Question: You often repeat: “Why don’t you ask?” But how should we ask? Everyone wants to, but no one understands what they want. Is it some kind of stupid state of hopelessness.

Answer: But why?! Because you do not sense whom to turn to. I understand your problems and I want to direct you correctly.

You do not know whom to turn to. If some kind of a statue were placed in front of you, you would be able to do it.

Once, when I was in Mexico, our bus stopped in a parking lot near a village. There was a statue of the Madonna at the crossroad.

There were many Mexicans among the passengers. People got off the bus. One lame Mexican with a wooden crutch, who had difficulty getting off the bus, approached the Madonna, kissed her, and began to pray. There was something for him to turn to, there was a specific image.

And there are no images in Kabbalah! To what should you turn? To your own corrected self!

Who is the Creator? The property of bestowal and love for others revealed by you.

Kabbalah turns you to yourself. It is impossible for us to understand it! In our minds, this is a terrible dualism, and we cannot do anything about it.

Therefore, Kabbalah is intended only for those who already have this dualism inside them: there is a heart and a point in the heart, i.e., a selfish desire and a germ of altruistic intention. With this, you can move forward and begin to adapt and develop it.

The heart develops, and a point in the heart grows. In other words, two opposite desires develop; there is a dipole that can exchange and grow.

And if there is only a single desire to enjoy, then we need to imagine someone from the outside, not within oneself, but one against the other, and establish one as higher and the other lower, as if this is a created being and this is the Creator.

All this is conditional; there is no creation and no Creator. There are two levels one against the other, and that is it.

And where are you? You are nobody. You exist between these two levels, what we call the middle point of Sefirat Tifferet, Klipat Noga. You exist at this point only in order to realize both levels between which you exist. This is how you develop.

But if there is only one earthly desire in a person, his life, his loved ones, and so on, then he needs some kind of external object to which he will pray, to which he will turn, and on which he will supposedly depend.

In principle, Kabbalah itself sets people up this way. It still comes from ancient Babylon, from Abraham, who gave everyone what they needed: the beginnings of all religions, the beginnings of all beliefs, and the beginnings of Kabbalah. In practice, this is a single knowledge only at different levels.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Most Important Prayer” 10/6/12

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What makes people right-wing and left-wing? How do people who have no political connections become left or right-wing?“

Nature consists of two forces: giving and receiving, plus and minus, positive and negative.

We each also host these forces within us. Existence itself requires that a plus has a minus next to it, and vice versa. Such a duality exists on all levels of our lives: material, psychological and spiritual.

As for political right-wing and left-wing inclinations, I would first stay clear of defining them as such because nowadays these terms have become so convoluted that people confuse one for the other.

In its origin, however, a left-wing inclination is more or less toward completion, connection and compromise, while a right-wing approach is its opposite: one of rejection, which defines borders, limitations and boundaries.

Generally speaking, a left-wing approach in its essence is “what’s mine is yours, and what’s yours is yours” while a right-wing approach in its essence is “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.”
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Based on the video “The Nature of Right-Wing and Left-Wing Political Approaches” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Lesson on the Topic “Pesach (Passover)”

Lesson on the Topic “Connecting the World in the Last Generation” 

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It seems to us that we are correcting only our own soul. But in fact the soul of each person stretches between all souls. Therefore, when I correct my tiny part, through this I correct the integration of my particle in all souls.

Therefore we cannot say that a person corrects only his own soul. He corrects the entire creation, only to a very small extent that is included in the creation. Then he adds more corrections and more, and in the meantime, other people also correct themselves and their integration into this person.

It is about this that it is written: “They helped every one his friend,” which means that I correct myself in him and he corrects himself in me, and so we all correct everyone and become like one person with one heart.

Each person includes 600,000 souls, which themselves are also divided into 600,000, and those are also divided into 600,000, etc. It turns out that each of us is like Adam HaRishon, and when we all join together, we also become like one soul of Adam HaRishon. It is not the quantity that is taken into account here, but the depth of the feeling of unity.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/28/23, “Connecting into One Soul”

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Question: Why do all children like to draw? What are these qualities and properties?

Answer: Drawing is an expression of one’s perception of the surrounding world because verbal means of attainment are not enough. Drawing is necessary for a person, it is the most ancient art. Since ancient times, people left cave carvings. After that, writing emerged. This is all about expressing yourself.

For example, there are many things within me that I cannot express other than through drawings. During lectures and lessons, I made thousands of drawings because they express much more than words. Drawing is the world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Why Does a Person Draw?” 11/29/12

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A person who understands the obstacles given to him, and sees them in exactly the correct and reasonable attitude of the upper governance toward him, feels completely different—he feels like a partner of the Creator.

Everything becomes simple and clear for him, and he only needs to grasp this thought, this feeling, and connection with the Creator and not let go. No matter what people say to him now, and no matter what is happening around him, within he is attuned to the Creator.

On the corporeal level, he is with everyone else, and this in no way should affect the connection with the Creator. On the contrary, one must understand that through others, at this level and in this plane, the Creator acts this way so that one does not break this connection.

He suddenly begins to see that the people around him are angels, that is, the guides of the Creator’s thoughts, His ideas, His governance, and they have no personal relationship to him; there are no personalities around him at all! It is just the Creator dressed in all kinds of objects that affect him in this way.

And through them, he begins to lock himself only to the Creator, and it turns out that the person reveals that there is none else besides Him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Practical Kabbalah” 11/4/12

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In religions everything is based on simple faith, and in Kabbalah it is based on attainment.

