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Question: How does Kabbalah explain what happened at the Holocaust? What happens to the souls of Hitler, Eichmann, and all those evil people?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Laitman: <\/strong>I was born after the Second World War, but I come from the area where this horror happened. I lived in Vitebsk, western Russia, on the border with Poland where much of it happened. In Vitebsk, just a few families remained out of tens of thousands of Jews. Within three or four days they were rounded up into the ghetto, and that was it, they were gone. So I felt it throughout my childhood, living in Russia before I came to Israel, and even until today. So, I understand how you feel. It all remains and is within us\u2014this terrible disaster and fear, threat and grief. There are many relatives that died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kabbalah certainly explains it in a higher more comprehensive way. Kabbalah explains why it happened. It explains why the Creator caused us these great punishments and for what and why it turns out this way that in every generation we have enemies that rise to destroy us. Kabbalah also elucidates what is going on in general with the destiny of the people of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have to understand that we should consider how to account to ourselves what is happening and why there\u2019s so much hatred toward us all over the world. Even today, we don\u2019t have a lack of Hitlers, and all those who surrounded him in the world who would gladly do to us what they did then, and the world would still be silent as they were before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No one is going to give us a haven, just as in the past the Austrian and German Jews were not allowed to escape to different countries; they all shut their doors. It was very difficult to find any place to run to from the Nazis. Even today we are seeing the same attitude all over the world, so let\u2019s not fool ourselves. Everything is the same and we are, I would say, not in a better situation than before. So, why is this situation happening to us, and why is the whole world directed like this toward us and we can\u2019t get out of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: Recent reports say that anti-Semitism increased drastically in the past year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Yes, and even in countries where we didn\u2019t see it before it\u2019s increasing, as it does all over the world. If in the past it was only in Germany and not so much in other countries that would not fight for us, but at least they were, seemingly, blaming the Germans. Today, the situation is that even the United Nations, who granted us our rights to be here in the land of Israel, are now, with all of their documents, slowly erasing us off the map. It\u2019s as if the people of Israel don\u2019t exist, as though they want this phenomenon to disappear from the world. And why is this happening? We can see this in the days of Mordechai, Esther, Achasverous and Haman. We can see it through the exile that we\u2019ve experienced since Spain, and the countries in Europe where we were expelled, hated, and burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was in many places in the world where that same Holocaust occurred except on a smaller scale, like in England and in Europe. There are many places where Jews were slaughtered, destroyed, and burned. It\u2019s not a one-time occurrence. It\u2019s always been happening and it may still (God forbid) happen today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem is that we are a chosen people. We have a method for the correction of the world, as the Kabbalists explain, and we\u2019re not using it. We hold the key to the worlds\u2019 happiness. Baal HaSulam says in the Introduction to the Book of Zohar<\/em>, that this hatred came upon us. It\u2019s because we have the method to save the world and we just don\u2019t know the kind of power that we have to affect it, the wisdom that we have. And we need to implement this method on us, to show it to the whole world, and then the world, instead of hating us, will respect us and learn from us. We have to become the light of the nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are not pretty words; they\u2019re not given so that we can become successful scientists or win Nobel prizes. They are given to bring the world to happiness. Precisely now, in our generation, when the whole world is entering into crisis and all feel sorrow, hunger is assailing many and the ecological, financial, and educational problems, as well as terrorism are everywhere, increasingly, the nations of the world will punish the Jews with another wave. This is just as you mentioned that now anti-Semitism is rising and increasing in the whole world. It will come against us and it will be aimed against us, and we cannot shut our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We cannot be like everyone else. We have to open the Kabbalah books and use them to correct ourselves to return to the same state as prior to the destruction of the Temple, as one man, one heart, in brotherly love. We have to show everyone that \u201clove thy friend as thyself\u201d is the law by which the world can exist. And then, as Isaiah the prophet wrote, \u201cthe nations of the world will carry us on their shoulders and bring us to Jerusalem,\u201d and they\u2019ll learn this method from us. Then every person and the whole world will finally rest. This is what we should bring to the world. The more we shut our eyes and the more we do not want to acknowledge it, anti-Semitism will increase, and our situation will be more and more dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: Let\u2019s approach the second part of the question: the souls of these evil people, Hitler and Eichmann.