Audio Version Of The Blog – 8/29/20
Posted on August 29th, 2020
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Question: Millions of people today understand what you are talking about, but only politicians who set laws can change public opinion. And they are selected by the media. Moreover, the media is in the hands of the rich, and the rich don’t want to change anything. It turns out that it is a vicious circle. Is there a way out of this situation?
Answer: Nature tells us the way out. It will still lead us to a big bang, egoism, frustration. And then we can change everything. No power consisting of power and money can rule the world more than the people themselves want.
And people are gradually beginning to understand that to continue to exist like this means to disfigure nature, themselves, and their children, and something must be done about it.
I believe that we live in such a generation and in such a time when the integral, global attacks that the virus conducts on us will quickly change the opinion of humanity about how it should treat the world, life, nature, and itself. In the end, everything will change.
Crises change a person’s consciousness and it is impossible to develop further without them.
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From KabTV’s “The Post-Coronavirus Era” 5/30/20
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Question: Why does the ego subjugate only to fear?
Answer: What else can it subjugate to? The ego wants to fill itself with everything except fear, except the feeling of emptiness. This is the only thing it fears.
Question: How can we nevertheless connect such incompatible attributes like egoism and altruism?
Answer: Egoism and altruism can connect only one above the other. This is called faith above reason, when altruism is more important than egoism. This is what you determine when you study the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Question: If man is the force of bestowal and woman is the force of reception, why are there so many couples of the same gender?
Answer: First of all, the question is formulated incorrectly. From a spiritual perspective, men and women differ only by their egoistic attributes. In men, they manifest themselves in their own way and in women in their own way. But they are both egoistic. Couples represent animalistic coupling of people and it has nothing to do with spirituality.
Question: What is love and friendship according to the wisdom of Kabbalah?
Answer: Love and friendship relate only to people with whom I develop spiritually within my Kabbalistic group. Other than that, there is family and children, but these are totally different mutual daily relations.
Question: How do you relate to information about chip implants and about 5G?
Answer: All this has nothing to do with spirituality, and therefore, it does not interest me.
Question: Will money disappear in the future? And if, for example, you have two apartments, will you have to give away one of them?
Answer: You owe nothing to anyone. And money will not disappear. It may change its essence; there may not be bills or coins any more but something else. But it will not disappear because it is equivalent to communication.
Question: What role will medicine play in the near future? What values should it develop on?
Answer: Only on the value of preserving and supporting people’s lives so that they can ascend in spirituality.
Question: Are you sure that you answer all the questions you are asked correctly?
Answer: I am sure!
Question: How can I force myself to restrain my emotions when they disobey and spill out of me?
Answer: Let them out, there is nothing wrong in that. Are we not human? After all, it happens to everyone, including me. It is better to let them out.
Question: Which professions are the most altruistic?
Answer: The most altruistic profession is being a teacher of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
Question: How many people who have already corrected their ego can change the world and when will it happen?
Answer: Basically, the world is changing with all of us. Each of us constantly changes the world either by suffering or by good deeds. Don’t worry, think about your correct participation in this process and everything else will work out.
Question: How can one keep his internal religious belief and develop the desire to correct oneself and the whole world?
Answer: What does that have to do with religion? I don’t have such an environment and have nothing to do with religion. Therefore, I cannot advise you on that.
Question: Do our thoughts impact the world?
Answer: They definitely do! Nothing other than our thoughts impacts the world. The world and everything in it is a thought. We exist in a thought and there is nothing other than that around us: no matter, no motion. It is all thoughts.
Question: The more I delve into the study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, the more doubts I have, starting from the question whether what the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches is true to the question whether I will be able to reach the end and ascend above the ego. What can you advise people like me?
Answer: Continue to doubt, and do it harder, because this is the only way you will reach the truth.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 5/17/20
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Irrational Hatred of the Jews
Question: Before the Second World War, new Zionist movements appeared: the revisionists and the Jewish Agency for Israel (HaSochnut HaYehudit L’Eretz Yisra’el), which were at great odds with each other.
The fact is that the Nazis were willingly cooperating with the Zionists, especially with the Jewish Agency for Israel where Arlozorov was one of the members.
The revisionists, led by Jabotinsky, believed that they must not make any agreements with Nazi Germany, while the Jewish Agency negotiated with it, trying to solve the Jewish Question. Germany even gave money for moving the Jews out of the country.
Why did the Germans have such an incomprehensible hatred of Jews that they were willing to pay all expenses to expel them from Germany? Why did this 1% of the population bother them so much?
