Question: Should a husband and a wife study in the same Kabbalah group or is it better if they study in separate groups?

Answer: They should study in the same group since men and women have different groups of ten any way.

Question: What is the right prayer for my husband?

Answer: “Creator! I am asking you to help my husband be closer to me,” and that’s all!

Question: How should we avoid imposing our spiritual states, our egoistic assessments, and our personal views on to each other? How should I respond if my wife shares her feelings about the lessons with me?

Answer: You should treat her as your friend and not as your wife. When you engage in spiritual work, she is your friend and this is a small group for the two of you.

Question: Is the family at risk in the corporeal sense if a husband and a wife in the spiritual sense are both men?

Answer: No, they mutually impact each other each according to each one’s spiritual essence. What is more, their spiritual essence has nothing to do with corporeality. Therefore there is no nullification, but rather the opposite, they can express themselves better in the male or the female form, but it is important to support and keep the corporeal family life.

Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah explain unity and the struggle between opposites?

Answer: There is no struggle between opposites. There is only struggle for unity.

Question: Is the point in the heart a male or a female attribute?

Answer: The point in the heart is considered a male attribute. It isn’t a man in our world, but the attribute of bestowal, which can be typical of women just like men.

Question: Is there a difference between the words “friend” and “companion” according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: No, friend, buddy, and companion are synonymous. What is important is the relationship, the connection, the yearning for a connection between you and the Creator.

Question: What is betrayal in the spiritual path?

Answer: A change of intention from bestowal and yearning for the Creator to the opposite direction.

Question: What are the criteria according to which a woman should choose a husband in order to build a family?

Answer: First, they have to be physically compatible to each other, and second, they have to have a desire to mutually concede to each other.

Question: What can you wish for our men?

Answer: Let’s learn to give in to our women, but I would also like to say the same thing to the women. Mutual consent is what builds the right connection between friends, in a family, and between our children and us. Let’s all learn this. Good luck and happiness to all of you!
[197158]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/26/16

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Question: What does the word “Babylon” mean in Hebrew?

Answer: The word “Babylon” is derived from the word “Bilbul,” which means mixing. It means the mixing of all tribes into one tribe in ancient Babylon and their later dispersal and resettlement.

Question: Is it easier for someone who knows Hebrew to study the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Generally, yes, but there is no particular importance to it because the attainment of the upper world depends on exertion and effort. A person who learns only half of the language can invest effort and attain the upper world, whereas a professor of linguistics in an Israeli university can study the wisdom of Kabbalah and not attain anything.

Question: I have noticed that people with particular names like Michael, Adam, Rebecca, Sarah, and David are more attracted to spirituality. Why is that?

Answer: I don’t think that you are right. If we were to conduct a statistical study of the names of my students, it is doubtful that we would find many people among them with these names.

Question: How is it possible to discover the code of a language? Is it possible to learn to understand the language of the animals?

Answer: I don’t know and I don’t talk with animals.

Comment: They say that Abraham understood the language of the animals.

Attitude: What this means is that a person who enters the spiritual world understands all that happens on the levels of the still, vegetative, and animate, meaning the expression of egoism on these levels of nature.

Question: Are the letters of the Hebrew language ranked according to their spiritual significance?

Answer: It depends on what they belong to. The most important letter in the alphabet is the first letter “Aleph – א.” They are arranged from above to below, from Bina to Malchut.

Question: Can letters and the combinations of words program the destiny of a person and do they bear life and energy within them?

Answer: No. The life force can only be in a person. Don’t believe in the letters and don’t attribute much importance to them. Don’t prepare a meditation with them, don’t pray with them, and don’t ask anything of them. There is nothing in them!
[198678]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/17/16

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Question: The main task being decided by the leaders of the world is how to prolong their lives and attain physical immortality. Great efforts are made and great resources are invested in molecular biology and genetics research in order to achieve this goal.

What does the wisdom of Kabbalah say about prolonging life till the age of 200 or more?

Answer: This option exists, but why do we need it if we can attain eternal life even sooner?
[198384]

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Question: If working on unity means wanting to feel the desires of the friends as my own, which desires does this refer to? Does it refer to all the desires of the friends or only to their desires regarding the Creator and spirituality?

Answer: Only the desires of the friends regarding spirituality.

Question: Does it mean that I have attained unity if I feel the desires of the friends as my own?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In the Prague convention, I felt immediate hatred toward a friend in the circle because he broke one of the rules of the workshop. It was a very strong feeling. I wanted to erase this person from the face of the earth. I also began to hate others. Why does a Kabbalist have to undergo such emotions along the spiritual path?

Answer: So that you will get to know yourself better.
[197604]

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Question: The Book of Job describes how Job’s children, wife, and all his cattle died and how he sat afflicted cursing the Creator. Was he freed from his egoism through that? Is the fish that swallowed him his ego or not?

It also says in this book that the Creator speaks with Satan. How did the people who wrote this book discover that the Creator spoke with Satan about Job?

Answer: You are a bit confused. You should read the correct translation and try to feel everything to what is happening in our desire.
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Question: In the first year of the development of an infant, should a mother pay attention to something more than love and concern?

Answer: A mother should pay attention to all the states that she gets from the Creator, primarily through her love for her child, and through her child as well.
[198499]

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Question: What made the Creator made and who created Him? Is there more than one Creator?

Answer: The Creator was made from a desire to bestow, to enjoy, to love, like a big, kind, warm mother.

Nobody created the Creator, He exists all the time, beyond time, movement, and space. And what was created by Him exists temporarily.

Each one of us can have his own Creator until we unite and realize that all of this is one single force. That is how the world exists.

We need to discover the Creator and come into direct contact with Him. And then you will see who it is and what it is.And the others will achieve direct contact with Him and discover who this is and what this is. And then in the connection between you, you will be able to clarify together whether it is the same Creator for all of you or not, and it will become clear to you that He is one.
[198314]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/30/16

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Question: Why must all of the men listen to the morning lessons live, while the women can do so later? Is it because they are more corrected?

Answer: It is because we are different from each other.

Question: Are women more “corrected” than men? Does a “higher plan” specifically insert more corrected souls into the bodies of women?

Answer: Yes, they are more corrected; they don’t feel their flaws.
[198613]

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Question: You say that the Creator has one attribute, “to bring pleasure to the created beings.” The created being’s mission is to develop an internal Masach (screen) and to cease to receive pleasure in order to change his egoistic nature from a desire to receive to a desire to bestow, and thus resemble the Creator.

Doesn’t this lead to a conflict with the Creator? After all, the Creator wants to bring pleasure and the created being refuses to receive it and thereby prevents the Creator from fulfilling His desire.

Answer: We can only speak about the relations between the Creator and the created being from the framework of our mind and our reason, while the true mutual relations between a person and the Creator are attained only above our reason. By acquiring the attribute of bestowal, we become equivalent to the Creator and so we can understand Him and our nature.
[198509]

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Question: What if I’m not smart enough to study the wisdom of Kabbalah? Should I continue to study or should I move on to something else?

Answer: Kabbalah is for everyone because everyone has a need to find his soul.

Question: Which books should I first focus on?

Answer: You can find all this information on the Bnei Baruch website. Don’t philosophize and just engage in it.
[197593]

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