Question: How does a Kabbalist act? Does he try to find someone to subjugate to instead of subjugating others?

Answer: The Kabbalist is looking for an opportunity to connect with others as much as possible in order to reveal the only, single upper natural force, the basis of all nature, the Creator, in this connection.  This single force is an absolute good, a quality of bestowal.

The Kabbalist reveals it through his methodology when he becomes similar to it. Here he is kind of a detector, a receiver. He captures this force, gives it the opportunity to exist within him, and changes his qualities from reception to bestowal and all egoistic intentions from for his own sake to for the sake of others.

As a result, it turns out that this single quality, which is concealed from us but permeates the entire universe, begins to manifest itself in him. By annulling his egoism, he ceases to be an obstacle to this force. Then it begins to pass and manifest itself through him as in any detector, any device, that becomes similar to some physical phenomenon and it manifests in it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Manipulations of the Kabbalist” 4/22/11

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Question: If a modern person with his knowledge and understanding of new technologies were thrown into the last century, then the technology he would see there will seem not serious and would seem ridiculous to him.

Does it look like the state of a Kabbalist who knows: “Guys, you play, it is serious, but in fact it is all a kindergarten”?

Answer: Yes, we can say that it is somewhat similar. Just as we watch old movies where everything looks naive and past values are of no interest to us, so in the eyes of a Kabbalist any value of our world is relative.

We understand what is going on. We use all the benefits of civilization to record conversations that take place between us at a great distance and make them available to people in order to attract them to the truth in this way. Therefore, it is commendable that everything is developing like this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call.Time Travel” 9/29/11

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Question: One of the biggest celebrations for Jews is the holiday of Shavuot when the people received the Torah at Mount Sinai.

In general, it is a great event for the world because it can be said that everything began with this. How do you define this celebration for the world?

Answer: For the world I cannot define it in any way because the world does not know anything about it, has not taken it, and does not take any part in it to this day. People of Israel, also, I would not say that they especially celebrate this holiday. It is just a celebration of the giving of the Torah.

But receiving the Torah is a completely different matter. It comes individually to everyone when each one, if they understand what it is, agrees to take upon themselves the instructions and the advice that the Torah gives to a person. Then, indeed, a person gradually begins to organize an inner understanding of what the Torah is and what it gives him. And then he can celebrate it.

Comment: It turns out that I was wrong when I said “receiving.” You corrected me. It is the giving of the Torah. Receiving is a whole process that will continue.

My Response: This is from below up. The giving is from the top down. Meaning, giving is something that the Creator does, so to say. And receiving is what I have to come to, to get it.

Question: Then tell me how to do it. I know the sources say that the people stood as one man with one heart, this was their state, and at that moment they received the instruction of life, so to say.

Do we have to get to this state in order to start revealing something?

Answer: Of course. All this is said not about the past, but about the future.

Question: Can today’s shattered, scattered world not even imagine what is there at all?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Your constant phrase that we should come to these good ties, to connect with each other, is this precisely so that we can begin this process of receiving the Torah, by and large?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What will we get then? The set of laws is clear to me.

Answer: This is not just a set of laws. We will get a completely new attitude toward relationships between people and the relationship of each person toward the world. This is love. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Everything that is placed there consists only of this.

Comment: It turns out that you reduce the Torah to one thing practically. You said: “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

My Response: Yes. This means coming to a state where we are completely connected by love, care, and mutual complicity with each other, all the people together.

The Torah represents the upper force, the upper light, which, to the extent of our efforts and our diligence to get closer and unite, affects us and helps us to achieve such a state of connection.

All that is required of us is effort and diligence, i.e., striving for it. Then we will be able to attract this upper light, the upper force. And it will correct us and connect us with others, with all the people of the world.

Question: Does it depend on us, on me? Or is my effort a gift from above?

Answer: From above is an offer: if you want, you will get it. But it depends on us to accept it and implement it.

