Question: Is the reason that we don’t feel the Creator clearly because the ego manages us?

Answer: The Creator manages us through the ego.

Question: How is it possible to learn to bestow?

Answer: It is only in a group, only in a group of Ten and not in any other way.

Question: Why do we call the higher power the “creative mind”?

Answer: It is because this “mind” creates creation through its thoughts. There isn’t anything else. The highest force in nature is the power of thought.

Question: Who or what is the Moshiach (Messiah) according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: The Moshiach is the power of the upper Light. The upper Light can reveal itself as very many types of forces. What is called the Moshiach is the force that attracts us from the ego, from the word, LiMshoch, to extract. It is said that the Moshiach will come on a white donkey (Hamor), meaning an absolutely white Light from the characteristic of bestowal. The word Hamor is derived from the word Homer (Substance). The meaning is that all of our substance, the ego, will become illuminated and become altruistic.

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to people who predict the future, experts in numerology, astrologers, Urim and Tummim?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t relate to them in any special way.

Question: Is it possible to reduce the ego through studying the wisdom of Kabbalah? Or is it only possible to develop it?

Answer: Develop it! Without the ego you could not do anything. On the contrary, you require an immense ego that will elevate you to the heavens, and you will constantly correct it.

Question: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, is it possible to explain the fact that three of the presidents of the United States, Clinton, Bush and Trump were born in the summer of 1946, just like you?

Answer: Many other people were born in that year.

Question: Oleg from England asks: “What else would you want to do and realize in your life?”

Answer: I would like to correct Oleg from England.
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Question: To what degree is the Light in the world of Adam Kadmon stronger than the Light in the world of Atzilut? And what is the relationship of the power of the Light in our world in comparison to the world of Assiya?

Answer: There is no possibility of comparing the intensity of the Lights except to imagine them in relation to the development of a person and a beast.

Question: In the video “The True Reasons for the Fears of People,” you talk about the illumination of Malchut, and that this is felt as fear and as something terrible. Is it possible to say that Malchut illuminates from below to above, meaning that it illuminates but without the participation of Keter?

Answer: It is much more terrifying!
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Comment: Your path of life has been rather interesting: from a Soviet citizen to the leader of the Kabbalistic movement. I read several interviews in which you spoke about your long journey to the wisdom of Kabbalah, and I have a few questions.

Why did you emigrate to Israel?

Answer: From the desire to leave the place where you are hated to your place, i.e., to return to the historical homeland.

Question: Why were you interested in Judaism and Kabbalah in Israel and not, let’s say, Christianity, Buddhism, or Yoga, etc.?

Answer: I was not searching for faith but knowledge about the meaning of life.
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Question from Facebook: You say that it is not necessary to correct the person but only the connections between people. But if a person behaves wickedly, is it possible to build a good connection with him?

Answer: The person by himself is like an ordinary animal; his attitude toward others is naturally, inherently evil, as it is written, “the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Genesis 8:21). After all, the term “Adam” – Man, is determined according to his attitude toward others and toward himself.

Question: Is it possible to build a connection with him if his attitude toward others is bad?

Answer: In this case, it is necessary to put him into a society in which he will feel that he cannot communicate correctly with others, and that is why he loses out in life. He will see how the people around him behave, and through them he will understand that if he doesn’t relate to them correctly, he will not create the right connection with them with the right spiritual intention; so he will remain a beast and will end his life in an even worse state than how he began it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/30/17

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Question from Facebook: If we, the Jews, are chosen, then why do we hate each other so much?

Answer: Because we are chosen to be the first to correct our egoism. In order to push us to correction, this egoism evokes mutual hatred in us. This is called “the stiff-necked people.”

As for the rest of humanity, they do not have unfounded hatred for each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman”

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Question: Why is Kedusha, holiness, (including the sanctity of Kabbalah books) connected to bestowal?

Answer: Because Kedusha is bestowal and love.

