Question: Let’s say that humanity has invented some kind of drink and enjoys it, or discovered some law of nature and uses it for its own benefit. Is this a revelation of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, in part this is also the revelation of the Creator. But this is not what Kabbalah talks about.

Question: What else can be revealed? What kind of Creator can be attained that Kabbalah speaks about, but ordinary sciences do not?

Answer: Kabbalah says that we can attain the real Creator. It is the Creator and not some of His secondary manifestations in nature. But we can do this only according to the law of equivalence of qualities.

If I am to some extent bestowing like the Creator, then I will be able to reveal these qualities of bestowal in myself. Then I will feel what the Creator feels. To this extent I will become similar and close to Him.

That is, if I become a bestower, and just as today I constantly search where I can receive something, so I will also search for what else I can bestow to others, and then I will be able to feel like the Creator to some extent. It will fulfill me.
But this is not easy to implement.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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Comment: In the corporeal world, there is a phenomenon of “weeping and tears.” It is interesting that in addition to joy and grief, which we express in the form of tears, it is also associated with survival.

Crying is mainly associated with negative emotions, although people can also from happiness cry, of course. The brain cannot identify negative or positive emotions; it does not care. There is just some kind of flow of emotions that gives instruction to produce tears.

It turns out that tears block excessive emotions. What is the reason for producing them in spirituality?

My Response: When a person does not have enough of a correct reaction to what is happening, he bursts into tears. In principle, and speaking in the language of Kabbalah, this is the absence of clear, correct, reflected light, or feedback. When it is impossible to react correctly, to make a restriction (Tzimtzum), screen (Masach), and reflected light (Ohr Hozer), then a person cries.

Question: However, this is not always accompanied by producing tears, as in our world, right? After all, there is no body in spirituality.

Answer: What does the body have to do with this? This refers to a certain reaction of desire to what is happening to it. Let us say the reaction to the fact that there is no light or that it cannot react correctly, and so on. That is, it is the absence of reverse, reflected light.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/6/22

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Question: What is the fundamental difference between an analog system and a digital one?

Answer: The analog system is superior to the digital one because there is an infinite possibility of resolution and accuracy, like with conventional vinyl records, instead of digital recordings. Real experts appreciate precisely such records because they convey all the subtlety of the sound with all the harmonics.

In numbers, however, all this needs to be digitized, or put into corresponding pulses, as it were. No matter how many instruments you have, each one must find its pulse, and they are all limited. That is, it is an incomplete transfer of information.

No matter how you build a curve out of pulses, it will be approximately a curve, but still consist of pulses inside.

It is clear that the digital system is more profitable. Thanks to it, we can go to any frequency and transmit a huge amount of information. But sensuality, subtlety, and those harmonics that no computer can catch, which are necessary specifically for our hearing and feeling, are transmitted better by a record or our old non-digital receivers and transmitters.

Question: But you said that the last generation thinks precisely through the digital system. What is the difference here from the point of view of Kabbalah?

Answer: Digital thinking is thinking with the mind, with the primitive mind. Analog thinking is thinking with feelings and is unlimited. This is the difference. The heart perceives analog, which is smooth information, a wave, and the brain perceives pulse information, and works by bits.

Comment: But many of your students are representatives of the last generation.

My Response: It seems to me that among my students there practically are no, “bit thinkers,” meaning ones who think by pulses. They might work in this area, but they do not think like that.

In general, I am sure that we will move back to the analog state—to spirituality.

Interestingly, in the spiritual world you have very clearly graduated degrees. They are digital and human feelings on them are analog. These degrees are digitized, pulsed, i.e., every second awareness, sensation, and everything else takes place within you. But the sensation itself turns directly into feelings, which are not digital, but analog.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Analog and Digital Systems” 10/12/13

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Comment: Suppose a person heard you and suddenly felt something unusual, exactly what he had always wanted to hear. This feeling, which he is guided by, is the truth for him until other people come and say: “Think it over,” which starts to turn on the person’s logic, his reason. And this reasoning of other people  stops a person in his development.

It often happens that a person begins to predict something in advance. He already condemns himself to failure in advance because he tries to build everything logically. And you always say: “Do it, and the reason will come.”

My Response: Yes, because, as a rule, you use the reason that you have accumulated in advance that is based on your previous unilateral egoistic development. The mind is unilateral, and therefore, you cannot do anything with the help of the previous program. You should close your mind, start upgrading, and deal only with attracting the upper force that will do it for you.

And if, while attracting the upper force, you work with your previous past mind, then nothing will work. Then you fall out of everything, both from your past egoistic activity and from your future one.

