Question: You say that in Kabbalah all your feelings are in Hebrew. When you read Kabbalistic texts in this language or listen to them, how do you perceive them?

Answer: When I read a Kabbalistic text in Hebrew, I perceive it within myself. Just like when you read a text about some situation in our world in Russian, it creates a certain inner picture within you.

It is the same for me when I read a Kabbalistic text. It creates an inner picture in me because I already possess a certain set of qualities that correspond to these words, terms, sentences, and connections.

Therefore, while reading, I assemble this picture inside myself like a mosaic, and it begins to live within me. As I continue through the text, it all shimmers, rotates, connects, and separates within me. The text lives in me and carries out its actions. I feel it as my life experienced in that very moment.

It is similar to when you read fiction and become immersed in the story.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalistic Language” 8/25/10

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Comment: You say that we have entered a period where the process of correction is already taking place. But to us, it is not noticeable. We do not see anything except that everything is happening more intensively.

My Response: The process of exposing our egoistic nature is indeed happening, and it is becoming clear to everyone. Psychologists, sociologists, and politicians who think about these matters are starting to more or less realize that egoism, which is our very nature, is essentially what is destroying us.

People just think there is no cure for it, and so they throw up their hands and continue living as before: “What can be done? That is just how we are. We will keep devouring each other.”

That is why we need to develop the wisdom of Kabbalah to show people that it is not so. The process has begun, but it must be taken under conscious control and directed toward the goal by ourselves so that nature does not drive us toward happiness “with a stick.” Of course we do not yet see the egoism corrected, but we already see the recognition of egoism as evil. And that is the preliminary stage.

Already several million people around the world are able to hear that the egoism is meant to be corrected so that precisely through it, we ascend to the level of the Creator. If we make an effort to disseminate this knowledge, then by uniting among us, we will break through humanity’s disbelief, emptiness, and laziness, and give people the opportunity to understand that perfection and eternity are attainable, and that we are standing at the threshold of a very serious, elevated process.

We are not beings without a rudder or sails, without a clan or a tribe. We exist within the highest process of nature, within the Creator, who leads us from one end of creation to the other. We are now at a very critical, culminating point from which we can begin to move consciously, revealing worlds before us and feeling ourselves as part of the universe.

I believe that our current state is special. That is what the Kabbalists write. We must try to make these days of humanity more intense, more revealing of the great goal that stands before humanity. It was created by nature, and we will reach it anyway, but now we have the opportunity to consciously and swiftly realize it ourselves.

Question: Do you speak about the correction process not only with regard to the group but to all of humanity?

Answer: To all of humanity. The group is separate. Regarding our international group, which includes hundreds of thousands of people around the world who hear and are already absorbing this, we can say only one thing: this group is already a real spiritual force in the world, not by human standards but by spiritual qualities. If we measure not by numbers but by spiritual qualities, we are the greatest force in the world.

We must respect our community and understand what an opportunity we have to accelerate humanity’s development, to make it pleasant, easy, and inspiring, instead of allowing it to continue in division, anxiety, and fear of world war or ecological disaster.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Greatest Force In The World” 8/16/10

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Comment: In order not to frighten the masses, you cannot reveal everything Kabbalah speaks about. After all, many things are revealed: horoscopes and so on.

My Response: Kabbalah explains the general method of correction, and that is it. What else can it say? It cannot explain why things happen one way to one person and another to someone else.

Question: But did horoscopes originate from Kabbalistic sources?

Answer: No, it was before Kabbalah. Horoscopes go back to very ancient methods of unraveling the path of man in this world; that is, to the most ancient methods of exploring nature and oneself; it has nothing to do with Kabbalah, which was revealed in Ancient Babylon only three and a half thousand years ago.

Comment: But at the same time, it still describes everything that exists in perception of this universe.

My Response: It does not matter. Kabbalah does not ask this question at all; it does not care how the fate of man in our world will turn out in his animate state; it has nothing to do with our body. To us the soul is important, the point in the heart and how to develop it is important.

What is Kabbalah by definition? It is the revelation of the Creator to man in this world. How does the Creator reveal Himself? In desire. Which one? In the one you develop from the point in your heart.

