Question: Why should a person advance to the goal through pressure according to the Kabbalistic method?

Answer: The fact is that you have to replace your nature, either voluntarily and consciously or under harsh pressure.

Either you produce this pressure yourself and convince yourself to change your attitude toward people or nature convinces you—one of the two. This is the manifestation of all the corrections, which should be implemented right here in this world in our mutual relations.

Question: Let’s say that in principle I know and understand this method. But suddenly before some action, there is such a state that I just enter into a dissonance that presses on me?

Answer: But this is just simple egoism! It means that you lack the influence of the group and that you are not integrated with it enough. The most important thing is the environment, the group.

Comment: But this happens just before the action. Then when I already get into the action, go like a millstone and exit this state, I realize how important it is and how cool it is. But still, with the next step I feel pressure again.

My Response: True. This is how it happens: slowly and gradually until the altruistic force that is hidden inside the egoistic force is revealed to you. We need to break through to it.

Comment: Only then does the understanding come, but it is in sensations and not in the mind, and only later is it analyzed by the mind. I am going through overcoming and only in the sensations do I feel a greater breadth.

Answer: Certainly. Everything happens in sensations. Objective reality is given to us in sensations, as the Marxists used to say.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Progress Through Pressure” 12/2/13

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What can we learn from the universe?“

The universe once had compressed into a single point, exploded into what we know as “the Big Bang,” and its parts dispersed omnidirectionally until they settled in a place of balance among the forces acting on them.

Nature in general draws to such a balance. We are currently within this process of expansion, away from a center of connection. Some scientists say that this process needs to end and another process will unfold, either of connection or at least a return to some new form of balance. Indeed, we can influence the celestial bodies to make a return to their center, and we will see the extent to which we influence the myriad galaxies, stars and planets so that they become as one entity.

How can we influence the universe? First, we need to understand that the universe is a single desire. The process of dispersion and connection parallels the spiritual process of how we once experienced our complete connection as a single desire, a state which in the wisdom of Kabbalah is called “the soul of Adam HaRishon.” This desire shattered into an enormous amount of parts. In every one of us there is a small part of that general desire or soul. In Hebrew, the word for “human beings” is “Bnei Adam” (“the sons of Adam”) since we emerged from that initial soul, and according to Kabbalah, the purpose of our lives is to reconnect our distant, broken and dispersed desires back to that single desire or soul. By relating our many desires to a single final goal where a higher force binds them all together as one, we then start seeing how all parts of the universe draw closer together in a single complementarity and wholeness. And when we reach that final whole state, we attain a sensation of perfection and eternity.

About the eternal sensation that we attain at the end of our development, we can also learn from the universe about how we live in an infinite space. We see such phenomena in astronomy where we thought of a certain space in the universe as empty, and then we developed more advanced tools and discovered that what we previously saw as an empty space actually consists of more distant galaxies. In other words, the universe shows us a physical example of infinity, which parallels the spiritual state of eternity that exists when we connect our myriad desires back to a single desire.

Based on the Daily Kabbalah Lesson with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Know that the whole matter of innovation that the Creator had innovated with this creation…applies only to the form of the desire to enjoy imprinted in every created being. Nothing more was innovated in creation… (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Inner Observation,” Chapter 4, Item 18).

Question: What does this innovation that applies to the form of the desire to enjoy mean?

Answer: The innovation is the desire to enjoy, which appears, develops, and determines all created beings in all their forms.

Question: What does from absence mean? Does this mean that the Creator does not have this desire?

Answer: From absence means that there was no such desire before. The act of the appearance of desire from absence is the act of the Creator. Apart from this, there is nothing new in the entire universe.

Question: Does it mean that He created a desire to enjoy that did not exist before?

Answer: Yes, this is the action of the Creator. Everything else goes on according to the same principle.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 12/4/22

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Question: Let’s say a person is constantly in doubt and is trying to use intuition without fully understanding what it is. How would you advise him to make decisions from a harmonious state,  not out of imbalance when he is unsure of what is right or wrong, but from a place of balance?

How can we make decisions from a simple state to make additional steps?

Answer: If a person strives for harmony from a simple state, he usually achieves this by lowering his actions: moving less, thinking less, worrying less, hearing less, seeing less, and so on. The best thing is to take a sleeping pill and fall asleep.

That is, we have no harmony, but we try to achieve it by correctly balancing the forces acting on us. We call this harmony although it is not harmony at all but mutual neutralization of stimuli.

Question: So are balance and harmony not the same thing?

Answer: No. The fact is that we must understand how to restrict ourselves to not lose the harmony that has been achieved and not fall into imbalance.

Comment: When I think about it, I always remember the example of a tightrope walker. It seems that he is walking along the line and every step must be balanced or he will fall. At the same time, it is not a harmonious state but a constant effort, and constant control at every moment.

My Response: Well, we can say that this is the right balance, the right harmony. But still, one must constantly consider possible future outcomes in his sub-conscience and prove to himself that they can always be balanced.

Question: What does balance lack to become harmony? Does something need to be added?

Answer: Knowledge of the future, of the forces that affect you, of your capabilities, and of the world around you. All this can lead very far.

Comment: Turns out, there are many more elements to be added.

Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony (Haruki Murakami).

Question: What do you think about it? Is all this really necessary?

Answer: You see this is the Japanese mentality to some extent. Naturally this is a kind of convex materialism where one thing cannot exist without the other and is the result of the struggle of opposites.

