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Posted on July 18th, 2023
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All the laws of Judaism are based on corrections that occur in the soul because there are 613 desires in the soul that we must correct to altruistic ones, to love one’s neighbor.
In our world, there are 613 actions called Mitzvot that you can perform automatically, without any intentions. But at the same time you seem to be in some kind of mechanical, closed, and artificially created space. It is holding you.
The people of Israel kept this everyday life for 2,000 years until our time. And now it is starting to change, specifically fading into the background. Over the past 200 years, people have become less and less religious in order to be able to accept the Kabbalistic point of view.
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Question: If the Creator completely governs everything and a person supposedly has freewill, then why does He lead us through violence and suffering?
Answer: The Creator governs us by the laws of nature. The Creator is the general force of nature in which two forces emanating from Him are opposed: bestowal and reception. A person is between them, and both properties affect him.
The question arises: how does a person develop under their influence? What is he doing? What is his freewill? How does he accumulate these two forces in himself? How does he correlate them in himself? How does he build himself out of them?
This is the entire wisdom of Kabbalah: how to receive these two forces in the right form and with their help shape yourself so as to become similar to the Creator, rise up, reach Him, and adhere to Him. The fact that He gave us the opportunity to control with the help of these two forces is our freewill!
How can we act if we do not have it? Who will we be then? Just the ones who are controlled?
Until now, we have been just the controlled ones. What does it mean? The Creator adds a little bit of egoism as if He gives you a drop of injection and releases the egoism in you a little more, and you take something upon yourself, do this and that, twist and turn. So does everyone else. He squeezes the syringe a little bit more and so on all the time until He squeezes the whole injection into you.
Right now you are filled to the limit with egoism. No more. This is why you have nowhere to escape. Where to go? What to do?
Moreover, egoism has closed and become global and integral. In the beginning we felt good because we reached egoistic global connections in the world and thought that everything would be fine. But when these connections began to depend on everyone, we turned out to be the opposite of nature. And here we have a problem: what to do about it?
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Is the Creator a pervert?” 8/2/11
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Question: How do I stick to the feeling that everything I do not like about other people is actually positive?
Answer: Only through your inner correction. This must be corrected internally. There is no other way.
You cannot destroy qualities you do not like. Of course you can force people not to use them, to cover them up, and suppress them. But at the same time, you suppress a person’s ability to realize himself. You lose because of this.
Question: Is all the suppression and attempts to correct a person the same prison, and everything else is just useless?
Answer: According to Judaism, prison is generally prohibited. It does not correct anyone. In America, prisons are called correction centers. But what kind of correction is there?
We see that well-trained thieves, swindlers, robbers, murderers, and rapists of an even higher class come out of there. A prisoner graduated from “school,” the second imprisonment is “university,” the third one a “Ph.D.”, and so on. Why do we need this? Instead, we need to correct ourselves.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Positive qualities of a maniac” 8/18/11
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Question: All professions have developed out of egoism; everyone earns from others. You offer a different way. What will humanity look like on a different plane?
Answer: The fact is that eventually humanity will join us, and will want to learn and understand a little. We will organize an educational network: a virtual, global, world university that will teach people the correct integration with each other. In it, they will immediately feel a completely different state.
Humanity will feel how it comes into harmony with nature and suddenly everything is implemented, resolved, and everything around is glowing.
People will follow those who have Kabbalistic knowledge because they will be the lights of the world, the sources of a global integral ideology and a new society. A world council of sages will be created.
But today we cannot position ourselves that way. Of course, the world’s conscience will be with those who are already at the next higher degree of development. But the question is, when will it be?
In the meantime, people need advice that will help them to feel better, to be healthier, to have more fun, and to have everything they need. Therefore when we are offering it, we must pass our understanding of a brighter future to social media.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Money of the Future” 7/16/11
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Question: Two personal companions have been with us since ancient times: the cat and the dog. By their nature they cannot get along with each other, but living next to a person they do get along. What do they represent?
Answer: I think that the dog belongs more to the right line, although in principle it is considered an unclean animal, and the cat belongs to the left.
Dogs have been domesticated for a long time, 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, and a person keeps them because he needs them.
