Question: Let’s say a person studying Kabbalah falls into despair because they cannot understand what spirituality is, and at the same time they feel lost in the ordinary world. At some point they reach a state where they belong neither here nor there. They are almost on the verge of madness.

You say: “That is good, it means the person is ready.” But how can he use that state if he does not know what to do?

Answer: Nothing will happen to him! It just seems so to him. His limited earthly capabilities and sensations cannot yet absorb anything spiritual, so it feels to him like he is being torn apart. But in truth, he is not being torn apart. There is nothing that can break.

I completely understand these states. I have gone through them myself. You just need to expose yourself to the influence of the upper light, and slowly, gradually, things will start to change.

It is evolution! There is no way around it. If our previous development up to this point took so much time, let this also take a couple more years. That is how it is. It might take 10 or 15 years.

And what else was a person created for if not to reach spiritual existence during his physical lifetime?

We think: “Okay, I will just step into the spiritual world and then start operating there.” But why? How do you know how many new abilities, data, and inner qualities are developing in you right now?

It is a vast system that you must absorb within yourself. This system is infinite. You need to gradually adapt to it. You cannot make sudden leaps here. There is a specific order to your development. It just cannot happen all at once.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The meaning of existence” 7/11/10

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We are created in such a way that by connecting with each other and with the Creator, by complementing it, and being part of it, we reveal perfection to the extent that we can complement this perfection ourselves.

We begin to feel that everything except us is perfect. And when I enter and gradually start filling this perfection in places that remain open for me, like in a mosaic, I begin to experience the highest pleasure because in this way, I attain eternity, the perfection, which I myself create, complete, and realize.

It is an astonishing sensation! We are created to feel this and be filled with it. In truth, we have no other needs. So, by attaining this, we attain everything.

When humanity experiences all of this, when it merges into an absolutely perfect, eternal system, into this wondrous harmony, then beyond this threshold—as Kabbalists hint in their books—lies the next stage of a certain state, development.

We cannot imagine what development means because we currently have no needs that correspond to the next stage. And then suddenly—no, I want classical music now! And then definitely some impressionism, and then something else.

That is, it is quite possible that we will develop other desires. Or perhaps it will not be based on a desire at all. On the desire to receive? Certainly not anymore. On the desire to bestow? I don’t know. This is a realm that cannot be explored by us; we have no instruments or means to study it.

In addition to the so-called sixth millennium, there is also the seventh, which represents complete correction. This corresponds to the Sabbath. And then there are also the eighth, ninth, and tenth millennia. In “The Introduction to The Mouth of the Wise,” Rabash writes that Baal HaSulam spoke about this.

But right now, we cannot discuss it, as it is far beyond us—just like a small child cannot reason about what happens in the world of adults.

In the spiritual world, a person sees only their own level and a part of the upper level. All the previous levels are included within them and form their true integral essence, while the higher level is slightly revealed to them—the one meant to elevate them—like a mother, parents, or our world in relation to a child.

They perceive them, but in what way? Only at the level they are on and slightly above within the possibilities that are made available to them. Nothing else can be perceived! Everything else that exists is nothing to them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Develop Yourself” 7/15/10

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Question: Can a child be provided with the information that an adult possesses?

Answer: It is absolutely impossible. First you must develop the child to the level of an adult, to the level of the Creator. Therefore, as Maimonides writes, things should be explained to beginners gradually, in small portions, until they grow and can properly absorb the information. This is the mastery of the teacher, on one hand.

On the other hand, it is not so bad if everyone hears this information because everyone will still feel it better or worse, closer or further from oneself. So in a lesson, both beginners and people with serious experience and understanding can sit together and each one will understand something.

But there are some feelings and knowledge that should not be conveyed to beginners because they will not perceive them anyway. Strangely enough in Kabbalah, there is no concept of “forbidden” as in our world. Everyone thinks that there are prohibitions and secrets there.

