Comment: An anonymous quip is circulating on the Internet.

How do children treat you?
Like God.
How is that?
They almost do not listen to me; they do not fulfill my requests. Sometimes they pretend that I do not exist, but when they need something, they immediately cry out.

Answer: That is right.

Question: Our lack of feeling even toward a parent, what is it? We are talking about the Creator here with you.

Answer: When we need egoistically, then we appeal to them. And when we have no need, it is better that they do not exist. This is very clear.

Comment: As your teacher used to say: “Close your mouth, open your pocket.”

Answer: Yes, that is the attitude of children.

Question: You always call upon the fact that a person, one way or another, must attain the force that controls him. How can this happen? Only in the state, as it says here: “When they need something, they call you right away”?

Answer: When you are pinned to the wall, then no one will help you—only the Creator. And then you will turn to Him. And you will try to find a connection with Him.

Question: So, the revelation of the Creator can only be under pressure?

Answer: Of course! Man is an egoist.

Comment: It strikes me that only under pressure, only from hunger, only from fear, only from this can our governance be revealed.

My Response: Only from suffering.

Comment: Such is our simple body…

My Response: The Creator created it this way. What do you want? Go to Him and complain.

Question: Go to Him? I see. One way or another, definitely, after all the pressures, will the revelation happen?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And what will we reveal?

Answer: That everything He did He created on purpose, out of good intent, insidiously, in order to eventually lead us to such a development that we would justify His entire creation, that through creation we would justify Him and find our rest.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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Mutual guarantee is the global law of the existence of humanity as one soul. If it is realized between people, then all the degrees below us, meaning the animate, vegetative, and still nature, will reconnect into one single system.

If humanity were united at its human degree today, we would see such changes in the entire universe where all nature gathers into one system, where no eruptions occur, and complete harmony reigns throughout the still, vegetative, and animate world.

As the prophets said, the wolf will live peacefully next to the lamb, and the whole creation will exist in single harmony. In this way we will bring the whole universe and the whole world to a single connection, and the Creator will reveal Himself within this harmony as one force that fills and embraces the whole creation. Our mutual guarantee and connection will not only improve our life, but it will also correct the whole creation and will combine it into one perfect system.

And this is bound to happen because these informational genes are recorded in the creation and forces are acting in it that lead it to this goal. We can bring this goal closer with our participation. Everything depends on us!
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/22, “Arvut on the Way to Lishma“

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Question: Let’s say you are explaining The Study of the Ten Sefirot, how is it that you constantly remember what to talk about?

Answer: It lives in me! It is my nature. I am not inventing anything or remembering something artificial. It is me! It is like you are asking me about myself or my family.

I just have to wake up, cheer up, and have some coffee. Then my systems wake up, like when you turn on the computer, for example. First of all the lamps warm up, etc. After that it does not matter what question you ask, I have an answer.

Why am I not preparing for lessons? Because I do not care what the topic is. You are asking me about the way I am arranged inside. You say: “What is Aba ve Ima, how does ZON rise or fall, or something happens to these worlds or those worlds?” But this is all the inner feelings of a person. After all, this does not exist outside of a person, but rather within him. This is why you are actually asking me how I feel, it is that kind of a question.

Comment: This is so incomprehensible! Let’s say when people study to be teachers, they first study the system and how it all works.

My Response: It is because they just learn it mechanically—there is such a system and such worlds. Ask them where these worlds exist—somewhere out there, in another dimension, in another area.

But they exist in me! These worlds do not exist anywhere at all, only inside a person. In the “Introduction to the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Baal HaSulam writes that all the worlds are inside a person.

Question: So many books have been written about this! How do you manage to give different comments for different states?

Answer: I have all this stored inside. When you ask me something, I dig inside myself and spread out the information to you, as if from some warehouse.

Kabbalah is not just a science that I have studied. All these definitions, sensations, levels, states, and phenomena exist in me, and I am just telling you about them. Therefore it is not difficult for me at all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Do You Know Kabbalah?” 11/12/13

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Question: Basically, I see other people not as they are. With a general system of such chaos of perception of reality, what should I cling to? Surely there must be some kind of beacon that will guide me forward. What should I focus on in order to go the right way?

Answer: You have a group for that. It is why humanity is given to us in such a broken form. It is so that I can clearly, really correct my egoism, not corporeal egoism but spiritual egoism; it is, to put me in such states where I attract the spiritual energy that corrects me upon myself.

Question: Why do most people have the feeling that the group and friends are an order of magnitude higher than you anyway, that they are more collected and more connected?

