Comment: It is known that thanks to psychologists who advise people to investigate their lives, they indeed find themselves and become happier; psychologists get clear results.

Answer: It could be that there are individuals who are happy, but I personally don’t see this, and I also don’t see it in any of the statistics.

In contrast to this, through investigation and study of the program of creation,  the plan of the development of the world, it is possible to say with absolute confidence that we have already passed through all the stages, the previous stages were better than the present stage, and they are certainly better than those that will be tomorrow. It will not be better. Nature is hastening us to advance so that we will clarify what we are living for and what we truly need, so psychologists will not help here.

Psychology from the days of Freud until our day has existed for about 100 years, and in the last 20 years it is practically in decline, so I haven’t yet seen psychologists who can lead a person to happiness. Perhaps psychiatrists can do this because they have pharmacological means.

The apparent result of the search for the meaning of life is expressed in the immersion of humanity into drugs. According to an unpublished statistical study, a large part of humanity already consumes marijuana. I am not expressing any opinion as to whether this is good or bad. In principle, it relaxes a person and diverts his attention from a search for the meaning of life. The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t agree with this. But all the others agree and encourage it.

If 10 to 15 years ago all opposed the consumption of soft drugs, today these drugs have been legalized on a political level because it is beneficial for the leaders because drugs anesthetize people and divert them from a search for the essence of existence.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/25/15

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Question: How can I know whether I am moving in the right direction?

Answer: When you pursue spiritual development, perhaps in the beginning, you will not feel the result of your correct actions.

However, if they are directed toward bringing a person to the method of unity—that is, to Kabbalah, and to be learning that everything has to come down to uniting humanity and carrying out the main law of the universe, “Love your neighbor as yourself”—then one is acting in the positive direction in the straightest and most obvious way.

By taking these actions, you will begin feeling the way that you are influencing the world positively. After all, the positive forces of the upper governance begin passing through you.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/8/15

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Question: In forests we see a “beastly” environment, in a city we see a “consumer” environment, and in a Kabbalistic convention there is an environment of “unity.”

Since the environment is what controls people, their behavior, their thoughts, and their desires, can I call Sefirot an environment that is present in a society?

If this is right, can you explain the spiritual environment; does it exist on its own, or does the society need to create it?

Answer: The spiritual world doesn’t exist, just as our world doesn’t. Our world is created only within our sensations, within our “receptive” properties, and we need to create the spiritual world with special properties of “bestowal,” which we acquire.
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Question: Why aren’t you content with attaining the revealed meaning of the Torah? Why should we penetrate its inner concealed layers?

Answer: According to Baal HaSulam in the Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot and the Vilna Gaon in the Sidur of the HAGRA, it is impossible to attain the Torah without understanding its four layers.

The sages who wrote the Torah and all the holy books wrote them from the level on which they attained every part of reality and the corporeal reality, which is revealed to us. This is the reason that I want to learn from what they revealed in the Torah and not to settle for mechanical actions.

I cannot understand what the Torah says and what the sages wanted to convey if I don’t understand the internal meaning of the Torah. I am like a kid who doesn’t know how to read but only leafs through a book looking at the pictures.
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Question: Is the déjà vu experience a manifestation of the higher power, or is it our choice?

Answer: There are states where a person receives particular influences from the underlying integral system in which we exist.

Sensations of being within the system suddenly could pass through him, the ability to predict the future or a feeling of being in another place. This is a temporary, superficial, physical state and is irrelevant to the higher state.

Kabbalists don’t pay attention to it at all because entry into the higher management must be conscious.

Question: Could memories of past lives arise in a person?

Answer: In fact, there are no so-called past lives because in the upper world, in which we actually are even now, we are in a completely different state than that which seems to us as reality now, as a dream.

When a person is thrown into an unfamiliar place and a feeling arises in him that he has been there already, this indicates his heightened sense of what is happening.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/8/15

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Question: Why does the upper force want man to understand the plan of creation in this world and to be able to manage his own fate? Is it a sign that the upper force is losing control of man?

Answer: True, this power passes to man and he is beginning to manage himself and nature, instead of the upper force.

