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“How do you find a soul mate?” (Quora)

Dr. Michael LaitmanMichael Laitman, On Quora: “How do you find a soul mate?“

It depends on you and not on who you find.

If you like someone as a person and see that they are serious and responsive, then it all depends on you.

Try to treat them as gently as possible, and see if they understand you, and if you begin to feel and support each other. What matters most is mutual support and the need for each other.

You can understand whether or not you are with the right person if you try to be kind, helpful and supportive of them. Then, you will see how that person accordingly reacts, i.e., whether they sincerely and wholeheartedly wish to support and preserve such states or whether they take them for granted, as if they do not matter.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz of Kabbalah Tips” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

Without Preference

530Question: When you work with students, do you invest in those in whom you see potential and do not invest in someone who does not have it at all?

Answer: This is not quite true. In no case do I rob anyone, and I do not take away the possibility of realization from anyone. I give everyone the maximum and do not prefer one over the other.

Eventually, those who are moving forward get closer to me spiritually, but those who are standing still do not.

I can be closer or further to a person in our work and in dissemination because I work more with people who translate, process, and make films than with others.

But, in principle, I have no preference for anyone even if it is my own son or son-in-law, who are also within our organization. No way! I have no right! And I think everyone can see it.

Question: Do you not give preference even when you pass spiritual information to a person? You said that Rabash gave you so much light so that in the future you could use it and reveal it.

Answer: But I worked with him, studied, served him, did everything just to get this charge from him, this strength, this opportunity to somehow change myself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman ‘s Favorites” 7/6/11

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According to a Certain Code of Life

933Question: Walt Disney, a famous animator, considered his main work not cartoons, but the creation of the city of the future, which he was building in the last years of his life. If you decided to build such a city, what would it be like?

Answer: The kingdom of the good king, where the Creator would be the king, and people would live there according to His laws. They would come, take some kind of course, adapt to that life for a while, and then leave. That is, a kingdom in the form of a boarding house.

Question: What is a city from Kabbalah’s point of view?

Answer: A city is a limited space in which there are people who agree to exist according to a certain code of life.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” 5/18/23

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“What is sin in one sentence?” (Quora)

Dr. Michael LaitmanMichael Laitman, On Quora: “What is sin in one sentence?“

Sin is to think about yourself all the time, and not about others.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz Of Kabbalah Tips” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

“What are we made of?” (Quora)

Dr. Michael LaitmanMichael Laitman, On Quora: “What are we made of?“

Creation consists of two forces: bestowal and reception, plus and minus.

These two forces exist in every person.

By connecting the adducting and rejecting forces between us, we discover them more powerfully and clearly, and we can then use them and incorporate in them.

The force of bestowal underwent a process of shattering within us.

Why? It is so that we would piece it back together and reach the perception and sensation of that very force. In the process, we play out our connection to each other similar to how children play with Lego.

Whatever we discover without the inner connection between us is called “this world,” i.e., the world we perceive and sense through our five senses, and which we process in our minds. That is how we perceive reality when we view ourselves detached from the force of bestowal and from each other.

When we start connecting to each other and to the force of bestowal as we had once existed before we shattered into our detached perceptions of reality, then the various views will incorporate and connect with one another.

We will then start discovering their integrality, a single and whole system with no division into galaxies, stars, planets, vegetation, animals and people—one system with a single force guiding it.

When we reveal this system in its entirety, we will then start feeling the thought that fills the world, reality, the universe and all the worlds. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, that thought is called “the thought of creation.”

Based on the video “What Are We Made Of?” with Kabalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

The Entire Spiritual Path of a Person

216.02Comment: Baal HaSulam’s book Shamati (I Heard) is written logically, beautifully, and understandable for a person. But this text seems to be encoded because it speaks about something slightly different than what is written in the book.

My Response: Yes, but a person can discover this code. It cannot be passed on secretly from one person to another. One who can understand, understands. One who does not understand cannot do anything about it.

Put a dog next to a Kabbalist, what will it understand? It must first attain the qualities of a human, and then turn from a human into a Kabbalist.

It all depends on us. While we read Shamati, we feel this text differently due to our corrections, not because something exists in the text, but because everything exists in a person.

Let’s say you have a musical score in front of you. If you have a musical instrument, you can play it. If you understand the notes, you can sing without an instrument. But if you do not have an understanding of what these symbols are, what can you do?

Therefore, a person who constantly reads Shamati reveals more and more information in it. There is a deeper code in this book than we imagine when we first read it. It describes the entire spiritual path of a person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Entire Spiritual Path of a Person” 7/9/11

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The Secret of Hearing and Sight

567.01Question: Why is music so much more sufficient than a visual picture? For example, if I do not see a person, but I hear what he is saying, I can understand him. Yet, if I do not hear, but I see that he is waving his arms, then I can only understand certain symbolism.

Answer: Hearing is the level of Bina, and sight is the level of Hochma. That is, sight and hearing cannot be connected with other sensations. These are already the channels through which, as it were, spiritual information is transmitted.