Answer: Because this is really so. This is not a distorted but a correct representation. A group of Kabbalists who are trying to unite is always closer to spirituality than one person.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Whom to Believe?” 11/26/13

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Question: Do all people potentially have a point in the heart?

Answer: Everyone has it now. Inside every human ego, inside every person there is this point! But it can be very difficult to wake it up and raise it above the ego. It depends on the internal structure of the person.

Question: And what does “the enemy of my egoism, the friend of my soul” mean?

Answer: The enemy of my egoism and the friend of my soul is the point in the heart. The soul is called the corrected state of a person, the quality of bestowal and love manifested in a person relative to others. Naturally, this quality is an enemy of egoism and a friend of the soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Humanity” 11/16/13

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Question: Do I understand correctly that one of the basic principles of Kabbalah is to make commitments to others, fail, and because of lack of strength to turn to the Creator for help?

Answer: If you advance correctly, it will always be like that for you. You will try to do something good for others, and then it will begin to be revealed that you do not really want it.

You will try to do even better and more, but you will never succeed; and then, from disappointment, you will understand that you must turn to the Creator. It is on this that your synapses and all sorts of connections in your brain will be shorted. You will already have a predisposition for it, and such a state will start being created.

Question: What connections are important to build at this moment? Is that supposed to be a prayer?

Answer: Yes. It is a prayer, weeping, and the gate of tears; only they help a person. When he sees that everything is closed before him (and it should be so), and only the gates of tears are open, that is, only the Creator can help him, then it happens.

Question: Why does it take such a long time to build connections?

Answer: Our egoism does not allow us to do it faster. It keeps saying, “Dear, wait, you do not need others. Try it yourself.” It does not direct you to the Creator. The appeal to the Creator is the last thing; just as there are ten Sefirot, and only the last one works.

Question: In principle, it is the eternal question of students: “When will it happen already?” How long do they have to wait? Or does everyone come to this not at the same time?

Answer: It will happen when you want it to happen.

Comment: But it takes longer to get there for some and it is faster for others.

My Response: Of course. Some come to that point quicker, some slower, and not all together. A single person can be the one in the group to reach this. But a certain number come to this almost simultaneously.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Basic Principle of Kabbalah” 11/9/13

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Comment: When a Kabbalist explains something, a person does not hear the words; he feels you completely above logic. It only appears to him that he is hooked on your words.

My Response: I try to convey the material with feelings because, actually, there is nothing but feelings. No matter how it may sound, maybe prosaic or frivolous, we are a desire to enjoy, and we measure everything according to this desire.

No matter what I do, I still measure it inside me, create certain connections within myself, and thus study science, language, or anything else.

I program my desire to enjoy according to new criteria: let’s say, my egoism gets a certain amount of points, something else gets a different amount, and so on. This way, I create a matrix within my egoism with respect to a single phenomenon or a set of phenomena. So, it already exists in me; I am, as they say, familiar with it.

Then there is another area with respect to which I create a certain degree of importance of each phenomenon, action, or connection within my ego. This is how I get acquainted with this phenomenon; it already exists in me too, and I can talk about it.

Restructuring is something else. When someone contacts me with their matrix, we connect with each other, debate, compare our matrixes, and now I have the opportunity to use my logic for scrutiny.

What does using my logic mean? There is no logic. It is the same desire to enjoy I check myself against: is he more correct or am I, and what is more beneficial for me?

It also includes a huge apparatus of qualities I was born with, values, and habits that I have acquired. It all works together. These are complex systems of filtering the perception of everything that comes our way.

But when we work for the upper world, for the Creator, this is completely different; that is, we do not work for ourselves, we do not take ourselves into account. Totally different properties and qualities are in play here—absolute. This is not about my personal, individual self.

To the extent that I can enter others, that is, without taking myself into account, and connecting with others, I become objective. My desire becomes objective and then I can relate to everything on absolute terms, not my personal subjective ones.

I am creating a so-called absolute Kabbalistic language. Whatever I take down, I can perceive from this record, this matrix, this language created by me; I can perceive the Creator.

And you will perceive it, and others will too. Each of us makes this record coming out of their ego, above it. Therefore, on one hand, this perception will be individual, and on the other hand absolute, because you made it above the ego.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to listen to a Kabbalist” 11/9/13

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Comment: Your student writes: “Good afternoon, dear teacher! I appeal to you with a request: teach me to talk to the Creator. I have been studying Kabbalah for more than 12 years. My husband died two months ago. We lived together for 28 years. He wasn’t involved in our study, but he was such an angel behind me. He helped me study, work, and disseminate. He passed away and it’s very hard for me. My heart is torn! Your articles and videos help. I talk to my husband very often in my heart. I ask for his help in business and for advice. But this is not normal; he doesn’t exist. There is only the Creator. How can I learn to turn from the image of a person directly to the Creator? Please help me! Thank you very much for your reply, although I know that you don’t have time for private messages. Sincerely, Elena.”

