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Question: You constantly direct students to the group. What would this action be for someone not in the group as such?

Answer: I do not have to mechanically be in a group with you. I am inside it.

Do you think that a group is ten men sitting in a circle and talking to each other? The group is an inner force. Everything exists in the world of infinity, in absolute perfection, but everyone feels it in the qualities he is in at the moment.

My teacher, Rabash, gave an example, if you look at a plane flying in the sky, one believes that its length is 5 meters, another thinks it is 50 meters, and the third person 100 meters. How can we grasp the real length of the plane if it is far away? We cannot. That is, everyone measures it in their qualities.

So it is with regard to the spiritual, I feel the group to the extent that I can imagine it in a corrected form.

In fact, in the world of infinity everything is in a completely corrected form: the group, humanity, and all the people. But, to some extent, I can only feel it in the measure, at the level I am at.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Group for Laitman” 5/19/12

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Question: Where did people get the need to take care of their bodies—at least physically? After all, if you look at animals, they do not play sports.

Answer: Animals instinctively play sports. It does not happen that an animal eats and goes to bed. It will eat, run a little, and then lie down.

There is no such thing that it eats twice as much as it needs. Let’s say a tiger caught an antelope. He will eat his share and leave the rest; he will not overeat. He does not stock up. Nature does not allow him to do this so that he is always on the move, in labor.

But man, because he has a mind, began to allow himself over his natural, innate way of life. However, he has freed up time for progress.

He started to generate electricity, which does not exist in nature, energy, gasoline, and create engines, mills, and engage in intensive farming, use animals, horses, and so on. That is, he began to free himself from constant concern for necessary processes, and he acquired free time.

But what does he spend it on? That is the whole problem. That is what Kabbalah says: you cannot pass science to egoists because in the end they will free themselves for everything they have done.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Get high” 4/21/12

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The geography of Israel has its own unique features. Absolutely all climatic zones of the Earth could be found here. At a distance of literally 20 kilometers from each other, there are such transitions that are not found in other parts of the planet for thousands of kilometers.

Here there is desert, subtropics, and the lowest point on Earth, the Dead Sea. The elongated configuration of the country is very unusual, and it forms the seam between Europe, Asia, and Africa.

And in ancient times, millions of years ago, it was all connected and there were no canals. Over time the tectonic plates split and everything sort of spread out.

For these last thousands of years, it has been possible to speak about the geography of Israel as completely similar to the geography or connections of the upper world, the world of Atzilut.

Comment: But previously Israel was wider and stretched to the Euphrates River. And now it is an elongated strip.

My Response: It does not matter. We do not consider the current political borders, but rather geographical boundaries, the ones where the upper force that affects this land is spreading and is called “Israel.”

This force in actuality operates from the Nile to the Euphrates, including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and today’s Israel. All these places are under a special upper influence that is called the power of “Israel,” which means “straight to the Creator” (Israel, aimed upward).

But still, the most intense internal part is the one that is under the jurisdiction of Israel today. It fully corresponds to the structure of the upper world, the world of Atzilut.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalistic Geography” 12/27/10

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Question: In our life, as long as humanity has existed, there have been wars, and their instigators have always been men. Where in the nature of a man is such an essence to constantly either fight or play at war?

Answer: Firstly, they have not grown up, they are the same boys, not adults. An adult must eventually grow up over generations. During one lifetime, maybe not, but if generations had passed on the wisdom of life to each other, then this would not have happened.

After all, war is mutual destruction. And with it, you are not advancing yourself. By destroying others, you end up hurting yourself. History confirms this. So, there’s no point!

If the old people, who understand this, would pass on their wisdom to the young, taught them correctly and formed a different understanding of the world in them, the world would be different. We would not have spent a lot of money on the military, on police, and we would have lived just fine!

But our nature does not allow us to do this. So first of all, we need to correct it and not just have a nice life.

The general law of nature, the Creator, drives us to a certain goal and forces us to be fools until we realize who we are, that He is always tripping us up so that we finally give up, turn to Him and ask Him to remake our nature, change us— that is what you need.

Don’t make me feel good, but make me good! And then I will see the world as beautiful. That’s all! To change a request, a demand, an appeal to the Creator is what is required of us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Men’s Games” 3/31/12

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The second commandment… it is love—that one should love one’s Master with whole love…even though you do not know if I will come after you to support you… [and] although I am not giving you anything, your love will still be whole, to adhere to Me with all your heart and soul (Zohar for All, Introduction of The Book of Zohar, The Second Commandment, Item 198).

