{"id":6277,"date":"2025-10-23T23:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=6277"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:43:41","slug":"ask-the-kabbalist-september-25","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/ask-the-kabbalist-september-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Kabbalist (September 25, 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bold: Questions and comments<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regular: Commentaries of Michael Laitman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>lowercase italics: emphasized words<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Capitalized Italics<\/em>:\u00a0<em>transliteration from Hebrew<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: To continue the question about the role of Internet that you answered during the last show, what about our sensation of nature? What about smelling a flower, going to the beach, feeling another person, looking at one\u2019s eyes? How does that happen if we connect through the Internet?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;If we approach nature, we actually step down from the level of man. I really like nature myself and sometimes go there to relax. It is pleasant and good, and I understand that. But precisely by this we are actually similar to the corporeal levels of still, vegetative, and animate within us. These levels demand this contact, this sight, this touch, this sensation, smelling and sensing nature this way. But the level of man within us is the more inner level that\u2019s found within us, within my bestial body. And it demands the internality of things, understanding the meaning of life, the essence of life and the purpose of it. And accordingly, we explain the connection with other people: what for and why do we act this way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And therefore, precisely the Internet and different virtual types of communication actually allow us not to look at each other\u2019s external, corporeal, beastly form and perhaps even skip the difference between the automatic translation with this or that language. Our technology develops towards this; we can even give commands to our computers and they\u2019ll understand us. So our future is that we do have to be connected all around the world, but in a virtual way, and then from a virtual way to a spiritual way. And I see that many people are attracted to this, and whether we like it or not, we will come to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: Rabbi Shimon with his students once came into a cave in order to write&nbsp;<em>The Book of Zohar<\/em>, and that was something very natural, and much understood.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Why? When a Kabbalist goes some place alone\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: Not just that he secludes himself, but it\u2019s a natural place, the situation, he connects to people, all is very natural. And then two thousand years later we\u2019re going to write some book\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2026we\u2019ll write that book in our virtual cave. Cave means that we, perhaps a few million people, are in our own virtual world, where we feel ourselves wrapped by some virtual bubble that is isolated from the world, because the world has completely foreign thoughts and desires than ours. And we\u2019re there, just like Rabbi Shimon with his students, who were just ten people, so we can be ten million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number doesn\u2019t matter; if you are all in one opinion, in one heart, in one thought, then you\u2019re as one. And I see that the Internet gives us an answer here for all of humanity\u2019s expectations and demands to be as one, for all the corrections that we have to undergo, to unite as one, because all people have to be united as one. How can we connect otherwise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: Why will the feeling of connection between people flow through the Internet much better than physically?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Because then a person will not be affected by the other\u2019s externality, but by the other\u2019s heart, desires, thoughts and inclinations. Not seeing the other person doesn\u2019t matter as much. It seems to you that you do see the other people and they do see you, but the fact is that we don\u2019t find any connection by that. On the contrary, that external, beastly form, in our animate level,\u201d our bodies,\u201d only makes it difficult for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see something that looks beautiful and I think it is the truth. I see an ugly person and I reject him. And perhaps, he is some old person that doesn\u2019t know how to express himself, but he is a genuine true person who has some special force. If you could see our patriarch Abraham, Moses or Rabbi Shimon in our days, I don\u2019t think you would be impressed by them. Do you know in which form they were? Not that of some Hollywood stars? Try to think of the sandals and cloth they wore think about their teeth. Actually it\u2019s funny, but there\u2019re fables about it, that they used to close their mouths to not show their teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t understand that this external form is opposite to man\u2019s interior spirituality and therefore, the Internet precisely allows us to better connect with the man within us. And therefore, I\u2019m very happy to see that our generation is going towards organizing all kinds of societies and environments in many ways, and it doesn\u2019t matter for the time being, their goals, but people look for connection between masses of people, as broad as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And gradually, all the nonsense will filter out. And people, who really look for being together, understand that they can get a lot of use of the Internet. Especially us, who are already aiming to attain the purpose of life, understand that the corruption is only in the connection between people, and if we correct that connection, then we go to the spiritual level between us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: So our viewer who asked the question will not be looking into another person eyes?