Comment: I keep getting confused between desire, intention, and action.  I cannot properly tune myself to any one of them, nor to all of them together.

My Response: I will try to explain it sequentially and concisely.

The Goal: The most important thing in a person’s life is to attain the purpose of life (of creation), which is complete adhesion with the Creator. This must become the result of all one’s efforts in life.

The Means to Achieve the Goal: Adhesion with the Creator is achieved by similarity of form. But the Creator is the desire to bestow and a human being is the desire to receive. Therefore, similarity is not achieved through similarity of desires, but through similarity of intention—with what intention I use my desire.

We will always remain opposite in our desires: The Creator desires to give, and we desire to receive. Otherwise, we would not exist as entities distinct from Him.

Since we are created from the desire to enjoy, we can attain similarity with the Creator only by changing, not the desire itself, but the intention—the purpose for which we use the desire.

Thus, our work is only on the intention, and we join the desire to it to the extent that the correct intention “for the sake of the Creator” allows.

Restriction of Desire (Tzimtzum): Therefore, we must acquire the inner strength to use the desire from zero and upward, only in proportion to the correct intention “for the sake of the Creator” (in bestowal and love).

This means that initially, we must gain control over all desires, impose a restriction on them (Tzimtzum, Tzimtzum Aleph, the first restriction), and then use each desire only partially to the extent that we possess the proper intention.

Recognition of Evil (Hakarat HaRa): Similarity with the Creator is attained through similarity of intention.
As we strive for the intention to bestow, we begin to uncover more and more of the intention to receive (the Klipa) within ourselves.

The revelation of this corrupt intention is called exile—the Egyptian Exile (Galut Mitzrayim).

If we persist in trying to change the intention from “everything for myself” to “everything for the Creator,” we arrive at the sense of our slavery to egoism—the intention “for my own sake” (for Pharaoh’s sake).

Revelation of Evil: In this state, we gradually and fully realize that our nature, not the desire to receive, which is constant, but the intention “for myself”—is our true enemy.

By trying to break free from the intention “for myself” and acquire the intention “for the Creator,” we discover our absolute powerlessness against this enemy.

Revelation of the Means of Correction: At the end of this realization, we discover that only the Creator, the light of correction (the light of Torah, the surrounding light) can correct our intention. Then we exit the slavery of the evil intention into the intention of bestowal (similarity with the Creator). Meaning: only the Creator (the upper light) can take us out of the egoistic state—the Egyptian bondage, the state of thinking only about ourselves.

Therefore, the main thing is this: Think about the light, the Creator, who can, and only He can, correct you (your intention) from “for myself” to “for the Creator”, make the Tzimtzum, and use the desire only to the extent that the intention “for the Creator” is present.

Thus align yourself in all your actions in this world toward the correcting light so that it may give you the intention “for the Creator.”

If anything is unclear, write to me, and I will clarify.
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Question: How many forces exist and can interact with each other?

Answer: An infinite number. What we divide into 125 degrees can be subdivided further and further, endlessly.

We see that all of humanity, having gone through its cycles for, say, one hundred thousand years of existence, has not even yet reached the corridor leading to the spiritual world. And how many different states such a huge mass of people has gone through during these hundred thousand years—every minute, every second?

We cannot even imagine what we are actually dealing with. But in spirituality, it is simpler, because the lower degree, with all its diversity, enters the higher degree as a single element.

That is, all of inanimate nature is considered one unit relative to the vegetative, all vegetative nature is considered as one unit relative to the animate, and all animate nature is considered as one unit relative to the human.

And all of humanity is considered as one unit relative to the divine. Therefore, there is no complexity. On the contrary, everything becomes more and more simplified.

Question: Why is there specifically such a gradation of inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels?

