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Creativity in Kabbalah

Posted on October 1st, 2025 at 7:32 am

Question: Everyone has their own abilities: someone is a designer, someone is an artist, someone else writes well. How do you discover these qualities in yourself?

Answer: If you work properly on developing the quality of giving, inclusion in others, which will help you develop a sense of absolutely complete interaction with the whole world, then you will see very clear tips on how to realize your abilities. They will definitely open up in you, and exactly in the way that you can use them to promote yourself.

For example, I teach, draw, write, and depict in a certain way; this is how I express myself. You express yourself in a different way, and someone else expresses themselves in a different way.

Question: But will it complement the overall system of understanding?

Answer: If it comes from the soul, it will definitely complement it, since all souls are a common system. Therefore, the more you express yourself through your soul, the more you are an integral part of the common soul, Adam.

Question: Does an outside person feel it more when it comes from the general system?

Answer: Yes. Therefore, in accordance with a person’s ability to work on himself in an anti-egoistic way, it is necessary to let him develop, that is, to manifest himself in art, literature, painting or in cinema, photography, video, even in leadership; this is also a type of creative activity. But at the same time, you need to make sure that it is not at the level of selfishness, but above it.

Question: How can you determine this?

Answer: It depends on what is important to a person in the first place: to move forward or develop in art, to move up or to lead.

Comment: But sometimes it can overwhelm a person so much that he thinks he’s doing it for a purpose…

My Response: There is an environment for this, a leader who can protect him and not let him fall.

Comment: In Kabbalah, a person, in principle, must work against his will, take on some kind of work that he does through force. But in this case, it just won’t work. Let’s say a person has the ability to write, but they give him something to chop in the kitchen.

My Response: He’s going to write anyway, and he’s not going anywhere. He still has to express himself. The soul is eternal and will break through itself. Life is the greatest force that will always find some kind of loophole and manifest itself.

Comment: You know how strong a person’s selfishness can be.…

My Response: No! It doesn’t matter! All the same, development and evolution are moving toward the fact that the soul will manifest above the body, because this is the highest source. Our body is just a small animal part. This gradually manifests itself over the course of evolution. Animals don’t evolve, but humans do.

The “man in us” grows from generation to generation and gradually comes to the point where his human part grows out of this animal man more and more. And now it is undergoing a revolutionary transformation, a leap. A spiritual component begins to manifest itself in us, which is higher than this life. On the one hand, this life becomes visible as a global catastrophe, and at the same time we have the opportunity to reveal the spiritual part of ourselves. This is our generation.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Creativity in Kabbalah” 10/5/10

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Where Is the Train Going?

Posted on October 1st, 2025 at 7:24 am

Comment: We must bring Kabbalah to people without frightening them.

My Response: I’m not frightening them. I’m offering medicine for their fears, only I’m offering it not so that they would stay in this life and sweeten it a little, but to rise to a level where they would be eternal, perfect, infinite. Of course, it sounds cool and unclear, but deep down every person basically wants only this.

Comment: It’s clear that the one who is meant to come to Kabbalah will come, his inner part will open. And the one who isn’t meant to…

My Response: Even the one who isn’t meant will still want to come, because this life is becoming very frightening. Frightening! Just wait a little. Here there will be an oil spill, there will be a volcano, another tsunami, a couple more fires. Let’s live until winter and you’ll see what kind of winter it will be, maybe minus fifty degrees. That is worse than plus forty in summer.

So everything is still ahead. I’m not threatening, on the contrary I want us to go on a fast, good path, because for your child you always want him to grow wiser, not make foolish mistakes and to have things go well, not so you have to punish him.

Question: But in fact, a blow comes, a person feels depressed, unwell. Do you really think some part in him will open, or that some process will happen in him?

Answer: If you get hit a couple of times, you will agree to anything! You don’t have your own “I.” Our “I” is not ours. We are all little animals. The “I” can be suppressed any way, and you will agree to anything.

Even now you subconsciously act according to your animal state. You have no personal philosophy, no ideology, you don’t stand on anything. There is no such notion in our world. We all proceed from our egoism; it dictates to us what to hold onto, what to value. That is all.

