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Today, many people want to express themselves. But they do not know how to express themselves. One walks around with a tail on their head, another with piercings, a third covered in tattoos front and back. All of this is supposedly a kind of distinguishing mark, a sign of belonging to certain trends. But it says nothing about a person’s individuality. On the contrary.

All of this is sold by those who profit from it. We are taught that this is how you will be considered special, and we follow along. But where is individuality in this?

First, I must discover my individuality. Then I must understand how it can truly be expressed. Only then can I actually reveal myself. Otherwise, I just see everyone fooling around, and I fool around too, saying, “Look how cool I am!”

But cool in what way? You’re exactly the same as everyone else.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call.Everyone should be the same” 10/1/10

Question: In his articles about the group, Rabash writes that first it is necessary to strengthen the greatness of the Creator in the eyes of the group and only afterward to speak. Shouldn’t we think carefully before opening our mouths?

Answer: Yes, Rabash writes that first you need to think about the greatness of the Creator. But you see that not everything in life goes according to what is written; life is life. So as it turns out on our level, that is how it is, and if not, then not.

What does it mean to “think first of the greatness of the Creator”? What does it mean to think or not think? This is in my external mind. But is my heart ready for this? Is it in such a sensation, at such a level that I feel the Creator, that I think that He is in my heart, and from this level I begin to judge or not?

This is not simply to sit and think. So I am sitting and thinking, and then I close my mouth for some time, and I do not criticize anything. So what? Everything depends on the correction in the heart, on an ever higher and higher level than the one on which you are.

I do not think it is possible to advance without contradictions, without disputes. People should reveal their attitude toward the group. And of course, they need to arm themselves with the intention that without the group they are not capable of moving forward, that without it they will not succeed at anything.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lessons, 1/18/26 and 1/19/26, Rabash, “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

Question: If an ordinary person that belongs to the 99% of the population encounters some negative influence on himself, what should his first thought be? What should he remember at that moment?

Answer: Only that I received this from nature, the single source that created everything, governs everything, and advances me toward the goal. Therefore any influence on me is only so that I will direct myself toward this goal. How can I direct myself toward it even more, based on the influence I am now receiving?

First of all, one must connect oneself with the goal, and then look at what exactly I am receiving this influence upon, against what? As a rule, these influences are directed at my egoism since there is nothing else within me. But precisely which of its qualities, sides, and manifestations?

Usually, the most negative influence on egoism is an infringement of pride, an infringement of “self,” meaning I fear that I might be shamed before others; I am afraid of shame. It is the defeat of pride, the defeat of “self” that is the most important thing for a person. He is ready to die just to avoid experiencing or going through such a feeling. It nullifies the human within me, it literally destroys my “self,” and I am left with nothing but an animal body. And I cannot agree to be merely an animal. I cannot descend to that level, and therefore a person is ready for anything.

This feeling of defeat of my “self,” the threat of shame, is the strongest stimulus that we can receive from nature in order to move toward the goal. We learn from Kabbalah that practically all of creation, the entire system of worlds, emerged from this primordial feeling of shame, and therefore, for us it is the most effective.

If a person correctly feels himself, constantly awakens an analysis of “self,” the feeling of shame and the feeling of rising above it, then it becomes easy for him to perform any kind of work on his egoism.
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From a Conversation about Integral Education, 5/30/12

Question: You say that at the meals and other events there are listeners and there are speakers. What should be the attitude of the listeners toward those who speak?

Answer: Everyone should be patient with their friends until we all mature together. How do you perceive a child? He does things that seem silly and unnecessary. You see how he makes mistakes, how he tries, how something works out and something does not. But through this, he somehow grows.

Comment: I am asking because for many people who encounter Kabbalah for the first time, this is not clear.

My Response: It does not matter to me whether it is clear to them or not. It is impossible to explain anything for the first time. If a person has matured, if he understands that he has nowhere else to go, then he will see logic in it, something higher; he will feel deep inside that there is something here. And if he is not ready yet, why should he understand? It will be better if he leaves.