Close your eyes, blindly follow your teacher, and realize that there is no other way. I hope that soon this will be understood not only by my students who have not yet realized this, but by the whole world. People will have no other choice; they will feel that they have eaten their pudding and nothing good will shine for them any longer.

Having done away with their egoistic economy, that is, with all their egoistic calculations of how to exist in the best way, they will come to the realization of the evil of their nature and the need to exit it. But how do you get out of your own skin? This is what I have to explain to them.

There will no longer be any doubts; there will be a demand that simply says, “Do with us what you want!”—just like that.

As Baal HaSulam writes, we must sit down and study, and this will reform us. As we re-educate, society, the media, everything, will change. We will digest ourselves, and slowly but daily, taste this change for the new, rebuild the systems of social relationships, of the influence of governments on the people, of the interaction of states among themselves, and gradually rebuild everything under the influence of education by light.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Believe Feelings! Beware the Mind!” 10/7/13

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Question: They say that if you talk with the Creator, it is fine, but if the Creator talks to you, then you should go to the doctor. 😊

Is there such a thing that the Creator is talking to you? Do you hear some kind of voice?

Answer: That is true. Both things take place in Kabbalah. However, the voice of the Creator is not a voice, but a feeling that you receive some external impact.

Question: To what extent can a person clearly claim that this is the way things are? Is there a way to verify that you are not in some kind of illusion?

Answer: There is no way to verify it. It depends only on how correctly a person depicts a common connection with the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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The matter of the restriction explains how an incomplete operation emerged from the perfect operator (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Inner Observation, Chapter 1, Item 9).

The fact is that everything in the universe is arranged so that created beings can discover, attain, understand the Creator, come closer to Him, and even connect with Him.

That is the purpose of creation—to bring creation to absolute adhesion with the Creator. This is possible only through equivalence of qualities of the creation and the Creator. That is why everything is created this way.

Question: Does it mean that the creation must first restrict its qualities and then become similar to the Creator?

Answer: The creation must restrict those qualities that are opposite to the Creator and develop  qualities similar to His within itself.
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From KabTV’s The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES), 10/30/22

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The ARI elaborated on the matter of the first restriction in the first chapters of this book. This is a very serious matter (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Chapter 1, Inner Observation, Item 9).

The first restriction is the most important matter, since it is about restricting the use of egoism. The entire creation begins with this.

That is, the first restriction is a restriction of intention, a prohibition to receive for one’s own sake, what is called Tzimtzum Aleph.

Question: Are there any physical laws that correspond to this restriction? Is it somehow manifested in our world?

Answer: No, it cannot be manifested in our world. Otherwise, we would see a different world. Our world is built on absolute egoism in its different variations.

Comment: But we have read that there is nothing in our world that does not have a spiritual root.

My Response: The root, but not the equivalence.

Question: Then should there be a branch of this restriction in our world since this law must be manifested somehow?

Answer: This law is manifested, but in such a way that we do not feel it. We are in absolute restriction, but we do not feel that it impedes us or restricts us because we do not feel anything opposite to it. There is only one desire in us—to receive, to use our egoistic intention.

Question: Are we really in restriction? We receive for our own sake for our entire lives.

Answer: Precisely this is life in restriction. We receive for our own sake, but we do not even feel that we are doing it only for ourselves.

That is, the first stage of a person’s spiritual development consists of understanding that he really receives for his own sake and is opposite to the Creator. This is what stops him. He starts thinking, “How can I get out of this limitation?”

Question: What other types of restriction are there?

Answer: A restriction on receiving pleasure. There is nothing else. It is only necessary to understand that I live in pleasure for myself and have to begin to restrict it.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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Comment: In the article “The Last Generation,” Baal HaSulam writes that when the majority of people in the world will be in the quality of bestowal, in the quality of the Creator, then people will stop communicating at all, meaning talking.

My Response: They will communicate in a different way, at the level of thought. Their thoughts will be transmitted to each other. People will express themselves more concretely, more conventionally, and concisely.

Question: You and your teacher spent a lot of time together. Did you talk a lot or were you silent more?

Answer: He answered only if I asked, and if I did not ask, he was silent. We spent a lot of time with our eyes closed and not saying anything to each other. These were the best hours!

Question: So you could not just start talking about something with him?

Answer: I could. But I understood that it had to be something serious.

Question: In principle, is this the way to relate to everyone? If there is something to talk about, then talk only about serious things or it is better to be silent. Is this your advice?