There are no secrets at all. Both an underdeveloped person and a more developed one understand everything at their own level. The development of each one, in principle, is limited by himself. And there is nothing you can do about it.

I cannot whisper some secret into your ear; you simply will not understand it. It is like whispering some human idea to a cow. What will it do? Wiggle its ear and nothing more.

Therefore everything depends on the development of a recipient.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Mastery of the Teacher” 7/7/10

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Question: The Creator creates a created being and develops it Himself by making sure it develops a desire to attain the upper and become independent. But if all of this comes from the Creator…?

Answer: You can ask a million questions, and every second, new ones will arise within you. The answers will not satisfy you because the only real answer can be in your feelings.

We are created as beings of feeling, of desire, and it is this desire that we must fulfill. The intellect alone will not suffice. We cannot calm ourselves with logical arguments. That is why Kabbalah does not engage in this. Instead it shows a person on how he or she can develop oneself to a level where the person can feel a spiritual state.

Thus we must go through all the states given to us, and only then will we understand what it truly is. Another person’s knowledge will give us nothing.

Everything we study is not in order to know but to change ourselves, to create new sensations and the possibility of perception. And nothing else!

Kabbalah is the wisdom of perception! “Kabbalah” means reception, perception.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Meaning of Existence” 7/11/10

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Question: The material we study begins to take effect only when the light reaches a person, and then, naturally, all the sources begin to open: The Study of the Ten Sefirot, The Book of Zohar, and others. Does everything depend solely on the light?

Answer: Nothing depends on the light. Everything depends on your desire, ability, and understanding of the influence of the light, which exists around you eternally and perfectly. I mean the desire to draw the light, work with it, and become like it. To draw the light means to be similar to the Creator.

Comment: You said that we should not try to intellectually understand the material we read since logical reasoning alone will never lead us to comprehension.

My Response: Never! You will never reach understanding logically. You must develop a different logic, additional perceptions. This does not mean rejecting anything corporeal, but rather, you must develop yourself.

You need to build additional systems of perception, analysis, synthesis, and decision-making within yourself that are similar to the spiritual ones. This is what it means to become like the Creator.

When you do this through Kabbalah, which was created solely for this purpose of developing additional capabilities in a person, then you begin to feel Him. The more you expand, construct new inner abilities, connections, perceptions, and analyses, the more you feel the Creator. Then you start to understand what Kabbalah speaks of, and Kabbalistic books become a description of what you personally experience.

A Kabbalistic book turns into a living manual for you. It tells you what to do.

Question: Suppose I travel to Paris as a tourist and see Notre Dame or some other landmark, which gives me certain impressions. How does this work in spirituality?

Answer: In spirituality, your impressions come from inner attainment: What is this object? What is this phenomenon? How does it affect me? How can I best perceive it? How is it connected to other phenomena? And so on.

Essentially, what does spirituality mean? It is the attainment of the Creator, the only thing in which we exist. To the extent that I develop myself, I begin to understand, feel, and study Him. But in studying, I can perceive Him only to the extent that I become like Him.

Therefore, all of Kabbalah is structured around reaching similarity to the Creator, around becoming equivalent to Him. This is the goal of everything we do. To attain complete equivalence with Him means to fully attain Him.

Understanding the causes and sources of all existence brings you immense fulfillment. It fills all your desires, needs, thoughts, intellect, and emotions. There is great pleasure in this knowledge and connection. Connection itself brings immense fulfillment because it is built on the connection of opposites, on resolving contradictions. Suddenly, they align and form a single, wonderful whole.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Develop Yourself” 7/15/10

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Question: What is the meaning of this game that the Creator has initiated?

Answer: The meaning of the Creator’s game is to create a creation equal to Himself, which will attain the state of the Creator, His level, and complete similarity to Him, and in this will be totally fulfilled since He instilled these desires in us.

We are meant to become like Him: to achieve absolute, mutual fulfillment of one another. Thus, the entire program of creation is realized within the framework known to us.