Do you think everything is decided by some clever words? No. Look how many beautiful, professional video clips you have created. And how many people come because of those clips? There are millions of views, but only a handful come. Can you explain to me what is happening here? You cannot reach their hearts. You are knocking on them, but their hearts do not yet respond to that knock.

Comment: That is exactly what I am saying. You want to disseminate as widely as possible, but people are not ready.

My Response: We try to do everything possible. I am not going to change us because of this. We are who we are, and we are gradually trying to be more open—closer, simpler, more accessible, and more understandable to others. We are doing this all over the world, here in Israel, on television, and on the Internet.

Of course, there is still much more that can be done. We try to write books and express everything that Kabbalah wants to say to people in a simpler language. But if a person is still not ready from his side, what can we do?

Today when I walk down the street or stay somewhere, I see simple people who wave to me, who greet me, who thank me that there is a Kabbalistic channel, and that they can watch it. They even say, “So far we do not understand much. But it feels so good!” There are those who feel that it gives them a sense of peace and security. Still others say, “When I am on your channel, I just get distracted and relax.”

That is, everyone hears us on their own wavelength, and I am very glad about that. And whether they understand or do not understand the inner meaning and essence of Kabbalah, they do not need it because the world is structured like a pyramid. 99% of people cannot understand Kabbalah at all. They are created by nature, by the Creator, in such a way that they can only join it, so to speak, and participate in it.

For example, how many people build our world, lay its foundation, start enterprises, banks, the foundations of society, or conduct scientific research? How many of them are there? A thousand or two in the whole world who manage everything?

Only a few hundred people in the world truly create something, and the rest implement it. This implementation is carried out by a huge number of scientists, engineers, and researchers. But the foundation, the idea is the legacy of a very small number of people. And the billions of others? These billions are under them. This is how the world is arranged.

In exactly the same way, the perfection of all souls is achieved. When everyone, individually and together, reaches a single unified structure, everyone includes themselves in everyone else, and then everyone is included in all. As a result, each feels himself as this entire system. But that happens at the end of creation, at the end of correction.

Meanwhile, I absolutely do not expect these billions of people to realize the true greatness of what is being revealed before them, the true possibility of what Kabbalah speaks about.

I know from my own experience, from the 40 years I have been engaged in Kabbalah, what stages I have gone through, what revelations I have experienced, and what still lies ahead.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Transfer of Information,” 1/23/11

Comment: The stronger and more experienced a leader, the more actively he suppresses all quarrels, the less strife and aggression in the pack, the friendlier the atmosphere and the more cohesive the group. Suppressing quarrels can be done with quite harsh methods.

My Response: Such is the law of any community, even an animal one. Not to mention human.

Question: So should one be both hard and soft at the same time?

Answer: I do not know about being soft. But he must be very decisive, confident, and willful.

Question: So all the quarrels, all the poor attitudes, slander, suppress it all?

Answer: Of course.

Comment: Tough… He will not be loved.

My Response: They will fear him; this is most important. Therefore, they will respect and obey.

Question: Is this leadership? He has a goal ahead of him—to bring his pack…

Answer: When with wolves, do as wolves do.

Question: The chief leads the pack, leads his own out of traps, plans and begins the hunt; he is the first to rush at enemies and prey.

What does it mean to be the first at everything?

Answer: To take on all the blows, all the issues that arise in his pack.

Question: Are we talking about human society?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So he is the first to take all the blows? Is he worried about all this?

Answer: It is like his own family.

Question: You perceive the leader as a father? And society as my family?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And if, as we have now, there was a blow-up, does he take responsibility?

Answer: If he does not take responsibility, he is immediately removed. There is no such thing among animals. He has to assume responsibility.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/8/26

In many Kabbalistic sources it is said that the spiritual is attained only by the power of prayer. Most people in the world think they understand what prayer is, but in reality, this is far from the case.

In the science of Kabbalah, we study:
Behold that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created, The Upper Simple Light had filled the whole existence. And there was no vacancy (The Ari, The Tree of Life).

