What Does The Life Force Depend On?

Question: What determines how powerful a person’s life force is?

Answer: It depends only on the upper Light. The power of man’s material vital force also depends on the upper Light, but there is a certain correlation between them.

Question: You often say that there is no fatigue. What do you mean by this?

Answer: There is no fatigue because it depends on how the Light influences you. This is why the power of the life force can be absolutely infinite.

To put it simply, we are created so that we should alternate between being awake and being asleep, but this has nothing to do with fatigue. Certain signals are coming down upon us that make us sleep, make us tired, and make us awake, not because the body needs it.

The laws of nature are arranged this way. It comes from the upper worlds.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/17

Evolution And The Spiritual Space

Question: Why does our evolution take place outside of spiritual space?

Answer: Nothing takes place outside of the spiritual space. We simply say that historical development seemingly takes place in our world. What does it mean in our world? It is all in spirituality. Our world doesn’t exist. It is a conditional division.

There is only one creation and everything exists in it. There is no artificial division between the worlds by any partitions. We are the ones who divide everything into parts as a result of our limited attainments and possibilities because all the limitations are inside us.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/2/17

Reading The Book Of Zohar

Question: Why is a collective reading of The Book of Zoharpreferable? Is this related to the laws of psychology?

Answer: No. The upper world is built upon bestowal and love, upon the connection and integration of characteristics.

Kabbalists wrote extensively about these conditions. If relationships exist between friends in which they complement each other, connect, and so forth, then The Book of Zoharbegins to illuminate them and fill them. Otherwise, it has no influence on the person.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/12/17

We Are Killing Sperm

In the News (BBC): “Researchers assessing the results of nearly 200 studies say sperm counts among men from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, seem to have halved in less than 40 years. …

“Dr Levine, an epidemiologist, told the BBC that if the trend continued humans would become extinct. …

“‘If we will not change the ways that we are living and the environment and the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future,’ he said.

“‘Eventually we may have a problem, and with reproduction in general, and it may be the extinction of the human species.'”

Answer: In the 18^th century there were about a billion people on the whole Earth. Two centuries have passed and we have become 8 billion. For what? Instead of 8 billion we can become one billion again or even less.

Question: Do you believe that this is how nature regulates the number of people?

Answer: Everything depends only on us, on our state. We are the ones who are killing ourselves and, of course, killing life, killing sperm.

Comment: They say that the reason for that are the chemicals and fertilizers we use, obesity, smoking…

Answer: No, these are already the outcomes. Everything happens as a result of our killing ourselves. It is as if we don’t want to live, don’t want to exist; we agree with the negative force in us, with our negative nature, and allow it to drive us to extinction.

Question: Could there suddenly be a change?

Answer: No, “suddenly” can’t happen. This can happen only if we recognize our evilnature and realize where we can find the positive force to correct it.

Question: Do you believe that everything that happens, including the decline in the number of sperm cells, is happening for one goal?

Answer: It is only in order to bring us to the recognition of our evil nature, of our egoism, and to oblige us to draw the positive force of nature, which exists and is waiting for us to use it.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 7/27/17

Hatred Of People

Question from Facebook: How can my hatred of people be explained?

Answer: This is a natural human characteristic!

There is no need to be alarmed by it or to apologize for it. In the wisdom of Kabbalah, it is simply written: “Go to the craftsman who made me” (Ta’anit20b), He will correct everything. Depending on the degree of disagreement with what He has done with you, you must turn to Him. It is not your fault that the Creator made you this way, you need to turn to Him so He will change you, and if you ask to be changed so that you will be better, then you will have a connection with Him.

After all, the Creator intentionally created you as evil full of all kinds of corruptions, so if you ask Him to change you, ask only for that; this is what He will do. He was created for this. He is waiting for you to ask. He intentionally created all the evil in me so that I will ask to change all this for the better. In this manner a mutual connection is formed between us; understanding, closeness, common goals, and common work are created.

Question: Can you give an example of a request like this?

Answer: Suppose that I love to steal and I have been caught many times. They beat me and put me in prison, and I come to the conclusion that this was causing me harm.

I begin to ask the Creator that I will stop stealing, and I see that this doesn’t really help me. I think about why this is so. It is apparent to me that I am not asking to be better; rather, I am asking that it will be better for me, and He is not so helpful with that. But if I ask to be truly changed in the direction of goodness, He will help me. That is, everything depends on the degree to which my request is “clean,” how general and detached it is from my egoism.

Question: When I ask for things to be better for me, there is no answer, and when I ask to be better, there is an answer?

Answer: Yes. This is so because when I ask for things to be better for me, but not through “theft,” in fact, this is also theft. He will not help with this. When I ask to be transformed to be better in my relationships with others, when stealing from others hurts me, everything will work itself out.

In other words, if I hate someone, I ask the Creator to correct this characteristic in me into its opposite characteristic.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 7/3/17

Why Do We Study Kabbalah With Others?

Question: I like to study alone, but I’ve heard that one needs to study Kabbalah together in a group. What is the benefit of studying together?

Answer: We know that working together is very beneficial for achieving a significant result. It is no wonder that big firms employ many scientists and engineers to work on large-scale projects and major constructions. One person is not able to solve large, global problems. Kabbalah sets a major task for itself.

That is why after beginning to study Kabbalah a person gradually realizes the need to study in a group. After all, everyone, based on the special root of his soul, represents a specific quality.

Gradually students begin to connect their parts, their souls, until they assemble them into one beautiful mosaic. It is like a Lego or a puzzle that they put together and then they see the whole picture. And the whole picture appears only due to the connection between the students.
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From the conversation “Answers to the questions of beginners” 7/24/17

A Heart And A Point In The Heart

Question: What is a heart in the wisdom of Kabbalah and in what way does the point in the heart differ from the heart?

Answer: The heart is our egoism,  and the point in the heart is the impulse toward the Creator, toward the quality of bestowal, that is latent in us from the start. Otherwise we would not be able to perceive the differences that are happening in us.

We are composed of two parts: a heart and a point in the heart. Within these two opposite characteristics, we can begin to see the direction of our development, how we can rise above our heart toward the point in the heart or the opposite.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 4/2/17

What Should We Waste Our Lives On?

Question: Do I have to give up my corporeal goals in order to attain spirituality?

Answer: What corporeal goals are talking about? Live in peace and that’s it. We all see where the world is coming to anyway.

A person should provide himself with the basic necessities in order to lead a normal life and dedicate everything else to his spiritual development. What else should we waste our life on?
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/12/17