Question: How does a Kabbalist pursue the Creator and force Him to reveal Himself?

Answer: It is said “Kel Mistater” (The Creator hides from me). And I always try to reach and reveal Him by tracking Him in all His actions in this world and in myself: both outside and inside of me. This is the spiritual work.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 24:19: When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to take it; it shall be [left] for the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord, your God, will bless you in all that you do.

From the spiritual point of view, instruments of your soul, called “elderly,” “women,” “children,” “powerless, rootless people,” supposedly do not have their own forces, and that is why you must feed and support them, giving them an opportunity to exist, until they acquire their own screen.

You always have to leave a part of the anti-egoistic screen for the poor who are unable to have their own screen.

From the materialistic point of view, Cohens and Levites were responsible for these people. Various government organizations existed in ancient times to take care of the weak layers of the society. Cohens and Levites not only educated people, but were also involved in solving their problems. Everything was organized in a very clear way.

Women, children, the powerless, the rootless, and the elderly could come to the town gates, to the market square, or to the places where people gather, as they come to synagogues nowadays, and receive help, instructions, guidance, and education.

Young people were obligated to study; no one should remain illiterate. Unmarried women and widows were considered a big problem for society, and husbands were sought for them. This was precisely monitored and organized.

This is how society took care of itself. If women were encouraged to stay unmarried, it would result in promiscuity. If children were left on the streets, they would grow up to be thieves and killers. If the elderly were abandoned and were dying at your door, then tomorrow the same will happen to you. This should not be; society is obligated to take care of that.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/31/16

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Question from Facebook: I don’t understand a lot of what you say and write, but for some reason, I cannot tear myself away. Would you please explain what the oath is that the nation of Israel gave to the Creator as they stood at Mt Sinai, “We will do and we will hear.” Is this an oath of slaves?

Answer: Actually, it is an oath of slaves. We agree to enslave ourselves to a new principle of existence. We agree to do only that which is beneficial for the society which we, previous slaves of the Pharaoh, are now going to create and become slaves of the Creator. To be slaves of the Pharaoh means to work with an egoistic focus, egoistic desire. To become slaves of the Creator means to work with altruistic desire. Only one of these two can operate within the person. He can either become a conscious slave of the Pharaoh or a slave of the Creator.

Under no circumstances should we think that a slave is something negative. Even now, we are slaves. We are slaves all the time; we just don’t see who is our master. Our master is egoism. It spins us around, and we unconsciously carry out all its orders. It lives in us, constantly forcing us to worry, to think, to do something, and giving us unnecessary goals. And we, by doing all this, burn our lives and achieving nothing.

In reality, to be a slave means to be aware that you exist in nature, that you are controlled by desires and thoughts. You need to understand how these desires and thoughts can be corrected, how to change your master from the Pharaoh to the Creator, and in doing so, you achieve complete freedom, even though you are the slave of the Creator.

This is very interesting and, at the same time, an incomprehensible connection between slavery and freedom. In being a slave of the Creator, you gain freedom because you become a slave of the quality of bestowal and love. You rise above egoism, which no longer limits you in any way, and in this manner, you become free.

Shavuot, the holiday of the giving of the Torah, speaks to the fact that from this moment on, a person becomes free. He begins to acquire his freedom, reclaiming all that was in him under the rule of the Pharaoh and gradually correcting himself, pulling out all his egoistic desires, thoughts, and qualities, and changing them to their opposite, to altruistic.

Standing at Mt. Sinai means that we commit, we want, we are ready for anything, in order to receive the upper Light called Torah—the Light that Reforms reforms us to resemble the Creator. We want to receive it and we are ready for it. This is symbolized by standing at Mt Sinai.

Tremendous hatred and large contradictions are revealed along the way, and thanks to this revelation of all of our negative qualities and characteristics, we are ready to go toward any correction if only to rid ourselves of the ego.

