Question: If we die without crossing the Machsom, are we born again and again develop (or don’t develop) the point in the heart.

When such special souls like Baal HaSulam and ARI were born again, were they living in both the spiritual and material worlds from the moment of birth, or did they have to cross the Machsom again? And what about people like us?

Will the whole chain of reincarnations end when my friends and I begin to feel the Creator?

Answer: It will happen when you are higher than them and your main desire is to bring the Creator contentment.
[199086]

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Question: If the soul of Adam HaRishon (the First Man) was shattered into 600,000 parts, does this mean that eventually 600,000 people must remain on the face of the Earth at the time of correction?

Why must we develop the wisdom of Kabbalah if, according to the Torah, everything has already been determined regarding the total number in the population?

Answer: I have already written about this more than once, as it is said in all the original books on the wisdom of Kabbalah, in spirituality, quantity doesn’t matter. It is only the intensity of the correction of egoism into the characteristic of bestowal.

The full completion is called 600,000. There is no meaning to the number of people in the world because people’s bodies don’t exist in the spiritual world. What exists there are only desires that are united into a common desire for the Creator.
[198349]

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Question from Facebook: If the Creator manages everything, why should a person be punished? After all, he has no freedom in his actions.

Answer: If the Creator manages everything, we apparently don’t have anything to do. He will think of everything and we could lie down as comfortably as possible and wait and see what happens later. But we were given egoism, which opposes the Creator. We need to change it so it will resemble Him.

That is our work. If we involve ourselves with that, we will get a good response from the Creator. And if not, then we receive punishment from Him, which forces us to. That is the entire management system.

The Creator leads us to understand where we are, what works, what influences us, and what is required of us. But we also, each one of us, must work together with Him as partners – He and I. So we must imagine we are facing the Creator and He is influencing us by stimulating our thoughts and movements.

Everything that we say, think, and feel comes from Him.

But He also requires a particular response from us. Even though He is also the one who summons the response, we must understand this and connect with it. The result will be that we will be in adhesion with Him. We must constantly live in adhesion with Him.

Then new states will be revealed in our lives and we will see how life becomes more calm, comfortable, balanced, and secure. The only thing we need is to come into direct contact with the Creator. This is something we can do.
[198310]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/30/16

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Question: Are all the obstacles we encounter in our minds or are they created by the Creator?

Answer: All the obstacles are created by the Creator to help us advance.

Question: Is the Creator among my friends in the true reality?

Answer: The Creator is between my friends, but not in the form I belong to now. When I truly exit myself and enter them, I will discover the Creator between them.

Question: What attributes does one need in order to attain the true reality?

Answer: Only the attributes of bestowal, an intention of bestowal.

Question: Is the illusion temporary and reality fixed and eternal?

Answer: The right and true reality is not only eternal, but it is beyond all boundaries, beyond the frameworks of time, motion, and space. It is simply the Upper Light.

Question: What is the human body and is it real and not imaginary?

Answer: A body refers to a desire. Real refers to a desire with an intention in order to bestow. Imaginary refers to a desire with an intention for your own sake.

Question: Will everyone see the same reality in the attribute of bestowal, in altruism?

Answer: Not only will they see the same reality, but they will also directly participate in it; they will be one unified soul.

Question: How do you relate to civilizations beyond our planet earth?

Answer: I don’t. There is no one out there. There is no life here or anywhere else, nowhere except in the upper world.

Question: Will a person who attains perfection see and perceive everything in the true reality? Will he see himself, his physical body, as a reflection in the mirror?

Answer: Even if he is totally free of the intention for his own sake, which means that he has attained the highest state of correction, the body will still exist in the same form it is, because the body exists on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature, whereas he is corrected internally on the human level. This is the reason that it is not reflected in the body in any way. Physically, even a great Kabbalist can be ill whereas the most primitive man can be healthy.

Question: Do we have to ascend above our ego or should we correct it?

