Question: Let’s say a person does not want to study, and the whole group suffers by it. How can I take away his free choice to join or not join the group?

Answer: You do not have any free choice! By joining a group, you accept the condition of complete connection with others in order to reveal the Creator. How can it be that you want, do not want, one way today, the other way tomorrow?

In which groups would you be allowed to do this? There is no such thing in the army or even in any enterprise where they unite in collectives to create something, to do something! How is it possible?

This way today and that way tomorrow?

Everyone makes a commitment. If you do not do this, then the others will not commit to you either. So, you have nothing to do in the group, you will not advance.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Harm the group” 1/2/11

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Comment: You said that we could feel final correction (Gmar Tikkun) now if we perceived ascents and descents as the same, correct state.

My Response: But we are not able to achieve that yet.

What does final correction mean? Final correction is when you feel the current state as absolutely perfect. You are in it even now, but you have to correct your feelings.

Question: Kabbalists say that later we will even envy the overcoming that we carried out earlier. Why exactly envy?

Answer: Because in overcoming these sorrowful, difficult states, you give the Creator special pleasure by your yearning for Him. Like a little child who is puffing, trying to build something with his cubes and cannot. This is the most rewarding job for parents who see how he wants to become smart.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to See the Future World” 12/29/12

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Comment: You said you cannot convey a full picture of the entire system to external people who are not engaged in Kabbalah because it is against the plan of creation.

Answer: They will not understand anything! How can they understand what I am telling them given their current qualities? Or how can they even somewhat agree with it, even purely theoretically? And then what? It would destroy their egoism, destroy everything they know, everything they do.

In their eyes Einstein will suddenly turn into a little boy, as would other scientists across multiple disciplines look completely superficial and shallow. And what is next?

Why humiliate people? I respect them for their serious contribution, for their commitment. They realize their healthy egoism and strive to know and attain as much as possible. This still develops various paths to the Creator. Science is increasingly approaching a premonition of the upper force.

Therefore, I do not want to interfere in any way. Because if they learn about Kabbalah, they will not be able to do anything! They will instantly forget it! The system of egoistic self-defense will instantly kick in, and that is it: “I’m back to my scientific niche, I do not want to know anything!”
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Kabbalah, Science, Middle Class” 12/29/12

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Question: How does your mutual activity with students occur: contact, symbiosis, or connection?

Answer: When students ask me questions and convey their desire to me, I start to dig into myself and find the answer. I myself do not have these questions. It is like a child who asks: “Dad, how does it work?” Then the father starts thinking about it and explaining it to him, but otherwise, the father would not have thought about it.

But there is no problem for me. Let’s say that the father needs to know a certain device, instrument, or story, and if he did not know it, then he could not give an answer to the child. I do not have such a problem because I am in the general system of the universe. Therefore, when students ask me something, they highlight this system to me with their questions, and I explain it to them. The only problem is how to present everything so that it is clear to them.

Comment: But everyone understands that this is literally just one second of insight that disappears from a person.

My Response: It does not matter!  If the desire of people connected to mine, to my capabilities, and made disclosure, then it remains in the world and makes it easier for everyone to further disclose and use it.

By doing this, I am potentially revealing the next degrees, which will then be very easy to reveal. In other words, the degrees already exist, and you will climb them. I am preparing this for the future.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How does Laitman use students?” 12/15/12

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Question: Igor asks: “I am an empath; I am physically shaken by the troubles that are happening around. How can I learn not to empathize?”

Answer: No, it is necessary to empathize. This is how we were created. We just need to create a parallel system in ourselves that will understand why everything negative is happening. In order for us to complement this with a positive to extinguish this negative.

Comment: Igor writes that he is deeply shaken by what is happening, he empathizes with it.

My Response: Nothing of this is needed. Absolutely! It is necessary to relate to this very simply.

Everything in the world is in an exceptional form. It depends only on us as to how these opposing forces and phenomena will complement each other to absolute, complete perfection. That is what we need to desire.

Question: Reveal the secret; how do you see it all? We see it quite differently. Look at what is happening: wars are being prepared there; weapons are being accumulated over there; people are dying and close to death from hunger in other places. So, he says it shakes him deeply. How can you say, everything is in a state of perfection?

Answer: First, it is necessary to try to reach the feeling of the Creator, who manages all this, and manages it absolutely calmly, methodically, and with love. And He already sees the beginning, the middle, and the end in one absolute state. This is the first.

Second, everything that happens in the world happens inside of us. Inside of us, only inside of us, and not somewhere outside where stars explode, something falls down, something is being done. This is how it seems to a person. For this, we just need to read a little bit of Kabbalistic materials regarding the impression about the world, the universe, about what is happening. It is all inside of us and only inside of us. And if we change our qualities, then accordingly we will change our perception of the world, and we will see a completely different world.

How could it be? After all, I can see who is killing whom, who is doing something with someone. Look at what is going on in the world! Just evil, only evil. It is because that is how I look at it, at this world.

