Question: What is attention according to the wisdom of Kabbalah? Does it mean that a person directs his attention to something and it begins to be felt, and when there is no attention, it is as if it is lost? It seems to be something that moves. Could it be that attention is somehow connected to the Masach (screen)?

Answer: Attention is an activation of energy.

Question: What is it that causes people without a point in the heart to hear you or the wisdom of Kabbalah? After all, the Kabbalah does not speak about the physical world and it does not solve any of our beastly or human problems.

Answer: It is because things are bad for them and Kabbalah elevates a person toward the good.
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Question from Facebook: In the past, a family was created for economic reasons. Today, a person does not need a family to live and enjoy life. Moreover, it hinders him and just creates problems. So, why start a family?

Answer: Indeed, in the past a man needed a wife to serve him, children to help him in old age, a house to live in, friends, relatives—in general, the closest circle.

A person needed to be supported in trouble, in illness, and eventually be attended to at a funeral. And today he does not need this; there are all kinds of social services that deal with this.

Does one need a wife? No, he does not. He can have a new wife every day. Children? Why does he need children? They grow up and from the age of ten he hardly sees them, only when they ask for money. They have no regard for their parents, and he will not get help from them in old age either.

Today, a person is separated from his natural roots: family, wife, children, parents, and home. Even the place of work no longer is binding. In the past people worked in one place all their lives. Where is all this today?

Question: It turns out that society’s main cell, the family, no longer exists?

Answer: Unfortunately, no one wants anything. Women do not want to marry, do not want to have children, although by nature they have a desire for children, a husband, a family, and a home.

Question: So do we need a family in the long run or not?

Answer: Whether we need it or not need depends on the goal. If the goal justifies the means, then the means is necessary, and if not, then there’s no need for it.

Question: Do you mean that now humanity has such goals that it does not need a family?

Answer: Of course. But if I know that to achieve the goal I need a family, then I will create it and will cherish it.

Humanity must acquire a goal, and then it will understand how to live and whether it is necessary to live. Today, many people in the world are questioning whether it is worth living.

Separation of children from their parents is subconsciously taking place also because they are troubled by the question: “Why did my parents bring me into the world? So that I would hang out in life and suffer? I’m useless; nobody needs me—not me or others. Wait till I die? For this they gave birth to me? They enjoyed it, and they did it for their own delight, but I have no enjoyment from life. So give me some drugs and I will somehow exist.”

Question: What should be the goal in life for the sake of which a family is needed?

Answer: The goal for which a family is needed is to reach the next level of existence: complete, eternal, infinite, and giving absolute attainment. We cannot imagine this and do not even want to imagine it. We are tired of everything! That is why it is very difficult to explain this to people.

We need to break out of life for our own sake—this is our limitation. As soon as we feel that there is another method of existence, it will become much easier for us.

In this case, a family is needed because it is one of the systems of similarity to the upper system of nature. To move to the upper goal, one must get married, have a family and children, especially men.

And the goal is to reach the next level of existence, when we replace egoistic existence with an altruistic one. This reveals completely different depths of nature, existence in other dimensions, when not our universe is a home for us, but an entirely different universe.

Question: How are relations in the family adjusted then?

Answer: They are adjusted only in accordance with what a person sees as the goal of his upper existence. Guided by this, the family is kept and children are raised. Otherwise, nothing will exist.

Question: Does the concept of love exist in a family that has a purpose?

Answer: Love is the correct relationship that allows you to achieve this ultimate goal. And nothing more.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/15/17

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Question: Can I begin to influence my fate positively if I begin to ascend in thought above the ego, thinking well of others, justifying every action of a person (bad or good) with the thought that, “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35)?

Answer: Only in a unique group under special guidance will you be able to enter a new management system.

Question: Why don’t you begin your lessons with the last part of the lesson that begins today at 5:00 am Israel Time for the sake of uniting to a common goal?

Answer: My lessons are designed for all levels, not just for beginners.
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Question: I am very lazy. How is it possible to not be lazy on the spiritual path?

Answer: Laziness is a wonderful characteristic that keeps a person from carrying out superfluous actions. Use this characteristic correctly and you will succeed.

Question: Why does my husband study the wisdom of Kabbalah? I don’t understand and I don’t want to let him study.

Answer: You just don’t understand what it is. You are not yet given the opportunity to learn this higher knowledge but your husband has been. When he studies the wisdom of Kabbalah, he also earns spiritual advancement for you. So do not bother him. Don’t envy him; after all, he is your husband.

Question: Is there another, deeper perception of the world beyond the Machsom (barrier)?

Answer: Crossing the Machsom makes it possible to perceive the world through the characteristic of bestowal, which appears in you with the crossing of the Machsom.

Question: Could it be that the Machsom is a lie and doesn’t really exist?

Answer: When you discover it, you will be able to answer that question. Kabbalists write that it does exist; therefore, we yearn to discover and attain it.

Question: On which level is it possible to feel that there is no difference between self-fulfillment and the fulfillment of others?

Answer: It is in the characteristic of Bina in which you will want to fulfill others and not yourself and will fulfill yourself in this way.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Question: Is it necessary to convert all physical fear to awe of the Creator? How does one do this? Is it enough to say, “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 4:35), the good and beneficent?

