Question: For the last 50 years shops have been filled with books in that say a person, with the help of his own internal changes, can change the picture of the world, the world around him. This is indicated by various methods and teachers. The information stream is filled with quotes from the series “Change Yourself, Change the World.”

On the other hand, for an ordinary person, this is still a rather blurry feeling. He seems to understand it mentally and tries to change himself, but does not see any changes in the world. He just does not have the strength to do it. Only a few people out of all mankind can boast of this.

What is it—a big deception?

Answer: No. It is just that a person perceives the entire universe, the entire world, himself, and others within himself.

Therefore, by changing his qualities a little, he feels the world differently and sees everything differently. No more than that.

Question: Can he initiate his changes himself?

Answer: Yes. He is given the initial conditions in which he can change himself. This is the directly proportional correlation: I have changed something in myself and the world has changed according to some formula.

Question: Is it possible to see this?

Answer: Absolutely. For example, let me now fill you with some interesting things, say, anecdotes, no matter what. And you will look at the world in a different way. It is silly, of course, but in principle, it is clear that everything depends on the state of the person.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/23/22

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Question: If we focus on something, we plunge headlong into it and we cannot get out of it. Yet, you say that you are already in everything without sinking into it the way we do.

How do you manage to be in everything simultaneously and at the same time your head is not clogged?

Answer: It is just my whole life. During the recording of any program, the moment when I am asked a question, I am already inside this topic. To do this, I do not need to delve into anything.

When I was at university, we had a professor whom we respected very much. He would come to a lecture, pull out a small piece of paper from his breast pocket, look at what he had to say according to the plan, put it back, and speak for 15 – 20 minutes. He would finish one topic, then again pull out a piece of paper to find out the next topic, and again begin to speak.

That is, on the one hand, he had a clear plan, which is very important for students. On the other hand, we saw that he knew all the material and just needed to remember the order of the presentation. That is all.

I am the same. Only I do not have to make a plan because the students do it for me. I come to the lesson, and they say: “We want to study such and such topics.” And we study them. Then they ask questions, and it makes no difference to me which ones. They ask me about the world I live in. What trouble do I have to talk about it?

Question: It means that you have a clear approach to things, everything is structured, everything is clear, and you do not need to overshadow your mind with some tasks that a person can deal with for years.

Answer: This is called attainment. This is not the knowledge of our world when you know some facts. There is nothing in our world, including even bread, milk, and water with which we have such a connection as happens in the spiritual world.

In the spiritual world, you attain the essence of things, and therefore it is yours. When you are asked about something, you know from the inside what it is, from the moment when it originated, developed, reached its current state, and further goes into the future to its final state.

You know everything about any objects, forces, qualities, and events. Therefore, there are no problems. This is called spiritual attainment because it is above time, space, and movement. It is just common because it is integral.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Man in the State of Attainment” 7/21/13

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Preparation to the Lesson

Lesson on the Topic “On the Verge of Lishma“

Writings of Baal HaSulam “Gatehouse of Intentions”

Selected Highlights

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Can nature really heal us?“

There is a therapeutic approach in Japan called “forest bathing,” which sends people with various medical conditions for a long stay in nature. Research shows that a long stay in nature can decrease blood pressure, stress hormones, treat anxiety, depression, and in general, help you heal from different medical conditions.

Indeed, nature has healing powers. Anybody can feel how a walk in nature, being in nature, and going out to stay in the country for a few days, has a healing effect.

Nature consists of the still, vegetative and animate that we need to connect with as opposed to the jungle of stone and bricks that we live in with their stress and tall buildings.

However, the human ego, which wishes to exploit others and nature for self-benefit, increasingly detaches us from nature, making us destroy and distance ourselves from it, and such a process will eventually lead us to at least see how wrong we are in doing so.

In the future, however, I think that everything will work out. We will reach an understanding that our ego is killing us from one moment to the next, and that we need to revise how we conduct our lives, together with understanding what will happen if we continue along the same trajectory. We will then stop letting the ego drive us to harm ourselves.

However, we do not need to go and live in the woods. The solution is among each other, that we start living in unity, with love and mutual support. Such an approach would heal us of all the different illnesses that we have. We could make a thousand-page list of illnesses, and if we develop connections of unity and love, then we would heal ourselves of them all. Reaching relations of love and mutual support among people would balance us with nature at the human level, the highest level of nature.

