I hope that humanity will be able to realize the problem of its incongruity with nature very quickly. I see from the articles published on the Internet today that people are beginning to understand this.

It is still a long way for them to hear what I am saying to them; it is not easy. But they are already riding this wave. My voice does not reach them yet, but they are already somewhere out there in the distance.

I am already noticing them. They are getting closer. Maybe I will live to a point when we can really seriously talk not only about how to get out of the current state, but how to build a new one and quickly, easily reach the degree of Man.

This degree does not apply to Earth at all! It starts on Earth from our animal body, but it has nothing to do with a new world. Man ends up in the upper world, outside our universe where a spark of light broke into the material world and created it.

Through that hole through which the spark of light came to us, we need to jump back out. Then we will look at our world from afar and see: “It turns out, this was our mother! We were born and went out into that upper world!”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Treatment of Internet Addiction” 11/3/12

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Question: How does it come to you that you can talk to the world?

Answer: It appears from within due to the influence of the light. I feel how it acts, enters, reveals, arranges qualities, connects them together, links all internal causes and effects, and forms such a model in you, and then you can talk.

I do it in every lesson with small steps. I cannot come to class and say old things. Never! I always go at least a millimeter forward.

Question: Do you think Baal HaSulam also kind of descended from certain heights?

Answer: I do not descend from the heights. Baal HaSulam was at the level of the Creator! At the full level, i.e., in the full scope of the entire universe—lower and higher, including everything within himself.

Question: In principle, did he attain the entire path?

Answer: Absolutely! Not only the entire path but more than that—the 10th Millennium!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Most Significant Kabbalist of All Times” 12/17/12

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Question: I perceive everyone as disconnected from the Creator. And the group is the mechanism that pushes me to Him. How does this mechanism work when you give them spiritual information?

Answer: We will not understand this until we reveal the true vision of the universe.

Now we are working as if with one eye. When we open both eyes, a three-dimensional image will appear. This is what is happening to us today compared to the feeling of another level.

We lack voluminous, inner vision. Therefore, Baal HaSulam called his writing on The Study of the Ten Sefirot inner observation.

Question: Why do I see those who are yearning for the Creator as disconnected, as the same as I am?

Answer: These are parts of your soul that broke away from you that have received an opportunity to independently aspire to Him. Everything is done to make your correction easier. This is how you should see others.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Be Closer to the Creator?” 12/3/12

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Preparation to the Lesson

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Why is social division in Israel becoming more extreme?“

There are different kinds of divisions in every society and nation, but in the Israeli nation, the division is much stronger. This is because, as it is written, we are “a stiff-necked people.” It means that we are incredibly stubborn, and this stubbornness comes from us having an overblown desire.

It is unlike the desire in other nations. We can see it clearly among Israelis, among Jews in general, and everyone feels it one way or another.

How is it expressed?

We each feel as if we have a certain power, and accordingly we are ready to stand up to anyone. We do not care who it is. If you put the Prime Minister in front of any Israeli, you will see that there is an attitude as to a person of equal status. Moreover, it is common to feel smarter than others, no matter what position they hold, and to relate to them accordingly.

In other nations, there is a feeling of knowing one’s place and degree in society, an unspoken code of how to speak to one person or another. In Israel, however, no one cares about other people’s seeming status. It is the nature of the Israeli nation and of the Jewish people in general.

In the past, religion tied us more tightly together. It calmed and restrained us as it made us fear all kinds of punishments, and it also attracted us to various rewards for being nice people.

When we move away from religion—and this happens in all sectors, including the ultra-religious—it is called “the decline of the generations.” That is, we believe less and less in a common path, in the various higher forces of nature that we think might punish or reward us. We then become more and more stubborn from one generation to the next, and it leads us to a point where we take no one else into account.

In such a state, however, we cannot return to how we acted toward each other when we had smaller desires. Rather, we need to learn how to rise above our bloated desires today, to unite above our divisions, i.e. to realize the state of “love will cover all crimes” that we once discovered when we first became a nation. Our lives will become harder and harder in our stubborn divisiveness until we eventually realize the mutual detriment we bring to each other in such a state. We will then need to shift our course to unite above divisions through our mutual positive influence on each other.
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Based on the video “Why Is Social Division in Israel Becoming More Extreme?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman, Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Comment: No matter how much of a scoundrel a person is, he always finds an excuse for his actions.

My Response: Otherwise he would not be able to commit them. At the moment when he is acting, he must feel absolutely right.

Question: But what can we do to justify the Creator and friends with the same confidence?

