Comment: You said that reason kills feelings because it comes from egoism and that the smarter a person is, the more constrained he is in himself. But we cannot do without reason.

My Response: The mind is given to you so that you gradually acquire a higher mind that operates not on the quality of reception, but on the quality of bestowal. Such an action is called faith above reason.

Moreover, this is not faith in our world, which is simply receiving data from others and accepting it as the truth.

Faith in Kabbalah is the quality of bestowal that operates within you on the quality of reception; it is when the upper world is more important to you than ours. And then you begin to feel the upper world to the extent that it really becomes more important to you.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Woe from wit” 2/5/11

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Comment: In corporeal life when one person meets another, they identify each other by their faces, the way they look, and not by their inner qualities.

My Response: This is because they feel only our world.

And I feel my teacher, who is no longer in this world, not by his beard and appearance; I feel the person.

Even in the corporeal world when you live with someone for a long time, you just start to feel him. He becomes for you some internal image, not external.

It is the same in spirituality. You feel the souls. I feel the inner energetic spiritual component of my teacher and not the physical body which has long decayed.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Organ transplantation” 2/3/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What does nature teach us when a disaster strikes?“
Natural disasters come to show us that we live out of balance with nature.

We are parts of nature’s integral system, and in nature we have the still, vegetative, animate and human levels.

Nature acts as a single organism with interconnection and interdependence among the still, vegetative and animate levels. We are also parts of nature’s interconnection and interdependence, but we lack perception and sensation of it. As such, we are willing to destroy everything as long as the human level is well-off.

Natural disasters come to show us that we cannot continue living the way that we do, that we have to change our attitude to each other: to accept humanity as a single integral system where we are all interdependent, that we have to take care of each other, and if we do not, then our lives will become increasingly grim.

Based on the video “What Do Natural Disasters Teach Us?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: If a person asks to be brought closer to the light, won’t it be an egoistic request? After all, he wants it to be better for him.

Answer: It doesn’t matter. Desiring spiritual things egotistically for oneself is called Lo Lishma.

A person wants to experience the spiritual world, to receive spiritual life and a sense of true reality, and to see that his life is not wasted. After all, it is going by and who knows how long he has left? He doesn’t want to end it pointlessly.

A person initially cannot think about anything but his own benefit. Therefore ,if he does not egotistically desire the spiritual and imagine it as good, he will never turn to it.

Therefore the spiritual path begins with egoistic attainment (Lo Lishma), and then, under the influence of the upper light (Ohr Makif), the egoistic attitude to the spiritual itself is replaced by altruism (Lishma).

Therefore a person’s egoism is called “help against oneself” (Ezer Kenegdo) because it leads one to a state where he suddenly sees: “But it’s precisely what is bothering me!”

The very ego that helped me so much and pushed me forward, I must now destroy, not the desires themselves, but only their egoistic intention. Thus gradually the light changes me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/17/23

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Question: Mikhail asks: “What is the ultimate goal of a person? Is it to dissolve into the Creator, as you say, to merge with Him? Will we lose our identity or not?”

Answer: I would say it is much higher—to complement the Creator. Except that it is said “You create Me.” So says the Creator. But at least if we do not create, we complement Him.

Question: So, is there some flaw in Him if we complement Him?

Answer: Of course, there is a lack because He is suffering very, very much without us. He has the desire to bestow, to saturate, and to emanate, and there is no one, no one wants to.

Question: But we want to be satisfied, to receive, right?

Answer: We do not want to be fed from Him and not by Him! Therefore, here, I would say, it looks like a war of nerves, who will be the first to give in and say: “I love you!” This is a game of exhaustion, of course, really.

Question: Mikhail asks: “Will we lose our identity or not?”

Answer: We will find it then. What kind of identity do we have now? There is absolutely none.

Identity is acquired by the fact that we become necessary for the Creator in action. We are already necessary, but in action, in the fact that we get closer to Him, unite, and merge with Him; in the fact that we complement the universe, we cause filling in the whole universe, the upper light that fills the whole creation. Without us, it would be empty, cold, and dark.

Question: What kind of additional help does the Creator expect from us?

Answer: So that we turn on the light, turn on the light in fact in this world, so that the universe would be filled with the light of the Creator, love, goodness, unity, and perfection in all possible forms.

Comment: At the same time, you say this today when one does not know where to run. With these crazy wars.

My Response: Nothing needs to be done. We just must wait calmly, with confidence that this should happen, to want, to ask, to quietly ask the Creator.

Question: Is that all that is required of us?

Answer: Yes. Without unnecessary noise, statements, disputes, without anything.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/22

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Comment: If we compare you and Baal HaSulam, he was not as public as you are and he did not disseminate to such a large number of people.

My Response: I am sure that if he could, he would have done everything. In 1940, Baal HaSulam published the newspaper The Nation. Can you imagine what it meant to publish a Kabbalistic, Zionist newspaper at that time?!

And the book The Giving of the Torah in which he addresses ordinary people! A Kabbalist comes out of his corner and addresses ordinary people! He was a true revolutionary!

Who am I compared to him? Now everything is open, do what you want. It is a completely different century!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who controls Laitman?” 12/27/12

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Question: Am I a puppet through which the Creator acts on the friends? Or are the friends only means through which the Creator acts on me?

Answer: I cannot control my friends in any way, in no way! By being connected with them, I can only convey my support to them.

And by not doing this in accordance with the capabilities of the system we are in, I harm both them and myself. We are always mutually incorporated in each other. If I do not transmit what is in me to them every second, I short-circuit myself and of course them.

This is an analog, integrated system. There is no getting away from it! There are no such calculations here where you constantly think about how to arrange something for someone. There is no such thing! All together! From the start!

When we understand this, everything will be fine. In the meantime, everyone is thinking about how to gain something and always at the expense of others! When the system is revealed, then everything will become clear.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who controls you?” 12/29/12

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Question: In Kabbalah, two people are considered a Minyan (group); they also make up the ten Sefirot. On one hand, there are at least two, and on the other hand, is it desirable that there are 10 people?

Answer: Two people are necessary in order to be able to understand what it means to exit yourself. For this exit to be really outside of oneself, it takes ten people. Then they form a common system.

But in principle, ten is not necessary. We just want everything to be similar to the spiritual system. In fact, it can be two, three, or five people; it does not matter. The main thing is that there should be someone outside of you on whom you can work out a way out of yourself.

As a person goes out of a space capsule into space, in the same way you should be able to go out into another. For this, the other must exist. He must be in a certain contact with you, in a certain connection, in mutual assistance, so that you can do it.

Question: Should a person do this actively so that everyone can see or is his presence enough?

Answer: Yes and no. It depends on what kind of person, at what time, in what era, and with what kind of egoism. It is not easy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How many people should be in the group?” 12/22/12

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