Answer: But what a 1%! It does not dissolve into other peoples. If you dug into the leadership of the Nazi Germany, you would find a lot of Jewish blood there.
Question: But the Nazis were very careful in examining the ancestry of Germans since 1600, trying to find out whether anyone in the family was Jewish. And if there was a great-grandmother or great-grandfather, then you could no longer stay in Germany. It was absolute madness. Where did this come from?
Answer: This is the working of a spiritual force; nothing can be done here.
Remark: It follows that it was something mystical, out of the ordinary.
My Comment: That’s how it was. This accompanies the Jewish people because they are tied to the spiritual force of nature.
For many years, the Nazis tried to get rid of the Jews in every possible way, sparing no effort or expense. They went around the country offering Jews everything they could to get them out of Germany and free the state from them. But the Jews would cling to this country as if it was something special.
Germany is the center of Europe. Jews had settled there a long time ago and had deeply absorbed the German culture. Don’t forget that Yiddish is a German dialect. In addition, Germany was not as ultra-religious as France or Spain. The Germans were friendlier to the Jews. There was no such anti-Jewish sentiment as in Spain, France, or England, where Jews were forced into synagogues and burned alive.
Remark: However, when Hitler came to power, a different policy was adopted in the country. It was forbidden to appoint Jews to public offices.
My Comment: But it was still official. The Germans are very meticulous. If a law is officially adopted, they comply with it; if not, they do not. Thus, it was customary for them to act within the letter of the law.
For more on this topic, read my books Like a Bundle of Reeds: why unity and mutual guarantee are today’s call of the hour, and The Jewish Choice: Unity or Anti-Semitism, Historical facts on anti-Semitism as a reflection of Jewish social discord.
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From KabTV’s “Systematic Analysis of the Development of the People of Israel” 8/12/19
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Question: Can a person consciously move from a lower level of needs to a higher one?
Answer: This depends on the people around him and the environment in which he prefers to be.
In principle, starting from the moment when a person begins to stand out from the horde of animals, he can choose his environment. Gradually, by changing his environment, he can move up the degrees of the pyramid of desires, regardless of how the normal, natural ascent on it takes place.
Question: Do you think that personal growth can only happen consciously, or do we simply reveal our inherent potential?
Answer: Naturally, this is all determined by the fate of a person. However, at the same time, a person is given the opportunity to accelerate their development.
On the one hand, personal growth is determined in advance. On the other hand, it depends on the individual. In other words, the speed of the potential unfolding depends on the environment in which he exists.
Baal HaSulam, in the article “The Freedom,” explains how this can be changed and how to use this.
Question: What is more important for personal growth: potential, genes, or environment?
Answer: The fundamental thing is genes. They, in the end, push the person to realize himself. Then comes the influence of the environment.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/25/20
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Brain waves are our strongest weapon against the coronavirus. Our thoughts and desires have the power to change reality and heal us physically. The real vaccine against the coronavirus and all viruses is to change our attitudes toward one another. We live in a field of forces that influence the entire universe. Viruses come on the level of thought and desire, through the air. The human ego that aims to be better than others at the expense of others is evil insofar as it weakens us and makes us ill.
We need a special education system that will teach everyone how to be good to one another and connect above all the disturbances between us. We must change ourselves so that we engage in heart-to-heart relations with others. We experience new life and vitality when we change our natures from egoistic to altruistic and from hate to love.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 1273 – The Power To Change Reality,” 8/3/20
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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 8/28/20
My teacher used to say that if a person stands next to a heavy bag and asks people to help him pick it up and mount it on his shoulder, no one will help him. But if he picks up the bag, places it on his shoulder, and the bag almost slips because it’s too heavy for him to carry by himself, everyone around will jump to his assistance. The moral of the story is simple: Before you ask for help, make an effort to help yourself. Then, if you need help, it will come for certain.
Today, more than ever, it is clear that only we can help ourselves. If we wait for government officials to do our work for us, we can wait forever. But through mutual responsibility, there is no limit to what we can achieve.
There are many lessons we can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic, but in my opinion, the single most important takeaway is that we are one system, and the well-being of the system depends on the quality of the connections among its parts. The virus, with its unbelievable ease of contagion, has taught us that an infection anywhere is an infection everywhere. Against our will, it made us responsible for each other’s health, but in doing so, it stressed a truth we had already known: We are completely dependent on each other.
The realization that we are responsible for one another didn’t come only to teach us that we must not infect each other with diseases. It came to show that if we want to have a good life on this planet, we have to connect our hearts, since otherwise we will not have the motivation to do what we must in order to help one another physically.
