Question: What are your impressions of the past convention?

Answer: This convention will be felt by us for a very long time to come. We cannot yet evaluate it. There has been a powerful and serious connection between people, groups, and, I would say, continents. Moreover, it happened at a time when the whole world is in panic from a spreading virus and other problems: “What will happen to us?”

I think it is a wonderful time. We live in a special era. For the first time in human history, we are entering a new state, a feeling, awareness of the upper world.

It was only revealed once in a small group of people when they came out of Egypt. However, what is going to happen now, starting from scratch, in all the nations of the world after the shattering, mingling, and so on, is, of course, a special state.

I am very happy about it. You have no idea how great, special, and lucky you are. After all, out of billions, a small group of several thousands of people have been chosen. It’s amazing.

Now the post-convention period begins. It’s time for overcoming, and time for real work. Certain falls and descents are inevitable. In fact, the descent is a special state of the soul and body when it grinds, chews, and absorbs what it has received.

And we have had a lot of impressions. We could not even get through them. We grabbed them with, what is called, our mouth open. Now, these impressions are gradually accumulating in our mind and soul, slowly starting to be stored in a certain archive.

Using the absorbed material, we are already climbing to the next stage. All our previous knowledge receives elevation.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 3/1/20

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Proverbs 13:3: He who watches his mouth guards his soul; for one who opens his lips wide there is ruin. (King Solomon)

Question: What is this about?

Answer: This is about what you need to understand, whom you are dealing with, and acting only to the extent that you can influence the world in a good way, kindly. Lead it with your morals, your influences to the right actions.

Take care of what you give to the world so that it is clear to everyone, and so that they can use it for their own benefit.

Question: What is beneficial for the world?

Answer: The only beneficial thing for the world is connection.

Question: That is, everything you can do and everything you can say should be only in the direction of connection. Is it called “to guard my mouth”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What does it mean “the one who opens his lips”?

Answer: This is when you do not control your influences on the world and can do a lot of harm to the world by this.

Question: Can a person not set the world on fire?

Answer: No. Our nature is such that we inadvertently act supposedly for the benefit of ourselves, and therefore to the detriment of the world.

Comment: But you are contradicting yourself. A person cannot avoid setting the world on fire with every word.

My Response: No, we are talking about an ordinary person, not a Kabbalist. The Kabbalist clearly controls and feels what influences he gives to the world, what his message is, and how the world will perceive it. Even if the Kabbalist himself is not very happy about it, in the end, he will teach the world. If not today, then tomorrow, the world will understand that it must move by a different path.

Question: Can a Kabbalist give only good information to the world?

Answer: A Kabbalist can give the world only good information because he feels the inner force of nature and from there draws the method of his entry into the world, that is, of addressing the world.

He can do no harm. The world might not understand this, but there can be no harm from a Kabbalist. Although usually his exit to the world seems very unpleasant, abrupt, and untimely.

Question: Does this stop a Kabbalist?

Answer: It does not because he sees what benefit he can nevertheless bring to the world, how much he can move the world forward in the right direction; therefore, he does not think much about himself. Although, later he suffers.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/23/19

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The Main Commandment and Its Derivatives

Comment: Baal HaSulam writes, that at first the Torah was given on a condition of mutual guarantee (Arvut), although later, when the golden calf was made, this condition was no longer observed because wars were fought about this issue, and the sons of Levi killed 3,00 people.

All this, of course, did not add love and unity. Later, when they came to the land of Israel, there was no peace either. Therefore, there was no one who could observe this main commandment. Literally several decades passed after the giving of the Torah, and there was no one left to observe this condition.

My Response: I think it took longer. In any case, the entire period was accompanied by huge conflicts among the people. There were many different currents, opposing groups, that were ready to destroy each other.

Comment: Further, Baal HaSulam writes, that in order for the people of Israel not to forget the Torah they began to observe the other commandments, although the main commandment was abandoned because they had no other advice.