Cats were known in ancient Egypt as a model of worship. The Egyptians considered them wise creatures and carriers of special knowledge.
I think that in general these animals manifest themselves in the following way in our world. The dog can be corrected. It can be your friend on the right line, to protect and guard you.
But the cat cannot; it protects and guards only itself and is all about its needs. But it is necessary for a person to protect the house from rodents. The dog guards the house from the enemy. It is like a detector of everything foreign.
And although I have not found information about these animals in Kabbalistic sources, I can imagine where their roots are because they constantly accompany a person and supplement him, so to say.
For many years, dogs and cats have been neglected. It was believed that they could not be kept at home. Previously, a cow and a goat could be kept at home, and dogs and cats only in the yard, next to the house. But in our time something suddenly happened because man himself descended to the same animal level.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Cat and Dog” 7/30/11
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Question: From a letter: “In Tarkovsky’s film The Sacrifice, there is a nuclear war. The main character, in order to save his family and the whole world, as if agrees to make a deal with the Creator. He makes a sacrifice: he burns down his beautiful house, renounces his family, refuses to communicate with people, and takes a vow of silence. In return, the Creator allegedly turns reality backward, and the war does not happen. What sacrifice does each individual need to make now to change the reality of humanity? Is it necessary to give up yourself and everything that fulfills you for this? To what extent should we give it up, if at all?”
Answer: We must give up receiving pleasure for our own sake so, a person does not enjoy what his body wants. Obviously, this does not mean just some kind of animalistic pleasure. Instead, a person should enjoy the fact that he lives in harmony with others.
Question: Does such a revolution need to take place in a person? I live by receiving pleasure only for my own sake. To give it up means to live for the sake of others. If I receive pleasure from the fact that someone else receives pleasure, is this a normal formulation for an explanation or not?
Answer: This is the condition of my pleasure: if others receive pleasure at the same time. It is important to me that they receive pleasure.
Question: When we say pleasure, what kind of pleasure do you mean?
Answer: Absolutely any, no matter what kind of pleasure.
Question: That is, I am happy when others are happy, I am happy when someone else is happy. Is this a victorious formula?
Answer: Basically, yes.
Question: What did I give up in this case?
Answer: Receiving pleasure for my own sake.
Question: Is this when I am the only one who receives pleasure, and I do not care about others? That is, they all exist to serve me.
Answer: Yes, even more than that! This is how the world is today.
Question: Now the most difficult question is: how can you give it up?
Answer: There is no way.
Question: On one hand you say that we have to come to this. On the other hand you say that it is not in our power. What is in our power, after all?
Answer: It is to create a society in which you can receive pleasure, but in the same measure as others.
Question: Not more than others?
Answer: Yes.
Question: A society of equal pleasures? There were such utopias in their time. How do you differ from these utopias, from everything that was built there?
Answer: I am a supporter of the doctrine that says this is impossible.
Question: If I realize that this is impossible, is this a good point?
Answer: This is a good point, and it will lead you to a solution.
Comment: So, you say this: it is impossible to give up receiving pleasure for one’s own sake, it is impossible to love one’s neighbor, it is impossible to give to another. Impossible!
My Response: Yes.
Question: If a person comes to such an understanding, which is very sharp, bitter, and inside himself, are you saying that this is good?
Answer: This is the recognition of the evil of your nature! From here you should say: but there is a need for me to rise above it, above this nature. What do I need to do for this? Where can I find such a medicine?
So far people have not found it. They have already stopped even hoping, on one hand. But, on the other hand, they gradually, slowly understand more and more that if there is no such medicine, then there is no happiness, there is no good, and no future.
Comment: That is, here we have such a pitchfork: I understand that it is impossible to live like this, that I am like this, my nature is like this, and at the same time I understand that I cannot move on.
My Response: In no way.
Question: I am at such a point; I can move neither backward nor forward. What should I do in this case?
Answer: When we reach such a state, then we begin to understand that if such a task is really set before us by nature, then, obviously, there is a solution to it in nature itself.
Question: This is logical. That is, there is no solution around us, but there is one in nature itself. Do I gradually begin to communicate with nature in this way?
Answer: Yes. This is communication with nature.
