A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

We are hidden from ourselves in such a way that we do not know who we are.

In fact, we are parts of God. Everyone! Pieces of God.

Question: So there is a divine spark in everyone?

Answer: Yes. How to reveal it, how to connect all these parts, this is what has been given to us. But people are not aspiring toward it yet.

Question: If a person would observe from this particle that is in him the particle of another, from this particle, the divine spark, and he sees the divine spark in the other, what would happen then?

Answer: Then they would join together, gradually unite all the others, and create out of themselves, out of all these particles, the receptacle for the Creator.

Question: One way or another, we must come to this? See this spark in yourself and in the other?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Can you call it a spark of love?

Answer: We must unite our sparks of love from the existing sparks of hatred in us and then the Creator will clothe Himself in these sparks of love as love itself, as feeling itself.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/10/20

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There are several rules in the spiritual development of a person. One of them is that there is no coercion in spirituality.

However, how can a person develop if he does not receive some control signals, signals that control you and your impact on others, as feedback?

When can we determine whether there is coercion or not? Only when there is a desire and a person is not forced to act against his desire, but is put in such a state when he is forced to make the correct choice.

After all, in principle, we can say that in our world a child is constantly being coerced: “Go to school! Do something! Do not bite your nails! Do not pick your nose!” And much more.

Is it coercion or education? What is the difference between education and coercion? It is in the fact that they explain to you why they put pressure on you. This is already called education. It is the same in Kabbalah.

The main thing that happens in Kabbalah is the gathering of people in tens, when its leader, who is not part of the ten but is outside of it, tells the others what they should do. And they, as if at the command of a coach, must perform certain actions because they want to achieve a certain spiritual state.

Therefore, coercion in spirituality is only when a person coerces himself. It can be, on the contrary, a very pleasant state if he is in a group and takes an example from it, the group helps him. At that, he uses envy, jealousy, inspiration, excitement, and so on.

In such positive and negative influences of one person upon another in the ten, people can reach states where they do not feel that they are putting pressure on themselves, but on the contrary, they are always in spiritual elevation.

Therefore, if a person feels that he is acting involuntarily, under pressure, reluctantly, and unwillingly, this only indicates that he has incorrectly organized his spiritual environment.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States”

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A righteous person is a person who has corrected himself to the extent that he does not see the world as shattered, but feels all the parts of creation connected together and complementing one another.

Therefore, he understands, feels, and discovers that all of creation is one vessel, one desire, which receives its fulfillment from one Creator. And therefore, he justifies creation.

He cannot justify creation before He reveals it as one vessel and one light within it. That is, the righteous person justifies the Creator according to His actions and becomes incorporated in the action that reveals to him the entire creation as one single whole.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/20/21, “Justifying The Creator”

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Comprehend the World of Forces and Light

Question: Christian sources and Judaism indicate that after the war one God will rule over the whole world in the new Jerusalem. What does this mean?

Answer: It means above the whole world, in Hebrew Melech al kol haaretz, i.e., “King of all the earth.” “Earth” (“Aretz“) is from the word” Ratzon,” (“desire”). This means that all creatures will have a single desire. You just need to unite and in this unity reveal the hidden force of nature, which will manifest itself as a single, good, eternal state of all mankind.

At the same time, humanity is already rising to the spiritual level. It does not remain to exist in the material world, in material bodies. It all disappears. And man comprehends the world of forces and light.

Question: The Dead Sea Scrolls also say that this will happen in the New Jerusalem. What does “New Jerusalem” mean?

Answer: Jerusalem, from the word “Ir shalem,” that is, “absolute awe” before a higher power. “Awe” is a great desire to be like this one force. We must join her, find her, so that we have only one desire: to comprehend the single power of the Creator in our union.

Our unity must create such a condition where the united power can manifest itself in us. Precisely because we are all so different, so distant from each other, so opposite, we must unite in such a way as to ultimately create a single field between us, which consists of all of us, all the opposite desires, aspirations, intentions, and thoughts. Then the higher power will manifest in us as one. This is what we should strive for.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/30/21

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Comment: Rabbi Nachman wrote that he had a dream as if he had entered a cave where there were many different books. When he began to open them, they all opened in the same place and spoke about the same thing.

My Response: So it is, they all speak only about how to return to the state of spiritual fusion, union, ascent. In principle, all the primary sources are written for our time. We are now in the last, fourth exile from spirituality, and from it, we must come to complete unity with the King, with the Creator.

Question: But if all the primary sources say the same thing, why are there so many different books?

Answer: Because, first of all, there are four primary languages.

In our body, everything consists of five parts (the root and its four effects): five parts of the lungs, five parts of the mouth, five senses, five fingers on the hand, and so on.

The fact is that the light that builds the soul for itself is its root system, the so-called crown, the root. From the root come four stages, four emanations of the light that builds desire for itself. Only the last, fourth stage is the true desire that wants to rise to the light, to be the same as the light.

Thus, everything in nature is created in five stages, and therefore we have four types of language, that is, four types of perception of light by the creation.

In addition, there are four types of creation itself: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

Kabbalah describes all the stages of our change, i.e., climbing the 125 stages of the five worlds, the last of which is the root one.