Comment: So you say in a simple way: inside me is war, I see war; inside me is evil, I see evil; inside me is hate, I see hate.

My Response: Yes. This is called an “egoistic, individualistic perception of the world.”

Question: So, this is my correction?

Answer: Change yourself and you will see a different world. And what is it like in general? It is nothing! A simple light flooding the entire universe.

Question: Am I in front of this light?

Answer: To the extent that I can imagine it. And not further. But I think we are getting closer to it.

Question: Do you have such a feeling?

Answer: Yes, I hope that it is getting closer and closer and more tangible

Question: And a person will be able to understand that if he changes, the world will change?

Answer: It is very easy. It will suddenly be simply as usual for people, why didn’t we see this before?

Question: It will not be like a discovery of America?

Answer: No. People will just talk about it as if it was also so yesterday. So, it was not there yesterday, you didn’t see it. You say “yesterday”?

Who?! We?! How could it be?

Question: Are you talking about what a person would possibly say: “I’ve changed, the world has changed”?

Answer: He will not even realize that he has changed; it will be so natural.

Question: Just the world will change, that’s all?

Answer: Yes. He’ll live in a different world.

Question: But is it going to happen because of his internal efforts that have been going on all the time?

Answer: But not everyone made internal efforts. But in general, it will happen anyway.

Question: Who does it, a person, or is it done by the light, the Creator?

Answer: The light of course! But we need to ask very hard for the light to do this with us.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/14/22

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Comment: The first social system was matriarchal. Women used to rule everything.

My Response: We started with the matriarchy, and we will finish with it.

Comment: But according to the law of nature, men in the chain of evolution, in receiving light, are closer to transmitting it to women.

My Response: So, what?! Who is the carrier of the matter of our world? It is the one that needs to be corrected and connected with the Creator? Women. The female part will really be the main one, and the male part will be the correcting one.

What is important to us: the tools with which they fix or what they fix? The desire is corrected. A woman in our world embodies universal desire. And with what is it corrected? With the help of men. It is corrected and that’s it. It can be put away.

Question: Let’s say we corrected this desire. What will the role of men be in the future?

Answer: None! All together are fully connected with the Creator. But it is thanks to the fact that the female part has been corrected.

Question: Why was the whole ancient culture based on the fact that a woman was at the head of society?

Answer: Because it is the basis of nature. Until egoism began to develop and man began to hunt for prey, everything concentrated around the woman.

It is the same with animals. The most important thing is the female part, it reproduces offspring and takes care of them. And the male took part in the creation of offspring and left.

Of course, there are isolated individuals who are connected to the family for life, or at least until the cubs grow up. And, in principle, everything is around the mother. She is the main force; she takes care of everything.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Matriarchy Is Waiting for Us!” 9/1/13

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Can you finish the sentence, “Heaven is..”?“

Heaven is a state where a common force of love emerges between people, which forms a connection of “love your neighbor as yourself.”

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Question: You said that in a group there are inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human levels, and everything depends only on a person’s intention. How can a person choose this level with his intentions?

Answer: By his development! He is rising. Now you cannot feel what level of development you are at. “I am a man in this world. See, I am a man! Look, two legs and two arms, like a monkey, and the head is also in place. So who am I, a man or not?! I look at myself in the mirror; I look like a man. Suddenly, some kind of wolf’s face appeared; no, it is not me! It is me, but internally. Suddenly, a rabbit’s face appeared, and this is also me sometimes.”

Who am I inside myself? And what we are inside we do not understand. You do not understand what level you are at, at what level are your desires of vegetative, animate, inanimate, or human type.

In principle, they are all very easy to sort. If you live based on the advice of others, in the depth of our world, then your desires are definitely at the inanimate level; otherwise you would not exist.

Desires of the vegetative level are where you completely follow what is in this world, you go after everyone else; where everyone goes, you also go. It is like this: a little toward the sun, a little like this, a little like that; these are egoistic desires of the vegetative level, and they are not even animate yet.

Desires of the animate level is where you start looking for meaning in movements, and anxiety already arises.

When you start to implement these desires to reach the next level, then although they are still egoistic, they are already approaching the desires of the human level. That is, in them you move from Lo Lishma (for yourself) to Lishma (for the sake of the other).

Question: How are they sorted in a group according to the intention?

Answer: In the group, they are usually of the fourth level. Or they are at the border between the third and fourth levels, animate and human.

Then at the next degrees, they are sorted further because each level consists of four more. This is the natural law of the decomposition of each object.

Question: Does it mean that in the group itself there is an inanimate level, a vegetative level, and so on?

Answer: Yes, we can see this by the extent people participate in everything, by how much they are inside the spiritual work, and how much they devote themselves to the implementation of the methodology. But this is not necessary because they are integrated into each other. Here, a lot depends on the root of the soul.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The root of the human soul” 12/22/12

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