It is part of the plan and the thought of creation. Although the upper force gradually transfers to us, the united integral structure of the whole system doesn’t change. However, man is part of it, attains it, understands and manages it, and accordingly becomes eternal and infinite.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/8/15

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Question: Why are there people who come into the world with conditions such as autism? How can people with low levels of mental development, who cannot read or write and don’t have the ability to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, undergo correction and attain the upper Light, the Creator?

Answer: We have to take care of such people. Society has to take responsibility to do work with them. In no manner or way is it allowed to neglect them because there is a great correction of the soul.

People in these states have no freedom of choice so they certainly cannot correct themselves; but the higher system carries out the correction for him, so these people are also imperative for our world.

Question: Is the correction also for their parents?

Answer: Not just for the parents, but for society as a whole.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/1/15

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Question: Why do you teach the wisdom of Kabbalah, what does it give you?

Answer: I am carrying out a mission, this is my job. I teach the wisdom of Kabbalah to people all over the world who listen to me, are familiar with the Kabbalistic sources, and don’t want to spend their lives in vain. They realize that this ancient science, which is almost 6,000 years old, speaks about the foundations of our world and about how we can attain the upper world during our lifetime.

I believe that this wisdom is crucial for mankind and that the source of all our sufferings is in not knowing what the meaning of our existence is. People need to know and to find out about it at least in order to live a better life and to ensure a better future for our children. This is especially true if a person has the opportunity to exist both in our world and in the upper world that is eternal and whole.

Through teaching Kabbalah I offer people a chance to be saved from the sufferings and I am very happy that I have a chance to do that.

At the same time, I suffer greatly when I see how the world suffers and what happens in the world every day. After all, the more developed a person is, the more he can see that the world can be different, people enjoying and rejoicing together instead of people destroy one another. It is felt as terrible personal suffering.

Therefore something must be done to enable every human being in the world to reach a change through his or her own correction.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/1/15

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Question: If in a previous life a person was involved with the wisdom of Kabbalah, what does this give him in the next incarnation?

Answer: If a person in physical life already had a particular spiritual level, it means that he doesn’t need to return to an earthly state any more.

But in case he has a particular task regarding other people, he can return here. This is already a matter of the higher management.

A person who is on a spiritual level, when he returns to this world or even if he doesn’t return, as a general rule he continues his ascent by connecting with other parts of the common soul, the overall system.

Question: Should he be concerned about not coming back?

Answer: No. Understand that when we see the true system of management, we agree with it absolutely; there is no possibility that we will haggle. We see that everything is happening according to correct, just, and absolute laws.

The only meaning for physical life is to reach the next level of existence, ascending to it to attain eternity and wholeness while still in this life.

First, this state cannot be compared to our present existence.

Second, our world (“Olam” from the word “Alama” – concealment) is imaginary. It exists thanks only to concealment. It is as if the true picture of creation is concealed from us and we are shown something that is in the shadows. In fact, our world doesn’t exist; the moment that we correct ourselves, we no longer require a state called “earthly life.”

Moreover, we change our earthly state even within this life, without limiting ourselves in any way, without risking anything, and simultaneously attain the next higher level. And as long as our body is alive, we exist in the two worlds. And when the body dies, we respond to this with complete serenity, because we are already in another world.

As my teacher Rabash would say: “Just as you take off a shirt at night and throw it in the wash, so you throw your body in the wash.”

Question: What will happen to the physical world after all the souls become connected with the Creator? How will our planet Earth appear? Will there be money, banks, and skyscrapers?

Answer: None of this will exist because our world exists only in our imagination. This is an imaginary reality that is given to us in our current senses and is produced only within our desire. But outside of our desires, it doesn’t exist. There is only one general Light that can be perceived only with new senses that are developed accordingly.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 11/1/15

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Question: Modern society can feed great numbers of people, but it cannot occupy them. What will it do with them?

Answer: Every individual is important because he contains part of the general soul that has to undergo its correction during many life cycles while here in this world.

Therefore it is forbidden to kill people. Everyone should live according to the time nature has given him and fulfill his destiny during this lifetime.

This will actually be the concern of the future society, which Baal HaSulam speaks about in his article “Peace in the World.” Everyone is special and no one can replace him in correcting his part in the mosaic of the general system of the one soul called Adam.

The future society will spend minimal time on supplying its basic needs, and will provide every individual with everything he needs, whether he works or not, including altruistic integral education for the correction of his soul, that is, the complete unity of all the members of society.
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