Comment: When you describe incorporation into other people’s desires, everyone always imagines that you gave something to someone: either you brought a cup of coffee to a friend or something like that.

My Response: No, a Kabbalist does not work at this level. Illusionists can work at this level—to guess a person’s desires and thus perform tricks. A Kabbalist does not perceive desires of this type at all.

For him, mutual desires are desires for connection: whether they exist or not and as far as we can combine them. Our task is the restoration of one single organism, the parts of which we must connect after shattering. We have no other concern. That is, I perceive you as a part that needs to be attached to a common organism. That is how a Kabbalist sees it.

Therefore, bringing someone a cup of coffee or something else is not what is required. The Kabbalist’s desire to feel the other is not at that level, although in general he should take care that this other, who seems to exist outside of him, has what is necessary for existence.

Comment: After all, the material is also included here.

My Response: Yes, in this way the existence of an extraneous desire or an organ of this desire is evaluated within us. Each of us is a separate organ that exists at the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels.

On the still, vegetative, and animate level, I have to take care that the other has everything necessary, that is, what any animal needs.

On the human level, I have to take care to create all the necessary conditions for him to properly connect to spiritual nutrition.

How does the part of the desires that is called human, feed? Only when it connects to one shared system. I have to bring him to the possibility of connecting to this system.

But he still has freewill. Without the fact that he realizes himself and connects himself to the common system, nothing will happen.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Other People’s Desires” 6/27/11

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There are materials in Kabbalah that prepare a person to correctly relate to the text and materials of the text itself. Kabbalists write both for us.

In addition, there are texts that they write for themselves, which are called “bird” language. These are letters, symbols, and incomprehensible squiggles. Baal HaSulam has texts that we do not even publish because he uses words in them that do not exist in our world.

For us, they are just a set of letters. But when you reach a certain spiritual degree, you suddenly begin to understand what they mean. And the feeling, its name, and what you read from it immediately matches and adds up to one place. But this is only for those who attain because we are not touching this part now.

So far, we are only interested in two parts of Kabbalah: how to prepare for the correct reading of the text and reading the text itself so that it affects me. That is all. That is what is there.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Hidden Power of Books” 7/9/11

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Question: How should a person properly adjust himself in thought?

Answer: Our job is to combine all our desires into one single desire, all thoughts into one single thought.

Apart from desire and thought, heart and mind, there is nothing else in a person. It is necessary that all hearts and all intentions come together. In principle, nothing else exists.

The more effectively you connect with others, the more you have a great opportunity to experience the inner world, not our animate world, but the next degree where we are connected.

Such a gradual, consistent, causal connection goes through 125 degrees until our complete connection.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Thought” 7/9/11

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Comment: You once said that praising someone for the work he has done in spiritual development is bad for a person because he advances not on his fuel but on the fuel of others.

My Response: It depends on what he is praised for and how. But it really can stop a person. There is the concept of a jinx. In Hebrew, this is called an evil eye.

If a lot of people think badly of you, then, of course, nothing good comes out of it. At some level, this affects a person because we are all connected.

There are a great number of forces in the world with a hierarchy and purposefulness. If I have to go forward, lead others, or do something, then in doing so I call some negative opinions upon myself. It all depends on what I do.

There is no single force at work here, but a whole system. My teacher Rabash emphasized this and said that one should be afraid of the evil eye, i.e., others’ bad opinion when people talk and think badly about you. You have to try to avoid it because it harms you.

The main thing is not to cause feelings of envy. It is not good. Therefore, when they scold me and say: “And who are you after all?” and so on, I am content.

Comment: But in Kabbalah, on the contrary, envy advances a person.

My Response: If you are envious of something good in a person and you want to be like him, then such envy advances you. But when you are envious and want him to fall below you so he does not have what you envy, this is bad envy. That is why it is called the evil eye, not the good one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Protection from the Evil Eye” 7/21/11

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Question: What is hypnosis in spirituality?

Answer: I do not know. In spirituality, there is a state when a person goes by faith above reason. Maybe it can be called some kind of hypnosis? That is, it is a state of complete and explicit wakefulness.

In spirituality, sleep is a certain disconnection from the real state, when a person consciously lowers the level of light within himself from GAR to VAK.

There are such measures of attainment of spiritual space as sitting, standing, wakefulness, sleeping, and so on.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Power of Hypnosis” 7/24/11

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Comment: You often say that if we do not come to correction in this incarnation, then we will continue in the next one. It sounds scary because until you come to some kind of awareness, you have to start this process over again.

