Question: What is the “future” or the “next world” in Kabbalah?

Answer: The future world is the one I will attain through studying Kabbalah. It is the next world because it is on the next level of perception.

However, it is a real world. I just need to change my qualities a little, from reception to bestowal, and I will see an inverted world.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/4/18

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Question: Does fear help self-understanding?

Answer: Fear is a very much needed form of inner existence because egoism, which is the desire to enjoy, feels only emptiness or fulfillment, that is, fear or liberation.

Thus, fear is the most natural form of egoistic existence. In our world, there are over 800 kinds of fear. Through these kinds of fear, we study ourselves.

Question: Is there a method to rise above fear in Kabbalah?

Answer: Of course! What’s most important is to build the greatness of the Creator within, which will help you rise above fear. Fear will constantly pressure and help you in the left line, and you will rise above it in the right line. It advances you.

In other words, the ascent above egoism is an ascent above fear. In every moment in life, a person feels afraid even without realizing it. That is, feeling yourself is the realization of fear: “What is going on with me? What internal and external problems do I now have to hide, isolate, and save myself from?” Everything is balanced only on the awareness of fear.

Question: How can one balance this uncomfortable state?

Answer: It can be done only by rising above yourself: restriction (Tzimtzum)—screen (Masach)—reflected Light (Ohr Hozer).

Question: Today, humanity makes a lot of money on antidepressants that help us get rid of fears. Does it mean that fear constantly grows over time?

Answer: Humanity is now going through a very interesting period of mutual inclusion into each other with the help of virtual networks and so on. This will continue growing.

A person will have many problems, fears, and anxieties, because by becoming included into each other through this mechanism, each one brings his fear to others. By doing so, we correct many things in each other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/18

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Question: It is known that laughter helps in life. Scientists believe that laughter performs an important social function and unites people.

Is it possible to say that laughter unites people?

Answer: Laughter in our world is an expression of satisfaction, which can be egoistic—sarcastic, spiteful, and completely unkind—because egoism manifests itself in a simple, undisguised form.

Laughter is more a manifestation of the joy of egoism.

Question: What are the roots of laughter?

Answer: Self-pleasure. Self-satisfaction. As a rule, I would say that everything I see is spiteful.

Question: Is there a more elevated state, good laughter?

Answer: Good laughter in Kabbalah is based on understanding, on revealing its opposition to the Creator. However, a person simultaneously understands how he can get out of it. As Sarah said at the birth of Isaac: “The Creator made me laugh.” This is already a high level.

At the same time, something very kind, good, and joyous is manifested, which is based on the complete impossibility of a phenomenon. Therefore, laughter is a combination of two opposites.

Goodness and kindness can emerge only from the evil, harmful, and dark.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 4/17/18

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Question: Why can’t we attain how the Creator performs His actions, but can only understand how these actions are perceived by us?

Answer: It is because these actions happen inside us. There is no higher idea or plan that will later come down to us.

We can talk about such a development of events because it is closer to us, more understandable, but in reality, everything is inside us.

Everything originates in our inner imperceptible states, and approaches more external ones.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/18/18

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Question: What kind of relations between friends in the group is called a Klipa? Can you give an example?

Answer: A Klipa is a primordial, basic egoistic force that acts only against revealing unity in which the Creator will manifest Himself.

There are various forms of unity requiring no overcoming of one’s evil inclination, egoism, which do not cause its resistance—egoism does not interfere there. There are also certain kinds of unity supported by egoism, for example, nationalism and fascism.

Therefore, a check on the earthly level is whether we really act for the sake of unity and love without borders. This is the difference.

If you want to do good to your people and your country, and don’t care about the rest of the world, or even on the contrary, if you wish detriment upon other parts of the world, then your entire unity is anti-spiritual. For this reason, it will fail and will be unable to exist. Therefore, Baal HaSulam says that this is a curse on the generations.
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From the Conversation in Iceland 5/23/18

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Question: If we do not feel anything from the true creation, what do we feel when we love, partake of food, or look at the stars?

Answer: We feel pleasure in our insignificantly small egoism. Our entire world, our entire life, is inside it. We feel nothing outside of it.

Question: So, is there nothing poetic about stargazing, torment, or love? Is there no poetry, nothing romantic?

Answer: This is what corporeal matter lives by, both people and animals. These, however, are not spiritual scrutinies. Spiritual discernments come from a different state, outside of myself when I feel someone outside of me and live by their thoughts, their feelings, by the ability to fill them.

While doing so, I begin to feel myself similar to the Creator who created matter and keeps regenerating it, constantly transforming it into higher states. When I sense that I can fill another—to saturate them, to change for the better, not according to my understanding, but based on their desires—then I feel like the Creator and feel what the Creator feels. This is called a spiritual life.

