Question: How do you yourself receive light through the group? Let’s say we have to nullify ourselves toward our friends. How does this happen to you?

Answer: I also have to nullify myself internally toward the group.

Comment: But you have a completely different process of nullification since you feel and know the spiritual system.

My Response: It doesn’t matter. I still nullify myself before them, that is, before that spiritual image, before the appearance, before the spiritual vessel, that my students represent.

In fact, they are internally connected to each other into one single whole, very powerful, infinite, and perfect. I nullify myself in relation to this internal unity.

Their connection, their love, the fact that the Creator wishes to see them this way and holds them at this level, I feel all of this within my friends, within the group, and, you could say, within all of humanity.

Although it is a bit harder to imagine, in essence, this is the case. Otherwise, we cannot connect with the collective soul, the place where the Creator resides.

I do not nullify myself in relation to each of these individuals based on their external traits. They may be small, beginners, or egoists. I nullify myself not before their outward expressions, but in relation to the inner divine desire and fulfillment that exists within each of them, within every person in the world. But they are unaware of this.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Light Through the Group” 6/1/10

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Question: What do you do when plans fall apart? Many people have their plans fall apart, and today many have failed. Can a person react differently, calmer somehow?

Answer: It depends on his readiness. If he is prepared in advance for the fact that all his plans will fail and he will have to change them to the plans of the Creator, then he will survive it calmly.

Question: So I plan, but it will happen how the Creator wants it?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is it right to start the sentence with: “I plan”?

Answer: You have to, a person does plan. But he must convince himself that the plans of the Creator and not his will come true.

Question: So I do my thing, but it will happen as the Creator commands?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this how one should live? Is this the right message?

Answer: Yes, You always add: “If the Creator wills.”
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Question: Is it necessary to push through toward the truth? If we do, how can I make my way to it?

Answer: We do not know what the truth is. We do not know that. Therefore, what are we going to push through toward? The fact that we do not like our current state does not mean that we know how to leave it.

Question: What do you personally call truth?

Answer: The truth is that in my eyes all people are absolutely the same.

Question: Do you mean equality, equals?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Meaning, all people are equal?

Answer: All people. But if I wish to see it this way and advance toward this, then it is considered to be the truth.

Question: Am I equal to them the same way?

Answer: Absolutely! Then we will find out what this truth is about, what it tastes like.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/1/24

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Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 70

How Is the Choice Between Good and Evil Made from this Middle Point?

“Middle” means that good and evil seem equal. But how can we distinguish between them? In our world, there are no labels of “good” or “evil” attached to desires, temptations, or actions. If there were such labels, we would have no free choice. We are positioned between and surrounded equally by all kinds of possibilities.

But if the possibilities are equal, how can we choose? What choice can there be in Klipat Noga, in something half good and half evil, if we do not know what direction to take? After all, we are clueless as to what lies ahead of us. If we knew in advance, what choice would we have? How, then, do we make a choice?

It is only through descents and ascents, through failures. As it is written, “There is not a righteous man on earth who does good and did not sin.” From the failures and the feeling of how the situation is opposite to the spiritual degree, to perfection, to the Creator’s state, we come to recognize the Creator through negation and learn who and what He is, as is it written about “the advantage of light from within darkness,” and then we yearn for Him.

This is how we gather these yearnings until they build a genuine desire that leads to a cry to the Creator from which we receive strength, and we can then adhere to Him. This happens only through the feeling of failure.

The wars mentioned in the Bible with Amalek, the Klipot, and the many conquests are scrutinies of distinctions that must be made in order to reach the Land of Israel (“Land” [Eretz] meaning “desire” [Ratzon], and “Israel” meaning “straight to God” [Yashar-El]), a place where our desire aligns precisely with the desire of the Creator. It is a state where we receive a screen at the level of the light that dresses the level of Ein Sof.

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No one in the world is ready to hear Kabbalistic information. Everyone wants to hear information about how to get something, not information on how to give. The fact is that we are built in such a way that we are only ready to receive. “Give away? First of all, I have nothing to give. Second, who should I give it to?”

That is, Kabbalah is entirely different information. It is perceived in the reflected light, in the desire to give, in the desire to love. When such a desire arises, this information enters you and you open up. Otherwise, you are closed up.

To the extent the desire to be connected with others, to love them, and to give them comes from you, to this extent the light from all of them enters precisely into this desire of yours. How can a beginner have such a desire?

