Question: How can I go wrong if I stay away from evil and from people?

Answer: It is mutual. When you stay away from people, you also stay away from evil, but your perspective lacks the dimension of getting close to goodness!

Question: I feel that I hate people who don’t engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah. I use public transportation where I look at people and hate them, feeling that they are worthless and miserable, and that I am exalted and more important.

I understand that it is my ego going wild. How should I relate to this feeling?

Answer: We all undergo similar states, and therefore we understand one another. You must try to focus more on yourself, on your good attitude to your friends, and everything else will be corrected.
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Question: I am a Christian. For 2,000 years we murdered Jews in the name of Jesus, and that is our fault.

I am a coordinator of a work group that conducts Jewish-Christian dialogue in Russia. We come together with the “Russian – Jewish Conference” to places where there have been mass murders of Jews and erect monuments there on which, “Forgive Us” is written.

Today is the time to confess and express regret to the Jewish people for what we did. Now Europe is harvesting exactly what it did 2,000 years ago when the Jews were expelled and sent to the gas chambers. So there has apparently been a price of repentance and regret to the people of Israel, the “chosen people.”

Answer: Regarding the Jewish people being the “chosen people,” I would say that this must be justified. If being chosen means earning something, that is what the Jews must do. As to repentance and expressing regret, all of us must rise above our common enemy, the ego, which is really burning inside of us. If we begin to do this, then we will feel that we are on a completely different level of development and there will be no need for any justification.

What you are doing is natural human behavior, but the wisdom of Kabbalah welcomes only deeds that are really directed towards a link between humans.
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The Torah, Genesis 21:12: “And God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased concerning the lad and concerning your handmaid; whatever Sarah tells you, hearken to her voice, for in Isaac will be called your seed.”

Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) 1:5: “Let your home be wide open, and let the poor be members of your household. And do not engage in excessive conversation with a woman. This is said even regarding one’s own wife—how much more so regarding the wife of another.”

Question: On the one hand, it is written, “…whatever Sarah tells you, hearken to her voice,” and on the other hand, it is written, “do not engage in excessive conversation with a woman.” How can we understand this contradiction?

Answer: A person is made of different desires that are divided into two levels: a desire to receive, which means to draw everything to myself for my own egoistic filling, and a desire to bestow by which I bestow, give, and connect with others. Each of them is also correspondingly called a female desire to receive and a male desire to bestow.

Bestowal refers to a person’s attitude toward others, his effort to bestow, to give, and to connect with everyone into one unique whole, which is the correct schema of the final corrected state of humanity. Naturally there are egoistic desires among the male and female desires when the bestowal is carried out with the intention of getting something back and and gaining something, and there are desires of giving without getting something in return.

Among the female desires, there is a desire to take indiscriminately as much as possible, and there is a more essential desire to receive only in order to exist; then it as if  helps the male desire in bestowal.

Question: What does “…whatever Sarah tells you, hearken to her voice?” mean?

Answer: Sarah represents the desire that operates in order to bestow and helps her husband. For herself the basic necessities are enough, and everything else is for others. Abraham was known for his hospitality, inviting every passerby to his tent. He told his guests about the uniqueness of the Creator and offered that they could be part of a covenant he called Yashar El (Straight to the Creator), that is, straight to the goal of connection and unity among people. This covenant was based on the absolute connection between people in order to become one unique whole, and Sarah helped him in that.

However, at the same time, different sources say, “…do not engage in excessive conversation with a woman,” and it also says, “This is said even regarding one’s own wife—how much more so regarding the wife of another.” It refers to the female desire, to the desire to receive with which one should have as little contact as possible. Take from it only what can help you in the desire to bestow.

Therefore, there is no contradiction, but simply the upgrading of our desires that everyone has: both male and female. Two male desires and two female desires, only a total of four, exist in each of us. The right connection between them is the Creator’s four-letter name.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 1/19/16

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Question: After a person crosses the Machsom (barrier), does one remember everything that happened in his or her life? If the answer is yes, does one then understand the reasons for everything that happened to him?

Answer: After crossing the Machsom, a person sees everything.

Question: In my youth I experienced clinical death. I felt such love that I had never felt before, so why did God return me to this world?

Answer: The correction is to achieve clear and complete attainment of the Creator, and not just pleasant feelings.
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Question: Can a Kabbalist reveal his consciousness to others so that that they will yearn to love others like he does?

Answer: How can you reveal that? There is no way. How can you reveal mathematics or advanced physics to a small child? You have to bring him up first.

Therefore, we hold lectures and explain the structure of the upper world, but we teach it theoretically in an abstract manner by using examples and diagrams.

Should I show you the upper world so that the sky will open and you will suddenly see the next level of the evolution of matter? With what properties would you perceive it?

You need to leave your egoistic attributes below and reveal yourself. The rule of love thy friend as thyself is so that you will discover yourself and will be able to see the next level of the world.

Why has the Creator created everything in such a terrible manner? For us to develop new sense organs for the next world and to enter it by the connections between us, not in order to correct our corporeal lodgings.

But how can we do that if we have not built a system of perception system in the coordinates of the upper world? How can I convey it to you? There is no way.

First we need to develop internal senses on the next level, and then we will begin to perceive it.
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From the Talk at the Moscow Jewish Cultural Center, 11/24/15

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Question: How will I know that I have transcended to an upper level of existence?