In Kabbalah, faith above reason is the revelation of the Creator in the light of Hassadim. Hasidism, however, took from this only the name “Hasidism.” But in the Kabbalistic understanding, they do not have faith.

Faith is the revelation of the quality of Bina. Their faith is when you close your eyes and say: “I believe.” But when you close your eyes, what can you believe if you do not see anything? In fact, faith is a vision, not a concealment.

Therefore, Kabbalah is a method of revealing the Creator to the created beings in our world. Revelation! It is the opposite of any Hasidism or anything else. Initially, in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, when Hasidism appeared, it really was a Kabbalistic trend. Today it is just constantly growing egoism that conceals the truth from a person.

However, another flip is taking place now. I hope that the unfolding sufferings, the unfolding new desires, the increasingly unfolding limitation of our existence, the beginning of the revelation of the meaning of life, and the possibility of overcoming all crises will all work together, and people will easily and slowly begin to come close to the method of revealing the Creator because without it, it will be very difficult for them to live.

This is what the Creator does, and we have to help Him.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Global Puppeteer” 7/28/12

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Question: If you imagine the picture of the world in utter chaos, can some community that would live by completely different rules jump sharply out of these sufferings?

Answer: Yes, it could. But suffering will remain to the depth of egoism that exists.

Even if seven and a half billion of the world’s population die, the remaining half billion will go through enormous suffering because all the desires and all the qualities of those seven and a half billion will flow into them.

This remaining half billion will finish the correction, but in very severe agony because the suffering will not be distributed to eight billion. This is a terrible thing!

Imagine that there are only a thousand people around you and you have to absorb all their sores, all their negative qualities, everything that is in them, and live with it now. Your egoism will be a thousand times bigger, or even more, because it is cumulative, combined.

Imagine how many illnesses, sufferings, and blows you alone will have to feel, and your good desire will remain the same—one. These blows will eventually shake you, but not immediately because you will have to realize, feel, and decide for everyone that you cannot remain in this state.

Therefore, do not expect anything good. There will not be a better state in the future if we do not start improving it quickly ourselves. In a world where everything is interconnected, it cannot be otherwise. The interconnection is such that you cannot escape.

Question: So will even those seven and a half billion suffer and leave this state?

Answer: They will suffer within you. This is called Hitkalelut Neshamot, connection of souls. They will not go anywhere, but they will be so integrated into each of us that everyone will have a larger soul.

Therefore, at the time there was a need for the shattering of souls, for their multiplication. Where does the demography come from? On the basis of what it jumps up and down in different countries throughout history? It is precisely because egoism is growing and you need to somehow cope with it.

Adam alone could not correct it. Therefore, it had to be divided into eight billion parts.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How Will Humanity Die Out” 10/20/12

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Question: Five of the largest universities studying world problems stated at the same time that the risk of using nuclear weapons in the world had reached the highest level since the Cold War.

All the countries that possess nuclear weapons continue to increase and modernize them and do not even think to negotiate or to talk about peace or reducing nuclear weapons. It was heard here and there before, but now no one talks about it at all. It seems that the number of nuclear warheads in the world has begun to increase for the first time since the Cold War.

In the past we talked and agreed, in the 70s and 80s we heard it all the time, but now it’s as if it’s been cut off. Did we realize the truth that we will not agree?

Answer: Yes. Today the world is so diverse and so selfish that no matter whom you negotiate with, it is useless because there are 20 other countries that have nuclear weapons that are opposed to your agreement with someone else and are not going to negotiate with anyone.

I think all the speculation about this will not yield anything.

Nothing will help! Everyone will hold on to their nuclear club, we will not trust anyone, and so we will exist from day to day, and so on.

Question: What is the way out of this?

Answer: This is the way out.

Question: The way out is to exist like this? Everyone holds a stick and exists this way?

Answer: Yes.

Question: So you see that the countries will increase their nuclear weapons even further?

Answer: Sure. So what? The bludgeon will no longer be 100 kilotons, but one million kilotons, and more and more.

Question: Now Iran will have nuclear weapons and someone else will also. And will everyone have nuclear weapons? Will we continue to live like this?

Answer: Of course.

Question: For how long? Until what state?

Answer: I don’t think it is going to collapse. It will be increasing all the time.

Question: Is there any way out of this situation?

Answer: Will we find a way out? Or will everything blow up?

Comment: And some two unfortunate people will start giving birth and reproducing again.

My Response: Yes. That’s it and nothing else, or there is the revelation of the Kabbalistic method of getting rid of egoism and the destruction of any egoistic weapon as a consequence.

Question: This is the alternative that Kabbalists offer. And they say that it will happen, that one way or another we will come to this. Even through wars will we come to this?

Answer: Yes, it will happen.

Comment: So you have only one conclusion: look at egoism and only to work with it.

My Response: It is eternal; there is no getting away from it. It can only be corrected within something, but it does not disappear by itself.

Question: That’s reasonable. What you say is logically clear, that we create all this with our pride and our egoism. Why don’t we hear that this is the way out?

Answer: No, people may agree with you, but they will say, “This is unrealistic.” And they will be absolutely right.

Question: When does it become real?

Answer: We need to tell all people about this. And then we will bring this state closer. But how it will develop and reveal to people that it is really possible to get rid of egoism as a universal, central evil, we need to move toward nevertheless. We must advertise and expand this education and upbringing.

Question: How does it feel for you to live with this awareness, to continue working, to continue disseminating?

Answer: It feels normal. I know that I will die tomorrow and the world will continue to exist. And a lot of people will think like me and try to do something until it eventually works out. Everything flows.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/16/22

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