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The Most Important Question

926.02Question (from Facebook): What is the most important question you ask yourself that you have not yet found an answer to?

Answer: The most important question I have not yet found an answer is this: How can I personally bring you to the state where you reveal the Creator and then explain it to everyone else?

I am not joking. In fact, my greatest concern is how to bring the method of correcting the world, the method of attaining happiness, to everyone.
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From KabTV’s “Answers to questions from Facebook”

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Gradual Study of the Material

227Comment: At different times you have emphasized the importance of different topics. First it was children’s education, then working through crises, then the writings of Baal HaSulam or the articles of Rabash, then The Book of Zohar, then The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES). Each time, people tend to think that this is now the final and most important subject they should focus on.

My Response: Yes, in this way, we gradually study the material until eventually everything comes together into one unified whole.

In Kabbalah, there is essentially no separation at all. The difficulty is that we are unable to grasp everything simultaneously, so we study it one topic at a time. Later, all of these separate topics merge into one unified science, one comprehensive method.

The same thing happens in our world. We study reality by dividing it into physics, chemistry, biology, geography, history, into thousands of different subjects and specialties.

But where does all this division come from? The world is one single reality! Why have I divided it into so many separate parts? Inanimate matter is one field, plant life another, animal life another, human beings yet another.

Why do I need these divisions? Because I am incapable of integrating everything into my mind all at once. I cannot contain all of these sciences within me simultaneously. That is why there are different professions and why people become specialists.

In Kabbalah, however, such separation does not truly exist. Yet, in order to embrace the entire science of the upper world, we must study it piece by piece. Over time, it becomes integrated within us because we will merge and unite into one common soul, and there will no longer be any separation between us.

For me, everything will become one. Moreover, it will continue to simplify until it is reduced to a single vessel containing the simple light. In that lies the whole of creation—including our own tiny world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Laitman’s Bullying” 10/13/10

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Revealing the Creator

276.01Question (from Facebook): How can God be placed within a system? God created this world, yet you believe that He can be comprehended by the human mind?

Answer: No, I do not think so. You are absolutely right. God cannot be placed within a system. He cannot be revealed through the human intellect or human senses.

To do this we must create such conditions within ourselves to acquire properties, sensations, and discernments that correspond to the Creator, correspond to God. Then, within these, we will begin to perceive Him.

It is like everything else in our world: If I perceive a certain phenomenon, then it exists within me, and I can thus perceive it outside of myself. This is how all of our instruments work. If one of my instruments is not tuned to the frequency or the phenomenon that I wish to investigate, then I will not perceive it. For example, without a radio receiver I cannot receive radio waves, because I do not possess such sensory apparatus.

Therefore, an ordinary person in our world cannot perceive God, the Creator, unless he correctly tunes himself to Him. What does it mean to tune oneself? There is a method for this called the wisdom of Kabbalah. It is the method for revealing the Creator to a person in this world.

It is based on gradually enabling a person to acquire properties that correspond to the Creator. Then within those properties, a person can discover the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/23/25

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527.03Question: How do we connect our hearts?

Answer: Through aspiration. When you feel that you are reaching out to others and you receive some response from them as well: “Oh!” Then you feel that one heart has truly opened, and then another, a common space begins to appear and between them.

Within that common space, love is already felt along with understanding, mutuality, and connection. There is a lack of life force, but not an animalistic one; rather, spiritual life force. I can feel it only if I connect with another person in this way.

Question: So, when a person says, “I have no strength.” Even though he has food and money, he says, “I have no strength, I simply have no strength to live.” Does this mean that he is searching for another heart?

Answer: Yes! Unconsciously, he feels that he has no one to live for. After all, life is built on giving birth, raising children, bestowing to others, and receiving the same from them. This mutual fulfillment of one another—that is life. It is impossible to give to someone without receiving in return. And so it continues.

Question: Are those times approaching?

Answer: I hope so.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/22/26

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Relax!

549.01Comment: Humanity is plagued by illnesses and many are incurable. Everyone searches for advice that might suddenly help them navigate life.

My Response: Relax and do not try to change anything. Drift calmly with the flow of life. Accept what is. Everything that happens is done by the Creator. So, do not contradict Him, but feel connected to Him at every moment.

Question: What can we do with the fears that constantly spur a person?

Answer: There will be no fears! Because fear stems from wanting to secure a specific future for yourself. But that doesn’t exist here.

Question: So fear arises when you do not agree with Him?

Answer: Yes. But here that isn’t the case. The future vanishes; it simply isn’t there. In other words, every moment is like passing away and leaving nothing behind. There is peace. What has been, will be. You know, like the inscription on Solomon’s ring?

Question: Yes. So you think that if a person gets used to this formula, if he lives it, exists with it, then it will free him from fears and even from pain?

Answer: It is not just about being free from fear and pain, but also about being properly connected with nature, with the Creator.

Question: What is the result of it?

Answer: This will give you a connection with the Creator, peace, closeness, and simply connection.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/23/26

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Enlightenment

79.02Comment: I have heard about a certain kind of enlightenment in a person’s development, but I do not understand what it is or how to attain it. Please help me understand.

My Response: I can only direct you to the path that leads to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is a ray of the upper light that comes to you, illuminates all your inner desires and thoughts, gathers them together, and enables you to evaluate and feel the world you exist in, to see it and enter into it. Then you truly begin to perceive the world, the universe, and its perfection.

