Comment: It often happens that a person is burdened with some problems and everyone says: “Well done! It means that you are strong since you were given such obstacles!”

My Response: No, not in our case. Of course it is necessary to understand these problems as obstacles to an ascent, but in a way that they are desirable, that you are prepared for them, and they do not put pressure on you.

In addition, there are also special obstacles that are specially given from above to help a person suppress egoism. He is sent shame and all sorts of other tricks. This is the specially-made program that helps a person annul himself. This is a complex system, but it corresponds to how complex we are in ourselves.

Question: For example, when friends from other countries flew to congresses, they shared how hard it was for them to get there and what difficulties they overcame. Is it good that this happened to them? Or did they not finish something?

Answer: The fact that they overcame the obstacles is good. But for now we still cannot sort out and analyze why there were such difficulties. Either this is because we did not finish something in the past or in order to rise in the future. This is not clear to us yet.

There will be such degrees where you will be able to see where it comes from, what you can remove from it, and to the contrary, what you can accept with joy and overcome now.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Varieties of Suffering” 10/5/13

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Question: Are all eight billion inhabitants of our planet part of a single mind? What will they be next?

Answer: They will represent a single mind then. But now, when they are broken, there is not any mind.

As they unite, a common collective mind will arise that is based on connection, on mutual leveling before each other, on mutual union, where each one lowers himself in order to unite with the other and is included in the other and the others are included in him. As a result of such mutual inclusion, this mind will appear among people.

When everyone wants to unite with each other, suddenly a light emerges among them, and the upper force appears, a state called “adhesion with the Creator.” Thus, He appears among them.

Question: What is the difference between small personal minds of people and this single mind?

Answer: Personal minds are egoistic, and they serve only themselves. It is a mind of a small animal body that takes care of itself and tries to ultimately extract from the surrounding world everything it can in order to grab and energetically and corporeally fill itself.

The universal mind is when you connect to the entire universe, when you are part of it, part of the common brain, and you participate in everything together with it. Our current mind is not a mind because it exists in a small cell only to maintain its existence.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Collective Mind” 9/7/13

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The whole of reality was emanated and created with a single thought. It is the operator; it is the very operation; it is the sought-after reward, and it is the essence of the labor (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Inner Observation, Chapter 1, Item 8).

One thought of the Creator surrounds and includes absolutely all of creation and its actions from beginning to end in itself , that is, all people together. Therefore, by studying Kabbalah, we practically study the thought of the Creator.

Question: I have read that people who have been in space say that the entire universe is like a single thought. What is meant by thought here?

Answer: The same thing. Everything that surrounds us and influences us is the thought of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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Question: If we look from the point of view of Kabbalah, why should there be the division into a huge number of people?

Answer: Because it helps the correction. The fact that everyone makes a small unconscious correction means a lot. Today, with the help of the tools that he invented thanks to his knowledge, one person can do work that was previously done by, say, a million people.

Give me an excavator and I will do work equivalent to, say, a thousand diggers, no problem! One dig and that is it. And that is how I can dig up as much in a day as a thousand people can dig up in a day. But I need a mind for that.

And if I cannot act intelligently, if I cannot use the forces of nature, then I need thousands of people who will do it unknowingly who are poking around like bugs, and that is the problem.

Therefore, in principle, there should be one Adam. Adam and no one else! But since he could not fulfill his task (purely allegorically), it turns out that eight billion are needed, eight billion who will pick and gnaw something.

As a result, something will turn out in a bad, problematic way, but people will come to understand and solve the riddle of what Adam did wrong, and how they would correct his mistake.

That is it, back to square one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Collective Mind” 9/7/13

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The boundary between light and shadow is you (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec).

My Response: That is right.

Question: What does this mean for you?

Answer: You make this boundary between light and shadow. If you come to the conclusion that this boundary does not exist, then it does not exist. Then you really become a man of the universe.

Question: If the boundary between light and shadow does not exist, then what does exist?

Answer: There is only one upper light, the Creator. And that is it.

Question: Does a person come to such a state?

Answer: Yes. Just as it is written: “Before the restriction, Ein Sof filled the entire reality.”

Question: Does it mean that a person returns to the source?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Will then there be no descents, no ascents, no day, and no night?

Answer: From where? Everything is already inside the light.

Question: But what about me, about my life? My “I”—what will happen to me?

Answer: You do not exist, and your life does not exist. You dissolve in all this.

Question: Is this the goal, to come to this?

Answer: Yes! Of course!

Question: Is that where happiness is, the one we are looking for?

Answer: You let go of absolutely everything and float.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/7/22

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Any name implies attainment, indicating that we have attained it as that name (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Inner Observation, Chapter 1, Item 5).

The name of the Creator is what we can attain in His manifestation relative to us. Therefore, we call Him by our attainment and not by His essence.

