Question: Mikhail asks: “What is the ultimate goal of a person? Is it to dissolve into the Creator, as you say, to merge with Him? Will we lose our identity or not?”

Answer: I would say it is much higher—to complement the Creator. Except that it is said “You create Me.” So says the Creator. But at least if we do not create, we complement Him.

Question: So, is there some flaw in Him if we complement Him?

Answer: Of course, there is a lack because He is suffering very, very much without us. He has the desire to bestow, to saturate, and to emanate, and there is no one, no one wants to.

Question: But we want to be satisfied, to receive, right?

Answer: We do not want to be fed from Him and not by Him! Therefore, here, I would say, it looks like a war of nerves, who will be the first to give in and say: “I love you!” This is a game of exhaustion, of course, really.

Question: Mikhail asks: “Will we lose our identity or not?”

Answer: We will find it then. What kind of identity do we have now? There is absolutely none.

Identity is acquired by the fact that we become necessary for the Creator in action. We are already necessary, but in action, in the fact that we get closer to Him, unite, and merge with Him; in the fact that we complement the universe, we cause filling in the whole universe, the upper light that fills the whole creation. Without us, it would be empty, cold, and dark.

Question: What kind of additional help does the Creator expect from us?

Answer: So that we turn on the light, turn on the light in fact in this world, so that the universe would be filled with the light of the Creator, love, goodness, unity, and perfection in all possible forms.

Comment: At the same time, you say this today when one does not know where to run. With these crazy wars.

My Response: Nothing needs to be done. We just must wait calmly, with confidence that this should happen, to want, to ask, to quietly ask the Creator.

Question: Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: Yes. Without unnecessary noise, statements, disputes, without anything.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/22

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Question: Am I a puppet through which the Creator acts on the friends? Or are the friends only means through which the Creator acts on me?

Answer: I cannot control my friends in any way, in no way! By being connected with them, I can only convey my support to them.

And by not doing this in accordance with the capabilities of the system we are in, I harm both them and myself. We are always mutually incorporated in each other. If I do not transmit what is in me to them every second, I short-circuit myself and of course them.

This is an analog, integrated system. There is no getting away from it! There are no such calculations here where you constantly think about how to arrange something for someone. There is no such thing! All together! From the start!

When we understand this, everything will be fine. In the meantime, everyone is thinking about how to gain something and always at the expense of others! When the system is revealed, then everything will become clear.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who controls you?” 12/29/12

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Question: In Kabbalah, two people are considered a Minyan (group); they also make up the ten Sefirot. On one hand, there are at least two, and on the other hand, is it desirable that there are 10 people?

Answer: Two people are necessary in order to be able to understand what it means to exit yourself. For this exit to be really outside of oneself, it takes ten people. Then they form a common system.

But in principle, ten is not necessary. We just want everything to be similar to the spiritual system. In fact, it can be two, three, or five people; it does not matter. The main thing is that there should be someone outside of you on whom you can work out a way out of yourself.

As a person goes out of a space capsule into space, in the same way you should be able to go out into another. For this, the other must exist. He must be in a certain contact with you, in a certain connection, in mutual assistance, so that you can do it.

Question: Should a person do this actively so that everyone can see or is his presence enough?

Answer: Yes and no. It depends on what kind of person, at what time, in what era, and with what kind of egoism. It is not easy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How many people should be in the group?” 12/22/12

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Question: How do we absorb the world around us and connect with it?

Answer: One can absorb the world only to the extent that is necessary to correctly explain the method of ascent to people.

What does it mean to enter this world? If I am at the next degree, then this world is just a small part in which I know everything from one end to the other. I feel it in absolutely everything: its energy, movement, and connection between all objects.

I am only interested in the part of this world that is called a person’s consciousness. I want them to acquire higher consciousness. This is what I have to do as someone who is at the next level; I help everyone who is at this degree to climb to the next degree. This act is called spiritual birth.

But to dive into this world, where to dive?! Nowhere! You have no idea what it is like. Compared to the upper world, it does not even come close to a millimeter; everything in it is so much more flat and linear.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, What to Expect from Kabbalah?” 12/22/12

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Everyone has to build a connection from a person to a ten, and from a ten to a wider circle, and even farther and farther, until we see the whole world united together in one group. This goal should be kept in front of oneself as a desirable state of the world. If we strive for it, we will undoubtedly move according to the Creator’s desire.

Although the world is in the exact opposite state, in hatred, wars, and separation, we need to disseminate this message and do everything possible to bring everyone to unity, starting from ten, from our point, until all of humanity is united as one person with one heart.

It may seem like an unrealistic dream, but we are not required to realize it, we just need to ask and join the program that the Creator implements. Every person and every ten must participate in it to the fullest.

The main thing is to achieve unity, promote it, and stay in it until it becomes the aspiration of the whole world. And the world will definitely turn in this direction; everything depends on us. We are at the central point of all of humanity, and we only have to want. If everyone puts pressure on their heart, then we will certainly succeed.