Comment: But you give such interesting lessons to the beginners, you find such expressions, such explanations.

My Response: It depends on the audience. Sometimes I hear something interesting and know how to work with it. But this happens very rarely. As a rule, this happens right at the lesson, when I see people, feel them, and according to this have appropriate associations.

Comment: You say that everything depends on the audience you communicate with. For beginners you give one thing, and for others you give another, but you still feel the desire.

My Response: I cannot help it. That is for sure. I cannot sit before beginners and give them complex information and vice versa. That is why the lessons are different. It is not I who determines this but the students.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Feel the consumer” 9/9/10
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Question: When you share information with someone, do you not have a sense of its consumers to better understand what they want?

Answer: In the article “Prophecy,” Baal HaSulam writes that he asked the Creator to lower him from the high level he was on so he could write something for people and they would understand what Kabbalah is, get closer to it, and use it. After all, Kabbalah is a purely practical science that needs to be implemented within oneself. How successful he was is a question.

When we read his works, we gradually begin to understand his style and his greatness. He managed to express vast spiritual volumes, properties, and actions very beautifully with a small number of words.

But I do not think he was satisfied with himself. It seems to me that he would have liked to write in such a way that a person, after glancing at the page, would gasp, freeze, and stick to the text as to a picture that would enter him and imprint on him, like an external image on film. This is how Kabbalistic material should be imprinted.

Light is reflected on a person’s desire. Moreover, the difference between the desire and the light is minimal so that the image can be transferred from the light directly to the egoistic desire that is opposite to it.

I do not think Baal HaSulam achieved this. Many read, but understand nothing. People who know Hebrew perfectly, with a university education, come to me and ask: “What is this about?” They cannot connect words into sentences because it is a completely different logic.

I remember myself. I did not understand the structure of the phrase itself: it seemed to be predicate-predicate-predicate, without a subject or verb. That is, it is illogical both in spelling and in vocabulary. So we still have to work as well.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Feel the Consumer” 9/9/10

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Question: In the previous reincarnations of life, all your students have received some training. That is, there is no such person who comes to Kabbalah from scratch. Is it so?

Answer: No, it is not like that. It is just that people who come to study Kabbalah today have done some work in previous reincarnations, so that this time in this world they can feel its hopelessness, uselessness, and meaninglessness, and disagree with their animal existence.

And all the others who still cannot react to it in this way, are spinning in their animal interests: honor, fame, power, even knowledge, culture, and science. During this lifetime, they are interested in all kinds of achievements at the level of our world.

A person who comes to pure Kabbalah is only interested in spiritual attainment. Whatever you offer him in our world, he does not see anything in it that would captivate him. You can tell him, “Let us become billionaires in ten or twenty years” and he is not interested. “Let’s make you prime minister in ten years” is also not interesting.

He is only interested in the spiritual revelation of the meaning of life and in achieving it in order to give his body such content at the level of our world that it would not distract him from spiritual expansion.

Therefore such people must already go through some states in the preliminary reincarnations of their lives, not spiritual ones, but simply certain disappointments in our world. It is quite possible that in this cycle, in this life, they will go through them.

That is, they will achieve some opportunities to become rich, noble, respected, and—having achieved or not achieved this—they will quickly reveal the inconsistency of such aspirations, that is, the lack of fulfillment from all this, and then they come to Kabbalah.

Of course, a person is driven by selfishness, a feeling of emptiness, and the question: “Why do I live, because there is no fulfillment in life?” It is healthy, normal egoism that leads him to Kabbalah, egoism that eventually kills itself, that becomes its own gravedigger.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Cycles of Life” 5/10/10

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In spiritual work, the group is absolutely essential for everyone because it is the instrument with which we reveal the Creator. The Creator is attained only through the connection between souls.

And the group in our world is the embodiment of such connection. In a group, we can learn how to interact with one another despite egoism.

This is the most unnatural work for a human being! It is the most dreadful activity you could ever come up with—trying mechanically to love, to participate in lessons and events, and to constantly interact. But there is no way around it.

Question: Are the people you work with also a group for you?

Answer: For me, the group consists of practically all my students from all over the world who take part in lessons, read my blog, and are with me.

Question: Do they help in your advancement?

Answer: Of course, I relate to them like a mother who feeds her children and derives pleasure from it.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Importance of the Group” 5/30/10

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