Based on the video “Can Nature Really Heal Us?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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[It is explained that after the restriction] the light of Ein Sof extended a line to the worlds that were emanated and created in the place of the space that was restricted… Then, one straight line extended from the light of Ein Sof, from His circular light from above downward, and hung down into that space (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and line,” Chapter 2).

After the restriction, a ray of light was extended from the light of Ein Sof (Infinity) that was surrounding and filling creation before the restriction, from the previous state of creation to the next one. This ray contains absolutely all the qualities, parameters, and influences that light has in order to completely fill and correct desire. In this way, light comes from the Creator to creation and begins to fill it.

Question: Does this filling happen at the will of creation or does it happen unconsciously?

Answer: No, this does not happen according to the will of creation because there is not such a phase of desire that existed before the light. The light, gradually enters the desire, begins to change it, and changes it until the desire passes through four phases of its development.

Then it feels the receiving of light as absolute, as filling it, and begins to feel the light inside itself as causing something opposite to its quality, which forces the desire to restrict itself.

After the restriction, creation began to receive light in the form of a line stretching from infinity. Before that, it was receiving light in the form of a circle, in a completely unlimited form.

The difference between these two types of connection with the upper force is that receiving in the form of a circle is unlimited and independent of the qualities of creation. Receiving in the form of a line, however, is limited by the qualities of the line and represents a conformity between the desires of creation and the line that comes from the Creator in the form of a pipe. The light goes through the pipe and fills creation.

That is, both states are unconscious and are determined by the difference in the initial qualities between the Creator and creation.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: Prayer is an appeal to the Creator, which is called raising MAN. MAN is an abbreviation of Mei Nukvin, which means female waters. The Creator’s answer to a prayer is called MAD—Mei Dhurin, male waters. What is MAN and what is MAD?

Answer: Female waters are a request, the raising of some desires to the Creator. And male waters are the answer.

Question: Why water?

Answer: It is known from Kabbalah that water is a quality of Bina, and in the quality of Bina we can turn to the Creator either with one or another inclination.

Female waters mean that inside is a need, a desire, and a lack of fulfillment, and male, on the contrary, means fulfillment and open desires.

It turns out that creation is a female type, and light, a filling, is a male type. But this has nothing to do with corporeal men and women.

That is, a person is determined by the desire. You need to learn this and only then adjust yourself correctly. In general the work that a person does in his heart, in his desire, gradually adjusts him to the right appeal to nature, to the upper force, to receive strength and fulfillment from it.

In Kabbalah, prayer is the most important, most essential human action. Coming to the right prayer is our goal throughout the years of studying Kabbalah and, in general, throughout our lives.

Question: I understand that prayer should be from the heart. But is there a standard, best version of it to which a person should come? What should he ask, at least outwardly?

Answer: Ask for love for everyone, nothing more.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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Because the light of Ein Sof was even, the restriction too was even. This is the meaning of the circle (Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot, Part 1, “Restriction and line,” Chapter 1).

A circle is an ideal even shape. Therefore, when the light created and filled the creation and the creation felt itself opposite to the light, its restriction was also in the form of a circle.

Since the light of Ein Sof was completely even, it had to have restricted itself evenly on all sides, and not restrict itself on one side more than on the others.

The restriction happened in all phases and absolutely in all directions since this was determined by the nature of the light that filled the creation.

That is, restriction is the law of the universe that says if a person wants to receive light for his own sake, he does not have the opportunity to do so.
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From KabTV’s “The Study of the Ten Sefirot (TES)” 10/2/22

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Question: What are the types of prayers?

Answer: There are a lot of them. There are requests, there are thanks, and there are many different prayers. But, in principle, two types prevail: request and gratitude.

If we turn to the Creator, we must first establish some kind of relationship with Him. Therefore, there are prayers that allow a person to properly tune oneself just like you tune a musical instrument so that it can really reproduce your feelings. This is usually the first part of the prayer.

There are also prayers that speak about the Creator: Who do we turn to, who is He, what is He, why should we perceive Him in this way and not otherwise.

In order to correctly address Him, we must understand His properties, His nature. In addition, we need to tune in to gratitude, to a request, to any, whatever our relationship with ourselves, the world, the Creator. All this is necessary for a person to feel and make the appropriate tuning.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 9/25/22

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