What Does The Wisdom Of Kabbalah Study?

Question: What does Kabbalah say about the mystery of dark energy and dark matter?

Answer: Kabbalah does not deal with the phenomena of our world and doesn’t say anything about them. One can draw some parallels between the upper world and ours, but these comparisons are relative and do not directly relate to each other.

Question: What does Kabbalah study? Can we say that it studies man’s consciousness and the connection between consciousnesses?

Answer: No. Kabbalah studies two properties of the desire: the property of bestowal and the property of reception. Both desires are at the core of our nature. The correspondence between these properties—which of them prevails, to what extent, and so on—constitutes all parts and all levels of creation.

Question: What does it mean “Kabbalah does not study our world”?

Answer: Sciences of our world do that. And the wisdom of Kabbalah studies the next, so-called higher level. But to do this you have to be at the level at which you want to study it.
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From KabTV’s lesson in Russian, 12/25/16

To See A Worthy Husband

Question: How can a woman rise to such a spiritual degree that will let her see a worthy husband in every bachelor?

Answer: You don’t have to be on a high spiritual degree for this. On the contrary, lower your nose to the material world and everything will be all right. You will immediately see worthy men around you.

Don’t assume airs, it’s not good. You will lose.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/4/16

North Korea’s Nuclear Power

Comment: North Korea continues to increase its nuclear power. Around it, like sharks, American cruisers begin to move. South Korea is concerned about the events there. The entire world gradually starts to tremble, believing that a real nuclear war could be started there.

My Response: It is quite possible. The fact is that the young man that is now in power in North Korea never was at war and didn’t serve in the army, yet he is a commander-in-chief. So what can be done?

Comment: Nevertheless, they managed to stay independent and still remain in their communist miracle.

My Response: On the one hand, they lead a meager life, but on the other hand, they have a certain internal fulfillment in comparison to the rest of today’s world.

Comment: In principle, North Korea is characterized by purely communistic aspiration to equality, to the fact that everyone is working.

My Response: Such equality connects people, gives them inner fulfillment. If the next regime doesn’t supply this, then, of course, they won’t have this fulfillment. Freedom devastates a person.

It would be good to add Kabbalistic principles to what they are trying to build. The Kabbalistic principle is an equal distribution of the gross domestic product and practically no army, meaning just enough to protect the country, but not to be aggressive. Then, ten percent of the funds they spend on the army will be enough for them and they could become a beautiful developing country.

The fact is that the North Korean leader needs to remain in power, and so he acts this way.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 4/13/17

New Life #661 – Stability Versus Revolution

New Life #661 – Stability Versus Revolution
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

We are living in a world of opposites: Liberals versus conservatives, innovation versus stability. If we don’t know what to do, it is better not to do anything.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #661 – Stability Versus Revolution,” 12/15/17

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Generation Gap, Part 1

Question: The eternal topic: fathers and sons—the gap between generations. Why are we so different and do not understand each other? Every 10-15 years a new generation comes, and it is different from the former by its perception of the world. What will help us live in peace with each other with all the differences of views?

Essentially, the generation of fathers has built the entire material basis for our lives, and succeeding generations are less and less compelled to engage in materiality and are more committed to internal human research. How deep in reality is the gap between generations?

Answer: The gap between generations needs to be measured not in quantitative indicators, but in qualitative ones. And this is very difficult because to assess the quality you need to measure the deficiencies: What is this generation aspires for, what is most important for it, that is, what is its scale of priorities?

If we take clear, basic desires: food, sex, family, money, power, and knowledge and measure at what level they stand in each generation and what their priorities are, then we can compose a picture of each generation. But I do not think that someone was engaged in such research.

The wisdom of Kabbalah studies human desires, but does not compare generation to generation. For it, this is not so important. We know that humanity is constantly moving forward, in fact, approaching a great crisis.  