That is, there is something originally called the Creator, and we do not attain this. But we can attain His manifestations, thoughts, and qualities in relation to us. This is the purpose of the wisdom of Kabbalah, to attain the manifestations of the Creator in relation to us.

Question: It means that there is a body, which is my desire, and some kind of fulfillment is manifested in this desire. Once I give a name to this feeling, is this the name of the Creator?

Answer: Yes, what I feel as a manifestation of the Creator in relation to me, I call the name of the Creator. This is His manifestation, His attitude toward me.

Question: I have a great number of desires; can I call everything that I feel in them the name of the Creator?

Answer: Absolutely, even what you feel in your egoistic desires. Whatever you feel is the name of the Creator.

Question: Let’s say I have a desire to have a coffee now. What does it mean?

Answer: This is also a manifestation of the Creator. We are within Him all the time, we are connected to Him all the time, and we experience nothing else.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/30/22

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Question: If people were silent, would the world be a better place?

Answer: It would be cleaner. We litter the world with our chatter.

Question: Is it possible to say that conversations come from our imperfect connection?

Answer: They come from the fact that we treat our lives, our thoughts, and what others say blankly. We just talk all the time, and we need to be silent more.

It comes from our nature, from our egoism. The closer humanity gets to correction, to the revelation of the upper force, the fewer conversations will be needed.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/23/22

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Question: When contacting people, how can you make calculations about the success of the action?

Answer: You don’t know what success is. It is quite possible that you will “get hit on the head” from the result of your work, and this will be a success. Success may not be according to the fact that everything would end successfully as you had planned.

How do you know what real success is, in what form it is, and how it should fall on you? It is possible that in reality, failure is a success, otherwise, you and your luck, according to your calculations, would have sailed away to who knows where and burned your life. Failure leads you to the next step, to the need for elevation, while luck, on the contrary, relaxes.

Question: Have you had any clear examples where you have seen such things in your own experience?

Answer: Sometimes my teacher Rabash quite strongly “flicked me on the nose.” It was very painful and insulting to me, but to this day I am grateful to him for it. He did not do enough of it, and it should have been more. He loved me too much.

Question: Is it really possible to achieve success only through blows?

Answer: And how else can you cope with selfishness? There is no other way. Our nature, whatever one may say, never works in a calm, pleasant state.

Of course, the blows can be sweet when you grind yourself inside the group and know that you are winning at the same time. That is how you should set yourself up.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Real Success” 8/21/13

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Comment: When a person with an inclination for spiritual growth encounters Kabbalah for the first time, one simply feels this is what one needs. Then he gradually accumulates analysis of what is right and what is wrong.

My Response: What kind of analysis can there be, correct or not, for one who evaluates everything from his stomach or pocket? How can we objectively define something if we are completely inside our desires? All inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human matter is the desire to enjoy. Moreover, it is also selfish and wishes to constantly consume over and above itself and keep growing this way.

Inanimate, vegetative and animal matter are not self–developing as, for example, computers that do not develop independently, they just work. But there are such artificial programs that keep developing, improving themselves, and growing.

That is how we are as people, while the rest of the world, including animals, is not like that, it doesn’t need anything. The monkey lived in a tree five or fifty thousand years ago, and so it does now, and everything is fine. But the human generation differs from the prior generation so drastically that you can’t even put them next to each other.

This is a desire that is aimed not only at an independent evolution, but at development and, as it were, self-development. In fact, this is an inner program, but the desire is still looking for the best ways to grow: “Which directions should I develop in?” Thus, how can we, bugs living inside a pie, even think of anything other than the pie?! We don’t know anything else.

Comment: Precisely based on sensations. This truth is felt from the beginning.

My Response: Yes, you feel what you sense in your qualities, in your mind, which was formed out of your qualities. But where are the other qualities? Where are the other forms of sensation that are not yours? Where, naturally, is another reasoning, not the one you have today? You don’t know that.

You exist inside this pie like an insect or worm inside an apple. This is your world, in accordance to which you have been organized and developed, and this is what you feel. Your mind is created precisely this way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Evolution of Creation” 10/5/13

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Question: Can the same text or book be perceived and felt differently with each repeated reading? If so, why?

Answer: It depends only on the person. After all, two people reading the same book are in completely different states.

A book was written by a Kabbalist who felt the spiritual world and depicted the impressions of the higher state in the form of some words, sentences, and symbols. Therefore, while reading this book, we should become as similar as possible to that Kabbalist in order to at least partially enter into his state.

At the same time, we do everything that depends on us, we do what is written by our teacher as advice to students of Kabbalah: We get together, read Kabbalist sources, and then discuss these topics.

Our whole life is concentrated around Kabbalistic sources, and we strive to become as close as possible in our relations to spiritual Kelim (vessels) in full connection with each other so that we, ten people who are going to study this source together, try to reach the spiritual root, meaning the height of the person who wrote it.

We must connect with each other and become like a spiritual state in anticipation of the impact of the light on us that he revealed and described in his work.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/19/11

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