Answer: All of the work must be done in a group, and then everything will work out and succeed!

Question: Is “bestowal for the sake of bestowal” the primary state? What must a person who studies and is a member of a group of ten do to move to the next state?

Answer: Bestowal for the sake of bestowal is love without any intention of gain, without any result for myself. This is the level that is acquired under the influence of the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light).
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Question: In the past, you said that the intent of the concept of changing fate is about spiritual fate, not material fate.

If a person on a spiritual level cannot change his material fate (health, wellbeing, the day of death, etc.), does this mean that the physical world is stronger than the spiritual world?

Answer: Entering the spiritual world changes everything!

Question: How can the perfect Creator engender evil?

Answer: Evil is discovered within your ego instead of the good that was sent by the Creator.
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Question from Facebook: You recently published an article about the fact that women don’t want to have children and that their maternal instinct is fading. I didn’t understand why this call is to women and about women. Do women get pregnant by themselves and decide to have a child by themselves?

Have you checked with men whether they want kids; whether they want to bring up children and invest energy, money, care and the attention they deserve? If you haven’t, it sounds as if there is a separate state in which there are only women who have become egoists.

Answer: Neither men nor women are responsible for this situation, but all of society, which does not understand the purpose of life.

Society has become so egoistic that very soon robots will replace everyone. Everyone will have his own fully equipped and automatic apartment, and without leaving it, a person will feel as if he is on Mt. Elbrus in Switzerland or anywhere else, enjoying the fresh smell of a forest, the ocean, or anything one wishes.

While lying in bed, a person will be able to feel the warm sand as if he is lying on the beach, or to smell the campfire he is sitting around with friends. All these feelings will be conveyed to him by robots, by huge screens hanging on the four walls of his home.

At the same time, he will not owe anyone anything. A person will not need women, men, or children, no one… Moreover, if a couple of electrodes are attached to his head, he will feel happy even if all of the above did not happen. So what should one live for? It is better simply to not exist.

We will soon see advertisements on the Internet saying: “If you don’t want this fate, if you don’t want to exist, sign up.” This is what we are being led to, and it all begins from the lack of desire to have a family, to have kids, and to continue the human race.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 6/22/17

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Question: Can you please explain your methodology in one sentence?

Answer: I think it is best to speak about Kabbalah as a methodology for expanding awareness by combining desires, and in this expanded awareness, one begins to perceive not our reality, but the force that gives birth to it.

This gives an individual the possibility to know more about the world in which he exists, its cause and effect, relationships, etc. In addition, a person becomes kinder, more approachable, and his participation in society improves.
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Question: Why is it written in the Bible that Jacob struggled with God and overcame a man, in The Zohar it is written that Jacob struggled with God and people and overcame, and in the Torah it is written that Jacob struggled with an angel and people and overcame? How should one understand what is written in The Zohar?

Answer: All the sacred books are understood only by those who attain the upper world and not those who understand what is written through the ego. Go out to the upper world and you will begin to understand!

Question: How can the adulterers and murderers among Israel be considered righteous, chosen by the Creator, like David, for example, who arranged for the murder of the husband of his beloved?

Answer: Read about that in the book, “Introduction to The Book of Zohar.”
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Question from Facebook: Why does everyone complain about life, yet do not want to change anything?

Answer: Because you can complain about the fact that you do not have something: “Give it to me!” And to change means that I have to give something from myself. How can you?! I want to turn the world around so that I don’t have to do anything and yet have everything.

This is the desire of our egoism. You cannot escape this.

Therefore, of course, a person’s desire is to complain about himself, the world, his fate, the Creator, everything. In the end, of course, it is the Creator, because He determines everything.

Man feels himself to be the only existing exceptional creation. The sensation of uniqueness is an exclusive experience for each of us where it seems to me that only I alone exist and the rest are just like shadows around me.

And if someone should change, it is him or her, not me. I’m remaining “Me”!

A person must change himself in order for the world around him to change. Do you want to change the world? Very good. Just change yourself so that changes in you influence the world. And it can be done. You can change yourself every second, and the world around you will change.

Question: How does a person come to this decision?

Answer: Only when one begins to understand that there is only the Creator and oneself in the world, and the world is a kind of phantom sensation between them.

Question: Doesn’t this add pride to a person, as if there is only the Creator and me?

Answer: No, because by changing oneself to change the world, one gradually minimizes his or her egoism and then the world changes. He includes himself in others and others in himself, and so attains the properties of mutual bestowal.

Question: When do we come to such understanding?

Answer: Not all people come to understand this, but only those who have what is called a point in the heart. They can feel the inner qualities of the world and realize that the world is only a certain unreality of our internal properties that we imagine, a reflection of ourselves to the upper Light.

Therefore, there is nothing to complain about. Complain to yourself—this is the most true. Every character and everything that is in our world: inanimate, plant, animal, and especially people, all are your internal characteristics that you see outside of yourself. No one can make claims to anyone except to himself.

Only by changing yourself, will you change the world: for better—for the better, for the worst—for the worst. So decide in which direction. With what help? There is only one way: the science of Kabbalah.

Good luck with this!
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 6/12/17

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