Question: One of the important rules of the workshop is equality: “In the circle, there are no more or less important participants.” How is everybody equal? Answer: Everybody is equal in relation to unity. The higher and the lower cannot unite. They must be on the same level. In spirituality, connection is possible only according to the extent […]
In light of International Women’s Day, I was asked to give my take on gender equality from the perspective of the wisdom of Kabbalah. To begin with, the idea of comparing men and women is just as wrong as comparing apples and oranges. Nature designed men and women as different creatures, both biologically and psychologically. […]
The most dangerous state is neither ascent nor descent, but indifference. We do not have the strength to get out of it: neither upward nor downward. It is considered death. In a descent, a person experiences various problems, negative influences, and alien thoughts, but he is alive and not dead. Death is indifference. The Creator says, “Come […]
It is said about the people of Israel: “The Creator chose you.” He chose them by giving them a bigger and more developed desire to enjoy. This would make them feel the need to engage in the purpose of creation and correction and find an answer to the question about the meaning of life. Such questions were […]
Question: People rely on particular models of the world that they have formulated in their minds when making decisions. All models, to some degree, are false because they reflect only limited properties of reality. It would be interesting to know in what way a model of the world is false and in what way it may be […]
Question from Facebook: Why does the Creator need so many people on planet Earth? Answer: The number of people on the planet, including those who have died and those who are yet to be born, is strictly predetermined because it depends on the volume of the egoistic desire we must correct. And each of us: […]
Question: How can I rise above time? Answer: In order to rise above time, you need to tell yourself that you do not have a next moment—everything is in this instant. You should live this way; there is only one instant. In each moment, you do not transfer yourself into the next one, but at this instant, you […]
Question: Why can’t we communicate directly with the Creator? Why do we need an intermediary, like a teacher? Answer: It is not an intermediary. It is your previous state. The fact is, creation is a shattered system, which starts to correct itself like links in a continuous chain from the least, almost undamaged elements, to the more complex. An element that […]
Question: Do we have the opportunity to comprehend the universal mind and learn how to correctly perceive, respond, and build our behavior in society and society itself? Answer: If we look only at our life and at our limited possibilities and properties, then the future “does not shine” for us. We see what is happening in the […]