Answer: The correction of the ego is to ascend above it. It is the same thing.

Question: If everything is the Creator, is everything that does not resemble the Creator an illusion?

Answer: No, it isn’t an illusion, but you may say that it is an illusion in our feeling.

Question: How can I determine that I am ready to perceive the Creator?

Answer: If you have a desire for it, you already have everything else. It is because we establish groups, classes, and publish a lot of information on the Internet. Everything is before you, everything is revealed.

I am really pleased that I have managed to lay such a foundation during my lifetime and I hope it will continue to develop. You have everything, including great help from the Creator; you have everything from Him. All you need is a desire and to be a bit more organized.

Question: Why has such important information about life and the perception of reality been concealed for thousands of years?

Answer: Because until now humanity has not reached the crisis that we are undergoing today. For thousands of years it was not fully ripe, whereas the current crisis shows us to what degree the ego is finite and has already exhausted itself.

Now it will only kill us. Humanity developed until about 50 to 60 years ago and now we are beginning to fold; now we are only killing ourselves, sinking into depression, drugs, divorce, unemployment, and wars. The ego has developed us to a certain point where we lived its development and now we have reached its final phase. Now we have to ascend to the next level.

The next level is the human “Adam” level stemming from the root “to resemble – Adamah” in Hebrew, which means to resemble the Creator. Here we have to develop on a totally different level.

Therefore, we have to begin to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah and to peacefully enter the next world.
[198918]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/18/16

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Comment: Recently you explained the subject of the proper perception of reality, more precisely of creation. But currently, I cannot perceive this.

Answer: We do not perceive information from the outside through our five senses, as it seems to us.

The senses through which we perceive our Ohr Pnimi (Inner Light) are organized within us according to the degree of equivalence and resemblance of our desires to the Light, to the Creator. To the degree that He is revealed in our system of resemblance to Him, which is called HaVaYaH, it becomes our spiritual senses.

To the degree that we improve and change them to bestowal, we begin to perceive the changing world, the Light that is closest to us.
[198692]
From Daily Kabbalah Lessons 12/12-13/16

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Question from Facebook: What is a dream, and what happens to the soul during sleep?

Answer: A dream is a purely physiological state of the beastly body, which has no relation to spirituality.

Rest is typical not only for humans but also for animals and plants. This suggest the need to alternate between two states, on and off, like the alternation of day and night.

Question: What happens to the soul during sleep?

Answer: A person has no soul! He is simply an animal that has only a bud (point) that can be developed with the help of studying the wisdom of Kabbalah, and then within him he will begin “to cultivate,” to grow, a spiritual organ called a soul. But this is only to the degree that a person carries out serious work on himself.

Moreover, he cannot carry this out alone but only in a society in which all the points are connected together, and that is how they create one single point that is composed of ten, which is called a spiritual Minyan (group of ten).

So, within the group of ten, by nullifying themselves and connecting together, they will begin to feel a spiritual force, a spiritual state. A connection like this is called a “soul,” within which the state of the next level is already felt, called the upper world.

But when a person just goes to sleep, this is a natural, beastly state that arises as a result of an internal overload of all the thoughts, emotions, memories, and so forth.

So during sleep, as a rule, we connect with what happened during the daytime because our thoughts are reloaded and sink internally to a deeper level of memory, and we feel this as dreams, which can take on different forms because they are cut off from egoistic desires. They are no longer found within the desires, but in thoughts above the desires.

There are states when dreaming that we can sense the future, but this has no connection to the wisdom of Kabbalah. There are some people who feel this more, others feel it less, and there are people like Wolf Messing, who feel the future in general, not necessarily during sleep. But this is absolutely irrelevant to the spiritual world, to the soul. Everyone has a bud for the beginning of the soul, but it is necessary to develop it. The wisdom of Kabbalah is waiting for you.
[198803]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/21/16

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Question: What is the meaning of the middle of Bina?