Who is a person in this world anyway? A small programmed egoistic creature with nothing of his own. A puppet on strings pulled from above, with no freewill. So why even reason about it?

Question: And the process? What happens to the person after the blow? What is transformed?

Answer: This puppet starts to twitch a little. Then he gets the chance to hear how to get rid of suffering.

Question: And how will he hear among the general mass of information around him?

Answer: Maybe he will have to go to India for twenty years and come back empty. And the next generation won’t go at all. For now, nothing can be done.

Question: So it’s not a stage of one single blow?

Answer: No, humanity must come to awareness on its own, otherwise you will lead it by force. This unprocessed stage must work itself through. It is like a rocket: the first stage burns out, the second ignites, then the third, and so on.

People must see the emptiness in philosophies, in sciences, in religions, and in everything else. They must uncover this emptiness, see in all of it only earthly culture, and to that extent use it reasonably. But it will give them only registration in the train in which they are riding. And where is the train going? That is for them to find out.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Where Is the Train Going?” 8/26/10

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 10/1/25

Posted on October 1st, 2025 at 7:00 am

Preparation to the Lesson

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1st part of the Lesson — Lesson on the Topic “Yom Kippur – The Day of Atonement” (9.15.2021)

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 5, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?” (1991)

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3rd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Book of Zohar, “Yom Kippurim“

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Audio Version Of The Blog – 9/30/25

Posted on September 30th, 2025 at 10:55 pm

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Ask, There Is Nothing Else To Do

Posted on September 30th, 2025 at 7:58 am

Question: It is said that a person who judges must engage in exalting the Creator, and then the Creator will give him gifts in which he will not feel the bread of shame. How can one conduct judgment while exalting the Creator?

Answer: The most important thing is that by exalting the Creator, you influence His revelation to all creation.

Question: How can one receive a gift from the Creator not for the sake of the gift itself but because of the greatness of the Creator, so that this is the focus?

Answer: Ask, there is nothing else to do. Ask.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“

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Why Do We Strive for Love?

Posted on September 30th, 2025 at 7:41 am

Question: Love, everyone wants to love, to be loved, to work at a job they love, to visit places they love. Within us there is an enormous drive toward love. Personally, I feel that all our life we are searching for love, wanting to be loved.

Why do we chase after love, why are we so drawn to this powerful feeling?

Answer: Because we are nothing more than created beings, and our nature is the desire to enjoy. What fulfills this desire is the pleasure we feel. Depending on what each person strives for, where they feel emptiness, and what fills them, toward that they experience love.

I love fish, I love my mother, I love my children, I love the sun, coolness, warmth, it doesn’t matter what. If I am filled with what I strive for, if I fill my desire, I call that love for what presently delights me.

There are things I know in advance that I love either by habit or by nature because that’s how I was made. And there are things I accustomed myself to, and then I also love them.

In the end, what we call love in our lives is fulfillment by the pleasure I strive for, because it fills my desire. And the sensation that my desire is being fulfilled is what we call love.

For example, I love fish. That means I want to eat it and can fill myself with the fish lying in front of me on the plate.

Question: And still, we strive more toward human love than material love…

Answer: Love has many levels depending on what we love, meaning what fulfills us. A person has needs for fulfillment, which the science of Kabbalah divides according to a ladder of desires and aspirations. This ladder begins with desires for food, sex, and family. Then follow desires for wealth, honor, and knowledge.

In essence, all of our aspirations and fulfillments can be included in these six types of desires. If I strive for some kind of fulfillment, that means I love it. Moreover, I not only love the fulfillment itself, but also its source, which becomes important to me since it gives me pleasure.

That is how we build our lives. And our entire life takes place between hatred and love.
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From KabTV’s New Life 692 – What Is Love?, 2/16/16

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In Peace and Perfection

Posted on September 30th, 2025 at 7:30 am

Question: What does the Kabbalistic principle “The Light is at rest and in perfection” mean?

Answer: The Light is at rest because it has no other motives, actions or desires except to give, influence, fill, that is, to generate only good.