Such a saying is suitable for our world. It is one of many that speaks of an unbalanced world in which there is no perfection, but for some reason the world is striving for it.

Question: How do these mundane things that Murakami writes about apparently transfer into some other things in people at certain points of higher development?

Answer: We must reach a state in which we would become convinced that the struggle is necessary, opposites must open up, and we must bring ourselves to our starting point in which we were born.

At this point a person must attain them, come to terms with them, connect with them, and achieve true harmony. That is, harmony begins when we achieve the unity of opposites.

A person must agree that what is offered to him in the form of a world of struggle of opposites is in fact our illusory world. And if we advance correctly, then instead of these two opposite forces—for example, yin – yang—we will disclose a single force that lies inside these two opposites and gives birth to them only so that they reveal this force itself.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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Question: Should our country [Israel] be strong?

Answer: It should take care of those of citizens who according to state regulations should live, exist, and be protected here.

We have no other land! We have no other place. We have no other country! We must have our own strong army and our place on this planet. And although everyone will encroach on it, we must tell everyone the truth to their face: “This is ours! It was, it is, and it will be.”

Question: Until when will there be such a position as you said?

Answer: Until the complete correction of human egoism on the whole planet.

Comment: But you are always talking about connection, about unity of people.

My Response: That is what we will do along the way.

Question: So this is how, by remaining such a strong encampment, a fortress, we will move toward unity of all mankind?

Answer: Only in this way! Only under this condition! Set an example and lead the way.

Comment: Are you not perplexed by the unification of two such poles? One pole is a strong, powerful state, ready to fight back against everyone, and so on, and on the other hand—unity and connection are such a warm state.

My Response: That is very correct. And precisely because it is a strong country.

Question: And we have to radiate this warmth one way or another?

Answer: Yes. Do not agree to any concessions!

Question: And if we say that we want to rely only on ourselves?

Answer: Yes. Isn’t that how it turns out?

Comment: But we do have help.

My Response: Yes, but we still rely on ourselves.

Question: Is this right?

Answer: We get help for all this, but we still hope to rely on forces that we have. We do not sign a contract with someone and after that we have a quiet rest.

Comment: You think that if some conditions come that we will be given help if, for example, we create two countries here…

My Response: No! It is all out of the question. Any compromises, agreements of this type are out of the question. We do not owe anyone anything, we do not have to, and we will not give it to anyone.

Question: And as a result, as you have already said, this state should radiate warmth, connection, and love for one’s neighbor?

Answer: Yes—to be a light for all nations of the world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/3/22

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Question: Do you have students who were only briefly in contact with you and you invested something in them that should be revealed in the future?

Answer: No, it is impossible to do this from a brief contact. There is no way. A student has to be annulled to a certain extent before the teacher. He must desire to annul himself and try to do it. You cannot pick a person up from the street and direct certain energy at him through glowing yellow eyes in one gaze and he becomes a werewolf like in a movie. There is no such thing.

Question: But at the same time, you yourself did not understand what Rabash was doing with you. You did not know what proper annulment and all these things you are talking about were, did you?

Answer: I did not know, but, on the other hand, I was hoping that such work was going on. And unfortunately, I was not able to appreciate it. In the end, whatever happened happened.

And today’s contact is completely different when I, together with the group, sort of come to my teacher and ask him to help me work with them—and through them with the rest of the world—to continue our common mission. I turn to him; on one hand I am connected with the group, and on the other hand, the group is connected with the world through our dissemination, and so on. That is, everything goes along the same chain.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call, The Fate of the Kabbalist” 11/2/09

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Comment: You once said that students should listen to the teacher, follow his recommendations, and that if we could take this step, the spiritual field is already ready and a huge space will open up to us. And you said that you also listen to Rabash’s advice, as if he gives you something in real-time, and you, as though, overcome yourself.

My Response: Of course, after all the body has absolutely nothing to do with this.

These are the ten Sefirot that exist at the lowest level and are updated with their own Reshimo, with an information record. Therefore, it seems to you that the body is born, lives, and dies, is born, lives, and dies. Actually, the ten Sefirot change in this form.

A spiritual person is appreciated not by the low ten Sefirot, but by his altruistic ten Sefirot. In them he exists eternally, possesses and manages himself.

What does it mean that Rabash or Baal HaSulam died? Nobody dies. And in general, there is no death, just Reshimot that are renewed in us, and this is how we perceive their transformation. Therefore, contact with Baal HaSulam and Rabash remains as simple as it was before.

Comment: But you say that you, like your students, have to overcome what comes from Rabash. That is, you do not always agree with this…

My Response: Always disagree! And I must constantly change myself. And thank God that I feel it, understand it, comprehend it. and change.

My egoism never agrees with the spiritual, does it? Does not agree. Every minute it is updated and “against,” “against.” Every minute I correct it: “for,” “for.”

Question: So your work is absolutely identical to ours, even though you have understanding of the system?

Answer: Of course! And it is this way until the final correction.

But my work is performed in a larger volume of information, in the feeling of the system, in the feeling of this moving flow, interconnections.

It is a magnificent feeling! You live inside a system that breathes and controls everything. These are completely different states and forces.

A fusion of opposites happens when they connect and complement each other instead of an unbearable contradiction. And when a click happens, a correct grip between them, and from this state there is a feeling of perfection, a complementation of absolutely inconceivably opposite phenomena, characteristics, and qualities—this is spiritual ecstasy.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Universal Orgasm” 11/23/13

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