Answer: This comes from the four stages of the expansion of the direct light. The beginning of the light’s influence on the desire, when the desire still does not feel itself as existing, is called the letter “Yod” or the first stage of the development of desire. Then comes the second stage, when the desire already begins to feel itself. After that come the third and fourth stages. In the fourth stage, the desire begins to feel the Creator. This fourth stage is called man (in Hebrew, Adam, from the word “Domeh,” meaning similar to the Creator). That is, the desire in the fourth stage feels the Creator and thereby gains the possibility to become similar to Him.

From the first perception of the Creator until today, 5,786 years have passed, that is, from the moment when Adam first sensed the Creator. This moment is called the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah) and is considered the date of the first contact of a human being in this world with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Truth About Reality” 10/8/10

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Comment: There are cases when you really do not feel a person. They ask you a question, and everything seems clear, but there is a feeling that you are not actually connecting to the verbal aspect of what they are asking.

My Response: Yes, it happens that a question is clear to you, but not to me, either because I do not find all four screens that connect the verbal question with the person’s inner spiritual state, or because the state they are describing does not exist. In other words, what they are asking is not yet a true question; it is fundamentally flawed in itself.

But if this question passes through another or a third listener, when I ask them to retell it to me, then it may lose the original sharpness that it had for the one who asked it, but it already becomes the correct question. That is, it reveals the real emptiness that has a place in the universe, and with which one must work.

Question: What are these four screens?

Answer: The four screens are what are called “Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey,” that is, the fundamental name of the Creator or the four-layer structure of our soul, which we must feel in order to correctly perceive the influence of the light upon us, which builds a question within us, and accordingly from the question to attain this light, which is the answer.

Comment: Very often someone asks a question through the Internet, and during translation the meaning of the question is radically lost.

My Response: That is natural because people are not in the same states. One person asks a question, and another feels it in a completely different way.

Question: So translation cannot convey the feeling of the person who asks the question?

Answer: Both yes and no. I would not go so far as to say that the translators significantly distort the meaning. In fact, even if a person phrased it differently than intended, I often can sense the question exactly as it was conceived.

If it is a strong, correct question coming from one’s heart or from the emptiness of his desire, then I will feel it even if the translation is not very good. In principle, when a person has great pain or inner emptiness, we feel it even without much external expression.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Difficulties of Translation” 9/12/10

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Question: Is it really possible that there are wars in spirituality too? I always thought that there was only love there.

Answer: From the beginning of the worlds to the very end, the entire reality, except for the single Creator, the one upper force of love, is built on the struggle of opposites, that is, on war. The Creator is attained by us through the attainment of love as the absolute annulment of hatred, war, and opposition, that is, in the complete annulment of each one before the others. In this way we form the image of the Creator within us. We create Him. As it is said: “You have made Me.”

Question: Are you talking about the war within each person? Is this the spiritual war?

Answer: Yes, the external war exists only on the animate level.

Question: You once said that external wars occur because we haven’t waged our internal wars properly, and therefore the external wars appear. Can you explain this a little more? Does it mean that I did not see my war to its end?

Answer: I should have fought. I should have resisted. I should have stood and led the forces of light against the forces of darkness within me. And thus I should have seen how I was moving the world toward a state of connection, closeness, and love among all its opposite parts. And thus I bring the state of war to the state of true peace.

Peace is Shalom, from Shlemut, complete wholeness, full unification (Hashlama). Somehow I did not complete this work somewhere, and therefore I allowed it to manifest even in the lowest form in this physical world.

Question: So now, in order to stop this external war, must I return again to my internal wars?

Answer: I must do it, and everyone must do it because the external war exists only in order to push us toward internal connection.

Question: So resolving the war by external forces, when someone wins and someone loses, is not a real solution?

Answer: Of course not.

Question: Then will there be another war?

Answer: Of course! Nothing is solved this way. It is only a step along the road, along the path, about how to continue the next page of the war.

Question: Will the next page of the war come one way or another? And maybe it will be even more terrible?

Answer: Of course, more terrible. The most important thing is that at the beginning of a conflict, we quickly determine what it is about and extinguish it by uniting and complementing the conflicting sides in such a way that they reveal the Creator.

