Question: Today seas and oceans are becoming more and more violent. What is water from a spiritual point of view?

Answer: Water is the quality of Bina. Salty sea water is the union of Bina and Malchut, i.e., a union of the highest quality water and the lowest quality salt.

Salt is the only element consumed in food that does not spoil, i.e., it is like a constant in our world, and that is why we need it so much. The union of Bina and Malchut gives us this huge mass (salt), which determines all life on the planet.

But first of all, it is water. We came out of the water. Life originated in water. The embryo in the womb is in amniotic fluid. Water is everything. And now this substance is being killed by our thoughts and actions, and accordingly transmits its threatening reaction to us.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Great Mystery of Water” 8/20/11

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Question: Does everything that happens in the world mean that I am shown what I am ready to see and I have to sort of take it and accept this picture for myself?

Answer: You must understand that to the extent you, who are in an integral system, behave in a more integrated way with others, you and everyone around you will be able to achieve a more blissful state.

You cannot separate yourself from others. If it is bad for them, it will also be bad for you.

We are in a system where we are completely dependent on others, and what I wish for them, I will get the same part from them. This is how the world is arranged. You can disagree with this, shout, and swear, but it will be only in this way.

Question: What should be my reaction to what is happening?

Answer: What does nature care about your reaction? It sets new conditions for you, and that is it; you need to react. If you do not want to, do not react, be extinct like mammoths.

Question: What actions should I make upon myself?

Answer: Transform yourself and the surrounding society.

Question: How will I transform the surrounding society?

Answer: Together with them. Explain to them that transformation is necessary.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Who is to Blame for the Pogroms?” 8/13/11

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Question: Did your teacher motivate you in any way to do spiritual work?

Answer: Not really. All of that has to come from the person himself!

Do not think that being next to a teacher like Rabash means a free ride to the upper world! No. It is a very difficult state. Personally, I would not advise it to anyone!

Comment: But your students already feel some sort of belonging to the spiritual path.

My Response: That is their business. If they listen to me and try in their soul to be together with what I am explaining, what I am leading them to, then yes. And if not, then no. I do not pressure anyone and do not force anyone. Any person can leave tomorrow, saying: “Sorry but this is not for me.” Is anyone going to keep him here? Never. No one gives you a guarantee for anything.

Comment: But you say that the worst thing a person can do is leave.

My Response: It is the worst thing for them, of course. Because the person then returns to the animate existence.

Question: But in some cases the person comes back some time later?

Answer: A person does not leave completely. He retains some kind of sensation that he did not leave, that he is a little on the side, but in general, he is in it. I often meet such people. They say: “You think I do not remember? I will come back. I am just going through a period like this right now.” And years go by.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Entrance to the Spirituality” 7/30/11

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What does “Next Year in Jerusalem” really mean?“

“Next year in Jerusalem” is an optimistic part at the end of the Passover Haggadah, and it means that we will reach a desire that includes all of humanity’s desires within itself. In other words, wherever we go, we will feel the need to positively connect with everyone above the ego’s divisive drives.

By doing so, we come to a state in which the upper force reveals itself to us, as it is written, “for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them” (Jeremiah 31:33). We then build a system of connection between us, which is called “the house of the Lord,” about which it is written, “And My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples” (Isaiah 56:7).

That is the meaning of us building a network of connections from a different quality, where the upper general force of love and bestowal fills, creates and sustains the system we exist in.

Such is our future state.

If we aim in the direction of positively connecting to each other above our egoistic drives—and especially if we do so together—then we will reach the sincere desire to connect described by the words, “next year in Jerusalem.”

Based on the video “What Does ‘Next Year in Jerusalem’ Mean?” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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Question: There is a saying: Human disputes are endless, not because it is impossible to find the truth but because those who argue are looking not for truth but for self-affirmation.

Is this visible to the naked eye today?

Answer: Of course.

Question: Is it ever possible to find the truth in our world?

Answer: It is impossible in our world because we do not see the whole world. How can we find the truth? The world’s truth cannot be attained if there is a concealed world before you. How can this be?

Question: Do I have to reveal the whole world, and then will I find the truth?

Answer: Yes. Only a small part of it is revealed to you if you can say that it is revealed. From it, you have to guess and unravel the whole world.

Question: In this case, do we even need to search for the truth?

Answer: You will not find it otherwise. And you have to find it.

It is the search for truth, that is, the search for the Creator, the force that holds it all, that alone can lead a person to understand the meaning of life, the truth of life.

Question: Then, going back to the beginning, directly to this aphorism, let us say people are sitting at a table and want to come to some kind of solution to find the truth. What should they do to find it?

