Question: When studying Kabbalah is it better to agree with you or to resist and find out?

Answer: To resist and find out, of course! That is what I want from my students! This is called a Kabbalah teacher.

Question: And faith above reason, where should I be annulled?

Answer: Faith is above reason, that is your work if you are able to carry it out. But at the same time, you are not destroying knowledge, you are not destroying your egoism. You rise above it. It is like a pillow for you on which you build faith, the quality of bestowal above your egoism. Egoism gives you the possibility to build faith.

If egoism disappears, then the quality of bestowal will disappear, since it is built on the opposite of egoism, which works as a counterforce. Therefore, there is absolutely no subordination here!

I know from my own experience how difficult it was for me with my teacher. The more you move forward, the more you begin to hate him. You always feel insignificance in him, emptiness, you cannot agree with him!

I know all this, and that is why I see right through my students. This does not concern me and in no way dictates my attitude toward them. By no means! Not at all! I understand their hatred toward me, because I am presenting them with a method that is against their nature. How can they love me?!

Question: Then why are they with you nonetheless?

Answer: Because they have nowhere to go. That is it!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman against the students” 10/4/10

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Question: (from 11-year-old Idan) If the Creator spoke with people in the Bible and in the Pentateuch, why does He not speak with us now? And if He does speak with us, with today’s generation, then how can we know about it?

Answer: The Creator is constantly speaking to you, but you do not hear Him. He lives in your heart and addresses you, but you do not want to open your heart!

He knocks on your heart as on a door, but you do not open because you do not hear His knocks, you lack hearing, Bina, the quality of bestowal. If someone knocks on the door and you have a hearing problem, you do not hear it. The “ear,” hearing in spirituality, is the level of Bina, the force of bestowal. If you were receptive to bestowal, to love of your neighbor, you would hear that He is addressing you.

Question: What does He say?

Answer: He says: “Let’s embrace! Let’s be together.” But to embrace the Creator means to be like Him, to live in the quality of bestowal and love of one’s neighbor, and this, I do not want! “Give me something for me personally, then come! But with what You are offering me, do not come! I do not want to open to You.” This is what we say to Him.
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From KabTV’s “Ask Kabbalist,” 4/18/2010

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Comment: Recently I checked what is currently popular on television. Almost everything is built on two parameters: sex and violence. The more naked the body, the better.

My Response: Naturally, a naked body distracts people from everything else, because this is our most important instinct, the so-called “basic instinct.”

Sex is the foundation of all pleasures, since it stems from our connection with the Creator, which in the corporeal world manifests in the form of the union of opposite sexes. This is the strongest attraction and the greatest distraction for a person from all other problems.

Sex always arouses a pleasant sensation, because its root comes from the Creator’s desire to give us the entrance of light into our desire, which is felt as sexual union. In Kabbalah, this is called coupling, “Zivug de haAka’a.”

And violence is something scandalous. I don’t think it particularly attracts a person. But in our time, it is necessary for the recognition of the nature of evil. Later on it will disappear.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Basic Instinct” 8/9/10

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Question: Is it true that if we didn’t do harm to others, we wouldn’t get sick?

Answer: Of course! There would be no illnesses, nothing. That is the root of everything.

Question: At the same time, you say that with our nature, it is also impossible to do good to another?

Answer: Impossible.

Question: Then please, lead us out of this dead end. What should we do?

Answer: Well, let us dream a little.

Suppose we invented a virus that would somehow “bite” all of us, and we would begin to feel that we are all the closest of relatives. Like brothers and sisters who simply feel themselves as one whole.

Comment: Meaning, we ourselves can’t do anything, but if a virus came…

My Response: Maybe we can at least want it a little. That is our main task.

For this first we must see who we are today and not deny the bad that exists, not reconcile with it. We need to try to understand that there can be an absolutely opposite quality. Because in nature, all qualities exist in pairs, opposite to one another.

If we truly desire it, then this inversion might happen to us.

Question: But it must happen?

Answer: I think yes. Because nature always manifests itself in two opposite qualities. Therefore, I think that after our current state, when we reach the breaking point, as they say, there will be a reversal, a kind of phase shift.

Comment: And we will begin to understand that everything was created by love and must lead to love.

My Response: It will happen above us, that is, outside of us. It will act upon us in such a way that we will change, become absolutely opposite, loving to the extreme.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 8/21/25

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Question: Many of your students use their material qualities for the dissemination of Kabbalah. They are told that first they must rise out of their egoistic attitude, but they don’t want to listen to anyone. What should be done about this?

Answer: In Kabbalah, as in our world, this is called the suffering of parents: “If youth only knew, if old age only could.” You can’t do anything with such a person except try to educate him as much as possible. But, in principle, everything depends on him.

You give the students what you can, you soften and accelerate their development, but nothing more than that. And then, gradually, they begin to absorb it.

To this day, I am nourished by what I went through with my teacher during twelve years of being by his side. Education is when you give a student the beginning of a connection with you, and then through this connection between souls—whether on the level of our world or from world to world, it doesn’t matter—his further development takes place.

