Question: I still don’t understand why the wisdom of Kabbalah is so important to you.

Answer: If we exist in the closed system of nature, our desires and our thoughts are also part of this system and they influence it. And their influence can be much more important than our physical actions.

Just our physical actions are visible to everyone and so we give them importance because we see their outcomes and can scrutinize and examine them. But the mental and emotional effects we can’t scrutinize and examine. However, our internal influence is studied and used in labs and by intelligence services all over the world.

If all of our thoughts and desires stem from the mind and the heart that are connected directly to the general system of nature, then:

• What arises in us naturally that is beyond our control can be omitted from our study since it is information about thoughts and feelings that flow through us.
• Information that we cannot perceive is nothing but control signals that we must know and learn to manage correctly. Thus, we introduce our corrections in nature because otherwise we unconsciously harm the whole system and ourselves by our uncorrected thoughts and feelings.

This is the reason that this information is the most important study for mankind, but we must control and acquire it and teach it to every child and grownup.
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Question: Does every person have a unique mission, and how can I find it?

Answer: Every person certainly has a unique mission because each one has a unique root of his soul, and only this person is ready to realize it. Nobody in the world can complete his part in his place.

How do you know your mission? To do this you need to come and learn the wisdom of Kabbalah. Only you can discover your mission and no one instead of you.

Even if we see you have a high root of your soul and a unique mission, only you can discover what exactly that involves and realize it. Everything is in front of you!
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 7/12/15

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Question: What relationship should we have with nature?

Answer: We need to learn nature’s principle law: the attribute of mutual connection. In everyday language we are speaking about love and bestowal. We exist as in a casing, within inanimate, vegetative, and animal nature. The only thing that a person needs to do is to become connected and fully integrated with it. After all, the completely integrated system is all of humanity, plus the inanimate, vegetative, and animal levels. In this case, we attain a complete picture of the structure, the feeling and revelation of nature as a whole, which means attaining the Creator.

Question: What is the connection with inanimate nature?

Answer: That is when I act the same as the rest of the animals in nature. I don’t destroy anything; I don’t perform needless acts, but use the world around me only to the extent that I need to for physical existence, and all my moral, internal energy is directed to connection with the general law of nature: the law of mutual bestowal, mutual connection, and love.

When I bestow and receive, I mutually take part in all that surrounds me, as an equal part, and in no way do I distinguish myself, but only aim at love and bestowal. This means that I don’t attain anything beyond that which is necessary for me.  If I am involved with an inner penetration of nature, which each person should be, then I don’t have any desire remaining to perform any acts in this world that don’t bring benefit.  The only thing that I need is to keep myself in normal physical condition, and all the rest is  to direct myself only towards connection with the upper force of nature, which is called the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 6/10/15

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Question: I would like to know whether I should take numerology and other methods that deal with letters and numbers into account if I want to change my name. I am asking this question because I have a great desire to start anew and leave my past behind. Many experts say that if you don’t take certain elements and traditions into account you can change everything for the worse. Could it also be that it is all about self-persuasion, and that it doesn’t really matter and what’s important is that a person feels better?

Answer: All this can be helpful only by proper self-persuasion, which is also important. But the true correction of your fate and not just feeling better is possible only by the wisdom of Kabbalah. But it is the correction of the world through your correction and it is a long processes and therefore isn’t for everyone. If you can’t do that, then you can turn to religion or different activities and methods in order to improve how you feel. The choice is yours!
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Question: The Creator’s name is love, which tells us about Him. When we love, we become like Him. When we die, we disappear and cannot love anymore. Is the Creator’s love eternal or not?

Answer: There is no death but a change in our perception of reality from the perception through the body, seemingly as if through a corporeal body, to a direct perception in the desire called a soul.

When we acquire the connection with the soul along with this perception we smoothly transcend to the next form of perception. The connection with the soul is acquired through our love of mankind. But this is not what is meant by love now, in our egoism,; it is outside ourselves, outside egoism. Kabbalah teaches about love and it and the Creator are perceived (in the group of friends).
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Question: I have noticed a slight tendency in your lessons and your public appearances. I watched the video of the 2002-2004 courses on the site again, where you teach the wisdom of Kabbalah in a scientific manner, using graphs, drawings, and spiritual terminology and explanations.

The virtual course during the years 2002-2004 is very difficult for beginners because you started using very complex terms right from the first lessons. You actually said that is it okay not to understand and that the main thing is that one listens and the Upper Light that descends on us will reveal everything. In the last couple of years, however, in the course “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” during the years 2012-2013, for example, you place greater emphasis on the relationship between people, and the attitude towards the world, on psychology, connection, and unity. But is it possible to draw the Upper Light and discover the spiritual eternity just by improving our relations with the world and with other people?

Answer: You should read a few articles by Baal HaSulam in order to discover that the main issue of the wisdom of Kabbalah is actually cultivating your love towards all the parts of the creation.

But because those who come to study the wisdom of Kabbalah are egoists, just like all the other people, the study doesn’t begin directly with studying about the attainment of love of all the other created beings, but with Baal HaSulam’s article “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah.” It is only afterward that the explanation about the concrete fulfillment of the wisdom of Kabbalah in revealing the Creator inside a person begins (according to His figure and image, according to the law of equivalence of form).
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A person subconsciously thinks about death constantly. Everything that he builds and creates is intended to somehow nullify death.