Answer: You will see and understand it by what you experience because you will transcend to a state that is not limited by your corporeal body, mind, or corporeal feelings. You will begin to perceive everything not inside you but in the general mass to which you are fully interconnected and in which all the people on the planet acquire a single attribute of one single human being.

We have to experience the upper state by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah in order to truly feel and understand it; the wisdom of Kabbalah is a practical scientific method. Just as you have been taught in your childhood to perceive this world, to be in it, feel it, clarify it, and respond to different situations, so you will also be taught in a much more profound manner how to perceive the upper world.

You were born with corporeal senses, but you have to create the spiritual senses by yourself through your connection to others. This method is not created and automatically fulfilled in a person.

All have to discover it inside themselves. Even if one of the students refuses to do so now, he will still have to come back to finish “his game” later. It cannot be any other way because we are in development. The levels of the still, vegetative, and animate nature are the phases of evolution we have undergone, and now we are facing the next phase, the human level, on which we will exist in a general, collective, inclusive, integral form of man.
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From “The Echo of Moscow” Radio Program 11/25/15

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Question: Should we envy ISIS for being united while we are not, and that the force of the Creator is with them and not with us? Will this envy push us to unite and have the Creator on our side while ISIS falls apart?

Answer: It says that a remote city (a united city) cannot be destroyed because when people are united they are filled with the upper force (unity is an attribute of the upper system, so even when the wicked unite, the upper force is with them). It is a law of nature.

The Creator doesn’t sit in heaven and decide what to do with each one. It is the highest, single unified force of nature that sustains all of creation, the desire, and to the extent that creation is similar to the the upper force, is closer or  more distant from it.

But as soon as we begin to unite, ISIS will be damaged because our unity is not the unity of the wicked, who wish to harm others, but of the righteous who want to do good to others. Even a small unity will disintegrate ISIS.
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Question: How can a person develop to such a degree that he can engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, understand it, accept it, and ascend to the level of unity in such a short lifetime?

Answer: People of different ages come to study with us. Life isn’t as short as it seems, but is accurately built according to laws that enable a person to fulfill himself properly during his lifetime. The moment you begin to engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, you have the feeling that time flies and that you don’t have enough time.

But, in fact, time becomes compressed, and suddenly you feel that you can manage everything. This is how it is arranged from above by the upper leadership.

You don’t live in an unknown world by unknown rules. The moment that you begin to operate toward the goal of creation, you immediately are incorporated in it and are under the influence of totally different forces. A person can begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah at the age of 70 and still manage everything. There is no limit.

We don’t need to think about that. It isn’t our job but that of the leadership system, which only now reveals to us that we need to care for the integrality of all of mankind, a process we can take a most active part in and that won’t take place without us.
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From the Talk at the Moscow Jewish Cultural Center, 11/24/15

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Question: How can I take responsibility for my actions in this world and not blame the Creator for them?

Answer: My responsibility is summed up by my needing to invest all physical, moral, spiritual and mental efforts, whatever there may be, so that the group I am in will be like a single whole.

Question: Is it possible to reach full spiritual realization in one’s lifetime?

Answer: Certainly, otherwise why are we given this relatively short lifetime? In the first twenty years, we don’t know what to do at all, in the last twenty years, we are senile, in the middle are continuous problems.

What remains for us is only to invest effort, let’s say, for a few years of our lives, and this is enough. If we make the right clarifications in life, we invest only three to five years in our spiritual development.

Question: Is it possible to avoid a third world war? After all, the Creator loves humanity.

Answer: There is something I hadn’t noticed, but it is absolutely possible to avoid disaster. So, the Creator gave us the method for our development, the final goal, and the power to attain it. He loves those who advance toward the goal.

Question: What is suffering from the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: From the perspective of Kabbalah, suffering is the feeling that appears from detachment from others.

Question: Is the goal of life to save everyone?

Answer: The goal is to bring humanity to an eternal perfect state.

Question: Who would survive in the event of a war?

Answer: Only those people who are most capable of spiritual advancement would survive. This doesn’t mean that they would already be in spirituality or close to it. But they would be close to the realization of the wisdom of Kabbalah in their inner state.

The collapse of the world would happen according to completely different laws than the way it seems to us. It is not that the people closest to spirituality would remain and the others would be killed. On the contrary, the Tzaddikim (Righteous) are the first to go.

Question: When I am in a group, will my beastly desires disappear by themselves or do I need to get rid of them?

Answer: It is not necessary to get rid of anything. Come to a group as you are with all of your animal desires.

Question: Are you the master over your desires?

Answer: I am not master over my desires. At every given moment, new desires appear in me. I don’t choose them, but only try to direct and supervise their correct implementation. But I do not control them.

On the contrary, these Reshimot (informational records) appear in us spontaneously. But they are spontaneous only in the eyes of the person, and in fact, are revealed according to a particular program. There is a “meter,” that throws us new Reshimot every moment.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/29/15

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Question: What does the wisdom of Kabbalah engage in?

Answer: The wisdom of Kabbalah engages in uniting all of mankind above global egoism.

Question: What is friendship?

Answer: Friendship is half of love! Love is to receive in order to bestow, friendship is to bestow in order to bestow.
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