Question: Suppose there are two conflicting sides that hate each other. How can they suddenly stop at the beginning of the conflict?

Answer: By rising above themselves, by rising above one another, and by imagining what the world should be like if they unite together so much that they no longer distinguish between each other, but only sense the connection between them.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 3/14/22

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Comment: You say that every man has an inner woman.

My Response: Yes, that is his desire. The point is that in our world, we are divided into different parts: men, women, children, and the elderly. In the spiritual world, all of this exists within a single soul. It has a masculine part, a feminine part, and what they give rise to between them: the screen and the desire, Masach and Aviut. The birth of another Partzuf, another level, is like their children.

In our world, all of this has taken on a final form, which is expressed in various material objects; we need to unite them. That is, we connect with each other in families, while at the same time we are obliged to unite the feminine and masculine parts: the desires, aspirations, and goals.

Question: People often say that we are born for each other, and exist in heaven as a single whole. Does Kabbalah recognize such a concept?

Answer: Of course, people do not meet each other by chance. It is no accident that parents give birth to these particular children, that a man and woman marry, later perhaps separate, and then meet again.

This is all natural, especially today, when people have so many opportunities for contact. They travel, rush madly from one end of the world to the other, and spin everywhere.

On one hand, this connects people on a spiritual level into a single desire. On the other hand, look at their personal relationships. They marry and divorce, come together and part. All of this is aimed at quickly completing the mutual inclusion on the spiritual level that remains to be fulfilled, at transforming it from a corrupt, egoistic level to a spiritual one.

Comment: When a man and woman meet and begin to flirt, that is one level. Once they engage in intimate relations, a deeper connection forms between them, as if another kind of union occurs. They even behave differently because they are closer.

My Response: Yes, naturally, because sexual relations in our world correspond to the spiritual union, Zivug de Hakaa, in the spiritual world. At the animal level, a special type of internal contact arises. But this animal level also defines the spiritual level.

That is why I say that nowadays all kinds of chance encounters have become more frequent. This is the final stage of our earthly egoistic development; it is not moral, spiritual, or psychological development, but the stage of maturation of our desires.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Man and Women” 9/11/10

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Question: You perceive all the processes taking place differently than how they appear in the picture of this world. You said that you have perceived a crisis for a long time, but it still has not manifested itself physically, that is, in the external world. How is this possible? What is this process and why is there such a delay?

Answer: Baal HaSulam explains this in many of his articles. He says that there is an action called “descending from above” and an action called “receiving from below.”

All sorts of commands, actions, and phenomena descend upon us from above. But while they are realized in our perception and while we are conscious of them, a certain amount of time passes. Therefore, there is a delay between descending from above and receiving from below.

Since a Kabbalist is on a level above our world, he sees forces descending into our world, and therefore believes that something needs to be done quickly. And the rest of the people are still in a drunken stupor; they say: “Everything is fine. Why are you panicking there?”

That is how it turns out that a Kabbalist show up, hurries, an shouts like Baal HaSulam 20 years before the Second World War. He said that Jews should escape from Poland, soon Hitler would conquer it.

Messing and other people even warned about this. But no one listened to them, they were silenced, considered enemies of the people, and so on.

I once talked to a major Israeli figure, a man of great culture, a strong industrialist who is very concerned about the future. At one time, he met with the President of the United States and talked with him about the need to quickly change the world, educate people, and encourage them to be kind and loving to each other. But the President didn’t understand anything.

Such an advanced, well-respected politician completely misunderstood him. It is not that I didn’t understand it, but I thought it would be good to do so. This is not the way to go. That is, people still don’t understand.

And they are right, because they act based on what is in our world. Why would they listen to some kind of “mystics,” even though the environment has been faltering for a long time, and everything else is falling apart.

