Question: What is the mission of a person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: A person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah, and I emphasize a person and not a man, has to make sure that he perfectly corrects his part in the general system called creation or Adam (Man), in his relationships with all created beings on the levels of the still, vegetative, animate, and the speaking nature, and through them, his relations with the Creator.

If this is what he does, he is called man, Adam, who resembles the Creator no matter whether it is a man or woman in our world. In our world, a man can do much more intensive work than a woman because he has a bigger ego and a lesser yearning for the Creator.
[196977]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/26/16

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Question: What is the significance of books and libraries in the evolution of humanity?

Answer: I will answer as a scientist who has sought to learn all my life. Since the age of nine I subscribed to the magazines Knowledge is Power, Technology for Teens, Science and Life, and later to the magazine Radio. How can one live without literature or books? Today we can upload all the world’s literature on one computer and give each one access to the treasures of human intelligence.

Question: Why does a person need this knowledge?

Answer: It depends upon what we want to insert into our memory.

Education is built by reading many different sources, which are all forgotten but which build the special connections in our brain, in our memory, and today when we look at different objects, instruments, and phenomena, we can perceive, understand, and relate to them correctly because the right relationship has been created.

By reading a lot, we seemingly create internal software inside us, like Word for example. Once you upload Word on your computer, you can use this software to read texts, to write, etc.

Similarly, education uploads its software in us and we don’t need to remember anything because the major basic intelligence of man is already inside us.

Question: Will it always be this way?

Answer: I believe that it will gradually disappear because everything will be completed by the wisdom of Kabbalah, which provides us with full knowledge of the world we are living in: who we are and how we should correct this world.
[197332]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/9/16

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Question: Why has the wisdom of Kabbalah become more popular today?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah is a wisdom that has to be revealed in our days to all the people in the world. I have been engaging in it for over 40 years. During this time it has really become more popular and sought after in our world, not because we advertise it but because the world needs it.

The wisdom of Kabbalah tells a person what he is living for and how he can ascend from our world to a state of eternity and perfection.

More and more people today feel the need to reveal the meaning of life because in spite of our broad perspective of our world where we look around and see everything from the top down, all the way to the horizon and beyond the horizon, we don’t know what the meaning of our life is on this small planet at the end of the galaxy. People don’t know what we are living for.

They say that when you look at Earth from space you begin to understand a little. Let’s ascend a bit and look at our small planet and at what we engage in, where we are running, and what we are doing. Stop and look. Our perpetual motion steals the main things from us.

We don’t engage in the most important thing that musts be done in our world, which is getting out of its boundaries. The next world exists, and today it is open for everyone. We are in our world like inside a small room, running around like kids, playing and jumping from one corner to another, but if we just open the door and come out, we will see a huge world before us.

The wisdom of Kabbalah enables us to do so. People feel that it is time. Such desires emerge in them. This is the reason that the wisdom of Kabbalah, which speaks about the fulfillment of these desires, is very popular today, and I offer it to you.
[197538]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/9/16

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Question: As a result of my study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, I am losing interest in my husband more and more because he doesn’t understand this study at all. How should I relate to him so as not to destroy the marriage and maintain mutual respect and love?

Answer: Do not confuse physical life with spiritual life. They have different goals. Physical life is a responsibility to continue the generation and educate children, and couples can respect each other and help each other with this. Interest and love don’t last long, as psychologists claim, but responsibility and love resulting from support and children are eternal.

Love appears as a result of mutual concessions and assistance, and is not at first sight. It is a result of life and not its beginning.
[195422]

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Question: Is there a question you would like to answer before we ask?

Answer: No. I want to answer only those questions that you ask.

Question: How is the ego divided among seven billion people?

Answer: The ego is divided into five levels of egoistic desire: zero, 1, 2, 3, and 4. All of humanity exists within this and advances toward the goal of creation by gradually reaching the recognition that the ego is evil.

Question: If multitudes of people would begin to long for development and self-awareness, would the crisis end?

Answer: Certainly, in fact, there is no crisis; it is just an illustration of our situation.

Question: How is the work of the Kabbalists projected onto the external world?

Answer: If a Kabbalist succeeds in attracting people to think and ponder their fate, freedom of choice, and ascension to the next level, this is reflected well in all of humanity. They would all experience less pressure and get more possibilities for thinking and making the right decisions.

Question: How many people must reach unity between them to prevent a third world war? What quality must be in these souls?

Answer: There must be 600,000 souls like this and their quality must be such that they long for full mutual connection between each other, as is described in the wisdom of Kabbalah, like a flock of birds or a school of fish.

Question: In the future, will an altruistic global government be established instead of organizations like the United Nations, which has become only a window display?

Answer: Without a doubt. This was written about in “The Last Generation.”