Put differently, the health crisis we are experiencing with the pandemic is first and foremost a social crisis, a symptom of social disintegration. In fact, if we did not suffer from social disintegration, the majority of crises we are currently experiencing would never materialize. The wave of gun violence in New York City and Chicago, are they not a symptom of social disintegration? The crisis of addiction to prescription and even over the counter drugs that has been killing tens of thousands of Americans each year, is this not due to social disintegration? What about domestic violence, police brutality, racism, fanaticism, sexual abuse, verbal and physical abuse, depression, obesity, the cancel culture, are they all not consequences of social disintegration?
Clearly, the true remedy that we need today is to care for one another, or at least to be responsible for one another. But no one will build social responsibility for us if we don’t do this by ourselves—community after community, city after city, state after state, and all over the country.
Covid-19 is a challenge. And rising to the challenge means that the challenge should raise us to a higher level than before. Otherwise, why did the challenge come in the first place? In the case of the coronavirus, it evidently came in order to raise us from the nadir of isolation to the zenith of connection. This, today, is our road to happiness.
Question: The needs of the lowest level of our desires do not disappear; they are preserved at all levels. Therefore, even if I am at the top of the pyramid today, will I always have animalistic needs?
Answer: The whole set of them. Each of us contains the entire pyramid of desires. Moreover, the higher we rise in our values, the stronger our connection with the lowest levels becomes.
Therefore, in Kabbalah it is said that the higher a person rises, the stronger his craving for basic needs become—food, sex, family.
Question: That is, it is not that a person begins to neglect them, but on the contrary, he begins to feel a taste for them, a taste for respect, for money, etc.?
Answer: For everything.
Question: Is such a struggle constantly taking place in him?
Answer: This is what his growth is about.
Question: It means that he does not become indifferent to this whole world, money, and everything else?
Answer: Never and in no way. It is only in books they write that spiritual people are supposedly all “God’s dandelions.” On the contrary! As their spiritual desires grow, so do their bodily, egoistic, earthly desires.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills”, 6/25/20
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Comment: They say that the most affordable cure for stress when things are bad is singing. Even better to sing in a choir. Italians and Spaniards go out on their balconies and sing.
Scientists say that when we sing, a large part of our brain is activated. The brain has a singing network of neurons that is distributed quite widely. This is a kind of aerobics, in which the body produces endorphins, hormones of joy. This reduces stress levels and improves mood.
My Response: Obviously.
Question: When I sing, is it as if I get emotionally and sensually out of myself and work for someone else?
Answer: For others, for everybody!
Question: Does it mean that the song has a deep, even spiritual meaning?
Answer: They sing together. If the song is choral, then of course, this is a completely different effect.
The choir connects everybody together into one common whole! If at the same time they chant something like Psalms, then there is a very strong impact.
We praise our commonality, our unity, and we want to appeal from within ourselves, from our common whole, to the upper force of nature, to the Creator, in order to contact Him. We are to Him, and He is to us.
In Italy, people tried to do this, and as a result, they have almost nothing.
Comment: First, we need to sort out ourselves in Israel.
My Response: We will not be able to sort out ourselves! Humanity will suffer, but we will suffer more.
Question: What if we would start singing?
Answer: If Israel starts singing together, in chorus, all of humanity will join, and it will really be an appeal of all of humanity to the upper force. We will rise to the spiritual level, find ourselves in perfection, in health, in eternity.
Question: When you say, “Israel will sing in chorus,” what do you imply by that? What is Israel? Who is this?
Answer: They are just the people of Israel. All those who associate with us, and not necessarily of Jewish origin. If we sing, the whole world will immediately be cured, and absolutely and immediately from all the sicknesses, from all the problems, internal and external ones, and mainly psychological ones.
Question: You say, “We will sing.” What will we sing?
Answer: The heart sings! It sings that I want to unite with everyone and that together with everyone we turn to the Creator. Only with one thing: to help us be together with each other and with Him.
Question: Turning to the Creator, what do I say? What do I sing to Him with my heart?
Answer: To feel only the connection between me, humanity, and the Creator, nothing more.
Question: Do I feel that this is love, that this is bestowal?
Answer: Of course, this is love, this is bestowal, and this is like the feeling of a fetus in the mother’s womb.
Question: In other words, the fetus is singing a blessing for its mother?
Answer: Yes, of course. The best state. There is nothing better!”
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From KabTV’s “The News with Michael Laitman” 7/6/20
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