Since humanity does not understand what has happened to it as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, it wants to return to its old familiar life. People dream that everything will be the same; factories, restaurants, entertainment venues, and the businesses that were closed in 2020, will all open as if the clock was turned back.

The media paints the future as a complete copy of the past and only discusses how much time and money it will take to restore the old way of life. But we must not think this way! After all, we will squander all the resources that are left without any benefit and will be left empty-handed, without strength or hope for the future.

It is impossible to go back to the past. We are obliged to move forward toward greater connection between people, toward greater rapprochement, toward friendly relations, and in this way we will be able to come to a new world. If we want to restore our previous way of life, then we will call blows from nature upon ourselves, which will have to teach us, at the cost of great suffering, that there is no turning back.

When I see the pressure emanating from nature, which strives to organize humanity at a new level, with renewed vigor, I am glad that—instead of a world war with many millions killed and dying of hunger—it is acting with such gentle and careful methods, with love. This is how a parent raising a child understands that he has to put pressure on the child to restrict him so that he does not act outrageously and does not harm himself. But all this pressure is out of love.

This is the same parental attitude that I have felt coming toward us from nature and have realized that this will last for several years because nature is pressing on us in a very gentle way. Nature could have twisted us in a hard way, but it has given humanity time to figure out where we are. I hope we will accept this hint correctly.

I think that in 2021, we will all feel and understand this purposeful appeal of nature that is meant to organize us and turn us in the right direction. All the states have come for our benefit so that we will go deeper into them, and reveal and feel the special care from above that is moving us forward to a new level, a new stage of human existence.

Nature is helping us get closer to each other and see that there is only a good perspective in front of us. I think that next year will reveal this to us; we just need to open our eyes and our minds and try to understand what nature, that is, the Creator, is doing to us.

To what extent 2021 will be successful depends on whether or not we will understand what the upper force wants to give us and do to us. In its evolution, nature is constantly moving us forward into better conditions so that, instead of fighting, we unite and help each other. Our planet can feed everyone and give all the benefits.

There is enough space for everyone and we have enough strength to provide everyone with everything they need for a good, normal existence. In the developed connection between us, we will begin to attain the most important thing: the revelation of the Creator to the created beings.

I think 2021 will be a transitional year from our past life to our future one. This transition will not be completed in one year, rather, it will take several years. But, at least we will begin to realize what state we should reach in the near future.

We must not make products that are unnecessary. We must not squeeze out all the natural resources from the Earth. We must not needlessly squander money in all directions. It is necessary to invest all available funds in the integral education of people in order to instill in them the desire to get closer and to attain the upper force, the Creator, in the connection between us. Then, we will reach the state of eternity and perfection that awaits us.

In the coming new year, I want people to understand the essence of the development that nature has placed us in and how to help it, from our side, by becoming its active partners. Then, we will very quickly come to a good and happy life. I hope that, in a year, when we see 2021 off, our state will already be much better than it is today.
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From KabTV’s “The World” 12/8/20

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Question: How can I invoke sufferings inside me because I have no connection with the group?

Answer: You don’t need to invoke anything under any circumstances. The only thing you should do is to search for connection with the Creator through the connection with the friends.

Advancement this way is gradual because we have to exit one nature, to stop feeling the self, and begin to feel the group and the Creator inside it.

There is a switch of worlds here as when I feel myself, it is my world, and when I feel the group and the Creator inside it, it is the upper world.

This is practical work. You cannot sit at home and imagine everything theoretically. You must implement the method and engage in dissemination.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 11/18/18

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My new article on Linkedin “All Blue”

Imagine standing outside your house on a sunny January morning. The deep blue sky is stunning in its clarity, and you could stare at it for hours. Now imagine looking straight ahead at the houses and trees in front of you. You expect to find brown trunks and branches, a dark brown earth, or the array of colors on the walls of houses in your neighborhood, but there is none of it. Their color has turned to deep winter blue, just like the sky. In fact, they are so similar that you can barely tell them apart from the skyline.

This is what has happened to the American society: It’s become all blue. Even Blacks are now blue. If you dare support a different color, you are ousted, banned, and banished.

