Question: If the desire is taken away from a person who is engaged in spiritual advancement and he is not even able to move a finger, how can he keep on moving without this desire?

Answer: These are just metamorphoses that we have to go through. First of all, you have to connect with the group and with the study, and you will find that you have to form a new desire. You change not the desire itself, but the intention. That is, the motivation disappears, for the sake of what to move.

Previously you moved for yourself, you realized that you have to do millions of things in the world and thus fill yourself until you begin to realize that you are made of desire and fulfillment, and your mind exists only to help you fill yourself.

Man is a very simple machine, a kind of box that wants to fill itself. It has arms, legs, a head, tongue, eyes, and ears. This robot is looking for a way to fill itself each moment to the maximum while spending the least effort to do that. Optimal filling in accordance with emerging internal needs—this is us, very primitive, very simple.

Now there is a reprogramming of this box with arms and legs. A person must perform it himself, understand what he is doing, realize, and agree with this: How should I now reprogram myself so that my filling is the filling of others?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Man Without a Soul” 10/6/12

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Question: Can you describe by your example how I can see certain qualities in you?

Answer: Regarding you, I am a part of you. You just have to correct yourself to such an extent that you can put this part into yourself. That is all.

Question: But how can I feel your qualities correctly?

Answer: You cannot feel me correctly because you do feel not me, but the egoism that supposedly is between you and me. You feel only the egoism that is separating us, and you see it.

The wisdom of Kabbalah says that you must rise above your egoism, and then you will begin to feel the other as yourself. You will see that apparently, he is connected to you, he is your integral part. To do this, you just need to rise above your egoism regarding the other and annul your ego.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mirror Of a Soul” 10/4/12

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Comment: In Kabbalah, unlike other methods, a person is constantly given a choice. In other places, he gets into an environment that suppresses him. And here he is free to leave even after five years.

My Response: In the process of practicing Kabbalah, a person is always thrown out of its study, and he must strengthen himself again and look for the goal every minute.

It constantly disappears because every minute for him is a point in the path that does not have its own direction, and he must look for a vector again at every step so as not to turn in the other direction. In order to always move in a straight line, he needs to find a direction at each point of it.

He builds his own way. There is no ready way at all! As in outer space, whether you are there upside down, horizontally, or vertically, it doesn’t matter how, you don’t have any landmarks, you have to check and choose them yourself every time. And every minute! You can’t get a foothold, take some corner, and walk along it. There is nothing to measure from!
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Kabbalah and Other Methods” 9/8/12

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Question: What parallels can be drawn between the relationship of a man and a woman compared with the Creator and the creation?

Answer: All the movements, connections, rapprochements, and distancing that exist between the Creator and the creation happen between a man and a woman because these states in spirituality are the source of gender separation in our world.

In the beginning, there was no world at all, no humanity, and no separation of people. They appeared precisely because the Creator created the creation—something that receives from the Creator.

The Creator is considered a masculine force, creative and developing. Creation is a female force, receiving, multiplying, and expanding, which, by its development, comes to the perception of the Creator and the desire to become one with Him. It is in the purpose of creation.

In the corporeal world in our biological protein bodies, this is realized on the earthly level. Correct implementation at the protein level is also necessary for the entire creation at all its levels in order to come to the correct state. There is nothing beyond this unity.

Therefore, Kabbalah, studies this unity in forces and understands everything that happens in nature at all levels—between people, between parts of nature, and in human society—and that a person, based on his nature, creates all kinds of political, economic, commercial, family, and other systems.

Kabbalah is a universal wisdom because it operates with the most universal things: two forces, the Creator and creation. It explains how they gradually, through a hierarchy, descend through the four worlds, form our world, and in it, reach the same realization. Everything is very simple.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Man and a Woman, an Eternal Orgasm” 6/16/12

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 15 

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Question: You have repeatedly cited the metronome effect, which is the fact that metronomes moving randomly will suddenly begin to move in synchrony after a while.

There is one very important detail here, the metronomes should stand on the same base. If you put synchronous metronomes on different bases, they will loosen up after a while. There should be a single base for the metronomes.

Today’s humanity resembles such versatile metronomes. Everyone is moving in different directions. What base should be placed under all these “metronomes” so that they will suddenly begin to move harmoniously together after some time?

Answer: It is the law of mutual dependence, absolute mutual dependence. The dependence of every person on everyone, everyone on everyone else.

Comment: But now everyone, including scientists, claim that today’s humanity resembles one village that is dependent on each other. Even we see it.

My Response: But I do not see an immediate consequence that would stop me from making egoistic actions. Therefore, it does not help.

Question: So does all this remain in theory? Scientists talk, let them talk.

What should we do to come to this law? In principle, it is a logical law that we are all already really in a mutual relationship. Somewhere there is war and the whole world suffers; someone quarrels somewhere and the whole world suffers. Can some kind of dictatorship squeeze the world? You are in mutual relationship with everything!

Answer: No, this will not be the fulfillment of a voluntary, heartfelt law. In this way, you can put everyone in a row and that is it.