My Response: This is a good incentive to study. Later on the next higher degrees, when you are already advancing toward bestowal, you will find out that this is not the most important thing. But, in general, we must take care not to live life in vain.

At least you have a chance; the rest is in your hands. I give you everything I can, I hide nothing. I even pull out of myself such things that if I think carefully, are too early for you to know. I talk too much, maybe not for today’s generation level. Therefore, I seem so strange, unreal, and not quite adequate.

Then, after a couple of years, the things I was talking about happened. For example, I delivered a report about the crisis in Arosa back in 2005, and a few years later, everyone began to talk about it.

That is, I try to give everything and even more. In the blog, I also write for the future. In addition, we invest a lot in the system of integral education and upbringing. Everything we do today is a groundwork for the future. But the problem is that our theory is ahead of the practice. This is not good.

A theory should be given only to the extent that it is immediately put into practice. We are talking about things that are still completely unrealizable in us. But I have no other choice.

Question: Is it programmed in a person in what reincarnation he will eventually come to the understanding of the need for correction?

Answer: He already has this opportunity in the incarnation in which he receives contact with Kabbalah. He can come to it! The rest is his work, his freewill.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Need for Reincarnation of Souls” 7/18/11

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Comment: There is a parable about a young man who came to the sage with a request to accept him as a student. “Do you know how to lie?” The sage asked. “Of course not,” the student replied. “And do you know who to steal?” – “No.” “And to kill?” – “No.” “So go and learn all this,” the sage exclaimed, “and when you learn how, don’t do it.”

My Response: The sage was a Kabbalist!

Question: Do we really have to go through all this, to steal, to serve time in prison, to kill someone, even within ourselves, and all of this to become a man, to become a sage?

Answer: Of course. One must go through everything. Then he will become a great man. He learns what the real quality of the world is.

Question: Is it the quality of stealing?

Answer: Stealing, lying, robbing, and then he will rise above it.

That’s what we have to do. By nature, we have only a bad quality; it is egoistic, egoism.

Question: Are we thieves?

Answer: Yes, all of us. And from the Creator we received the commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Question: How He twisted it all! He just let us be the last and said: “You must love your neighbor.”

Is it only a wise man who needs to go through everything? Because here a disciple came to him to learn how to be a sage.

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what about a calm, normal, ordinary person who does not dream and does not want to be a sage?

Answer: There are no commandments for him.

Question: That is, just live your life as you do?

Answer: Yes. And what should be demanded from him if he does not have a bad quality, if he doesn’t feel egoistic?

Question: Is that the most important thing? And does the wise man send his student to go and study himself?

Answer: Yes. If he knows that this evil is in him, and he wants to get rid of it, then everything opens up to him.

Question: So a person should be horrified that he is a murderer, a thief, and a rapist?

Answer: But it is revealed so gradually that it is a long process until he is really horrified.

Question: You once told me that your teacher Rabash somehow stopped you when you were outraged and said: “What a bad world!” And he suddenly said that in him, your teacher, there is a thief, a murderer;  everything is within him. How did you take it then?

Answer: I, of course, perceived Rabash in the form that he already had gone through all these stages, these terrible stages of revealing egoism in himself. And then he corrected it and discovered the opposite qualities, the positive ones.

Question: So he found it all in himself all the time?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: It’s hard work.

My Response: Everyone who is bigger than the other is more egoistic than the other.

Question: And he is given even more work? So maybe it’s better to sit quietly on the sidelines and not feel like this?

Answer: Then you will be like a beautiful flower or like a kitten.

Question: Fluffy. To live a life without discovering this dragon in yourself?

Answer: There are some religions that call for this and give their adherents generally good advice, the basics.

Question: How can you not touch this evil in yourself? To live like this?

Answer: But what can you do?

Comment: And Kabbalah is the opposite.

My Response: It begins by saying that the Creator confesses: “I created evil.”

Question: Tell me, will everyone come to this or only those who want to become wise men? Will everyone want to become wise sooner or later?

Answer: No, it is not that they want to become; everyone will discover this in themselves. The world will come to a completely positive end. But before that it must reveal absolutely all the negative qualities in itself.

Question: In the meantime, only the ones that break out should reveal this?

Answer: This is what we are trying to do with ourselves.

Question: Why do these units suddenly break out of the crowd?

Answer: They adapt the Torah, that is, the method of correction, to our world in each generation.

