Comment: Sometimes you say something, and then catch yourself and say. “I shouldn’t have said it, it is too early, it was not worth it.”

My Response: Don’t worry, I am not saying anything superfluous, and if I do, it is on purpose so that it stays in you. All the same, this information will live in you, and then you will remember it and reproduce it. Basically, I am talking for the future reference and right now you cannot use it yet.

Question: How much information do you put into students in advance?

Answer: On many spiritual levels in order to enter the upper world and move on. In addition, this information is available in Kabbalistic sources.

My job is to teach you how to read Kabbalistic sources, because for those who read them correctly, they are instructions. Torah—from the word Horaa, instruction, but only a few in our world can read it correctly. Therefore, the task of the teacher is to teach students to understand its secret meaning.

Secret because the rest do not want and cannot understand the Torah correctly; they have no need for it even though the study is open to everyone.

The meaning of the Torah is to see an instruction in it for correction in accordance with a person’s desire. This is what I teach. In principle, I put in students not so much information as the correct attitude to the source of information.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Secret Information” 8/20/11

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Question: Did your teacher motivate you in any way to do spiritual work?

Answer: Not really. All of that has to come from the person himself!

Do not think that being next to a teacher like Rabash means a free ride to the upper world! No. It is a very difficult state. Personally, I would not advise it to anyone!

Comment: But your students already feel some sort of belonging to the spiritual path.

My Response: That is their business. If they listen to me and try in their soul to be together with what I am explaining, what I am leading them to, then yes. And if not, then no. I do not pressure anyone and do not force anyone. Any person can leave tomorrow, saying: “Sorry but this is not for me.” Is anyone going to keep him here? Never. No one gives you a guarantee for anything.

Comment: But you say that the worst thing a person can do is leave.

My Response: It is the worst thing for them, of course. Because the person then returns to the animate existence.

Question: But in some cases the person comes back some time later?

Answer: A person does not leave completely. He retains some kind of sensation that he did not leave, that he is a little on the side, but in general, he is in it. I often meet such people. They say: “You think I do not remember? I will come back. I am just going through a period like this right now.” And years go by.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Entrance to the Spirituality” 7/30/11

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Question: Can the teacher himself make mistakes on the spiritual path?

Answer: He can, but certainly not at your level, only at his own level where he constantly makes mistakes and constantly corrects himself. Naturally! Absolutely correct!

You cannot take a single right step without tripping and checking: “Why did I fall? What is the matter? It should have been done like this! I will redo it now,” and you are doing it right.

The next step is the same. Any degree, any state begins with the revelation of an error in it.

According to the same principle, our earthly nature develops when the next degree negates the previous one, annuls it. This is the recognition of the previous degree as a mistake in relation to me but not in relation to the state when I was at the previous degree.
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KabTV’s “I Got A Call. How can You be Trusted?” 8/27/11

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Comment: We get new people in the world group all the time, some of them disappear somewhere, but there is always some kind of backbone that practically does not change.

My Response: I do not control it, it does not depend on me. I give what I give. A person listens. If it is close to a person’s soul and it has already developed to such a level that he can continue further, then he stays; if not, he leaves.

If he can annul himself a little in front of a group that has already been formed, he stays; if not, he spins in outer orbits, he comes once every couple of months for holidays or congresses, virtually participates in some kind of communication, and that is all. There are many of them; I do not count them.

I am not interested in quantity at all. In spirituality, the most important thing is quality. That is why I go forward all the time, dragging the others with me, pushing them; I see my main job in this. After all, what you put into others remains and does not die with the death of the human body. It goes further in the entire cycle of souls and brings all mankind closer to the goal. This is the most important work.

In addition, we do the same work at the level of the broad masses of the population; that is, we distribute  the science of Kabbalah in a more acceptable form for them. The Internet and social networks are ripe for this.

We see that more and more people agree with us, understand that this is necessary, and that in this way they are given a very serious opportunity to advance to the extent of their participation in the distribution of our materials in virtual networks. They will really be able to advance because they really participate in the unification of the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman’s Millions” 7/23/11

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Comment: It often seems like you repeat the same things over and over.

My Response: No, it is not the same. I am working through the material within myself and trying to give you a completely different kind of energy, to relate in a different cause and effect way what I am saying.

I give out information and believe that my blog is an educational source. A person who wants to study the science of Kabbalah should attend morning and afternoon lessons and read my blog.

If you read it more carefully, then everything I bring there gradually shapes you and creates a certain inner atmosphere, thanks to which you begin to look at the world with different eyes.