This is the exact moment from which the nation of Israel is born, the moment we take the oath to be slaves of the Creator and we ask Him for this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 5/22/17

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Torah, Deuteronomy 22:25: But if a man finds the betrothed girl in the field, and the man overpowers her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

A betrothed girl is someone else’s desire that did not belong to a person at all and was not under his Masach (screen). And if he used this desire, it was necessarily in an egoistic way. “The betrothed girl” means a desire that has a common Masach (screen) with some other Masach, and therefore the use of this desire will be most probably egoistic. By being in contact with such a desire, a person “kills” himself—his Masach, tuned for bestowal, turns into reception and breaks.

“Field” is the absence of any external circumstances that could stop a person. In this case, the woman can not resist by herself.

Torah, Deuteronomy 22:26 – 22:27: Whereas to the girl, you shall do nothing the girl did not commit a sin deserving of death, for just as a man rises up against his fellow and murders him, so is this case. Because he found her in the field. The betrothed girl had cried out, but there was no one to save her.

On the girl herself (the desire), there is no sin, but corrections should be performed, because it fell under the use of an entirely different Masach, which broke under the circumstances.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 10/10/16

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Question: Do any criteria exist in the wisdom of Kabbalah according to which it is possible to differentiate between Kabbalistic feelings and cognitive distortions that everyone is exposed to?

Answer: These feelings cannot be conveyed to others. You simply feel that it is talking about exactly what you wanted to hear, unlike all kinds of other philosophizing, theories, or sciences where you want to know, understand, and discover.

When you study for the sake of your soul, you feel it. You need to clarify for yourself and clearly understand that you are learning about your life. If you don’t have a feeling like this, you must search.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Comment: The Book of Zohar was the first book written after the Torah. The Torah is 3,100 years old and The Book of Zohar is 2,000 years old.

Response: The Book of Zohar is a commentary on the Torah that includes hundreds of volumes! Today only a few of them remain.

Question: Will further commentaries on The Book of Zohar be written to simplify it?

Answer: I don’t think there is any need for it. First and foremost, we need to learn and understand the wisdom of Kabbalah, and to do this, we must prepare instructions and practically implement the methodology in groups.

We see what is happening in the world. Kabbalists write that we are in a situation where the time has already come to begin the final correction; therefore, The Book of Zohar has been revealed.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: How can a person understand that he has begun the path of his spiritual development?

Answer: Instinctively. At the time, I went through many hands and found various teachers. But none of them satisfied me. I encountered Kabbalists, but either they were small or very specific.

Even though there were also great Kabbalists among them, they didn’t teach in a style I was ready to grasp. It continued this way until I found my teacher.

Therefore, it is up to a person to search. If you don’t like me, then it could be that there are others. I would advise checking to see if someone is wrong. And then you will understand whether you should return to studying with me or continue with someone else. This is because the most important thing is to advance in a manner that your soul tells you to.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/29/17

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Question: How can I know that I am fulfilling the desire of another if I cannot know what is going on inside everyone because I am only guessing through my senses.

Answer: It is through your example and asking for it.

Question: If the task of the Creator is to bring the creature to resemble Him, why does He constantly give energy and desire to egoism so it will enjoy itself?

Answer: It is to create a field of operation for each one where He can later be discovered.
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Question: I am a lone wolf by nature and I avoid being in a crowd. I believe that quality can be achieved only individually. Is there a logical explanation to the advantage of participating in a congress instead of studying your lessons and your books in solitude?

Answer: Solitude is not a bad thing. I also like to be by myself. Everyone knows that I sit behind closed doors and that it isn’t easy to reach me, but the point is that the plan of creation is fulfilled in the connection between people.

Although it isn’t a physical connection but an internal one, we have to establish physical connections in order to reach it. This is the reason that we have conventions, gatherings, meals, and lessons together, all of which are essential.

It makes no difference who you are by nature: a lone wolf or a sociable person who always has a smile on his face, you have to establish mutual internal connection with other people.

The more difficult this is for you than for others, the greater the reward you will receive as the outcome of the efforts that you make in the form of the revelation of the Creator.

But sitting alone with the books while a convention is taking place is like spiritual death.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/19/17

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Question: Do I need to be afraid of my desires? What if I will have such desires that I can’t control?

Answer: Many people are afraid that they will lose control over their desires and will start acting completely out of control.

The fact is that here everything depends on the environment. If we are in the right environment, then a person doesn’t have to worry about self-control.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/15/17

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