Question: Do they pass it on themselves?

Answer: Yes, of course, on themselves, how else?

Question: So those who want to become such wise men, to go through all this on themselves, are necessary for the world?

Answer: They are preparing the world for correction.

Question: And what does their correction give to the world ?

Answer: The basis. Thanks to them, the world is being corrected.

Question: So the world does not have to go through all these states as a murderer or a thief?

Answer: In general, yes. It goes through them, but not like that. Because there are some individuals, Kabbalists, who go through all this on themselves and justify the ugly world, mutilated by the Creator. And by correcting themselves, they correct it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/1/23

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Man has existed for many millennia, but his apparent spiritual transformation began when he began to comprehend his existence above the animal. This is not due to the formation of human society, which was created about 50,000 years ago, but precisely due to the fact that man began to rise above his social condition to the spiritual.

It was Adam 5,783 years ago who was the first to reveal the system of the upper world that manifested itself in him and who was first to begin to describe and teach it. From Adam, spiritual methods began to develop. And then Abraham continued it.

Question: Why then did egoistic development prevail?

Answer: If we had followed a different path of development, then we would have made our nature, technique, and technology completely different. We can’t even imagine what miracles both the Mayans and Egyptians had in the ancient world. But in fact, these were not miracles, but the correct physical use of the laws of nature.

There are huge opportunities and many variations of the use of the properties of nature; we go purely mechanistically, according to the principle of by force. We don’t know anything else. Look at what we are creating.

In addition, our ego stops us because if someone invents something, he immediately occupies it and wants only this to be used, and wants to destroy everything else. We put sticks in each other’s wheels, we don’t use anything at all.

They write that Tesla invented an electric car by connecting a small box to an electric motor in the car, and drove it at a speed of up to 100 kilometers per hour. What kind of battery was it? Imagine, we would love to have this today!

Meaning, we use everything incorrectly. And humanity had such opportunities associated with electronics, with radio, with means of communication. In fact, everything is much simpler than we think both in reception and transmission. But our brains only work in a frozen mode.

I’m talking about a completely different line of thinking, a different perception of the universe, where you begin to see that there is a different philosophy of life, a different approach to forces, to energies. And we got into the current mechanics and electronics and believe that nothing can be done differently. Why should we necessarily work only with electrons and nothing else? A computer is just a plus or minus, it is not the transfer of information in a sensory form from person to person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Consumer Society” 6/27/11

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Question: You say we can allow the light to work on us. What does it mean to “allow it to work”? What is this annulment of oneself?

Answer: We must be similar to the light within our framework, then we can play with it and it can play with us. Within our framework means creating a communication between us that would be as similar as possible to the property of the light.

The wider this communication will be, and the deeper it will be in feelings and thoughts between us, the stronger and more effective the influence of the light will be on us.

Question: What helps the light work?

Answer: Friendly connection, as complete as possible, between people yearning to be similar to the light.

At the same time, we must correctly understand what being similar to light means. This means that I want to be big, that is, in bestowal, in connection with all the elements of the single system.

Therefore, I should treat inanimate, vegetative, animate objects, people, and even more so, my friends who study with me and who mutually support each other in this unity, if not with love, then at least with understanding, acceptance, and a kind attitude.

I must understand that it depends on me that all these elements that have not been corrected yet will be gathered into one single correct system.

If I do this, and at the same time read Kabbalistic books that tell about the correctly connected single system, then I invite upon myself the inner forces of our development, called light.

This happens according to the same laws by which children develop. The only difference is that children play instinctively, and we must play intelligently and against our will. This is the freedom of will—to choose exactly such a development.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How the Light Works” 7/19/11

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It is said that a person asks the Creator to give him the desire to bestow as a gift because it is a vessel in which one can reveal and feel the Creator. After all, the desire to bestow works on the same wave as the Creator.

It is like we are turning the knob of a radio receiver and tuning in to the right wave. If the wave inside the radio and the wave outside are similar and coincide in frequency, we begin to hear the sound, catching it out of the air. In Kabbalah this is called the law of equivalence of properties.

Therefore, if we want to connect so as to bring each friend closer and for everyone to unite together, then in this way we build a detector, a device, for attaining the Creator. The upper force is revealed within us and is called the Creator (Bo-Reh), which means come and see. Come (Bo) because we have come closer to Him, and see (Reh) because we reveal Him, and therefore we call Him the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/27/23, “Receiving and Giving a Gift”

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