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Potential Mistakes

112Question: Should we intentionally perform unnecessary actions; should we make mistakes on the spiritual path?

Answer: No, absolutely not! We must only move forward! We will still make mistakes along the way. But these will be potential errors that will point us in the direction, like a rocket that is moving on the right course and corrects where it has strayed a couple of degrees from its course in order to return to the flight line again. That is the only way.

Question: Do unnecessary actions mean performing some wrong action in order to recognize it later?

Answer: No, never! Never will a wrong action lead you to correction. But if you do the right thing, you will find a mistake on the way, which you will correct and advance further.

This mistake will not be a mistake but an even more refined direction. With the help of mistakes, bigger resolution opens up to you all the time. You get more and more closely focused on the goal.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. It is very important to make mistakes” 1/4/13

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Based on the Symbiosis of Two Qualities

232.09Question: Does the visual picture of our world disappear when you can feel spiritual forces?

Answer: It does not disappear anywhere. If you really want to know this, you need to change yourself. Do not be prejudiced about what you are offered, but accept and try to implement it.

Question: What if someone looks at it from the outside and wants to understand the specifics of a person’s change?

Answer: It will not be possible for an onlooker to see or find out anything! Only if you start going inside. Even at the very beginning of the path, you will still be confused and will not know what is what.

But in the process, when you yourself create within you the qualities of reception and bestowal, and they arise in you in the opposite form, one against the other, you will internally be able to begin to connect them together. On the basis of their symbiosis, you will build what is called your soul, and you will begin to reveal in it the upper forms of existence, the upper dimensions.

You and no one else! Only you will see what you have to see. And it is so for each one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Perception of the World” 1/9/11

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How Do You Transmit Spiritual Information?

509Question: What are the methods of transmitting spiritual information beside texts and sounds?

Answer: In addition to texts and sounds, there may be a direct connection between two people, what is called a common screen.

Comment: But you said that you can pass by a person who is in spirituality and you do not need to talk to him, you can establish a connection with him anyway. Just like when connecting two modems: one sends a signal, and the other receives.

My Response: Yes, you can say that. First, there is a rough adjustment with a common screen, and then it becomes gradually more accurate.

Question: But in our sphere, on the earthly level, spiritual information is not transmitted in any way?

Answer: No, of course not. You do not have these tools. Can you pour water over electric wires? They are completely different qualities.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Transmission of spiritual information” 1/23/11

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Bestow and You Will Receive?

552.03Question: Hundreds of Israelis opened their mailboxes and found envelopes with money, 400-500 shekels, and a note: “Use this money to your heart’s content.” It turned out it was homework in abundance courses.

The idea of the courses is simple: If a person shares his wealth with others, then the wealth returns to him many times over. The course aims to change the mindset for the sake of attracting money. One of the tasks is to hand out envelopes with money and expect it to return in large amounts.

Is this formula supposed to work? What do you think of it?

Answer: No. Man is egoistic and he thinks only of himself. Even if he gives something to someone, he still thinks that it will return to him with benefit many times. Well, he can try it once.

Comment: But you say that one way or another we must develop this quality of bestowal in ourselves or receive it somehow.

My Response: We cannot develop it because we do not have any data or any properties for this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 3/30/23

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How To Get Yourself Out of Your “Donkey”?

528.02Question: You say that we are “up to our ears in the donkey,” meaning that we are in our egoism. If we associate ourselves only with it, then how can we find our spiritual form? How can you find yourself to get out of this donkey?

Answer: This can be done only by attracting the upper force. When you start working with a group in which everyone strives to get out of their donkey, then a point in your heart awakens in you, which begins to ask: “Why should I live in this donkey? What kind of life is this?” Then everyone helps each other and through combined efforts, you develop in yourself a real desire for everyone to get out of your common donkey into existence outside of it.

This desire arises in you while studying Kabbalistic sources. And it doesn’t matter that they are written in a complicated and unattainable way. It doesn’t matter. After all, when you read them, you connect with the next degree, with the next sphere, from which the upper light influences you; the state that exists there pulls you to itself.

On the one hand, your suffering pushes you forward like a cherry stone. And on the other hand, it’s the force that pulls you out. In this way you get out of your donkey and begin to feel you exist independently. The donkey does not disappear, this world remains, but you begin to feel that you also exist in the next, upper sphere.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Head Over Heels in a Donkey!” 1/9/11

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Mercy and Justice

229Question: What is mercy in your understanding?

Answer: Mercy is when a person receives the quality of bestowal from above and can bestow in the same way as the Creator.

Comment: But this is not what people usually understand by mercy in our world.

My Response: Everything is distorted in our world.

Question: But does this concept have at least some common link?

Answer: None. In our world, mercy is when I shut up your egoism.

Question: What is justice?

Answer: Justice is when a person receives exactly as much as he is supposed to in order to move toward correction, to his best, predetermined state, to his root.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Justice” 1/23/11

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22 Forces of Nature

526Question: The article “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba” allegorically tells that each letter comes to the Creator and says that He should start building the world precisely with it. However, the Creator answers: “Yes, you are good, but I will not start with you.”