The upper light (the Creator in His unrevealed form) filled the desire that He created out of nothing. “Something from nothing” is precisely the act of creation.

Then the Creator began to modify and transform this desire into something from which an independent created being could later be formed. He performed various actions upon it until the desire shattered into many parts, which in Kabbalah is called the shattering of the common soul (Adam).

The fragments of the common soul divided more and more until each of them became a point, the point in the heart which ignites within us and through which we feel a longing for the Creator.

At first this sensation appears unconsciously. We do not know where it came from or why it gives us no rest, but it leads us to a Kabbalistic group. This is how our spiritual path begins.

While working in the group, we begin to understand that in the nature of creation there is no other material besides egoism, as it is said: “I created the evil inclination and gave the Torah for its correction.” Egoism was intentionally created by the Creator so that one could immerse oneself in it, take it along, and then, by correcting it, ascend to the Creator.

Therefore, our task is to reveal egoism within ourselves and bring it to its correct form, which is called “desire” (Hisaron).

The point is that when we are immersed in corporeal desires, we do not influence the spiritual system, we are not within it. But a properly formed desire, directed toward integration into the spiritual system of Adam, toward uniting with its parts, influences it is called “prayer,” i.e., a request to connect and function correctly within the general system of creation.

That is why it is said that everything is attained only through prayer, through the proper formation of one’s desire.
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From the International Kabbalah Convention 5/2/16, Lesson 3

Question: Is it possible to say that the Creator outside is some kind of logic, laws, and the Creator inside is some kind of feelings? And when these two principles merge, a connection with the Creator occurs?

Answer: Of course, you can say whatever it seems to you right at the moment, but the Creator is the single force that acts in each of us and in all of us together.

There is not much to say about the Creator, because this “substance” includes absolutely everything. And even what I am saying to you now, and what you are hearing and thinking, comes from this force of nature.

Except it, practically nothing exists. We are within it, we are its parts. We are given a certain blindness, a restriction of our thoughts and feelings, so that we do not feel Him, and can reveal Him from this state. Then we, as it were, begin to exist.

There is me and a vast world. I perceive this entire world as a manifestation of the Creator in relation to me. In this way, I try to attune myself to the perception of this world, i.e., the Creator, this universal, the omnipresent force. By attuning myself in this way, I suddenly begin to feel that I am changing to match this force, the Creator. It is exactly to this state we need to arrive.

The purpose of creation is to achieve similarity to the Creator. When I, despite all the obstacles that He puts between Himself and us, reveal Him as the only One who exists, as filling the entire universe, then in this state I merge with Him. But the oneness of the Creator is not violated by this at the same time.

And the fact that He created such a remarkable quality of our separation from Him is given only so that we could, as if from the outside, as if from a distance, understand Him, feel Him, and reveal Him.
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From Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 12/1/19

How can we get out of the egoistic nature and not be merged with the Creator because of the desire to receive?

At the first stage, you examine your states in order to reveal their cause. And gradually, as your Kelim (vessels) grow, you come to an inner sensation that apparently there is someone who governs everything.

You begin to search for the one who turns everything, but He is concealed, and you search for Him from within the desire to receive. This is called “Lo Lishma.” You develop an attitude toward the Creator and begin to realize His importance despite His concealment.

This happens under the influence of the surrounding lights. With them, He seemingly draws you to Himself. And so you advance from double concealment to single concealment.

What is the difference between single concealment and double concealment? It is the fact that you begin to feel the cause of what is happening to you. But you prefer to be with the Creator rather than with the cause because the sensation of the Creator sweetens the suffering in the states that He sends you. In the desire to receive you feel bad, and the sensation of the Creator gives you sweetness. This is still called “Lo Lishma.”

If you develop the greatest Lo Lishma, when in any case you prefer to be in adhesion with Him as with the truth, and despite the unpleasant sensations that may arise in you, this becomes more important than anything, then you reach the greatest Lo Lishma from which one transitions to Lishma.