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;We won\u2019t feel people this way; we\u2019ll feel another person\u2019s desire for the purpose of creation. I don\u2019t want to know more than that. Why do I care if that person is named Julia, she\u2019s twenty years old, she looks good, if she has children or she doesn\u2019t, and all of that. What I care for is the essence of man. I have to connect to their points in the hearts, and I think the Internet will answer this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: This week there was a survey that was published, saying that forty five percent of the poor in Israel reduced or almost completely stopped buying food. And twenty eight percent of all the population decreased the amount of food that they buy. The title was, \u201cMore people will find themselves with empty tables in the High Holidays.\u201d I know that the wisdom of Kabbalah is the solution, but what can you do with these incidents? We can\u2019t just close our eyes in light of these findings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Eventually we will have to arrange our life to work according to different principles. You can\u2019t take from the rich and give to the poor, because that won\u2019t stop the poverty. We have to arrange society at its basis, so that it won\u2019t be divided this way, and to begin with, people have to be educated. I think that creating a country where everyone works and everyone benefits, and everyone makes a living respectfully is a necessary thing, and it has to be as a national goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that we don\u2019t build people. Our people existed according to the principle of \u201clove thy friend as thyself,\u201d before the destruction of the Temple and going into exile. And since that principle was lost, we came into exile and we stopped being a people. If we want to be people again, then we have to go back to the principle \u201clove thy friend as thyself.\u201d And that has to be a condition for us in order to be a country, or to be a nation, or people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we\u2019re not a nation or a people, because we don\u2019t have a connection between us. We just live here out of necessity, because we have no place else to run to. But everyone would be willing to leave, and if they wouldn\u2019t then, give them a slightly more difficult condition than they have right now and they would like to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is so to say, that after these sixty years of independence, we have to approach our true independence. With the right basis of the connection between the people of the nation, we will also build a just distribution. We won\u2019t take from one and give to another, but the system of the country will be based out of love and connection between people. And that is the proper form to be for the people of Israel. Of course, we have no right of existence if we won\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there will be a great gap between rich and poor and we won\u2019t be able to be a prospering country if we don\u2019t build ourselves as a people. This is what Baal HaSulam already has written about, a hundred years ago, in the beginning of the establishment of the country. He had talks with Ben Gurion, Rav Kook, and with people who were really the founders of this place. He wanted to show them the true principles of the people of Israel, but they didn\u2019t want to hear him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we begin to see that all those honorable people, so to speak, who built the nation, were a bit wrong. Therefore, unfortunately we have neither a nation nor a people&#8230; I\u2019m a Zionist, if you want to call it this way, meaning that I care about the people coming back to Zion, into their frontiers, to their people. Unfortunately, I see that we don\u2019t have any principles or a spiritual constitution on which we can base or build ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that principle is an ancient principle, coming from Abraham, the founder of the nation. The members of his group, from which the people of Israel were created, gathered according to the principle \u201clove thy friend as thyself.\u201d Israel is not some natural nation; it\u2019s a nation that can only be a nation on the condition that there\u2019s love among the members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: What is the Kabbalistic meaning of&nbsp;<em>Rosh Hashana<\/em>, the Jewish New Year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Rosh Hashana<\/em>&nbsp;is the beginning of man\u2019s development; the world was created five days before&nbsp;<em>Rosh Hashana<\/em>, in twenty fifth of&nbsp;<em>Elul<\/em>. So,&nbsp;<em>Rosh Hashana<\/em>&nbsp;is the creation of man, meaning that the&nbsp;<em>Rosh Hashana<\/em>&nbsp;is the beginning of the spiritual development, from which we start to develop. And what do we celebrate? We celebrate the state from which we come out of the corporeal framework and start rising in spiritual degrees.