Question: Wolves move in a line. First are three old and sick wolves. They are followed by five of the strongest ones. Then comes the part of the pack they are protecting, and another then five strong wolves. The leader walks last, making sure no one falls behind. So being a leader does not mean being at the front of the pack but making sure everyone arrives?

Answer: That is the most important thing—caring for the safety of everyone.

Question: Including the elderly ones walking in front?

Answer: Absolutely everyone! That is exactly how the leader is evaluated.

Question: Is this the strength of a leader?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Is this possible at all?

Answer: You see that among wolves it is. For people, it is more difficult.

Comment: After all, you still hold on to the chair if you are elected, and so on.

My Response: Humanity has largely corrupted itself over the last thousands of years.

Comment: There it is instinct that works, and with us, it is reason.

My Response: In an animal pack, there is a clear inner understanding of necessity that works.

Question: There, in the pack? Meaning, they live according to nature?

Answer: Yes. Such is the nature of both us and a wolf pack around us. Only in this way can we act and survive.

Question: And what about us here?

Answer: Here, we are nobody and nothing. Everyone looks for where to run, how to escape taking responsibility, and lets others manage however they can. “I have nothing to do with it.”

Comment: So we have come to the conclusion that the leader, the one in charge, must see everyone and walk behind them.

My Response: Yes, and that is how we must create such a “pack” so that people will come to us and ask to join us, specifically under our rules.

Question: When you say “we,” who are you talking about?

Answer: “We” means the group.

Question: And people will come because they will understand that everyone is caring for one another?

Answer: Yes, there is no other path. In order to preserve ourselves, to raise children, to provide security for the elderly, for women, and for children, we must behave precisely in this way.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/26/25

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Comment: A wolf lives his whole life with one she-wolf and never cheats on her. And even if during a hunt the wolf or the she-wolf dies, the surviving mate does not look for a replacement but remains alone for the rest of his life. Can you imagine?

My Response: We are still very far from that.

Comment: Can you imagine choosing for life! Wolves manage it.

My Response: We have much to learn.

Question: What is it, when you make such a decision?

Answer: For them, it is nature.

Question: And for us? What is it, when you decide this way?

Answer: For us, it is our egoistic nature that drives us crazy.

Question: But when you decide and live like that, does it mean you somehow tamed it, managed to restrain your egoistic nature, that you choose for life?

Answer: Yes.

Question: But you say: “One should choose for life.”

Answer: That is how it should be.

Question: And hold on?

Answer: And hold on, but you see how it turns out for us.

Question: About the she-wolf. When the male wolf is in danger, the she-wolf covers his neck, which can be very dangerous for her too, but she does not think about that.

And in human life, what does it mean for a wife to cover her husband, to protect him?

Answer: I don’t know the feelings of a she-wolf.

Comment: But we are already talking about a human.

My Response: For a human, it means she understands that she depends on him, and this is her main task. As long as he is alive and strong, she and the children are protected.

Question: But what does it mean—a wife who loves her husband?

Answer: A wife who loves her husband believes that if something bad could happen to him, she is ready to share it with him without any hesitation.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/27/25

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Question: It is said that the head of the lower Partzuf clothes into the body of the upper Partzuf. What does it mean to clothe into the higher?

Answer: The body of the upper is its actions, its work with desires, and the head is the making of decisions.

The lower can do nothing with its own head, on its own level. It is said: “Through Your actions we know You.” That is, the lower must enter into the body of the upper.

And when he practically learns what the upper does by performing it himself, only then does he begin to understand what the upper meant by it. Until you do what the upper told you to do, you will not understand what he is saying.

And this is not some dull, animal action where you just need to do what he tells you, you must do it and learn! Look at children, how they repeat the actions of adults. They copy our actions without understanding their meaning.

When a child is given a plastic hammer and nails, he does not know what to do with them. But he watches how you hammer nails and does the same, and from that, he begins to understand what it is for.

It is impossible to learn any other way. When building educational programs, we must take into account that one can be taught only by example. We see that the reason is hidden in the spiritual roots and is embedded in the spreading of the Partzufim (the descent of the connection of souls) from above downward.

All the intellect given to the lower is needed only to be able to repeat the actions of the upper. The head of the lower must function only in this way.

If the head of the lower looks upward in order to take an example from the upper and perform actions similar to his, then success awaits the lower. But if the lower believes that he can judge, decide, and do something with his own head, failure awaits him.

He will think that he is on a level where he himself can do something. But all actions are performed in the body of the upper. If the lower has enough wit to annul his own mind, his intellect, then he rises and receives the mind and intellect, of the upper.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/2/11, Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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We must take upon ourselves faith in the sages (RABASH, Article No. 4, “What Is a Flood of Water in the Work?”).

Suppose I am ready to believe the words of wisdom, but what does that mean? Do I understand the words of the sages? What is their message?

First of all, in the wisdom of Kabbalah we do not deal with bodies. There are no bodies, there are souls. The bodies that appear before us are images of an imaginary world.

I exist within desire, which manifests itself in various forms: still, vegetative, animate, and human. Sages are corrected souls that exist within the shattered system of Adam HaRishon. They can serve as help and support for me; they can be guides and educators for my shattered soul.

Accordingly, this is how we should receive their advice. For example, The Book of Zohar tells us about the ten sages of Rabbi Shimon’s group, as well as about the prophet Elijah, Moses, Aaron, King David, King Solomon, and others.

We do not perceive them as people who lived in our world, but as corrected desires, corrected souls. They exist within the shattered system that is gradually beginning to revive. They themselves are already corrected partially or completely, and they participate in the correction of the entire system.

“Rabbi Shimon said… Rabbi Abba said…” I read in The Book of Zohar. For me, these are not people who attained and speak about the upper world; for me, these names are degrees of attainment.

Through these words I study the ladder of spiritual degrees: on one level reality appears one way, on another differently. It is as if the Kabbalists are telling me this, but for me they are forces, vessels of perception.

Each sage embodies a certain spiritual concept, power, force, or quality for me. Before me are not the names of historical figures, but the names of spiritual phenomena and degrees.

“Faith in the sages” means: I want to attain the same bestowal as on the degrees about which I read. “Faith” means bestowal.

During the study, a person must include himself in this and strive to understand how it will influence him. Whatever the book speaks about, I want to penetrate the spiritual essence of every word. This is what it means that I believe the words of the sages.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/29/10, Rabash, “What Is a Flood of Water in the Work?”

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