Question: What is the spiritual root of money?

Answer: Money, in Hebrew “Kesef” comes from the word “Kisufa (Lehasot)—to cover.” This means it is the equivalent of anything in the world that can cover almost everything. It had to be done. At first it was gold, bullion, whatever, until people came to coins.

Question: Can a Kabbalist be rich?

Answer: Undoubtedly. One has nothing to do with the other.

Question: Which is better, to have a business or to work in a company, in an institution?

Answer: It depends on the character of the person and why he needs it. If I can while owning business be more free and give my free time for the benefit of myself and others, then, of course, having a business is better.
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From KabTV’s “Blitz Questions and Answers” 1/6/23

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Question: While reading The Book of Zohar, how can I feel that I am reading from a desire that comes from a general connection and not my personal desire?

Answer: You can read The Zohar separately, only it will not give you anything.

Question: What is the difference between when I am together with everyone and read based on my own desire, and when I go through a common desire?

Answer: When you read together, but at the same time you seem to be alone, then you are really alone.

And when you read together with others in one common desire and you have annulled your egoism in order to join together with them and attain the upper quality of bestowal and love to the extent of your equivalence of form to it, that is, you have prepared yourself by connecting with the group to connect with the upper force, then you really have its revelation in the quality that you have prepared in yourself in advance according to the law of equivalence of form.

Therefore, the difference is that you attain two different worlds. After all, when you study only for yourself, you just study wisdom or knowledge. And when you read and connect with others, you attain the upper world firsthand. It clothes on you because your qualities, which love with your friends has prepared, have become similar to it.

Question: If I’m not trying to understand what is written in The Book of Zohar, but I’m trying to catch the general wave, how do you direct your desire through the common mass?

Answer: Only with your love; there is nothing else. Only with your kind attitude! Only by incorporating in the friends! Like a mother through her children; in no other way. Don’t try to find anything else here. It’s very simple.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Read The Book of Zohar through Others” 3/11/12

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Comment: You say that a hero is someone who constantly makes efforts, and although he loses all the time, nevertheless, he remains a hero.

Answer: He is not losing! He treats his nature as purposely imposed on him and given to him for change and transformation! So what if he feels weak against this nature? And who is he?! He was made like this!

If a person is engaged in a higher purpose, then he has strength from the next stage. And if he does not do it, then he is just a small animal of our world that pollutes our poor small planet, and that is it. Look at what it looks like from the outside.

What should we be proud of?! What should a person be proud of?! The fact that he can lift 150 kilograms?! In proportional measures, a mosquito can lift more than a person can. Let us say you are smarter than everyone else, but what are you wasting your mind on?

Animals use it in order to survive, to exist, and to develop offspring. And you do just the opposite! You ruin yourself, your offspring, everyone, and everything. None of the animals defecate where they live. They do not destroy themselves. And a person acts absolutely unnaturally. We have absolutely nothing to be proud of!

People are creatures with such intelligence and capabilities! And they use them quite oppositely. So does it deserve praise?!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who Is the Real Hero?” 1/28/12

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Question: You once said that even if a person were in a restaurant, for example, it is possible to go through the feeling of “desert” without having physically to be in one. How can this be reached and for what reason?

Answer: The fact of the matter is that when we are in a restaurant, we are not able to do this. After all, we consist of an animalistic body, of our own idea of our world; therefore, we also need external attributes.

We are at a level where our lowest desire feels like our world to us. But our world does not exist; this is how we feel inside a desire and is the lowest stratum of it. Imagine that you are cutting slices of bread and the very last of them is the lowest slice of your desires that you feel yourself in.

Afterward you will start to feel the next slice, the next level. And it will also be felt as an absolute reality. A huge reality will be added to you, suddenly it opens up before you like a computer. And then the next layer, and more, and more! Thus you attain ever wider spheres.

Then you begin to understand where you exist. Prior this, it is all just talk in order to somehow attract and keep you on the path of revelation.

But all this is only our desire. And no matter how it seems to us that it is outside, it is all inside. There are not my body, nor time, nor space; nothing exists as there is only a desire, and it has no dimensions and no volume.