Question: Can it be said that all the millions of people in the world who have achieved familiarity with the wisdom of Kabbalah are the first signs of the Last Generation?

Answer: Without a doubt. These people are also called the “new generation”; the “Last” generation on this level and the “New” generation on the next level.

Question: In any case, the physical world in which we are living will end. Can we expect that there will be something good next?

Answer: In due course we can expect the next level of development. We were once on the level of the still, after that on the level of the vegetative, then on the level of the animate, and now we are on the human level; the next level will be a spiritual level. That is how we move forward. On the spiritual level, many levels and sub-levels also exist, all the way up to the world of infinity.
[195659]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 7/10/16

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Question: Why do I need a mediator in the form of the group if only the Creator and I exist?

Answer: How will you find the Creator otherwise? The Creator is what we discover in the group, the attribute of unity.

Question: If we are a kind of instrument, a desire for revealing the Upper Light, how can we discover it?

Answer: Imagine that we are in an ocean of Light, that I am in a spaceship orbiting the earth. I am in an empty airless space, and I see darkness. Who is hiding the light from me? No one. So why don’t I see light instead of darkness? Because there is nothing out there that can reflect the light so that I will see its reflection. We don’t see the direct light that reaches us but only the returning light.

Think about the physical phenomenon of seeing a dark space, the travelers of a supersonic Concorde plane, for example, which rises to great heights in which there is little resistance and the light disintegrates, see a dark sky through the plane windows, not a white or blue sky.

We should understand that we can feel anything in the world only through our rejection, not by our reception. This is the reason I need a group, so that in the mutual cooperation with it, by rejecting it and by the group’s rejection of me, I discover the Upper Light. It is revealed only by our mutual rejection and attraction.
[195628]
From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 6/9/16

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Question: Can I write prayers for myself?

Answer: Certainly, just like King David wrote the Psalms.

Question: Were the Shamati articles written in the language of the branches? What I mean is, is it possible to understand the meaning of the words in the text as they are usually explained in this world?

Answer: No!
[196196]

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Question: Is it worthwhile to study The Book of Zohar in Aramaic?

Answer: It is not necessary to study it in Aramaic, Hebrew, or in any other language, because you won’t understand anything anyway.

You must first study the wisdom of Kabbalah itself as a key to the material in the source books, and only after that will you begin to understand what is said in The Book of Zohar, otherwise it will just be the reading of incomprehensible pages that will only lead you to reject it.

Question: Does reading The Book of Zohar in Aramaic awaken some kind of illumination?

Answer: Yes. But I suspect that people “will get lost” when they read it and are liable to think that they have already had contact with the wisdom of Kabbalah and don’t have anything more to search for there. So it is better to begin with a three-month introductory course on the wisdom of Kabbalah.

In the course you will be able to get an idea about the general system of creation, its management, and a person’s purpose within this system. In that way you will know what is happening to you, what needs to happen to you, how you can manage this system, influence it, and what reactions you can get back from it. What this means is that you can be in mutual cooperation with the general system and manage your life.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is a science.
[196205]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 10/26/16

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Question: Are women able to love others just as they love themselves, without the help of men? Do women unite in order to put pressure on the men?

Answer: Women are totally equal to men according to the opportunities they are given, and there is no point in looking for what they are special in. Each one must simply do her best according to her capabilities in order to receive the outcome, a spiritual reward.
[196193]

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Question: You always emphasize the importance of prayer. I think that there isn’t a person who doesn’t pray in one way or another. Humanity has been praying for ages. What is a true prayer?

Answer: This is something we should learn. A prayer should include:

• your current state, the expected future state, and the way to fulfill it;
• turning to a power source, thanks to which you fulfill your request, your prayer, your dream; the One you turn to; and
• how you receive this force, how you fulfill it in practice, and what you will do in order to achieve your goal; what you pray for.

If you don’t follow these steps, you are just like a child crying “I want!” and that’s all. Who will pay attention to that?

If you want to receive the power, the reason, and an accurate wise plan of your development, of attaining the goal, which will not just lead you anywhere, you must plan all of this internally and in advance, and then it will really turn into a prayer. This means that a great deal of work is required before entering a state called prayer.

Question: They say that even a cow mooing in the field is praying.

Answer: Yes, she is praying. Being in a beastly state, she understands what she needs, so she moos strongly since, after all, her udder is full and she needs to be milked. She is suffering.

Question: And what if a person suffers?

Answer: A person should understand what he needs and what he must do in order to get it.

He should understand his next state. We don’t know that. A cow knows exactly what she needs because she is on the animate level and has instinctive desires, while we can feel that only on the level of attainment.

So, in order to discover the right future state and from whom we can demand its fulfillment, we must study the wisdom of Kabbalah.
[196806]
From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 10/31/16

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