In each world, there are five so-called Partzufim (great stages), each of which is subdivided into five more sub-stages—Sefirot. It comes out to 225 steps. All of them turn into one single comprehension of the Creator, called “His unchangeable indelible four-letter name.”

The four-letter name of the Creator includes the outgoing root (point) and the four letters that represent this point. That is, in the form of these five representations of Him, five manifestations, we feel Him.
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #14

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A person’s spiritual development should be in accordance with his desire, in joy. He should feel that even the efforts he makes against his will should bring him joy.

Question: But it is not natural, is it?

Answer: A rock climber who climbs a mountain and suffers, is it suffering or joy?

Question: But he does it willingly, right?

Answer: Here too one does so willingly. No one can force you. Let us say a mother can bring a child to some group, as I was taken to a music school so that I could study there.

But in Kabbalah this is impossible. If a person does not want to, if he does not have internal impulses, if he does not feel that he must bring himself into this team, then nothing will come of it.

Question: Can the Creator force us to reveal Him?

Answer: No. Not in any way. He can induce us to do this through some external conditions, and He does.

Question: Isn’t this called forcing?

Answer: Of course, it is forcing. But this is not in Kabbalah. This is generally all over the world, in everything in our lives.

A person engages in order to get out of being forced, to correctly understand the conditions of the Creator and creation, to take up this task upon himself and participate in it consciously and willingly.

Once he acquires the forces and goals of nature and makes them his own, then it is no longer forced.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States”

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Question: If a thought comes from the Creator but it is not directed toward unification, how does one work with it correctly?

Answer: All thoughts, both bad and good, come from the Creator. I have so many negative thoughts! I must sort them out and understand why they came, turn them into good ones, and ask the Creator to change them.

Suppose that one positive thought comes from the Creator out of 1,000. But 999 of them are negative. Meaning, I must through the group ask the Creator to change them. So, if He is sending me these thoughts, it means that I can send them back to Him and He will change them into positive thoughts. It is exactly like a ping pong game.

If I capture a particular thought or desire, it means that I can persuade the Creator to change them. And I don’t have to do anything! Only my request is needed.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 2/3/19

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In our world, we can first feel one thing and then another, i.e., one thing against the other, but not at the same time. And Kabbalah allows you to simultaneously attract both bad and good states, master them at the same time, connect them together, and feel good states many times more vividly.

In addition, if in the material world it is impossible to attain some physical phenomenon because we cannot be in two places at the same time, we cannot agree at the same time with the minus and the plus, we have some incomprehensible, impossible combinations as is usually the case in quantum physics, then Kabbalah allows us to solve all this very simply.

Question: And imagine such a situation: a mother punishes the child; he, of course, suffers but at the same time understands that she loves him and does it for his good. Thus, he justifies her. In principle, in our world, this is unrealistic. However, can we take this as an example of integration of opposites?

Answer: This is not quite the right example because a person who wants to go by faith above reason equally attracts both negative and positive qualities. He understands that they can only manifest correctly in combination with each other and can give him the full measure of sensation and attainment.

The task of a Kabbalist is to correctly deliberate the negative and positive qualities and nothing more. He understands that there is no negativity in nature, but it is felt as such because it has not been yet integrated with the positive.

Question: So a Kabbalist has no fear at all for himself or for others?

Answer: Almost none. Of course, he goes through various states. While in-between different levels, he feels all sorts of negative impacts, but this is only for a short period of time when he is in a state between two levels.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States”

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Judgement Day from Kabbalah’s Point of View

Question: The Book Prophets mentions the Day of Judgement. Almost all religions say that God will judge all people for different actions. What does the Judgement Day mean from an internal point of view? Who is judging whom and for what?

Answer: Judgement Day means that the true reason for their existence, for their suffering, and the true opportunity to correct everything that is entrusted to a person is revealed to people.

When people see this, it will be the happiest day for them. On one hand, it is a day of judgement, but on the other hand, it is a happy day because the truth is revealed, how people can bring themselves to an eternal, perfect existence.

Question: The subject of life after death is also addressed in connection with the Judgement Day. Although Judaism does not speak much about it, there is still such a concept as the resurrection of the dead. What does it mean inside a person, from a spiritual point of view?

Answer: Judaism considers a person not as a protein body, but as a combination of his positive and negative qualities, and human ones at that, not animalistic ones. Our body is not considered a person. It is considered an animal. It is said: “The creatures are as beasts.”

But what we have in us, that is, what determines a person’s attitude to the surrounding world, especially to other people, must be corrected. A man is called one who connects himself with the entire world. A man in Hebrew is “Adam,” from the word “Domeh,” meaning “similar” to the Creator.

Question: Can we say that the resurrection of dead desires is our correct use of them?

Answer: Exactly. This is what is called “complete correction.”
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/30/21

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Question: I began to feel and recognize new spiritual states while studying the wisdom of Kabbalah. How can reading Shamati help me process them?

Answer: Shamati is attained gradually. You are twenty years old today and by studying the method with us in about ten years you will understand what this book is about, its depth, and then begin to find similar states in you.

The book will be like a guide to spiritual states for you according to your soul. Reading it will make everything turn over in you, not psychologically like in a novel, but as the revelation of different states and angles in you, and then you will begin to feel the upper world. This is how the book will work, gradually.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 3/10/19

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