Will they really pay attention to some Kabbalists who wag their fingers at them and say that it is necessary to change relationships in society, to change the social environment in the world? They won’t do it. They don’t have the necessary tools, influence, or upbringing for this.

We see what happens to our children. These are the most precious creatures to our hearts, but we leave them to their fate; as the street or school educates them, so it will be. As a result, we get drugs, promiscuity, emptiness, and complete lack of purpose in life. That is why humanity sees its future so bleakly.

But we don’t even need to correct ourselves, the main thing is that if we could correct the children, guide them correctly, then at least the future generation would live well. We, as adults who love them so much, cannot properly and soberly look at what is happening. This is so stupid! The Creator gives us some kind of clouding from above. If you unfold this whole picture, how can parents treat their children’s future like this?!

The whole education system, the whole world community, has launched this. Everyone raises their hands: “Well, my children will be like that too. What can I do?” They have the same answer as the politicians and say we don’t have the means to correct people.

Therefore, we are heading toward states where suffering will accumulate to such an extent that humanity will howl because it will not be able to hide from problems with its “ostrich policies,” and then it will agree to listen to what the science of Kabbalah has to say.

Question: You speak from the point of view of an ordinary person who sees that he is not understood, the whole world does not hear him. But if creation is arranged completely differently, if it is inside you, then what?

Answer: What difference does it make whether it is inside me or outside? I have to fix this. That is why I’ve been given the opportunity to see it from the outside, to make it easier to fix.

Question: So there must be an appeal to the perception that exists as if from the outside?

Answer: Sure. I have to reach out to people, correct them, and promote Kabbalah so that they will come to me and strive for the same goal—unification.

Question: So it is impossible to do this internally with a small group?

Answer: No, it is not possible. I cannot do the work for others, although these others, as you want to say now, are in me.

Otherwise, you take away freewill from every part of you that you think exists outside of you. This part can correct its selfishness only if it feels free from you and does it on its own. This way you will help each other.

And it is not schizophrenia. The fact that we cannot put several opposite things together in our minds is our problem. This is the problem of the narrowness of our world, because we have only the desire to enjoy and nothing else.

But we have other possibilities to experience the existing universe. In order to develop them, we are given so–called “schizophrenia”: although these are my parts that exist outside of me, and everything around me is me; it is mine, but on the other hand, I have to correct it exactly as if it is not mine, helping them to be independent, and then each part will fix itself.

Having corrected ourselves, we will all come together into one single whole, and all our independent corrections will come together. That is, all our desires will add up to one desire, and all our small screens will add up to one screen.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Schizophrenia” 10/7/10

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Question: When you are asked a question, what does it evoke in you?

Answer: A very strong reaction! Sometimes I suddenly start to boil over, or on the contrary, it throws me toward either a scientific presentation, or a psychological one, sometimes humorous, and so on.

A question causes very strong changes in me. Moreover, it can outwardly be, general or ordinary. There does not seem to be a difference between the questions, but inside, I feel a very strong storm tossing me from wave to wave. Therefore, the questions and answers produce huge inner work in me, a kind of inner disturbance.

Question: Does it look like you are getting some kind of injection of selfishness from this person?

Answer: Sure. Necessarily. This is exactly what is meant. I get a wide, strong contact with the audience that asks this question, and based on the breadth of this question, I connect to this audience. It is a lot of stress, like docking in space or something. And according to this docked module, I am already working.

Question: Do you get any content from this?

Answer: I get great satisfaction from clarifying the issue. Because this is an opportunity to fill those souls, those empty vessels that are now connected to me.

The question is the definition of emptiness, and I fill these voids. It gives me great pleasure; not egotistical, like ordinary lecturers. After all, I know how much people who listen to me will make progress even if they do not understand the answer. Even if they cannot realize it yet, it is already written down in their souls.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Answer to any Question” 9/12/10

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Question: I still don’t understand where our world is, where the spiritual, higher world is in relation to it, and where the Creator is.

