Comment: There are students who leave us but somehow remain connected to us.

My Response: Those people are trying to adapt their studies of Kabbalah to our world. They cannot tear themselves away from us because they want to use the egoistic world for their corporeal ascent.

For example, someone insists that I explain Kabbalah to academics and politicians because he wants to look wise in the eyes of the whole world, he wants to be proud of his association with Kabbalah.

And I do not need it at all because there is nothing great in the greatest of this world. Therefore, he begins to complain about why I don’t explain Kabbalah to important people and don’t go and bow to them.

Why do I need it? I need students who will implement Kabbalah within them, within themselves, and by doing so correct the world! And I am not going to engage in such “marketing.”

In general, I am not interested in people who cannot pass spiritual laws through themselves. According to the definition of Kabbalah, they are considered animals, that is, they are content with the animate level.

I do not neglect them, but simply sort them according to the line of desires. Desires for this world prevail in them, and I need people with desires for the upper world. Suppose you were given a desire for the higher world, and you began to apply them in the direction of our world. Then stay with them! Nothing can be done.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What to Expect from Kabbalah?” 12/28/12

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Comment: You once said that if there were no desire to receive, then we simply would not perceive each other because we feel everything based on benefits, what I will get out of it. In this case, egoism plays a huge role and thanks to it we feel each other.

My Response: But this same egoism also limits us; we see and feel only what is beneficial to us. We do not feel the universe as it exists, a vast universe that includes all worlds, all forces, all fields, all of space. This space is not lifeless, but for us, it is empty.

Let’s say there is a couple of thousand kilometers between you and me right now—a void. Or it feels the same between me and some star. But this is not emptiness; I just do not perceive and feel this space because for me it does not exist.

There is no empty space. We learn in Kabbalah that everything is desire, but it is of a kind that I am not interested in. I was created in such a way that I do not notice it, it does not matter to me. It is not that it is bad or good; it is just that I am created that way. Just like you would say: “I am walking around a big city, but I do not notice anyone around me, just emptiness.”

The method of Kabbalah is to develop a sense of the real environment in a person, and through it he will understand what kind of force created and holds the entire universe, what for, and how.

As he begins to understand this, he will be equalized with this force, adapt to it and to everything that it fills. As a result, he will not only absorb it, not only compare his properties, but he will be able to control it; that is, he will be at the highest point of the entire universe. We must come to this.

You may ask, “Isn’t this world enough for a person? Why does he need another, higher world?”

It is in order to own everything, control everything, consist of everything, and eventually rise to the level of the Creator and be in a state of full bestowal and love. This inversion is incomprehensible to us because you can reduce your egoism to the state of an inanimate object and live without thinking about anything.

However, nature is designed so that you reach the maximum, but in this maximum you work for the service of others, for the maintenance of life in everyone and everything—like the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to see the other world?” 12/1/12

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The division within Israeli society is deepening more and more, penetrating every home and every place of work. There were cases when families canceled the Passover meal only because of their political differences. This conflict is spreading among the people of Israel like a new coronavirus—an epidemic of separation.

However, this conflict is not new, it already existed within Israeli society. Altalena continues today. Until we correct this condition at the root, it will not disappear by itself. It is not time that decides everything here, but the maturity of the people. They do not want to grow up and do not receive the proper education, but continue to act according to their egoism, which is the biggest of all nations.

This problem will not be solved by itself because the people of Israel are not inside nature, but above it. Therefore, our egoism will not be cured by itself, but only by our great and purposeful efforts.

Today’s confrontation is not the limit. Kabbalists warn that the people of Israel will have to go through great trials if they do not realize the need for their correction. In the end we will come to correction and unification, to “love your neighbor as yourselves.” But what stages we will have to go through on this path is known only to the Creator.

I see that the people of Israel have not yet come to the revelation of evil, even to a minimal extent. That is why we have yet to reveal our evil, each of us and all of us together, in the entire society. Who knows how many more wars will occur in the world because of the brotherly hatred between us.

Such brotherly hatred is peculiar only to the people of Israel because we are called to bring a method of connection and an example of brotherly love to the world so that love your neighbor as yourself becomes the law of the existence of all humanity. We are obliged to spread this method, implement it ourselves, and show an example to everyone. In this way, we will fulfill our destiny, and everyone will know what the secret of the people of Israel is and why it exists.

Everyone should know that there is a method that can correct the state of the world and lead it to connection and love. The people of Israel must first reach this by themselves, and then lead everyone else to love their neighbor as themselves.