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> Of course, we hate these people, but we have to see that there is the Upper Force that directs the world, and it\u2019s conducting the world benevolently, in goodness and in doing good. \u201cI the Lord do not change,\u201d and \u201cThere is none else besides Him.\u201d Therefore, we have to relate to a different question. Why is that benevolent force acting on us in this opposite manner? The wisdom of Kabbalah explains that we are those who are opposite from that Higher force. It\u2019s a good force\u2014benevolent, bestowing, loving\u2014and we, among us, the people of Israel, we hate each other, we reject each other, we do not love one another. We previously fell from brotherly love to unfounded hatred and we\u2019re still in this unfounded hatred of one another. Until such time as we can bond with love, mutual giving and mutual responsibility, this Upper Force, which is our God, the Benevolent One, will be felt in us, depicted in us, as our opposite. And that\u2019s because we are opposite from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: What about those evil ones?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> These souls, these wicked people are the ones executing the commands of this evil Force, which we turn from good to bad. Baal HaSulam wrote twenty years prior to the Holocaust and warned the Jews. In 1922 he wanted to pull out with him all the Jews from Poland, from Warsaw where he came from. At that time, they were all connected and the majority of the Jews lived there in Warsaw; there were several million of them. He addressed them as he was a religious judge in Warsaw, but no one would listen. Some tens of families came out from all of Poland and the rest stayed there; they didn\u2019t want to move to the land of Israel and regrettably, the Holocaust is what happened to them there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, we need to understand that our uniqueness as a nation in the land of Israel should not be as that of nuts in a bag (gathered together merely for survival rather than due to unity), hated by everyone, therefore huddling together. Rather, instead of existing together by forces of hate, we will be connected by forces of love. Until we arrive at the place where we are connected by forces of love, the world will treat us with this negative attitude. We have to regard the world\u2019s attitude toward us as the hand of God. This is how Providence directs itself to us because we are not realizing ourselves as the chosen people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m sorry to say this. I understand that I grew up and participated in all of this grief that accompanied all of my family and my kin. Yet that\u2019s what I\u2019m discovering in the wisdom of Kabbalah, and that\u2019s the answer that I have to all these terrible things that happen to us. Let\u2019s hope that we will unite and achieve what is called \u201cthe people of Israel,\u201d as one man and one heart, and then we will have contact with the Upper force, and certainly, no one will be able to touch us and harm us in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question: Lately we\u2019ve been talking about the soaring price of rice, the world food crisis. The rice price today broke an all time record high and it\u2019s causing a very serious food crisis such that we haven\u2019t had for years. Will there be real material hunger, and if so, what can be done in this situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> We have to know, as we\u2019ve said in our previous talks in these shows, that we are in opposition to nature\u2019s force, the benevolent the force of God. We are all opposites; we\u2019re immersed in our egos and don\u2019t want to unite, don\u2019t want to bond, don\u2019t want to correct our relationships, and in this way, we\u2019re totally opposite to this general force. We have to understand that the whole of nature\u2014the still, vegetative, animate, and man\u2014are in an integral system where everyone is in some kind of connection with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We, by consuming from nature, from the environment, more than we need, by wanting to use others and use the environment, we are destroying our attitude towards nature and in return, nature punishes us by making us feel our imbalance with it. This is by way of tsunamis, by hurricanes, by heating or cooling; problems with food, economy, education, and in everything that\u2019s happening in the world\u2014depression, the family crisis. And in every area, we will feel no success in any human engagement on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: So will there be hunger or not?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> It\u2019ll be like a collective blow, a multifaceted blow that will come like the ten plagues of Pharaoh spoken of in Torah, and we will have to acknowledge the reason for these blows. Thus, nature reacts to us in order to compel us to recognize how we should exist in the system. We relate to nature as if we are its owners and we can do whatever we want, but the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches you the common law of nature, which talks about integration and bonding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, we are discovering that we are all connected, but no one wants to be considerate of others, no one wants to balance themselves with the rest of the world. We\u2019re all doing whatever we want. In this way, of course, we\u2019re pulling these anti-forces on ourselves and they make us suffer, but in the end, nature will win and we\u2019ll have to change ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: If I understand your answer, you\u2019re saying that hunger is only one of the blows that we\u2019ll feel. So will there be hunger and more things, more troubles?