Question: In The Study of the Ten Sefirot Baal HaSulam writes that four worlds were formed at a point of contracted space. “Olam” (world) comes from the word “Alama” (concealment). Four concealments, four filters were formed. Why were these filters needed?

Answer: The fact is that no one created anything on purpose. But since there is opposition between the Creator’s property to fill and creation’s property to be filled, they form four stages of mutual, interdependent influence in interaction with each other.

Therefore, from the light itself, the zero stage comes the first stage where the light spreads in the desire. The desire begins to feel it and changes to the extent that it gets restricted. And then it still receives all the light into itself. This state is called the world of infinity.

In The Study of the Ten Sefirot, this is analyzed in great detail since knowledge about the four stages of the expansion of light is basic in the science of Kabbalah.

In other words, these are options for combining two properties: the properties of the Creator and creation, i.e., the properties of bestowal and reception. These combinations of connection provide four variants of concealment, which we later begin to discover in ourselves and change in accordance with them.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: If some deficiency arises in me and I understand that the Creator caused it, should I still add some external words?

Answer: Yes. Speak from yourself and as much as possible. And the Creator will understand and translate everything as needed.

Question: But this is one layer. Is there an even higher level, to ask for some things that are against my desires?

Answer: Against your desires and most importantly for others. If you are asking for others, for the whole world, for everyone, and you want them all to become wiser, better, closer to each other, softer, kinder, and you want to be inside of them, then these are the simplest and most effective prayers.

The Creator is a general force within which we exist. He can hear the prayer of any desire. This is what works here. I don’t have to talk or speak in any language, whistle, or sing. We launch our desires.

Question: Is it a kind of physics? Is there a single huge force and each of our desires also a small force? And is it felt?

Answer: Of course, physics. And why should it act somehow in a special way? We can direct the forces of nature ourselves, nurture them, and concentrate them. We can manage all of nature.

Comment: When you read prayer books, it seems like some kind of lyrics, and you are talking about forces.

My Response: The prayer book says what we should desire. And to really come to this, we need explanations and education. It is necessary to study.

I suggest reaching out to us to learn how we can change our lives with the help of prayer. Good luck!
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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Question: What do you think about the phrase “do not carry insults in your heart”?

Answer: This is important. But this is natural. If we accept everything as coming from the Creator and everything that is being played between us is the picture of the world that He is playing, then the attitude toward this becomes correct and businesslike.

Question: Is it not an insult anymore?

Answer: It is not an insult. It is attracting you to the correction of the world, to the absorption of the world, and to the reification of the world.

You, together with the Creator, begin to engage in this system. You do not just look at everything, absorb it, and are horrified by it; rather you realize that this is done for you, this is the way this is processed in you, and this is how it seems so to you. This picture is individually, absolutely personally yours, and you have to do everything in order to justify it. This is where the work is, and this is where our problem is.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/17/22

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Question: What does it mean to live one day?

Answer: This is correct, live one day. But this is in the sense that today is my day; I make it; I fully receive my impressions from what the Creator gives me and I process them within myself. I constantly adjust myself, my impression, and my reflections of the world in myself, and I do it all in order to justify the Creator at all levels of my perception.

Question: Is this called living one day?

Answer: Yes, this is a very difficult condition. You see the world in a certain way and you have to process it in yourself as if it is perfect. It seems to be impossible.

Question: You are given certain evil, and you turn it into good, as it were. Is it as if good has come to you even though it is complete, absolute evil?

Answer: Yes. And you have to bring it to such a state that you will not even see and feel that there is so much evil in the world and that it is all absolute evil.

After all, when you are engaged in correcting your perception of the world, every step you take forward will show you the world as more terrible, and even more, and even more terrible. The pictures will be scary. The Creator has such a film factory and the scariest tapes will be spinning in front of you, and you will have to justify all this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/17/22

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Question: In the material world there are states of birth and death, childhood and old age, and in the spiritual world this is expressed in the expansion of perception. What does the expansion of perception mean?

Answer: Each time you don’t die, but, as they say, you change your “skin.” You change all your instruments, desires, and insights for new ones.

The cycles for you do not go through a complete shutdown, as it is in our world, because you do them yourself. You yourself go from one state to another, and therefore, they are controlled; they are desirable.

A person does this himself, within himself, and attains the upper world. He begins to gradually expand these boundaries, to feel himself in another.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Expanded Consciousness” 8/14/13

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Question: Have you always spoken in an eloquent way?

Answer: I have always been able to speak beautifully. People were even amazed at my Russian, although I did not study anything specific. However, I have read tens of thousands of books. I have always been very inquisitive. We had a subscription for technical magazines such as Knowledge is Power, Science and Life, Radio, magazines about art, and others. At that time I walked around all the museums in St Petersburg (Leningrad at that time) and in Moscow.