Answer: Yes. This is the right attitude toward time, toward the world, toward everything.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Comment: During the pandemic, one of the biggest problems was the inability to hug—among relatives, parents and children, and so on. So, in the Netherlands, they turned to the old idea of hugging cows. Whole farms were prepared for cow hugging. The cows were calm, and people would hug them for half an hour. The cow’s body temperature is slightly higher and their heartbeat slightly lower, which makes people relax. A person could sit for an hour hugging a cow. After that, we are told, the cows had to rest for two to three hours.

Answer: That is for sure.

Question: Why does a cow need to rest after people’s hugs?

Answer: So much negative energy accumulates in it! We transfer energy to the cow. I pass all my fears, worries, inner turmoils, and anxiety—I pass it all over.

Moreover, these may be some of my highest scrutinies about something almost cosmic, and the cow feels it. It has no interest in the topic; it picks up on the feelings themselves, the vibrations.

Question: Do we purify ourselves at the expense of the cow and leave it all there?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Does the same thing happen to trees when you hug trees?

Answer: I do not know, I have not tried it. But with animals, it is for sure.

Comment: But they say it works also with trees. You hug a tree and it absorbs everything from you.

My Response: And slowly withers?

Question: Maybe. We need to find out what happens to those trees. The question is: what is in these hugs?

Answer: There is an energy transfer. Negative energy from one being—living, vegetative, animal, or human (it does not matter)—to another.

Question: But sometimes you hug a person and feel good being with them. People hug all the time. Why is this at the very heart of our lives?

Answer: Communication. Communication at the level of energy.

Question: So, a handshake or a hug, all this is necessary?

Answer: If it comes from the heart, if you want it, rather than it being a sign of politeness.

Question: So, it is not for nothing that it is said to hug not people, but nature, that is, animals or plants. Perhaps it is more complex with people?

Answer: Of course.

Question: There are groups in which people hug all the time. And one constantly has to wish good things to the other person and so on. Is there something to this?

Answer: Yes, of course. I saw it at many exhibitions: people stand and hug everyone.

Comment: Yes. He opens his arms and hugs you.

My Response: And you cannot get out of there.

Question: This human thought—to pass warmth to another, to transfer all good things to another—is this good? Do you welcome such a state?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So, in fact, this is the transfer of energy. It can be positive or negative, but it is still an energy transfer. What do I get out of it? When I give away negative energy, I more or less understand I shake it off myself. But what about the positive one?

Answer: If we hug in order to make each other feel good, then it doesn’t matter who has positive energy and who has negative, we both gain. It is like an electric motor. There are plus and minus, but they should alternate and complement each other. It is the same here.

Question: So, even if pluses and minuses are all over, it is still good?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So you approve of such hugs?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can we hug without hugging?

Answer: Sure. We can transfer energy to each other without contact, wirelessly, mentally.

Question: Will the other person feel that I am thinking of them this way?

Answer: Of course they will feel it. Look at someone from behind, look at their back intently; they will feel you are looking at them and turn around.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/22

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Comment: You said that if a person did not realize his function in time, then in the future it becomes a burden for them, heaviness and inability to do anything. But there is also a kind of heaviness when he did everything possible, but he was again loaded with additional Aviut (desire).

My Response: A person is burdened, but understands why, how, and what to do next. He is like a jumper who has jumped over two meters and now he has added another two centimeters.

Question: And what is the difference?

Answer: He understands which way and why it is needed. If he correctly completed the previous task, raised himself, and developed himself, then he perfectly understands where he is going next.

Question: And what is the difference between the initially set burden and the one that is given as an excess profit?

Answer: First, he is happy with the burden. If he completed the previous state correctly, the next one is desirable for him. Like that jumper who knows that he has to overcome two meters and two centimeters.

But if he began to slack off because of the previous achievement, that is, he did not finish it, did it wrong or delayed, and so on, then for him the two and two, which in any case come to him, become negative and undesirable.

He experiences them as a huge stress, as a burden in life in the form of problems at work, at home, diseases, the environment, it doesn’t matter what, all together. After all, the integral picture begins to put pressure on him with everything he depends on. His egoism, his desire to enjoy, feels negative emotions instead of positive ones he should have achieved.

If a person moving forward with the help of an integral methodology is delayed and he does not do what he should have done at the previous stage, then all sorts of haters turn against him, harassment begins, and so on. This happened even to the greatest Kabbalists.

However, do not reassure yourself that you are big and that’s why you are being badgered, try to do everything you can.

Question: What would have happened if he had implemented everything in time?

Answer: He would move forward easier and faster.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Varieties of Suffering” 10/5/13

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