Now look down and picture the ground. It was supposed to be pitch-black on the asphalt road or brown around the barren trees with patches of muddy snow from last week’s blizzard. But it isn’t; it is blue, deep, deep blue, just like the sky above you and the houses everywhere you look. The whole world is one and only color: the deep, clear blue of winter skies.

The next morning, you come out of your house, breathe the fresh air of winter, and once again, stare at the blue sky above you, blue trees and buildings before you and behind you, and the blue ground beneath your feet. On the third day, nothing changes, and likewise on the fourth, the fifth, and so on for weeks, months, years, a lifetime. The world has become all blue.

This is what has happened to the American society: It’s become all blue. Even Blacks are now blue. If you dare support a different color, you are ousted, banned, and banished.

Just like our world, society cannot consist of just one color; it is not real, unhealthy, and will bring with it America’s doom, simply because it is unnatural. When public discourse allows only one voice to be heard, it breaks the foundations of the country.

If you take social media and all the mainstream newspapers, they all back one and only narrative. This is very wrong for the American society. Just as walking forward means tilting slightly left, then slightly right, but always forward using both legs, so society must lean this way and that way, but always forward—toward a stronger union above Left and Right. Society cannot limp on one leg only; it will fall. The duty of the media is to reflect both sides as equally as humanly possible, so people can shift and tilt this way or that way, but do it in a healthy manner.

When you silence the opposite view, you are weakening yourself and forcing the other side to reinvigorate itself. Nothing good will come out of this. Republicans will build their own systems, develop, and grow stronger, while Democrats are basking in their own complacency. They are building for themselves what the Bolsheviks built for themselves in Russia a hundred years ago. Indeed, it is a blue, blue world.

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My new article on Linkedin “What Israel Can(not) Expect from the Jews in the Biden Administration”

When the Biden administration takes office, it will be one of the most, if not the most Jewish administration in US history. No fewer than eleven senior positions will be occupied by Jews, including the Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of Treasury, Chief of Staff, Director of National Intelligence, and quite a few others. Moreover, all three of Joe Biden’s daughters-in-laws and son-in-law are Jewish, as is Kamala Harris’ husband.

The Democratic Party is infested with sworn and vociferous antisemites and Israel bashers, but this is completely inconsequential to American Jews, whose vast majority supports the Democratic Party. Moreover, quite a few American Jews support specifically those antisemites and Israel bashers.

You’d think that Israel would be thrilled about such proliferation of Jews in key positions in the new administration, but Israel has no reason to celebrate. The chasm between American Jews and the State of Israel has never been deeper or wider. The Democratic Party is infested with sworn and vociferous antisemites and Israel bashers, but this is completely inconsequential to American Jews, whose vast majority supports the Democratic Party. Moreover, quite a few American Jews support specifically those antisemites and Israel bashers.

This leads to a very simple conclusion: They are Jews only by name. They do not understand the meaning of Judaism or the spirit of being Jewish, and the fact that we are labeled under the same religion, Judaism, is merely a formality.

When it comes to the Jewish state, Israel has nothing to look forward to. Today’s Democratic Party is nothing like it was a few decades ago. If Jews feel comfortable hobnobbing with people who try to destroy Israel’s ability to protect itself, then they don’t care about Israel; if they rub shoulders with rabid antisemites, then they do not care about Judaism. Actions, we know, speak (much) louder than words.

This leaves Israel with only one option: to rely on itself. Militarily, economically, or in any other sense, Israel is very vulnerable. But if the people of Israel unite, they will have all the power they need to overcome any ordeal. It is with good reason that antisemites not only hate, but also fear our power. They feel that we are far stronger than we feel about ourselves. But they are right, and we are the ignorant ones. Our power lies in our unity, and the only reason we feel weak is our division. If we overcame our division and united even though we cannot stand each other, but simply because unity is more important than how we feel about each other, we would immediately find that our enemies are gone. We wouldn’t even have to fight them. In fact, they would not only be gone, but they would sincerely seek our friendship. This is the power of our unity.