That is, throughout the entire path you demand Him, seek Him, and try to feel Him; otherwise you feel bad even if in material life everything is fine for you. This search is possible only from the point in the heart because from all other desires, aside from the point in the heart, you will seek the fulfillments of this world. But the point in the heart demands the sensation of the Creator. With this it is filled.

Question: When I reach the greatest Lo Lishma, does it mean that no matter how much evil I feel, I will still cling to Him because He is the truth?

Answer: Both yes and no. You transition to evaluating on different scales and begin to weigh good and bad according to the presence or absence of adhesion with Him. The moment you feel separated from Him already becomes bad for you. The desire to receive loses its value for you because only adhesion with Him becomes important.

Question: But how can He be important to me if I know that it is He who makes me feel bad?

Answer: Come closer and you will see.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 1/25/26, Rabash, “What Is, His Guidance Is Concealed and Revealed?”

Question: The flapping of each goose’s wings creates an updraft that supports the birds flying behind.

If people move toward a goal, let’s say that they understand that they must move together. What are “wingbeats” for people?

Answer: For people, this can exist if they define a single higher goal and understand how to achieve it.

Question: It says here that this updraft from the movement of wings supports the birds flying behind. How do they support them? With what?

Answer: The same applies in battle: those who go in front set an example for those who follow. That is, the wingbeat is the example you show.

Question: When a bird breaks formation, it begins to experience sharp air resistance, which forces it to quickly return to formation and continue flying with less effort.

Suppose people set high goals and can’t endure it, they drop out, leave. How can it be made so that in their mind and heart there is the thought that a lone individual won’t break through, that to do so one must be in this group?

Answer: They must all be preoccupied with one goal. Then some will go in front, stay together, and others will hold on behind them, and in this way they will all reach the goal together.

Question: And those who hold on behind understand that they are weaker, so they hold on to their friends; will they have the thought that “I won’t break through alone”?

Answer: Of course.

Question: That is if the importance of the goal is constantly maintained?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When the leader gets tired, it flies to the back of the flock, and another bird replaces it. In life, leaders—politicians, those who lead people, states—don’t feel responsibility. They leave only at elections. There isn’t such a thing as “I’m tired, I give my place to another.” What must a leader have for this thought to arise?

Answer: The importance of the goal of the entire flock.

Comment: I see, the importance of the goal is the peak, the foundation.

My Response: Yes. He must understand that he is responsible for ensuring that the flock continues the path and reaches the goal.

Comment: Even if he won’t be there, even if he…

My Response: That doesn’t matter.

Comment: Meaning his thoughts are not about himself at all, but about the flock.

My Response: Yes.

Comment: That is the most important thing! We seem to have had such an example. Begin left that way, on his own. He suddenly stood up in the middle of a meeting and said, “I’m tired.”

My Response: Yes. That was a great decision.

Comment: And then he sat quietly for ten years, gave almost no interviews. And that’s how he departed.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/5/26

Question: Do you remember the time when you understood nothing of what was being discussed in the science of Kabbalah? Perhaps you could roughly understand the structure of the worlds, but when you actually sensed them, how unusual was this impression or feeling?

Answer: It was very unusual, because you begin to perceive reality “from the outside in.” This is the most important epiphany at the beginning of the path. You understand what is written is not about the outside, but that our perception, our brains, our impression of reality are designed to see everything outside of ourselves and feel outside of ourselves.

You begin to realize that all this exists in you: the group is in you, the people are in you, all that is happening, all events are in you, and, naturally, this results in unity in the group, mutual guarantee, and all else.

Such a correct understanding of this process and what Kabbalah generally says about how a person combines all this within himself, is, of course, a huge revolution. This is an indescribable event. It turns everything upside down.

From that time on, a person begins to change, to treat himself, others, his studies, and his teacher differently.

Question: You said that a person begins to perceive reality “from the outside in.” Is this crossing the Machsom?

Answer: Not yet. He just treats himself and his surroundings differently, realizing that all this is inside him.

