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Posted on April 23rd, 2023

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Signs Of Messiah Today

Posted on April 23rd, 2023

The division within Israeli society is deepening more and more, penetrating every home and every place of work. There were cases when families canceled the Passover meal only because of their political differences. This conflict is spreading among the people of Israel like a new coronavirus—an epidemic of separation.

However, this conflict is not new, it already existed within Israeli society. Altalena continues today. Until we correct this condition at the root, it will not disappear by itself. It is not time that decides everything here, but the maturity of the people. They do not want to grow up and do not receive the proper education, but continue to act according to their egoism, which is the biggest of all nations.

This problem will not be solved by itself because the people of Israel are not inside nature, but above it. Therefore, our egoism will not be cured by itself, but only by our great and purposeful efforts.

Today’s confrontation is not the limit. Kabbalists warn that the people of Israel will have to go through great trials if they do not realize the need for their correction. In the end we will come to correction and unification, to “love your neighbor as yourselves.” But what stages we will have to go through on this path is known only to the Creator.

I see that the people of Israel have not yet come to the revelation of evil, even to a minimal extent. That is why we have yet to reveal our evil, each of us and all of us together, in the entire society. Who knows how many more wars will occur in the world because of the brotherly hatred between us.

Such brotherly hatred is peculiar only to the people of Israel because we are called to bring a method of connection and an example of brotherly love to the world so that love your neighbor as yourself becomes the law of the existence of all humanity. We are obliged to spread this method, implement it ourselves, and show an example to everyone. In this way, we will fulfill our destiny, and everyone will know what the secret of the people of Israel is and why it exists.

Everyone should know that there is a method that can correct the state of the world and lead it to connection and love. The people of Israel must first reach this by themselves, and then lead everyone else to love their neighbor as themselves.

The strength for such love must be taken from the Creator; we ourselves do not have it. It is impossible to force or persuade a person to love the other as himself. We must demand the Creator to shine this light of love upon us, and then we will be imbued with this light and will live in it.

This is only possible if we want it to happen. But we do not want that yet. Judging by what happens at demonstrations and in the media, we enjoy hating others instead of striving for love.

This is understandable because the people of Israel are the model of the entire world. It was formed from the natives of Ancient Babylon, where all the nations of the world were gathered at that time. The Jewish people have received a method of reaching love for one’s neighbor as for oneself, and if we make this correction in our small nation, it will serve as an example and the right message for the entire world.
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From KabTV’s “Writers Meeting – Q&A with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/4/23

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Point of Connection Between Husband and Wife

Posted on April 23rd, 2023

Question: You have reiterated that a man and a woman are by nature completely opposite to each other. They are two different perceptions of the world. Then how do they communicate with each other?

Where is the point of connection?

Answer: It is above them, in the Creator. Between husband and wife, the point of connection is the Creator. “Husband and wife, Divinity between them.”

Question: When you say the Creator, can you simplify it a little?

Answer: This is a common property of reciprocity, mutual support, love, and connection, created by a man and a woman. It goes particularly in this combination—a man and a woman.

Question: Do they have to understand this in advance before they start their relationship?

Answer: In general, yes. This must be the purpose for which they bond together.

Question: What is the purpose of these two different, polar people—a man and a woman?

Answer: The purpose is that through mutual assistance between them, they reach such a state, such a connection when they will “revolve” around each other and at the same time create a special form of existence—”I am for you, you are for me, and both of us are for the Creator between us.” As it is said: “Husband and wife, Divinity between them.”

Question: So that the Creator becomes the highest property of love, bestowal? And it grows, and grows, and grows?

Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/22

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Love

Posted on April 23rd, 2023

Question: What is love?

Answer: Love is when you perceive the desires of another person above your own and strive to fulfill them.

Question: But isn’t classic love when there is a burning sensation in the heart?

Answer: I do not know about the burning in the heart. We need to ask the physiologists what can burn there. You are talking about some suffering, maybe bad feelings and experiences.

I, however, am talking about the fact that love is the desire to fulfill the desire of the other person by yourself at the expense of and above your own desires. It does not matter at all to you what will happen to you from this, because the most important thing for you is what will happen to him. This is earthly love, and not the one Kabbalah speaks about.