Question: Do you also want it to be voluntary and heartfelt?

Answer: With the realization that without this, we will be lost. It must be this way.

Question: When does awareness come? When I can no longer bear it?

Answer: Yes, probably so, with the realization that, otherwise it is impossible.

Question: So now are we being led to a dead end?

Answer: Yes. We live in good times.

Question: The great Kabbalist sages have said: “We would not like to live in this time.” Do you think we live in this time?

Answer: We are getting closer. What will happen next is hard to imagine. It will be such a study on our own flesh that.

Question: Do you directly perceive the words of the sages of the distant past that they would not want to live in this time?

Answer: Yes. Both literally and figuratively, in every sense.

Question: So difficult times await us if we do not come to our senses? And to come to your senses is again, as you say, to come to love for your neighbor?

Answer: Yes, nothing else. This is the law, and it must be fulfilled.

We will wait until the loving hand of the Creator squeezes us from above.

Question: He, being loving, is making us become loving?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And then will everything end and a completely different dimension will begin?

Answer: We will be like metronomes. This is called being on one basis.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/9/23

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A person who studies Kabbalah internally feels that this is exactly the place where he should be.

One feels that this is precisely the truth because in no case does it decide anything for him. And on each path, one not only moves somewhere in a certain direction, but a person himself builds his future state. It does not exist!

All religions and beliefs describe that there is hell somewhere, paradise somewhere, the promised land somewhere, and some temple, some devils, ghouls, angels, no matter who, what, and how. All this does not exist at all!

There is no Creator! He does not exist!

Even a person does not exist! There is an animal in which there is a point, the germ of the soul without any direction, and there are instructions on how to create everything else from this point.

Our world is called “this world” because it does not exist either, there is just an animalistic state. The future world is the next state each time, and you create everything that is in these states by yourself. In the end, you even create the Creator.

Kabbalah is an instruction for a person to exit the animalistic state. There is only a small point in him, the germ of his next spiritual state that he must cultivate and create in himself. This point comes with instructions.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Difference between Kabbalah and Other Methods” 9/8/12

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The group of Abraham, who agreed to work on the attainment of the upper world and left Babylon with him, subsequently felt that they were plunging into great egoism, which was called the Egyptian exile, from the spiritual state that they were yearning to reach.

Once they overcame this hatred for each other and came out of it, they suddenly discovered a completely new relationship between them. Then they began to feel the laws of human exchange and negotiation, which were later described in the book called the Torah (Bible).

It describes not just personal connection between people, but a method of universal interconnection, that is, very complex interactions when people are one system.

Adam, the first person who revealed the spiritual, spoke and wrote only about himself. He was going to adapt nature within himself, he was alone.

Abraham, however, is a completely different degree, the next level. He said: “All people need to unite! The egoism that has arisen between us is the perfect material for spiritual work. This is what separates us, and breaks all the elements of interaction between us. In fact, they exist so that we can correctly assemble them between us. Let’s assemble a scheme from them. Perhaps we will even discover that the scheme already exists in some way, we just need to start running it, and treat it correctly. If we start treating each other with love, with the correct interaction between us, we will see what kind of system is formed between us.”

At the next stage, the leader of this group was Moses; he described the spiritual system in the Torah. In it, he outlined all its laws and began to describe this system from two sides so that everyone could understand it correctly, perceive it, and begin to commute themselves in it as an integral part.

Practically, the entire Torah is laws of commutation. This is why it says: “Love your neighbor as yourself is the main law of the Torah.”

Love means joining the spiritual system without any interference, completely in your absolute realization.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Days When Miracles Happen” 10/7/12

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Question: Why does our world believe that truth is a logical explanation in the mind? That it is not a feeling, but a clear explanation, as if trying to prove a formula.

Answer: We have nothing else to rely on. We love logic because it puts us in a state where our sensations are unable to prove their truth to us.

In the spiritual world, however, this is not necessary, because in the world of bestowal, connection, and love you begin to connect with the other parts of spiritual matter. In this case, you do not need any proofs and confirmations because everything is in you. You have a sensation of absolute knowledge and feeling, because apart from this nothing exists at all, and this is absolutely clear.

It is clear, and not due to whether we feel it or not, like it is in our world. After all, one can say: “There are still some worlds, some other states there around the corner or somewhere else.” No. In the spiritual world, you feel the true state of the universe, besides which there is nothing else, since the feeling of the upper world is the feeling of its root, its source—the Creator.

Therefore no doubt arises in you; there is nothing that you could add, but not because of your limited perception or some mental limitations, as it is in our world. For example, start talking about lofty matters with some tractor driver and he will tell you: “What is out there! Nothing else exists except for my house and the general store.”

It is from the attainment of the absolute, complete, interconnectedness, the absence of any restrictions in the form of space, time, and movement, that you reveal that you are in the only state that exists. It is not even clear what “only existing” means, but there is nothing else besides it.

This is also very difficult for us to determine; that something still exists and something does not. We always start from the opposite because it is beyond words. We will come and see.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Logic Rules the World” 9/15/12

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