Through smells, tastes, and tactile sensations, you cannot convey internal, semantic information. This requires special codes. But through words, music, and especially through pictures, this can already be done.

It is like laser frequencies or high frequencies in radio engineering, through which you can transmit a huge amount of video and audio information. At low frequencies, however, only small packets of sound or some other information can be transmitted.

So here, from organ to organ, the possibility of transmitting semantic information increases.

Question: Is sound in any case more meaningful than sight?

Answer: No, 90% of information is perceived through sight, not by hearing, because sight is closer to direct perception than hearing.

We must hear the words, translate them inside ourselves into the language of pictures, because we perceive only them. We feel these pictures, which have moved from their sound format to semantic ones within us, and something happens to them.

The visual range, however, is immediately perceived by our desires in a sensory form. This is the difference between hearing and seeing, as between Bina and Hochma.

If someone speaks, I must listen, understand the words, build their semantic series in myself, translate this series into feelings, and so on. But if I see a picture, it immediately evokes feelings in me. There is no buffer in the form of a link of words.

You might ask, “How is this perceived with regard to the amount of information?” You can talk a lot about this topic, but, in principle, this already applies to psychology, and not to Kabbalah.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Secret of Hearing and Vision” 6/27/11

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Implementation of Spiritual Information

234Question: You say that you give us information and the rest is our work. What is the implementation of this information?

Answer: You must annul yourself before the teacher as much as possible in order to take his advice and instructions and follow them the way he tells you to in the group and in the study. That is it! Nothing else.

Additional work is dissemination. By disseminating the Kabbalistic methodology in the world, you receive from the world its desires, its emptiness, and thus you raise them. You are excited by the world and its striving forward and by the lack of its ability to be fulfilled.

That is, dissemination is also of great importance. But, in principle, the priorities are arranged as follows: the teacher, then the group, and together with the teacher and the group, study with books.

By correctly implementing this in yourself, you awaken the hidden force in nature that develops, corrects, creates, and animates everything—the force of bestowal and love called the Creator or light.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I am Giving You Everything!!!” 7/22/11

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“Is suffering and depression a result of bad past life karma?” (Quora)

Dr. Michael LaitmanMichael Laitman, On Quora: “Is suffering and depression a result of bad past life karma?“

In the wisdom of Kabbalah, we discuss Reshimot, which are records of the past or information about past actions that are engraved on our soul. Reshimot pressure us and determine our present and future.

However, our behavior can change the influence of these records from the past, making it so that they become perceived positively in the present.

It all depends on us.

Based on KabTV’s “Blitz of Kabbalah Tips” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on May 18, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

Why Do Women Steal Less than Men?

511.01Question: Vladimir writes: “My friend, who works in a bank, told me about a global reform. The bank’s managers have replaced all men from the cash desk with women. He said that the bank conducted an analysis of many years of monitoring. It turned out that ten percent of male cashiers, working with money, cannot resist and start stealing. And among women, this tendency is much less than one percent.

He asks: “Why can’t men resist having a lot of other people’s money in their hands? After all, it is believed that women love money more. What is the weakness of men?”

Answer: First of all, women are more disciplined. They are more responsible. They have less craving for theft compared to men. They are more loyal. So it is natural.

Question: Why can’t men hold back?

Answer: Men are like children. I can now steal a little something somewhere, buy myself something special, some kind of toy or something else, I will do it, I cannot resist.

Question: So at that moment does the money stick to one’s hands?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And in a woman is there some inner shame to steal?

Answer: Women are very independent and sustained. A female thief is nonsense.

Question: What is at the root here? You keep saying that a woman is a greater desire to receive, egoism can be bigger. And at the same time, you are now justifying them in this way.

Answer: This depends not just on the desire to receive, it depends on independence. Women are more independent. They feel responsible for themselves and for their future. And they feel themselves in a relatively threatening world.

Question: Will she also be afraid?

Answer: Yes. Man does not have this feeling. Again, not from intelligence and not from physical strength or courage, but because he is like a child. Because men lack internal, hormonal development like women, they feel like children.

Question: What is “hormonal”? Do you mean adulthood?

Answer: Yes, adulthood. And that is why they do not have it.

Question: You mean the responsibility to give birth to a person?

Answer: Of course! They can sit on a bench and drink beer, chat with each other, and do something else of that sort. In general, it does not matter what. A woman always has some kind of responsibility for herself, for her relatives, for her mother, for her children, and so on.

Question: Can you say anything good about men?

Answer: Nothing. What can you do? That is who we are.

Question: Then what can be done with a man who has money sticking to his hands?

Answer: This is a problem. He needs to run away from this job. That is all.

Question: So this is the advice: stay away from work with money? So that he is further away from money?

Answer: Yes. This is the first call to prison.

Question: And in the upper root, what is it with the male and female parts?

Answer: The male part just needs a big correction and immediate one, and the woman needs a softer and non–urgent one.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/18/23

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