Question: Why did you decide not to become ordained as a Rabbi even though without a doubt you could pass the appropriate tests?

Answer: I carry out the required religious precepts. I do not have the opportunity to delve into them any deeper than necessary for their physical performance.

I get the correct intentions for my actions from the wisdom of Kabbalah. Rav means a teacher, great, not necessarily in the practice of Judaism. My specialization is in the fundamentals of the existence of a person in this world achieving the goal of his existence.

Question: Aren’t you building the same tower of Babel with which you will be able to approach the Creator? After all, as they say, the road to you know where is paved with good intentions. I am not a religious person, but it simply is not very wise to accuse our ancestors of stupidity, alleging they were building a tower to reach the skies or tried to imagine themselves as gods.

You yourself state that our world is an animalistic world, so perhaps we will leave to the Creator to use the “good” whip so as not to attract any more whips to ourselves. I do not think that you will answer my question, but still there is hope.

Answer: Continue to sort it out further.
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Question: It is said: “There is no Light without a Kli.” And our Kli is not yet ready, but the Light always surrounds it (the Ohr Makif) when we study. How can we understand this statement?

Answer: Ohr Makif does not need a corrected Kli because it surrounds, it is external.

Question: What should I pay attention to in my work in the group, in my ten? What needs to be strengthened in the spiritual work so that it becomes clear to me where it is best to find a job in ordinary life?

Answer: If it is possible, work should not distract a person from thoughts about the purpose of life.
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Question: I know it is not possible to attain and perceive the Light without darkness. I know that without suffering (descents) it is impossible to rise to the next level.

The question is: why is the birth of a child painful for all parties, the growth of the muscles painful and destroys old structures, and illness (if we consider it to be a positive indication from the Creator that one should notice and correct) always painful in any case?

If there are no “bad jokes” in nature, why does the Creator torment us?

Answer: The Creator is nature; we associate the way we feel to Him, as if He feels the way we do. The problems of the still, vegetative, and animate are derived from spiritual actions, and therefore, we cannot avoid them.
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Question: What is the meaning of the phrase: “There is none else besides Him”? (Torah, Deuteronomy 4:35) Is it possible to understand this phrase literally?

Answer: Read the Shamati article “There is None Else Besides Him” by Baal HaSulam.

Question: Does one feel a sensation similar to the sensation experienced at clinical death while crossing the Machsom (barrier) into spirituality?

Answer: It is more than that!
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Question: Is attainment of the Creator a kind of wonderful feeling of super-intelligence, full of knowledge, or is it simply a feeling of union with the world and love for people?

Answer: It includes all the senses and all the mind.

Question: Is it worth reading something about the wisdom of Kabbalah and thinking about the group of ten during my daily work at my job? Why specifically yes or no?

Answer: It is necessary to try not to be detached from the true picture of the world.

Question: How long did you study before crossing the Machsom (barrier)? What is the average period of time until one crosses the Machsom?

Answer: A few years, no less than 5.
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Question: What kind of role does the imagination have in the wisdom of Kabbalah? What is its place on the tree of Sefirot on any one of its levels?

Answer: Imagination helps us only in the process of attainment; it doesn’t exist independently.

Question: According to what scheme should one focus for the importance of something within myself so that this importance will not remain concealed until the world of infinity, so as not to go outside of the group, but also not to become dependent on the external manifestations of the group, like physical bodies, but in a spiritual context?

Answer: it is possible to do this only with the help of mutual support, Arvut (mutual guarantee)!
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Question: You have been studying the meaning of life your whole life. But isn’t the meaning of life unique for everyone?

Answer: That is correct. We are absolutely different from each other and we all have our own meaning of life. But in order to find it, there is a system called Kabbalah, which places a tool in our hands for how to attain our meaning of life.

Everyone has his own soul, the root of his soul, his destiny, his way to the goal, which is to discover the meaning of life, and therefore, everyone has his own path. But still, it is necessary to know how to go so as not to stall at a dead end, not to disappear somewhere, not to deviate by one degree, which later turns into a big deviation.

In order to correctly achieve the goal, you need certain guides, skills, a cane to walk with, direction, an azimuth , a map; all that is necessary for the traveller. This is with what Kabbalah supplies us.
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From KabTV “News with Michael Laitman” 10/19/17

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Question: If the wisdom of Kabbalah does not deal with psychology, then explain exactly what are its intentions and on what level do they invite the upper Light? I ask because in many cases it is very easy to confuse the wisdom of Kabbalah with psychology.

Answer: There must be a group, a teacher, and books, meaning study according to the Kabbalistic texts.

Question: Can I study the wisdom of Kabbalah while studying Reiki?

Answer: In order to achieve results, I recommend learning one thing.
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Question from Facebook: My reactions to the things around me are my reactions. I understand the external world through my reactions to external things. What does God have to do with anything here?

Answer: There is no God. We don’t make our appeals to Him at all. We make our appeals only to ourselves, to that which is inside us, and it is these internal settings that we need to change, to set them to a correct perception of reality. Then we will be able to reach the correct goal by a much shorter and a much more pleasant route.

God has nothing to do with it. He doesn’t exist. We create God within ourselves.

Our very best, most optimal state, the highest, most positive force that turns all of us into the most wonderful and the most successful, is called God. That’s the kind of God I can agree to.

Question: Are my reactions to the surroundings still my reactions?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Do I understand the external world through my reactions to all that happens to me?

Answer: Naturally. What other way can you know what the outside world is? It is that which you perceive. That’s why everyone has a different impression of the external world.

Question: And all of it, one way or another, steers me to my most optimal state?

Answer: Only if you know how to head in that direction.

Question: Then why do I feel so much discomfort all the time?

Answer: Because you get confused, you don’t understand, you are constantly going around in circles staying in the same place and that’s how you spend your life, achieving nothing and not solving life’s riddles. But in life there are no riddles! Riddles are in how I can achieve my most optimal, most amazing state! But I myself don’t know what that state is!

Ask people what they would have liked to achieve in their lives and they will tell you such nonsense: money, fame, knowledge, honor, power, and health. But all of these end. And what is the deeper meaning of all this? Regrettably, an individual doesn’t know, he doesn’t ask himself this question. That means that we need to explain all of this. This is the reason for the existence of the science of Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman,” 10/19/17

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In the News (The Huffington Post): “World Kindness Day is observed around the world on November 13. It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of kindness NGOs. … The purpose of World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds in the community, focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness that binds us.”

Remark: Studies show that performing acts of kindness very much helps a person to be positive, to live longer, to be happy, etc.

My Comment: If we tuned ourselves this way every morning before leaving the house and from time to time during the day spent five minutes in this way—let’s say, four times a day for five minutes—then we would certainly change a lot. This is absolutely justified psychologically and clearly would affect the whole atmosphere.

Question: What is kindness from Kabbalah point of view?

Answer: Kindness means that at least I do not harm others, “Do not do to another what you don’t want others to do to you.” We must live with this principle.

Question: So, what is next?

Answer: Above it is not kindness, but love. In our time, just kindness would be enough.

Kindness is when I am ready to respond to the ordinary requests of a person who do not infringe on my existence.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/13/17

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