The strength for such love must be taken from the Creator; we ourselves do not have it. It is impossible to force or persuade a person to love the other as himself. We must demand the Creator to shine this light of love upon us, and then we will be imbued with this light and will live in it.

This is only possible if we want it to happen. But we do not want that yet. Judging by what happens at demonstrations and in the media, we enjoy hating others instead of striving for love.

This is understandable because the people of Israel are the model of the entire world. It was formed from the natives of Ancient Babylon, where all the nations of the world were gathered at that time. The Jewish people have received a method of reaching love for one’s neighbor as for oneself, and if we make this correction in our small nation, it will serve as an example and the right message for the entire world.
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From KabTV’s “Writers Meeting – Q&A with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/4/23

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Question: What is love?

Answer: Love is when you perceive the desires of another person above your own and strive to fulfill them.

Question: But isn’t classic love when there is a burning sensation in the heart?

Answer: I do not know about the burning in the heart. We need to ask the physiologists what can burn there. You are talking about some suffering, maybe bad feelings and experiences.

I, however, am talking about the fact that love is the desire to fulfill the desire of the other person by yourself at the expense of and above your own desires. It does not matter at all to you what will happen to you from this, because the most important thing for you is what will happen to him. This is earthly love, and not the one Kabbalah speaks about.

According to Kabbalah, love is an adhesion of two spiritual objects: the created being (man) and the Creator. Or rather, the soul and the Creator. Such adhesion is reached by the similarity of qualities when the soul and the Creator bestow to each other, fulfill each other, and therefore merge together and absolutely complete each other. This state is called love.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Love” 1/19/11

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Question: When speaking of the spiritual, you give everyone the importance of the goal. How essential is it to be told about the importance of the goal? How do you raise its status for yourself?

Answer: From students! But unlike you, I feel your inner connection and I see who you are from the inside. Among you, you say what you see, and I see the next layers. There you are all mutually connected and devoted to bestowal and love. There you are all on a spiritual level, and from there I get nourishment. That is why I am never in a broken state.

Comment: Sometimes, when you come to a lesson, it feels like you haven’t entered it yet.

My Response: No, it does not mean that I did not enter it. It means that I have left the past state, because I always prepare before the lesson for at least 40 minutes if not an hour. So I don’t come to the lesson right after I open my eyes.

I get up, do a little exercise, take a hot shower, and sit down at the computer; I always go through some materials and only then do I go to the lesson.

The reader begins to read the text and I must immediately respond to it. I must live in it and not just talk about it.

I must be in constant interaction with the material, Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and Ramchal. For me, The Zohar is my world! There is an animal part of the world and a human part. I am in the human part.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who Rules Laitman?” 12/27/12

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Question: Do those people who have gone through some spiritual stage, no longer see the point of returning to some former pleasures?

Answer: No, this is not correct. All kinds of disturbances arise in them in the form of yearnings for various pleasures. Of course, the greatest pleasure is sexual, which remains for a long time during the path, and it practically does not die.

A Kabbalist does not begin to neglect any of the pleasures of this world. On the contrary, he feels very good taste in food, in rest, in everything. He appreciates it.

He just becomes a kind of gourmet. If you really want to enjoy something, you need to feel that you are actually enjoying it, that it is correctly connected with your goal, tied in such a way that through this world you receive some additional divine phenomenon. Then you feel pleasure also through the objects of this world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Star”

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Question: You have students who invest a lot, but during the lesson they just sleep. Do I need to wake them up? What to do?

Answer: Do nothing! A person should participate in the usual duties of maintaining order in the room and in everything related to the material functioning of the place where he is equally with everyone.

Everything else that concerns spirituality we cannot impose on him. The only thing you can do is demonstrate to him unobtrusively your attitude to spirituality and let it affect him as much as possible.

Comment: But there will always be someone who will point at him as a bad example.

My Response: He has no right! Where have you seen me do this? Never! Unless he does harm, or if it does not apply to physical work, like when I scold those responsible for sound or for technical malfunctions, that is, for what happens to matter in our world.

As for the soul, it is impossible to interfere in any way with this. In no way! If a person comes, he comes; if he studies, he studies, quietly and calmly. Together with everyone, he gradually goes through various states. One goes through them faster, the other one slower.

When we study at school, we are obliged to go through ten grades together. But not here; here everyone has their own path, their own pace, and completely different stages of development. Together we go through what is described in the articles. But this is only in general and not in particular!

