Comment: You have a very broad mind, but the human brain cannot perceive and sense the entire universe so broadly. There is wisdom in you.

My Response: This is a consequence of spiritual attainment, not because on the earthly level I am intelligent. On the earthly level, I am not Newton or Einstein.

Question: Then where does your vast knowledge come from?

Answer: The fact is that I have a completely different volume of desire. In my desire, I look at everything that happens in this world as a game of little children. I see our world on a level that I can easily grasp, understand it through-and-through from top to bottom and from bottom to top in its entire volume, in all its connections. For me, it is like a sandwich.

I see it consisting of four parts: still, vegetative, animate, and human levels of matter, and see how they interact with each other and gradually develop so that the human level will finally rise upward, into the spiritual world, and pull all the other levels along with it.

I see this purely speculatively, visually, but precisely because I have developed a spiritual Kli, a spiritual desire, within myself. Otherwise, I would not be able to see with such volume and such clarity from top to bottom and, so to speak, manipulate it.

I have spoken with scientists in our world with great minds who contain so much information based on the fact that “someone said,” “someone thinks,” “according to this,” NS “according to that.” They drown in an enormous mass of information, unable to chew it. Because they rely on knowledge, and therefore, it is difficult for them.

Question: But you cannot see through all the states of other people, can you? You are not omnipresent to see everything as if on a plate.

Answer: Yes, I see nature in general. Of course, I do not know all the states, all the metamorphoses, everything that happens and passes through each one. I simply know the general plan of development. I have gone through it myself and therefore understand what the others must go through since the path of the individual and the path of the whole are absolutely identical.

I know the nature of all transformations and changes, and therefore, it is no secret to me. I do not know a person’s private states; I am not a psychic who can look at another person and say what he is thinking, like Wolf Messing.

Kabbalah, by the way, does not give such abilities at all (to do some kind of extrasensory tricks in our world, perform various stunts, add twenty-digit fractions, numbers, and so on). It does not allow seeing the past or seeing the future in a private sense; it simply gives the general system of all development. You feel how you pass through this system, and understand from what you are now going through, how it must develop further.

You do not enter private souls. And why is that needed? What difference does it make what I might see in others?

Question: So, you recall the states you went through, and only because of this can you understand what is happening with a person?

Answer: Of course, only from my own experience and only up to the degree on which I am today. If you ask me about what is above this degree, I can only guess, I am not certain, absolutely not certain.

Moreover, all my experience tells me that all this is absolutely incorrect. On the contrary, if you tell me: “What do you think: will it be this way or that way,” I can tell you anything, and it will still be unpredictable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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Nature protects us by creating a restriction, that is, our impact on nature manifests itself only to the extent of our inner development. As a merciful judge assigning punishment, it takes into account, not only the crimes, but also our ability to understand and realize them.

Nature, as it were, filters our negative influences and gradually reduces them billions of times. As a result, we exert only the slightest influence on nature and in a certain form only in order to learn from it and understand that we actually influence it.

First of all, man must take an integral part in nature at the human level, that is, in relation to one’s fellow human beings, each of whom must understand that they all are one body. A person must ensure one’s correction and not hope that simply protecting the environment (the inanimate, vegetative, and animate) will help him or her. This is the most fundamental point.

Even if we put all the waste into “recycling,” that is, into secondary usage, and even if we clean up the entire Atlantic Ocean from waste, this will not help us save nature. The integral relationship of man to nature is expressed at the level of thought and desire—this is our main impact on nature.

The law of universal integral connection operates in nature because nature is the Creator! Even if a wolf kills a sheep and eats it, it does so on the orders of nature, which instructs it to kill sick individuals.

If you destroy all the wolves in the forest, all animals will get sick, and the whole forest will die out. In nature, everyone lives for the sake of others. It does so instinctively, without knowing it. The wolf does not know it lives in order to eat sick animals.

But people do not need to eat each other to survive. They harm each other only because of their egoism.

Instead of “protecting” nature on a physical level, from it we need to learn the instinctive right connection in which all parts of nature exist. We need to base human society on the same laws. What animals do in physical actions, we need to examine and fulfill in spiritual actions.

People’s thoughts and desires are projected onto lower levels, as an application to the inanimate, plant and animal worlds. Therefore, we must build a human society in an integral form and treat nature as a general system that we are a part of.

Rather than looking down on nature, or from the side, we must feel that all of nature is the upper force, the Creator, and humanity must become an integral part of it. With our correct participation, the whole of nature will come into balance.

All imbalances in nature are shown to man to bring himself into balance. Then he will see, in his application to nature, how it all returns to balance. Earth will turn into a Garden of Eden, into a perfect system, if man corrects himself.

If we do not do this, nature will ruthlessly teach us, which is what we have recently been seeing.
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From the Conversation 9/6/17, “Climate Cataclysms”

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Work with Faith Above Reason” (11.10.2020)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot” Items 53-54

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Question: If I know that I will eventually reveal the Creator’s open governance, how can I use this knowledge without egoism? I believe that sooner or later I will attain the Creator and it seems that I can already apply my future state now.