This does not mean that it does not take any action. The Light performs various actions, including alternating ones, but all of them are aimed only at maximizing the fulfillment, saturation, and enjoyment of the object to which it descends.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/19/17

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We Are Drawn to Immortality

Posted on September 30th, 2025 at 7:23 am

Comment: The well-known physicist Michio Kaku writes: “Today each of us leaves behind a gigantic digital footprint. By looking at your credit card, one can tell which countries you visit, what food you prefer, what clothes you wear, where you study. There are your blog posts, diaries, emails, videos, photos. With all this information, one can construct a holographic image that would speak and act exactly like you, with the same habits and memories. And what will happen when we can reproduce your brain neuron by neuron?”

In other words, he says that a person may seemingly depart, but he still remains, all his desires remain. He calls this immortality.

My Response: Immortality already exists because our thoughts and desires float in the air. That is really so. The spiritual heart and mind, their content (desires and thoughts), all remain. They do not die with the body. They are not in the heart, but in another carrier. You can put a pump in place of the heart, a computer in place of the brain—nothing will change.

Comment: Michio Kaku says that the human biological body departs, but all the information remains.

My Response: And how will you connect to it? Through his credit cards?!

Comment: As if through a data library, a “library of the soul.”

My Response: How? Where is it located? After all, what you did is not written somewhere in libraries, theaters, workplaces, etc. It is recorded in spiritual form—in space, but not in the material world. We seem to exist in a material space, but in reality this space is spiritual. One might say it is digital, matrix-like, a space measured in tens, hundreds, and thousands of its own units.

Comment: So I cannot create another biological body and stuff it with all the information from the deceased person—what he thought, dreamed, what he wrote in his blog.

My Response: No, there will be no correspondence to the inner content. That physical body completely matched its inner content. You cannot create the same one. You have no way to create it because, in principle, it has already completed its purpose, and there is no further need for it.

Comment: So you cannot step into the same river twice.

My Response: No, there is no need!

Question: Then what is immortality?

Answer: Immortality is existence in the volume of desires and thoughts that properly correlate with one another and are connected with the rest because they are no longer divided by bodies, and together they form a sensory-informational cloud.

It is not the body, but that which exists before the body is born and after it dies: a sensory-informational cloud, our desires and our thoughts.

If during my lifetime I enter this informational-sensory cloud and begin to correlate with it, interact with it, connect with it, exist within it sensibly—and my body does not interfere with this but perhaps even helps in some way, by resisting and thereby directing me—then in this way I enter into immortality.

There I encounter the informational and sensory data of all who exist, all who have ever existed, and even that which does not pass through our world, since there are far greater informational and sensory fields.

Question: Can we humanize this picture a little? Could I meet former leaders or someone else there?

Answer: No, it is not as materialized as it seems to us. We cannot meet our mothers, grandmothers, and grandfathers there. That is how children think. But it is not so.

This is all on the next, higher level. Because all of the small sensory-informational fields called a person’s record (in Hebrew, “Reshimot”) are included in one common system, and they exist in it constantly. And our body, while we live in it, only distracts us from this system. We must make sure that in our lifetime our body does not distract us from this system, so that we unite together into one single sensory-informational system, which is called “soul.”

And our body (we must understand that it is merely a special kind of hindrance) exists only in order to strengthen its connection with all these fragmented beings, these sensory-informational records, by 620 times.

It seems to us that our body exists, but in fact it does not. It is merely resistance to uniting with the other informational particles. And the Reshimo (a sensory-informational record) longs for connection with the other particles, and strives toward it. The body pulls me toward death, but my Reshimo pulls me toward immortality! Let’s listen to it!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/11/18

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Questions about Spiritual Work—259

Posted on September 30th, 2025 at 7:17 am

Question: How can I avoid falling into the illusion that I am the judge instead of the Creator?

Answer: This happens after certain steps, when a person, through action, wants to break through to the right decision, see the goal, and aim toward it correctly. Then he reveals that everything in the world is done for him.

Question: How can I be sure that I am allowing the Creator to work on me?

Answer: One must reduce one’s egoism as much as possible, and then you will feel to what you are inclined. That will be the right direction.

Question: What allows judgment to turn into a force of goodness and love?

Answer: Your decision, when you wish it to be so.

Question: How should we ask for confidence in knowledge if we must advance in faith above reason?

Answer: Your request to attain faith above reason is itself your ascent above yourself.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/23/2025, “Rosh HaShanah“