Question: What is the main rule of a spiritual life?

Answer: It is to live through the desires of others.

Question: Why can’t I feel the spiritual world?

Answer: It is because you have not developed the intention, the desire, the urge to feel the others instead of yourself.

What does “instead of yourself” mean? It is to feel others as an object, and yourself as a tool, to bring this object into a correct, positive state.
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From the lesson in Russian, 2/25/18

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Question: Are there any concepts of gravitational force and speed in the spiritual worlds?

Answer: Any egoistic desire attracts everything positive and rejects everything negative. Therefore, gravitational force is a force of attraction to what seems attractive to me.

Speed in the spiritual world is the rate at which a desire changes in a person. If the desire does not change, the speed is zero and time stops.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/25/18

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Question: Is a person who is spiritually strong more of an egoist?

Answer: Yes, the higher a person ascends on the spiritual ladder, the stronger are his egoistic and altruistic characteristics. He experiences greater descents and ascents. However, from aside, it doesn’t generally seem that way. All spiritual processes a Kabbalist passes through are not completely seen to an external eye.

Question: Are the operation of a Tzimtzum (restriction) and a Masach (screen) the same?

Answer: A Tzimtzum is my refusal to receive for myself, while a Masach is working with an intention for the sake of bestowal.

Question: What actions does a Kabbalist carry out that a regular person cannot?

Answer: Only spiritual actions. In our world, we can carry out only the same functions that our body makes possible. In this case, a Kabbalist cannot do what is outside the framework of his beastly body.

Question: Is it possible to give an example of a spiritual action?

Answer: Every action through which you want to benefit others, for their sake and not your sake, is considered as a spiritual action.

Question: For whom is the method of the wisdom of Kabbalah intended?

Answer: It is intended for anyone who wants to become familiar with it.

Question: Are there spiritual laws that can be followed in this world that are without consequences?

Answer: Try to be good to people, to protect the world. Then, the results will also be good.

Question: Is it possible to exploit the upper Light not for spiritual purposes?

Answer: It is impossible. The upper Light works with an intention for the sake of bestowal. This is a characteristic that is derived only from your desire to bestow, to fulfill others. Therefore, not using it for spiritual purposes is contrary to its declaration.

Question: What is the intention of inner work in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Inner work is a condition wherein I work with my desires within myself, comparing the various desires and intentions, and so forth.

Question: In the past 100 years, we have greatly embraced the use of electricity. In another 100 years, will we be using another form of the power of the Creator?

Answer: Judging by how much we are united and unite more each day, I think that it will be necessary to call upon the power of the Creator for help much earlier than in another 100 years. This is because, otherwise, we will simply “devour” each other.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/4/18

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Question: What is work in the wisdom of Kabbalah? Who is the employer and who is the employee?

Answer: Work in the wisdom of Kabbalah is called “the Creator’s work” because the Creator implements all of our actions according to our invitation. In this way He forces us to invite the right invitations.

Question: Working for myself in opposition to others is bad, and is this not in opposition to others?

Answer: Working for yourself in opposition to others is bad, and not in opposition to others is a beastly state. It is an unconscious ego.

Question: How is it possible to correctly apply the principle that it is preferable to make a mistake with the group rather than being right on one’s own?

Answer: Be in the group all the time. Any time, wherever one may be, at work or at home, you will feel that you are among friends, and then you will not make a mistake. It is a mistake that you are making along with the friends, which is actually a good thing.

Question: If good and bad come from the Creator, then how does the wisdom of Kabbalah teach us to balance them in everyday practical work?

Answer: In everyday practical work, it is up to us to remember constantly that we are in an integral system in which everything is interconnected. It is necessary to be absolutely equal in this system, balanced in it such that our relationship to it, we will be maximally capable of resembling the Creator.

Question: How can I goad and encourage myself to advance more rapidly? Can the goal become the main incentive?

Answer: The goal is the goal; while an incentive is a movement toward the goal. It must come from recognition of the greatness of the Creator by the group. The greatness of the Creator is the incentive. That is the energy.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/18

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Question: If everything is predetermined in a person’s life, then perhaps the best solution is simply not to fool myself?

Answer: You can, of course, remain absolutely passive, but you will not be left alone and all sort of desires will be awakened in you.

You are a creature, a created being, and you must come to complete solidarity with the actions of the Creator within you, either in this life cycle (incarnation) or in the next one.

Question: So this idea must come and go, and come and go. It cannot be permanent?

Answer: It is constantly improving.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/11/18

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