According to Kabbalah, love is an adhesion of two spiritual objects: the created being (man) and the Creator. Or rather, the soul and the Creator. Such adhesion is reached by the similarity of qualities when the soul and the Creator bestow to each other, fulfill each other, and therefore merge together and absolutely complete each other. This state is called love.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Love” 1/19/11

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Replenishment from the Spiritual Level

Posted on April 23rd, 2023

Question: When speaking of the spiritual, you give everyone the importance of the goal. How essential is it to be told about the importance of the goal? How do you raise its status for yourself?

Answer: From students! But unlike you, I feel your inner connection and I see who you are from the inside. Among you, you say what you see, and I see the next layers. There you are all mutually connected and devoted to bestowal and love. There you are all on a spiritual level, and from there I get nourishment. That is why I am never in a broken state.

Comment: Sometimes, when you come to a lesson, it feels like you haven’t entered it yet.

My Response: No, it does not mean that I did not enter it. It means that I have left the past state, because I always prepare before the lesson for at least 40 minutes if not an hour. So I don’t come to the lesson right after I open my eyes.

I get up, do a little exercise, take a hot shower, and sit down at the computer; I always go through some materials and only then do I go to the lesson.

The reader begins to read the text and I must immediately respond to it. I must live in it and not just talk about it.

I must be in constant interaction with the material, Baal HaSulam, Rabash, and Ramchal. For me, The Zohar is my world! There is an animal part of the world and a human part. I am in the human part.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who Rules Laitman?” 12/27/12

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What Should Spouses Think About?

Posted on April 23rd, 2023

Question: If we talk about the family of the future, what kind of agreement do they make when they get married?

Answer: An agreement that he or she should, first of all, think about the children, then about the spouse, and then about himself or herself. In general, this is very simple. I do not see any problems.

When they think in such a state and are guided by such thoughts, they will have no problems. Even if they will not live relatively closely together, because everything happens in life. I have seen many families who are happy and at the same time do not have close contact with each other.

Comment: So, they follow this formula if there are children.

My Response: They are good friends.

When we first of all demand love and devotion, it is wrong, it quickly leads to defeat. We even see in our lives that it does not work out.

Question: How does the Creator then make all these turns?

Answer: Because there is a difference between the level of an animal and the human level. We definitely should be ascending to it.

Question: What is the human level in this?

Answer: The human level is when I think of my spouse as a friend.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/22

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The Pleasures of The Kabbalist

Posted on April 23rd, 2023

Question: Do those people who have gone through some spiritual stage, no longer see the point of returning to some former pleasures?

Answer: No, this is not correct. All kinds of disturbances arise in them in the form of yearnings for various pleasures. Of course, the greatest pleasure is sexual, which remains for a long time during the path, and it practically does not die.

A Kabbalist does not begin to neglect any of the pleasures of this world. On the contrary, he feels very good taste in food, in rest, in everything. He appreciates it.

He just becomes a kind of gourmet. If you really want to enjoy something, you need to feel that you are actually enjoying it, that it is correctly connected with your goal, tied in such a way that through this world you receive some additional divine phenomenon. Then you feel pleasure also through the objects of this world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. A Star”

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“How does God communicate with you?” (Quora)

Posted on April 23rd, 2023

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “How does God communicate with you?“

Thoughts about the meaning and purpose of our lives are the Creator’s way of inviting us into a dialog.

They are like couriers knocking on our doors to notify us about a special delivery.

We only need to open our doors, accept the packages, unpack them, and from their content recognize their sender and how we should respond to them.

Many of us hear the knocking, but we wait, staying seated on our sofas, watching our TVs, thumbing our phones, and yelling at the couriers to leave the packages by the door—that we’ll pick them up later.

Such an attitude dissolves the awakening, and who knows when we will again feel a knock on our hearts’ doors?

When we receive such invitations, we should immediately realize them. We should do everything in our power to open the packages, find the Sender’s address, work out what kind of special delivery He would most enjoy, and how we could send Him that delivery in return.