From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/12/19

It was a pleasure having the i24NEWS English crew here at our headquarters in Petah Tikva. They interviewed me about the uniqueness of Bnei Baruch, how we teach Kabbalah, and why it’s becoming so popular in our time. I explained the difference between authentic Kabbalah, and other teachings. We talked about how our organization welcomes individuals of all colors, genders and nationalities, from all over the world.

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A growing resistance of society to the global, integral system—nature, leads to a decline in production, #unemployment, lower standard of living, a mandatory restructuring of financial systems, an involuntary tighter budgeting for everyone in everything.
From Twitter, 9/12/19

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Question: If everyone said that the soul is the most important thing and the body is nothing, people would probably have a different attitude toward death?

Answer: There is no doubt.

Question: Why don’t they?

Answer: First, because no one in the general population feels this, and second, it is anti-egoistic. After all, if this is directed against egoism, then who wants to work against it?

Here it is necessary to think, to make efforts, to act somehow, to organize something. What will I get from this? Nothing in this world: no food, no sex, no family, no fame, no knowledge.

Question: It is probably easier for a person to live with what is thought up in religions about the existence of a future world. But how much does the hope that there is something somewhere psychologically improve a person’s life?

Answer: Today, to improve a person’s life psychologically, it is unnecessary to be religious.

We see religions gradually fading. Recently, a lot of non-religious people have appeared who despise different beliefs of people because religions do not specifically answer our questions.

If a person needs to transform this life a little, he has Hollywood, the Internet, or something else. That’s enough for him. He will create any illusory world for himself.

What is there after death? No one knows. Therefore, a person no longer believes in this. His ego outgrew these tales and can no longer believe, much less sacrifice his time and intellect.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah”, 12/11/18

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Question: Will we ultimately have to manage the world ourselves or is it enough to reach the higher management, to agree with it, and merge with it?

Answer: No! We must rise to the level of replacing the Creator in His full control of all of creation, not only in our world but in all the worlds.

Question: Freddy Mercury brought pleasure to 110,000 people in a stadium in England, they sang together with him as a single body. Did he also influence the Creator positively?

Answer: You cannot even think like that because neither Freddy Mercury nor any other famous singer acted with a corrected intention.

Question: Are there intermediaries between the influence of the Creator and a person?

Answer: There are no intermediaries between the Creator and a person. None are needed. As for me, I am not an intermediary. I am a guide.

Question: Can other forces, good or evil, enter into our relationship with the Creator, help or harm?

Answer: No, everything is under the singular control of the Creator.

Question: What did the sin of Adam amount to if he was in spiritual attainment?

Answer: He wanted to bring his entire soul into complete attainment of and full union with the Creator, immediately, all at once.

Question: With knowledge of how the Creator manages the world, can egoism accommodate itself under this management for its own benefit, and as a result of this, distance itself from the Creator?

Answer: No, that will not work. Everything is managed openly and solely through the forces of nature, as it is written, “I am for the Creator and the Creator is for me.” Nothing can be done here. No manipulations will work out.

Question: Why does the Creator hide His perfection, not allowing us to feel unpleasant circumstances as perfect love?

Answer: It is so that we will appreciate this love, this perfection. We must go through all the contradictory situations. There is nothing to be done about it. That is how our world is constructed, because other than the positive power of the Creator, everything else is arranged according to a connection between two forces, positive and negative.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 3/17/19

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New Life 274 – The Ego And I, Part 1
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

The ego is self-love. Without it nothing could exist, including both pain and pleasure. The ego develops via four stages in nature: the still, vegetative, animate, and speaking or human levels. People are unique in their desire to exploit others for their own pleasure. We want what others have. We enjoy harming and humiliating others in order to feel superior. When people want to connect with others, they reveal resistance (the evil inclination). We have reached the peak of the ego’s development and are evolving into a new form of development based on mutual connection and harmony with others and with nature as a whole.

From KabTV’s “New Life 274 – The Ego And I, Part 1,” 12/29/13

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Lesson Preparation

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 22

Lesson on the Topic “A Kli [vessel] that Holds a Blessing for Israel” 

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/11/19

The signs of solidarity, mutual respect and social resilience that we saw after the horrible 9/11 attack in New York, have all disappeared. Today it is painfully clear that people unite only under great duress or trouble. It has been fifteen years since that tragedy, and against the backdrop of global terror, the United States is more frightened than ever of another national disaster. As a result, the government has declared September as a National Preparedness Month, where citizens, business owners and communities are encouraged to prepare for any unexpected crisis or emergency that the US might face. Yet alongside the defense strategies, the one thing that will bring lasting security and balance to our lives is unity. The connection between us has a tremendous power that can prevent any unexpected disaster, and most importantly, to guarantee our good life.

Presidential Proclamation – National Preparedness Month, 2016

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 9/11/19

We have returned to Israel from the World Kabbalah Conference held in Chisinau, Moldova. The conference brought together some 1,500 of my Russian speaking students. It is a great joy that the Creator gathered us to such a wonderful assembly. We achieved more from the conference than I expected. And now on we will move forward together, in one heart. I wish you all to be loved and desired by the Creator!

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Question: Why do Kabbalists constantly use the word “love”?

Answer: Our matter and the matter of all nature is desire. Love is mutual satisfaction, when I satisfy your desires and you satisfy mine, and only thanks to this state do our pluses and minuses become connected, and we turn into one single spiritual body, into one single desire.

Question: If instead of “love,” I say “the force of attraction,” is this correct?

Answer: Say “the force of gravity, unity, or connection.”

Remark: After all, the phrases “love of one’s neighbor” and “love your neighbor as yourself” are so overused and confuse us so much.

My Comment: I understand. I remember I also stumbled on this. Now I cannot imagine some carnal attraction as a synonym for love. After all, these are animal instincts.

Question: The method of Kabbalah consists of establishing the correct connection between people. Through this, as Baal HaSulam writes, we invoke energy from the states we were previously in. The energy begins to affect us and bring us together in the same way that molecules once came together. Only their rapprochement was unconscious, and we must do everything consciously.

What is this action of drawing closer to other people? What should we do?

Answer: We should perceive the desires of other people and try to fill them, and they must do the same with your desires.

Perhaps, we will somehow be able to feel the desires of others, although it is very difficult. We have no idea how to actually do this. If we want to fill them, we will begin to feel how much our egoism counteracts this. We will then have to fight with ourselves, put ourselves below others, and this is already a spiritual action.

Question: How will I fulfill the desires of others if I cannot even fill my own desires?

Answer: You do not have to. Leave your desires alone and fill others’. Then you will see that only in this way you can fill yourself.

Question: But they have a lot of desires, won’t I only be busy filling them all day long.

Answer: It means you will be busy filling yourself all day. Only through others can you fill yourself. That is why humanity is becoming more and more devastated.

Remark: Yes, but I do not feel that way. I do not enjoy filling them. Only if I love someone, then, yes.

My Comment: Therefore, you must demand that you have love for them. This is already above your egoism.
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From KabTV’s “Basics of Kabbalah,” 12/11/18

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