Individually, everything is experienced separately! It cannot even be transmitted and compared.
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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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The main thing is to imagine yourself always standing before the upper force, which is one, bestows, good, and leads to the goal. If I direct myself toward the goal, I will always feel goodness and a good attitude to myself. If I yearn for the goal, I will always see that everything is aimed exactly at this goal, in order to help me reach the image that I have to mold from myself.

Everything is arranged to make me similar to Him. Everything that happens in my life are just exercises that are placed before me every moment so that I can form myself with their help.

If a person organizes himself in this way, he will be happy that he is in the process of forming his personality to become a man, Adam, which means “similar” to the Creator. Then he sees that there are no evil and hostile forces in the King’s palace, but everything is done for his benefit. Only the Creator accompanies him and “embraces him from front and back,” from all sides.

Everything is arranged only for the sake of adhering to the Creator, as the purpose of creation.

Therefore, if at some moment a person feels bad or uncomfortable about the purpose of creation, about the Creator, or about the surrounding reality, it is a sign that he has not yet brought himself into balance with the conditions given to him, nor in agreement with “the good who does good,” with “none else besides Him,” and has not connected with the quality of bestowal so that it would reign in him.

This is how we need to establish ourselves and constantly move toward complete correction.

If a person accepts all the conditions, causes, and accidents, and correctly uses the environment, the teachers, the group, and the study, and cares about them and about dissemination throughout the world, if he accepts everything in order to reach the quality of bestowal so that only a point of effort remains from him and everything else in him is filled with bestowal, this means that he is studying the Torah Lishma.

That is, he turns all the strength he has received—all his powers, qualities, and abilities—into a form of bestowal. He wants to rise above his quality of reception in such a way that he does not feel that it really exists so that only bestowal would rule.

If this is the desire of a person, he is called a sage, Talmid HaCham (a disciple of the sage), and is studying the Torah Lishma. After all, he learns from the sage, from the Creator, and receives examples from Him at every moment of his life, and strives to attribute them all to the force of bestowal, to one force that is good and does good.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/28/11, Shamati #22 “Torah Lishma (For Her Name)”

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Question: What exists in the space that seems empty to us in our egoistic perception, but in another perception is densely filled with everything?

Answer: It is types of desires: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human desires that we do not perceive from the next degrees, from the degree of the world of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, Adam Kadmon, and so on to the level of infinity.

And there, just as in our world, we see the inanimate, vegetative, and animate degrees and the degree of “human,” we observe these kinds of forces, but only forces in the world of Assiya, Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, and Adam Kadmon.

And most importantly is that in each of these worlds you discover the force that binds them and guides them. It is called the Creator, the one that creates in this world. You merge with it, connect with it, adapt, and you become it.

As a result, it turns out that a person ascends to the highest degree of the entire universe and includes everything in himself. But this is an all-encompassing image of a person, when all our bodies disappear at the level of our world, and all our desires, powers, knowledge, and newly acquired qualities merge into one image “Adam.”

That is what we are going toward. What is happening in the world marks the beginning of this path, the beginning of the spiritual elevation of humanity. Spiritual means beyond matter. This is the path to information, to a new change within us, in our “I.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to See the Other World?” 12/1/12

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Question: You say that at every moment  a person is in ideal conditions for his advancement. When he is distancing from his studies, is that also ideal for him?

Answer: Of course, naturally. If at every minute of his distancing from the spiritual, he can make a leap back, then this is the best option of getting closer for him.

Comment: You say with sadness that it is a pity to look at this distancing.

My Response: No. No way. Even a person who feels this should see himself as happy. This is our path. It is the reciprocating motion that pushes us forward like a wheel. We are rolling forward, and the wheel is spinning back and forth, back and forth. That is the only way we advance.

Question: Let’s say you see that a person has moved away a little. Do you not feel sorry for him?

Answer: No, I do not feel sorry. He must move away.

But when he begins to understand that this distance is for his ascent, and at the same time pushes forward while  in this distance, then the distance passes quickly, qualitatively, and gives him a huge leap forward. Then it turns out that he is no longer a small spinning wheel. After all, he inflates it and becomes a big wheel. Therefore when he makes a big turn backward, at the same time he goes forward a lot. This is what depends on the person.

Otherwise, all the wheels practically spin in place. But we hope that we will inflate ourselves properly and move forward. I think that now there will be a good reassessment of values among the local population, which will also give us a push forward.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ideal Conditions of Attainment” 12/13/12

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