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> Of course, and in the end, they will all force us to change ourselves and to correct ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: And if we change ourselves, the price of rice will drop?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> The minute we change ourselves, we will be rewarded with blessing from nature and we will feel how these blows will diminish, leave, and remove themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: Sounds like magic and legends.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> It\u2019s not magic; look at how our body lives. Every system, the heart, the kidneys, the lungs, every part of the body tries to benefit the whole body. When it thinks only of itself, the body gets sick, some part is out of balance, and that\u2019s how we are in the ecological system. Today, we can see from our science, that all the systems in our nature\u2014still, vegetative, animate\u2014are all balanced. The events that occur in nature, which occur due to us, cause plants to disappear, animals to disappear, and other things happen such as climate change. It\u2019s because we don\u2019t want to acknowledge this integrity of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: You\u2019re talking about integration and balancing reactions. This week I read in the news, that after we realized there\u2019s a world food crisis, the United Nations built a special task force, and the World Bank is lending hundreds of millions of dollars to the countries producing rice so they can restore themselves and keep giving us rice. Isn\u2019t that an example of reciprocity and balancing reaction?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> No, because by that, we want as though to put out the fire. That\u2019s what we want to do, and we\u2019ve done that before and we\u2019ve seen that nothing good came of it. According to the law of balance with nature, which is the common law of any living organism, just like in our body, we need to be balanced with this nature in understanding, in feeling, in reciprocity towards the whole world, towards the still, vegetative, animate, and also people. It\u2019s not only to help people who have nothing to eat. We need bonds of love among us, because according to our root, we belong only to this system of one Adam<\/em>, one man, Adam ha Rishon<\/em> (the First Man). When we see this connection between us, this truly is a very internal connection between all the people in the world. If we don\u2019t recognize it, if we don\u2019t correct our attitude from being egoistic and exploiting of others, into loving others, then we will suffer blows until we get wiser, and perform this correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: Are you talking about having to develop a relationship of love among us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> I\u2019m talking about developing a relationship of love among everyone, and the people of Israel have to be an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: So what about this financial support?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>It\u2019s not going to help; it will bring upon us greater blows. As we saw in the pastwhere we helped Africa and that help made them stop working and until today there is still hunger there, whereas before, there were developed countries there and at least they could sustain themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: So, what should we do?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman:<\/strong> Help those who are starving, for sure. Just as when an enemy comes to fight me, I have to fight back. Also, along with this, we have to correct our relationships with one another, not just give some food; food is not going to help. We have to make sure that all over the world, specifically in the media, that all will change themselves, and that they will introduce to the world only one thing that is needed for us to be salvaged from complete destruction\u2014the basis, the law by which this world runs. This is the law of reciprocity, the law of Arvut<\/em> (mutual guarantee), as it was explained in the article Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah).<\/em> The whole world will have to come to it, the law of \u201cLove thy friend as thyself.\u201d It\u2019s nature\u2019s common law, it\u2019s not something fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The more we advance toward it, the more we\u2019ll see that this is the case. Even as we examine living biological organisms today, we can see that the law of reciprocity, of connecting and consideration, at the spiritual internal level, exists between every organ of the living organism, otherwise the body does not exist. We are discovering today that our systems, the financial and all of the systems in which we exist in human society, all as one body. So, we have to arrange in this body the same relationships as in a living organism, and then we have a chance of existing and succeeding. Without this, we\u2019ll only suffer blows. In the end, we\u2019ll still have to be balanced with nature, but only after a lot of suffering. This hunger and the multi-faceted crisis is just the beginning. That\u2019s what the wisdom of Kabbalah explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question: A ten year old boy is asking, \u201cWhat is a gift according to Kabbalah, and how do you choose a gift for a friend?