Medicine In Its Own Service

273.01Question: Recently, cytotherapy (cell and gene therapy) has developed, which often results in the sale of stem cells from an unborn baby.

There are stories of doctors conducting ultrasound scans and deliberately giving a wrong diagnosis and telling the mother that she needs to terminate the pregnancy for medical reasons so that the embryo could be used to rejuvenate famous people, so these physicians can earn a nice sum of money.

What’s happening? How can this be? The main oath doctors take is the Hippocratic oath: “Do no harm.”

Answer: What are you talking about?! We see that doctors are one of the most egoistic specialties because a doctor feels that he has power over you, that he can command you; he feels his impunity.

Comment: It would seem that it should be the opposite.

My Response: You appeal to morality, to some kind of inner honesty, conscience, or justice. How can one demand this from a modern person? Especially when you take young people and teach them to be egoistic, to try to achieve some position, some kind of power by any means. A doctor is paid to serve more patients and prescribe more drugs for which money is paid.

Each doctor is personally interested in patients coming to him and not to another doctor. It is beneficial for him to prescribe additional drugs for each patient since in the end it turns out to be a decent income for him. I have talked with some doctors and they explained everything to me frankly. That is, the doctor has absolutely no interest in human health.

Therefore today all medicine is aimed at making money. And there’s nothing to say about the cost of medicines and medical equipment. The health care budget sometimes exceeds the national defense budget. This is an extremely lucrative trough for millions of people.

Since all medicine is arranged by us egoistically, we cannot demand that doctors help a person disinterestedly. All their activity is based on their attitude not toward a person, but toward his organ. Therefore the whole approach, both in general and in particular, is completely flawed.

Question: Can this approach be changed?

Answer: No. This will become possible only when a person is convinced that he lives in a whole world and is connected with everyone else. If he wants to be healthy, then he must take care of the health of the whole society.

In The Book of Zohar, in the chapter “Pinchas,” it is said that all our illnesses result from an egoistic attitude toward each other. We transfer this infection, this poison, from one to another, and therefore we get sick.
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From KabTV’s “Close Up—Anamnesis” 2/19/10

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Learning To Interact Correctly

632.3Question: There is what is called the Dunbar number, which is the number of social connections that a person can keep in his head.

An English anthropologist, Robin Dunbar, determined that in any given situation, 150 is the number of people that makes an active group of contacts with whom a person can interact at one time.

Neurophysiologists say that if we lack social connections, we begin to create them artificially.

Why does a person need such a social network in his head?

Answer: The fact is that we are created as social beings who have to interact with each other and create a certain field of communication between us and even above us. This is what makes us human; otherwise we are animals. After all, there is no “human” level in nature. There are only three levels: inanimate, vegetative, and animate, and human is something above nature.

That is, we want to rise to this level, and we have certain beginnings. But in order to create this level, it is first necessary to learn how to communicate and interact correctly. We don’t have this yet in our society. It is barely trying to rise from the animate degree to the level of “man.” Therefore such beginnings are appreciated.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 12/6/21

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The Peak Of Life And Its Fading

760.4Question: Baal HaSulam writes in his articles that a person comes to a sense of inner emptiness at the end of life and leaves this world in despair and inner hopelessness: “What was all this about, what for?”

And what happens to this realization after his body dies?

Answer: Nothing. He just gets desperate. In addition to the usual animal existence, the question appears in him: “What for, why?” This feeling of the end is connected to the point in the heart, to the micro-desire we have, and by developing it, we can feel the next, higher world, the general universe.

Question: Is it having this desire that gives a person the fear of death?

Answer: No, animals also fear death. They also try to avoid it, they fight with all their might to survive. After all, animals, just like humans, gradually weaken and pass away. When they feel death nearing, they deliberately distance themselves from others, leave, and die. In the wilderness, we practically do not see such scenes, but this is how it happens.

It is the same with man. He wants to get away from the whole world because in his old age he no longer perceives it, he wants to live quietly in his corner until he completely fades away.

This happens because he is gradually losing touch with this world. His sensory organs no longer work the way they used to.

Question: Why is everything arranged this way? Why is the course of life going downhill?

Answer: After forty years, life begins to fade. Its peak is in the period between thirty and forty years. Until the age of thirty, we try to somehow identify ourselves, and from thirty to forty we realize ourselves.

I am not talking about scientists, composers, or creative personalities who continue to realize themselves. There are even people among them who through their special qualities reach highest development by the age of sixty. Scientists, for example, accumulate a huge mass of information and knowledge for sixty years of their life. Where would they go? There is no retirement for them.

But an ordinary person engaged only in servicing his body, his ordinary life, he feels after forty years that there is practically nothing to strive for, he has to think about how to continue to exist calmly, simply exist and gradually fade away.
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From KabTV’s “Close-up. Mystery of the Sphinx” 2/5/10

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The State That Does Not Have Any Continuation

560There is a well-known biblical story about Lot’s wife who when leaving Sodom looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. This means that we must not look back into bygone states and wish to return to them or we will turn into a pillar of salt.

When we learn about other spiritual states, such as the exodus from Egypt, we can see how a person can emerge out of them. But there is no way out of the state of “Sodom” because you do not exchange anything with anyone, you do not communicate, do not take, do not give. There is nothing here! You really turn into a pillar of salt, that is, into a material that does not deteriorate.

You preserve yourself in this state, and that is why it does not have any continuation.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 12/7/21

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Daily Kabbalah Lesson – 1/2/22

Preparation to the Lesson

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Lesson on the Topic: “Adhering to the Friends” 

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Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Peace” 

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