Life, Death, And Consciousness

Question: If it is not the soul, then what enters a new body in the new birth in a reincarnation?

Answer: The point in the heart.

Question: What happens to our consciousness when the biological body dies?

Answer: Nothing happens. The fact is that our consciousness exists in order to safeguard our egoism. When egoism dies, that is, when it hides from us, then consciousness becomes of no use to us. Therefore, it disappears.

But with the help of our method, we develop a new kind of consciousness and a new kind of desire. The new consciousness serves the new desire—the desire to give. And we do not need to die for this. We can live several lives and deaths during the current existence of our body.

Moreover, we will not feel that we are dying because we will already be in a completely different “beyond body” state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 10/7/18

Not To Harm The Group

Rabash, “The Agenda of the Assembly”: Each one should seriously consider the purpose of the gathering—that it should bring about a sensation, following the assembly of friends, that each one has something in his hand which he can put in his vessels, and that he is not in the form of, “But do not put any in your vessels.” Each one should consider that if he does not sit especially attentive during the assembly, not only does he himself lose, but he also corrupts the whole of society.

To the extent that a person can receive from the whole group, he can also under-deliver, that is, bring harm to it.

Question: Is that the fear that a person should have?

Answer: Definitely. It is considered to be his achievement or vice versa. In general, he can go either to the plus or the minus in relation to the group.

Question: So if I don’t invest toward the goal in relation to the group, do I fear that my actions will harm it?

Answer: Fear is not the issue. The fact is that every positive or negative result stems from what you invested into or took from the group. By taking, it means you introduced a negative force of moving forward to the group. But by investing in it, you create a positive force of advancement.

Practically, you take nothing for yourself. However much of the positive or negative force you brought into the group should be measured, and that is what is yours. That is, the group feels the result of your actions, and it stays there.

The negative force means criticism, various arguments, and descents, including personal ones. Positive forces are high spirits, security on the path, inspiration, etc.

Both, positive and negative states should be brought together. But the negative ones should be scrutinized and applied to our work.

Question: How can we bring the negative states into the group correctly?

Answer: If you scrutinize them correctly, the group will benefit from it. There can be no advancement without positive and negative factors.
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From KabTV’s “The Last Generation,” 6/27/18

Feel The Creator’s Game

Question: There are events we perceive as right or wrong, good or evil. Does it depend on our perception? Or is there a system of good and evil?

Answer: Evil does not exist. And the so-called negative effects are needed only to push us toward the goal of creation, to set us in motion.

If you feel any impact on yourself, you should first relate it to the Creator and try to unite with your friends even more despite this influence. And then, look at what happens with the negative impact: does it remain or gradually disappear like fog. From this, you will begin to experience the Creator’s game. This is not psychology but forces that act in nature.

So first try to resolve any negative effects in the group, in greater connection with each other.

This is what we do at every daily Kabbalah lesson. Watch our lessons sometimes even if at first they seem difficult, confusing, too private to you. In these lessons we study the impact of the Creator on us and our correct reaction, which leads us to the goal—to the revelation of the Creator.

To reveal the Creator is to reveal the system of governance, to reveal the cause of what is happening in us, with us, yesterday, tomorrow, before life, after death, etc. This is the subject of the science of Kabbalah.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/14/18

To Whom Is The Creator Good That Does Good?

Question: To whom of those living on earth is the Creator good that does good? How and with what do these people compensate the negative side of the system of governance?

Answer: The Creator is good that does good to the ones who feel it. There is no favoritism here as if to someone He is good and to someone else bad. He presents the same conditions for everyone.

It is just that each of us has his or her own individual soul and depending on its development, a person feels the influence of the Creator. Perhaps this impact is still quite neutral and distant, which does not particularly bother him, and therefore, he does not ask such questions. Nevertheless, everything that people do, they do only under the influence of the Creator.

There are people who already feel that it comes from someone and they begin to search.

And there are those who already reveal who causes all these sensations and movements in them, who controls them. Thus, through their inner work, they attain the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 10/14/18

New Life 151 – Socioeconomic Gaps

New Life 151 – Socioeconomic Gaps
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

Happiness is really a divine product. We all have a much higher standard of living than we had 50 years ago but there is no joy. We are divided, distant, and alienated from one another. The growing human ego demands something new. We haven’t yet digested what it is. We can’t fill ourselves and are no longer satisfied with material attainments, no matter how wealthy we are. Technology frees most of us from the need to work and yet, we are left without much of a reason for living alone. The source of the new happiness is found on the social level of human life. We lack warmth and heart-to-heart connection like a child in his mother’s lap. We used to live in a family and today we need to us to embrace the whole world as family. The gaps between us will remain but the feeling of family and mutual concern will soon be awakened between everyone.
From KabTV’s “New Life #151 – Socioeconomic Gaps,” 2/28/13

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The Path Of Kabbalah

Question: What is the path of Kabbalah?

Answer: The path of Kabbalah is the middle line.

The left line is the path of egoism and the right line is the path of bestowal. We cannot move in either one because both of these lines come from above. They are the forces of our development, and we are arranged so as to correctly combine them with each other.

The ability to combine the right and left lines and move in the middle line is the result of all our efforts.
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From the Kabbalah lesson in Russian, 11/18/18

New Life #152 – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part 1

New Life #152 – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Summary

The nation of Israel is a natural social phenomenon. It is a small group of people from which operating commands spread around the world. The world is completely influenced by Israel’s relationships both internally and externally. Jewish people have a unique ability to rise above their differences and provide an example of positive relations between people to the whole world. When they fail to radiate connection, the world suffers, accuses them, and closes in on them. Anti-Semitism is a law of social nature. Currently, the lack of connection within Israel is causing the global crisis. The Palestinians want the Israelis to leave the area and the world wants them to completely disappear. Jews are not realizing our destiny or the reason we were given a state. The great anti-Semites wrote that if the Jews were to connect, all the world’s problems would be solved. A show of connection will reassure everyone. The world expects us to bring it to a perfect new experience of life in which each person feels full and complete. It is in our power to decide.
From KabTV’s “New Life #152 – The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part 1,” 3/3/13

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Transmitting Kabbalistic Information

Question: What are lyrics for a Kabbalist? Can Kabbalists feel sad?

Answer: Lyrics are feelings. In Kabbalah, feelings always have their specific mathematical expression.

I can write them in the form of a formula, send it to you via fax or by email, and if you understand it, you can already manage this formula, that is, you can reproduce it in yourself and feel what I feel. Then you and I will have the same feelings. In this way we transmit Kabbalistic information to each other.

In our world, we can transmit sensorial information to each other, but it will express different sensations in us. Suppose a certain symphony is being played; each perceives it differently because it imposes sounds that evoke feelings in each one, and therefore everyone interprets them in accordance with their inner experiences, with their past, etc.

This is not the case in Kabbalah. In reproducing Kabbalistic information, you penetrate it sensorially, you transmit your whole self over to this information, it plays in you. You become the material that it sculpts and forms; you experience this state.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 11/11/2018