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>A gift is something that no one needs, as you can see when you walk into a gift shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: Yes, gift shops have chosen everything in the world that is quite useless.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Actually, a gift is something by which I express my love for a person. So, what matters is my attitude towards the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The actual gift does not matter at all. For example, I can give a person a pen, yet if in my giving the pen and connecting my love to it, he feels who he received it from and with what feelings of love he received it, then it becomes a gift that is an important gift for him. The gift is important according to the sensation of the giver, the importance of the person who gives it. It may be a little boy, my beloved little boy, who comes to me and wants to give me something from the goodness of his heart, and I take it as something very important and very dear to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is the most exciting when I get a present, maybe a postcard or something, some tiny object, but from someone very important. It says in Gmarah<\/em> that normally, a woman is acquired by possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: When a man sanctifies a woman, he has to give her something.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Yes, but if he is an important person, it is enough that he will receive something from her. He does not have to give to her, but he has to agree to receive from her and then she is acquired. So in the receiving and giving of the gift, the imparity between the people, or a couple, is very important. If the giver is higher, he can give the smallest thing, and that will be considered a big gift, or if the gift is from a person who is very, very loved, then the importance is according to the connections of love. Thus, the gift itself is not what matters; it is the relationship between people that matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: So when this child of ten wants to choose a gift for a friend, how should he go about choosing it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>I don’t think that in choosing a gift for a friend it\u2019s important to think about what this friend loves and what he wants from you because then, he only anticipates this object and not your relationship. So if you only debate as to what to give him and what not to give him, then you\u2019re not talking about natural, direct, pure, open love, but rather, there are all kinds of calculations. What can I do to make him happy, to make him glad by giving him this and that? If you are giving from the bottom of your heart, and out of love, it doesn’t matter what object you give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question: Why are women so busy with their outer appearance? What is the source of the importance of a woman\u2019s appearance to herself, and to men?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>I am associated with biology, because biocybernetics is what I studied initially. My daughter has a PhD in biology, and so I understand this science and I\u2019m interested in it. Biology explains many things in nature that I can use in Kabbalah as examples. Everything that happens in a person comes from genes, hormones, all kinds of data that are already within us, and there\u2019s nothing we can do to change them. We can research any phenomenon from the perspective of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women have a tendency to decorate themselves and that decoration comes from the Upper root. To be decorated means to correct one\u2019s self according to the Creator; it is in the human soul. Within us there is a Reshimo<\/em> (reminiscence), which is a spiritual gene by which we have to decorate this ugly egoistic person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: You don’t mean physically ugly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>No, no; I mean internally ugly, egotistical, exploitive, our true nature, \u201cMan\u2019s heart is evil from his youth,\u201d and, \u201cI have created the evil inclination, I have created the Torah as a spice, because the Light in it Reforms.\u201d Through the power that we have using the Torah correctly, Kabbalah explains that we can correct ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: We can decorate this internal ugliness?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Yes, decorate it and bring it to the level of beauty; beauty means similarity to the Creator. Then the Upper Light shines inside of a person like the Creator, he becomes Adam<\/em>, from the word Domeh<\/em> (similar) to the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: So why is it specifically the woman who decorates herself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Because a woman symbolizes in our world, Malchut<\/em>\u2014the root of creation, the foundation of creation. This is why it\u2019s a woman\u2019s nature to be externally decorated in this world, just like we should correct ourselves internally, which is called, decorating toward the Creator. Man and woman, groom and bride, these are relationships between the Creator and the created. The created is as the woman, and the Creator is as the groom, as the man. From this we can learn how we all\u2014men and women, should make that decoration on ourselves, which is the correction of our egos. In this way, we become similar to this higher example, and we achieve the degree of man, Dome <\/em>(similar) to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: So men will take a make-up course for the soul?