We want to come to bestowal, Lishma, and complete unification with the Creator. But we also want to see the whole world united, so that people understand that there is no other way beside only one global union for everyone. The Creator will help us reach such a state, and we will all, with the whole world, ascend in the attainment of the Creator upon spiritual degrees and thus fulfill our destiny.

As a result, everyone should know the Creator, “from the smallest to the greatest,” as it is said: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” The house of the Creator is the desire to bestow that governs over everyone and connects everyone together through mutual ties. We need to disseminate this knowledge so that everyone understands; whether we want it or not, this is the program from above. And we live in the era of the last generation when it must be realized.

People should know that regardless of their desire, this happens according to the program of creation. And if now we feel states that are the opposite of this goal, then this is the path leading from Lo Lishma to Lishma that lifts us from the animate degree to the human degree, to the degree of the Creator.

And in fact, this is not such a distant goal. All this happens inside humanity, inside a person, and it does not take too many years and superhuman efforts. If we listen even a little and attune ourselves to this goal, then this change will happen in us.

You can win at the expense of quantity, but you can win on account of quality. Let’s try to win with quality if there are not so many of us quantitatively. But we need to make sure that there are many more people around us who will understand and agree that this is how it should be. And although they will not rise due to their own work, they will at least accept this idea. After all, every day it becomes more and more obvious that there is no other way out, and only if such a correction is made in us from above, we will be happy.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/19/23, “Connecting the World”

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Comment: Let’s say a person has slept at the lessons for several years. He worries about it, but there is nothing he can do.

My Response: It is very good that he is worried. Let him pray, look for some method of salvation, ask friends, and develop a desire to get out of this state.

Question: But from the point of view of spiritual development, is he at least somehow progressing in such a state?

Answer: For example, if a person who is sitting next to him looks at the topic we study from the point of view of corporeal realization or wants to know what is written in The Study of the Ten Sefirot in order to start controlling something somewhere, is it better?! He does not think about the goal anyway.

This one, however, is under the influence of the surrounding atmosphere, which affects him like a small sleeping child: he sleeps, but still the environment affects him, like in the mother’s womb.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Friend Who Sleeps during the Lesson” 12/26/12

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What does “love thy neighbor as thyself” mean? It means that those desires that are in others, you love as in your child and you enjoy when you fulfill them. You have the opportunity to do this endlessly and infinitely, many times more than if you were trying to fulfill them in yourself. So what are we missing? Connections with others through love.

The practical implementation is very simple: in order to fulfill each other and enjoy ourselves, we only lack the love between us.

If everyone around me are like my children and I can fulfill them all the time, then what pleasure I feel when I pass pleasure and fulfillment to them through myself, and feel how they enjoy it! After all, I am becoming a conductor of seven billion unlimited pleasures, like ZAT de Bina, like a mother who can feed everyone.

This is the simple idea of the Creator: “Love each other and be happy!”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How To Use Other People” 12/30/12

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Question: How can you use your egoism so that you can take control and it does not control you?

Answer: It is said that the Creator created everything very simply, but man got confused and complicated everything for himself.

We all do this; it becomes incomprehensible to us because we constantly want to get out, to go the indirect way.

Desire-pleasure, desire-pleasure; everything is very simple, and there is nothing else in nature!

And we start twisting things, inventing how it is possible without it or outside of it, or instead of it, and so on, and in the end we steal from ourselves. By stealing from ourselves and constantly encountering problems, we, in general, create difficulties.

Nature is arranged according to the principle of simple selfishness. We are the same creatures as animals. But our selfishness is also connected with the fact that we learn from others what to enjoy. And therein lies the difficulty.

If I acted only according to my needs, it would be very easy for me. I would calmly work on how to get the maximum pleasure at the minimal cost. This is a simple self-filling formula. This is how all nature works. And in that way I wouldn’t have any problems.

But when I start to see instead the needs of others that are not mine and try to make them my own, then there is already a problem because I am not created to receive other fulfillments. Therefore I am confused.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call How to Use Other People” 12/30/12

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Comment: It happens that when you say something, it touches a person so deeply that he can simply melt away from impressions. A few moments pass and it loses its importance for him. He knows perfectly well that this state will go away, it is impossible to hold it for a long time.

My Response: A person receives this state from me because he cannot connect to it on his own. It entered him for a while, left some kind of trace, and disappeared. He does not live in it permanently. But it should stay forever and other impressions would be layered over it.

Comment: But he wants it to work inside of him.

My Response: Humanity has only one solution—to seriously work on uniting with each other. You cannot do anything about it, there is nothing else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Incredible!” 12/1/12

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Question: In principle, it is not personal growth that is important to you but precisely common growth, right?

Answer: Why do I need personal growth?

Must a person who wants to do good, and Kabbalah is in principle a tool for this, necessarily climb to the very top and throw cakes from there?!

If I can lead people to the idea of unity at my level especially in conditions of crisis, suffering, the threat of famine and world war, where can be a field more fertile for bestowal and love? Only here! Only at this level! I do not have to go up to do that.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who Сontrols Laitman?” 12/27/12

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