And everything else? Everything else is important only to the extent it applies to this desire, to this point in the heart. As soon as you start going into some kind of horoscopes, into human physiology, into the animal body, this is no longer Kabbalah. Then you should go to the gypsies and fortune tellers, and they will tell you things. By the way, real experts in this field can predict everything correctly.

Question: But in any case, if a person has to live his physical life, does he reveal his soul in the same process?

Answer: Yes, but Kabbalah does not speak about the physical world! This science speaks only about the development of the soul and about what you can feel in it.

I spoke about it with my teacher. He confirmed that the fortune tellers and soothsayers can tell the truth, as they possess this technique. But we do not have this technique, we do not need it. What difference does it make to me what happens to me? I have only one calculation: how to end my life with the highest score possible.

Is that what a fortune teller is for? To do this, I have to think only about the point in my heart! Let the body die, just let me bring it as close as possible to my spiritual correction.

Question: What should I do to not renounce the body altogether, but use it to the fullest?

Answer: Kabbalah does not allow us to renounce the body. You have to live a normal life: work, study, give birth, raise children, and treat this life exactly the same as everyone else around you.

Question: So how can you maximize using your body to achieve the goal?

Answer: Involve yourself only with achieving the goal, and everything else—as needed.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Horoscopes and Fortune-Telling in Kabbalah” 8/11/10

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Question: You have mentioned repeatedly that the period of correction has now begun, prior to it was a period of preparation. What does the period of correction mean, and why was the previous time not considered correction?

Answer: It is because it was necessary to prepare egoism so that it would fully realize its own worthlessness, transience, hopelessness, emptiness, and its inability to be fulfilled or to lead a person to anything good or positive.

Ultimately egoism had to be prepared to understand that it exists solely for its own transformation, not to be destroyed by any means, but to be transformed into bestowal and love.

And so until this egoistic quality completely discredits itself in all necessary aspects, it is impossible to begin correcting it.

In our time, we have reached a state where we see clearly that the time has come, there is no way out. Either we face serious problems of ecological, military, and other forms of self-destruction, or we still have a chance to survive.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Opportunity to Survive” 8/19/10

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Question: When Kabbalists communicate with each other, do they speak in an ordinary language or in some kind of incomprehensible language?

Answer: They may not say anything at all and connect via a shared screen. Why do they need this body if they can communicate with their souls, with a common screen between them?

Of course they can also talk to each other. In addition, they can communicate, and each limit oneself to a certain range and not open up to the other.

There is such an option and sometimes a need not to harm each other or to reveal themselves—all things happen despite everyone’s good intentions.

That is, there are a huge number of opportunities for Kabbalists to communicate: through books, through songs, through music. And they, as they internally construct these sensations and pictures, as they live in the material world and at the same time in the next dimension, they are in it in their senses, and thus they communicate, but only according to the law of similarity of form. This is the general, most global, most fundamental law of nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10

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Question: It is interesting that when you are physically near someone, it is easier to associate yourself with them. But doing so through thought alone is much harder. How can we work through thought without slipping into mysticism or telepathy where people claim to sense each other at a distance?

Answer: People can feel one another and even think together. But this is not like Wolf Messing, who could supposedly read minds; that is simply an animalistic sense.

Anyone with enough training can develop such abilities, regardless of their internal qualities, whether good or evil. This is something many charmers and shamans are capable of. It is not difficult, and it can be developed in anyone.

But if we are talking not about reading thoughts, but about an inner connection between people, then that arises only through the quality of bestowal, which is above our egoism. This kind of connection through bestowal requires mutuality, reciprocity, love, and inclusion of one another. It is when a shared vessel is formed where all thoughts and feelings become common and merge together.

What is fascinating is that individuality is not lost in this process; it actually expands through others. It is as if I have absorbed you into my vessel, and you have absorbed me into yours, and so with everyone else. As a result, I exist within everyone, and everyone exists within me.

This is the principle of a healthy, properly functioning organism where every cell is integrated with all other parts and cells of the body; it gives itself to them and receives from them. Then each cell feels the entire body, becomes one with it, and feels eternity, infinity, and the boundlessness of everything within it, and not just the tiny, isolated part it would otherwise feel in a lifeless state, barely aware of itself.