In general, I was swallowing tons of information as I had an unsatisfying thirst. But I have understood quickly that it does not give anything. I moved here from Russia for the most part because of the untamable thirst for knowledge. It seemed to me that I would not be able to gain it there. And indeed all interesting jobs were off limits for me.

However, when I moved here exactly the same happened to me. In addition, all my conscious life from 18 to 30-years-old I spent searching and at the same time I suffered greatly from an ulcer in my duodenum that led to terrible bleeding. A doctor friend told me that nothing would help me and said, “You have such a personality, it will get worse.”

As soon as I started to study the wisdom of Kabbalah, within a year or year and a half I realized that this wisdom has all the answers and the ulcer started to go away. After all, I had come to the source that I gradually had to unearth. Of course, I still had a multitude of questions, nothing was clear, and I was in inner conflict, but I was already in the theme.

I did not know Kabbalah and did not understand it, but I still was in it. I was getting satisfaction studying it and catching it.

Gradually the ulcer disappeared and there was nothing left. Today all my x-rays are absolutely clear.

Later on when I started to attain the wisdom of Kabbalah, everything started to assemble into one single picture like a song, a pleasure, or a joy. There was nothing else I needed. I was ready to sit in my room practically all my life because I was seeing eternity as I was delving in it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Man in Attainment” 7/21/13

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Do not be misled into the thought that the restriction of the light from the middle point caused any changes in Ein Sof. There is no change and absence in spirituality, and all the more so in such a sublime place (Baal HaSulam, Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and Line,” Chapter 2).

Question: What does it mean “there is no absence in spirituality”? What is this principle talking about?

Answer: No subsequent form of reaction to receiving light from the Creator affects the previous forms. Light comes from the Creator and fills the creation in a completely free form. The creation reacts to it and changes according to the difference between its qualities and the qualities of light, meaning, the Creator.

The light itself is always in a state of absolute rest because it does not change its qualities and intentions when performing any actions. Moreover, these actions can be very different, but the light does not change itself.

Its quality is the absolute fulfillment, saturation, and delight of creation. Therefore, it can perform various actions, but its intention is always the same: only to fill the created beings with all the best.

Absolute rest means that the intention of the light to bring the creation to its purpose does not change.

We also have this in our life. For example, parents often can scold their children or they can caress them. But all the same and in any of their behavior regarding children, they are guided only by good intentions.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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The upper light is not subject to change and incidents. These above occurrences of innovations are only with respect to the vessels (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, “Restriction and Line”).

Baal HaSulam wants to say that there are no changes in the upper light, and all changes occur in creation itself, that is, in the desire. If creation changes, then in accordance with this it feels that the upper light, the Creator, the Creator’s attitude toward it, is changing.

The Light is in absolute rest, but something is changing in the Kli (vessel); that is, our desires are constantly changing, and it seems to us that the light is changing.

Do not forget that we are not discussing corporeal terms whatsoever. Instead, the more refined is called higher, and the thicker is called lower (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, “Inner Light,” #4).

We should not imagine a circle and a line as some kind of geometric shapes. Here we mean qualitative changes.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Prior to the restriction there was He is One and His Name One, and the mind cannot attain Him (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, Chapter 2, Item 5).

Desire is created by the light opposite to it and is filled with it. We practically cannot understand this state. It is called the world of infinity.

It is written, “He is One and His Name One.” He is the Light, and His name is the state of desire. Initially, they were one; there was no difference between them.

Question: Why is it written that “the mind cannot attain Him”? Then why write about it if the mind does not attain?

Answer: Because there are other opportunities to bring this state closer to oneself and somehow evaluate it, realize it, measure it, and feel it. But not in the mind.

Our mind is a very limited tool because it is a desire. We must rise to a state where we become above our desire, where together with desire we will have intentions with which we can change desires to become similar to the light.

Then, by comparing the desire and the light of the Creator once we come to equivalence, we will be able to evaluate, feel, and even measure their coincidence.

Question: It is said: The mind is a consequence of desire. If the desire is egoistic, then the mind obviously serves it. Do you say that there also is an opportunity to rise above desire and there we will have some new mind?

Answer: Yes. It is called “faith above reason.” The quality that we acquire is the quality of bestowal. Within it we can feel the quality of the Creator by rising above ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: It is very difficult for a person to predict any changes in himself and in the world even if he makes an effort. And as for society, this picture is generally blurred. Why are changes and their consequences unpredictable and hidden from us?

Answer: They are not hidden. We simply do not see the whole picture of the world. But if we wanted to, we would see it with all its changes and even influence them by ourselves.

Question: In principle is it possible for a person to feel the whole picture of the world, know the laws by which it operates, perform actions, and see how everything is changing?

Answer: Yes. This must be learned. It is possible.

Question: Generally, can there be life without a change? Does such a state exist in nature?

Answer: No. Then it would not be life and not even death. Death is one of the states of life. Perpetual motion.

Question: Can there be reverse movement?

Answer: In any direction.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 9/23/22

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