My Response: First of all, my condolences of course. Second, the fact that your husband has physically died and is not next to you does not mean anything! Absolutely nothing! On the contrary, his connection with you is even stronger, only you don’t feel it to the extent that it exists.

Therefore please do not imagine him as missing, lost, or gone, but as if he is with you internally, mentally, and spiritually. And that is how you should treat him. Talk to him and talk to the Creator. Talk! Don’t do anything else! In precisely the way you want to talk, that is how you should talk. Both he and the Creator will understand you. And the best thing is that you speak in your simplest language.

Question: And what about the fact that Lena has doubts? “I’m talking to him, to my husband, but I should be talking to the Creator,” she says.

Answer: It doesn’t matter. You are simply talking to an upper force about your problems. Your husband, the Creator, and all of us are included in this upper force.

Question: Is it a correct conclusion that when I talk to someone from the heart, I always talk to the Creator?

Answer: With the Creator. “There is none else but Him.” This is the most terrible problem! When you look at other people, both bad and good, it’s just a representation of the Creator to you.

Question: So if we make an effort and manage to come to the conclusion that it is the law that “I talk to the Creator all the time,” then will the world change?

Answer: Yes, but people don’t want to understand it. It is hard to imagine; you have to force yourself.

Question: So is Lena doing everything right? She talks this way to her husband, whom she does not see but clearly feels. And is this the right way? Is this what prayer is called?

Answer: Yes, of course. What is prayer? The fact that the members of the great assembly (Knesset HaGdola) composed prayers is because people moved a little away from the Creator and could not address Him simply in a human way.

So they composed all sorts of prayers for them and replaced this simple heartfelt appeal to the Creator with words. The words are very correct. The people who composed these prayers were in attainment of the Creator. But this is not something that a person can say himself from the heart.

Question: But it is practically a revolution for a person that he can not read written prayers. There are a lot of written prayers, but how would one read from the heart and speak? And do you say that it will be almost the same with the same effect?

Answer: It will have an even greater effect. If a person speaks from the heart, then the effect is greater.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman 8/25/22

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Comment: You said that it makes no sense to suppress external factors, for example, enemies, but it is important to change them within yourself.

My Response: We have many axes of misperception of reality. First, everything that exists, exists in us. Everything that is perceived by us is perceived in our desire. It is either egoistic or altruistic.

What does it mean that I perceive something outside of me? It is how I am shown that I am made up of these elements, of these desires. Desires are projected outward in the form of inanimate, vegetative, animate nature, man, and then the Creator. All this exists in me and manifests itself to the extent that I can respond to it in the right way and correct it.

If, for example, harmful phenomena appear outside of me and I see them, it means that they exist in me, and I cannot correct them externally. Of course, I can destroy them, hit them, alienate them, and so on, but that is not correction. In principle, it is a sign of my weakness or lack of understanding of what is happening.

If I have a correct attitude toward the universe and what happens in it, then I must act differently. I must understand that all these phenomena exist in me, and I see them in front of me. Therefore, I need to correct them in me, and then they will disappear in such an unpleasant form.

Therefore, if all kinds of enemies rise up against me, I must look for these qualities in myself, correct them, and then they will be corrected outside. It is written: “Who is a hero? He who conquers his inclination.” And who is a hero of heroes? “He who turns his enemy into his friend.”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Turn an Enemy into a Friend” 11/18/13

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Question: We often explain the appearance of a person in a Kabbalistic environment and his departure through some events, for example, his fatigue. But surely, he has functions when he was supposed to appear, fulfill his purpose, and then move away, i.e., to realize himself precisely in this way, right?

Answer: No. It is just that a person cannot cope with what he was given. He was given the opportunity to move forward, and he did not cope with it.

Question: Does it mean that if he enters this system, he must fully realize himself?

Answer: Yes. If he was given this opportunity, he can realize himself fully. This is how he should accept it. And we do not know what special conditions there may be regarding him.

Only as the system of connection between us is being revealed, perhaps some conditions will be revealed as to why he could not move on. I would not make any calculations. It is not for us.

We need to advance. We have an open system of connections before us. You can reach the world of infinity, that is, to full connection with everyone, up to the complete revelation of the Creator—the quality of bestowal and love between all.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Everyone Has Their Own Purpose” 11/15/13

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