Question: When will our problems come to an end?

Answer: The problems will end when we fully connect with the Creator. After all, all the problems that arise expose the lack of connection between us and the Creator. Thanks to our prior success in connecting with the Creator when faced with problems, we grow and acquire the ability to reveal greater problems.

Problems will not stop without spiritual work. It is not possible to run away from it because only through summoning the Ohr Makif (Surrounding Light), and thanks to the suffering with the help of the group, it is possible to get closer to the Creator.

People are differentiated according to their attitude to the problems that are revealed. Ordinary people struggle with them like Don Quixote, whereas Kabbalists understand that all problems come from “There is none else beside Him” (Deuteronomy 6:35), from only one power, and they decide to not just resolve the problem, but to correct the soul.

My main parting word is for all of us to adhere to the Creator, accepting all the disturbances of life as situations that are trying to detach us from Him, and in this way we become strengthened and adhere to Him more. It is written in Psalms 27:14, “Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the LORD.”
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Question: How is it possible to get close to the Creator? What kind of work must I do on myself every day to get this power within me?

Answer: For this, it is up to you to change your characteristics so that they will be similar and equivalent to the characteristics of the Creator.

The wisdom of Kabbalah talks about this. It is a method for becoming like the Creator.

We are in a world specially created with people who relate to each other egoistically and mutually repel each other, so that we gradually reached a harmonious, homogeneous communication between us. And then, in this regard, by trying to build it correctly, we will begin to reveal the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/13/16

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Question: All people basically understand that sharing the similar opinions is the key to a successful society, to mutual understanding, and to peace. So why are your remarks so sarcastic and contradictory to the common knowledge? Is this what the attitude of the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world should be?

Answer: Appeasement does not lead to anything good. On the contrary, on the level of debates and expressing opinions, there should not be conciliation and it is actually the clarification of contradictions and differences that is the basis for finding and attaining the one right decision.

Identifying the differences is the basis for any thought and understanding of different phenomenon. Debates have always been the scientist’s’ tool. The ability to sort out and to classify large amounts of data is the basis of any field of science. This means that on the theoretical level the aspiration to smooth any differences is detrimental.
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Question: You say that there is no God, so what is there?

Answer: There is an upper force that manages, develops, and fills our world. We can talk about it only to the degree that we discover it. This force is called “Bore” (Creator), “Bo – Re” meaning come (discover) and you will see.

When people think that God exists, but in a corporeal form like a person, this is simply a misunderstanding of the entirety of nature. We always talk only about what exists in relation to all of us. If a person doesn’t reveal this force within him, then it doesn’t exist; if he discovers it, then it exists.

Comment: The wisdom of Kabbalah states that there is “Atzmuto – His essence,” some kind of plan or program.

Answer: Right, but we cannot talk about it. This is the initial, first force of nature that is beyond our attainment. We attain only what is included within our desire to receive and to enjoy, which was created by Him.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/13/16

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Comment: If I could reach your Creator, I would want Him to account for all of history!

Response: Generally, I agree with you. And even the Creator Himself is not against people turning toward Him, even with their accusations. Because otherwise they do not turn!

Everyone in the world complains about his life. Understandably, everyone is right about something or even about everything. After all, it is not the person who places himself in all kinds of situations and unpleasantness; it is his nature, his lack of understanding, his lack of foresight, the unpredictability of the world. So in what way can we come to anyone with complaints?

If we look at his fate, at his behavior, we discover that each one of us is born, lives, and dies not according to his desire. Even our actions are determined according to circumstances and characteristics that are established in us from the start and not according to our desire. So a person is not free in regard to anything.  If so, there is no one to complain to!

But the originator of all that is happening, who created  everything, is ready to hold him. He is also ready for us to arraign Him. Because during the trial of the Creator, with all of our claims and accusations, we learn His attitude toward us, the reason that He made us is so small who are punished by nature. We discover the goal of our creation and our destiny. We will understand why we were born, live and die in suffering.