If this feels unrealistic, it is only because we haven’t tried, and because our egos blind us to the fact that everything that is united is stronger than everything that is apart. If we allow ourselves to see it, we will understand that our duty to ourselves, to our children, and to the world is to rise above our quarrels and abhorrence and unite despite the rifts. Then, our unity would be as strong as the hatred we had overcome, since the intensity of our hatred would compel us to forge a union that can override that hatred. This would be a kind of unity that the world has never seen, but that it will be eager to emulate once we achieve it. And when the world is eager to learn our kind of unity, the nations will turn from enemies to friends.

Clearly, the ego will never let us agree to this concept, but this doesn’t make it any less true. Just as reason denies quantum mechanics, but we all use it everywhere—from microwaves to missiles—and it works without fail, so will unity. If we only dare apply it, it will work.

For more on the meaning of unity for the people of Israel and for the world, look up my book Like a Bundle of Reeds: Why Unity and Mutual Guarantee Are Today’s Call of the Hour.
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Question: Where does the feeling of envy come from? What is the reason for it?

Answer: The usual envy between people is egoistic, when I envy what the other has. It doesn’t even matter if I have it too, am satisfied with it, and I feel good. Anyway, when I see it as something that gives pleasure to another, then I envy his pleasure. This is unreasonable envy, groundless envy, no matter what.

Question: So this is a consequence of our egoistic nature?

Answer: Of course.

Question: If envy is viewed as an accelerator that helps me fulfill my desires, how does it work?

Answer: Such envy should be specially developed by person who practices Kabbalah so that he envies other Kabbalists since they can enjoy the Creator and perform more actions of bestowal and love.

Looking at them, he gets excited and also wants to advance even more in the property of bestowal and love for people, and through them to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 4/3/19

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Question: Can we say that in our world there are two categories of souls: old experienced ones and new, young ones? Do the old souls come to our world specifically to help new souls?

Answer: Yes, this is really so.

Question: Do they somehow differ from each other?

Answer: It is impossible to tell the difference.

Question: That is, at first glance, I will not be able to understand whether it is a young soul or an old one?

Answer: No. In addition, there is the so-called reincarnation of souls. Every moment a person has a different soul.
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From KabTV’s “Ask a Kabbalist” 12/31/18

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Question: How can we acquire determination along the way?

Answer: Determination is acquired by feedback. If the teacher influences the ten and the ten influences you, you feel determined and safe along the way. Everything is solved in this chain, which is the only thing that exists.

Question: If the ten and the teacher are changing concepts in me, what does it mean to look at the Creator through them?

Answer: To integrate in them. The teacher formats the ten and its internal laws so that everyone can be as one, and you penetrate this ten, dissolve in it, and you can be absolutely sure that you will find the Creator in it.

A ten is a vessel, a Partzuf, (the body of the soul). And the light that develops in it is the Creator Himself.
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From KabTV’s “Fundamentals of Kabbalah” 12/9/18

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Question: One of your listeners wrote to you:

Dear Michael Laitman,

You say that all diseases are from egoism, that if you restore balance with nature, then a person will not get sick. I really believe you. I feel this is correct, the things you say, but I have little time.

I knew that I would get sick, my parents died from the same cancer that I have today. These are genes, nothing can be done about it. What to do? How do I prepare to die? What to think about? Or maybe
can I somehow recover and live?

Be healthy and strong.
Alexander

Answer: First, we must do everything that medicine says. As the Torah says: “A doctor has been given the right to heal.” Take a doctor whom you can trust, trust him, and surrender yourself into his hands.

Question: He asks: “What to do? How can I prepare for death? What to think about?”

Answer: No need to prepare. Let him take Kabbalistic books; they are written by people who sense both this world and the other world which is on the other side of egoism. Then he will have a better idea of himself, and perhaps he will have enough time to feel this other world, enter it, and be in it.

In practice, the barrier between life and death for him will not be so fatal, unexpected, frightening, but on the contrary, he will be very calm about it.

Question: When you say, “other world,” there are many explanations for this. For him, for Alexander, what is it?