&nbsp;<em>Rosh Hashana<\/em>&nbsp;is actually the beginning of the essential spiritual change in man\u2019s life. That\u2019s the inner meaning of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is when a person decides to start ascending from his beastly corporeal life, from just trying to fulfill his time with something. He wants to live this life with a goal and see how he advances. While being in this world, he wants to attain spirituality, and the Creator. These two worlds, the Upper Eternal One and our present, lower one, will connect together. It means that he knows that in each and every step he\u2019s making in this world, he also advances in the Upper World. He doesn\u2019t feel any difference whenever he moves between this world and the next world. These two worlds connect as one. He doesn\u2019t feel life and death and he enters eternity. This is what we ought to do. This is called going through&nbsp;<em>Rosh Hashana<\/em>, when one decides to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: I heard more than once that people got crazy from studying Kabbalah or&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>. Is this true regarding those who study Kabbalah the wrong way?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;You can\u2019t study Kabbalah incorrectly, because one who studies Kabbalah incorrectly doesn\u2019t study Kabbalah. You can open up any book and interpret it the way you like. Studying Kabbalah correctly is according to the principles that the sages of Kabbalah prepared for us to begin with. It means that one has to study from the authentic sources, from one who is authorized to teach, and from one who studied with a known Kabbalist. And this is how Kabbalah, which is the tradition (that is another explanation for it) moves, as something that is passed on from a teacher to a student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One who studies it correctly without materializing it, without imagining all kinds of demons, spirits and evil things, or corporeal actions, or holy water and red strings, then there\u2019s no fear of getting crazy, I\u2019ve never seen it. There is no fear, if he doesn\u2019t think that some corporeal costumes can influence spirituality, and he understands that there\u2019s no connection between spirituality and corporeality, such as rituals and so on, or between anything that a person does with his body: if he understands that all of that is not connected to the true wisdom of Kabbalah, and learns the right way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have students all over the world and presently we have about two million students. And in our academy we also see our students in practice, we are virtually connected to [with] all of them and there\u2019s nothing to get crazy about. It is a wisdom. When you study physics, do you get crazy? The same thing is with the wisdom of Kabbalah, like Baal HaSulam writes to us. Kabbalah is the physics of the spiritual world, and there\u2019s no chance of getting crazy here. Crazy from what? You learn the laws of the world. The Creator in&nbsp;<em>Gematria Elokim<\/em>&nbsp;means nature. We study nature as a whole: how we operate, how we are operated, how we can influence nature and how it influences us. What is the danger here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been engaged in Kabbalah for thirty years and I have a lot of students. And as a scientist myself, even before the wisdom of Kabbalah, and as one who engaged in philosophy, I never saw such an incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are afraid of it because Kabbalists themselves, in ancient times, in the times of exile, when it was forbidden to study the wisdom of Kabbalah scared the common people like trying to scare a small child. They said that you can get crazy from it. But Baal HaSulam writes about it very clearly in the introduction of&nbsp;<em>Talmud Eser Sefirot&nbsp;<\/em><em>(The Study of Ten Sefirot)<\/em>. There, he gives answers to why Kabbalist wrote that you can\u2019t study before the age of forty, and why they wrote that you have to get married, and have to first study&nbsp;<em>Shas and Poskim,<\/em>&nbsp;and why there\u2019s fear of getting crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these rejections from the wisdom of Kabbalah were invented by the Kabbalists themselves in order to distance the people from Kabbalah, because it was the time of the exile and in the exile we couldn\u2019t engage in it. Today we are after the exile. We are in stages of redemption, and we actually must renew the wisdom of Kabbalah and study it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Baal HaSulam writes that as much as we study and disseminate the wisdom of Kabbalah among all people, then we will reach correction and redemption faster. Baal HaSulam says even more, he says that the expansion of the wisdom of Kabbalah all over the world is called the Messiah\u2019s horn, meaning that it is our debt. We must open up the wisdom of Kabbalah to everyone, to all the nations of the world, and this is called the&nbsp;<em>Messiah\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;horn. I remember how happy my teacher, RABASH was when those writings of Baal HaSulam were published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: What does a man look for in a woman? Should she be quiet and nice or should she be as she is?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Both man or woman or child, a boy or girl, and even animals and fish, or even trees, look for how to enjoy, because the matter of creation is a desire to enjoy, a desire to be fulfilled. If we have genes, hormones, desires, thoughts, we want to be fulfilled by them. A woman looks to a man as a sexual source of pleasure, or having someone to be with, to be in an organized home, with a bed, food and to have a family with. So what does a man look for in a woman? It depends on the man, how mature he is and what exactly he is attracted to. That\u2019s more or less how we are arranged in our life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the man is more mature, he already understands that the woman can also be a spiritual partner for him and thus he looks for such things in a woman Then, of course, he might not marry a woman just because she is beautiful, or even if she is a good cook, or a good homemaker, or even a good mother. First of all, he looks for her spirituality, whether she\u2019s attracted to the same goal that he is, and all the rest of the things somehow fall in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So everyone chooses according to their interest. Of course, a normal person who doesn\u2019t belong to the wisdom of Kabbalah, what influences him more is usually if the woman can be a good homemaker, or provide for his sexual desires, and according to their combination of desires. It\u2019s hard to say, but we see that people get married, and later some of them are happy about it and some of them aren\u2019t. This is really unpredictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t see it as an object of research, like the sociologists and psychologists like to do, because it gives them a lot of publicity afterwards. I deal with all these things in the condition that there\u2019s a spiritual coupling that is in addition to the corporeal coupling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: What do you mean by spiritual coupling?