Question: Does a person’s quality of a conscience indicate that he or she has been corrected to some degree?

Answer: From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is no conscience. Everything is built only on shame. When we say: “Where is your conscience?”, in fact, we want to say: “Aren’t you ashamed?”

Question: How should I respond to the fact that in most cases it is specifically people who are close to us that hurt and cause us pain? How does one overcome strong emotions? Should I be offended as a response?

Answer: We should focus on the Creator. Nobody is causing us pain except the Creator, and He acts through those who are close to us.

Question: What is the most important property for spiritual advancement?

Answer: The most important property for spiritual advancement is perseverance and patience.

Question: How do you deal with changes in mood?

Answer: I hold onto the only goal in life: not losing connection with the Creator. Therefore, I appreciate all my states and moods as a greater development around this connection.

Question: Do emotions depend on spiritual descents and ascents?

Answer: Spiritual descents and ascents help shape our emotions correctly. After all, if I feel bitterness and weakness during a descent, I simultaneously feel happiness because from the descent I already feel a taste of the ascent that I will have. Therefore, the spiritual state influences the emotion but doesn’t form it.

Question: I am involved with the wisdom of Kabbalah and my wife is waiting for external changes to happen: for me to be more compliant, kinder, calmer. Will this happen or is my development unconnected to my external emotional state?

Answer: You can tell your wife that this will happen soon.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/13/17

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Question: Is there a correct use of the desire to nag and whine or a desire to slander?

Answer: Someone who yearns for the Creator does not have this kind of desires and actions.

Question: In your opinion, what is honesty? And why do I feel that it can already be used in the world, but I don’t see that the Partzuf Galgalta implemented it? Who else should raise MAN so that the Light of the direct path to the Creator would pass to the world of Assiya?

Answer: Honesty is gradually acquired to the measure that the egoistic deposits of one’s heart are exhumed. Each one raises MAN for the others and for the Creator.
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Question: When I acquire the characteristic of bestowal, what will I bestow?

Answer: You will receive to bring pleasure to others and the Creator, and this will be your bestowal.

Question: Why is the desire the foundation of everything and not the thought?

Answer: Thought is generated from the desire and therefore it is secondary.

Question: As opposed to the world of good, stands the world of evil (emptiness/nonexistence). It turns out that now the main direction is not toward the Creator, but toward emptiness, the destruction of nature and the Creator?

Answer: No, the evil of the world is only so that we will recognize the evil of our nature and begin to ascend to the Creator.
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Question: I have seen a lot of your videos and I am working on an analysis of the Torah. I am very grateful to you for helping people searching for the truth. But I have a personal question. I am 38 years old; I am a woman.

I will not succeed in raising myself to the highest level of attainment alone, and around me there are no men who are studying the wisdom of Kabbalah with whom I would be able to create a relationship in order to study the Torah together and to provide each other with mutual help. This is the only way I can imagine a marriage.

Do you have any opportunities in this direction?

Answer: In the framework of our organization in many countries in the world, through the Internet, you will be able to find your partner!
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Question: You said that we ascribe our qualities to the Creator and so describe Him and that we have no other way. Could you please explain what you mean?

How do we ascribe our qualities to the Creator? After all, our qualities are the desire to receive (if I understand correctly), but the Creator only has the desire to bestow. What are “our” qualities that we ascribe to the Creator?

Answer: We do not know what the Creator is, but we imagine Him according to our notions. Therefore, every person depicts the Creator in his imagination according to his fantasies, which cannot be compared to the original.

Kabbalah causes changes in a person; the qualities of bestowal and love for your neighbor through the influence of the special force, Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light), are gradually created in a person from which one builds the image of the Creator.
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Question from Facebook: You are always talking about the egoism of Jews, about the Jews being chosen to bring all nations to the love of others. But we are not that bad. We help each other in military conflicts, we sympathize with those who are victims of terrorism. Our military helps everyone. Right now we are saving people’s lives in other countries. What else is required of us?

Answer: The thing is, if we are choosing how to act according to our own understanding of what is “good” and what is “bad,” then, ultimately, we will achieve nothing. We see that the nations of the world continue to hate us more and more, no matter how good we are. We can help other nations, but they don’t take that into consideration and do not welcome it, they take it for granted.

It’s true, we try to get along with each other, and we fight to protect our country, our nation, our land. But all of this is merely self-preservation: I do good not for others, but for myself, for my children. That’s why none of this counts as altruism; it is not what is referred to when we speak about the quality of bestowal and love of others. This is simply self-preservation, an absolutely clear egoistic action.

Therefore, I urge you to understand what it really means to “love your neighbor as yourself,” what altruism is, what nature demands of us, in what manner it wants us to start interacting with each other; then all will be different.

We cannot live like the rest, because first of all, I don’t even see that the rest are living so peacefully. It is not pleasant for them either. But because we are responsible for the overall correction of the world, there is a special calculation with us. It is demanded that we settle the account first and to a greater extent than all the rest.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman,” 11/9/2017

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Question: Is it precisely through contradictions—that it is possible to enjoy the Creator even though he is intangible—that one can attain the correct sensation of the Creator?

Answer: From the egoistic characteristics, it is impossible to imagine the opposite characteristics.

Question: Regarding the statement that the Creator does not exist and there is nobody to enjoy, if I don’t feel the Creator yet and if I will direct myself toward Him as if I can give Him joy with my effort and yearning for Him, then with such an attitude can I engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: A person can study Kabbalah with a wide range of intentions, especially with the intention to bring Him joy.
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Question: In the book Shamati, article 84, it is written: “…lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life. So He drove out the man.” What correction did the Creator “fear” that Adam might carry out and be integrated with the Tree of Life?

Answer: That the sin of eating from the Tree of Knowledge would remain uncorrected!

Question: How can we conduct a group of ten in Germany that will be exactly like it was conducted by Rabash with gatherings of friends on Fridays? Which questions can we solve in it and what must we study?

Answer: You must refer this question to your friends in Bnei Baruch in Petach Tikva.
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Question: What happens to the soul when a person commits suicide? Is the soul punished for the suicide of the body? And if a person with a point in the heart doesn’t develop it and a person is on a particular level of spiritual development and commits suicide, what is waiting for their soul; how will they be punished and are they punished equally?

Answer: After suicide, a person begins everything all over again.

Question: At the end of correction, in 200 years, when all of humanity will be united with the Creator, what will happen to those who already died and did not attain their correction while they were alive?

Answer: Everyone will be corrected!
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Question: Rabash’s articles about work in a group seem like psychological, ethical advice. What is the role of these articles? Is this advice necessary for attracting the upper Light or is it simply to establish order in the group?

Answer: Rabash’s articles include all the states a person goes through on the way to discovering the Creator.

Question: Today I didn’t have the energy to get up for the lesson. I feel this as disloyalty to my group of ten and the thought of an endless day that I have to spend in an animal state is unbearable. We are so committed to work this week before the convention. How can we prevent something like this from happening in the future and what can be done now? Why does the Creator give us these kinds of situations?

Answer: All of the situations that a person goes through originate from the Creator and it is up to you to accept them as conditions for movement toward Him.
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