Question: What do you think is the current stage of the Jewish people and the world in this process of receiving the Torah?

Answer: I would say not so far away because we have passed the path of the revelation of evil, which is the extent of our nature being opposite of the nature of the Torah, love, connection, mutual assistance, and so on. That is why we do not have much left to do. We just need to draw a conclusion from what we have gone through and with the revelation of the evil of our nature, take upon ourselves the law of mutual love.

Question: We approach, as they say, this mountain, Mount Sinai.

What is Mount Sinai?

Answer: Mount Sinai, the mountain, this is clear, and “Sinai” is from the word “hate,” a mountain of hate that we must rise above.

Humanity must approach this huge mountain of hatred and rise above it. Then they will be able to connect with each other in one single system, in one single nation, and achieve absolute happiness.

Question: Are you saying the whole of humanity into one nation?

Answer: Yes, because the Torah generally speaks about all the people on Earth.

Question: When you say Torah, does everyone imagine a book?

Answer: No. The Torah is a system of correction of all people, up to their complete connection with each other.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/18/23

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What does it mean to move in spirituality? This is when you are both in a state of maximum bestowal to the teacher and you can receive from him, and in a state of maximum bestowal to everyone else and then they connect to you as they involuntarily transmit to you their desires, their inner aspirations.

Therefore, on one hand you accept huge desires from them, meaning, you are filled with huge desires for spirituality, and on the other hand you get a connection with a higher source from which you can receive.

Being between these two elements of the universe, the higher and the lower, you grow. After all, each of us is nothing but an adapter between the highest and the lowest.

Look how it happens in our generations! What are generations and what is “I”? “I” is me plus my wife who were born from the previous generation, and now we give birth and raise the next generation. If we don’t do this, then there won’t be a generation.

So it is in the spiritual. Each generation is evaluated by how much it can get everything from the previous one and develop a more perfect future out of itself. This is its merit.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Should I Believe Laitman?” 3/27/11

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There are two states in a person: when he resists the spiritual quality and when he agrees to build himself in similarity to the Creator.

As long as a person is working in his egoism and suffering does not yet force him to start thinking about the meaning of life, about the meaning of blows: “What for, why? Is it worth living then?”, then he naturally resists the Creator’s quality.

But internal blows make him think about the meaning of life. After all, this question has nothing to do with corporeal well-being or even with physical problems. It arises and that is it. No special predispositions or external circumstances are required for this.

If such questions arise in a person, then he begins to gradually approach the study of the meaning of life. This leads him to the revelation of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Manipulations of the Kabbalist” 4/22/11

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Question: All desires originate in the world of infinity, but they must manifest in our world and come to a final form. What final form should they take?

Answer: Whether we want it or not, we will have to develop to the very last, highest degree, and feel the whole universe and the Creator who fills it.

The worlds are filters descending from top to bottom and gradually increasingly concealing the upper light or the Creator from us.

Question: So, it is best to imagine them not as parallel worlds but as concealment of the connection of the Creator with creation?

Answer: Yes. In our world this connection is completely hidden from us.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 5/14/23

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Comment: Sergey asks: “You keep repeating: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ You keep coming back to this law, saying that it is the most important one. My question is, who is this neighbor who should be loved like oneself? And how can you love a neighbor who has planned and committed many atrocities against you or your home? At the same time, he does not feel the slightest repentance.”

My Response: Yes. But still, nevertheless, we must reassess our attitude toward everyone and see that our attitude toward everyone is terrible, negative, and selfish and that we need absolutely complete forgiveness. For each one of us. I have to condemn myself and ask the Creator to justify me.

Question: Are you saying that I treat my neighbor this way not because he is so bad but because I am so bad?

Answer: Of course. How else can it be?

Comment: He has committed so many terrible actions against me and against my loved ones and relatives.

My Response: Eventually, it turns out that either the Creator is perfect and you are the opposite of Him or vice versa.