Answer: It’s all very simple! Everything that was created is a desire to be fulfilled, to enjoy. It senses everything it can sense within itself, through its own sensations. As long as the desire is egoistic, what it senses is called “this world.” When it becomes altruistic, what it senses is called “the upper or spiritual world.”

The desire consists of five parts, 0-1-2-3-4 levels, the magnitude of the desire, by quantity and quality. Moreover, the greater the quality, the lesser the quantity, just as in our world there are many ordinary stones but few precious ones. Within these four types of desires, a person perceives the inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels. The zero part is “me,” the point of reference.

At the very center of the desire is the “I,” from which a person senses the world, their own desire, but it is perceived as existing outside of that “I.” Ordinary perception of the world is called egoistic (consumeristic).

Where is the Creator? Wherever the “I” makes room for Him!
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Question: Who makes up the spiritual directorate?

Answer: I brought the people in the spiritual directorate together precisely because they have a predisposition to finding a common ground, and none of them wants to stand out. For this reason alone!

They understand that a joint decision is the correct one. And not because it is correct in itself, but because when it is shared, collective, it draws a blessing from above, from the Creator.

In fact, it may be absolutely wrong compared to what some smart students of ours might come up with. But he is alone and therefore, he will not receive spiritual support from above. They, however, are together, and therefore, they will receive spiritual support. In the end, they will win.

There is a saying: “What the young build leads to destruction, and what the old destroy leads to construction.” And this is truly so.

Compared to all the smart people of our world, I am worth nothing. But I say what I think at my level, and it comes true. Why? Because only support exists. Only this support determines and organizes everything.

According to logic, you can say: “This should not be so.” And still nothing will work out for you, while it will work out for me. Therefore, if the spiritual directorate makes collective decisions, the others can safely follow it with their eyes closed. Under no circumstances should lone “smart guys” be part of it!
In my place there can only be a collective, and that is why I chose it in advance.

Question: And how does the upper force clothe itself in this collective in the process of decision-making?

Answer: They themselves do not know. I do this through them by means of the upper force. They have nothing to do with it. It passes through them purely automatically, and that is all.

Who are they? They are at the same level as you, or even lower. What difference does it make?! You can see for yourself, are there special people there? They are simply people who understand that a collective decision prevails over a private one—over any private one! Bring in the strongest, the smartest, the most exceptional, whatever you like, it makes absolutely no difference.

Question: How can one prevent the “smart guys” from seizing power?

Answer: If everything remains as it is now, only with the spiritual directorate in my place, and anyone who begins to oppose is immediately removed from “Bnei Baruch”; let them go wherever they want, in any direction, then our community will continue to exist in the correct form.

Only the collective! No one in my place. No one. Everything stays where it is, everyone remains in their positions. No one commands, no one stands out, and everything in the organization proceeds according to the same hierarchy as now. Only the spiritual directorate leads. No one has the right to make decisions or do anything without it.

Question: But can people argue with the directorate in order to stimulate it?

Answer: No, that is not called arguing, but proposing. And if the directorate finds it necessary, it will accept the proposal. But it is best not to propose anything at all. Who can propose what? The one who proposes must understand who he is.

Suppose we are now preparing for a congress. There may be proposals to organize it one way or another, but only on the purely technical level of this world. Everything that concerns decision-making on a higher level, no.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Destruction of Laitman” 9/18/10

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Question: Often the person asking a question is actually asking for the benefit of others. So they realize that they, too, have this question. How can we extract deeper information from you? How should a person be attuned when asking a question?

Answer: It does not depend on me or the person asking, but on the general level of those present, even those far away, on the Internet. When I feel the audience, I work for it; it determines the level at which I speak and even the style of presenting the material.

If there are more women sitting before me, I talk to them differently from how I talk to men. If the audience consists of new students, I naturally give a lecture as if for small children, using a soft, accessible language. For a more prepared audience, such as my longstanding students, the conversation will be brief, clear, and sharp.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Answer to Any Question” 9/12/10

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