What process are we talking about? What does it mean that the letters come to the Creator and each asks that the creation of the world would start with it? There are 22 such signs.

Answer: Yes, there are only 22 forces of nature that in combination with each other create the entire universe, absolutely all the worlds, and everything that fills them and saturates them.

It comes from just 22 letters. There are five additional letters that do not decide anything, but are simply written at the end of words.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 4/23/23

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If This Is Your First Time, You Are Forgiven

281.02Question: If a student who constantly engages in Kabbalah misses a lesson twice in a row, how is this recorded in his spiritual advancement?

Answer: This is recorded in his internal information data, and then it will be harder for him.

It is like when Adam fell into sin. The first time he tasted the forbidden apple and liked it, it was not a descent because then he did not know what it was. The second time, when he consciously could not restrain himself and tasted it again, this is called sin.

Even in our daily life, if a person commits an offense for the first time, we take it into account. He had no informational record of what would happen to him; he could not foresee that this would happen. For the first time, they make a certain concession for him. But the second time, that is it. Because after the second time, it is almost impossible to stop; there is a clear record that this is good, it is worth doing, and I am going for it.

Therefore, skip classes; once it could happen, but not twice in a row! No way! We should be very afraid of this because this approach weakens us very much. A person usually thinks: “Well, it did not work out, I could not.” And off we go, rolled down, back to this world.

By committing an offense twice, a person gets used to it. Even in the material world, everyone knows this.

You will not be shown leniency for not attending lessons or be given free passes and have everything fine after that. It does not depend on the teacher. I give you the spiritual law! If you want it, follow it; if you do not want it, do not. There is a law! Where are you going to jump? With the Creator, these things do not work.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To damage one’s destiny” 1/21/11

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Improve the World or Change Yourself?

597.01Comment: A person’s main problem is that he is not tied to higher coordinates. When you say that our world does not exist, that it is just an illusion, the question arises: “Where am I?”

My Response: Nothing can be done. There is a methodology for this. So it is necessary to gradually introduce a person into this, to explain, and to give him the opportunity to explore how to manage his qualities. All this is given to us initially. Everyone can and must attain the truth. This must be learned.

All the suffering in the world pushes us to do just that. It does not push us to improve our world, this small sphere in which we exist. There is no need for that.

We have to change ourselves so as to go out into the outer sphere, and then into a more external sphere, and into an even more external sphere. And if we start improving our little sphere instead, and we want to stay inside it, we only get the blows of nature, which try to push us out like a cherry stone. This is what we feel today in all our actions in the world.

Therefore, we do not need to change the world or even improve society, but rather we need to help a person reach the next degree of existence with a completely different screen in another world in another dimension.

You do not have to do anything else, just this. Everything else will only lead to additional suffering and to the postponement of the end; it will distance the good ascent.

Our world aspires only to this, and we will definitely come to this. But it all depends on the amount of suffering and the length of time it takes to realize that in the end we need to do something reasonable, i.e., first figure out what nature has planned for us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, The Illusion of the World” 2/1/11

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Illusion of the World

423.01Comment: Looking at a person or an object, I feel them, as you say, through the interaction of forces. But I perceive these objects as a visual, illusory image, which you call a screen.

My Response: The fact is that we perceive our natural screen we were born with. The interaction of forces draws a multidimensional picture of the world on it.

That is, we create flat screens in ourselves, like a computer screen or a movie screen, which are located inside our world. Our world itself is also a screen, only it is three-dimensional, and voluminous, like 3D technologies or other latest techniques.

There are 125 such spherical screens, meaning spheres nested one into another. We are in the smallest inner sphere. This screen, that was initially given to us automatically and in which we imagine ourselves as existing, is called “our world.”

It is created by only two forces, reception and bestowal, at the very minimum level of their interaction. If we can develop them, and raise ourselves up so that the force of bestowal prevails over the force of reception, then we will expand and enter the next sphere, the next screen, where we will feel ourselves living, but in a completely different form.

That is, we will feel ourselves, our qualities, and the entire environment completely differently. This is called the “upper world.” Then we move on to the next state, and the next one, and so on.

All these states overlap each other, and they do not interfere with us, like if you were in a movie theater and see on the screen how you sit and watch a movie, and in that movie, you see how you sit and watch another movie, and so on. And in this way, 125 screens inwardly.

Comment: Everything I feel and see around me is actually the interaction of forces within me. But I see it on my internal screen. In fact, this screen is just an illusion through which I can somehow hold on to the forces that exist behind it.

My Response: It is very difficult to imagine this for a person who does not feel it. You just feel like you are in our reality. You draw it, meaning you create it with your thoughts and forces. In fact, it does not exist.

After all, 125 concentric spheres of attainment do not exist outside of you. You draw them, you create them.

This is a very complex science. Therefore, it is necessary to gradually get used to such an action, enter it, and get used to it. Then you suddenly feel that everything really is arranged in this way, and that is how you live.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Illusion Of the World” 2/1/11

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