In the end, desires for food, sex, family, money, power, and knowledge will not give a person any fulfillment, and he will want to develop above them. The wisdom of Kabbalah is intended to help in this.

And as long as humanity will not engage in such development of man, he may get stuck in ephemeral material desires for many years and even centuries. We always think that at the next level of desire we will grasp the essence of our life. As if it is there in wealth, in honor, in knowledge that the mystery of life lies, and that by revealing it, we will become happy.

So humanity gradually ripens, until it finally gets disillusioned in all its development, which essentially spun between these six basic desires. But we can shorten the time required for our development. We already see that development leads us to a global crisis, leaving a person completely devastated and swearing that it is better to die than live such a life.

A person cannot live without pleasure, but modern man will not be able to receive pleasure because the egoistic desire completed its development. Man is left without desires, in despair, and does not know where to continue further. But Kabbalah explains that all human evolution from the very beginning was absolutely a lost cause.

Realizing this, we reduce our ordeals for many hundreds of years and avoid wars, disputes, great suffering, and tragedies on the level of individual, the family, and the state. With the help of integral education, Kabbalah can lead humanity to realization of all its mistakes, without having to go through them all on its own skin.

And this is what Kabbalah advises people: give a person the right education as soon as possible so that he understands that the race for six material idols: food, sex, family, money, honor, and knowledge does not promise any success. Then this race will be short, thought through, and will quickly end, giving a beneficial result, that is, leading to the realization of evil.
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From KabTV’s “New Life” #851, 4/17/17

Uniting Desires

Question: Suppose that my friend and I are hungry and are preparing to eat lunch together. Does this mean that we have united our desires? What does it mean to unite desires?

Answer: You could unite like that all you want, but your desires will not be connected. They only unite if you yearn for a single goal, a higher goal above your ego, according to the principle, “When in Him will my soul rejoice.”

To rise to the upper world, two people must unite and create a common desire like that of the Creator.

This desire is built upon mutual integration between them where they are ready to help each other have a positive influence on the Creator. Nonetheless, a person begins to influence the Creator to the same degree that the Creator influences the person.

Question: What are the tools that the wisdom of Kabbalah offers to a person who wants to begin to manage his reality?

Answer: This instrument is the characteristic of bestowal that we acquire when we connect together.

It means that a third characteristic is built between two egoists (ego ₁ and ego ₂), the characteristic of bestowal (bestowal ₁₊₂). To the degree that they bestow to each other mutually, they begin to direct and turn it toward the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/27/16

Is It Possible To Run Away From Problems?

Question from Facebook: You say that the world is terrible. I just dropped everything and left the city. How can one live in the cities? Returning to nature is the solution to all problems.

Answer: I understand you, yet this is not the solution to the problem but an escape from problems. In principle, this is what many people do: If there is a possibility, they buy a small house on an island in the ocean and live there. You too are welcome to buy a house in the countryside and live in peace.

I personally cannot do this because I worry about the world, the society, people, their changing nature, and them reaching the purpose of creation. Studying the world, I begin to realize that the world was created for humans to change, to ascend, to transform themselves and thereby transform the world.

Therefore, I cannot retire and live somewhere on a tree, thinking that everything is peaceful and good. I am concerned about other problems than just retire and end my life in peace.

Moving from cities to nature will not change anything. This will not end our problems. We see that we left caves, climbed down from trees, evolved, and all this happened in us naturally. We cannot think of anything else.

We have nowhere to go because we only have a small planet Earth. Instead of separating and isolating ourselves from each other, we have to create good relations among ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 3/27/2017

New Life #659 – Unity Between Right And Left

New Life #659 – Unity Between Right And Left
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel

Summary

The need to define ourselves as members of the right or left wings of the political map is part of our development as human beings. There is a constant struggle all over the world between the right and the left parties. We must not destroy either side; we must find a way to combine and connect the two without letting either side control the other.
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From KabTV’s “New Life #659 – Unity Between Right And Left,” 12/15/15

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