Question: If we talk about the sensation of “restaurant,” it is a convenient, comfortable place. In this place you will never feel any deficiency. You are sitting, it is warm, and you are being served (all pleasant sensations). Where can we discover a scream or cry to exit? But if you are actually in the desert, then you feel it.

Answer: On the contrary, I wish for you to sit in the desert and feel like in a restaurant.

Question: But how?

Answer: It is necessary to try, to make an attempt.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Exit the Desert Without Ever Being There?”

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Perception of reality is the most important topic because a person wants to know in what reality he exists, in what kind of world he was born.

How are the upper worlds and the lower world built, how do they exist, by what forces are they controlled, what is the reason for such existence, what are its results, and toward what everything is moving—we need to reveal all this. And this is why the correct perception of reality is so important.

For simplicity of understanding, we can say that there are two worlds: the upper world and the lower world or the spiritual world and the corporeal world. In the corporeal world, which we feel with our five senses, we exist according to the flow of time.

Time is our inner feeling, and according to our feeling everything happens at some time. We associate the flow of time with various external factors: the sun, moon, stars, and past events that give us a general sense of the past.

We do not know what the upper (spiritual) world is. But according to the stories of Kabbalists, people who have revealed the upper worlds, other times and forms of existence operate there. We can reveal them, feel and exist in them, and in this way we will attain the eternal and perfect reality in which there is no beginning and no end. There we exist above time, space, and all movement.

The spiritual reality exists outside of time, motion, and space, and the corporeal world is inside time, motion, and space. Since our sensory organs are based on the perception of a corporeal system of coordinates, meaning, time, place, and motion, we therefore feel only this reality.

If we want to feel the true, spiritual reality, we will have to rise to it in our perception by changing our sensory organs. We will no longer feel reality as a physical movement in corporeal time, but we will feel it in a spiritual form, and this is how we will live. The Book of Zohar writes that spiritual time is determined by the change of forms and degrees that are above space and time.

It is very important to imagine what the upper spiritual world is, which exists above time, motion, and space, and how we can feel it, live in it, and connect everything that is there with our corporeal world so that these two worlds will merge into one for us.

When we attain what time based on changing forms and degrees means, we will understand what the corporeal world is and what the spiritual world is and how these two worlds are connected. We will also understand why the Creator created us with a sense of the corporeal world and why from here we must ascend to the upper, the spiritual, world in order to feel ourselves between two worlds— the upper and the lower.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/27/23, Zohar for All “Introduction to The Book of Zohar,” “On the Night of the Bride”

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Expansion of the light means filling desires with light. Despite the fact that the light and the desire are opposite, they need each other simultaneously. After all, the light wishes to fill all creations, all desires. And the desire of the vessel, the Kli, is to be filled for its own sake.

Here arises a contradiction between them, and the light gradually corrects this desire so that from the state of being filled for oneself, it begins to understand that it is best to be filled for the sake of the light.

Question: Why does the by-product of the state of receiving for oneself manifest itself in our world as great forces of evil?

Answer: The fact is that we are interconnected parts of the system. So, if you do something for yourself, it goes to the detriment of others. No one can act in isolation from others; therefore, by not acting for the sake of others, you are acting to their detriment. That is the problem.

Question: Indeed, people do everything for themselves. I think any psychologist will confirm it. However, most people do not do evil to others. Yes, they receive for their own sake, but why is it called evil in Kabbalah?

Answer: If we saw the true picture of the world, we would understand how we constantly wish good for ourselves and, at the same time, necessarily cause harm to others.

Question: Even if I do nothing explicitly bad to others?

Answer: Even if you do not understand it. We are all in a closed system as if inside a sphere. And if you think only about yourself, you are definitely stealing from others.

This happens at the level of desires, thoughts, and actions. But we do not see these actions.

Question: Does it mean that even if I live on an uninhabited island, I still would cause harm to the whole system?

Answer: Yes. An enclosed system is totally closed in, and no one can disconnect themselves from it.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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Comment: Sometimes you tell your students: You are an experimental group, and a methodology is being worked out on you.

My Response: I work with them. They are changing, and thus we can find out increasingly higher and deeper layers of nature.

I allow myself to open up to the extent that they change. Just like any teacher if he has more advanced students, he can talk to them on higher topics.