We rely on what the Kabbalists say, that the Creator has a need to create, a positive need, a desire to bestow. In our world, this can be likened to a woman’s desire to have children, which is an inner longing to care for and give. Naturally, in our world, this is an egoistic desire, but in the Creator, it is altruistic.

It stems from the nature of the good that does good. That is why He created beings—to lead them to goodness. This is what we can comprehend. One can philosophize endlessly about it, but Kabbalah teaches that it must be attained. For one who attains, everything becomes clear. And the one who merely philosophizes is left with thoughts that his fishes out from under his hair—nothing more.

That is why Kabbalah is categorically against it. It is a highly practical science meant to lead a person to receive the magnificent fulfillment that awaits him in the attainment of the Creator, in becoming like Him.

Comment: You speak about this so sadly.

My Response: On the contrary, it is something enormous. I simply do not know how to express it, there are no words for it. I am not sad. Quite the opposite, wonderful feelings arise in me that overwhelm me because what has been given to a person is a great thing, such a goal, such an opportunity!
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Meaning of the Game” 7/12/10

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Comment: You describe the spiritual world so beautifully that there is a terrible envy for the feelings you talk about.

My Response: You have no idea how it works! It all happens inside you! These ups and downs! It is as if you are flying and diving underwater, swimming into a grotto, and revealing some secrets there.

Envious, right? This is a very good quality! It helps you advance.

Comment: You describe these feelings so vividly!

My Response: This is why this light is called Taamim—tastes. You cannot even imagine what they are like!

They fill you with such bright colors, with a billion different shades that do not exist in our world. Moreover, each shade is drastically different from the other, even from the one next to it. In general, it is such a feeling, such interplay, such an inner life, with incredible colors and feelings!

And you never get tired of it; that is what is interesting. In our world, how much can you handle? The body gets tired of external influences. But when the filling comes from the inside, it keeps you going and constantly rejuvenates you. I recommend it.

Question: Do you penetrate inside this system through some letters?

Answer: There are no letters. When you look at the letters, you penetrate through and cause the influence of spiritual forces on you that supposedly stand behind the letters. But there are no letters. They are drawn in the back of your head, but in fact you are being influenced by forces. Your desire is already working with these forces.

You take no part in this. You have made it so that on one hand there is your desire, and on the other hand there is a force that affects it. You start perceiving everything this way with no buffering systems to retrieve or understand anything through. It is all in your “box.” You just have to remove it; it interferes with you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. A Game at the Cost of Life” 7/29/10

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Question: Is there a difference between whether a person listens to your lecture directly in the study hall or from somewhere else like watching it on television?

Answer: If a person is in the audience, it certainly gives him a greater intensity of information, sensations, and has a very strong influence on him.

Question: So there is a certain energy in the room?

Answer: No, you can connect to this from any distance. It all depends on the receiver. Information is not contained in the air of this particular room. I assure you that you will be able to connect to the state of Rabbi Shimon and his disciples, who were sitting and studying some part of The Book of Zohar.

Question: Does it mean that this state exists within the system, and you simply connect to it?

Answer: Of course! It exists eternally, nothing is transient. It is all as if there, and everything is like in Baron Munchausen’s “frozen sounds”: the flute thawed and started to play.

Question: Which is more important: hearing or seeing the letters themselves?

Answer: You need to see it too. In general, seeing helps a lot. After all, it includes another vast area of connection with information, and the most important is that it is the connection with the source.

We do not understand in what volume we exist, who we are. We do not see our real selves—our spiritual, energetic image. We do not know ourselves! We are not at all what we imagine ourselves to be, and we do not feel what we are connected to.

This book lying before us, this amount of information, this enormous realm of our connection that extends somewhere into the n-dimensional spiritual space, we do not see it all! Everything is completely hidden. This is why we must strive to be tied to everything.

There are some things that perhaps at the first contact interfere and distract. But in general, it is necessary to try to absorb it as closely as possible, to enter into an inner contact. The inner contact is, of course, very important.

