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Posted on August 15th, 2025 at 2:55 pm
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Question: You said that Kabbalistic sources are dead if we do not engage in unification. Is it possible to imagine our unification alive without the sources?
Answer: Can we move forward without books? Of course we can.
There were periods when humanity had no books at all. Afterward, they appeared at a time when people still did not know how to read and write correctly. So it doesn’t matter. The main thing is to desire. We always attain what we attain in our desires. Therefore, the most important thing for us is to desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/9/25, “Subjugating the Heart”
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Question: You talk about a global system all the time. But a person subconsciously understands that in a global system everything should be good in the family and in everything else.
It turns out that if he is in a different sensation, he cares not about himself, but about those people who are around him, and receives great pleasure from that. Is this true or not?
Answer: Are you justifying egoism? Of course, it is very pleasant to enjoy egoistically and you don’t have to break yourself for it.
The whole problem is that it is not really possible. Disappointment comes, emptiness, states come that are impossible to remain in. The Creator deliberately ruins our lives.
Question: So the sensation of spirituality always comes through breaking?
Answer: Absolutely! How else?! After all, you have to reveal completely different sensory organs in yourself, those in which you will enjoy bestowing, and not receiving.
The whole world is created in order to bring humanity to correction. Therefore, if necessary, difficulties are created.
And if a person creates difficulties for himself, then there is no need to impose them on him. That is, if he himself is looking for ways to correct himself, and tries to identify his egoism in order to turn it into its opposite, then there is no need to beat him, prick him, or create any obstacles for him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. I Am the System?!” 9/28/10
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Happiness is when something you very, very much desired, wanted, suffered for, were in pursuit of, and created such huge aspirations in yourself suddenly begins to be fulfilled, and you begin to feel relief, as if from pain. This feeling can be called happiness.
But there are levels and gradations here: what a person suffers from and, accordingly with this, from what he can be happy. And it turns out that his highest happiness is when he feels himself approaching the Creator, clinging to the Creator like a child to its mother, something like that. Then he feels true happiness. And this is a very strong desire that has been gnawing at him all the time.
He wanted it to happen so badly, and he had already despaired. And suddenly the Creator appears and says, “Well, where are you? I am looking for you!” And a person wants to say: “It is me who is looking for You! Where have You been, not me?!” And so, they rush toward each other, simply without words and without holding back. This is happiness.
Moreover, this is not a merging as in our world, when bodies join, and each body remains with its own volume and sensation. But here it’s like sensations that mutually penetrate each other, and there are no bodies. And such a state appears, truly I do not know how to say it.
Question: This is very beautiful and poetic! It is just that you have never spoken like this before.
And does my “I” disappear? After all, it is me who wanted this. I wanted this after all.
Answer: I want it to disappear! I absolutely don’t need it! But if my “I” disappears, then the feeling of the other will disappear as well. That is why it is arranged so that the “I” does not disappear.
This is explained in Kabbalah that the Aviut (thickness of egoism) does not disappear. And precisely because it becomes greater and greater, we get the opportunity to combine it with the quality of bestowal. And it turns out that the greater the egoism, hatred, the greater the love. And the greater the hatred, and the greater the love.
We don’t understand how this can be. In our flat world, it is all…
Question: Either this or that?
Answer: Yes, we don’t understand. But in the spiritual, it is so.
Question: And to what extent will all this grow: hatred–love above it, hatred–love above it?
Answer: Until the state of infinity.
Question: Until the sensation of infinity?
Answer: Yes, that there is no limit to this.
But it must be felt, otherwise it is meaningless. But it is a very long path to achieve feeling it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman”
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Each time we must choose the best possible environment, meaning, to see the friends as more corrected than what my egoism shows me. Naturally, this doesn’t mean jumping from one place to another. While remaining with the same friends, I must continually elevate their level in my eyes and value them more and more. This depends solely on me, not on them.
It is forbidden to discuss the spiritual state of a friend, only his external actions. In truth, we do not know the inner spiritual state of our friends. We only need to see what is happening with them and to help each one be in the most correctly inspired state possible.
Question: Am I not allowed to criticize a friend or say he’s in a descent?
Answer: No. We can only do this through the group: by the whole group rising, we lift him as well.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 2/4/19
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Question: We say that everything depends on the connection between us. But what is this connection?
Answer: We begin our spiritual development from a point that is outside of spirituality. And the whole time we remain on this point outside spirituality called this world in which we now exist.
Why? So that we would be independent from the spiritual world. The spiritual world is like a huge sphere, and we are now outside of it, off to the side. And then I can enter it, or I can choose not to. I am as if independent.
