Comment: Yuliya asks: “Dear Michael Laitman, from your explanations it turns out that a person who lives only for himself is not a human.”

My Response: Everyone you see in our world is like this.

Man comes from the word “Adam,” Adam from the word “like,””Domeh,” similar to the Creator. That is, the spiritual image that we grow in ourselves, starting from the spiritual birth and beyond, is already a man.

Question: Basically, do we exist precisely for this? Is that why we are called human? Are we potentially going to be humans?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Do you think there are hardly any such people?

Answer: Yes. But we must strive for this.

Comment: But you say that there are only a few of them.

My Response: Very, very few. But we will achieve this in the future.

Now there is a period that leads to that, preparation.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/25/22

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Question: Before the ruin of the Second Temple the spiritual force was giving the Jews the right to exist. When it disappeared and they went into exile, what gives them this right?

Answer: It is the fact that in our generation, they should bring the world to a spiritual state, to a spiritual goal, because the world exists only for this.

Comment: But the Jews conceal this secret from the nations of the world.

My Response: I hope that we, Kabbalists, will reveal it and let everyone know, including Jews. By doing this, we will bring all of humanity to the correct recognition of its destiny and reach the level of eternity and perfection. We can do this already in our generation.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Around the World” 2/20/11

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Comment: In 1945 the terrible nuclear explosion took place in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. But outwardly, this country recovered very quickly and reached an even higher level.

My Response: The Japanese can recover very quickly because they have a serious desire to work together, above themselves, in connection. Community, society, the dependence on it, and the value of the opinion of society are for them in first place.

This comes from those ancient duties that a person had back in his ancestral clans. We see all their sacrifices that they are ready to make in the name of something common, in the name of the word of honor.

There is no such thing in the West. In the West, taking, cheating, snatching, selling, even one’s own father and mother, are all acceptable things.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Branch of Sakura” 5/15/11

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Question: How can Jews be attracted to repatriate to Israel?

Answer: There is nothing in Israel that could attract people here. Only those who have a point in the heart, who are drawn to spirituality, come here. They feel better here than in other places of the world, and it does not depend on their nationality.

We see that people who study at the Kabbalah education centers, MAK and KabU, come here and settle here on any conditions, just to live here, because from within themselves they feel an aspiration to this land and to this place.

And people who do not have a craving for spirituality feel like they are temporarily living here and therefore, are ready to leave. If you provide them with normal conditions for migrating from Israel to another place and do not keep them, they will be happy to leave this country.

I am sure that not only half of the country would leave, but others will not want to come here because a person seeks to move to the place that can fulfill him.

This place can fulfill only people who seek spirituality because the land itself has a special spiritual root and special qualities come from it.

Even pilgrims, when they come here, feel some kind of force, especially in Jerusalem. One really feels that. There is a special air there, some kind of yellowish one, as the artists say.

Question: Does it mean that the nations of the world who claim Jews have no right to exist in their current state are right?

Answer: Yes. I hope that by this the nations of the world will push us to realize ourselves so that we become, as it is written, “the light for the nations of the world.”
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Around the World” 2/20/11

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This world is designed for us to only exist in it in a necessary, rational, and normal state, to eat, drink, sleep and everything else only as a means for internal deepening and reaching the next degree. It’s always been that way.

Therefore, the Jews who lived like this were very different from others. When other nations came here, they were surprised by their way of life. The people themselves are smart, very developed, internally whole and deep. And outwardly, they lived very unpretentiously.

The internal wealth of the people did not correspond at all to its absolutely unpretentious external environment. In the corporeal sense, everything was very rationally arranged. There was no pomp. Even the clothes and utensils of the king, like everything else, was within limits. Everything was very strict.

This went on all the time, even in the 19^th century. There is a story about how the Hasidim brought their rabbi new clothes, a special robe, but he said: “I won’t accept anything from you. I have a small room.”

They ask him: “How is this a small room? You have your Saturday clothes hanging on a nail on the wall.”

And he responds: “Yes. But if you bring me another one, I’ll have to put up a closet. And the closet is already a place in the room.”

These are spiritual calculations, not calculations of the external space. Life should be rational, but not deliberately minimalist and should simply satisfy the most necessary. No more than that.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Features of Judaism”

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Comment: “Luck” in Hebrew is “mazal,” which means “drops”—from the word “nozel,” “drip.”

My Response: Luck seems to be dripping from above. It comes unexpectedly. A person does not even suspect that luck will fall on his head and suddenly it manifests itself.

Question: If a person prays to the upper force for good luck in business or in marriage, does it have an effect?

Answer: Yes, it does. We must pray, we must ask.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/24/22

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Question: Do Jews have a genetic predisposition?

Answer: No. They have only a predisposition to universal unity in order to conquer the upper world. They left ancient Babylon on this basis.

This predisposition exists in their descendants, who are just souls, and the same soul goes through many, many bodies. This is the incarnation of the souls. For example as a Jew, I existed in all states, from ancient Babylon to my current incarnation. I went through all these lives.

I even know my incarnations: Spanish, German, and Eastern European, right up to the present moment. All this I feel perfectly and reveal. The same applies to all current genetic Jews.

Furthermore, even after their settlement from Babylon throughout the earth, desire was still developing also in the nations of the world. Today there are many such people who also have a predisposition to spiritual development, and they join us. They are absolutely identical to those of us who came from ancient Babylon, even though they have not been near us during the whole 3,700 years. It does not matter. The inner desire for correction and for elevation to the spiritual world acts in them.
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From KabTV’s “Close-Up. Around the World” 2/20/11

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Question: Is it possible to say that good luck or bad luck is my attitude to events, and the events themselves are neutral?

Answer: No, events are not neutral; they affect us. I cannot say about something that it is neutral; it depends on its relation to what or whom.

Comment: Relative to me.

My Response: Then this neutrality disappears. That is, the events themselves can be different, either minus or plus. You perceive them relative to yourself, for example, as negative, and relative to someone else, they can be perceived as positive.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 5/24/22

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