That is why mutual inclusion through the quality of bestowal gives a person an entirely new level of existence, what we call spiritual life. It is the feeling of eternity, infinity, perfection, and boundlessness because ultimately you absorb into yourself countless other souls.

This is a unique state, and it is precisely what we must attain. It is not far off, and at first it depends only on our mutual concessions to one another. Later it deepens into a connection on the level of true internal adhesion.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalists Say” 8/21/10

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Question: You say that even if a person does not voice their questions but simply writes them down, they are still releasing them into the system and will eventually receive answers. Is it important to voice the question, or is it enough to think it through and write it down?

Answer: Both are necessary: think it through, voice it, and write it down.

There are different levels, written or verbal self-expression. When it reaches the written level it is already serious, and if it can also reach the verbal level, then it is even more serious. This is how it is in spirituality. In corporeality, it is the opposite.

Comment: So first is the thought, then processing it.

My Response: Processing the thought in writing and then expressing it verbally.

Question: Does writing down questions strengthen the work of a student who studies Kabbalah, compared to just listening like in a movie theater?

Answer: Of course. That is why we hand out pencils, pens, and paper to the students during lessons. Please, sit and take notes.

I support everyone working like real students, then formulating their thoughts and writing a short report.
We want to create a simulator that will encourage people to study more.

Question: But does the information that arises during a lesson already carry a certain force? Meaning, if a person writes an article based on it, does it hold great force?

Answer: Of course it holds great force, because at the very least, several thousand people are present together during the lesson and are imbued with this information. This is a tremendous force in the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ask Questions” 8/20/10

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Question: Today a lot of people don’t believe it is worth helping others anymore. People say that if you help someone and get them out of trouble, they become your worst enemy. Many feel completely drained after helping someone.

Do you think maybe we shouldn’t help anyone at all? Should we just let them make their own choices? If someone asked you this question, what would you say?

Answer: If you want to help someone, you must be ready to give. That means it is only going from you toward the other person—man, woman, child, animal, it does not matter who—but you help without expecting anything in return: kind treatment, gifts, or gratitude.

Comment: Not even a “thank you.”

My Response: Yes, exactly. Nothing! Only then is it truly help from your side.

Comment: That is very lofty to not expect even a thank you.

My Response: One word, “thank you,” can be worth billions. It does not matter what it is. Imagine a baby smiling at its mother, what a reward and expression of gratitude that is for her! So it all depends on whether you expect something in return.

Question: But is it possible to raise oneself to the point of not expecting anything in return? Is that even possible?

Answer: That is what true giving is.

Comment: That is beautiful! And at the same time, it feels impossible.

My Response: Otherwise, you are doing everything for the sake of gratitude.

Question: And then it does not count that we did something for someone?

Answer: Correct. Check how much of your help is actually selfless, what percentage and how much of it is given because you still hope to receive something in return—gratitude, a reaction.

Then perhaps you will not have such expectations.

Comment: And then there will not be any disappointment.

My Response: Yes, there will be no unfulfilled expectations.

Question: Why do we feel so drained after helping someone, like our heart has been broken?

Answer: It is precisely because you expected to get something in return. And if there is no feedback, no return energy, you feel an empty black hole.

Comment: That is very Kabbalistic.

My Response: That is just our nature. What can we do? So prepare yourselves to perform truly altruistic acts.

Question: What exercises can we do to tune ourselves to this?

Answer: Only outward—not back to yourself, only toward the other. You need to have the energy and the desire for this. And you certainly do not have that energy or desire yet.

So you must train to be able to do this, no matter to whom. If it matters to whom, this person or that, then that is already your reward.

Comment: So if I do it for an important person, then…

My Response: For someone important, close, kind, good, beautiful one, compared to someone ugly or dirty, it does not matter what or how.

Question: Then I am already receiving a reward?

Answer: Yes, right away. You need to reflect this very precisely inside yourself. It is very difficult.

Comment: You are asking the almost impossible from a person.

My Response: Not “almost impossible,” it is impossible! But it is the truth. That is the Kabbalistic calculation.

