Question: If every corporeal thing has a spiritual root, my family wasn’t given to me by chance either. If the Creator exists, does this means that I should reveal Him here, in the family?

Answer: There are corporeal and spiritual components.

The corporeal component is the family, and you should live within this framework and care for it. And the other component belongs only to the spiritual, which means to the soul. We should not confuse the two.

In our world, I have to care of my children, my wife, my relatives, and my parents, but this has nothing to do with my soul. It is as it says in the Torah: “Therefore, a man should leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife.”

Question: How can we examine the relations in the family solely as animals? If people truly discuss and solve different spiritual problems in the family and listen to the opinions of their relatives, is that also a corporeal inclination?

Answer: There are different families, depending on what they discuss and what they think. This is your business. I don’t reject the family, but I believe that family decisions, even the most serious ones, have nothing to do with spirituality.

Comment: We have said that good relations between a husband and a wife can help them reveal the Creator’s presence.

Answer: They can, of course, if only they succeed in doing that.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Question: The Creator created such a varied abundant world. Why then do we, those who engage in the wisdom of Kabbalah, do as little as we can in the corporeal world and engage mainly in the internal work?

Answer: Because we have not yet built a society in which we can Kabbalistically affect each other through corporeal actions.

Question: So all a Kabbalist’s actions come down to studying, listening to the teacher, sitting and speaking in a circle? Is there nothing else? The world seems so diverse and there are so many things you can do out there.

Answer: The best thing is to do nothing. There is no benefit in the actions that we perform to man or to the world.

Question: So why was everything created?

Answer: So that you will live peacefully, comfortably, and quietly and yearn to establish an ideal connection with others.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Question: Does the Creator speak with us through people?

Answer: Yes. He turns to everyone through people, but not in the same manner people turn to you. He speaks with you through His influence on you through the environment, through animals, plants, and even through stones, through everything that is around you.

The whole world is the language of the Creator. Strengthen your inner hearing and you will hear.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Question: When a person is raised to the upper level, does it give him an opportunity to manage all relationships, or at least a part of them?

Answer: The ascent on the spiritual ladder allows a person to rise only above himself, not above others. During the spiritual ascent, a person learns how to control himself in order to be kind to others.

This is the meaning of our correction, making the relationships between us so close, so that we will reveal the Creator in them.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/11/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 16:03: You shall not eat leaven with it; for seven days you shall eat with it matzoth, the bread of affliction, for in haste you went out of the land of Egypt…

The sons of Israel eat unleavened bread because they left Egypt so quickly that the dough didn’t have time to ferment.

Haste means that liberation from egoism occurs instantly. This is the action of the upper Light that happens in the blink of an eye, and a new world opens up before a person.

Torah, Deuteronomy 16:04: And no leaven shall be seen with you within all your border for seven days; neither shall any of the flesh you slaughter on the preceding day in the afternoon, remain all night until the morning.

Leaven is egoism. “No leaven shall be seen for seven days,” means that no egoism should remain in you.

In order to work correctly with this enormous egoistic desire called Egypt, a person must break away from it fully, and this takes exactly one week (seven days) after which it is possible to start working with it for correction.

Therefore, throughout a year we work with egoism by correcting it, and during the Passover week we don’t use it. It is the same every year, because the renewal happens every time.

Torah, Deuteronomy 16:07: And you shall roast [it] and eat [it] in the place which the Lord, your God, will choose, and you shall turn away in the morning and go to your dwellings.

A person must come to a certain state, certain connection with others, in order to perform the correction of the biggest desires, because meat is the heaviest animalistic desire in him.

After that, we can go back to our usual corrections. This concludes the Pesach (Passover) holiday, and we continue our usual corrections throughout the year.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 16:01: Keep the month of spring, and make the Passover offering to the Lord, your God, for in the month of spring, the Lord, your God, brought you out of Egypt at night.

Passover is a state when a person should feel that he is always coming out of Egypt. After all, every time, huge egoistic desires are revealed in him, and he tries to rise above them.

We constantly come out of Egypt, little by little. We continue this way to the very end, until all uncorrected desires are exhausted. So far, we still have enough of them.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/16

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Question: Exactly on which desires is it necessary to make a Tzimtzum (restriction) to feel the upper world? On which desires is it not necessary to do this? How do we make the Tzimtzum?

Answer: We must aspire to achieve unity in a group until the characteristic of bestowal appears between us, and this will be so tangible that within it the Light, the characteristic of bestowal, will appear from above. It is not necessary to do anything beyond that!

Question: How can I become a Rav in the wisdom of Kabbalah, to be your colleague in the work, both in status and in general work with the people, conducting the daily lessons and so forth?

Answer: The desire is welcome. Study.
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Question from Facebook: How can I tell whether the person in front of me is a Kabbalist?

Answer: There is no way you can tell, but there are external signs of a Kabbalist:

1. Regularly studying the wisdom of Kabbalah whenever he can.

2. Studying for 3 hours during the morning lesson.

3. Regularly attending the gathering of friends’ meetings.

4. Taking part in dissemination that leads to the correction of the world.

5. Making active efforts to bring the world to a corrected state.

This is called a Kabbalist

Question: If that’s the case, even a student who is a beginner can be called a Kabbalist.

Answer: According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, a person is called a Kabbalist according to his intention and his goal, not according to whether he has attained a spiritual level. If he focuses himself on it the spiritual level, it means that he is in it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/8/17

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Question: What are the most important steps in building a sense of feeling the upper world?

Answer: The most important steps in building the soul are written and described in detail by my teacher Rabash in his first twenty articles. Therefore, I strongly advise you study them.

In fact, all of the conditions required for creating a sense of the feeling of the upper world, the Creator, and His eternal and perfected state, are indicated in those articles.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

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The Torah, Deuteronomy 20:20: However, a tree you know is not a food tree, you may destroy and cut down, and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until its submission.

An infertile tree is cut down when it is possible to advance in the spiritual development with its help. You should use the tree for the movement toward the right goal: either the fruits themselves or at least something that you achieve with its help.

We have different types of desires. There are desires that we can transform into useful actions, and there are auxiliary desires. This is what we are talking about. It turns out that the desire itself isn’t at fault. It simply is this way according to its nature, and later it will turn into a fruitful tree.

All 613 desires of a person are located in the ten levels, what are called the ten Sefirot. Among them there are desires that can be easily managed in order to achieve the goal, and there are the passive ones that are impossible to control. They can be used only for the defensive purposes and for the advancing actions.

All this is sorted inside a person. He perfectly understands his spiritual states and the forces that determine these states.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/21/16

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