I know one thing—when a person feels bad, he is ready to listen to the same thing from morning to evening, like some kind of mantra. Again, again and again. He needs it because it gradually works in him. And even if he reads the same thing, he will suddenly see a deeper meaning in it, wider connections.

Therefore, when you say that I repeat myself all the time, it seems to you purely external now. Then you will understand that I seem to have repeated something because I have gone to the next level and shown you that this is connected with this and that with that. But if you have not gone deeper with me, then at the same level you feel that I am supposedly saying the same thing.

I never repeat myself!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You’re Repeating the Same Thing!” 8/13/11

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Comment: Sometimes you say that after you there will be extensive material in the archive, and then the group can go on by itself.

My Response: No, it will not work! It will be the same as all over the world, the same farce.

If a certain mass of people from among my students do not reach the exit to the upper world, then all this may fall again and die out. The world will plunge into darkness again, and will be unable to reach the upper degree in a kind, smooth, fast way. It will plunge into decades of wars, terrible wars of annihilation: shoot, burn, and clean up the Earth.

Question: You say that the teacher does the work for the students. What do you do to help students, what elements do you use?

Answer: I act the same way as parents who do everything for their children, but this is hidden from the child’s awareness. That is why you do not see or feel anything yet, you are at the degree of a child.

Question: Maybe you will reveal some secret?

Answer: There are no secrets here! I am not hiding anything. You hide everything from yourself with your own brains. The whole of nature, the whole universe, is open. What can I do? Should I put different eyes in you so that you can see?

A small child who really wants to become an adult is comforted by the toy bought for him. He plays with it, he sees himself in it; it matches him. What can he do with a huge car or with some incomprehensible system?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You can’t Advance Ahead Without a Teacher” 7/23/11

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Question: One student asked his mentor, “Teacher, what would you say if you found out I fell?”
“I would say: “Get up!”
“And next time?”
“Again: “Get up!”
“How long can it go on, this constant falling and rising?”
“Fall and rise as long as you live! After all, those who fell and did not get up are dead!”

Until when are we learning to fall and rise all the time? After all, we are growing and we do understand something.

Answer: But these descents and ascents grow in their quality along with my growth. Therefore, they are not the same, they are not equal.

Comment: According to this sage, this is life. When they stop, this is death.

My Response: Yes.

Question: Should we expect falls all the time?

Answer: I do not think it is necessary to live with this. But, in principle, the fact that they will be is inevitable.

Question: Is it possible to teach a person and humanity in a different way?

Answer: No, a person will not reveal himself in any way if he does not go through descents and ascents.

Question: What is the secret in these descents; what do they teach us? They can lead to extreme conditions.

Answer: So, what? They can bring us to any state.

Question: You are calm about it. This is life, right?

Answer: This is life and this is development.

Question: Can the fall be such that a person will not get up? To whom is this given and for what?

Answer: These are special individuals. I do not think this is given to people often. And some people really need this.

Question: You have said more than once that a person is given only what he can endure. What do you mean by that? We see that there are many things that people cannot endure, but they are given them. Or can they still endure them?

Answer: They can. What can people not endure? It all just seems to us that they cannot endure and cannot survive. No. A person survives everything, endures everything, and can work on himself so much that no other being can survive it.

Question: What does “endure” mean? Does it mean to agree with this blow? What is “to exit out of it”?

Answer: Even to agree and even to understand, realize, and survive. This is called getting out of a descent. The fall itself is when I just give myself to it.

Question: What should be the principle of a person’s life in general?

Answer: The principle of a person’s life should be very simple: I have to feel others instead of myself, I have to live not in myself, but in others. That is all. In principle, this leads to the correct result.

Question: So, are you saying that if I close in on myself, then a descent is inevitable, and if I am always open to others and live for them, then I quickly jump out of it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Why are we given these falls?

Answer: The descents are given in order to empty a person of the past so that he is ready to be filled with the future. Every fall and every rise is a renewal of a person.

Question: Until when can he be renewed? Which peak should he reach?

Answer: Until it completely renews itself. This is the state when he returns to the state of the first man, Adam, that is, to the root of his soul. After then, he no longer needs to change, so to say, internally.

Question: Does he then return to his permanent place, as it were?

Answer: He returns to his place in his original point in the soul of Adam.

Question: “Soul of Adam,” do you mean that this is a single soul?

Answer: Yes. He returns to his point in this soul. Each person has to go through this path of rises and falls in order to return to this point. We cannot run away from this.