Answer: I do not think when they are just sitting around a table they can find something. I believe that this goal can be achieved by each person in his inner exploration of himself and the world, and not when he sits with others and they only confuse each other.

Question: In this case, we cannot come to any common agreement at all. How can we come to some kind of peace as a result? I call this the truth. To reach a common consent, at least. How?

Answer: Only if we seriously start to come closer to each other and want absolute good for each other. Only in this case.

Question: When they sit down, do they want good for themselves? But after they sit together for some time, should they come to the conclusion of “I want the good for the other”?

Answer: I have to accept the desires of others as my own, and so does everyone sitting at the table.

Question: Is this called that we are getting closer to the truth?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Then, is it possible to come closer to it?

Answer: Yes, this is the only way.

Question: Will we ever come closer to it?

Answer: I think so. We just need to go through a few more unpleasant moments that will show us that there is no other way to solve our problems. Then we will rise to a state where we will solve not our own problems, but the problems of the whole world. Then we will succeed.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 7/17/23

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Question: How should a person conduct inner work to understand that there is no turning back and we need to break through into spirituality?

Answer: Humanity must understand this partly from the blows of fate and partly from our explanations.

Today, many scientists engaged in sociology, politics, and economics say that we have become closed into one common whole and therefore cannot escape at all. No one wins by robbing someone, it very quickly becomes a disadvantage for him.

In the global system, I cannot play at protectionism because it will come back to me like a boomerang. I cannot separate myself from everyone else.

One country cannot isolate itself from others because the system is closed. It is the same natural system, we can’t not breathe.

Why is the banking system unable to do anything with money, distribution, or the economy? Because they are under the control of the same closed system of nature, and only today are they beginning to realize it.

We are all at the mercy of nature. We just need to understand this, feel what our capabilities are and what tools we have in our hands to improve society, raise the standard of living, make the country more powerful, including security, and so on.

We just need to understand how to improve the forces that are working today in the system of mankind and in its separate systems within the countries. If we do not learn this, then we will all suffer greatly.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. An Injection in the Eye” 7/16/11

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Question: How do we affect water? Through what?

Answer: Through our thought! And our physical actions.

We treat bodies of water as a landfill into which we can dump everything. Look at what is happening to the oceans! They already have areas that are garbage dumps.

When the garbage settles to the depths, including plastics that never disappears and other waste, it lies  on the ocean floor, covers corals, and prevents fish from burrowing into the sand. In general, this is a terrible thing! What we have done is irreversible!

It can only be corrected through our inner attitude. When, at the human level, we begin treating each other with care and love, then we will call forth certain forces in nature, and all indestructible waste will disappear.

Today we have already crossed the point of bifurcation and are moving toward death, irrevocably so without any possibility of going back.

On the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, we have messed up everything. In the public area, we also, as they say, have reached the end. There is only a world war before us, nothing more.

If we can turn ourselves back, then, of course, we will change something. But if not, as Kabbalah says, here will be the place of our burial.

It makes no sense to create a family and give birth to children in such conditions.

Therefore, a person instinctively understands, “Why should I do this?” That is, people who do not have the Kabbalistic methodology but look at the world realistically, understand: “I live involuntarily. I would like to live normally, quietly, calmly, die in due time, and that is it. But why children?! Why give birth to them, and what to do with them?” This is how the gradual extinction of humanity occurs.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. The Great Mystery of Water” 8/20/11

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Question: Can the teacher himself make mistakes on the spiritual path?

Answer: He can, but certainly not at your level, only at his own level where he constantly makes mistakes and constantly corrects himself. Naturally! Absolutely correct!

You cannot take a single right step without tripping and checking: “Why did I fall? What is the matter? It should have been done like this! I will redo it now,” and you are doing it right.

The next step is the same. Any degree, any state begins with the revelation of an error in it.

According to the same principle, our earthly nature develops when the next degree negates the previous one, annuls it. This is the recognition of the previous degree as a mistake in relation to me but not in relation to the state when I was at the previous degree.
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KabTV’s “I Got A Call. How can You be Trusted?” 8/27/11

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Question: How can a person be  initially protected from mistakes on the spiritual path?

Answer: There is no way. He is like a child; until he bumps his head and breaks a couple of glasses, he will not succeed. This is how we live, only by recognizing our mistakes.

However, we can create such an environment that these mistakes will be minimal, and it will be possible to learn from them instantly. It depends on the environment. But it is impossible to protect against mistakes.

The child must fall, otherwise, he will not take care of himself. He must prick himself, hit himself; otherwise, he will not understand what this is. It is impossible to raise it in a closed capsule. Then he is a person unfit for life.

He must reach his destination. To do this, he needs to accumulate a certain amount of impressions in order to work with them.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Harmful pity” 8/22/11

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