The main commandment of the Torah “love your neighbor as yourself” was abandoned because egoism grew and people began to observe other commandments. What does it mean “other commandments”?

My Response: “Other commandments” are the reflection in our world of the main spiritual commandment and spiritual connections between people. There are 613 desires in a person, the so-called TARYAG, and all of them must be directed to the connection with others and with the Creator.

However, in our world, they are used to fulfill our egoism. Changing them to “love your neighbor,” to the fulfillment of others, of society, is called observing the commandments.

Question: So, are 613 commandments the internal actions as a result of which a person corrects his egoism in order to connect with other people in sensation, that is, through the souls?

Answer: Yes. In any case, the general rule of “love your neighbor” is broken down into many inclinations, desires, and actions. And all of them together make this rule.
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From KabTV’s “System analysis of the development of the people of Israel,” 7/1/19

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Question: What is love?

Answer: Love is the fusion of opposites.

Question: Is the hatred of separation the same as fear of the Creator?

Answer: No, but one flows from the other. The beginning of fear of the Creator arises from the hatred of separation.

Question: In the group we must go through all states. Whom does the speed of their passage depend on?

Answer: Only on you.

Question: Is it possible to say that if no desire receives fulfillment and a person feels intense suffering, according to the principle of opposites, then these desires will be completely filled and the pain and suffering will turn to joy and happiness?

Answer: Yes, but not if that person simply waits until he gets the filling. Rather he must work. But he will definitely receive fulfillment.

Question: If all humans on the face of the Earth are Jews and they all have a point in the heart, why is the pressure of the nations of the world aimed at the Jews as a people?

Answer: It is because the Jews are obligated to reveal the method of correction to humanity and they are not doing it. People instinctively feel that their suffering depends on this small group.

Question: If suffering is directed toward self-analysis, isn’t this an escape from suffering?

Answer: This is not an escape from suffering, but rather movement forward, i.e., the correct realization of suffering. One just has to know how to implement them so that they do not pass in vain.

Question: Being either in hatred or in love, can I come to something in between?

Answer: Yes, you absolutely can by elevating love above hatred and using hatred to constantly rise to love. But always with the help of both.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 12/15/19

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Question: Our goal is to bring contentment to the Creator. Through love for our friends, we will come to love for the Creator. What does it mean to bring pleasure to a friend? What kind of pleasure are we talking about?

Answer: It is a very simple pleasure—when you assist him to achieve what he desires.

The friend wants to reveal the Creator, you help him in this. This is the pleasure you can give him, to become his real companion on the road, to bring him closer to his own goal.
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From KabTV’s, “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/26/20

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Comment: The synonym for the wise man is, as it is often said, King Solomon.

It was the best time in the Jewish state. In his time the Temple was built. He wrote great books. He was engaged in education, and in general there was a hold in all matters.

There are quotes that are attributed to him. They are very deep and at the same time very simple. Please comment on them.

“Two are better than one, since they have good reward for their toil.

“For if they fall, one will lift up his friend, but woe to the one who falls and has no second one to lift him up.

“Moreover, if two lie down, they will have warmth, but how will one have warmth?”

Everything is so simple.

Answer: No, it is not simple. These are great and seemingly simple facts, but unattainable for the ordinary person to simply take and implement.

This refers to the internal unity of people, above hatred, when each of them is a separate entity. This is huge work of a person on himself, moreover, according to a serious technique.

Question: Do you think it is not just said: it is good to be together and not alone?

Answer: No, this is King Solomon. Would he just say that?

Question: Do you mean he clearly understands that people cannot be together?

Answer: Of course. It is the disclosure of internal hatred that is necessary in order to discover the extent to which we must reach in order to become so close to each other, to warm one another. This is not bodily warming, it is when you work on my soul and I work on your soul.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman,” 12/5/19

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Question: I began to analyze myself and came to the conclusion that now I do not know who I am. Will Kabbalah help me figure this out?