Question: What are “talismans for a livelihood”? On the psychological level, they could help a person, making him rich, healthy, and successful without interfering in his spiritual advancement at all. Or is it considered that you are stealing from spirituality and it would be preferable not to be involved with it?

Answer: A person must be concerned about how to live in order to attain the Creator.
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Question: Can I impact the Creator through the environment?

Answer: Of course! This is our job, to impact Him, to force Him to do what needs to be done. This is called “my sons have defeated me.”

Question: What is consciousness?

Answer: Put simply, consciousness is the feeling that I exist.

Question: Can we say that the intention is a desire that is sharply focused? Or is the intention a thought?

Answer: The intention is the point, the goal I pursue, but not the desire itself.

Question: What is the subconscious?

Answer: The subconscious is consciousness that has not yet been formed.

Question: Does a person’s mind grow older with age? Why is it difficult for elderly people to learn new things?

Answer: Although it may seem like a physiological process, it is not actually so. It is simply the processing of the level we are on.

Question: How does thought differ from imagination?

Answer: Unlike thoughts, our imaginations are still unlimited by our desires, and so, like in a dream, these imaginations can be varied.

Question: Is time the feeling of the flow of my desires, thoughts, and my internal states?

Answer: Yes, it is the feeling of the flow of our desires.

Question: Is man a process of perception?

Answer: No, man is a desire that identifies with the Creator. If we don’t speak about the Creator, it is impossible to define or to determine anything correctly.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17

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Question: Which of the following descriptions is closer to the truth?

1) There are wondrous worlds of Light beginning from Ein Sof, but our physical world (below Malchut) is so far from them that within it Gevura (severity) dominates over Hesed. Therefore, it is difficult for a person to see the Hesed (mercy) of the Creator and he suffers.

2) Even in the material world we are as “house guests” of the Creator. All events, even those which cause us suffering, are acts of Hesed from the Creator in relation to us.

Answer: Both descriptions are correct.

Question: As a beginning student, as far as it seems, I have finally understood what a Partzuf is, and I likewise thought that I understood, at least to some extent, the meaning of the Sefirot. Sometimes you call Partzufim by the names of Sefirot, which ultimately confuses me. The question is, why are the Partzufim called by the names of Sefirot, and what is a Sefira?

Answer: Every Sefira, when it grows, is revealed as a Partzuf.

Question: If a person prays to the Creator for something and expects the Creator to carry out this desire, can he say in a prayer that if he gets what he desires from the Creator, he will give pleasure to the Creator this way, or is this purely an egoistic approach?

Answer: Egoismmmm!
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Question: Compared to my group, I feel that I lag behind in understanding the necessity for connection between friends. Because of this, I am considering leaving the studies.

Answer: Each one reaches his moment of connection with the group. For some individuals, this takes a few years, for others 20 or even 30 years, as Baal HaSulam writes.

But the moment comes for everyone when he begins to feel that the means for spiritual development comes from connection in a group. And he begins to grow in it. The years that go by do not pass in vain, and specifically those who patiently walk in the dark, as Baal HaSulam writes, gradually rise to great spiritual heights.
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Question: Often, you give an example of a drop of semen from which a fetus develops. Human semen is a liquid with sperm within it. Nothing can develop from the sperm. Why give an example that sounds erroneous from a scientific point of view?

Answer: That is because this is precisely the way it sounds in the translation from all the Kabbalistic sources!

Question: When I began to study The Book of Zohar, questions popped up for me regarding the following assertion: the Creator has no desire to receive because He is whole. Does it follow that the Creator does not receive pleasure from filling us with pleasure? In this case, what does “for the sake of the Creator” mean? Is it for the sake of his pleasure? After all, He has no desire to receive.

Answer: Quite true, we cannot say that the Creator receives pleasure from fulfilling the creatures. We say this because we cannot describe these actions and relationships other than in the language of our physical feelings.
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