Question: I was very impressed by a story. A dying young man wrote a farewell letter because the doctors did not think he had even two months to live. Then his girlfriend came along and said she was pregnant. He said he literally felt the disease go away. He recounts that suddenly, confidence came and that was it, he was healthy. Many years have passed since then. His first daughter is already married and will soon be a mother. There is another daughter and a son. He reread his dying letter on camera and asked: “How can I tell people that we decide whether to live or die? It is only necessary, and this is very important, that we have a reason to live.”

Is it really in the power of a person to interfere in the upper providence, or is this some kind of an accident?

Answer: Of course, not every person is given an opportunity to turn around his fate. To do this, he must already be somehow prepared from the inside. And he should be willing to give up everything he has in the name of truth. Then everything can work out for him.

Question: Does he say: “I want the truth, and I am looking for the truth.” And then everything can recede: illness, death, and everything else?

Answer: Yes, then a completely new phase of life will come, and he will be given the opportunity to evaluate this truth and come closer to it.

Question: What if there is a feeling that I have to live in order to support this life that is being born now? He was about to have a child, and he realized that he had to raise this life. Can this also be a partial search for the truth, such a transformation inside a person?

Answer: Of course. This is the reason to live and get over the past and start anew. That is, it is a complete transformation of a person.

Question: There are a lot of people who are in such states now. At this moment should they direct their thoughts at some such dramatic moment, to this transformation in life, do you think?

Answer: If a person is directed like this, then yes. But if not, then no. It does not depend on the person.

Question: Is there any way to cause this? To pray for this somehow?

Answer: It depends on a person’s preparation, on what he did in life, on the root of his soul.

Question: We do not know that. Is this a secret?

Answer: Not that this is a very deep secret, but not everyone is given this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/17/23

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Do you like nature? Why?“

I really love nature, especially the inanimate and vegetative. I like to walk in the mountains, fields and forests. When I walk in such places, I feel a sense of goodness, pleasantness and calm.

I perceive nature as divine harmony. In our world, however, we cripple nature’s animate and vegetative levels. But in principle, we can still see harmony, agreement, complementarity and reciprocity throughout nature. Such phenomena bring about corresponding feelings in a Kabbalist.

The wisdom of Kabbalah highlights nature’s harmony and describes how we should aim for the same harmony in human connections. By achieving harmonious connections among us all on the human level, we then balance with nature and come to experience the full harmony and peace that exists in nature.

Based on KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Drug of a Kabbalist” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laiman on September 3, 2011. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 171

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Question: We feel a great need for connection and a great desire to ask with all our might for our common correction and for freedom from egoism. How can we accelerate this movement?

Answer: Imagine that now we have the opportunity to get closer to each other more than usual and to attract the Creator. Ask and beg Him to join in our connection too.

We would like to make our connection absolutely good, mutual in form and content so that the Creator can fully be revealed in it and enjoy what we offer to Him.

And we would perceive His revelation in us as the Shechina, as an absolute, comfortable, pleasant revelation of Himself to His creations. That is why He created us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 8/2/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Comment: A person seems to become callous after studying Kabbalah.

My Response: This is a natural process. A person must become stronger and stronger. You are not going anywhere! That is who we are. And we have to go against it with the help of the right environment that will affect us.

And it affects you, along with the others, when you constantly read the primary sources and sometimes try to distance yourself as much as you can from your thoughts and desires, to look at yourself from the outside, and not be at the mercy of your egoism, but to somehow get out of it a little.

This happens at the most difficult, inopportune moments: when you are studying, when you feel bad, when you see how it all works on you, and when you are forced to submit to some other person’s will. This is help from above.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Ruthless People” 9/17/11

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Question: It is unclear how a person can run away from the Creator since we know that the Creator is hiding, and we are chasing Him. Is this a very high degree?

Answer: A person runs away from some signs of attention and privileges from the Creator. He feels that this fame can harm him, and therefore moves away from it.

He wants only one thing—to declare the Creator great and a ruler of the entire universe. Therefore, he does not want anything for himself.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/31/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Question: Baal HaSulam wrote the “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” after the Second World War as one of the four prefaces to The Book of Zohar.

Answer: Yes, this material is very difficult to present, especially in such an accessible way as he did.

Question: Why don’t people study it? After all, he described it in the late 40’s of the 20^th century. Many years have passed since then.

Answer: This information is practically impossible to apply anywhere except within a man himself. And nobody wants to do it. If only it could be used to make money.

Question: I still do not understand. People study many things which do not provide them with an income. I am not talking about changing oneself, because it is very difficult to change your nature, but just to read it as a source of information, as something important. After all, Baal HaSulam describes the creation of desire in such simple language for the first time! Why are his works not studied anywhere?

Answer: Because people think they do not need them. They are very far from them as if the material is happening somewhere in the sky, not on earth.

Question: However, materials relating to Egyptian mummies, for example, are researched at universities, and what is not made of them? And here, specifically, things are explained in such a language…

Answer: This is done on purpose so that people do not have a specific desire for this, and anyone who wants to would not grab and poke around in it. Nature protects this science about itself on purpose.

Kabbalah is the science about the foundations of nature. Therefore, nature protects it in order to open it only when humanity wants to renounce the picture of nature that we imagine today and to really understand that it needs to change in order to save itself and the world.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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Question: If I carry a state of rejection to the ten, how do we work within the ten without falling into the left line and making it worse if the friends have a similar state?

Answer: Add up your states with the rest and achieve a positive effect.

Question: Why is it important to state the intention before the lesson? When I hear my friends, my heart opens. What happens when everyone says the intention and comes to the lesson with it?

Answer: You get a common intention. You connect with each other, and it means a lot. You open a common Kli, vessel.

Question: When we meet with other tens, we interconnect, open up to each other, unite, and feel great inspiration as if the Creator is between us. At our ten meetings, it all goes away and is erased as if we are shy and do not appreciate each other. How do we work with it?

Answer: The Creator shows you that you are not trying to keep yourself in a state of unity with each other all of the time. It is bad. There must be the importance of friends.

Question: It happens that during the lesson the head is empty and does not want to think, and the heart is full of love for friends, for the world Kli, for you, and for the Creator. Is this a normal state?

Answer: The normal state is when both are included in the work and you feel very close to each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 8/1/23, “Revealing the Glory of His Kingship”

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Question: Most people know some other language in addition to their native one. Why can a person never master a foreign language at the same level as his native language even if he is fluent at it?

Answer: It is because the original information is written within us in the native language like for example in a computer: every program is written in English and after that other languages are added to it. Exactly in the same way the original programs are written within us. This is why it is called “mother tongue.” A person receives it from his mother. You cannot escape it!

Comment: Even when people have lived in another country for a long time and have learned let’s say English or French, it is still easier for them to express themselves in their native language.

Answer: Of course, this is the way the person has recorded his perception of the world: this is called red, this is yellow, this is so and so, and so forth. This information is initially written within him. However, the second and third layers, other languages come to him as additional ones, and they are based on the first language called mother tongue.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Mother Tongue” 9/21/11

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