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Between a man and a woman there\u2019s a desire for a spiritual connection between them towards the Creator, as it says, \u201cMan, woman and the Devine presence among them.\u201d Then they have a special spiritual connection. We can already see this type of connection among my students. I can see that more and more such couplings appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: I have a grand daughter who is six years old and she always fights with others. She bites, throws things and breaks things. She is angry at people, and she cries without reason or without anything being done to her. We don\u2019t really understand what\u2019s going on with her. Can we get an answer from you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;It sounds like some hyperactive phenomenon that your child might have and you have to treat her either by medications or by the psychologists. I\u2019m not the expert in this, but unfortunately this phenomenon is more and more common in our days, because man\u2019s ego is increasing. The human ego is increasing, and we see this in our times within the young generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: What does it have to do with the ego?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Man\u2019s ego develops from generation to generation and we have reached a generation, where we have to correct our ego. Therefore, our children and especially our grandchildren, and I can talk from my own experience. I see how aggressive and hasty they become, and how much they are operated, as if there is a spring that\u2019s constantly pushing them to do things. And in one or two generations before, children were much calmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, what can I tell you? It\u2019s not a question for me. From the wisdom of Kabbalah I can tell you the reason for it: the constantly, steadily growing egoism. What is the solution for it based on Kabbalah? I see one solution; the Light that Reforms against the ego. As it says, \u201cThe Creator created the evil inclination and the Torah as a spice for it.\u201d We need it even for the young and for the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both, the Gaon of Vilna and Rav Kook says the same about the children: they say that you can teach children from the age of six, seven, eight, nine, the wisdom of Kabbalah in the way that suits them. It influences them because it brings them the Light. They don\u2019t have to understand a lot and we don\u2019t need to confuse them too much. The main thing is to use the original sources, in a very simple, easy way and that brings a person the Lights, the remedy and corrects him, because only that can fix our nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: Why are there so many rich people in the world, and on the other hand people are struggling to survive? Do rich people have a spiritual soul or a spiritual role in this world or in the spiritual world? Many rich people donate their money to others&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Yes, but it doesn\u2019t matter whether they donate or not. It\u2019s not really them who donate, they\u2019re just given these urges to donate. In this world all the souls divide and get distanced from one another and everything is done from Above and is influenced from Above. This world is the world of consequences. All the differences between souls and between people in this world are connected to this process, because everything stems from the soul. From the world of Infinity all the souls come down through five worlds to this world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, one who\u2019s poor and one who\u2019s rich is all rooted from Above. Like it says that the Creator looks at a drop of semen and says, \u201cThis one will be rich, this one will be poor, this one will be smart, or stupid.\u201d Except for one thing: He doesn\u2019t say whether one will be righteous or a sinner, meaning it depends on a person how he uses what is given in him. But all the rest of the things are not determined by us, it all comes to us from the root of our soul. According to the root of my soul I have to be born with specific conditions, and qualities, to a specific family and everything, except the realization of my goal to attain spirituality in my life here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: Does a rich person have a special role or not?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Rich and poor have roles in this world, but it\u2019s not about whether they give money or not, but attaining the root of their soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: What is the meaning of the verse, \u201cWomen have a light knowledge?\u201d What does it mean in spirituality and corporeality?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;There\u2019s no connection of the verse that says, \u201cWomen have a light knowledge,\u201d in spirituality and corporeality. In spirituality, the one who bestows and gives is called \u2018a male,\u2019 and the one who receives is called \u2018a female.