Question: What does the condition of better off dead than such a life mean?

Answer: This state manifests itself at every level. First, when a person is desperate. Secondly, when he feels himself in such a deep egoism that he is ready to do anything just to not stay in it, and so on.

A person has such moments of despair when he breaks through. This is usually directed against his egoism, but sometimes also against the Creator. Everything happens. So what? We have nothing to hide!

The Creator for us is the upper force, the highest quality of nature. I want to acquire it so that the Creator is in me. This is not something that has a volume, some parameters, some view. This is a quality, a category. Kabbalah has a very simple attitude toward this—it is all for materialism.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Better Death than this Kind of Life” 1/28/12

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Question: Do you remember your purely egoistic perception of the world when you were not yet in spiritual attainment? And then, when you already began to perceive everything on a different level, did you erase some facet, some illusion that seemed to you before?

Answer: Nothing has been erased. I just perceive everything more clearly, understandably, and with greater agreement and tolerance, not because I am getting older, but because I see the need for all manifestations of what is in a person.

I see that the most terrible, the most disgusting, and everything that no one can justify, comes from the same source, the upper force, and, unfortunately, sometimes manifests itself in such terrible forms.

And, of course, I treat people as material that needs to be corrected, to convey the truth to them, and to help them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Laitman – Before and After Attainment” 1/28/12

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Question: Often before big events or congresses there are states when people start to distance themselves somehow, think that they are unimportant, and do not take part in the events. Do they lose something by not overcoming those states?

Answer: Of course, undoubtedly! The main problem is in the preparation of desire, suffering, and awe. Will the connection succeed at the next level? After all, if it doesn’t work out, it will be a huge blow, a failure, which then, of course, through disappointments and various revelations of problems will turn into a correction.

But we need to act differently. We need to go forward with our own pressure, and push our way into the higher world.

Question: What should I do? The main thing for a person is just to participate?

Answer: No, you have to be in this body and soul and prepare yourself with great passion, with great trepidation, and with horror that it may not work out because such an incredible opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Question: But on whom does the development of this desire depend?

Answer: From all together on the terms of mutual guarantee.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Arava or How to Overcome Yourself?”1/21/12

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The will to receive is set in the emanated being only through its awakening to receive of its own accord (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 6, Item 24).

Question: Is creation the emanated being that has its own personal will to receive?

Answer: Not only to receive, but even to become similar to the Creator. This is why, desire goes through four phases of development, and it is in the last phase that it develops a free personal desire to become similar to the Creator. Before that, it is not yet considered a creation because it goes through involuntary stages of development.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 1/1/23

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This means that after this law of the will to receive pleasure has been imprinted in us, we define ourselves by the name “operation” (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 5, Item 22).

After the law of egoism has been imprinted in us, we act only for the sake of our ego. Therefore, it takes great strength, diligence, and perseverance to understand how we can correct it to the opposite. Although the Creator is waiting and ready to help us in this.

Receiving for one’s own sake brings death to the bodies and every kind of torment and labor to the soul.

Question: Why is receiving for one’s own sake the cause of death?

Answer: It is because a person sees that he does not reach fulfillment. Eventually, this leads him to death, to exhaustion.

Comment: But there are still some fulfillments. People are receiving pleasure.

My Response: These pleasures are intended only so that we do not part with life. Just for that. But this calculation is hidden from us. If we clearly saw how much we enjoy and how much we suffer, we would not want to live.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/18/22

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After the people of Israel pulled all desires out of Egypt, the “vessels” and gold and silver jewelry, then all their egoistic qualities died in them.

As it is said in the Torah about the entire generation that exited Egypt, all their egoism died and then they received the opportunity to reach the next level, called the land of Israel (Eretz Israel), a desire aimed only at bestowal and love. “Eretz” is “desire (Ratzon)” and “Israel” is “Yashar Kel (straight to the Creator).”

The Creator is the force of bestowal and love, which is the main force of nature. Everything else is manifested as its particular types. The program, according to which this force works, is aimed at making a person independent and with the desire to be in a state of bestowal and love.

