Hello to all of you who find interest in the wisdom of Kabbalah and wish to know what this wisdom is really about, and what it guides a person to achieve. I highly recommend not to miss the upcoming opportunity at the 2024 EU Annual KabU Retreat to connect with others who started studying the wisdom of Kabbalah. You have a truly unique opportunity to come together and find in that connection all the answers to every possible question that a person may have. So I wish you the best of luck in discovering all the secrets of nature, and the secrets of your destiny and purpose. Good luck ..read more

To this day, I continue receiving favorable comments about my book, Attaining the Worlds Beyond, which I wrote around 30 years ago. I am happy to know that, thanks to this work, many people have come to the study of Kabbalah and thought about the meaning of life. I had written this book in a two-week-long period after the passing of my teacher, Kabbalist Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (the RABASH). It was the result of an accumulation, pressure and a feeling of an obligation from within, as if it would weigh heavily on me if I had not have done it, and then I poured out on paper m ..read more

Light and Darkness met. “What do people find in you?”—exclaimed Darkness in surprise. “Neither beauty nor mystery—you just hurt one’s eyes!” Light did not answer. It just politely stepped aside and silently illuminated the road because Darkness was heading toward an abyss without even seeing it. Today, we experience an engulfing feeling of approaching an abyss and that there is no one to light the way. In order to become a light in this dark time we are living in, we only need mutual support and compassion. In the above allegory, Light said nothing to Darkness, it simply stepped aside and ill ..read more

Young children, at around an elementary school level, should be told stories of complete kindness. Afterward, more naturally, they should be given stories where evil is present on par with good, i.e., stories where good wins and evil retreats. When a child matures, then the child can read stories where evil prevails. This process gradually transitions from fairy tales to real life, where evil wins. Children need to learn not to oppose evil, because doing so will lead them to invite problems on themselves. They need to learn that evil wins, but they should remain on the sidelines. At no point ..read more

Divorces are at an all-time high due to human egoism, our natural desire to enjoy at the expense of others, which has reached overblown proportions in our times. It increasingly makes us intolerable of one another. Many couples get married due to receiving great fulfillment from each other for a certain period of time. Then, the moment they feel that they no longer receive fulfillment from each other, they cast each other away. The old idea of an initial feeling of love that we believe will remain until our dying day, and that we will do everything to sustain and grow, is childish babble. Ins ..read more

Matzah is unleavened bread that is made in a special way, with minimal water needed to make leaven. It is baked and eaten in remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt and symbolizes our swift inner transition in our attitude to each other and to life in general, from egoism to altruism, i.e., from the desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone to the desire to bestow. This egoism-to-altruism transition takes place unexpectedly and suddenly, in what seems to us as the most inappropriate place and time. We undergo an accumulative process where we aspire to such a transition, but we do not see it app ..read more

On the first day of Passover, we exit our egoistic intention for self-benefit alone, which Egypt represents, and we continue exiting this self-serving intention on each successive day until we reach a complete detachment from the control of egoism. We accordingly approach the Red Sea, and become ready to leap into it in order to completely detach ourselves from egoism, i.e., from Egypt. Egypt is the final frontier of the corporeal egoistic world beyond which lies an arbitrary line called “the Machsom” (“barrier”). By crossing this barrier, we start feeling the spiritual qualities of love ..read more

I received a question from a lady, Olga, on my Facebook page, where she wrote the following: “Dear Dr. Laitman, I’ve been listening to you for a long time and I usually agree with you, but there’s one thing I cannot agree with, how you say that the Creator is good. It is not true. He’s not good. Look around! Even if I repeat ‘the Creator is good, the Creator is good’ as a mantra, the horrors won’t stop. Why is He so unkind to us? Why does He make so many innocent people suffer?” It is true that people are suffering and that the Creator is unkind. But together with being unkind, He is just ..read more

We are the source of joy and sorrow mine. We are a repository of filth, and pure spring. People, as in a mirror, the world is multifaceted. He is insignificant and he is infinitely great! – Omar Khayyam Indeed, we are a repository of both filth and purity. What this means is that we were cast away from the spiritual side of love, bestowal and connection to their corporeal opposites. We do not feel the spiritual qualities, nor any closeness to them, and nor any need to come closer to them. We are simply absorbed within ourselves, in our own egoistic self-interest. Filth is the fact that we d ..read more

A man once found an eagle’s egg and placed it among chickens. The eaglet grew up together with the chicks. Like them, it clucked and scratched the ground, searched for worms, flapped its wings, and tried to fly. One day, the grown eagle saw a proud bird in the sky. The bird was soaring, flapping its large wings. Enchanted, the eagle asked, “Who is that?” “That’s an eagle, the king of all birds,” a fellow chicken replied. “It belongs to the sky. But we chickens belong to the earth.” The eagle then continued to live and eventually die like a chicken because that is what it believed. This allego ..read more