Ultimately we will begin to understand that all of our claims are toward our Creator, and it is specifically Him that we want to bring to court!

It is precisely the wisdom of Kabbalah that clarifies the problem of the mutual relationship between a person and the Creator. Therefore, it is the most important science in the world because a person has nothing more important than clarifying these relationships. In nature, there is nothing more than this!
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Blessing and Mistake

Question: What is the meaning of various amulets, charms, or blessings?

Answer: A belief in charms and blessings is a big mistake. These objects do not have any connection with Kabbalah. How can one bless a person with words if the only possible blessing is getting closer to the Creator?

If a person performs acts of bestowal and aspires to love his neighbor, he receives from above additional Light, the Light that Reforms. It is called a “blessing.” However, it is impossible to hand out blessings to others.

Some time ago the Baal Shem Tov had to write a blessing for some person. He did not allow this person to open the note and read what was written. When Baal Shem Tov died this person decided to open this note and he saw that Baal Shem Tov simply wrote his name, Israel.

Among the real Kabbalists it is not customary to hand out blessings. The authentic Kabbalistic books like The Book of Creation, The Book of Zohar, Tanakh do not mention amulets or blessings. A person receives a blessing from the Creator.
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From Israeli Radio Program 103 FM, 103FM, 2/28/16

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Commandments And Traditions

Question: Does Kabbalah obligate one to follow the Jewish rituals?

Answer: When one studies the wisdom of Kabbalah, even being the most secular person who has never followed any traditions, he begins to feel that all of these rituals are given with the purpose of reminding about the connection with the upper force. Therefore, some people begin to follow these traditions, although there is no obligation.

Question: For example, what is the meaning of blessings for bread and for wine in the beginning of the first Shabbat meal?

Answer: It is impossible to explain these actions without the wisdom of Kabbalah. Only Kabbalah explains what the seventh day of the week, Shabbat, means. It corresponds to the seventh millennium, that is, the end of correction.

We hope that we will come to a state when the entire world will be corrected and will continue its existence in the absolute general love for the other in greater degree than for himself. Then, the upper force will be revealed between us in the corrected connection and will dwell between everyone.

Without the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is impossible to understand what the Torah is talking about.

Question: Why do we add salt to the bread during the blessing at the beginning of the Shabbat meal?

Answer: It is very simple to understand for someone who studies Kabbalah. However, it is impossible to explain it without using the Kabbalistic terms. Bread symbolizes the Light of Mercy, Hassadim, Bina, whereas salt is Malchut. This way, a connection appears between Bina and Malchut, as it is written, “You shall offer salt on all your sacrifices,” as a sign of the union.

One must study this. It is impossible to explain it in a few words. If you want to understand the inner meaning of any tradition, it is possible only through the wisdom of Kabbalah. All traditions, laws, and commandments in Judaism come from Kabbalah and exist only because of this wisdom. It explains their true meaning and fills them with the inner sense.
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From the Radio Program on 103FM, 2/28/16

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Question: I value what is written in the sources and in the prayer book because you said they were written by Kabbalists, members of the Great Knesset, but I imagine what is said there in the most corporeal way. How should I turn to the Creator? Should I pray to Him if I don’t feel Him?

Answer: We don’t feel the Creator, so having no choice, we imagine Him in different corporeal images. If we want to attain Him or at least to imagine who we turn to correctly so that we can really turn to Him, we have to understand who He is, which means to gradually attain His attributes.

A man’s need to reveal the Creator stems from this world, from which we gradually begin to depict Him correctly to the extent that we acquire the attribute of bestowal, which means to the extent that we begin to resemble the Creator according to the rule “from the love of the created begins to the love of the Creator.”

If we do it any other way, we will not turn to the Creator but to His oppositeness, to our ego, to Pharaoh. When we turn to him we ask for corporeal fillings, not to acquire the attribute of love and bestowal. This is the reason that Baal HaSulam says that first we have to imagine the Creator and then pray to Him.