Ultimately, we are talking about desires. If the other’s desire and my desire are arranged in such a way that I want to use his desire to fulfill my own, this is called “self-love.”

If we are in an equal state: “I give to him, and he gives to me,” each of us perceives his desire and the desire of the other as one.

For example, as in a combat team or as “one man with one heart,” this is the condition “do not do to the other what is hateful to you.” Then you will be connected to each other, but on condition that you are connected together by one desire. This is not love, but the connection of friends.

Whereas love means that I take my desire and put it below the desire of a friend (the level of love depends on how much lower) in order to use my desire only to fulfill the desire of a friend. His desire determines everything for me, and I live inside his desire, like a mother inside a baby. She feels everything he feels and what he needs, and only exists for this. This is called love.

Therefore, “to adhere with all your heart and soul” means to perceive the desire of the other as your own and take care only to serve his desire day and night. When is this possible? When everyone connects together under the influence of the upper force.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/11, The Book of Zohar — Introduction: “The Second Commandment”

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Today the whole world is beginning to feel the Egyptian exile, that we are all in the grip of dark forces, our character, our nature, which simply kills us and kills everything. This is Pharaoh, the dark force that rules over us.

If we begin to feel that it is not the egoistic force, but the force of bestowal, love, connection, and altruism as the highest and greatest for us, then we will demand an exodus from this exile, we will begin to do something, and we will be able to attract another force upon ourselves called the general force of nature or the Creator. It specially created this environment for us so that we would want to choose it out of two forces, and would appreciate the importance of bestowal and love over anger, reception, and egoism.

This is the meaning of the Egyptian exile, which the whole world is beginning to feel as we see that its egoism is destroying it. The world will continue to reveal this evil, but it will not be able to do anything. People will die, spoil nature, make their children and grandchildren die before their eyes, the most precious thing they have, and they will not be able to do anything; so much their ego will push them to death.

What the Jewish people once went through can be repeated all over the world on an even larger scale. A person will be muzzled until he understands that only his nature is evil, and only the exit out of it, the rise above the qualities of greed, envy, jealousy, pride, vanity, and cruelty (in general, everything that characterizes egoism) will give him the opportunity to continue to exist. Then he will be ready to give everything for the sake of rising above the ego.

But this is not enough since this is the same egoism, only in a different form, self-love. In addition to the recognition of evil, one also has to go through the state of the recognition of the greatness of the quality of bestowal, that is, to attain the plus in addition to the minus, that the quality of bestowal in itself is great, good, and carries some upper value. But what value if not for the sake of egoism?

But here a force called “light” begins to act inside of me. This force gives me a sense of the importance of the goal because it is dear to me. The path to it is not in my egoism, but in altruism.

It is similar to how in our world a person has some idea, which is absolutely abstract and has no practical use, but it is so dear to him that he is ready to give his life for it. This is such an idea and such a feeling that appears in a person, it is not from our world.

He begins to understand that the quality of bestowal is special in itself. It elevates and carries the upper value! When such a feeling comes, a person is ready to get out of the control of his egoism, and not because he feels bad, but because the quality of bestowal, as he feels, is the highest one.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Miracle of Birth” 4/7/12

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What is it that could cause a civil war in Israel?“

As the days pass since the 2022 Israeli elections, the conflict worsens between the political blocs. The opposition states that the government is illegitimate and discusses the possibility of a civil war while the coalition calls for the imprisonment of the opposition leaders on the basis of treason.

In Israel, we are coming to a state of inner struggle, hatred and rejection that has caused us to degenerate several times over history, and once again, we are at a crossroad. Even though we understand that our situation is dangerous, and the country has fallen apart twice before due to letting our differences detach us, it still does not matter. We see that we cannot agree to any kind of a compromise, even if means the country’s dismantlement.

And what is this dire situation ultimately based on? Simply put, ego and pride. One cannot let the other govern the country as long as there is the slightest opportunity to put spokes in the other’s wheel. Other than uniting above the divisions, as is it written that “love will cover all crimes,” we can do nothing else to fix our current conflict.

We have to unite and reach a state of a common love despite our hatred of each other. If we fail to positively connect above our differences, then we will cease to exist.

Based on the video “Is Israel on the Verge of Civil War?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Oren Levi. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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