You can even say it more simply, without clever concepts. I realized that everything depends on me, on my correction, that I will achieve spirituality not somewhere far away but in me. It is in me that the quality of the Creator, the quality of love and bestowal, will appear, that is, such a property when what is outside of me and inside of me merge into one whole, without boundaries.

From that moment on, I began to have a different attitude to the science of Kabbalah and how to realize it, not through logic outside of myself but precisely in me.

Question: Does it usually take time?

Answer: It takes a lot of time.

Question: And then there is a transition, a complete inversion, which you mentioned. What happens to a person if there is already an inversion?

Answer: No, in this case, the inversion is carried out simply in relation to the science of Kabbalah, how it should lead you forward: either it should reveal some area outside of you, some laws, connections, or reveal everything inside you. When you begin to realize that this must happen within you, you radically change your attitude toward everything.

Question: And yet, there is a completely different perception behind that “wall”?

Answer: Yes, but it is impossible to convey it.

Question: Not at all possible?

Answer: Not at all.

Question: So how did Baal HaSulam explain spirituality to his grandson, who immediately “ran off”?

Answer: He explained to him that it is impossible to make the transition to the spiritual world through human strength, only with the force of the upper light. And so, he “ran off.”

Question: Did he not show him that world?

Answer: No. You cannot do that. He just told him, purely logically, how much a person should change, and he decided that it was impossible to change.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Before and After the Machsom” 10/8/10

There are real wars ahead called “the wars of the Messiah“—the wars of liberation from our egoism. “Mashiach” comes from the word “Limshoch,” “to pull out,” which pulls us out of our egoism. We stop looking at the world selfishly and stop blaming people for it. We must relate this to the Creator and correct our attitude toward Him from absolute hatred to absolute love.

Comment: Can you imagine?! You say: He is to blame for everything, He did everything, He is the main enemy, so to speak, of man.

My Response: If that is how I perceive the world, then yes.

Question: And if I see it differently? What does seeing it differently mean?

Answer: Seeing it differently means that I have to turn myself around again, for, in the end, I correct myself, and there is no evil or harm in the world except for me, my egoism. I have to correct it into the property of absolute love, see everyone as my enemies and haters, and correct everyone I see as loving and beloved.

Question: So I correct myself, and thus they become loving and beloved?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: So everything is aimed at figuring myself out.

My Response: Yes. There is work to be done.

Question: You say there are serious wars ahead. Are we being prepared for them? We are not going to be thrown into this inferno unprepared, are we?

Answer: No! How can it be? It would be like throwing a baby into a real fight.

Question: So one way or another, we are being prepared for this, as we come to want these wars?

Answer: Indeed. We realize their necessity.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 1/7/26

Question: What is the difference between awe and fear?

Answer: Awe is not a fear for oneself. It is based on love, respect, and striving for the Creator.

Question: What are the types of fears before the Creator?

Answer: It is impossible to list them all. The inclusion of Malchut, in all its variations, into the first nine Sefirot generates a vast array of primary, secondary, and other fears. Any feeling of possible lack of being filled is called fear.

For example, the feeling that I may not justify the Creator is based on animal and social fears. But the fear of whether I would be able to fill Him is already an awe that descends on us through the common system, because the Creator is present in its entirety.

To the extent you connect and associate yourself with everyone, you get an opportunity to fill the Creator.

Question: So contact with Him always happens through another person?

Answer: There is no other way, because the Creator dwells in the whole system.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 1/11/18

Question: Is maintaining a constant connection with the Creator a conscious effort, or does everything come naturally?

Answer: These are constant efforts in which we try to exist. But we cannot live in them all the time in a natural way, the Creator cuts off these efforts and gives us other pictures of the world instead. And we again return to trying to define the Creator through them. And so it is all the time: entrance – exit, entrance – exit.

Question: Could this become a habit?

Answer: It does not become a habit but a necessity.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 2/11/18

Our path consists of ascents and descents, deviations and contradictions, despite the fact that it is straight. You think: “I fell, I was thrown out.” But even if you are walking along a straight line, you are constantly forced to endure blows, falls, problems, and confusion. Apparently, it is impossible without this.