Answer: Kabbalah definitely will help you figure this out. But is it so important to figure out who you are?

I would not try to find out, although, as stated in Kabbalah, a person seeks to know the root of one’s soul.

In principle, we should find this out, but not who I am now, because there is nothing to talk about about the animal body, these are only compact, small instincts, nothing more.

Who I really am, we will come to this at the very end of our correction when we correct all our egoism, specifically given to us for this.

In fact, we are huge, great, spiritually very high creatures, we only have to reveal this. And we will reveal it.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/5/20

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Question: How can I correctly build the interaction between society and my personal spiritual space?

Answer: Just be inside the group and live its spiritual life. In addition, you may have a family and a job, but your spiritual life is in the group, and together with it, you move forward. This is how it always lines up.

Of utmost importance is the feeling that we are always in the correct society, giving to it, and receiving from it. By such consistent actions with the environment, we can progress.

We will then see that behind this society is an upper force. We give and receive, give and receive, and this is how we interact with it. Like a bicycle wheel that turns forward and backward, forward and backward, making the bicycle move forward. This is how we can imagine our spiritual movement.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 2/2/20

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Proverbs, 26:17: A passerby who becomes embroiled in a quarrel that is not his is like one who grabs a dog by its ears.

Question: Does it mean that a person fiddles with his fate?

Answer: Of course! If you meddle in someone else’s quarrel, you cause anger in the other person at the level of a dog.

We know that it is best not to interfere. The best thing is to let the person sort out the situation he is in without any wisdom or advice; otherwise, you will become an enemy to both.

Question: Let’s say there is a quarrel. What should a person do?

Answer: An outside person does nothing. Leaves them alone and steps aside.

The police or someone else that is supposed to smooth things over, this is their business. An individual has no right to interfere.

Question: Is it because he does not know who is right and who is wrong?

Answer: He has no right to meddle at all. Otherwise, those states will not find their solution.

Question: King Solomon said that the quarrel is within me. What kind of quarrel exists inside a person?

Answer: A constant one, because the person is created from two desires: egoistic and altruistic ones. But a true human is one within whom there is a constant battle between good and evil, one who specifically incites his good to evil.

The evil constantly rises, wants everything for itself, and so on. A person, however, if he wants to educate himself, always develops good in himself and is constantly in this internal battle.

Therefore, all these proverbs are built on the revelation of evil in a person, but to the extent that he tries to reveal the good in himself.

Question: That is, the evil is in me, the egoism is within me, all the time; is this my nature?

Answer: Yes, and you ask the Creator to give you a good nature in addition to it so that you could balance these two natures. You can say: “I ask the Creator to remove this evil nature from me.” No. This is unwise.

You should ask to be given a good nature so that these two natures would exist within you in balance. One should not be bigger than the other, and the positive one should not be above the negative.

The middle line between them is an amazing state. And I am constantly in this balance. I stand on two legs above them. Only then can I absolutely fully feel both the minus and the plus and all nature below me.

Question: Is a person who includes his own nature and the nature of the Creator a harmonious person?

Answer: Of course. He is then called “Adam,” i.e., “similar to the Creator,” because all one’s inner properties that are opposite to the Creator also resemble the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/16/19

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Question: Since the end result is in its initial thought, why should I run around and worry if sooner or later the Creator will put everything in its place, if not in this incarnation, then in the next one?

Answer: Please, you do not have to do anything. No one is forcing you. I don’t even know why you are here listening to me.

However, you have an opportunity to understand His thought, to come to solidarity with Him. Even before the Creator forces you to fulfill the program of His creation, you can reveal and fulfill it yourself, absolutely consciously, advancing at your own pace.

In this case, you will feel like the Creator. This will be your resemblance to the Creator, and you will feel like Him. There is a big difference here: either you will be prodded like a donkey or you will feel like God.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah,” 1/5/20

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