviction, a self-persuasion, that I have no connection with the past. The past falls off, is cut off, disappears, vanishes, and fades away like a haze.

Question: Do I have to master the present?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/19/25

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Question: If we take the upper governance, the Creator, and look at the human world, at these eight billion people as the Creator does, is there a specific place a person should be, and what is his place, in general? Or is there nothing that specifically belongs to a person?

Answer: That is pure psychology. It is possible to throw a person anywhere, and he will get used to it and will consider it his home.

Question: Does it mean a person can make this step and say, “This land is my home”? Can he move from place to place and live this way?

Answer: Yes. As soon as I realized that I had to move to Israel, I immediately moved from Belarus to Lithuania. I found myself in a different atmosphere.

Question: To make it easier to leave?

Answer: Yes. The first question was “When are you leaving?” In Belarus they were afraid to say this. That is all. Everything was quite simple.

Question: Meaning, a person has to accept what already currently exists and embrace it?

Answer: Yes, cut off his past.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/17/25

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Question: Is it possible for relationships between people to be built only on good things? Between friends, between husband and wife, without quarrels, divorces, and suffering— only good relations, is that possible?

Answer: No, everything is attained only from destruction. Therefore, a person who has not gone through all these periods of “ups and downs,” rises and falls, is unable to appreciate it. He will not cherish such relationships.

Question: So you even support the feeling of destruction in the connection between people? As if everything is falling apart?

Answer: Of course. It is necessary for them to experience these feelings too so that they guard their relationships and do not allow them to reach such a state.

Question: But those feelings would hang over them, right?

Answer: Absolutely. How could it be otherwise? Two egoists! Could they perform some kind of operation, cut their egoism out of themselves and become sweet, harmless little idiots?

Comment: That would not be good.

My Response: It is impossible! We meet, we bump into each other, and then, having despaired, we begin to understand how life can be built when you strive only for good relationships. You no longer need, as in youth, to be sometimes in bad relations and then in good ones, and so on, but only in good ones.

Question: But that comes through the ups and downs at a young age?

Answer: Of course. Without that, nothing can exist. You must accumulate this arsenal of all kinds of negative feelings and states, and then you will avoid them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/14/25

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Question: Can you give any principle ordinary people should live by?

Answer: The principle is very simple—do not worry. That is all.

Question: So all these career ladders are worthless?

Answer: We can see it all crumbling before our eyes.

Question: And the search for the meaning of life?

Answer: The search for the meaning of life is to find a point of balance with the Creator where you understand that everything must go according to His plan. And you ultimately resign yourself to His plan  and float along calmly.

Question: Basically, this whole life path, everything, everything should come down to what you just said? Is it the search for this point of contact with the Creator?

Answer: Yes, find that current, join it, and sail along it.

Question: And when does the kind of calmness that you radiate now come? After all the running, searching, or after touching something, some kind of truth? When?

Answer: I think it might come after 20 years of studying Kabbalah. And if you are in the right environment, even sooner. Because you will hear from everyone, from there and from here, and so on.

Question: And then we return to all these principles, then they become real? Calm, unhurried, do not make God laugh with your plans.

Answer: You do not interfere with any of your plans and actions. You simply live, trying to grasp the flow of life more deeply.

Question: What do I grasp, anyway?

Answer: You grasp what comes from the Creator and carries you away. This is actually time. The river of life.

Question: Time, what do you interpret it as? For me, it can be the ticking of a clock, the passing of time, or aging.

Answer: No, no. It is just a current. A flow. And you feel like you agree with it, are ready to fall into this current and let it carry you.

Question: And is this the right principle, the right way to live your life?

Answer: Yes, you cannot do anything else anyway. Conversely, wisdom lies in submission.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 10/20/25

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