It is only important to see whether you become “older” from this, that is, whether you acquire wisdom (Hochma), whether you see the source, the cause. Do you relate to this in such a way that behind all these blows you see a future structure that is even more beautiful than the present one?

Sometimes it is impossible to build a new building on the site of an old one; it is necessary to clear the place and build anew. This is how to relate to these things. The main thing is whether we are building or not building. A group that begins to discuss this should be ready to enter a state of criticism of its actions and of everything that is happening to it, but it emerges from this more united and strengthened.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18-19/26, Rabash “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

Question: Israeli children are very noisy and energetic, one could say hyperactive. Is this related to a particular Jewish mentality?

Answer: Jews originate from Ancient Babylon, from a single civilization of earth’s inhabitants who once rose to a spiritual level and then fell from it. Therefore, that ascent and descent have been preserved in their genes. There’s nothing to be done; they are the most active part of humanity in everything: science, culture, everywhere.

They make up literally about 0.01% of humanity, and suddenly 50% of Nobel laureates, 20 to 30% of musicians, 30% of artists, and so on. And all because they were once on a spiritual level, fell from it, and are now engaged in earthly affairs. They should have given this up altogether and devoted themselves exclusively to spiritual work. I hope that eventually this is how it will be. We don’t need “Einsteins” or revolutionaries. We need to engage in spiritual revolutions, not earthly ones.

I think everything is moving in that direction now. The general crisis and everything happening in the world will lead humanity to spiritual elevation, and then this hyperactivity will be realized in spiritual actions.

It manifests in Jews because they fell from a spiritual level to an earthly one, lost the spiritual component, and it turned into something earthly. What remained in them from the spiritual charge at the fall is precisely this hyperactive part.

Therefore, if you see a revolutionary or a transformer in our world, in science, art, or anything at all, then by digging into their lineage you will find that their roots come from a tribe that once stood on a spiritual level. This is the quality of Bina, the quality of bestowal, which alone can enliven humanity.

I am not a nationalist, and I advocate for the correction of the entire world. Therefore, the method of Kabbalah, which emerged from Ancient Babylon, must be realized everywhere. The fact is that the whole world is Malchut. And part of it, which once was on the level of Bina, fell back into Malchut. But only from that part, which is the former people of Israel, once on a spiritual level, does progress in our world originate.

Thus, if you see truly serious activists, it cannot be that they lack a spark originating from the attainment of the upper world that fell to our level. The people who come to Kabbalah today, no matter from where, somehow, somewhere, have received this spiritual virus.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Children of Israel, Part 2” 10/1/10

Question: When you speak about people who have received a spiritual “virus” and advanced in the corporeal world in some way, do you mean outstanding people?

Answer: Yes, this is a consequence of Bina. Bina is expansion, bestowal, a quality opposite to Malchut. When two qualities join together, egoism and some small germs of altruism that have fallen from the spiritual level, egoism receives direction and greater strength because it contains a spark of the upper light.

Therefore, such egoism is more fortunate, more successful, and this is expressed in results.

Today the Kabbalistic method is open to everyone. Once, in Ancient Babylon, only a small part of humanity used it. By the way, throughout history many people, the so-called “Gerim” from different nations (converts), joined it.

If we look at ancient history from the exodus from Egypt through the existence of the Kingdom of Israel until the destruction of the Second Temple, this was a period when huge masses of different tribes came and joined the spiritual elevation. Among them there were many great Kabbalists.

Comment: But when they joined, they did not become Jews.

My Response: What does it mean that people “join”? It means they take this method and begin to realize it within themselves, just like in Ancient Babylon. Abraham, the ancient Babylonian priest, gathered a couple of thousand people around himself, created a group from them, and from this group a people was formed, so to speak.

What does “a people” mean? It is a group of individuals united by a single goal of spiritual ascent. Whoever wants it joins. On the level of our world, there is actually no such concept as “the Jewish people.”