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no gender in spirituality. In spirituality each and every soul, when it connects to others and bestows, is called a male, and when it receives, it is called a female. It turns out that each and every one of us has to be both, somewhat of a male and somewhat of a female. I can not give without receiving, and I can not receive without giving, because we\u2019re all as cells in one body, doing this reciprocal work of receiving and giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in spirituality that verse means that when I work as a woman or in a part of my soul when I work as a female, I have no reason. Because when I am missing that: I have only what\u2019s called the Light of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;(mercy), and not the Light of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;(wisdom), because either I don\u2019t give unless I receive, or I don\u2019t receive anything.. And therefore, it says that there\u2019s no reason, or the reason is small. On the other hand, when I give, meaning to give in order to bestow, I work with my vessels both in reception and in giving, then through me passes the Light of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, and that means that I have&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;(reason), and I have&nbsp;<em>Daat<\/em>&nbsp;(knowledge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the same thing happens to each and every one of us in our life. I would say that women have much greater intellect and capacity to make decisions, in a much more healthy way that\u2019s closer to nature, and makes fewer mistakes than men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: It sounds opposite.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;It\u2019s not opposite. In spirituality and corporeality these things are not like the branch and root. Where do you see man in this world according to the spiritual definition? They all want to take, exploit, steal and receive from others. So do they work potentially as \u201cmales\u201d or as \u201cfemales\u201d? Of course, as \u201cfemales,\u201d moreover, as the corrupted ones. A corrected female means a woman that is&nbsp;<em>Hafetz Hesed<\/em>, the one that doesn\u2019t want anything for herself. Because she can\u2019t bestow, she is in&nbsp;<em>Hafetz Hesed<\/em>, meaning that she limits herself and doesn\u2019t use her ego. And that form of women in corporeality is closer in that degree than men, while towards spirituality it\u2019s the opposite. There, the man can not advance without a woman giving him her desire. Precisely in spirituality, we need the force of the woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: As parts of the same soul, I understand that we\u2019re all interdependent even without being aware of it, but on the other hand, every person contains the whole world. Therefore, I\u2019d like to know what the level of dependency is that we\u2019re supposed to have. Should we increase it or on the contrary, should we look at ourselves as individuals and unite only our points in the hearts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;In the wisdom of Kabbalah we\u2019re only talking about the points in the hearts, because that\u2019s called the posterior of&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;(soul) of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;(holiness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a heart, and my heart means all of my desires: to drink, to eat, to enjoy, sex, power, honor, respect, knowledge, and everything. That is all together called man\u2019s heart, a big, black heart. Within that heart there\u2019s a point, and by the heart becoming really dark, when I feel darkness in life, that nothing moves forward, and I see that this life just doesn\u2019t satisfy me, when I start to really feel dissatisfaction, then within my heart a point starts to shine. It is called a point in the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That point tells me the truth. In this world you won\u2019t find an answer, but above it, a bit to the side, you will find an answer for your desire to be fulfilled. And that point attracts me a little bit each time, beyond all the business that I have in this world, and all the conducts of this world. This is called the point in the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I develop that point in the heart, I find the wisdom of Kabbalah. And the whole wisdom of Kabbalah works specifically on that point. It works in order to inflate that vey tiny point, increase it, and grow it, in order to inflate it into a sphere like a ball in which I start to feel myself in eternal life. Then that ball will be called a soul. In the meantime it\u2019s just a point in the heart that one has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: Let\u2019s go back to the question, \u201cHow should a person look at himself?\u201d What should be the level of dependency between us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;The dependency is in the point in the heart. We have to be dependant upon the points in the hearts between us. If we will rely on each other\u2019s points in the hearts together, that mechanism will be called the soul of&nbsp;<em>Adam ha Rishon<\/em>&nbsp;(the First Man). And the form of interconnection is called&nbsp;<em>Arvut<\/em>&nbsp;(mutual guarantee), which is the condition for the reception of the Torah, which means the reception of the Upper Light that will then shine on us. And when that Upper Light will shine on each and everyone\u2019s points in the heart that join together, then we will be as one man in one heart, in one soul, and then that sensation of life will be a sensation of eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: In your lectures I hear that it is possible to see God, but in the Torah it says more than once, \u201cOne who sees God dies.