Question: Does a person that they are not actually in this world?

Answer: Each of us exists in our own world. Since at present our perceptions are more or less similar, we call them “our world.” But one must go beyond its boundaries and discover that there are other states as well.

Question: What will a person see?

Answer: Governance. The governance over him. And the world that is depicted within him, he will see as an illusion. That is enlightenment.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/28/25

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If I No Longer Want to Steal

239Question: Can you give an example of a request just off the top of your head?

Answer: Let’s say I have a habit of stealing. I have been caught many times, beaten for it, imprisoned, and so on. Eventually, I come to the conclusion that stealing only harms me.

I begin asking the Creator for help. But I see that it does not help much. Then I start thinking: “Why is it not helping?” It turns out that doesn’t help much because I am asking Him only because I want my life to be better; it is not because I want to become a better person, but because I want things to be better for me. In that case, He does really help.

But if I ask Him to truly make me a better person, then He will help me. Everything depends on the purity of the request, on how much it is directed toward others, and how far removed it is from my own egoism.

Comment: When I ask for things to be better for me, there is no answer. But when I ask to become better, we have changed only one word here.

My Response: Yes, then there is an answer. Why? Because when I ask for things to be better for me,  even if t not through stealing, that is, it is practically a form of stealing. He doesn’t really help with that. But when I ask for things to be better for others, then yes.

Question: So that I become better in my relationship with others? And in that way I myself become better?

Answer: Yes. When it pains me that I am taking from others, then, if I ask Him for help, it will work.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/16/26

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In Search of Effective Means for Advancement

559Comment: When you suggest something new (for example, a “spiritual stimulant,” people say: “Here goes Laitman with another new scheme. Later, there will be something different.”

My Response: Of course there will be!

We are looking for a way to create something that constantly unites us, helps us adjust to each other, keeps us together, and compels us to return to the same fundamental question. This is a pressing issue for us, and it is not going away. It can be in this form, or in a different form, or in a third. We shall see!

Comment: There are people who take a passive, waiting stance, andothers who are active. As a rule, newcomers tend to be more active.

My Response: Those who wait around lose! Spirituality is not like our world where you can dodge responsibility and do nothing. Here, you work for yourself and not for a boss! So, if people want to pass us by, let them. I am not driving anyone with a stick.

Question: What is the importance of a “spiritual stimulant?” Is it dictated by forces from above?

Answer: No, we have advanced to a state where we have to work on unity. The “stimulant” is a means for uniting. Come up with something different, more productive, and we will be happy to switch to it. Why not, if there is something more effective?
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Laitman’s bullying” 10/13/10

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You Must Build the Creator

183.01Question: What does nature want from us?

Answer: Nature wants us to want to be good and kind.

Question: Is that all?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Stop being evil and become good? What do you mean by “good and kind”?

Answer: Good and kind means that absolutely everyone is truly pleased with you. Not in this world. This cannot happen in our world. Those egoists around us… .

Question: So, I am not just playing along with those who want… ?

Answer: No. When I speak about humanity and about nature in general, I mean
a completely different level of existence.

Question: When will they be pleased with me? What is the goodness they expect
from me?

Answer: When I correct them, and they become absolutely good,
perfect, and corrected.

Question: Correct whom?

Answer: All people.

Question: I have to correct all people?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Me?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this my job? Correcting things is the Creator’s job!

Answer: It is your duty.

Question: Perhaps I need to correct myself rather than all the others around me?

Answer: This is how you correct yourself.

Question: By correcting all people, I correct myself?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: This is something new. By correcting myself, I correct people.

My Response: It is the same thing.

Question: Is it really the same thing?

Answer: Of course. You see yourself in people.

Question: So, if I help with their correction, I am thereby correcting myself?

Answer: It is one and the same! You see a reflection of yourself. In this way, you correct the Creator.

Question: Every sentence is a revolution. The Creator needs to be corrected?

Answer: Of course. We have to create Him!

Question: Is He imperfect? Is He not constant?

Answer: He does not exist at all; you have to create Him! Constantly strive to make Him better and better.

Comment: We will never unravel this riddle.

My Response: No. Nor do we need to!

Question: So we should just leave it at that? Create the Creator?

Answer: Yes. That is exactly what is written in the Torah: “You have made Me.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/20/26

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Humanity’s Primary Malady

294.2Question: What is wrong with us, what is our ailment?

Answer: Our ailment lies in the fact that we cannot distinguish good from evil, and we cannot gather the good within ourselves and integrate it in such a way that it gradually covers the evil. It is a very difficult path.

Question: So, we will be searching for this good? Something to take, like a pill, in order to escape the evil? In other words, regarding evil, will we come to feel that we are complete egoists?

Answer: That is precisely what will be considered evil.

Question: And will we understand that it is evil?

Answer: Of course.

Question: And then we will ask for some kind of remedy?

Answer: Yes. Because through the suffering, we are already drawing an illumination of benevolent light that can reveal to us where our evil actually lies.

Comment: Is this the most important thing? We always come back to this point. You constantly lead us toward this point: for a person to look and see themselves as they are: evil, bad, and flawed. Usually people are told the opposite: “There is still something good in you; you are capable; you can succeed.”

My Response: That exists only as a starting point. But who are you really? You are absolute evil. Yet, there is a spark within you that will guide you. And you need to fan it into a flame.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/15/26

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