We must look not at bodily interactions within the framework of this world, but at the fact that we exist in the system of souls, and everything happens there.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. If Youth Only Knew, If Old Age Only Could” 10/4/10

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Question: What is an “object” in spirituality?

Answer: An object in spirituality is the desire to receive the light.

Question: There is a feeling that we are ripening for the revelation of the qualities of the ten Sefirot within the ten. How can we help each other accelerate this process?

Answer: We must try to implement what we read in the articles and in The Study of the Ten Sefirot. From this it will become clearer to us what we need to do, how, in relation to whom, and so on.

Question: What is explained in The Study of the Ten Sefirot is the science of spirituality, and it hardly touches our everyday life. To what extent are the concepts of restriction that we study in spirituality connected to restriction in everyday life, when I restrain myself from various excesses? How much does this help in spiritual advancement?

Answer: It helps a lot in spiritual advancement. I can say this with absolute certainty.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/16/25, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It is said that Malchut of the world of infinity adorned herself in order to come to equivalence of form with the upper light. What does this mean?

Answer: Malchut chooses the form in which it can receive, in order to be filled with the light of infinity that was revealed at the beginning of creation.

Question: What is the difference between reality before the Tzimtzum and after the final correction?

Answer: That the true reality becomes revealed.

Question: Is the Tzimtzum, essentially, the only action through which equivalence of form with the Creator is possible?

Answer: For now, yes. And afterward it will depend on how much and in what way the Kli receives. In this will be the equivalence.

Question: Is the act of Tzimtzum connected with the restriction of the desire to bestow?

Answer:Yes, the act of Tzimtzum is the restriction of our will to receive.

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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson  8/15/25 ,”The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Did Kabbalists of the past try to bring the method down to each person?

Answer: No! This has never happened! They have been trying very hard to lower the threshold only in our time, in the last 100 years.

Comment: But you said that the method must be lowered so far that it practically touches the tip of egoism.

My Response: So that it becomes understandable to anyone, to absolutely everyone.

A person living on the simplest egoistic level should clearly understand that the wisdom of Kabbalah reveals the secrets of the world, allows them to understand their destiny, and even change it.

Indeed, by drawing the upper light, we do change our destiny! What else shapes our future if not it?

So it needs to be explained simply and directly to every person while gradually revealing that this involves serious inner work, work on correcting the errors of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Hello Aunt Fenya!” 9/27/10

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Question: If I understand correctly, is Kabbalah about creating difficulties in order to later feel the spiritual?

Answer: No, Kabbalah is not about creating difficulties; it is about revealing the Creator, the quality of bestowal and love, in each individual and in everyone together through the correction of egoism.

Question: But isn’t correction about breaking the ego?

Answer: No! You can try breaking it if you’re stubborn. But if you’re not, you’ll gladly exchange it instead. Let’s say you go to a store, return ten empty bottles, and get a bottle of beer in return. Is that a bad thing?! You benefit from it. Instead of empty desires you can’t fill, you get one full “beer.” Sure, you give up ten, but in return, you receive one full one. Who would refuse that?

Comment: There’s also a beneficial egoistic calculation here—what feels good to me.

My Response: Of course! There’s nothing without calculation. Kabbalah comes from the word “to receive.” You just need to understand that you actually receive much more when you give up your empty, egoistic desires. So ultimately, it can be said that “love your neighbor” is a means of self-fulfillment.

Question: Let’s say I return ten bottles and receive one full one. Is the process of correction like making that full bottle?

Answer: No, that’s not your job. That’s not you. You just need to exchange one for the other. All the “bottles,” the “recycling station,” all of it already exists. You just have to want to make the trade of your empty desires for one full one.

Question: So basically I’m not really doing anything? I just add a tiny grain to the process and the rest is the system?

Answer: You only contribute your desire to exchange, nothing more. Both the empty and the full “bottles” already exist. You just need to want to exchange them.

Question: But it won’t work automatically?

Answer: No, never. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have freewill. Otherwise, you wouldn’t truly exist. You have to do it!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I Am the System?!” 9/28/10

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Question: What is a woman’s Hisaron?

Answer: A woman’s Hisaron is the natural deficiency that forms within her that must be worked with more intensively. There is nothing artificial about it!

Let us say I want something, so let me want it today. Later I will want it more consciously, so just want it more consciously, and so on. It is not an artificial desire for something nonexistent. What we are engaged in is entering into the true nature, not the deceptive, egoistic nature that surrounds us, but the eternal and perfect nature that is 100% altruistic and entirely directed toward bestowal.

Right now we are merely in a small, illusory volume, like a dream, where everything operates in opposition to bestowal. But in truth, all of nature is founded on altruism, bestowal, and love, which is the Creator’s quality. It is only us who experience this clouded perception when we are in the opposite state.

Comment: So we should just leave the women alone.

My Response: Yes, let everything move as it should! Just more desire, more inner tension, more yearning, and everything will come to fruition. The intensity depends on the overall effort, on the collective influence we have on one another.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Woman’s Hisaron” 9/23/10

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