Answer: How can you apply it?

Comment: Through faith that I will reveal the Creator.

My Response: You do not yet have the quality of faith. You simply think that someday in the future you will attain it. Whether you attain it now or another time is unknown.

Therefore, focus on further advancement together with the group of friends toward the revelation of the Creator through ever-greater unity. Everything depends on the strength of your connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25,  Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: It is difficult to accept that there is only one meaning of life that is common to everyone. Doesn’t each person search for their own meaning?

Answer: It turns out that every day every person is searching for a new meaning, that is, something to derive pleasure from today. But the true meaning of life cannot be temporary: If the meaning has dried up, then there is no meaning. My life will end someday, and even if I cared about others, their lives are not eternal either.

The meaning of life can only be eternal. And if that does not exist and it is limited by the time span of our lives, then we are left with either confusing ourselves by finding an imaginary meaning in some hobbies or not searching for meaning at all, but simply living in the present moment.

Question: When does a person come to the necessity to find the eternal meaning of life?

Answer: It depends on the inner development and the measure of suffering. A person must suffer from the fact that his life passes without meaning. His life can be very prosperous, simply royal, where he lacks nothing but one thing: “But what am I living for?” He may have everything in this world, but it does not fulfill him. It depends on the inner needs of a person.

If we do not fill ourselves with the eternal, true meaning of life, then this is life on the bodily level until this body dies. But if we want to rise to the true meaning, we must always be connected with the goal that answers this question. We need to connect with the upper force of nature that governs the entire universe. Having reached it, we will reveal the meaning of life.

From the connection with an upper force, a person begins to understand that it created everything for a special purpose. And if a person connected with a goal touches some root in this world, then he knows how to use it correctly to give meaning to his actions. He will be able to use every detail of this world correctly in order to connect with the higher meaning through it.

In this way, he sanctifies this entire world and returns it to the upper root from which this world once expanded. It turns out that he learns to use this world correctly. Although these actions are not noticeable from the outside because all depends on the intention of the person.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 945 – The Meaning Of Life,” 1/9/18

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Question: All parents want to bring up their children so they would grow up to be good, successful, educated people. But you say that the old method of upbringing does not work and we need new tools. What is this new upbringing?

Answer: First of all, we need, not the “new” upbringing, but simply “upbringing,” because the old upbringing does not exist. Currently we do not have any upbringing; we do not form a person. Therefore we cannot call the education that currently exists in Israel and in the entire world as a system of upbringing.

We deceive ourselves by thinking that we send our children to school to give them upbringing. The school does not bring them up. In school, children gain harmful examples, and the school cares only about grades, while it is not teachers’ concern how a child will behave.

Everyone will agree that at home children usually do not receive bad examples with the rare exception of the most dysfunctional families. Where do teenagers get bad habits? It is either from the Internet or from school, meaning from an outside influence. Therefore we need to take care of external influences so they would be positive rather than negative.

School is not engaged whatsoever in children’s upbringing. We need new tools of upbringing in order to transform school into a place where a person receives upbringing and not simply a place that gives him knowledge. Then we will see how our children will change for the better and be able to connect with one another and build a better, more humane world.

They will be able to build a family and have access to any information on the Internet. We must give them more knowledge about human being, about the human body, about genders, but in a correct and open form.

At the same time as the child receives information from outside, it is necessary to add explanations so they understand why they get such desires and thoughts.

We should not shame them, but talk with them in an easy way without embarrassment, correctly and openly so the child doesn’t withdraw within himself not knowing how to control his nature. The mutual work of parents, psychologists, and specialists is required here.

Question: The department of education has all the resources: psychologists, teachers, parents’ support, and a huge budget. Why are there no good results?

Answer: Today I do not see such specialists in school who would be able to form good people from today’s generation. Where can we see the results of school’s education?

Comment: My daughter is in the 11^th grade and every day they keep her in school until 4 pm and occasionally until 6 pm. It costs the government a lot of money.

My Response: But there is no need for all of this. I need my daughter in the 11^th grade to spend half of the time she spends in school on studying how to form a person within herself, how to build her environment, her family, and how to become a person who feels good in a good world.

A school doesn’t deal with this at all. It only teaches math, physics, biology, meaning, it prepares a child for college, in other words, how to earn money. Therefore we receive such results.
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From the program on radio station 103FM, 1/8/16

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Question: If I go by faith above reason and justify the Creator yet still experience suffering—is this a correct work?

Answer: If you are experiencing suffering, then is that really the correct work?

In the beginning, you agree with the Creator, intending to correct yourself according to what is written in the sources. But then it turns out to be the opposite.

I hope you understand what I mean.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What is this feeling when, after a lesson, you start missing your friends, feeling them as parts of your body you cannot be without; that is, you constantly want to be one with them?

Answer: This is the right feeling. Keep studying, complete all assigned tasks for the groups, and you will see yourself rise out of this state upward.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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