He aspires to invent something, to build, to discover, to overcome, to do, and to hold onto his eternity. This is the fundamental motif that penetrates all of our existence.

If we were eternal or we had no sensation of the end, we would die and would not know that we died. Then we would live completely differently.

We would live full of inspiration, wholeheartedly, and we wouldn’t feel compelled to think about the end. Our subconscious feeling of the inevitability of death is very important to us.

Question: Is this good or bad?

Answer: It depends on how the person uses this reality. Without it, we would be beasts that are integrated completely in every moment of our existence because if there were no end, then the remaining sensation is, “If I exist only here, I must get everything out of this moment.”

But when we feel that the end is concealed somewhere, we try to abolish it. We distract ourselves, plunge headfirst into science, into creative search, into the creation of some works, etc., and all of this is to prove that we have overcome death. In principle, this is what drives us forward.

This is derived from the depths of consciousness and is realized not only on the level of the beast, but also on other levels, up to the highest spiritual levels in which everything is resolved in another form. There, a person begins to discover life within the soul, and therefore becomes independent of the life of the body.

If in addition to my physiological body I discover my spiritual body, called the “soul,” and begin to feel myself as existing within it, then simultaneously I feel how much my beastly body is temporary and finite and is obliged to ultimately die, again becoming inert matter.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 6/17/15

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Question: Lately, you especially have been raising the topic of love of our neighbors and then love of the Creator. When I hear that I immediately want to completely detach from you even though I have been your permanent student for several years now. It’s not that I am indifferent to this topic; I feel hostile to the subject.

Answer: You thought that Kabbalah was a serious science with drawings and formulas. As I keep explaining it for many years, it is a science of the universe, the wisdom of how to correct the evil. However, you never assumed that this knowledge could also be defined as love, i.e., complete connection among all parts of nature, especially humans.

I completely understand you because I had similar thoughts for many years even when I became Rabash’s student.

Moreover, it is impossible to hear about the “methodology of love” because our egoism rejects it. We are incapable of perceiving this doctrine in our hearts or minds. We tend to listen to different aspects of Kabbalah as if the need to love our neighbors is something alien, secondary to the wisdom.

I observe this phenomenon among my students throughout all the years that I have been teaching Kabbalah.

Interestingly, there are two groups of students: those who accept the principle of “loving thy neighbor” and those who consider this condition as something “extra” that can be only used to connect members of their study group. Later, both categories of students mix together and get closer to each other. Gradually, the groups that originally rejected the principle of “loving thy neighbor” realize that it is not a “subsidiary factor” when it comes to correction of our egoism, but it is the most important and desirable quality! It happens in the group that originally rejected the principle of loving thy neighbor to a much greater extent than in the groups that initially agreed with this notion.

Based on my observations, I would split my students into two categories: those who accept the notion of loving thy neighbor and those who are incapable of hearing about it.  Both groups study the methodology together and comprise a common vessel. They complement and replenish each other, thus making it possible to disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah as the teaching of love and a transition from love to other people to loving the Creator.
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Question: How does the wisdom of Kabbalah relate to competition?

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, competition is very important. As it is said, “The envy of sages increases wisdom.” I believe that it is vital. What could we achieve if there were no competition? The great inventors, Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison, for example, made great discoveries in the field of electrical engineering and invented the dynamo generators, devices operating on alternating current, etc.

Interestingly, many great discoveries that have been very beneficial for mankind stemmed from childish competition and the desire not to let others be ahead of you. At the same time, scientists are not really interested in money but want to determine their self: “I will prove that I am better.”

It is impossible to succeed without competition. Real competition always leads to the emergence of a new attribute.

Competition is very beneficial, even for children.

However, everything must be within the normal egoistic limits that we understand: “I wish to learn from others.” To learn from others means to be like them. However, to be like them means to compete against yourself in order to reach a certain level.

Therefore, there are two types of competition. It can be competition that motivates and competition that kills. There is always the element of envy in it, but the question is whether I wish to crush my competitor or whether, thanks to his example, I want to be like him or even greater. This is the reason that there are both positive and negative aspects to competition.
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From KabTV’s “Conversations with Michael Laitman” 6/17/15

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Question: You explain that the wisdom of Kabbalah gives the answer to the question: “What does a person live for?” I still don’t understand what the answer to this question is. What do we live for?

Answer: We live so we can answer the question, “What do we live for?” After all, when we answer this question we attain the purpose of life, its meaning.

Question: What is the purpose of life?

Answer: The purpose of life is to attain the root, the upper force. As soon as you attain it you reveal the new path of development. You start becoming similar in a greater way to this upper force. Then you attain yourself and the surrounding reality in a completely different way. You attain it in the new senses. You reveal a higher world.

Then our corporeal world becomes only a means for you. But the most important thing for you is to attain the upper force in its entire fullness, to become similar to it in order to be the same as this force. This is the purpose of life.
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From the Israeli Radio Program 103FM, 6.21.15

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