Question: Do I say: “There is a solution within you. Give me this solution!”?
Answer: Yes. This should reach a state that will force a person to really turn to nature in this way.
Question: At what point will nature respond and give answers?
Answer: When a person is in complete despair when he really needs only this.
Comment: In this case, a person will be able to give up only with the help of nature, when he desperately, badly needs it.
My Response: Yes.
Question: If we summarize all this, are we being led to this state right now? Will we not get around this point and pass it in any way?
Answer: No way.
Question: Do you have a clear feeling that this is what we are being led to?
Answer: Yes, we need to understand and feel that an internal inversion is based on this point, and it is necessary.
Question: Is it because this is the future and it will necessarily happen? Is there nowhere to escape from it?
Answer: No. Otherwise, you will not pass into another existence.
Question: Tell me, if a person heard you, what are his actions at this moment? Even if he begins to mechanically communicate with nature, as with the Creator.
Answer: He needs to strengthen himself in this paradigm.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 6/5/23
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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are some lesser known facts about Alfred Nobel?“
After Alfred Nobel’s passing in San Remo on December 10, 1896, the unexpected establishment of a special peace prize under his name sparked immense interest. Alfred Nobel rewrote his will to donate more than 90 percent of his life earnings to create the symbol of respect and honor for those who have made contributions to peace and the betterment of mankind, the symbol that is now known as the Nobel Peace Prize.
Meanwhile, Alfred Nobel’s reputation was closely tied to massive destruction—inventions designed for warfare, the most well-known of which was dynamite. In fact, in addition to developing rockets, cannons, and progressive powder, he wanted to create a machine so powerful that it would render war impossible due to its devastating effects. He believed that the destructive power of weapons could potentially end war faster than making peace.
Nobel did not live long enough to witness World Wars I and II, where his theories were disproved quite radically. Yet one cannot help but wonder what could have happened at the end of his life to cause him to invest so greatly in a peace-related cause.
Some argue that Nobel’s extensive correspondence over many years with Austrian peace advocate Bertha von Suttner, renowned for her anti-war novel Lay Down Your Arms, allowed Nobel to delve into his thoughts regarding war and peace, shaping his beliefs and influencing the establishment of the peace prize that bore his name. Others, like Albert Einstein, asserted that Nobel wanted to clear his name and alleviate his guilt by establishing the Nobel Peace Prize. In fact, Nobel rewrote his will directly after his brother Ludvig died in 1888, and a French newspaper accidentally published an obituary for Nobel that referred to him as the “merchant of death who made a fortune by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before.”
While we can only speculate about his motives, we see how public opinion can easily be bought in our world. Today, most people know Alfred Nobel only for his contributions to peace, and the darkness of his past is largely overlooked. Unfortunately, money speaks, and if one can afford to pay a few million dollars, public opinion can change for the better. In much the same way, mass media is bought as well.
I remember how in 2006, I spoke at the World Spirit Forum in Arosa, where some of the greatest peacemakers from around the world gathered in hope of creating positive change. I expressed then that public opinion has the power to dictate everything. If we create a public opinion that honors only those who engage in giving back to society and doing good deeds, the world will slowly begin to change. Everyone listened attentively and agreed. At that time, I still had hope that the world could change, but today these words seem naïve.
Since then, the world has further deteriorated. Humanity has become consumed by the massive overblown human ego. We are headed quickly to a dead end. The problems will continue to escalate. Will we have to face such terrible crises where we lose everything we have, even our children and grandchildren, for us to look for another way?
It is up to us.
People must realize the need for serious change. The change will still come from above our reasoning and intellect, but only when we are ready for it. When we see the dead end approaching and reach the decision to change our egoistic ways, salvation will come. I still hope that it can happen quickly and smoothly, and it is one of the key reasons why I invest so much into teaching and spreading the wisdom of connection. If Alfred Nobel had such a change of heart, others can too.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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1st part of the Lesson — Writings of Rabash, Article 16, “Why We Need ‘Reply unto Your Heart,’ to Know that the Lord, He Is God, in the Work”
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2nd part of the Lesson — Writings of Baal HaSulam, “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah,” Item 120
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