Because the vessel is the root of the darkness, as it is opposite from the light, it must therefore be activated slowly, gradually, by way of cause and consequence (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 6, Item 25).

A Kli is a desire that is generated by the light and develops gradually up to the point that it really becomes the opposite of light (the Creator) and at the same time is ready to perform its function.

The emanated being itself must independently reveal the will to receive in him, in practice, meaning of his own choice.  Independent desire appears under the influence of light (the Creator). There is nothing independent that would appear out of nothing.

Only the initial desire in phase zero appears out of nothing. The light comes out and begins to develop the desire in which it is located. All subsequent phases come out of the previous ones. So, there is nothing new in creation except the first, initial phase, which is not yet a creation. Only the last, fourth phase can be called creation.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/1/23

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Question: What keeps those people who have been studying with you for years but who have little understanding what it is about? Why don’t they leave?

Answer: And go to where?! There is nothing higher! There is nothing more powerful than this!

It is possible to find answers to all questions here. It is an enclosed, absolutely complete, self-sufficient system that includes all sciences, all religions, and an explanation of everything that was, is, and will be.

It binds present, past, and future together from top to bottom and in all directions: in our world, in the spiritual world, in galaxies and inside a person. It’s all one single system, one single law, simple and impossible to catch.

This is what intrigues a person, because actually everything is like that, but he cannot grasp it. And people sit on it.

If those who go to another place are lucky, and they can forget themselves or somehow justify themselves, then they are satisfied with this. Or they are offered some super-technologies, and they enjoy them. It is up to them (or it is their business).

But, in principle, there can be no other place where the answers to the questions would be so clearly formulated and as complete as in classical Kabbalah.

That is why I am not afraid to meet with anyone. Let them come to me to discuss any problems, I’m ready. I believe that this will only help reveal the truth and bring a person closer to it. I am not scared and I’m not afraid to make a mistake. On the contrary, convince me that I’m wrong, I’m ready.

For me, Kabbalah is not something hereditary that I have to hold on to. For me, this is a means to achieve the goal of life of every person, of all mankind, and overall, of the entire universe.

If I am wrong, then correct me within Kabbalah. And if Kabbalah itself is wrong, then give me another method, I am ready to listen, but only if it is based on something actually real.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. There Are no Former Students” 1/28/12

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Question: When we play that we are already in a corrected state, do we thereby attract awareness upon ourselves? Or what?

Answer: When we play that we are trying to connect with each other and reveal the quality of bestowal and love between us, then accordingly we attract the upper light to us according to the law of equivalence of qualities.

It shines upon us imperceptibly because we do not yet have real qualities to be like light. After all, only in them can it be manifested. But our attempts over and over again lead us to this.

Question: Let’s say we externally play that we are supposedly in a single process, already connected, but internally everyone feels confrontation and inconsistency with this state. How can you deceive the upper force with an external picture?

Answer: We are not deceiving anyone, we play like children.

We try to make ourselves similar to the next degree, and this similarity invited the surrounding light upon us. This is the same principle that a child has in our world. The same forces act on us—the forces of development.

If you do not try to become like an adult, you will remain little, you will just grow up, gain weight, but you will not get smarter. This is the same principle, there is nothing new here! It is a game, but a very serious one.

Do children not have such a state like play? They have it everywhere! We all play, constantly, for the rest of our lives because we always imitate someone.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. To Play Life” 2/29/12

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Comment: You have long term students who used to be hot-tempered and impudent and then changed, became more patient.

My Response: Character has nothing to do with spirituality.

The soul has no age, it is always young. If it is constantly updated, then the person is a child until the very last minute. He wonders at the world and looks at everything with wide-open eyes, because for him the world is always new!

Sometimes you look at people: heavy, filled with all sorts of information. Know that you are looking at an empty person, there is nothing in him! If he does not free himself every minute and does not feel the world as new in his renewing qualities, then he is dead, there is nothing to learn from him, there is nothing to ask him. He only pretends to be important, because he has absorbed dead knowledge and is afraid to spill it out.

Comment: It happens that at first some of the students are full of criticism, and when they go through certain states, they become more tolerant and understanding.

My Response: Yes, there is no need to make a revolution here. We need to figure out what the problem is and adjust ourselves to it.

The problem is that in spirituality you do not need to correct someone, you need to correct yourself. In spirituality, one should strive not to reveal something or to receive something, but to ensure that I have a desire to receive, a desire to reveal! Then spirituality will be manifested in me.