Answer: This is possible only under the influence of the upper light. The person himself is not capable of this.

On the contrary, the more we move forward, the more we attain our own meanness, our own impotence and insignificance. But if at the same time we put a lot of effort into connection with our friends, then through them we receive the upper light, which allows us to see our states as purely negative and vicious.

Then we have a great desire to get rid of our qualities. We begin to demand this from the upper light, which gave birth to these qualities, as it is written: “I have created an evil inclination.” We ask the Creator to correct these qualities.

Question: But why can a person justify himself without the light, and the other only by taking into account its influence?

Answer: Because we are in one single quality of our egoism, which is to love ourselves, justify ourselves, and take care of ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. ‘I’ Am Always Right!” 11/16/12

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Question: There is a kind of parallel between childbirth in the material and spiritual world. In our ordinary life, the very process of birth, the pain that a child experiences, also happens in the spiritual, or is it just an allegory?

Answer: This is not an allegory! It is not a very pleasant feeling, but serious external and internal work.

The one who is being born also helps himself get out from within, to escape from this dark realm. It already seems dark to him, he does not want to stay there, he twitches, beats inside, as if in a cage. Meaning, the former good womb of the mother becomes a prison for him.

At any stage of our development, the beginning something seems good to us, then we discover the bad in it and strive for something better. It is the same here. This is growth, awareness.

Question: So this is the development of the same egoism?

Answer: Not only egoism, but attainment, awareness, sensation, and connection with the upper. It is a symbiosis of all kinds of attainments, sensations, and qualities.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Perfect Childbirth” 11/3/12

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Question: Beginners studying Kabbalah have to go through a huge number of different states. Is there any kind of a safeguard that can somewhat smooth out this process?

Answer: When a person comes to us, he starts poking around the material himself. It does not matter if you talk or not; he does not hear anyway.

He can hear only when he turns on from the inside. But if he does not internally tune in to your wave, then no matter how much you talk, he will not hear. This is a well-known truth for us. So, we are open to everyone.

A person comes, begins to sort things out, fills up, departs, and approaches; he is internally shaken, and he begins to conduct some kind of research and sampling inside himself.

He must get through internal tests. Is it for me or not, why, and what for? He makes comparisons, analysis, and synthesis of all kinds of knowledge and understanding. At the same time, he needs to understand his internal system of the perception of reality, the perception of the material, to what extent he is objective or not, how to be as objective as possible in order to get closer to the truth which is completely outside of us, etc. That is, here a person goes his own way, and we cannot interfere in his inner work, we have no right.

We see how people study: some of them leave, some of them come, tens and hundreds. You have no right to tell anything to anyone; you just want them to understand as correctly as possible where they are. Let them leave later, maybe it really is not for them yet.

In principle, Kabbalah is meant for a very limited number of people in the world. And the rest will come to a common goal en masse, even those who have come and left.

This is not a method that is encouraged by egoism. Therefore, only people who are able to be reborn into a completely different being can remain here. In fact, a Kabbalist is a being of a different world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Overheating of the Brain” 10/6/12

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Comment: When you look at beginners that study Kabbalah, you see that they have a very strong desire to participate in various activities. But then it turns out that it is very difficult for them, and they do not know what to do with it.

My Response: We are going our own way. I do not pay much attention to either the new ones or the old. I take into account the general, optimal atmosphere that leads us to victory.

Can we go at this pace? We cannot go at a slower pace; it does not work out, then we immediately fall asleep. We will not be able to sustain a faster pace, and we will not be able to make these long-term efforts because everyone has a family and a job. But at this pace we can!

In principle, the world, its development and deep free fall into a crisis forces us to do this.

Question: How do we ensure there is no fanaticism on the part of the newcomers?

Answer: There can be no fanaticism since there are no conditions for it in spiritual work. No one rises above anyone, no one elevates anything to a cult, no one bows to anything. On the contrary, if people are looking for something sacred here, before which they can prostrate themselves, they do not find anything.

In Kabbalah, nature is a force that you need to catch in your properties, to become a saint yourself, to each and all together, rising above inner egoism. Therefore, in real Kabbalah, absolutely all opportunities to worship something are cut off. One can only use one’s nature to achieve a higher nature.

In Kabbalah, nature is a force that you need to catch in your properties to become holy yourself by each one and all together rising above your inner egoism. Therefore, in real Kabbalah, absolutely all possibilities to worship something are cut off. A person can only use their nature to reach a higher nature.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Overheating of the Brain” 10/6/12

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