When the point in the heart is awakened within me, I begin to strive toward this sphere even though I do not yet picture myself as a tiny dot next to a huge, awe-inspiring sphere into which I wish to enter. But I am drawn to it.
With this desire, this yearning for spirituality, I come to a group. What is this group? Men sitting together, studying, talking, being inspired, discussing, singing, eating. Some sort of club—rather strange, but there are many such places in the world.
I look at this group as just an ordinary gathering of people in this world. Then they tell me: “You must connect with us, join the group, take part in all the activities, the duties, take on certain responsibilities, because we have a common work.” I am ready; what else can I do… After all, I see some benefit in it.
So, I connect with these guys because I understand that together we will apparently achieve something. Besides, I do not see any other place where I could do this, so I comply.
Gradually, over the years, I discover that in this place where I am, there truly is an inner connection. I come to discover this after several years. And those years were not in vain. They were years of my inner work, when I did not feel it, but the upper light was acting and performing many actions within me at great speed. Then I begin to hear. What does it mean “to hear”? I suddenly begin to pay attention, to give value to the inner connection between us, the unity in feelings, in hearts.
It is just that the time has come, and I begin to be moved by these words, to give them importance. This is the result of the light that had been working on me all those years, penetrating ever deeper into my heart, and the heart began to respond to these words: “connection,” “mutual guarantee,” “love,” “bestowal,” “as one man with one heart.” I begin to feel some inner responses to these words. For each word, there is a certain reaction within me; I sense the inner essence of the word.
More months go by, and more, and more. For this is how we correct our foundations, the Malchut of infinity within us, until I truly begin to draw closer to my friends. I now see them as companions on my spiritual path, and I understand that this path runs inward, into us, into our inner center, into our inner connection. And there, if we unite, we attain everything.
And if before I imagined the spiritual world as a huge sphere outside of me, perhaps somewhere far beyond the boundaries of the Universe, now I increasingly associate spirituality with my inner feeling, which is revealed in the unity between us.
This place does not exist now, but if we begin to connect with one another, we will create a new reality, which will be called “the place.” From these shared desires we will reach the place in which the Creator will be revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/24/11, The Book of The Zohar “BeShalach”
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Question: We go through difficult states where the ego convinces us that there is no unity, that all the friends are egoists, and only faith in the teacher and love for the friends help us get out of this.
Where can I get the strength here so that I have a desire to bestow as well?
Answer: It is faith in the Creator and not in the teacher or in the friends.
For now, we are still a rather weak force. But faith in the Creator, meaning the desire to feel Him, to be on the same wavelength with Him, will help you rise above your current desire.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/7/25, “Subjugating the Heart”
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Question: How should we work with insults? Children do not help their parents; they have practically abandoned them. Someone truly betrayed someone else, someone sold out a friend, and so on. How should we work with these offenses?
Answer: I think we need to reach a level of development at which we will understand that all the people around us are puppets controlled by the Creator so that we can properly correct ourselves in relation to these people, justify them, and wish them well.
Question: Is that possible?
Answer: Generally, yes. Not always and not immediately, but still…
Question: It is a long process, but that is the direction we should go in?
Answer: Yes! Otherwise, you are slandering the Creator. And that is a completely different matter. There the calculation is entirely different—it is a matter of how you perceive the universe: whether it exists on its own, or whether you govern it. If everything comes from above, then we have no other choice but to make ourselves absolutely submissive, agreeable, and capable of changing to resemble this upper force.
Comment: That is beautiful. I would cautiously suggest that our whole world is a world of sinners. We all exist in a state of hatred and constant offense.
My Response: Like little children in a sandbox.
Comment: And we respond, and respond; we keep responding. Look at all the diplomatic corps, how they clash: “You expelled my diplomats…”
My Response: Stop joking! Just stop. This is all…
Question: Then why are we being joked with like this?
Answer: So that we eventually become truly disappointed. Not in how the Creator made us this way, but in how foolish we were not to realize why He made us this way. And the answer is right in front of a person, but he does not want to see it. But all this is so that it accumulates, breaks through, bursts out, and explodes.
Question: If people begin to follow this direction little by little, what will our world become?
Answer: Our world will transform from today’s madhouse into a world where people are engaged in self-research, self-healing, and self-building.
Question: And through that, do they, as it were, bring the Creator into this world?
Answer: Yes, to the extent that this happens, the Creator is revealed within them.
Question: And what do you mean by “the revelation of the Creator in a person”? What does that mean?
Answer: The quality of bestowal, of love, which elevates us to an entirely different level of perceiving the world.
Question: Are you certain that there is only one path, and no other?
Answer: No, there can be no other path.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/24/25
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