Abraham’s group, once they entered the land of Israel, began to fight for it because other nations also lived there. In addition, all sorts of obstacles arose in the group itself that were manifested in the characters of people, and they had to rise above them. This period is called the conquest of the land of Israel (“Kibush Haaretz“).
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. History of the Jewish People” 5/4/14

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Comment: You said that if a person is half a step away from leaving the group, essentially the goal he has been engaged in for a long time, then there is no point in holding him back because he no longer has the desire.

My Response: I am not in favor of holding a person by force. I feel that if I give everything I can, and the student does not become attached to our system through this, then his time has not come yet.

I don’t see much use in getting him interested and luring him in. I have no inner strength or inner motivation for this.

Maybe because my teacher Rabash had such an attitude that if his students care about connection between them and show support for one another, then in this state they should move forward. And if someone falls out of the general connection for some reason of his own, then he falls out.

You cannot hold a person by force. If he hears about the concept of the practical idea of correcting himself and the world, which he begins to feel the effect on himself in action, then he must make efforts and invest himself.

And if it does not do this sufficiently, then it is impossible to keep him recharged all the time.

Ultimately, he must learn to revive himself, to connect himself to an upper source.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call.  I am Fed Up With Everything!” 5/31/14

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The Zohar speaks nothing of corporeal incidents, but of the upper worlds, where there is no sequence of times as it is in corporeality. Spiritual time is elucidated by change of forms and degrees that are above time and place (Zohar for All, “VaYetze,” Item 139).

Question: Kabbalah speaks of states that are above time, space, and motion. Can you explain what it is? What kind of change in forms and degrees are we talking about?

Answer: There is nothing permanent or temporary in the universe. We introduce all this with our sensations, our attitude to what is happening. Only the Creator, the upper force, is absolute.

If we change ourselves relative to Him, then we change time, space, movement, and the world in which we exist. We can only speak about this in relation to the Creator.

Question: Can time end?

Answer: If time by itself does not exist, then how can it end? It exists only in our sensations.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/25/22

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Question: A person can feel his body when it hurts. What happens with the spiritual body?

Answer: Everything we feel in our world, we feel only from some kind of pain, limitation, pressure, and so on, even the most pleasant sensations. Feelings come from the sense of the boundary.

In the spiritual world, however, it is quite the opposite. I rise above the sensations of my body; for me this egoistic boundary does not exist.

As a result, I stop feeling my body and this world in general because I annul the egoistic boundary and rise above it into altruistic qualities. This world begins to gradually dissolve for me. I see it not as material, but as still depicted for me. But in the end it disappears completely.

I have no problem with this, let the imaginary world disappear.

The spiritual body is my qualities associated with others, that is, what I build on the basis of adhering and connecting with others. My spiritual qualities are where I can treat others the way that the Creator treats them.

In such cases, I am not limited as well. My spiritual body does not give me any problems.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spiritual Body” 2/23/12

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Question: Can egoism temporarily take over a person who is not in attainment?

Answer: Yes, it can take over specifically in order to lower a person. The person’s job is to turn that egoism back into an ascent. Twenty kilograms of egoism were added to an individual, and now he must correct it by twenty kilograms of bestowal and love.

Why else would he get such an addition?

Question: What if he plunged into the ego very deeply?

Answer: Do not worry. The upper degree works in the same way as we teach a child to walk: we step back from him and wait for him to take a step toward us. This is the way the upper system works. We do not go far from the child, and this is what is done to us as well, although it seems to the person that he has been completely abandoned.

Question: When a person feels superior to everyone else and neglects them, can he unite with anyone?

Answer: If a person feels superior to others, he cannot be in a spiritual state. This contradicts the qualities of the upper world.

If the upper light influences him, he feels inferior to others, indebted to them, and treats them like a father would treat his son because the son is the central figure and the father takes care of him, and all the attention of the father is directed to him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Egoism Uses Me” 1/28/12

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