Question: Sooner or later, will we come to live this way?

Answer: Yes, life will gradually bring us to this inner psychology where we will see who we really are, what vile beasts we are, and how we cannot rise above ourselves, even if we want to! And then we will all cry out to the heavens together.

Question: “Give me strength,” right?

Answer: Yes, so that He gives us strength, understanding, reason, how we can we do it so that all of this does not return to my wretched egoism!

Question: So actually, when you always say in your videos: “You have to learn to do good or at least pass along kind thoughts to another person”—are you really talking about this?

Answer: I am speaking from this exact perspective.

Question: Step by step? So can a person gradually come closer to this?

Answer: Yes, it will all happen.

Question: Really?

Answer: Really!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/27/25

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Comment: You said that when you traveled with RABASH to Tiberias, there were moments when you did not understand anything and hated yourself.

My Response: Yes, of course there are such states.

During the long evenings in Tiberias, I would sit on the open terrace, smoke a pack of cigarettes, think, and not know what to do. I could not imagine any possibility of taking even a small step: “How could I? Look who I am with! The only great Kabbalist in the world! And I am beside him, alone, right now! What can I ask, what can I talk about, what can I absorb from him?”

But after such hours of questioning, searching, and self-torment, a true question, a true desire began to awaken. All of this is necessary preparation for each of us and for the whole group.

Question: What was the main topic of your conversations with Rabash? What did you talk about with him? You could not have spoken only about Partzufim and Sefirot all the time.

Answer: We talked about that too. I asked many questions about the general development of the system of creation, which greatly interested me.

I wanted to form a clear inner structure for myself, even if not developed in minute detail, because there are so many details and not enough inner energy for all of it. Frankly speaking, detailed research did not interest me much because it is meaningful only when you feel it with your senses.

But overall, the very structure of the universe seemed incredibly enticing to me: the beginning of creation, the end of creation, the entire sequential cause-and-effect, purposeful, inevitable, step-by-step process, the forces acting at each stage, the necessity of every action, and so on.

That is, nature itself, its unified, natural law passing through from the upper worlds, through our world, and back to the upper worlds—how could that not be interesting?

Back then, I discovered this system for myself as if molding it within me. It helped me, first, to understand many Kabbalistic texts, and second, everything else that I later revealed.

The attainment of reality, the forces operating at our level between it and the upper world, the interaction of man with nature, the development of languages, the development of history—all of this gradually assembled itself for me into a single picture.

It is precisely with this picture, based on the spiritual model of the worlds’ development, that I went through my entire life. I formed it within myself by the age of thirty-five and afterward continually added new data to it from what I read, heard, and researched.

I always wanted to see the synthesis of all ideas, qualities, and manifestations. The picture of nature is one, unified, whole, eternal, perfect harmony: on one hand constant and unchanging and on the other, evolving before our eyes depending on the level of perception, on the worlds, on the degrees.

It is such a stunning, multilayered, multifaceted, multistage tapestry across many dimensions that gives a person a feeling of eternity, perfection, and attainment, and it fills him! That is just how I am built.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Next to Rabash” 8/14/10

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Question: How can we learn to correctly absorb our friends’ yearning for spirituality?

Answer: Try to unite with them so that their questions become your own and their desires and aspirations become yours. It is like a mother who absorbs her child’s desires until they become the central focus of her life, she lives for him.

Question: In principle, this kind of absorption happens even on a corporeal level when we get together for our meetings. When someone shares something with others, it is as if he is answering himself. Does it work on the level of thought where a person processes his ideas through someone else?

Answer: Of course, absolutely. That happens when a person starts to explain things to others or even just writes them down for himself without integrating with someone else.

Question: Is this why you claim that we need to internalize all the articles of your teacher Rabash?

Answer: That is something completely different. When you internalize the articles of Rabash, you connect with the author, that is, with a level that is far above your own.

Question: What happens when people read and discuss these articles together?

Answer: By studying the articles together, people also invest in each other. This creates a tremendous opportunity, a broad shared vessel in which they can grasp what Rabash was actually saying. After all, their small individual minds combine and are amplified many times over.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Rabash’s articles” 8/17/10

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