Question: Do we know this point in advance? Do we know where we are going?

Answer: We cannot know it because we cannot feel it.

Question: At what point do I begin to feel it?

Answer: When you actually approach it.

Question: Why is it given to us not to feel it?

Answer: We do not have these properties of bestowal, love, connection with other souls, and so on.

Question: So, am I going to this connection, which will connect us into one? Is that where I am going?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, the commandment, that is, the main condition, is “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/5/23

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In order to tease a person and lead him to read the authentic sources and understand why he needs it, I write my books about what Kabbalah offers us.

But after that, a person has to read texts that give him or her the right direction, although this is also found in my books. Then one has to read the texts about the upper degrees one must attain, and this too is in my books.

Nevertheless, I cannot say my books replace the books of my great teachers. After all, the original source is best. I cannot compare my spiritual level with that of my teacher Rabash and even more so with his father Baal HaSulam. The more I advance, the more clearly I see what a huge difference there is between us.

I remain small precisely to serve my generation. I agree with not being elevated, although, given what I have done, maybe I could have gone higher. But then I would be more out of touch with the generation.

There is never any calculation with a person. The calculation is always general because the individual and general are equal. Therefore, if a Kabbalist can be of greater help to others by staying lower, then he will stay lower. The main thing is to serve.

Question: So it is impossible to rise to high degrees with such a psychological basis?

Answer: It is possible. It all depends on the person.

Even by reading my books you will later discover much higher levels than you can perceive today because it depends upon the individual. The inner level they are written in matters. My level is much lower than Rabash’s. And you cannot even compare it with Baal HaSulam. This is a person who has attained the entire ladder of spiritual ascent.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hidden Power of Books” 7/9/11

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Question: Among your students there is a certain understanding of going out to the masses. Ninety percent of Kabbalistic material is intended for inner development, but many people think that they are engaged in external dissemination. How can you protect yourself from this?

Answer: All this will be formed simultaneously. A teacher cannot work without students nor students without a teacher.

Once they receive some knowledge, everything else is attained in practical work. They have to work with virtual networks, with the population. Gradually, as the virtual community develops, we will be able to speak differently and open up.

When you start working with a small child, you communicate with him at his level: toys, dolls, cubes, and so on. You are slowly pulling him up, giving him more abstract toys, more complex tasks based not on his primitive feelings, but by requiring some kind of mental work.

You need to develop him gradually from simple soft toys to cubes, from cubes to drawing, from drawing to logic, and so on.

All this must be formed! Today we have to work with “soft toys”;  we have to show people on social networks what they want to see, and to add our ideas into it a little bit, about half a percent.

Question: How can we protect this child from burning down the apartment or kindergarten?

Answer: He will not burn anything. The only thing he can do is throw you away and come back to himself again. Then the suffering will beat him until he hears you again, until you come a little closer to him and you coincide with each other.

This is how we have to go together at every level. Here everything depends on how much he feels suffering and is ready to listen, and how much you can lower yourself and become such that he will hear you.

Question: You have students who are like little children to you. How can these little children not get into trouble so as not to negatively affect other children who are even younger?

Answer: They will not mess up! Because the path of suffering is the worst path. Eventually, we will raise humanity by our own efforts and lead it upward. There is nothing worse than sitting and doing nothing.

Therefore, we should try to disseminate by all means. Something drips somewhere and breaks through somewhere. Perhaps not now, but it will still remain online, and suddenly in a few years, it will begin to manifest itself. People will start to remember!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Going Out” 7/30/11

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Question: Is it possible to go through the entire Kabbalistic methodology according to The Book of Zohar and The Study of the Ten Sefirot?

Answer: Of course not! Even if Shamati, Baal HaSulam’s letters, and Rabash’s articles are included, it is still impossible; a teacher is needed for this. And those who do not have one are engaged in currents revolving around Kabbalah such as Hasidism, New Age, and others, and it seems to them that they are already in it.

The realization of texts themselves, clear, internal, Kabbalistic ones, cannot be realized without a teacher. After all, he works on you more than you work on yourself. Just as a mother and father work on a child to raise him and it seems to him that he is growing by himself. Only later, when he has his own children does he begin to understand this.

No one can reach the spiritual degree by himself! Only if there is someone who teaches you all the time, “slips” you all sorts of actions, knowledge, questions, and guides you. Why do I always give an example with children? This is an exact copy of the spiritual growth!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. You Cannot Advance Ahead Without a Teacher” 7/23/11

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