Comment: But in Israel it is a nation.

My Response: No, it is not a nation. Even today it is not a nation, but a gathering. When will the Jews become a nation? When they begin to unite among themselves with the force of mutual love. Only this force can unite them into a nation. There is no other force that can bond them together.

In any other nation there is a natural force from below that bonds people together. But above this group, there must be a force from above.

Therefore, today, for example, an Italian can become a Jew.

“But you are Italian!”

“I am no longer Italian, I am a Jew.”

“How is that? What about your father and mother?”

“My father and mother are no longer ‘mine’.”

I am Jewish, and I cannot become an Italian because I was not born to Italian parents. But an Italian can become a Jew of full value if he takes upon himself the method of spiritual ascent. The laws of conversion to Judaism are based only on this. And he can no longer go back and become Italian again.

This is a very irrational model but it exists in our world, although no one really understands it because it is built on spiritual laws that we are trying to squeeze into our world like into a Procrustean bed. But it does not work.

People do not understand this. It all sounds very strange. But gradually we are approaching a time when clarification will begin to take place in humanity regarding the entire historical picture: why it happened this way, what it brings, and why it must be this way.

But for now, people only have questions, and there are no answers.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Children of Israel, Part 2” 10/1/10

Question: People constantly strive for new sensations; they try one thing, then another, then a third. For example, I did not understand what it meant to get a tattoo, and I decided to try. Obviously, it is a sign of a certain self-expression. But only after I got it did I understand what a tattoo really is.

It is the same with spiritual things. Until you try, you cannot explain. Many people who come to study Kabbalah begin to cultivate a principle of equality among themselves so that everyone becomes similar. To what extent can the environment influence a person positively or negatively in this sense?

Answer: You are speaking about a person who is like the wind in the field. Does he have a goal or not? First he has to find it for himself. What do I want to reach? What is my goal? Does it exist or not? If not, then what? Should I just look around? These people behave like this, those have such-and-such a goal, and others fool around in their own way. So I choose what is closer, better, and easier for me. I follow the masses or some groups, and thus I join them.

But if we are talking about individuality, then I must find my own personal goal. After I find it, I need to clarify how it can be realized: where, with whom, and by what means. Then I will look: if for its sake I need, say, to get the same tattoo, then I will do it; if I need to learn something, I will learn it.

In other words, the goal must justify the means. The final state must determine the path toward it. My present state is meaningless if I do not know the final one, and I am like the wind in the field: wherever it blows me, that is where I go. Meaning, I will act not with my own head, but someone else’s, whatever is advertised to me at the moment becomes important. And so a person spins around his whole life, until he weakens, agrees that “that is it,” and dies.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Everyone Should Be the Same” 10/1/10

Question: Why do we need physical suffering? Is it to awaken the point in the heart?

Answer: Our material essence is a body that we want to provide with the maximum comfort.

We live in a family, and want everything to be good there: house, children, health, pension, rest, etc. Meaning, we want to live comfortably in this world.

However, if a person achieves it, and everything is fine in his life, he becomes an animal because he already does not aspire anywhere; he is not doing anything. Give him everything that exists and you will see that nothing will change. We see how without wolves, sheep begin to get ill and decline.

It is the same with the Jewish people. Without antisemites, there would be no Zionists, there would be no Jewish home and Jewish nation. It means we have to respect antisemites and understand that they exist as a certain force in nature that is holding us. Otherwise we would run away in all directions.

It is the same with a person in general; he cannot exist without suffering. Suffering directs us because we are egoists. Our desire is absolutely egoistic: to become filled, to do nothing, and to have everything at the same time.

How is it possible to accomplish this? It is impossible! After all, the task of a human being in nature is to reach his highest development. But if I enjoy and feel good about everything, then I will never fulfill this task.

We should not forget that “love and hunger rule the world.” Therefore, only suffering pushes us forward. “One beaten man is worth two unbeaten.” This is true indeed. Therefore, “through thorns to the stars.” We lack precisely these thorns.