Answer: The middle of Bina is the transition from the desire to bestow to the desire to receive.

Question: Is there absolute evil, and if so what is it?

Answer: Absolute evil is our egoism. The ego can develop, absorbing the attributes of bestowal and turning them and using them for its own sake by becoming equal to the Creator in the form of Pharaoh.
[198557]

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Question: What can you say about a state in which you wake up in the middle of the night and feel an unbearable pain in your soul and think that it is because you are missing (not doing what you should for the root of your soul) what you were given?

Answer: This is a wonderful way in which the Creator reminds you that He exits.

Question: You helped me understand the main thing in life: to see an actual meaning in bestowal, to break out of the dark shell of the ego, and to take a step toward the abyss of fear.

I lived in thoughts and understanding and easily grasped the wisdom of Kabbalah in my mind, but it is only now that the world is changing, only now is this path directly revealed in my feelings. Nothing is redundant; everything leads only to one thing, to correction.

What should I do so that the restrictions of the ego will not be so painful? The ego is growing immensely and I don’t always manage to build a connection above it, while hell is very dark.

Do you actually undergo such terrible states before every ascent? How do you break it? After all, every time the push is increasingly stronger and there is no way back, while after every ascent there is a sharp fall. How can I ascend above this without injuring those who are close to me? How can I feel it when I am lonely? This is a burning question, and I am sorry if I refer to the corporeal world by it.

Answer: You should dedicate more time to studying and dissemination.
[197599]

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Question: Why must a person penetrate the thought of creation?

Answer: This is precisely why people were created; this is exactly what the Creator requires of us. The upper force has only one thought—to provide a person with all the conditions for attaining the level of the Creator.

Question: Why does the Creator “send me” communications through a negative environment?

Answer: If you did not get negative impressions, what would you want to escape? The whole world was created to push us into a corner.

Question: Is good fortune always the result of attracting the Light on us?

Answer: Yes, good fortune is a result of the influence of the Upper Light. Even if this influence is felt as negative, it is good fortune.

Question: Why does a woman need to adhere to her husband?

Answer: In our world, a woman symbolizes the desire to receive, the Malchut that receives from the first nine Sefirot, which in relation to her are the male part. So she must adhere to him.

Question: Can we feel our relatives after death?

Answer: I don’t know how to express this simply; if he is a Kabbalist, then yes.

Question: Can birth be the start of correction for a woman?

Answer: The participation of women, even passively, is part of their correction in this world.

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to unequal marriages, for example a man who is much younger than a woman?

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, there is no significance to this, age makes no difference.

Question: How is it possible to explain the prophecy of Vanga?

Answer: In principle, prophecy is possible on the beastly level. There are people who feel the future and can say precisely what will happen to you tomorrow. But in general, they will not say. In fact, the future exists, but it is concealed or revealed in relation to us.

Question: Does the soul correspond to the body or does the body correspond to the soul?

Answer: The body corresponds to the soul as something external relative to something internal. The soul determines the entire destiny of the person.

Question: How is it possible to know whether prophecy is true or false?

Answer: It is not necessary to engage with prophecy. The wisdom of Kabbalah is against this. We need to decide and determine our own futures.
[197043]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: The word “anti-Semitism” is composed of “anti” – against and “Semite,” which is a person (Shem, a son of Noah). Why would someone be opposed to this. Is someone entitled to be against this?

Jewish books contain text without “humanity” regarding the gentiles, so it is understandable why they are against us.

Answer: Everything written about “gentiles” refers to our egoism, which is called “gentile,” from the word of the people. The word “Jew – Yehudi” is derived from the word “union – Yichud,” unity among the people that must be attained by everyone. There is no connection in these words to the words “gentile” or “Jew” in the sense that is familiar to us, but it is only a differentiation within a person into “gentile,” an egoist, and “Jew,” an altruist, regardless of nationality or race.
[198419]

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