Basically, I am in an ocean of infinite pleasure and infinite knowledge. To the extent that I have a desire for this, I will be fulfilled. So, we need to work not to be fulfilled, but to want to be fulfilled.

This is a very serious psychological problem, not very clear to people in our world, because this is a different world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Proper Self-analysis” 1/21/12

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Question: We have been organizing congresses for many years. Do you see any progress?

Answer: Today we have already reached the understanding that the only thing we need is to receive help from above. This is a very serious thing.

It’s easy to talk about it, but it’s difficult to feel from within that nothing will help me if I don’t get help from above, from the Creator, from nature, if this power, the quality of bestowal, doesn’t clothe on me.

This is already the reverse side, the lower part of the next degree, and means that we are in that upper degree, only for now we have entered the “vestibule,” the intermediate room, the adapter. And now it will open up, and we will go out into the next dimension.

Question: Can we fall out of this adapter?

Answer: No. There is no way back. Only forward.

We can sit here for a long time; it depends on us, on our efforts, but, in principle, only forward. No one has a way back.

Question: It often happens that we suffer such failures. How can we succeed, for example, in dissemination?

Answer: Dissemination has nothing to do with it. It helps us realize that we need the next degree and soon, because if it does not exist, we will not be able to give anything to the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Reason for Failures in the Group” 1/28/12

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Question: From the point of view of all religions, there have always been sacrifices of plants and animals. Several thousand years ago, there was even a Temple in the State of Israel where animals were sacrificed. How should we relate to it?

Answer: Simply like it is—that it was necessary to sacrifice inanimate, vegetative, and animate, and as if to atone for one’s guilt by it. But in fact, this was done for a person to understand what the real sacrifice is.

It comes down to a person not to kill another but to limit himself, his animate, vegetative, or inanimate nature so as to use it sacrificing his feelings, his desires, his intentions, and thus correct himself.

But since people could not fully realize this or do it inside themselves, the sacrifice began to manifest itself in external actions. It existed among all nations, all religions, all communities.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 1/8/23

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Question: Why are there two gradations in writing: printed text and cursive writing?

Answer: In principle, there should be no printed text. A person should be minimally concerned with his livelihood, and all the rest of his strength, time, and abilities he should use to unite with others in order to reach the level of similarity to the upper force, upper nature. This is his purpose. Everything else he does is completely unnecessary.

This entire worst, small world that appears in our distorted ideas is necessary only to ascend from it to the upper world.

Therefore, there is no need to invent anything, write anything down. You must immediately perform all the corrections within yourself and feel them internally.

Therefore, it is enough to verbally convey to a person the instruction of ascending from our world, and he must live by these laws, revelations, and wisdom. He does not need to read and memorize them. He must see them for himself.

To transmit verbally means that they tell me something, and at the same time I feel and perform, I am in the place that you are talking to me about, at this level, in these halls of attainment.

What was the point of writing or reading?! There was no point!

Records appeared only when there was a descent of generations, and a person no longer had the possibility of direct attainment. There were no teachers, there was confusion, and the mix-up began. Then they began to write books for subsequent generations, in particular, for ours.

What if we didn’t get these books? It is scary to say what we would do. We would be in terrible depression to the point of suicide.

Question: But the Torah originally was written?

Answer: No, it was not originally written. It was written by Moses during forty years of wandering in the desert, describing the states that people went through with him. This is called the “Torah.”

Then he gave his notes to Joshua and everyone else as a spiritual diary of what they went through together. There is nothing else in this book.

It describes how they tried to come together and then separated from each other, whether they were similar to the Creator or not, all the problems that they solved in their correction, why they made long stops in the desert and their crossing dragged on for 40 years. After all, this whole path could be covered in a week. But 40 years were necessary precisely for the past state to die and the future to be born.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Handwritten and Printed Text” 1/21/12

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Question: How can we use the environment in order to attain the Creator? Who can we trust in this world in order to come to the Creator?

Answer: Nobody. What does it mean to trust? What is this childish attitude? A child trusts an adult, gives his hand, and goes with him where he is told to go.

On the contrary, we train a person to constantly check, constantly analyze: Where do you exist, what for, how, and why? In no case can there be any unfounded faith in someone or in something; there is no such thing in Kabbalah!

Faith is the upper force that clothes in you and gives you the quality of bestowal. It is not like in our world when I believe something and go ahead with my eyes closed. There is no such thing!