\u201d This means we can\u2019t see God. We see Him with the angel of God that meets certain people. Anyway, that\u2019s what is written about it. So why do you say that it is possible to see the face of God?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;I meant the revelation of the Creator, to discover and reveal Godliness. The Upper Force has many names, and in the wisdom of Kabbalah every name has a different meaning. I\u2019m talking about what we do discover, and we discover what\u2019s called the Creator. That form of Godliness that is being revealed within us, called the Creator, it is composed of two words:&nbsp;<em>Bo Re\u2019eh<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>c<\/em>ome and see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that a person attains, and sees the Creator. Where does he see the Creator? Within himself; the Creator clothes within man. What does it mean? Within my corrected desires, there the forms of the desires themselves in their corrected forms bring me the sensation of what Godliness means. Where does it come from? As it says in the Torah, \u201cI created man in God\u2019s shadow.\u201d Meaning, man was created in the Creator\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It means that while we develop, we do so in an opposite form to the Creator. If I take that egoistic opposite form and I invert it, correct it in order to bestow from unfounded hatred to love of others, then I reach the form of Godliness within me, and I become as the Creator. And from that, I know, I understand, and I see Him, because He is clothed within me. And that clothing of the force of bestowal and love within me is called&nbsp;<em>Dvekut<\/em>&nbsp;(adhesion), and it is when a person unites with&nbsp;<em>Elokim<\/em>, the Creator. He and I become as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is what each and every person should achieve; this is, basically the purpose of creation. This is the reason we exist in this world, so that throughout this life we have to discover Godliness in a way that the Creator is revealed within us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: I\u2019m new to Kabbalah, and I\u2019m in an environment where all people are filled with ego. I call it a walking ego. I feel that it\u2019s hard for me to be with them all of the time, because it\u2019s empty and boring for me. Am I supposed to keep my connections to a small extent or I should just find people who are similar to me spiritually?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;According to what we learn from the article&nbsp;<em>The Freedom<\/em>, the article about free choice by Baal HaSulam, what influences one in the attainment of the purpose of his life is only the environment. Therefore, we have to change our environment. The question is what can we do? I work, I have a bank, there is a kindergarten with my children, and I behave like everybody else. No one on the street, if they don\u2019t know me from the television or from the radio, or anything, knows about anything special or not about me. They don\u2019t know whether I study Kabbalah or not, because I relate to everyone equally. People just look at me, other than the students or people who know me, they just see some Jewish person from Israel. Who knows? That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: You\u2019re saying don\u2019t change anything externally. Still, what does it mean, as you said to enter an environment that\u2019s spiritual?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;In order to develop the point in the heart, in order to develop myself spiritually I must be in a spiritual environment that moves to the same goal as I am. Then I\u2019ll be strengthened by that group, and along with it I will come to the goal. We have to sail together, because in the connection between us we discover the spiritual goal. In the connection, which is not somewhere out there it\u2019s in the connection between us, when we connect our desires for spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people who don\u2019t have that spiritual goal should just be treated in a nice, pleasant way, and that\u2019s it. To my parents, to my relatives, and to people at work or anyone wherever I am, it\u2019s forbidden for people to know what\u2019s going on within me. This is what Kabbalah tells us to do. Be nice and ordinary to anyone and with the group, where I\u2019m connected with people who have the same spiritual goal, different laws prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: Let\u2019s say, someone studies through the Internet, or through the television.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;He or she needs to get into a group of the students of Kabbalah, who yearn for the same goal, and by mutual support he will see how we influence him and give him forces to advance. On your own, you can\u2019t advance in Kabbalah. It\u2019s either with others or nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: In lessons you talk a lot about\u201d the Guards\u201d and the difficulties that we meet on our path. The question is what is the goal of the Creator in giving us success, or material success, like success at work or something like that? It inflates our ego. What should we do about it? Do we have to reduce or go with the flow?