If a person is not yet in the spiritual world, then the inner contact cannot appear. But once it appears, it does not matter where and how you live, because all of this is information that is recorded and exists permanently.

You connect to it and exist within it. You yourself are both its consumer and the source, the transmitter. You are like a detector existing in the information field, moving, and therefore capturing its information.

This information is called the Creator. He is the informational field: eternal, perfect, and of an unknown nature! That is, we capture a tiny fraction of it, but it is all huge, vast, boundless, and exists in some incomprehensible volume and space. Moreover, there is not as if there is a certain volume, and the field fills it. This field is primary.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Information Field” 7/9/10

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Question: Until a person has a “point in the heart,” they do not hear the Kabbalists. Is there any way to awaken it?

Answer: Only through external dissemination and internal work among those who already have this point.

If we unite internally (there are already millions of people around the world with an awakening point in the heart) and begin connecting with each other and understand that only in this way can we elevate ourselves, then we will inspire others. They will feel their “body” coming to life.

Imagine a body that was unconscious slowly starts to revive, its organs awaken one by one, pulls others along and helps them awaken as well. That is what we must do.

We must push ourselves forward, higher, out of this unconscious state, unconscious in relation to the Creator. Gradually, others will begin to feel that there is another state like ours, and that this reality is not the ultimate one. We can rise from it to the next level and begin to perceive something completely different even in this life and will experience ourselves as eternal and perfect beings.

You don’t need to abandon your corporeal life, it doesn’t disappear. You simply enhance it with the perception of the upper worlds where you feel the force that guides you in this world, the force that paints this reality for you.

Question: If only the Creator awakens the point in the heart, how can we do it instead of Him?

Answer: We are not doing it instead of Him! When we activate this field of force, the Creator, by striving to connect with each other so that it fills us, we also awaken all the other points that have not yet manifested in their owners. We awaken the entire field!

Question: Does this mean that everyone has a point in the heart?

Answer: Of course! Otherwise, people wouldn’t exist.

Question: Are all points in the heart the same, regardless of financial or other status?

Answer: Absolutely! They are independent of our corporeal world. They differ in their manifestation because they belong to different parts of the collective soul. However, the method of progress and correction is the same for everyone; the only difference is that each person experiences it individually.

Question: Are the points of Baal HaSulam and Rabash the same, just at a different level of manifestation?

Answer: The only difference is that they realized their points before you, and you are realizing yours later. But so what? Ultimately, everyone reaches the same level.

By connecting with others, each person includes everyone else within themselves. In the end, there are no exceptions or privileges for anyone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. A Point in the Heart” 7/16/10

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Question: What would you say to young people who are already living together and love each other, but constantly fear that one day it might suddenly end?

Answer: This is called Ira (in Hebrew), which is not just fear but anxiety, a special kind of anxiety about preserving good relationships.

Question: Does this mean they are approaching true love between them?

Answer: Yes, it is as if they are climbing a mountain. Egoism continuously grows, it becomes more sophisticated and therefore sharper. But it is precisely through working together that they rise and draw even closer to each other.

Question: What awaits them at the summit?

Answer: At the summit, spiritual closeness begins, which will create a higher connection between them, one that is truly above egoism. They will start to connect in such a way that they will understand each other without words, only through thoughts; they will intertwine with one another.

Question: Is this the highest state of connection?

Answer: Yes, just as snakes in a pit intertwine with one another, so will they intertwine, only not in an egoistic, but in a mutual, kind attitude toward each other.

Comment: That is quite a turning point. Suddenly, you compared it to snakes, and it became a bit unsettling.

My Response: Why? It is very relevant and direct.

Question: Do these snakes exist within us?

Answer: It is precisely thanks to our great and cunning egoism, if we begin to use it correctly, to draw closer, to wrap around each other, then in this way we will ascend ever closer to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 1/3/22

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