Question: I am perfect and the Creator is not perfect? And you say the  Creator is perfect?

Answer: Yes, but in this case I become the opposite of Him.

Question: So if we say that all these are actions of the Creator, then the Creator does all this only so that I can look at myself in that way?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Absolutely everything: tragedies, wars, everything that happens around me?

Answer: Absolutely. Nothing matters; the main thing is the possibility of correcting one’s attitude toward the Creator.

Question: Is this the whole path of man?

Answer: Yes. It is his whole life.

Question: And all this centuries-old history of ours, the tragedies of wars, is it just for that?

Answer: Absolutely only for that.

Question: If a person succeeds, does it mean that the whole chain has worked? In general, everything that happened?

Answer: Yes, like a dream.

Question: That was a dream. And what is not a dream?

Answer: It is not a dream when you justify all this and exalt the Creator above yourself, your opinion, then you will see what it means to exist outside of the dream.

Question: Tell me, when you say “exalt the Creator,” what do you mean by “Creator” in this sense?

Answer: Fate.

Question: My fate? So my fate led me to itself?

Answer: Of course.

Question: My destiny is the Creator? And everyone should think so, each one of the eight billion living people?

Answer: Yes, and by this we unite with each other in one common good desire.

Question: So if we have similar intentions to work on ourselves, then this is how we connect together?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: I see. But I think about myself at this moment that I am bad. I am not thinking about anyone else.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. You are correcting your part in the global desire governing the world.

Question: Then, the last question. We started with “Love thy neighbor as thyself” as the law of life. Where is “Love thy neighbor as thyself” when I begin to work on myself to deal with correcting myself?

Answer: Love anyone but yourself. In what form do you think he exists, how do you imagine him, you have to love him the way you love yourself.

Question: It turns out that love your neighbor as yourself is work on yourself?

Answer: Of course. And what does it call for? Love him as yourself. That is, at the moment when I realize that I cannot love, this is where the work begins.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 5/15/23

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Question: In the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” it is said that the four-letter name of the Creator, in the general aspect, is manifested in the ten Sefirot. How should we understand this?

Answer: In principle, these are not four degrees of the descent of the light, that is, the impact from the Creator to the creation, but ten degrees, because one of the degrees consists of six sub-degrees. The result is ten.

These ten Sefirot, ten degrees, form the four worlds: Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya, and their root, called Adam Kadmon (AK).

At the same time, our world is included in the last degree of Assiya.

Question: How can a person imagine these worlds?

Answer: There is no way. It is a gradual descent, a weakening of the upper light relative to the creations existing on these four degrees.

All this is felt inside a person, in his attainment.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 5/14/23

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Question: If a person feels a certain influence from you, feels your energy, does it affect the hastening of his understanding of spirituality?

Answer: It depends only on his work.

Question: How was it for you with your teacher?

Answer: We were attuned to each other: I to him, and he to me! We worked in unison! I wanted to receive from him, and he wanted to pass on to me! He worked in order to form within me everything that is possible: fill, fulfill, and so on. And I was in some part a passive recipient, and in some part an active one.

Question: How did you agree to come to this?

Answer: We did not. This is a desire. There is no way to agree in words here. This is simply a desire to annul oneself before the teacher, and then the student becomes able to receive from him. It is also necessary for the teacher to have the desire and vision of what he really needs to give to this student because he sees a possibility to continue the spiritual transmission to the world in the future.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Energy” 4/21/11

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Question: Why did it happen that, besides you, all other students of Rabash practically study by themselves?

Answer: It depends on the structure of the soul, and there is nothing you can do.

Comment: But, after all, they are at a certain degree of attainment.

My Response: This is their internal data. But that is not the point.

The fact is that there is no further dissemination from them. If they do some internal actions, then although it is somehow manifested in the spiritual world, it is not reflected in our world yet.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Energy” 4/21/11

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