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Go above it. Accept all the success and say thanks. I hope that your success is not based on disturbing and robbing other people of what they need. So if your success is a human success, say \u201cThank you,\u201d no problem. But the main thing is that it won\u2019t influence your spiritual advancement. You have to transcend that corporeality and always be higher than corporeality with your spiritual goal. You kind of hover or sail above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter what happens on the level of this world. Sometimes there\u2019s a success, and sometimes there\u2019s a decline. You have to be dependent upon your spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: I didn\u2019t really understand the term&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>&nbsp;(reminiscence). I also don\u2019t really understand why everyone has a specific situation in life for a spiritual development? What creates that specific situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;We can put it this way. All of us came here to this world from the world of&nbsp;<em>Ein Sof<\/em>, infinity. Let\u2019s say, there\u2019s such a world above, but there\u2019re no places here, but it\u2019s somewhere above. And then through levels of one hundred and twenty five degrees we came down to a state called this world, and we are here in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s time when we have to start rising back from this world, level by level, one hundred and twenty five levels back to infinity,&nbsp;<em>Ein Sof<\/em>. This is what we\u2019re facing, that\u2019s our path. Like it or not, we have to go through it, and realize it either by blows or by agreeing to it in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time I\u2019m in a specific situation, there\u2019s a next state ahead of me, which I don\u2019t identify or feel. I don\u2019t sense it and I don\u2019t even realize it. And if so, then I\u2019m forbidden to know my future. But I have to understand that there\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>, information within me about my next state, and I can\u2019t determine a thing about it, because in the same way the soul came down from level to level, it has to rise from level to level, to take on the same forms it descended from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The levels from top down and the levels from bottom up are the same. But, what is the difference? The difference is that I have to climb from down to upwards out of my own desire&#8230; This is what the Creator demands of us. Why? He wants us to go back to that state of infinity, when we\u2019re connected with Him of our own accord. I myself want to propel myself upwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>? It is all the data that exists within me about the Upper level. What\u2019s missing is the Light that Reforms, an illumination that reforms me, that brings me to the Upper state, which is called better than my state. So in the same way that the inner data, or information, like genes, and hormones develop in the corporeal body, we also have a spiritual gene,&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I only have to bring the Light towards it, which is called the Light that reforms. And when the Light affects that&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>, it raises me, and it raises the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>&nbsp;to a Upper level. This is called&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>. So&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>&nbsp;is an informative part within me about the next state and it is realized by the Light. How do I attract the Light? I attract the Light by studying the wisdom of Kabbalah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the time of the study I study about my next more advanced state, and the Light shines on me from there, from afar, as it works on my&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>. Then it realizes the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>&nbsp;in a way that I raise to the Upper level. I get the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>&nbsp;and the Light from the next level. I only need to make the meeting between them, to make them influence one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: If a person has nothing to do with spiritual development, he doesn\u2019t attract the Light, he doesn\u2019t do anything from the process you\u2019ve described. Does he also go through situations in life, states in life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;Right, in our corporeal life we\u2019re also developed by&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>. It\u2019s the same gene, like what biologists discover today, that everyone has genes by which they develop, they find the reason today for anything that happens to man. That\u2019s also the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>. There\u2019s a corporeal&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>&nbsp;and the spiritual&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>, but it\u2019s always the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>. There\u2019s nothing that can somehow happen without a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My next state is predetermined, but I shouldn\u2019t care about what\u2019s predetermined or not. What I care about is that I make it be realized, I reach it on my own, and that I awaken the Light to affect the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>. I\u2019m the operator, I\u2019m the one who operates the Light over the&nbsp;<em>Reshimo<\/em>, and then the picture is realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator: I don\u2019t know that there\u2019s a Creator that gives, or bestows. I can read about it for days, but not feel it. How am I supposed to become more pure with everything that happens to me, even though I don\u2019t feel the reason? I mean, should I refer to and unite everything with \u201cthere\u2019s no one else besides Him,\u201d regardless of whether I feel that or not? It just doesn\u2019t matter what I do, I want to unite everything with the goal?