Question: We separate spiritual studies and corporeal activities. What should we do if the confrontation between Kabbalists arises precisely on the corporeal level?

Answer: If a confrontation occurs between people who are working together, when they are creating something new, then it is right. That is how it should be.

If it happens at the usual everyday level when they are for example writing a book together and are in contradiction with each other, they can fight. But this fight is creative and does not interfere with their spiritual connection.

In all other cases, there can be no contradictions. As it is said: “Counters’ envy increases wisdom.” This is natural. This was written 3,000 years ago in the sayings of King Solomon.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ruthless People” 9/17/11

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Question: Kabbalists of the past created a calendar for 6,000 years. How could they calculate this time?

Answer: Everything that happens in our world is performed under the influence of the upper world. Zeir Anpin of the world of Atzilut, which influences us, consists of six parts: Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod. Each of them must project a thousand-year development in our world from the first attainment of the upper world to the last, final one.

The count of the calendar starts from the spiritual birth of Adam HaRishon. It is said that it happened when he was 37 years old. Basically, that does not matter. He was the first to attain the upper world and is therefore called the first man, Adam HaRishon. After him, other Kabbalists began to attain spirituality.

From the first revelation to the last final attainment, the influence of the six degrees of Zeir Anpin must pass, each of which consists of 1,000, that is, it increases a thousandfold because Zeir Anpin must ascend to the level of Arich Anpin.

As a result, all 6,000 degrees must influence our world. When this happens, each of them turns into an earthly year, and therefore 6,000 years must pass both before a person first reveals the upper state, the full volume of the universe, and before the last one when absolutely all of us reach this level.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalistic Calendar” 9/3/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Which one do you think is the function of autistic people in the world we live in?“

The human soul is a diverse and multileveled phenomenon.

I understand that there are autism classifications according to various external and internal signs, and the use of tests to determine the phenomenon. However, in my perception of humanity and reality in general, I would not consider autistic people separate from others, because we are all autistic to a certain degree.

In some ways, we are normal, in some ways geniuses, and in some ways stupid, peasants, workers, freemen, masters and servants. In other words, we find everything in everybody in various combinations.

The function of autistic people in the world depends on their incorporation in their respective social environments, because our environment is of primary importance in differentiating each person from others. I think we simply have yet to find the optimal method by which we could connect people classified as autistic with everyone else.

Autism is a social problem of the relationship with the surrounding environment. For instance, if an autistic child is in supportive and encouraging surroundings—a group or friends who organize supportive and encouraging interactions with older children who know how to behave well—then I am sure that it is possible to pull the child out of any state because the influence of the environment, especially on the autistic person, produces an immense effect.

I do not know the medications specialists use, but in my perception and understanding, a supportive and encouraging influence that is goal oriented—not only on a child but on any person—is able to shift the person out of any state. It can make any normal person autistic, and vice versa.

Based on KabTV’s “The Last Generation” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on July 7, 2015. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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Now you can understand the real difference between spirituality and corporeality: Anything that contains a complete desire to receive, in all its aspects, which is phase four, is considered “corporeal.” This is what exists in all the elements of reality before us in this world. Conversely, anything above this great measure of desire to receive is considered “spirituality” (Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah“).

Question: What does it mean?

Answer: This means that everything that comes from the Creator and passes through the earlier stages to Malchut is still as if in the Creator Himself where only the light reigns. Once the desire appears, we can talk about creation.

The creation starts making such opportunities in receiving the light from the Creator, in which it studies the Creator to the point that it becomes similar to the Creator in actions.

Question: How can you define what is spiritual?

Answer: The spiritual is what allows us to become like the Creator.

Comment: But no one knows who the Creator is.

Answer: The Creator is the property of bestowal, love, and caring for others. It is His love that created the entire universe and our existence. Therefore, if we act like him, we are called true creations.

Question: So, if I want to become a spiritual person, I have to develop the quality of love toward the creatures?

Answer: Yes. Love another as yourself is the basic law of nature because in this way you become like the Creator. While the material world is the opposite; it distances you from the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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Question: Our desires are the creation. The last phase of creation, Malchut, is a conscious desire to receive pleasure from the status of the Creator, that is, to connect with Him and use Him for one’s own sake.

As soon as Malchut begins to use this connection for its own sake, a sense of shame arises in it, and it performs the next action called the first restriction.

What is this feeling of shame?

Answer: Shame is the feeling of not being similar to the Creator in desires, plans, and actions. From this, a person feels the disparity between oneself and the Creator, called shame.

Shame is a new feeling in creation, in the desire to enjoy, to receive, because there was no such feeling before. It arises when the desire feels that it does not correspond to the Creator.

Question: Is it something created by the Creator, by the upper force? Or is it a reaction of creation, i.e., something new?

Answer: No, this is not a reaction of the creation, but it is what the Creator created and what the creation feels as a fundamental difference from the Creator. The creation understands that it is receiving, but there is someone giving, and this causes shame in it.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah”, 7/30/23

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Kabbalah primarily shares to create the right environment for yourself and everything will be fine. Nothing else is needed, no other effort!

Enter this environment. Be only among such people! Do not listen to others! They do not understand anything anyway. Why listen to them? Is it in order to allegedly object to them, to argue? There is no need! You will not convince them of anything! They have a thousand different issues.

Question: Suppose a person begins to study Kabbalah. At first he is delighted with everything and everyone, and then it begins: “This one is not quite right, and this is not the way it should be,” that is, he is no longer ready to exalt the environment. So, what is next?

Answer: Then he must understand what he really needs, what goal he is pursuing; is it to say that everyone is a fool and to feel good, or is it to really get out into real life, to attain something new through his own change. Then you have to put pressure on yourself and obey this environment.

Comment: The fact is that in ordinary life a person immediately isolates himself from this environment. And here, a person understands his inner rejection from the others, but at the same time he holds on with all his might. However, this process occurs naturally in him. He cannot bring himself to treat everyone the way he did before.

My Response: But we must try to quickly go through these states; otherwise, it is a pity; time goes by and life passes.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ruthless People” 9/17/11

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Question: How, by changing oneself, can a person studying Kabbalah change his attitude toward others or toward the events that happen to him?

Answer: Only by learning integrality and complete interconnection above all contradictions. Leave all the contradictions below and try to connect above them. Drop everything else! Otherwise, we become more and more opposed to nature, and nature will rain blows on us. That is all. This is the easiest solution. Nothing else.

Therefore, it is our common global integral connection, that we need to discuss and implement. Above everything! We should solve our problems at a round table, like in a family, figuring out how to unite in the most kind way, mutually participating in everything.

At the same time, each of us has a huge number of claims against everyone, and we leave them all below, as in a family, and solve our common problem above them, otherwise, we will not survive.

The laws of nature are immutable. There is nothing in them to make nature take pity on us. This is a rigid law. If you are similar to it—good, if not—you receive negative effects. That is, you set yourself up with respect to this system, which is clearly determined and goes forward in this way.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Problem Solving” 9/7/11

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Comment: There are two options for solving problems. Either a person decides something on the material level through some kind of connection or something else. Or, by changing himself internally, he changes the unfavorable situations that haunt him.

My Response: We will have to come to an inner change. Today we already see how much we cannot influence the world, how much nothing helps us, and we are floating somewhere like slivers in a whirlpool.

All mankind, people, nations, and countries are carried away somewhere by a single stream that twists and turns us, and we are not able to do anything.

This is the feeling that is evident now. And this will lead us to the fact that we will really begin to relate to the world correctly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Problem Solving” 9/7/11

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