Answer: The otherworld is on the other side of our today’s nature. Our nature today is egoism. If during our lifetime we can reach the next state, the second, opposite to this, that is, the altruistic state, then we will practically begin to feel this next world, the upper world, the second world.

There are two possibilities, two worlds. In that state, we can exist forever because there is nothing to correct, nothing to destroy. In this respect, it exists outside of time.

I would advise him to start reading our books as soon as possible and enter the states that they describe. Because, in principle, in his state, all this is possible and easy.

Question: What to think about? Tell me, please.

Answer: About what you now want to feel and find out, and what is being done there, beyond this border of life and death.

Question: That is, I admit that I am dying the moment I start thinking about it?

Answer: So, what? We can admit all of this.

Question: Are you very calm about this?

Answer: Wait a minute. After a certain number of years, I will also be gone. You and everyone. So, what is the problem? We should all be accepting what kind of state we are passing into, what remains of us, of this world, of this life, and into what state we are moving with what remains of us.

This is preparation for death. That is, the spirit, the property, of bestowal, which man has created over his egoistic matter; it does not leave him, and with this he continues.

Question: What he writes at the end: “Maybe I can somehow recover and live?”

Answer: Maybe this will restore him for a while. I say for a while, it can be for tens of years. But it is all the same “for a while.” Because our world was created in order to change to a perfect world.

Question: I read this letter and it moved me. Are you saying that this is life, death will come, one way or another?

Answer: Do not be afraid of that. It is best to understand what our next state is after the death of the animal organism, and how we stay with our spiritual organism.

Question: So, we can stay?

Answer: We stay! We will definitely stay! My “I” remains and has nothing to do with my body.

Question: So you are saying, grab onto my real self?

Answer: Yes, and develop it and live in it now.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/23/20

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The Book of Zohar : The wisdom that one should know: to know and to observe the secret of his Master, to know himself, to know who he is, how he was created, where he comes from and where he is going, how the body is corrected, and how he will be judged by the King of All.

In order to understand himself, man must understand his master, the Creator, because we are created, as it is said allegorically, in His image and likeness. So, I need to understand this image, and then I will discern my likeness to Him.

How can I reveal the Creator so that I would know myself? To do this I must change, and then I will feel and see Him. It turns out that when I attain the Creator, I attain myself. It is a process of self-discovery.

When I create the image of the Creator inside me, my similarity to Him, I find myself corrected. And this is one single image. Therefore, “man” in Hebrew is called Adam, from the word Domeh—like the Creator.

That is, the part of me that will become like the Creator will be called man in me. And everything else in me that is not like the Creator is called an animal.

Question: What does it mean to “observe the secret of his Master”?

Answer: The secrets are the plans. Why did He create everything? How? Why did he create me with just five senses to perceive the universe and myself in this way? Why do I live for such a short time? What should I achieve in this life? Why was I created with such qualities, in such circumstances, in such a family, in such an era? I mean, I want to know everything.

When I master all this knowledge about creation, I will know everything that relates to me. And perhaps I will find in this the means to change my destiny, to be able to rise above my fate, to live a certain number of years on this earth, and then die. Maybe I can improve my life, and maybe I can even rise to a level where I will be above it, be eternal and perfect as the Creator.

Why not? If nature is eternal, if it exists in an ideal form excluding only us, then why cannot I be the same integral element of it with all the consequences?
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From KabTV’s “The Power of The Book of Zohar” #2

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Question: Why do you think that Kabbalah is the ultimate truth? And if so, why is it that the group that is now engaged in Kabbalah has not yet made the people of the whole world happy, rich spiritually and materially? What is needed for this? Maybe we should want it more?

Answer: I have been teaching a Kabbalistic group for more than twenty years. We have not yet reached the level to engage with all of humanity.

However, we have created a huge system of virtual classes in forty different languages, published books, and held conferences on all continents. But this is still the beginning of the path.

Kabbalah has been hidden for many millennia and only since 1995 began to be revealed to people. Therefore, today we are at the beginning of the path.
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From KabTV’s “Ask a Kabbalist” 3/20/19

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