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Everyone needs to decorate internally, but how to truly decorate one\u2019s self is what the wisdom of Kabbalah explains. Therefore, in the wisdom of Kabbalah, we use these things such as: Masach <\/em>(screen) and Returning Light (Ohr Hozer),<\/em> coverings that we put over our egos, beauty, called the Light of Wisdom that shines for us, all of which are terms that belong to the bride and the groom, the man and the woman. This is the vocabulary that Kabbalah uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question: Why in Judaism, is there so much fear and dread all the time? For example, there is a song that says, \u201cThe most important is to not be afraid at all.\u201d So what should we be afraid of since the Creator is benevolent?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>We should only be afraid of our own egos; this is our prime enemy. One has no enemy in the world besides one\u2019s self to oneself; there is nothing to fear but ourselves. If we direct ourselves towards the goal and want to become similar to the Creator\u2014since this is our designation, our whole lives and our whole existence in this world is to achieve this state\u2014then our enemy, the one who obstructs us, is only our egos. This is the only thing we should be afraid of. The Light is entirely aimed only against my egoistic desires that obstruct me from achieving eternity and perfection\u2014the good things, a good comfortable life, a secure life, and abundance. I can achieve that, and yet I alone, ruin everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question: My husband plays computer games in which he is the machine gun that should kill soldiers. My child is two and a half years old, and sits on his lap and watches the game. Can that harm him in any way, such a young child in terms of the violent message he is absorbing? I object to it and I’m afraid of my child\u2019s exposure to this type of violent content, but my husband says that it is a boy\u2019s nature to play with guns, and there is nothing wrong with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>It is true that boys, naturally have a tendency to play hunters or to play with guns or have competitions, and girls tend to play with dolls, jump rope, and other things like dances, and things that have to do with decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: Why do men hunt and compete?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>It’s just nature; in nature men hunt, seek and bring the food to the woman just as we can see with animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: But why is it like that in the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Because the woman is in charge of the place of raising the family, the children; the woman is the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: What is the root of this? Is there a root for this in spirituality? What does the man hunt in spirituality?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>The side of the man is to provide the Light for the soul. The female side is to supply the need for the reception of the Light in the soul. These are two forces: the force of the need for the Light, and the drawing of the Light. The man draws the Light, and the woman brings the need for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: So the copy of the drawing of Light in our world is to go and hunt? Also, what, about her child? Is there damage done to the child while watching these violent games with his father?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>These games are not hunting for the sake of existence. The purpose of these games is to kill, to hate, to succeed through exploiting and lying to others. Of course, these things are totally and absolutely disqualified. From the first day a child is born, and even before that, and of course, once the child begins to understand, to expose him to these games is a big problem. It is a child who comes into this world and comes from previous incarnations with an accumulated evil, an evil nature and a burning ego. So we have to consider everything else that will grow in him as he develops. From the youngest age, we have to instill the right values in children so they can cope with their nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I remember myself, in my time, education was to tell the children that you have to be good. Why? Don’t fight anyone and be good to people. Why? Because subconsciously, we understand that if a person is good to everyone and if he treats everyone favorably, he has fewer enemies. He has less of a chance of having problems and of having people wanting to harm him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So you want to do the opposite of the evil nature and to not teach him how to kill others, and how to chase others and harm them. On the contrary, teach him how to do good to others. By that, you guarantee to your child, as much as you can guarantee anything, a safer life in the future, and that is all we want for our children. So if you teach him the opposite, how to kill, you make him miserable. He will constantly be under pressure and think people want to do the same to him. He will always be internally tense. Why does he need this? One\u2019s fate depends on one\u2019s attitude to others: the better one relates to others, in all of this, one gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: I want to ask another question about this. Suppose we did bring up a little boy this way, to relate well to others, what would be the outcome?