Only if our efforts are aimed to the connection with friends, which spur and summon the influence of the Surrounding Light (Ohr Makif), the Light of the Torah that reforms, to the source, to the attribute of love and bestowal, is the image of the Creator revealed in a person. It is revealed as the only upper force similar to the way the image of the parents is formed in a small child as something that is whole, safe, protecting, the source of himself and of the whole world.

A person who begins to study the wisdom of Kabbalah draws away from the religious perspective of the Creator if this is how he was brought up, and seems to leave the religious path. After the correction of the first level of the ego, by correcting himself in a group of friends who try to get closer to each other, by fulfilling the Kabbalists’ instructions in the connection between the friends in the group, by drawing the Light that Reforms, the Surrounding Light(Ohr Makif), by the attempts to get closer to the friends; he gets closer to fulfilling the main rule in the Torah, “love thy friend as thyself.” It is only under the influence of the Surrounding Light (Ohr Makif)  that saves and corrects a person that a student begins to feel the presence of the Creator in the world. Thus our forefathers advanced in their attainment of the Creator to the extent that they resembled Him.

Then came the period of the sons when the feeling of the Creator through uniting in the group became more real. An urge to turn to Him appears and is felt as the source of life and all of a person’s attributes and actions. A person becomes totally focused on the connection with the Creator because he feels that the Creator manages all his thoughts, desires and actions.

So the only thing left for a person to do is to ask the Creator for the ability to make the right choice in his thoughts desires and actions because it is as if he wants to overtake the Creator in his yearning to resemble Him. The period of the correction of a person’s nature is called the period of the sons and it is said “my sons have overtaken me,” which means that the sons overtake the Creator in their yearning to resemble Him.
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Question: Where does your happiness about the vilification against you come from?

Answer: That’s right. I am happy about the vilification against me, and there are a number of reasons for this.

First, between the years 1972 to 1974, permission for me to immigrate to Israel was denied, and I  remember the large amount of information about Israel that was drawn from anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic publications in the Soviet Union.

Since we exist in an egoistic world, a person is attracted to evil, falsehood, slander, and so forth. Because of this, if it is very important to me to disseminate the knowledge of the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is vital for the survival of the Jewish people, I am happy to have this opportunity like, even when I am being reviled. This is because, along with this, a little of the essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah is revealed.

Second, as long as a person hasn’t discovered the upper world, he still perceives through the concepts of our world, which absolutely are opposed to the upper world. This means that he is not ready to evaluate correctly the methods for discovering the upper world or its details in any way.

So, it is no wonder that the Kabbalists were silent for two thousand years. Today, the world is becoming global and requires the understanding of the management system. This understanding can be attained only through discovering the higher management system, and this is the main subject of the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Because of this, it is imperative to explain to everyone the need to reveal the wisdom of Kabbalah as the only means for saving humanity, without paying attention to vilification and slander wherever possible.

Likewise, no one in the world appreciated and valued the great Kabbalists of the 20^th century, Baal HaSulam and Rabash. However, Dr. Laitman, who is found on all of the communications media, has arranged an advertising campaign for them. Moreover, those who are against Dr. Laitman are saying now that Baal HaSulam and Rabash were true Kabbalists, whereas Dr. Laitman is not.

After all, I am not the main thing. However, by reviling and cursing me, they are agreeing and giving legal validity to my great teachers in their circles. Regarding me and my writings, this will be left for my students and the coming generations.
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Question: What is the mission of the wisdom of Kabbalah in our days?

Answer: It is to rebuild the world in order to make our world the upper world, to change its operating system, like changing from egoistic capitalism to altruistic communism.

But since all of our feelings and thoughts (our mind and heart) work from birth according to an egoistic program, reprogramming to altruistic actions, feelings, and thoughts, we begin to experience a completely different world and can see what was previously invisible.

According to Kabbalah, in the 21^st century humanity must begin the process of reprogramming and must spread the wisdom of Kabbalah to people so that they will be able to understand what is happening to them and how to ease the changes they are undergoing.
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