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;The order is simple: forget about everything. The wisdom of Kabbalah is a natural wisdom. What do I mean? You don\u2019t need wisdoms to develop. Just like you know what bread means, what water means, what is to sleep, to feel the air, or to watch the sun. Just like your body feels nature we have to approach the spiritual nature in the same way, without wisdoms or arguments or interpretations, in a simple way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t need to equip yourself with any facts or knowledge, and you only need one thing; to understand yourself better and better. How? It is by reading about it in the books of Kabbalah, but not in order to get smarter. But because when you read about your spiritual more advanced state, then from those greater states the Light shines on you, in your present state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then you just start understanding everything in a simple way, without too much wisdom, but it just becomes more and more lucid and understood what\u2019s happening in your life. It\u2019s a process, and it takes time. You go through confusions and some vagueness in your understanding and sensations and then everything becomes clear again. It\u2019s a process, but it has to be a pleasant, natural process, because you just study yourself, and about yourself. All the books talk about you, only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, you don\u2019t need to listen to all kinds of terms, like faith above reason. What did he say, \u201cThere\u2019s no one else besides Him\u201d? What will it give you to try to follow this principle? It won\u2019t give you anything. They say, \u201cThere\u2019s no one else besides Him.\u201d So what, do I know it or understand it, or do I know what they\u2019re talking about? Therefore, forget about all those slogans. Of course, they are true and they are of a higher truth, and the real truth, but it\u2019s not for us now. Later it will be discovered and revealed in a simple way, in a plain way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn\u2019t demand anything, but a natural relation of a person, because it opens up your soul. You\u2019re demanded to recognize your soul, to feel it and to receive the Eternal life within it. So good luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: The Creator is not an image, so how do we reach Him?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Creator is not an image; yes and no. It says, \u201cHe created man in His image and His shadow.\u201d There\u2019re many verses about it, but forget about the verses. In a more simple way, one gets to know what the Creator is, if he tries to be similar to the Creator. Therefore, he is called&nbsp;<em>Adam<\/em>, from the word \u2018&nbsp;<em>Dome,\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;similar to the Creator. So we have to become&nbsp;<em>Adam<\/em>&nbsp;(a man).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I correct my entire ego to bestowal and love, then I already take on the form of Godliness, the form of the Creator and that\u2019s how I get to know Him. That is called, \u201cBy Your actions we will know You.\u201d By the corrected me, I will know who the Creator is. And then, according to the extent that I correct myself, how much I become similar to the quality of the Creator, and of bestowal and love like Him, then accordingly, I will sense Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will get closer to one another to the point that we will bond with each other, as if there\u2019s no difference between us, like a hug, where everyone becomes integrated with the other. This is what everyone has to achieve, and this is the purpose of creation. One who wants to get to it should try harder and he\u2019ll get to that faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: Man\u2019s corporeal states are divided to past, present and future. Are the spiritual states divided the same way? For instance, can you divide the&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>, or the spiritual fulfillments according to spiritual times? I understood that in spirituality there is cause and effect, so it seems that there\u2019s no present, there\u2019s only past and future, cause and consequence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. Laitman:<\/strong>&nbsp;No, first of all, we learn that everything that exists in corporeality comes down from spirituality. The spiritual forces descend, build matter and give a form to matter. Therefore, in our world in the wisdom of Kabbalah we learn the material Kabbalah and the formative Kabbalah. This is what has to do with the wisdom of Kabbalah, first of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, these times, past, present and future also exist in spirituality and, therefore, they exist in corporeality as well. And past, present and future in spirituality is described like this: future are the Lights that are above my vessels, above the state of receiving them, and later they descend, and this is called&nbsp;<em>Ohr Makif<\/em>&nbsp;(Surrounding Light) that turns to the Inner Light. When I receive it, it is called present and when it leaves me, it creates the past;&nbsp;<em>Teamim<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Nekoudot<\/em>&nbsp;when the Lights depart from me. Thus, there are past, present and future in spirituality as well. In our world there\u2019s a replica of past, present and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Question: How is it possible to transcend the will to receive? What is the inner thought that I should cling to? Can you give me more tools?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M. 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This is what Baal HaSulam writes about in the articles of&nbsp;<em>Matan Torah (The Revelation of Godliness)<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Arvut.<\/em>&nbsp;This is what RABASH writes about in all of his articles that talk about the society. The whole wisdom and the next world are attained in the connection between the souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the breakage we fell from spirituality, because our souls got distanced from one another and started hating one another. If we connect our souls above hatred with love and connection, then we attain spirituality there. So without a group you can\u2019t do it. 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