The wisdom of Kabbalah says that a “point in the heart” that has awakened within a person triggers depression in us, a question about the purpose of life and its futility. If this weren’t the case, how would we go forward? Thus only suffering leads us.

Moreover, it has to be suffering that is directed to the achievement of the goal, its anticipation and aspiration—the suffering of love. However, if we lack it, we become urged on by other suffering. This is how the entire system of nature is structured, and it is doing it.

If you want to go forward correctly and willingly, no problem; there is the wisdom of Kabbalah for you. It shows you the entire system and the correct direction to the destined goal. The goal is defined in advance. There is nothing to make up.

However, if we are not going toward it, then nature causes suffering in us through various alternative ways. It still leads us to this goal, but already through the long and tangled path.

Question: Does it turn out that our earthy (animal) suffering leads us to the suffering of love?

Answer: Not right away and not directly, but it does lead us. Any little suffering in our life pushes us forward. Had a person understood this, he would himself aspire to the goal, and there would be no need to “move with a stick to happiness.” He would be moving forward faster than the stick could reach him.

This is the sensible development, and this is what Kabbalah shows us: the goal, and the shortest path to reach it, so you would not be pushed by suffering from behind.

Come and join the kind, good, and correct development. We look forward to seeing you!
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/21/16

Rabbi Elazar said, “The Creator said, ‘The whole world was created only for that.’ This means that the whole world was created for the fear of God” (Rabash, “Purpose of Society – 1”).

There is an exalted goal that is not perceived within our egoistic sensations, within the aspiration to take everything “into oneself.” The exit “from oneself” and concern for what is “outside of me” is called spiritual fear (Yirat HaShem).

At present, I am anxious about how to fill and protect myself. This is called fear for oneself.

Subconsciously we are constantly preoccupied with attracting what is beneficial and distancing what is harmful to ourselves, to our egoism.

Spiritual fear means that I experience fear for what is outside of me. I worry about others and about the Creator like a mother worries about her small child when all her thoughts are in him and about him.

In this fear, in this concern for the other, outside of myself, outside of my egoism, I feel the upper reality.
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From Lesson No.1 Mega Congress, 7/24/10

Spirituality has only the form that you build for it yourself by your desires. From above we are given only an informational record (Reshimo), and we must build the form ourselves. From above, from the upper degree, we are also given strength and mind for realization, but according to our request.

It seems to us that some ready-made world will suddenly fall upon us from above. There is nothing to wait for. I build it myself through my efforts. I myself draw this world against the background of the light.

I draw the image of the upper one, and to the extent of my efforts, it becomes more and more true. I do everything that I am capable of. I draw all kinds of forms. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes worse, and sometimes I make mistakes. I create them and erase them until I succeed.

And in the process of my work, I suddenly see that the upper one begins to help me! He clothes within me like a hand in a glove, and works. He helps me like a mother who plays together with a child and helps him build a house out of blocks. When I try to do something and it does not work, I suddenly feel that it is He who helps me understand that it should not be this way but the opposite.

But all this comes thanks to my efforts because I tried to build something. And He also awakens the beginning of this effort within me, but I must continue it myself, find its sprout, and begin to work from it. This is what is called: “I, the Creator, am the first and the last.”

We ourselves must build the connection between us, this “house,” the place where the Creator will be revealed, the “picture of the Creator,” using our own material. Without this, He has no image at all. I project Him onto myself, onto my desires, onto that part that I can make similar to Him.

And on this desire, as on a foundation, as on a screen (and in spirituality it is indeed called a screen), I begin to see His picture. It begins to appear on this screen like a photograph lowered into a developing solution. This picture that manifests on my screen is called reflected light. And thus I receive two spiritual forces: the screen and the reflected light.

All of this must come from me myself. This is why the necessary time of preparation for entering the spiritual world—“from three to five years”—is required. The time of concealment is the time of my attempts to build this picture. And afterward the spiritual world is revealed; and what it turns out to be in reality is difficult for us to even imagine.
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