About the book: 2003 / 1. Free will. (We often make mistakes in determining the limits of our capabilities in achieving a goal. We want to achieve the incredible or change what is beyond our control. The science of Kabbalah gives the answer to the questions: what exactly in our life can we influence? Is the freedom of action given to us enough to change our life and destiny? Why do people naturally? nature, does not receive this knowledge? In any case, our ideas about freedom are very vague, and if we delve into its content, then almost nothing will remain of it)2. What is Kabbalah? (Many have heard that Kabbalah is a secret teaching. It was its closedness, the veil of secrecy that gave rise to many legends, falsifications, profanations, ignorant reasoning and conclusions around Kabbalah) 3. The structure of the soul (A person in our world cannot exist without basic knowledge about how this world works, how it affects us, what are the laws of development of inanimate, plant, animal nature and humans. No one doubts that if fate throws a modern city dweller into the desert, he will be unfamiliar with the living conditions in the desert. desert, will simply perish. That is, in order to exist in any environment, it is necessary to know how this environment functions, what its laws and properties are. In the same way, a modern person needs to understand how his soul works, what laws determine the fate of the individual and humanity. in general) 4. Answers of the Kabbalist (Of all the sciences that humanity is gradually developing, exploring the world around us, there is one special science that develops us in a very special way. This science is called Kabbalah. In addition to our material world studied by natural science, there is a world hidden from us that this science studies. By discovering only partial, fragmentary laws of the universe, we understand that there must be more general laws, more logical and capable of explaining all facets of our life, our personality) 5. Spirit and body (Man is designed in such a way that he always looks forward, to his future growth , advancement. His path is an ascent “from bottom to top,” and each future state seems better than the present one. And since man is created striving for the future, he cannot recognize and feel the states that precede his physical birth. originates, from where that which constitutes his “I” appears in him. The birth and development of spiritual properties is similar to the birth and development of the human body) 6. The secret meaning of the Bible (Kabbalah is the engineering of the soul, and the Bible is a description of the spiritual world, that is, a description of the human world). the soul, the stages of its rapprochement with the Creator, Kabbalah divides the common soul into parts, gives each part a specific name, and describes the actions of these parts. And the entire text of the Pentateuch is a description of the stages of rapprochement with the Creator, different stages of feeling the Creator. For example, cabalistic literature speaks of Jerusalem not as a city known to us, but as a collection of certain spiritual forces and a concentration of certain spiritual energy, which have their specific position on the conventional scale of spiritual worlds for us)7. Issue No. 4. Proceedings of the Russian Federal Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Philosophical Society. Russian Academy of Sciences. Kabbalah as an Integral Science (The collection contains articles by members of the Russian Philosophical Society and the International Academy of Kabbalah under the leadership of Professor M. Laitman. The book is addressed to philosophers, teachers of philosophy, and everyone interested in new forms of scientific knowledge)