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Not just a little boy. What if we could educate the whole world this way? With all the media, the television, if we only talked about good attitudes toward people, then children would grow differently. In a single generation, we would see a completely different generation than our own, and it\u2019s not because we are good that we will educate them towards the good, but rather, it is so they will have it good. As for us it is a lie for we are not good, but to educate them so that they will have a good world, we have to change the entire attitude in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderator: I want to go back to that boy. I want to tell you my private problem at home. When my son first went to school, it was for him, and as a result for us, a total culture shock. He came home and said that the children there beat each other, and that this is all that those children engage in during the school breaks, only harming each other. That\u2019s basically what they do in terms of social life at school, as he is a boy. With my daughter, it wasn’t felt that much, as girls are more delicate by nature. Yet when my son went into first grade, we were in shock. So, that small boy that we are trying to bring up with goodness, and to be good to others, don’t you think that he might go into the surrounding society, where one is taught values that differ, that he will end up being a sucker, and being beaten by everyone while he smiles Isn’t there a danger of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>You are right, but in the end, I don’t think that by that he is inviting an attitude of hatred on himself or exploitation. I have seen such children, and in relating nicely to others, it didn\u2019t mean they couldn\u2019t fight back. Yet, you needn’t teach them, program them, to constantly hunt people like some preying animal. I started teaching Kabbalah to my son when he was nine or so, but at the same time, I sent him to learn all kinds of group activities where he learned judo, bicycle riding, and other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I built him strongly, but not strongly in a way where he exploits everyone and comes to all with demands, nor how to kill others and do harm to them. Rather, he had the kind of strength so that if someone came at him, he understood that there was no choice and that he has the strength to confront. In his nature, he doesn\u2019t have this inclination to seek to kill soldiers and all else. There has to be balance between these things. We are in a very, very difficult world indeed, but we don’t have to be like everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Question: As a person who has been searching the breadth of the rainbow, from the peak of the defilement of India, to the most ultra orthodox rabbinical school, and everything in between, in all of them I found some strength and I took some knowledge. In all of them I understood that this was not my place. How can such a unique person, with this infinite internality in the infinite creation, find his place and know that his mission is correction, and on what level should he act?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n M. Laitman: <\/strong>Only by following his heart. That is what Baal HaSulam says in The Introduction to the Study of the Ten Sefirot<\/em>. Today, the whole of the wisdom of Kabbalah is in this big enterprise that he created in The Study of the Ten Sefirot<\/em>. It is a, six volume corpus of 2000 pages, far from simple but there you find the complete wisdom of Kabbalah; Kabbalah in its usable form and in all its breadth and glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In The Introduction to this Study of the Ten Sefirot<\/em> he writes, \u201cHow does one come to the wisdom of Kabbalah, to this vast wisdom in which he doesn’t even know what it\u2019s for and why he\u2019s getting into it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Baal HaSulam says that a person turns to Kabbalah when he is asking, \u201cWhat is the meaning of my life\u201d? If you have that question, and you didn\u2019t succeed in answering it with money, with honor, with dominion over others, with knowledge, with all kinds of pleasures you\u2019ve been seeking in this world, with meditation and tranquility, or not even with religion or anything else; then you come to Kabbalah, and there, you are certain to find yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, the issue is that today, the wisdom of Kabbalah is available for sale in the form of red bracelets and charms and whatnots. You might want to investigate this, as to where your place is in all of this, but be brief in this investigation, and do not waste time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are those who go to Hassidut<\/em>, as you said, and find their place there. According to their evolution they are there. Some, even before seeking Hassidut<\/em>, like you, went to India and all kinds of places and as you\u2019ve seen, there are people who are content with these states and these circles, and they remain there for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n