Here you are taught to look at everything with open eyes, to check, and to trust nothing. This is a science— absolutely clearly coming from practice. Even things that are not attained experimentally in ordinary science are attained here.

Question: Let us say a person comes to the society of Kabbalists, people moving toward a goal, what should his attitude be?

He must perform constant analysis and at the same time try to trust this system. How can he not trust in this case? After all, he needs to move forward.

Answer: What is there to trust? I can only move forward through the acquired quality of bestowal, which is called faith. I work with it like with a force that exists in nature and not in my imagination, like in our world.

Question: Usually a person relies on his opinion because he has an established analysis mechanism. But this is wrong to some extent because it is egoism that creates such a box that I perceive. Is it possible to find some tools here, but not stupid faith, so that there is an analysis and you are not mistaken?

Answer: You are dealing with a clear analysis of states; you are exploring everything on yourself, and therefore there can be no mistakes here. So many repetitions on yourself, within yourself, according to the book, and with others. You see that they describe the same things that happen to you. Then you see that they are really right, that you do go through such things. This is a completely different matter.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Whom to Believe in This life?” 1/28/12

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Question: How can we determine what elements pull us away from spiritual development and oppositely, which ones help us advance?

Answer: There is only one thing that leads a person to the goal. It is his aspiration to the center of the group in order to reveal the Creator within it. Everything else is only for support, if indeed it gives any support at all.

We are talking about people who seek the revelation of the upper world, but not about those who merely live in our world, suffer, and want to improve their life. There is a different method for them. They do not wish to reveal anything above our world; they want to get fulfilled with something that exists here.

Comment: But there are different criteria for connection when people are doing something together.

My Response: We are uniting with the purpose of assembling our single enormous desire, sufferings, aspirations, uncorrected properties, and all negativity to the degree that it would express within us and we would cry out for correction.

We pile up the flaws together and say “We want to correct them. Please correct them!” And this is it. Just like kids  scream and fight, but you calm them down, in the same way we have to fight with one another, scream, and go to our mom (the upper mother Bina) so she will correct us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Arava or How To Overcome Yourself?”1/21/12

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Question: There is a story that Darwin was explaining his theory of evolution to a nobleman for a long time. The man was listening, agreeing with the scientist’s impeccable logic. In the end, Darwin concluded: “Now do you agree that man descended from a monkey?” The nobleman replied, “Maybe you have, but I have not.”

A lot of people write to you: “Indeed, the world is egoistic. Selfish people, neighbors, friends, and even relatives. But I don’t feel that way. I both give and love.”

Why can’t a person break through to himself and say, “This is how I am,” and really feel it?

Answer: He doesn’t feel it. We don’t see outside ourselves! Maybe a little, perhaps, but not everywhere or always. Sometimes I have some remorse for the past; however, it is partial. Here and there I’ll come up with maybe a dozen times in my whole life.

Question: But I won’t flagellate myself?

Answer: No way! That very ego protects us from this and does not let us see the truth.

Question: At the same time, you say the truth is when one realizes his evil, not someone else’s evil, but one’s own evil. If so, how can we approach it?

Answer: We will work on ourselves. We will attract the upper light with special actions—rapprochement between us—and then we will feel that we are truly egoistic.

You really need to break into yourself. The war is about getting into your own heart, not into the heart of another.

Question: You talk all the time about connection, getting closer to others, and so on. How does this make its way into your heart? Let’s say I am trying to connect with someone I hate or, perhaps, dislike.

Answer: Don’t start with someone you hate.

Question: Even for the sake of good connection, for general rapprochement. How does it pierce my heart?

Answer: It opens your heart and brings it closer to other hearts. These are the first steps that need to be taken.

Question: Do these steps get more complicated?

Answer: Naturally.

Question: So, what is the biggest challenge? Can you tell us what the end goal is? What is the final stage? What do we reach?

Answer: I don’t know that yet.

This is a total correction of all beings you can incorporate in your heart. It will include them and give them all a place and fill them with your love.

Question: So, do I include the whole world in myself?

Answer: Into myself. And I fill it all with love.

Question: You keep saying that the name of the Creator is love. Does it mean that I am filled with the Creator?

Answer: Yes, you are filled with the Creator. You include in yourself all desires, all qualities, of everything that exists, and fill them all with the Creator, that is, with love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/22/22

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