Question: What is best for you and your laboratory?

Answer: I wish they were at my level! That would be the best thing. We would do experiments together.

Question: If there are 10 to 20 people next to you who are in spiritual attainment, what is the benefit?

Answer: This would give a completely different exploration of the world. I would really like to have 10 to 20 such students so that all mankind will rise up! We would have been on a completely different degree already! It is a different dimension!

This is not our world, but the lowest state that we do not feel. What should we live for?! Not for the sake of our mortal body, but in order to exist on a spiritual level, in attainment, and in reciprocity!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Laboratory” 1/28/12

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Question: To what extent do you feel this world? Is there still some sort of borderline? If some experts in their field come up to you and claim: “I am very good at it,” and you do not need to plunge into it. Is there any borderline here?

Answer: If specialists in something artificially created by man in any field come to me, then I can learn something from them for the purpose of dissemination. And for my personal spiritual elevation, I do not need any specialist.

But since I deal with teaching, that is, I turn to students, I am happy to meet with specialists. They help me find new examples and develop the language.

I published several books with psychologists. And I can also talk about Kabbalah with historians from a historical perspective, and so on. That is, I am ready to communicate with them.

Let the physicists come. It is more difficult to find a common language with them, but still it is possible somewhere on the so-called “periphery.” In other words, there is no common language inside physics and Kabbalah, but outside there is. For example, if physicists begin to tell me about all sorts of processes that take place in atoms, I will see them in the form of Reshimot, light, and Kli at different levels of entry and exit of the light when the screen expires, suppose from Tabur to Peh. It is interesting for me.

The same is true about chemistry, biology, zoology, and so on. The principle is the same! The exchange between plus and minus is all nature! There is nothing else. This is at different levels. After all, an electron, an atom is the basis of everything.

I have always strived for a complete picture of the world. A partial one never suited me. I could not stand a partial one! What is the point in sitting somewhere in a corner and picking at bugs there?! I could not stand it!

Only the general picture! Only the global one! You see, you understand, and you connect all the elements of the picture into one common whole, harmony, a huge panel, a palette of everything. It is breathtaking when everything opens up in front of you, and you see and feel it! It is fantastic!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Border between the Spiritual and the Corporeal” 1/28/12

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Comment: There is a Sufi parable about a fool who met the ruler of Baghdad. The ruler asked the fool, “Where are you coming from?”

He said, “I’m coming from hell. I wanted to be given a fire to light my pipe there.”

The ruler asked him, “Well, have you found the fire?”

He said, ‘The ruler of hell told me that they have no fire. I asked him “Why is there no fire? This is hell!”

The ruler of hell told me, “Everyone comes here with their own fire.”’

My Response: Yes. Otherwise, how else will you get to hell?

Question: With what kind of fire in us do we come to hell?

Answer: With an egoistic one. There are two types of fire: black fire and white fire. The black fire with which a person wants to burn everything in order to acquire everything for himself is the fire with which we come to hell. If we come, God forbid, it burns us.

Question: What does it take to extinguish this fire?

Answer: Do not give it a place in yourself or in your heart. Rather, show everyone that you have a fire, but it is white and does not burn in hell; it burns only in a good connection between people.

Question: So when it says “I am burning in hell,” does it mean that I am burning in my own fire?

Answer: In your own egoism.

Question: Is it still possible to extinguish this fire?

Answer: Only if there is a good connection between people. Only through this feeling.

Question: How is this extinguished? What kind of water is this?

Answer: It is not water. Water is also used, of course, because water is the quality of bestowal. But in principle, this is extinguished only by changing the relationship between people from evil to good. And then this black fire turns into white.

Question: Is this the main task? But the fire still exists?

Answer: Yes. Fire is the basis of life. It exists.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22

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Question: Why are Bina and Malchut represented by the same letter?

Answer: It is a consequence of the distribution of light in desire. Bina is the highest desire, Malchut is the lowest desire. But from the Creator’s side, it is almost the same.

Question: But Bina and Malchut have different qualities: Bina is giving, Malchut is receiving. Why do they have the same shape?

Answer: But not from the Creator’s side. From the Creator’s side they are the same, but from the creation’s side they are different.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/15/23

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